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1d ago
You can defend the bailey that people will not lose literally all interest in a novel simply because it is old, but cannot defend the motte that a novel's age has literally no relationship to the amount of interest people have in it.
You have reversed the positions of motte and bailey. The motte is the more defensible claim, as the literal motte was the stronger fortification to retreat to if the literal bailey fell.
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1d ago
You can discuss Worm right now very easily by going on Reddit or various Discord servers.
Or the SpaceBattles diaspora fora.
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1d ago
I mean, the alt-right has the "alt-" in its name for a reason.
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1d ago
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1d ago
Autistic savants are exceptionally rare
AIUI eidetic memory is quite common among the autistic, though admittedly not universal. Eidetic memory is actually, legitimately good, not in the kind of jackass-genie way you're using. I can pull off shit like this; while I'm given to understand that my memory is unusually good even by autistic standards, according to everything I've seen it's bullshit-tier by neurotypical standards.
not a central example of how the term "differently abled" tends to be used.
It's a motte on an exceedingly-large and ridiculous bailey, but the motte is what allows the bailey to be claimed. Note how "neurodiversity" started with autism.
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1d ago
Pornography, by definition, is produced with the consent of those depicted; children definitionally cannot consent to being sexually exploited; ergo, sexually explicit videos featuring children cannot be pornography.
We're literally discussing teens sending nudes to each other right now; who is doing the abuse or exploitation? The non-US Anglosphere and IIRC decent chunks of Europe legally consider loli hentai to be "child sexual abuse material"/"child exploitation material" despite the complete lack of children sexually abused or exploited (even the Japanese products with voices use adult actors). Yes, it's a dysphemism.
(Also, I agree with @Crowstep, that's not part of the definition of pornography. It's part of the definition of pornography that's legal.)
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1d ago
Have you read Leaders of Men? I think it gestures at some of what you're eliding as "gimmicks".
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1d ago
There is no "differently abled"
Autistic savants are the obvious case of a package deal with good and bad qualities.
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1d ago
IIRC, that wasn't the result of the SPEW episode; Dumbledore had already been paying Dobby (and presumably would have been willing to pay the rest if they'd actually wanted to be paid) before Hermione even learned about Hogwarts having house-elves.
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1d ago
It's difficult to take your aside about Pride Month as anything else than "Pride Month celebrations should end"
This is not very relevant, but I will note that one can hold the position "Pride Month celebrations should end" without actually supporting crushing them by force.
Like, I think Pride Month celebrations should end, in the sense that it would be good if people were less attached to the idea and didn't run/join Pride Month celebrations. I would petition the webforums I go to that run Pride Month celebrations to stop doing so, attempting to convince them of this, but all the forums I'm a member of which run such celebrations have also threatened to ban me for blasphemy against SJ.
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1d ago
AIUI essentially all of the Anglosphere legally considers under-18s sexting to be CP, which is usually given some dysphemism like the one you're using (Australia's is "child exploitation material").
As I also understand it, they don't generally come after people for the "teen sexting" case unless somebody makes a fuss (e.g. girl asks boy to delete her sexts, he refuses, she complains; boy dumps girl, girl posts boy's sexts online; etc.).
IANAL, though.
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1d ago
I know the Idiot's Guide to Latin has sidebars called "Hysteria's Herstory". I'm not sure if it explicitly says or merely implies the false etymology.
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3d ago
#1 is not how Scott phrased it. He phrased it thusly (as his #2, but that's not important):
"Definition By Belief: A belief that some race has negative qualities or is inferior, especially if this is innate/genetic."
The "inferior" option, with the relevant substitutions, threads between your Scylla and Charybdis; it doesn't require actively wishing harm, and it's not plainly true (it is a moral judgement).
I won't deny that there's equivocation going on, though.
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3d ago
Was legitimately wrong (I think I was taught this wrongly by feminists who saw it as androcentric); thanks.
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4d ago
Okay, but the OP said "most of human history", not "most of the existence of humans". Thus, your "correction" was spurious. Hypercorrection is a pet peeve of mine.
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4d ago
Most of human history was spent as hunter-gatherers.
No, because that's prehistory. History is generally considered to start when writing is discovered, and thus when we get access to his story without dozens of layers of potentially-inaccurate retelling. Hunter-gatherers basically don't write to us; steppe pastoralists don't write to us very much either.
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6d ago
Guess I didn't RC.
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7d ago
IIRC Japan's basically the only Western country to have actually raised the age of consent in the last 100 years, although I could be wrong.
Victorian prudishness is, of course, legendary.
Oh, and I forgot, there's the "overprotective parent" voting bloc opposing lowering the AoC.
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7d ago
we live in a democracy, but people secretly disagree with the law, but they don't vote it out because ... groupthink. no further mechanics given, just somehow a minority can mind control a majority.
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Kohlberg IV is a thing, and a thing most people never move past. Kohlberg IV morality is based on the law, in a direct inversion of the correct relation that the law is based on morality. This makes removing unjust laws really hard, because the Kohlberg-IV people will defend the law because it's the law.
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Most people are icebergs. What you see is the most socially-desirable part of them. If they see that you have a larger amount of stuff showing than they do, they usually conclude not that you are made of styrofoam instead (that you are more honest), but that your iceberg is much larger (that you have far-worse stuff that you're not sharing).
I'm sure you can sketch out how both of these relate to the difficulty of rolling back age of consent laws, particularly since a politician has to publically propose lowering them.
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9d ago
My general feel - admittedly without having played 1 or 2 - was that Reign of Chaos' story was pretty good, but Frozen Throne's story sucked. I think it's a mistake to group them together as "Warcraft 3".
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10d ago
That’s not why lynching was bad though.
Lynching is bad because it denies due process rights.
The point of due process is not to have due process; "due process rights" are a particular way of achieving other ends, not an end in themselves. The primary purpose of due process rights is that due process is more likely to get it right than summary justice. Hence, your attempted distinction collapses; due process reduces to (probabilistic) correctness.
Lynching does have an additional problem, unrelated to due process, which is that it is not canonical. That is, a lynchmob does not need a monopoly on force, which means that there can be multiple lynchmobs in the same area enforcing different standards, which has a tendency to get a lot of people killed unnecessarily (with or without a slide into civil war). But this isn't related to due process; a monarch who rules by fiat is not engaging in "due process" any more than a lynchmob is, but his capricious declarations are nonetheless canonical.
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10d ago
But datacenters obviously will get built, even if people don't like it
I know plurality-voting representative democracy has a major sell-out problem, but there are still some limits on that problem.
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11d ago
then again,
Since I specifically didn't make the certainty claim, I'm not sure we have a disagreement.
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12d ago
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There's a pretty infamous StoneToss comic about "what if the shoe was on the other foot",
Link?
I'm probably the softer side of the anti-academics. My positive vision for the future involves shoveling the contents of academic journals through an LLM, checking responses for phrases like "The fact that nobody on a team that includes both emergency physicians and biomedical engineers raised this concern suggests nobody stopped to think about it, which is a different kind of failure than not knowing", and then rubbing both the authors and reviewers' noses in it.
But I want that because I think it is an emergency for a sizable fraction of academic researchers, and there's a lot of people who want to go quite a lot further.
I'm not entirely sure what you're saying, here.
Those two videos were literally the only times I'd ever seen her. I don't watch YouTube (except when linked to specific videos on fora like this one) or participate in the big social media sites (that's why I only showed up here when theMotte left Reddit).
It is also my impression that most people don't remember exactly which random Internet conversations they have open IOU-a-sauce for over timespans of years.
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