slothlikesamwise
Subway Wizard 🔮
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slothlikesamwise
Subway Wizard 🔮
1yr ago
It is not like the church in Rome had any particular delay in their struggles with modernism compared with prots. While the prots in America were considering the super denomination, the Roman Catholics were dealing with liberation theology.
slothlikesamwise
Subway Wizard 🔮
1yr ago
And what alternative do you see? The children of the Scottish enlightenment seem to have done far better than those children who kept to Rome.
Cleave to the, actual capital C, Calvinism that the Scottish enlightenment was born from? Reject it as the French enlightenment did? Cleave instead to Rome, with all its flaws coming to bear?
Some weaker tradition of Paganism like the reactionaries profess?
slothlikesamwise
Subway Wizard 🔮
1yr ago
what would you say to convince them of how badly things would go?
The influencer in question recently was mired in controversy for a whitehouse visit and was already under the baleful eye of the core demo?
slothlikesamwise
Subway Wizard 🔮
1yr ago
Throw something orange in the sidebar I suppose.
slothlikesamwise
Subway Wizard 🔮
1yr ago
SBF is probably going to be classified into a low security prison, so he will not have to deal with any of the gang bullshit and instead the overcrowding.
Jail, and federal jail particularly, tends to mix security classifications together prior to trial as a matter of course so it tends to be generally worse than what most people experience.
slothlikesamwise
Subway Wizard 🔮
1yr ago
Your ammobox is still defined in its compliance to the state and discounts the success of prior defectors to the state.
The Amish pay no income tax. Why are they allowed to avoid the dues of the social contract so enforced on us, and how do we achieve that?
slothlikesamwise
Subway Wizard 🔮
1yr ago
When lay people believed unironically and the intellectuals believed ironically.
slothlikesamwise
Subway Wizard 🔮
1yr ago
Literalist religion is not only dying, it’s exactly what gave birth to the secular West and its identity-consumerism
Excuse my asking, but when was this born? I recall that the heyday of the modernists being after the birth of secularism.
slothlikesamwise
Subway Wizard 🔮
1yr ago
How this has typically worked throughout history is that the lay people do believe unironically, and a more intellectually refined elite theologize quite a bit amongst themselves, come up with rationalizations, and basically act out a Noble Lie.
When would you say this was true and when did it stop being true?
slothlikesamwise
Subway Wizard 🔮
1yr ago
I have good news for you then, because the sacrifice of Christ raised us from our innate sinfulness and allowed us to strive for sanctification.
As a Christian you aren't with the goal of banking enough good boy points to overcome your sins but rather you are virtuous out of your own belief in virtue.
slothlikesamwise
Subway Wizard 🔮
1yr ago
Is that total self identification or reported membership from church denominations?
slothlikesamwise
Subway Wizard 🔮
1yr ago
It is no hidden fact that black communities hate the black cops, because generally they have an excuse to be the worst hardass they can be.
I am not particularly sure how you'd be able to get a cop that is a community member of the bad neighborhoods, while not paying them enough to not live there. Certainly not someone degreed.
slothlikesamwise
Subway Wizard 🔮
1yr ago
One of the funniest and most absurd movies I've ever seen, its premise revolves around two lesbian high school friends setting up their own "fight club" to ostensibly offer self-defence lessons to girls, when in fact they just want to get laid. If that doesn't entice you, the self defence teacher is none other than Marshawn Lynch.
I apologize for the snark, but when you open with this and you give the most importance to the identity of the characters rather than even so much as including a memorable scene, I am rather inclined to doubt that there is a part more memorable than starring lesbians.
slothlikesamwise
Subway Wizard 🔮
1yr ago
Prisons notoriously suck. Inmates have nothing to do, violence and abuse is rampant. Even worse, the only peers inmates have are other criminals, entrenching whatever culture leads people to crime. Solution: give them all the cheapest possible phone/tablets with internet internet access. Instead of fighting over cigarettes, they can watch the latest MrBeast. To avoid problems, maybe give them something really locked-down - read-only access to a small number of approved sites (but those sites have almost all of the content on the net anyway), harsh term filters for anything violence / crime related. Probably include some porn. The disciplinary society's time has come and gone, give the prisoners their Soma, it can't be worse.
And you can charge them 500 bucks a gig!
slothlikesamwise
Subway Wizard 🔮
1yr ago
I was unaware that they brought back the homestead act.
slothlikesamwise
Subway Wizard 🔮
1yr ago
Rich Men North of Richmond didn't get posted here because the people here probably didn't have an extended interaction with the song.
TheMotte talks about stuff that you'd expect a narrow slice of rationalists, who are already a very narrow slice of the internet, talk about.
You'll hear about breakthroughs in gene editing before they hit peer review, but if you expect pop culture commentary you are going to need to post it yourself.
slothlikesamwise
Subway Wizard 🔮
1yr ago
I'm interested in your review of Speaker for the Dead as you mentioned the tone.
:)
Gimmie a moment I'll find something to change it to that has a nice red and blue contrast.
I consider obnoxious avatars a moderation issue rather than a code issue tho, I wanted to see how long it would go before someone complained after putting it up and realizing that animated avatars were indeed a thing.
Edit: There we go, space kook to subway wizard.
I do have to ask that you try and solve things interpersonaly before going to authority tho, there needs to be some level of self-regulation
slothlikesamwise
Subway Wizard 🔮
1yr ago
Alright: Discarding basic verification like signature matching was a mistake and should be reversed.
I mean maybe this was true prior to the Covid times but it is a much easier sell now.
slothlikesamwise
Subway Wizard 🔮
1yr ago
120k minors were diagnosed with gender dysphoria and 17k were put on puberty blockers or pills, suggesting that even among those who get a dysphoria diagnosis, the rates for going on to medical transition are very low, around 1/8th
A null hypothesis for this is that puberty blockers are generally dangerous drugs and that many doctors do not want to deal with the liability.
slothlikesamwise
Subway Wizard 🔮
1yr ago
It kinda follows from "people who aren't legally allowed to vote voting" doesn't it?
Both ends of the argument are arguing that more people are voting, just one arguing that they aught not to.
slothlikesamwise
Subway Wizard 🔮
1yr ago
Well concerning what the right wants, I suppose we've moved to "any verification at all that a mail in ballot is from who it says it is from" now that signature verification is waylaid.
So at this point it is a game of force and boots on the ground I suppose, a hard prisoner's dilemma.
slothlikesamwise
Subway Wizard 🔮
1yr ago
if you are serious about stopping pederasts, you probably should be more concerned with fortifying a new line.
We probably have to do both, the push has been quite happy to move up to where we abandon and start pushing on the unfortified back lines before we manage to get anywhere.
slothlikesamwise
Subway Wizard 🔮
1yr ago
Is this after they've been dosed with Testosterone for years or no?
The oldest institution in the world might be the one who built Stonehenge.
You'll find that they matter about as much as the Zoroastrian priesthood.
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