philosoraptor
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philosoraptor
1d ago
And considering your list contains literally every Taylor Swift song I know the name of, I for one have no fucking idea what Sin is talking about.
philosoraptor
3d ago
That was in New Jersey.
philosoraptor
3d ago
I only know who one of those even is. I don't know if online life is to blame like someone else said - it seems to me to slightly predate modern social media - but whatever the reason, music is so fragmented now that it's almost inconceivable someone could get the whole culture following them the way the Beatles did. Taylor Swift is probably the closest thing currently possible but it's not that close.
philosoraptor
4d ago
Lucan Way is no less distinguished. Well, maybe a litte less--the University of Toronto is not even the Harvard of Canada, much less the Harvard of, well, Harvard.
If anything is the Harvard of Canada it's the U of T, but perhaps you mean to suggest that's not saying much.
philosoraptor
11d ago
Look at the recommended charities on GWWC (GWWC is recommended as the best overall resource for charities on ea.org). GiveDirectly spends 95% of its money on charitable expenses. For AMF it's 99.4%. Malaria Consortium is at 12% and HKI is at 16%.
If I'm understanding your links right, you flip what the numbers mean in mid-paragraph here - the first two (in the 90s) are the amount spent on actual charitable expenses while the last two (in the teens) are the amount they spend on overhead. This makes it look like the last two are really terrible wheras I take your intended point to be that they're nearly as good as the first two.
philosoraptor
12d ago
Its not 4-d chess, but it is some competent Jui Jitsu.
Jew Jitsu?
philosoraptor
14d ago
What, some coalition of black people, Hispanics and Asians decides to oppress white people?
Well for one thing, BIPOC (like URM or the even more direct NAM) specifically excludes Asians.
philosoraptor
14d ago
I think you're assuming most of these people are more informed (or less naive) about that region than is actually the case. That may be the practical upshot of them getting what they want, but it's not their goal as they would conceive of it.
philosoraptor
16d ago
A few hard-left loudmouths, sure, but not the vast majority of people who think Israel needs to tone it down or just want a ceasefire, any ceasefire.
philosoraptor
17d ago
They wouldn't if that's all that was going on, but I think you missed the context. They view blowing up hospitals as evil, even when rockets and weapon caches are the reason they're doing so.
philosoraptor
1mo ago
It was, but that's just it; it was controversial, as in there was genuine disagreement, as distinct from being universally condemned.
philosoraptor
1mo ago
aresa
I'm sure it's a typo for "area", but in my heart you meant to write "adjacent to their own arses".
Which, you know, chair, so it's extra-appropriate.
philosoraptor
1mo ago
It's usually folk-pop sort of stuff (on the average, I'm not saying it's always that, just that that's about where the "center of mass" is), played much more quietly than you're thinking, but not quite so quietly that there's no point in it being there. Same with most coffee shops, if they actually want people to sit down for a while.
philosoraptor
1mo ago
That's because it is just two random English words paired together. You don't need a non-English speaker (real or imaginary) in the picture to see that. You'd never guess its meaning from the words alone if you didn't know the history and context behind them.
philosoraptor
1mo ago
I think people have largely come around on Bettman. The booing is mostly a fun tradition at this point and Bettman is very much in on the joke.
In recent years my biggest issue with him is the ridiculous lengths he went to to keep the Coyotes in Arizona long after the writing was on the wall. (Especially in contrast with doing little to keep the OG Jets from moving there in the first place, albeit almost two decades earlier under quite different circumstances.) He still doesn't seem to have wholly given up on Phoenix even with the team's de facto move to SLC. (Technically it's a new franchise that just happens to have inherited all the old one's assets, but it walks and quacks in a remarkably duck-like manner.) But still... trying too hard to keep a struggling franchise where it is, possibly against the league's financial interests, hardly seems like the worst of sins, especially next to the stuff from the 90s he gets blamed for.
The going conspiracy theory of biased-looking refereeing these days seems to be that it's got something to do with sports betting, not the league itself putting its thumb on the scales.
philosoraptor
1mo ago
Maybe this is a subset of your first group, but also transhumanist weirdos like Shulamith Firestone. That's what radical feminist used to mean, but like almost any term that gets politicized, it's been mangled so often so many different ways that nowadays it basically means whatever the speaker wants it to, like Carrol's Humpty Dumpty.
philosoraptor
1mo ago
The Online Left seem to have missed that memo too.
philosoraptor
4mo ago
What... do you think expertise means in a logistics sense? The ability to do something with investments and time, or the ability to do something without infrastructure?
"Without infrastructure" is, in this case, more or less the definition of the task, so I don't follow your point.
Yeah, that post puzzled me too. I'm not saying the tendency he describes doesn't exist but philosophy, or at least the analytic tradition that is dominant in English-language departments, is one of the fields least guilty of it outside the hard sciences.
So it's weird the way he gives "philosophy" as his main exemplar. Like, say there was a flaw in a lot of recent American vehicles' onboard computers, and it was found to affect 17 Ford models, 14 GM ones, and 2 Chrysler ones (and an overall share of their respective sales roughly proportionate to those numbers). It's as though someone went on a big rant about that, and got a lot right, except they explicitly claimed it was mainly a Chrysler problem.
Absent the concrete examples you very reasonably asked for, I suppose the maximally charitable interpretation is that he thinks the continental tradition is all that exists.
(EDIT: First sentence of the second paragraph wasn't very accurate previously, toned it down.)
philosoraptor
4mo ago
Ranges from 5%-40% depending on school.
0% at some, for example Rice bans frats and sororities entirely. They have something sort of similar through their college system but it's far more inclusive, by design.
philosoraptor
4mo ago
Touché.
philosoraptor
4mo ago
I've alttabbed to degenerate tentacle hentai rather than let my wife notice I'm watching Tucker Carlson.
As opposed to the non-degenerate tentacle hentai preferred by polysyllabic wine-swirling sophisticates such as myself.
philosoraptor
5mo ago
Even so, wouldn't you rather have one set of bugs and security issues, or at most one per platform, than as many as there are apps (or worse, as many as there are app/platform combinations)?
philosoraptor
5mo ago
Personally, I am a huge fan of the ability to incorporate emojis in text in a manner that works across operating systems, browser, and applications.
Yes. Even if you don't like them, the genie's out of the bottle. They're going to exist no matter what any one person or organization does. Given this, surely it's better for them to be as compatible as possible. It's better for the people who like them and I don't see how it leaves the ones who don't any worse off. (Which in an odd sort of way, ties right back into the theme of the OP.)
If you mean The Animals' version, I think there's a slide during the first syllable that probably threw you, but it's still only one syllable.
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