philosoraptor
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philosoraptor
5d ago
The solution I'm proposing is pretty simple (and required by many style guides for whatever that's worth), and is simply to expand the acronym the first time, and then go on using it to your heart's content. You come out ahead in legibility right away, and in reduced word count by the third use or so.
Of course, for relatively short posts here this might not make sense because you're not going to get to that third use. But in that case there's no meaningful loss in just spelling it out and doing without the acronym.
philosoraptor
6d ago
LWOP
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All a quick Google gives me for this is "leave without pay" (i.e. temporary absence from your job). As I've said before, people need to get in the habit of defining their acronyms.
philosoraptor
10d ago
But I, like Kirk, was in an environment where I was never going to run a serious risk of being ostracized.
Are you seriously trying to suggest, at this of all times, that he wasn't running any risks?
philosoraptor
11d ago
That's not a debate, that's an ambush.
In what other ambush scenario does the side that's supposedly being ambushed get to decide whether, how, and when to engage?
philosoraptor
13d ago
Of particular interest here, the second half is an interview with Guyatt that's possibly even more revealing than the one in the OP.
philosoraptor
13d ago
That's still pretty damn competent as recent perpetrators of high-profile public shootings go.
philosoraptor
13d ago
Statistics are predictably elusive, but all I could find indicated that meat, cheese, and infant formula were the most popular stolen foods. Excluding alcohol, that is.
Meat theft is a big enough deal in my (Canadian) corner of the world that some of the grocery stores were hiring extra security to watch over the meat section for a while there. I happened to see displays in the staff areas of one of these stores listing the most commonly stolen items and the other things mentioned here (and yes, laundry detergent too) were all on there. As for alcohol, you have to show ID through a secure window to even be let into the liquor stores.
By comparison they couldn't possibly care less about theft in the produce section.
philosoraptor
17d ago
Non-wokes successfully built and/or bought their own websites. Wide-spread censorship thus became impossible because the US still has strong free speech norms, so extremely strong tools like direct government censorship / DOS provider bans / payment processor bans are only used in the most exceptional cases.
And as we're seeing in the latter case with the crackdowns in Steam and itch.io, these tools are available to non-wokes too. Hopefully this is making some people - if not wokes themselves, then relatively-neutral bystanders - realize they can be used against them as well as in support of causes they like (or at least don't mind), and people are waking up, no pun intended, to how dangerous some of the authoritarian precedents that have been set in the last few years actually are.
First they came for Kiwifarms, and I did not speak out, because fuck Kiwifarms...
philosoraptor
23d ago
Which specific leagues do you mean? "The majors" in baseball means MLB, full stop (it's right in the name!), and that is decidedly not the lifestyle you're describing. Even a guy who's only in the majors for about two weeks a season and playing minor pro the rest of the time, making league minimum in the majors but not necessarily the minors, would pull down north of $100,000 a season (nearly half of it for the stints in the majors), plus a lot of all-expenses-paid travel involving good hotels and catering. So I assume you must mean something different from what you said.
philosoraptor
26d ago
I would imagine most wives would rather have a husband who spends 1k$ a month on OF than one who spends the same amount of money on local hookers. (And would like it even less if he spend the same amount on another woman who was not a professional.)
Okay, but I can see the more socially conservative people here figuring this is a case where the dose makes the poison. Sure, one of the latter is worse than one of the former, but the numbers are not comparable. There's a lot more of the former (for, e.g., the friction reasons someone else pointed out).
philosoraptor
29d ago
Anecdotally from someone who's never watched any of it, I have actually heard of all the other ponies you named save Rarity, but not Fluttershy.
philosoraptor
30d ago
Principal photography on The Last Jedi was done in July 2016. Fisher was done all her scenes and finished an entire book tour in the remainder of the year, before dying from an out-of-the-blue heart attack around Christmas. She did not die "mid-filming".
philosoraptor
1mo ago
receive an equity stake in Intel in exchange for cash grants
How does this differ from just buying shares?
philosoraptor
1mo ago
Read the OP and judge for yourself. Based on my own read of same, I wouldn't go so far as "retarded" but "unexceptional" fails at doing her justice in the other direction.
philosoraptor
1mo ago
Honking a car's horn except to warn of danger is already a traffic offense.
Is this true in NYC? Because if so, seemingly every second Manhattan driver needs a talking-to.
philosoraptor
1mo ago
A quick aside about Kant, since so many people blame Kant for things that he really had little or nothing to do with (I recall a program on a Catholic TV channel where they accused Kant of being a "moral relativist", which is... distressing and concerning, that they think that...).
Related pet peeve of mine - ask a roomful of medical ethicists (who should bloody well know better, and to be fair some of them do) about Kant and "autonomy". It's darkly hilarious. Just because Kant made extensive use of a word that is often translated as "autonomy", a lot of people seem to think he held something like a modern medical ethicist's typical views about the importance of self-determination, informed consent, and so on. This is almost the exact opposite of the truth. Kantian "autonomy" means you have to arrive at the moral law by your own reasoning, and not out of (say) social pressure, for it to really "count" - but there's only one moral law, and it's the same for everyone, with zero space for individualized variation.
(And you aren't really acting morally unless you follow it out of duty, not because it feels good or gets good results. Just arriving at the same object-level conclusions about how to act isn't enough.)
philosoraptor
1mo ago
What if you conceal it in a mirror or somewhere non-obvious? Neither Epstein nor the average prisoner is a secret agent with bugfinding tools.
As you practically said yourself, this is spy-novel stuff. You are almost certainly greatly overestimating the budget and technological sophistication involved.
Besides, much of the purpose of such things is to serve as a deterrent. Hiding them works against that. (As well as being able to maintain or replace them easily, not that this was a high priority in this case on anyone's version of events.)
philosoraptor
1mo ago
Poor situational awareness, a liberal worldview, a love of cheap drinks?
[D] All of the above.
philosoraptor
1mo ago
I once saw a complaint that all the women in pornos acted like men, which seemed to me to be onto something but not quite right. Years later I finally managed to articulate it - the women in pornos act like men think they would act if they were hot women. So...
Do you know how straight men would act if women were as DTF as men are? Hooooo boy.
Basically like they do in porn.
philosoraptor
1mo ago
Flip 1 and 2, and reverse the order of 4-6 (for one thing the whole structure surely pushes against individualism), and you might have the beginnings of something. But your #2 is clearly #1 and it's not close.
philosoraptor
1mo ago
I think the complaint is more one of prioritizing the letter of those principles in a short-sighted way, that undermines the reasons they were thought to be desirable principles. Like, if your speech rights can be trampled almost as much as if you lived in the old USSR as long as it's not government directly doing the dirty work, even if government played a large role in creating the conditions that made that possible, and libertarians are mostly standing by and letting it happen, that doesn't sound like a very libertarian world to me.
philosoraptor
1mo ago
the only state that is plausibly a nation is Texas
Hawaii?
philosoraptor
1mo ago
I occasionally see "meat" and "poultry" treated as separate categories, but mostly in older sources and even they seem to tacitly concede the two are closely related. I've never knowingly met anyone in person who thought it was an important distinction. This is the first I've ever heard of pork products not counting as "meat", though. Where do you see this usage?
philosoraptor
1mo ago
Vast oversimplification, but yeah, after 5 solid years of unbridled acceleration into identity politic madness, can you point to ANY particular piece of media, or successful ad campaign, or memorable (in a positive way!) pop culture event that got published/released that had any lasting impact?
The woke aspect does seem to have helped Baldur's Gate 3 a little, and it managed to both have those aspects and be a really good traditional-ish RPG. Though other than budget constraints, I don't see why it couldn't have had the elements it had and a PC option who was a conventionally attractive, more or less straight woman. (Shadowheart is at best an honorable mention in that regard.)
Both of which are extreme minority views held by a tiny number of people that even other philosophers mostly think are wankers.
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