MotteInTheEye
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MotteInTheEye
1d ago
If it's hard to detect, that's extremely difficult to coordinate on short notice. It's almost literally impossible for an organization that's not all in one location together to suddenly get rid of / replace all of their communication equipment.
MotteInTheEye
2d ago
It's also possible that the pagers were sold much more widely but only the ones that were eventually pinned to Hezbollah agents were triggered today.
MotteInTheEye
2d ago
Your theory makes sense a priori but I don't understand why we don't see firms that are run internally like a free market dominating the supposedly inefficient command-based firms which we actually see.
MotteInTheEye
2d ago
True, I should have said "another explanation".
MotteInTheEye
2d ago
The other explanation for the timing is that a limited time window to use it was closing, either because of an inherent limitation in the bomb design or because the cover was about to be blown.
MotteInTheEye
2d ago
It's really pathetic how little progress the tech industry has apparently made towards measuring and incentivizing actual productivity, that some of the foremost employers still feel like they need to chain people to a desk and hope that they'll get something done that way. This is despite having approximately the most naturally conscientious workforce in the world.
Remote work aside, there is so much on the table for the employer that's able to keep the 10x software engineers and fire everyone else that it's mind-boggling how few companies have even tried to pull it off. I'm not sure if it's ideological commitment to egalitarianism, principal / agent problems where middle management pursues empire building instead of efficiency, or just genuinely that difficult of a problem to solve.
MotteInTheEye
8d ago
There just isn't a large enough number of people in the US who feel deeply enough that abortion is wrong to go do anything about it other than vote.
And yet there is a whole arena of lawfare around protesting / demonstrating outside of abortion clinics, and a second one around crisis pregnancy centers.
MotteInTheEye
8d ago
I still agree that lying like this is bad and he shouldn't do it, but it doesn't seem like you've interacted with the core of the counterargument. The fact that his statements are exaggerated makes them bait for the media to debunk and therefore signal boost them.
MotteInTheEye
20d ago
My only point is that it's apples and oranges to compare drivers vs. bikers being deferential to pedestrians, because it's nearly costless for the drivers.
MotteInTheEye
20d ago
I wouldn't expect distracted driving to disproportionately impact hit and runs but not overall accidents, so the fact that that's the statistic used here makes me suspicious that overall accidents don't follow the same trend.
MotteInTheEye
20d ago
There might be a cultural dimension but a big part of it is that slowing to a stop and restarting is actually a significant inconvenience to a biker in a way that it's not to a driver since it requires a large expenditure of your personal physical energy.
MotteInTheEye
20d ago
Maybe there are more details we are missing about the incident, but on the face of it, the uproar about it makes me less sympathetic to activist bikers. Drivers deal with unexpected construction obstacles all the time, and I don't understand why a biker would expect to have right of way when merging into the main lane to avoid an obstacle.
MotteInTheEye
21d ago
That's interesting because I was going to bring up Lewis as a counterargument to the "gender/sex distinction recently invented to undermine gender norms" POV. Lewis discussed it extensively in both fiction and non-fiction and certainly didn't intend it to undermine gender norms. In multiple places he argued that God is infinitely masculine although not male, and that biological sex was in fact only the expression at the biological level of a more ultimate reality.
MotteInTheEye
1mo ago
The Catholic Church's opposition to the death penalty is well known, but their doctrine explicitly allows for the possibility of just warfare.
If your claim is just that they teach that war is bad then I fully agree. I read eetan's "endorsed by the Bible" to mean permissible under some circumstances, not preferable or desirable.
MotteInTheEye
1mo ago
Then the Christians you know are very unusual, even just considering the set of Christians alive today, let alone considering the set of Christians across history.
MotteInTheEye
1mo ago
This is just smart politicking, there's obviously no chance of passing these with the current Congress, so it's just forcing the Republicans to defend what are probably moderately unpopular positions about the Supreme Court.
MotteInTheEye
1mo ago
I think it was essentially a three step process for this and all other hobbies:
- The original Internet culture was generally left-libertarian.
- Internet forums ate the hobby: because they were such an efficient way to engage with other hobbyists, they outcompeted every alternative cultural center of the hobby.
- The left-libertarian founders and their successors largely became woke leftist, bringing the forums along with them.
The second and third steps happened in parallel during the aughts and early teens.
MotteInTheEye
2mo ago
Most heavy/death metal bands aren't comedy-focused, so obviously no.
MotteInTheEye
2mo ago
If any one municipality gets the solution to homelessness "correct" their reward for doing so is to be flooded by homeless people from other areas.
This is true only if homeless people have no agency to determine their place of residence, or if the solution is one that the homeless people themselves prefer to the default "unsolved" conditions.
If on the other hand there is a solution that the homeless people would prefer to avoid and they have some agency to avoid it by relocating, then the incentive would flow the opposite direction, with localities that do not adopt it getting flooded.
MotteInTheEye
2mo ago
one would like mainstream society to be sending a message like: it's perfectly alright to be a nerdy masculine woman or an effeminate man
That's the tack that society has been taking since at least the 80s or so. Obviously there's no blinded experiment or anything and lots of different overlapping trends, but it seems pretty clear to me that downplaying gender roles led to an increase in people desiring to transition rather than forestalling transitions.
MotteInTheEye
2mo ago
"Stripper" is almost as low-status a title as it's possible to have, there's nothing left to cancel.
MotteInTheEye
3mo ago
I haven't used it for game development specifically, but from what I have used it for, this sounds like an ideal case. "Experienced programmer wants to get a quick start in a popular branch of programming which is new to him" is pretty much the sweet spot.
MotteInTheEye
3mo ago
Could it be orthodontic practices? Orthodontia can make a surprising amount of difference to the jaw and facial structure.
MotteInTheEye
3mo ago
Is any action necessary to suppress them? I didn't read the OP as saying "let's do x, y, and z to stamp out complaints of incels" but "by revealed preferences they are content to stew in porn and video games so why stress about them?"
I don't agree with OP because I am not content to just write off huge chunks of the population which could be leading fulfilling lives and useful to other people, but your objection seems like a non sequitur.
I think the comment makes more sense if you interpret "the regime" to be not identical to "the US government" but rather what's referred to as "the Cathedral" or "the elites", i.e. a class of people who comprise newspaper editors and politicians among others.
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