nomenym
20hr ago
He looks ridiculous and he's a terrible public speaker. It's oddly reassuring.
The question is whether it's false in general and over time. If it works for some people some of the time, but also results in reduced family formation and below replacement birthrates on the whole, then it will be replaced by something else in the long run. Segregation is part of a historical package that could make a comeback.
But it's not weird. Men treating women as having less agency, and also women claiming less responsibility, has been normal throughout human history. Women have more agency and responsibility than children, but less than men. At the same time, exceptions have always been recognized (some women, and even some children, have more agency and responsibility than some men). However, not until the last few decades has anyone tried to reorganize society and culture around the exceptions rather than the norm. This is natural human social behavior. Fundamentally, a woman crying is psychologically (and even physiologically) more like a child crying than a man crying, and that matters more than any ideological principles or even the letter of the law.
My personal preference is for the classical liberal ideal of legal equality but cultural inequality. However, that does not seem to have been a very stable equilibrium. It seems humans as constituted are unable to cope in that kind of world. There is no returning to the past, but the future will not look like the present (if only because birthrates among these cultural groups are unsustainable).
nomenym
10d ago
Ideologically, I think he's more like Musk shooting for Mars, but Zuck's goal is something more like automated super AI VR future tech. Previously, he thought that allying with Democrats was most conducive to that goal, but that relationship started to sour. His loyalty is with neither side.
nomenym
16d ago
Independently evolving metapopulation. Still a lot of grey area, but mostly because we can't really measure it very well. Ecological function is often more important anyway for conservation goals.
If it's real, then it would likely be a fancy sounding name for something more mundane than sci-fi anti-gravity.
What you're asking for is loyalty, but can the employees expect that loyalty to be reciprocated? You're asking them to be suckers, and when they refuse you replace them with people who don't have a choice.
It seems to me the best situation is one where you have a relatively homogenous high-trust but still individualistic society where employees and employers basically treat each other like second-cousins. They have some sense of loyalty, but not too much. A kind of nepotism occurs on the margins, but it's no big deal. Employees have a sense of obligation to their employer, and vice versa. Fundamentally, they still perceive each other as members of the same tribe with a shared fate. They won't ignore their own self-interest, but they won't actively try to screw over the other just for some marginal short-run benefit. This is the sweet spot where capitalism is compatible with evolved human psychology, but it's quite precarious and unstable. Very few human groups throughout history have been able to maintain these kind of social arrangements for long at the kind of scale necessary for industrial civilization. Jews are really good at it (though partly just because they're more often literally second-cousins).
Go too individualist, too diverse, and too low trust, then there is no loyalty. Everyone defects, and they're not wrong to. The employees do not see the training as a reason to be more loyal to the company, and they're right not to. The company will betray them for mere convenience, and the only thing possibly standing in the way are government regulators. It's really difficult to unscramble egg, and most people are still furiously stirring it up as much as possible.
It's hard for me to express my true feelings about this subject in words. Suffice to say, I'd very much like to see many people hang for this, and not just the rapists. Unfortunately, I don't think there is any way back for the UK at this point. I just hope some of the people responsible get their commuppence as the whole things comes crashing down.
nomenym
1mo ago
The last episode of the show that I watched was the one where the wall is finally breached. My headcannon is that everyone died after that. The End. I have not and will not watch the next episode. It would be a fitting end to Martin's story.
nomenym
2mo ago
One thing to note is that, for at least some men identifying as women, part of the fetish appears to be that women are made uncomfortable by their presence. That is, they don't want to be accepted as women, but rather they want women to be intimidated into pretending to accept them as women. If people actually just perceived them as women without a second look, then it would lose some of the appeal. I think any man who wants to go into the women's toilets should need to disclose their porn consumption habits. If they did I am quite sure, in most cases, women wouldn't even want them on the same planet never mind in the same bathroom.
The way they often jump to "eradicating my existence" always makes me feel like "woke mind virus" is more than just a metaphor. I always want to say "but I don't want to kill anyone", and then I realize that it's not the host speaking but the virus. Of course the virus is scared of herd immunity.
nomenym
2mo ago
This is a good example of how the cultural left is led by its fringe. It's the extemists who set the course and steer the ship, and everyone else is eventually brought along for the ride, even perhaps unwittingly. At first it's a small cadre of extremely online culture warriors who start excommunicating Rogan for heresy, but it sort of trickles down until everyone understands, almost by cultural osmosis, that he has become untouchable and nobody should go on his show. Eventually, mainstream political pundits just take it for granted, because it's just common knowledge, that Rogan is some kind of far-right grifter and wonder why he doesn't have a left-wing counterpart.
While this dynamic can occur on the right, it's far less pronounced or successful, in my experience. It also seems most restricted to cultural issues on the left, because they've had far less success steering the economic ship.
nomenym
2mo ago
One pundit I saw was asking why the left did not have its own counterpart to Joe Rogan. I wanted to shout at the screen, "You did, and his name was Joe Rogan! You ostracized him because he was friendly with some people on the right."
nomenym
2mo ago
Is the problem a lack of trust or a lack of trustworthiness? Are they more trustworthy than we think? Or is it good for us to believe they're more trustworthy than they are?
nomenym
2mo ago
Who said I expected anyone to find proof? I don't. What I do expect is that IF people want to make a positive claim, they SHOULD be expected to provide proof for that claim.
No you shouldn't, but that goes beyond the scope of this thread to address.
nomenym
2mo ago
But why should we expect to find any proof? The nature of the act tends to leave little evidence, and that evidence is likely not on public display and is probably circumstantial and inconclusive. The people who are in the best position to find any evidence also have very little incentive to do so. Besides, I also believe Haitian immigrants in Ohio are continuing to practice other culinary traditions and habits they have brought with them, but I also have no proof they are not subsisting entirely on Big Macs. So there's that.
nomenym
2mo ago
Don't worry, it will soon be over. If Elon is right, then we won't have to worry about competitive elections again. In Soviet America, the people do not choose the government, the government chooses the people.
nomenym
2mo ago
It's curious how eager some people are to deny that the Southport killer as an off-the-boat refugee. Surely, that he was a second generation immigrant makes the whole situation worse! What it means is that even when you're not importing terrorists, you're importing people with with a high propensity to become terrorists. There could hardly be anything more damning of British immigration policy, and yet somehow that he was not "off-the-boat" is seen as pro-immigrant.
nomenym
2mo ago
If women can't figure out how to have an absolute right to control their bodies and a replacement fertility rate, then Stein's law applies.
nomenym
2mo ago
I would rather a politician tell me something true but incomplete/misleading, rather than tell me something false but directionally correct.
Yes, and I am saying that for a lot of Trump supporters it's the other way around. They feel like the former too often ends up going in the wrong direction altogether.
I actually see this working out well for him regardless, because the accusations come across very blue-anon. It's basically the same thing as a fundamentalist Christian raving about the satanic messages their political opponents hide in plain sight.
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