sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
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sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
5hr ago
That doesn't pass the smell test.
Then you must accept either a much higher number of trans homicide victims (surely HRC has squeezed all the blood from that stone) or much lower number of trans people in the country. Thing is, I went through the trouble of scrolling a little further down Google, and HRC itself estimates 1.6M trans people 13+ in the US. So we're looking at a homicide rate of 1.2 homicides per 100k (apologies, I fucked up the math in the original post, corrected) if we simply take the HRC's numbers at face value. About 1.6M is the lowest estimate I could find on the front page.
To match the genpop homicide victimization rate, you'd need there to be only about 260k trans people in the US. And this isn't even counting the "gender expansive".
sarker
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1d ago
So what you're saying is, if Satan didn't rebel you'd think he was high agency?
Whose instructions did Cyrus, your high agency wunderkind, follow? Or is the top dog the only one in the chain with no agency, and all the goons high agency?
Since the day after the last Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20, 2023, at least 36 transgender and gender-expansive people have been killed in the U.S.
Let's do some back of the envelope math. Let's say that constitutes 18 trans and gender expensive killings per year.
There are apparently 3M trans people age 13 and older in the USA. 1% of the population seems high to me, but this is the top Google result so I presume it's an estimate that pro-trans people would find credible.
Let's ignore the gender expansive category for now.
18 / 3M = 0.14 0.6 homicides per 100k [math error fixed]
CDC reports 6.8 homicides per 100k Americans in the general population.
What are we even talking about?
Paradoxically, inflating the number of trans people may be useful for certain public policy goals, but it simultaneously dilutes the apparent epidemic of violence against them.
sarker
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1d ago
Have we wrapped around to "agency is doing as you're told"? Running and telling Father about the rebellion is worse than what Artembares' son did.
Those who were cruel to the young Cyrus were luckier if he forgot them. The son of Artembares, he displayed not agency but weakness. He chose the game to start, he chose Cyrus, then he hesitated, he lacked the courage to commit, he tried to change horses midstream and wound up all wet. Rather than abide by the rules that he and his peers had organized together, rather than live in the world conjured by their own collective will, he tried to run to his daddy and get bailed out. He’s lucky if he was simply forgotten when Cyrus was Great King.
Why? How great would Cyrus have been if he operated simply on lizard brain tit for tat?
When the Armenians rebel against their master the Medes, the Medes send Cyrus to pacify them. Cyrus wins, but the Prince of Armenia argues that Cyrus should spare the life of his father the king, because this will be so over-the-top unexpectedly nice that his father will be a more grateful and helpful vassal than anyone else Cyrus could put in his place. Cyrus agrees and the Armenians are loyal to him forever.
The difference between a great king and your common Crip is that the great king understands that there's more to life than getting even.
Not to mention that choosing to rebel is also a choice. Better to reign in hell, etc etc.
sarker
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6d ago
Would you rather that the smoke alarm silently run down its battery?
sarker
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7d ago
Seems easily fixable by having the windows open inwards.
sarker
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8d ago
It was, iirc, a single «pair».
sarker
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9d ago
Avi Loeb is somewhat famous for banging the ET drum for years at this point. No idea about this particular object though.
sarker
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10d ago
If the doors intersect:
- Open bathroom door
- Close bathroom door
- Open shower door
- Close shower door
- Shower
- Open shower door
- Close shower door
- Open bathroom door
- Close bathroom door
If they don't:
- Open bathroom door
- Close shower door
- Shower - no need to close bathroom door if nobody else is in the house
- Open shower door
- Close bathroom door - shower door can be left open for improved ventilation of the shower
It's that easy.
sarker
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10d ago
I've got a shower door that opens into the bathroom door and it really fucking sucks. Even when I'm alone I need to do way more operations to get in and out of the shower/bathroom.
sarker
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10d ago
punishing unliscensed practitioners is a key aspect of any regulatory regime involving licensing.
Of course, this is the opposite of the tweet you quoted. He's talking about the cost of the license functioning as a mechanism to keep the licensed in line. You, and the North Carolina board, are talking about the licensing guild functioning as a mechanism to keep the unlicensed in line.
sarker
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12d ago
It's easy enough to just multiply it out if you forgot the formula.
sarker
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15d ago
The telegraph link is paywalled.
Was the dossier primarily about the Trump interview? I'm seeing some mentions that it also discussed trans issues, but all the headlines are about the Trump interview. Example:
BBC boss and head of news quit after criticism of Trump documentary edit
sarker
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15d ago
What's infantile about "kid"?
"Puppy" and "dog" don't even mean the same thing. Feel free to attempt a revival of "whelp" though.
sarker
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17d ago
My examples, and the examples that stodgy prescriptivists mostly complain about, all involve a blurring of meanings, which in 99% of cases entails blurring of thought (both as cause and then again as consequence).
What is the blurring of meaning in a sign at the supermarket saying "10 items or less?"
it became possible to express MORE thoughts because the language became more specific.
What thoughts is it possible to express now that "corn" refers to a specific new world crop rather than to all grains that were impossible to express before?
sarker
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18d ago
The first two points? They're just how LLMs work. The third is utter nonsense.
The first point is not how any production LLM has been trained for years now. Post training is not next token prediction.
sarker
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18d ago
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
18d ago
Unfortunately, when it comes to high rep squats, the COOM feeling from the pump is overwhelmed by the sensation of having been hit by a truck.
sarker
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19d ago
He might have found some way to influencer his way to some money out of lifting now, but he did a whole lot of lifting before ever reaching a point where he could make a dime
I'm pretty sure he doesn't make a penny from this.
If he didn't enjoy doing it at some level, he wouldn't do it. If he wasn't stoked about it, about reaching his lifting goals, he wouldn't do it.
I think he likes achieving his goals, but he doesn't like the process at all. I don't see why that should be impossible.
I don't really think it's possible to "enjoy" doing a program like deep water, even if you enjoy achieving your goals.
sarker
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19d ago
There are alternative views.
Which is why I struggle when I hear of people that talk about how much they enjoy training, as, to me, it’s a sign of ineffective training. In total “no true Scotsman” form, enjoyable training can’t be effective, because effective training ISN’T enjoyable. If one is enjoying their training, they are not doing what training is meant to do: specifically, make one big and strong. Primarily because the body grows bigger and stronger in response to trauma. And yeah, science is telling us it’s not about microtears anymore (so I hear), but the fact remains that body grows bigger and stronger in response to a DEMAND placed upon it to grow bigger and stronger, and the only reason such a demand can be placed upon the body is for the body to experience discomfort and trauma. And, quite frankly, if you ENJOY discomfort and trauma, you are a literal masochist.
sarker
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20d ago
Five years? But... It can't be...
sarker
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29d ago
You mean like this?
Correct, as I noted in my original post.
However, HRC's estimate of the number of trans people in the country is the lowest I could easily find.
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