ulyssessword
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ulyssessword
7d ago
Nah, I'm from Saskatchewan, and Manitoba is one of us. We're both part of Western Canada, along with Alberta (but not BC).
they’ll tell you they’re in the centre of Canada and Western Canada is everything from Saskatchewan on, which is damn fucking right if you look at an actual map.
Now I want geographically-defined regions. Anything below the 49th parallel is the "Deep South", 49-55 is "South", 55-66.5 is "Central", and anything in the Arctic circle is "North", with 80+ degrees being the "Far North". BC and Alberta are "West", Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and western Ontario are "Central", while the rest of Ontario, Quebec, and Atlantic Canada is "East".
“Oh, like you’re from the Midwest?”
See also: 38 degrees in the Middle East
ulyssessword
7d ago
Could you link examples? Among articles ostensibly about Biden's failures due to his age, I found (summaries all mine):
- Vox: Harris wasn't electable
- MSN: Thorough factual description, but calling it an "epic miscalculation" doesn't assign responsibility
- CNN: he will be a bad candidate in Nov. 2024, but no mention of a mistake in electing him
- ABC: It's a simple weakness, no mention of how it should create actions
The rest were either on the right, or past the first page of results.
ulyssessword
8d ago
I wouldn't go that far, but I bet it the equivalent article would've been about something like political theory vs. enacted policies back in the Slatestarcodex days instead of Left vs. Right now. It might have even used many of the same examples and reached the same object-level conclusions.
ulyssessword
8d ago
The proper way to do things is first reach the moral high ground, then attack your opponents for not being there. They skipped a step.
If the Right has to own up to this (at this point only alleged) failure, what does the Left have to own up to (or better yet: What has the Left already owned up to, to serve as an example)? The closest Scott gets to answering that question is through a link that contains a link that links to resources for thinking critically about Social Justice. I assume that there are object-level criticisms in the resources listed there, but I haven't actually checked.
ulyssessword
9d ago
When it comes to categories like race/sex/age/nationality, some level of presumptive conflict of interest is inevitable. Would a White researcher come off as unbiased in race research in your opinion?
ulyssessword
9d ago
Tatishe
I tried finding that name, and it had two hits worldwide (0.001% of "Steven", for reference). The second result in my search was the study author, and the third was a Spanish (or at least Spanish-language) musician. Maybe I have to brush up on my linguistics, but I still don't see any notable connection between that name and any region, let alone any political stance.
Your multi-sentence specific explanation wasn't enough to convince me, so I stand behind my criticism of their brief dismissal.
ulyssessword
9d ago
I'm confused about how Canadian regions are divided.
Join the club. There are multiple different systems used interchangeably. Some of the regions include:
- the Maritimes: Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and PEI
- Atlantic Canada: the Maritimes plus Newfoundland and Labrador
- Quebec
- Ontario
- Central Canada: Quebec and Ontario
- Western Canada: Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and sometimes BC
- the Prairie Provinces: Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and usually Alberta
- BC
- the North: Yukon, NWT, and Nunavut.
Which ridings are you counting? Central Newfoundland, Terra Nova, Avalon, Long Range, Labrador...what am I missing?
You're missing Cape Spear and St John's East.
ulyssessword
9d ago
What was the point, in your opinion?
I can't see anything other than bare-faced racism because the name doesn't mean anything to me.
ulyssessword
10d ago
The literal meaning is kind of useless. Is a truck with duallies "four wheel drive" just because its drivetrain is connected to four wheels?
ulyssessword
10d ago
Polls closed in Newfoundland two hours ago, and it's not looking good for the pollsters. CBC has called two seats for the Conservatives and they're leading in a third, while three have been called for the Liberals and they're leading in a fourth. The prediction was 7-0 Liberal (two "toss up", five "Lib. Likely").
The Maritimes are closer to the prediction, with the Conservatives leading/called in 8 ridings vs. the prediction of 7.
Then all that information is practically public. I don't think that's a very palatable solution.
ulyssessword
11d ago
The danger with that is that the line is blurry. If you're too strict, then Joe Random gets gifted ten million dollars just for filing a lawsuit against Google, because they have corporate-standard recordkeeping, auditing, and accounting which is helpful to lawyers.
ulyssessword
11d ago
are there any major flaws/unintended consequences I've overlooked?
Define "legal expenses".
The first thing I'd do if faced with those rules is outsource everything from the law office. Instead of the lawyers hiring a forensic accountant to review the accounts, the accounting department would hire them and provide the report to the lawyers for free. Instead of lawyers hiring a mock jury, the marketing department would hire a research panel. If you allow splitting hairs enough, then the compliance team does legal research and provides it for free to the litigation team.
Even without deliberate dodging, large corporations simply have a lot of those resources available from other departments, and the incremental cost to get the lawyers that information is near-zero.
If you want to improve their website, you could try something like what I did to fandom.com using an adblocker.
EDIT: could an LLM do that autonomously? I don't think the non-agent models could see what they were doing, and the agents aren't optimized for it, but surely it'll be done by the end of the year.
ulyssessword
12d ago
I don't see a moral difference between different levels of deception.
If you can buy X (a squished Big Mac) after being shown Y (a shiny, perfect Big Mac), then I don't really care if the intermediate step is X' (a squished Big Mac, which will be photoshopped) or Y' (a physically perfect, inedible big mac, which will be faithfully photographed).
I suspect that the image manipulation will become more accepted over time, as features like crowd deletion, de-blinking, and smart panoramas move from specialized desktop applications (eg. photoshop) to simple buttons in a camera.
ulyssessword
13d ago
Click the three dots on someone's comment and select "Block User". You won''t be notified of replies and their comments (but not the children of their comments) will be hidden from you.
As far as I can tell, that's practically identical to Twitter.
ulyssessword
13d ago
Wouldn't mind hearing about builds/ideas/tips for Cyberpunk 2077, btw. I went into CP2077 blind and it's pretty cool.
Knives, knives and more knives.
If you have three punknives, you can throw them all and the first one will return by the time you're ready to throw a fourth (at T5 with some perks, you can do it with two knives instead). They're silent, can be made nonlethal, don't need ammo, and can even attack in melee in a pinch.
ulyssessword
13d ago
all the beauty filters
You sure it isn't makeup?
For some reason we've decided that manipulating peoples' perceptions by changing the physical objects they're looking at is acceptable, while manipulating peoples' perceptions by changing the images directly isn't.
See also fast food commercials. They are (or at least were) genuine footage of actual objects...which were only superficially related to the food they sold.
ulyssessword
15d ago
0.6 mg made me quite sleepy after a short while. In the morning, I woke up from a deep sleep and (after a minute) felt well-rested.
5 mg made me almost collapse in exhaustion. I had vivid (though unremembered) dreams, and I was still tired as I got ready for the day. I was fine by the time I left for work, but it didn't feel like a normal good night.
ulyssessword
15d ago
I cut my 5 mg ones into (approximately) 1/8ths so it's at least close to the right dose.
Also, I tried 5 mg once, and it's a very different beast from 0.6ish mg. If I didn't already know it was the same drug, I wouldn't have been able to guess from the effects.
ulyssessword
15d ago
I also started 10 mg of melatonin at night, it does not do much but hey, this place did start from a psychiatrist's blog, so I had to mention it.
Try 0.3 mg instead: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/
ulyssessword
17d ago
ulyssessword
17d ago
It would have been so much funnier on Good Friday.
ulyssessword
20d ago
Then stand by your convictions, admit what you're doing, and argue that it's good.
EDIT: missed this earlier.
Maybe in general, but see the post:
Hypothetical!Vance both admits that it was bad and changes course, but it still doesn't satisfy Scott. I don't think punting Biden is any better than what was laid out there.
END EDIT
Yglesias is a decent example, but he's also heterodox enough that he doesn't consider himself a part of the core. In fact he calls out the core constituency for continuing to make the mistake he just admitted to:
Were they just a bit slower than him, and admitted their mistakes some time after the article was written (Jul 08, 2024)?
I couldn't read the Times article because they patched my latest paywall bypass, and the WSJ is completely broken and threw my browser into an endless loop of reloading the page before crashing to the desktop.
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