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ulyssessword
10hr ago
In today's episode of "Just Fucking Answer the Question Already", we have Can you see Newfoundland from Cape Breton? As usual, the closest they get is quoting an expert giving a half-answer, and not including a significant amount of rebuttal.
ulyssessword
1d ago
why men volunteer less in general,
A three percentage point gap may be statistically significant, but I don't think it's very interesting or notable. There's an eight-point gap in labor force participation rate, and one full-time-volunteer wife with a working husband can get a lot of volunteer hours. Heck, with a gap that small it could be something as banal as different responses to the same activities as men and women have different standards.
communities/pro-social activities/the male loneliness epidemic in general.
Male spaces get disrupted and socially attacked. Even if whatever comes out the other side is just as good (very doubtful), the transition still causes people to leave. Also, women have the opportunity to join both women's-only and gender-neutral groups, while men only have the second set.
"Men are afraid of being called pedophiles" isn't false, but my gut instinct is that it's noncentral.
That is the most visible part of the issue, but it's not the only one. You have to go through the anti-pedophile screening, take the anti-pedophile training, follow the anti-pedophile procedures, be conscious of pedophile-adjacent actions...and finally work at the organization with a reputation for pedophilia. It just doesn't seem that attractive.
ulyssessword
2d ago
why would we grant citizenship to someone willing to sell out their country to an invading power for a paycheck?
I don't really get omni-nationalism. Americans believing that the US is the greatest and deserves extra status/power/deference/etc? Sure. Ditto for the French, Brazilians, Chinese, or even Afghans. I don't see anything strange about different people having different values and opinions, even if they can't see the obvious truth that Canada is better than any of them (despite its current troubles).
Putting every country at the top of the list (but only when projecting your opinions onto other people) is a different matter. If you think your homeland is the greatest, then why do you want every foreigner to express incorrect opinions? If you're a cosmopolitan moral relativist who thinks there is no true "greatest" place and it's all opinions and tradeoffs, then why not let other people believe that too?
Saying that people should oppose you makes me feel like nationalism is a debate-club-style issue that's fun to talk about, instead of an honestly expressed and important core belief. Heck, I rarely see sports team omni-supremacy anywhere ("cheer for your home team, whichever one that is"). It's all either neutrality or people cheering for their specific favored team.
ulyssessword
3d ago
Contempt of court can still send you to jail, and I'm not sure if the limits past that matter. On a smaller scale, they can revoke drivers' licenses and passports, and refuse to issue leisure licenses (fishing/hunting, etc.) for unpaid child support. As far as I can tell, alimony and divorce settlements don't have quite as much power, but that only really helps if you divorce before having kids.
ulyssessword
3d ago
They can't easily reach out to third parties
Not the court's problem in those stories: Pay up or get punished for failing to pay.
ulyssessword
4d ago
Wikipedia reliably reports one perspective on culture war topics. Figure out what that perspective is and what you gain by learning it, and you'll never be betrayed again.
ulyssessword
4d ago
wronged wife gets wind that hubby intends to leave her without a penny, steal her assets, and set up with new snookums so she lawyers up in secret and transfers everything ...
For some odd reason, I suspect that a husband wouldn't have as much success with that strategy. I've heard of a few alimony/child support cases where the court is less "pay to the extent of your ability" and more "die broke in a gutter".
ulyssessword
5d ago
...yes, obviously?
American law sets speed limits, despite the fact that most Americans do not appear to act or express beliefs matching them.
ulyssessword
7d ago
Google Trends puts her at less than 1% of peak Jussie Smollett. Anything that's the 'Something of Something' isn't really the anything of anything.
ulyssessword
7d ago
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
Sounds like Europe isn't a reliable ally, since whatever unmentioned action he took was opposed so strongly. Swap out "African", "Asian", or even "South American" for European there, and it becomes an utter non-story, as written.
ulyssessword
9d ago
Bias in academic networking:
Holy shit that's bare-faced:
Each account varied along three characteristics: gender...race...and university affiliation
...less willing to connect with Black PhD students or those from relatively lower-ranked institutions.
Let's just leave off the largest difference, why don't we. If the inconvenient results are relegated to the paragraph with numbers instead of the one with quotable sentences, then maybe they can keep their goodthinkwise reputation.
ulyssessword
9d ago
the whole disparate impact discrimination thing.
The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.
Anti-White (and anti-Asian, and Anti-Male) discrimination is de-facto legal, and sometimes mandated. See Students for Fair Admissions as another example.
ulyssessword
11d ago
Holding shift while right clicking goes to the non Win11 menu
Neat! Thanks.
Your probably clicking too far to the right/not on the file name itself so it's selecting the folder
Unless you have already left-clicked on that file, then right-clicking on the space between the name and Date Modified goes to the file's options. I've managed to suss out some of the rules, but I don't trust that I've found all of them.
ulyssessword
11d ago
In windows 11 right click a file, get one style, click more options, get a second older style is bizzare.
and half the time it's the menu for the folder containing that file, instead of the file itself. I haven't been able to nail down the rules as to which it will be each time.
ulyssessword
12d ago
But back to the first hand, it can probably, at least, not be nakedly retarded and designed by the most passive aggressive engineer you can imagine, just checking off Jira issues in the laziest manner possible.
I think this is a perfect use-case for an LLM:
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Ask the AI how to do something ("How do I print this page?"), while giving it zero insight into the actual program.
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Check if its proposed solution ("Go to the 'File' menu at the top-right of the screen, and select 'Print'. Alternatively, use the hotkey 'ctrl + P' to go to it directly.) actually works.
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If it works, great. If it doesn't, your design is unintuitive and you should consider changing it to whatever the AI hallucinated.
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Repeat for literally every function and option. 100% test coverage.
There's no way that an AI would predict that quitting PowerPoint is the first step in changing it from centimeters to inches, so at least someone would realize they made a mistake there.
ulyssessword
12d ago
They don’t want to learn how to understand computers, they want not to have to. Thus, AI.
Personally, I'd like computers to be comprehensible by default. Do you think that this is a good place for PowerPoint's metric/imperial settings to be?
Instead of documenting an archaic maze of menus or building a guide AI, fix it. Make the UI easy to use.
ulyssessword
15d ago
Why so much ire over nature taking its course?
because they don't like that course? The invisible hand of the free market leads to plentiful goods and prosperity. Low birth rates lead to extinction. What's next "Why do you wear a jacket in the winter? Heat flowing from hot to cold is natural, and therefore you should freeze."? Liking one default outcome doesn't imply liking every default outcome.
Any attempt to engage in large scale social engineering...starts to sound a bit... socialist-y.
Yup, that's a problem. Sucks that there aren't any nice solutions, but nature doesn't have to play according to our desires.
ulyssessword
16d ago
I had to relearn long division when we did polynomial long division ("What's the value of (x2 + 2x + 1) / (x + 1)", but usually with more terms) in one of my mathier courses, and man was that weird relearning almost the exact same thing with one tiny difference that makes it all crazy. I can't even remember what the exact application was.
Nowadays if I ran into a problem like that I'd find or buy a calculator to solve it for me.
ulyssessword
17d ago
you assume that the listener can just figure out those in-between steps.
Note the lack of "literally just"! There are implicit hidden steps to that task that you aren't choosing to communicate.
ulyssessword
21d ago
How? There are no mileage logs or (AFAICT) hard evidence of another sort. It would be pure he-said-she-said where one party is literally and completely ignorant.
ulyssessword
21d ago
They should of been sent there a long time ago.
ulyssessword
21d ago
South Park was pointing it out...
ulyssessword
22d ago
Re #1: Is it that hard to just stand still and get arrested? "Chasing" implies "fleeing", and fleeing to a daycare is even worse than normal.
Re #2 (link, since it isn't included): "federal agents have been the catalyst for chaos and clashes." Odd way to not blame them, but I'll take it. “To safely clear the area after multiple warnings and the crowd continuing to advance on them, Border Patrol had to deploy crowd control measures.” “Our officers are facing a 1000% increase in assaults against them" " inadvertently been exposed" Odd to include those lines with no pushback if they're inaccurate. Also note that this is a couple weeks after the temporary restraining order that restricts tear gas when not under imminent threat, and the article didn't even hint that they could be defying that order. The media very rarely lies, but NBC sure is pushing it.
Re #3: What's the alleged misconduct? Driving the child away seems like one reasonable course of action to me, and the rest is nothingburgers. The crowd's conduct wasn't great, but that's not the father's fault.
There's no need to wait for the DHS official rebuttal before dismissing those stories. I suspect the rest are similar.
ulyssessword
23d ago
I view that a little different, you can't unmix something which has already been mixed, but you can push it elsewhere and pretend that the problem has been solved.
True. My point is that once it has started, it can be stopped well before the finish line. Even a few decades is within the realm of physical possibility for cultural diffusion, or a few generations for genetic.
The "challenges" are social and political: One of the older attempts to unmix a population resulted in a bit of a dustup that killed 70-85 million people, while more recent ones are usually stopped before that point.
If you move nerds around the world, the total amount of nerds does not increase. You're re-ordering what already exists, you're not creating something more.
The creation happens in the years after the re-ordering takes place. Do you think growing up surrounded by nerds would be essentially similar to growing up surrounded by performers? Heck, do you think a mundane unrelated office job would be the same?
On a smaller scale, there's the idea of "startup incubators". They concentrate like-minded people together, forge connections, and hope to strengthen and expand their culture. I think the same thing can happen with culture in general when groups have a strong enough presence in an area.
To really create something unique, you must isolate it and leave it alone for a while. Kind of like petri dishes. Borders used to have this kind of effect.
It's not technically irreversible, but processes which generate certain things are very, very slow.
Fair point. I was focusing more on years-to-centuries timescales. If you're thinking of decades-to-eons, then it's much closer to the bare truth.
"Maintaining the old" is only one half of diversity though. The Wild West came about from a mix of societies, Singapore combines multiple influences, etc. Generating new cultures is the other half.
...if we stop this practice...will we ever go back again?
I'm about 50/50 on your examples.
For gun control, see this gif: states went from mostly may-issue to mostly unrestricted concealed carry over the course of a few decades.
With the current push of sexual content onto school children, I'd be surprised if the age of consent didn't go down in the next couple decades, even if it's restricted to Romeo-and-Juliet laws.
Who's "we"?
If it's the government, then how? Currently, they can set incentives like full-time benefits at X hours per week and required overtime pay for >Y hours (X=30, Y=40 currently, IIRC), but they aren't anywhere close to banning work (outside of a few edge cases like long-haul trucking).
If it's the companies, then why? They'd have to pay four sets of benefits, rent four workspaces, run training four times, have single-path tasks take 33% longer, and have meetings with four people instead of three with a 30 hour workweek and 120 hour weekly workload. If they're early adopters, then they'd also attract people looking for reduced time commitments compared to the standard, which is horrible negative selection.
If it's the employees, then who are they? Most people I know look for overtime, not temporary layoffs or unpaid time off. That suggests that their optimal work week is above 40 hours given their financial needs and time commitments. Heck, some people take multiple part-time jobs (which sounds horrible) because they want to work more hours than one job can provide.
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