Crowstep
19hr ago
I'm pretty sure I'd be better off under fascism that favors East-Asians over current European democracy.
The closest thing we've had to East-Asian supremacist fascism didn't go too well for those under its boot.
Crowstep
2d ago
Ok, and I doubt that Quentin Tarantino was setting out to try to pass the Bechdel test. Arguably, he just made a female-centered action movie and as a natural result of that there was dialogue between women which wasn't about men.
I would say that he passes by writing male dialogue for his female characters. Real life assassins are men, as are people who go on 'rip-roaring rampages of revenge'. Passing the bechdel test is easy, as long as you don't require that any of your characters behave in ways that real women do.
Crowstep
4d ago
I've been reading a ton of Golden Age crime/detective fiction from the period roughly 1900-30s and boy howdy, the women in it are only there to be
Those sound like archetypes, in a genre where (to my understanding) everyone is an archteype. Are the male characters really so rich and multifaceted?
Crowstep
4d ago
I could see how it would be difficult to find women's romance not about a hapless lady stuck in a boring life who gets swept off her feet by a rich and competent suitor
The prototypical Hallmark movie has a female protagonist who is very competent in her high-powered city job before she moves back to her hometown for plot-convenient reasons.
Of course, the city life and her jerk city boyfriend make her miserable, which is why she'd much rather move back and hook up with the handsome widowed lumberjack.
Although you're basically right. The Hallmark movies are just as gender-normative as the billionaire werewolf romance novels.
Crowstep
7d ago
This has me thinking, the idea of "dropping out of the rat race" is very Gen X coded. Youth today think that's "copium" and seem to want to fight for control of the places and positions that matter
I wonder if it's due to young people being raised on social media. The only kind of dropping out they can idolise is the vanlife/digital nomad/world traveller kind that is broadcast on Instagram.
Crowstep
7d ago
A lot of these kind of grouchy iconoclastic guys do a ton of work to carve out their own path but then lack any kind of community and their kids just leave because there's not community for them to become an adult in
I suspect that's what will happen with the Collins' children. I can't see them adopting their dad's techno-puritanism.
Crowstep
7d ago
Huh, TIL. I wonder why there hasn't been such a backlash in the Rugby-playing countries as there has been against American Football.
Crowstep
7d ago
It's possible they are able to introduce enough new equipment and rule tweaks to solve the CTE issue, but the clock is running out
RETVRN to Rugby!
Crowstep
7d ago
you cannot tell me Aphrodite of II is not a man's face stapled onto a woman's figure
I feel like I must be missing something, because I'm looking at (what I think) is the two figures compared and I genuinely couldn't tell you which one is the uglified version. They both have angrogynous faces. Did they change up the version for II after the backlash or something?
Crowstep
7d ago
Hubbard literally wrote his own science fiction and seemed to be relatively self aware, those who have studied Scientology’s history have often argued he never really did believe the way that his successors did
I'm reading a book about Joseph Smith at the moment and I'm really struggling to put myself in his mind and work out whether he really thought Jesus was talking through him. Like, he clearly believed in God and cared about religion (hence the fact he spent ages retconning the Old and New Testaments to get rid of all the obvious contradictions) but also his 'revelations' were so transparently self-serving. Like sureeee Joe, a big scary angel with a sword said he would kill you if you didn't have sex with all those teenage girls. You really didn't want to, but you're scared of the angel!
Crowstep
8d ago
There's no such thing as a labour market need
To build on this, the term 'labour shortage' is basically an impossibility. Workers consume, thereby increasing demand for goods and services, which increases demand for labour. Filling labour shortages creates labour shortages. The term is basically just an excuse by politicians and business leaders who want to suppress wages in a particular sector (for the UK, the clear example is the massive influx of 'care workers' during the Boriswave).
Crowstep
8d ago
Crowstep
8d ago
I guess we'll see. So far there is a noticeable spike in her favour.
Crowstep
8d ago
Marine Le Pen couldn't hope for a better piece of propaganda than gangs of immigrant youths torching beautiful French buildings. If the left is behind this, it's a pretty stupid move.
Crowstep
9d ago
Rape is not different
It is. Sex isn't illegal, but sex without consent is illegal. That doesn't apply to e.g. murder or battery. Rape almost always happens in the privacy of a bedroom, whereas most crimes of personal assault happen publicly. Consent is also extremely hard to prove or disprove.
demand for rape [to punish] vastly exceeds its supply
In the UK about 85% of rapes go unreported, when comparing police reports to the victim of crime survey, which is the gold standard for measuring actual prevalance of crime. There is plenty of supply.
You seem to believe that the two statements:
- False rape accusations are common
- Rape is underreported
...are mutually exclusive. But they're not. They both can be (and I believe are) true.
So when a field is slowly becoming irrelevant
Can you really say that (human) medicine, dentistry, law, accountancy and bioscience are all becoming irrelevant? Are the only relevant fields engineering and software?*
- Obvious caveat about AI potentially making all human labour obsolete.
Crowstep
9d ago
The problem is that many women who are actually raped don't report, fearing getting mislabeled as a false accuser
It's certainly true that a very high number of rapes go unreported, but I don't think that it's because women are worried about being labelled a false accuser. In the UK for example, rape accusers get lifetime anonymity. The press literally cannot print their names, ever. We don't seem to have more or fewer rape accusations than peer countries as a consequence.
I think rape victims who don't report it do so because they don't want to relive the experience again and again, that they are doubtful that anything will come of it (often true due to the nature of the crime), that they blame themselves to some degree or that they think that putting the rapist behind bars won't undo what happened (which it won't, of course).
Crowstep
9d ago
I've already done so, twice. If you believe I'm mistaken, please say what you do believe. This cross-examination game doesn't make for a fruitful conversation.
Crowstep
9d ago
My understanding is that it's more like the body forces you back to whatever weight you had before the weight loss, and part of that mechanism is through reducing the metabolism. The studies I've seen all have people returning to their original weight, but how much of the mechanism is metabolic slowdown vs increased hunger I don't know exactly.
As I said, having a 'caloric budget' is a calorie-controlled weight loss strategy, which doesn't actually work for almost everyone who tries it (see decades of studies). It's fine to describe weight loss or gain in calories, but budgeting them like money in a bank account fails when actual humans try it.
EDIT: This conversation might be more fruitful if you said what you actually believe re diet and weight loss/gain.
Crowstep
10d ago
I would say that the fact you talk about a 'caloric budget' puts you in the 'consciously restricting calories as a method of weight loss' camp, although I may be mistaken.
Crowstep
10d ago
I don't know, he hasn't released this information, this is all we know. But he has been talking about AI safety and working for non-profits (not exactly a lucrative field) since 2001, whereas his (profitable?) book about AI doom only came out last year.
Like, I guess it's possible that in 2001 he thought that focussing obsessively on AI and AI safety (plus writing lots of forum posts and a Harry Potter fanfiction) was a good career choice instead of making a ton of money in tech or finance like every other smart guy, but that seems extremely unlikely. The most likely explanation is that he actually believes what he says.
A militaristic, nationalistic dictatorship in the 1930s that rejected liberalism in favour of extreme statism and corporatism, suppressed alternative ideologies, promoted traditional values, conquered and brutalised its neighbours and allied with explicitly fascist regimes in Europe.
Japan's racial ideology was slightly different, in that it didn't want to exterminate the Chinese (like Germany wanted to exterminate the Jews and Slavs), just rule over them. And it didn't have a single leader like Mussolini/Hitler and instead had the Emporer as a figurehead with power being held by competing military factions. But based on the many similarities I think it's reasonable to call Imperial Japan the closest thing to East-Asian supremacist fascism. Can you think of another regime that would be closer?
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