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BurdensomeCount
Unable to escape TheMotte's cycle of Samsara...
1hr ago
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
1hr ago
Same. If /r/catholicism was representative of what the average person in the Catholic Church was like, I would have walked away a long time ago. Thankfully, that is not the case and people I interact with in person in the church are kind, gracious people who are a pleasure to know.
coffee_enjoyer
☕️
2hr ago
The notion that Christians ought to forgive everyone no matter what is usually defended with Luke 23:34, where Jesus asks God to forgive those involved in his crucifixion (which implies that he himself forgives them). But there’s a problem with this: it’s not actually clear who Jesus is speaking about, whether that’s the Pharisees who have the greater sin involved in the crucifixion, or whether it’s the soldiers just obeying orders, or whether it’s the public who are celebrants of the event. Some scholars believe this only applies to Pilate’s soldiers, who were involved in obeying orders but not the cause of the evil. I think this is reasonable because the utterance occurs in the middle of the description of the soldiers engaged in an action: “there they crucified him, and the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. And Jesus said, ‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.’ And they cast lots to divide his garments”. If the forgiveness were intended for everyone, it would be more clear to articulate this later in the event where there would be no confusion that he is speaking at large to all gathered.
TheAntipopulist
Formerly Ben___Garrison
2hr ago
Well sure, people dislike unfair representation, but 1) a lot of that is due to FPTP, not gerrymandering, and 2) they don't really care enough to do much about, certainly not enough that it'd be worth 8-20 House seats to continue being unilaterally semi-disarmed.
TheAntipopulist
Formerly Ben___Garrison
2hr ago
Tit-for-tat might work when it's only one individual vs another, or if it's something like nuke strikes where only a handful of people have access to the Big Red Button. But it's just flatly not going to work in cases of big amorphous coalitions for all the reasons I listed. Also, the Left hardly had their behavior for "free", they plausibly lost 1-2 elections because of it, and the specific woke subfaction that is most loving of cancel culture hasn't been this politically irrelevant in a decade or more.
CertainlyWorse
No one is coming. It's just you.
2hr ago
Apropos of nothing, your comment triggered something and I did a dive back into the original Moria roguelike. Oh boy... the memories. How does a casual ASCII game from the early 80's provoke that kind of emotion. How could a modern developer recapture it?
For completeness, TheSchism has managed a post on it, the day after I wrote the above and two days after my original "in a week" deadline. I'll leave as an exercise to the viewer where to place it
But if they're not debating whether the shooter was a groyper, still, I suppose they're ahead of the curve.
TeknOShEeP
2hr ago
I think you dismiss justification #3 too easily. Some degree of "Tit-for-Tat" has long been recognized as the Game Theory correct move. If the right just moves on and says "okay, cancel culture is done" then they have let the left have a decade plus of abbhorent, anti-civilizational behavior for free. This shouldn't happen. Hard lessons are the best learned, and a few years getting their noses bent out of joint and prominent leftists fired from media jobs and cancelled off of social media may actually force some self reflection on the left (and about a trillion posts worth of whining about facism, but that will probably happen anyway).
If the right just lets sleeping dogs lie, then the norm becomes "cancel culture is a weapon that only the left gets to use, some of the time." In the long-term interests of free speech, this should not become a norm.
dsfewr
2hr ago
First make a Metamask wallet if you don't have one already. Transfer some USDC to your Metamask, then connect to Poly with your wallet. Deposit USDC on Poly. Turn on your VPN, and you're good to trade.
DelendaEst
2hr ago
But this IS the reason that gerrymandering feels bad, the reason that people instinctively dislike it. Its not that people hate the squiggly lines in and of themselves, they dislike that the lines lead to unfair vote distributions. So it is not immediately obvious to me why having even worse distributions without squiggly lines is better.
Iconochasm
2. Bootstrap the rest of the fucking omnipotence.
2hr ago
I am once again stepping up to remind everyone that political hypocrisy is almost always a symmetrical phenomenon. AntiPopulist focuses the entire post on the right (because of course), but the last week has also seen countless leftwingers get their own pro-canceling, anti-free speech rhetoric thrown right back in their faces.
For example, in 2018 Rosanne Barr tweeted a plausibly racist comment about Valerie Jarrett and Kimmel's own network, ABC, rejected her apology and fired her before turning her show into a vessel for leftist propaganda. Kimmel himself said "I want to say kudos to my bosses at ABC for doing the right thing and canceling Roseanne’s show today. It’s not an easy thing to do when a show is successful, but it’s the right thing."
Kimmel himself was reportedly offered the chance to apologize, and was taken off the air after declaring that he would instead drop yet more incendiary comments about Maga. Bold move for a man whose show is almost certainly not "successful" by standards such as "not losing money". Let's see if that pays off for him.
It's truly a shame. Leftwingers being held to their own standards (or any standards) are the real victims here - just ignore the body that was just laid to rest.
TheAntipopulist
Formerly Ben___Garrison
2hr ago
the difference between the percentage of the vote that went to the out party
First off, it's not correct to just take a simple percentage and say something like "if party A won 40% of the vote, it should get 40% of the seats". It doesn't work like that. Think about it: in an FPTP system, if voters were totally uniformly distributed, then a party that won 60% of the votes would get 100% of the seats. The reason this doesn't happen in practice is because of sorting. The simplest rule for "fairness" that's used in academic lit is something like the following:
- “Efficency Gap” rule. The difference between the two parties’ seat-shares should be twice their vote-share difference i.e. if one party gets 60% of the vote and the other gets 40% (a 20% vote-share difference), then they should split seats 70%-30% (a 40% seat-share difference).
You can go to this link for more info, specifically under the 4 definitions of fairness.
While you're right that it's not like the Dems have totally disarmed themselves from using gerrymandering, the important point is that they're not pushing nearly as hard as Republicans have done over the past few decades. As I said, R's are up 8 to 20 seats depending on the fairness metric used.
Bartender_Venator
2hr ago
There aren't really any social expectations. I have friends on instagram who post ten stories a day, some have like three posts total, some have artposts but never show their face, etc. Don't reveal any more of your privacy than you feel comfortable with.
If you want to post, take cool shots at shows/raves and put them up either as stories, or as posts with a little comment about how great it was. A big part of your hobby is putting on cool spectacles, it's a natural fit. Tagging the organizers or friends who were with you is a nice touch. Play around a little with stories of food, since that's always safe, so you can figure out how to put text, stickers, tags, etc. on them. If you have cool hobbies outside of raves - cooking, hiking, making stuff, whatever, you can also put them on your stories so people know you're a well-rounded person.
For girls, instagram is better than a number if you're not going to immediately try and date them, since they will post stories you can like or comment on, people appreciate getting wholesome little comments or relevant recommendations in their story replies. Just as an example, about a month ago, I met a girl who I'm not trying to date but would like to be friendly with - last week, she posted she was visiting Portland, and I replied to the story and we had a pleasant chat about places to go in the Oregon wine country. If you're /fit/, don't overplay it on your posts, but you can throw up thirst trap stories whenever there's plausible deniability (I often ask buddies to take pictures of me when I'm dancing shirtless for that reason).
One thing you can do to get better connected and make people like you on Instagram is to promote people's stuff. Is someone you know advertising a show, an event, whatever that appeals to you? Put it on your story. Venues will often follow you back if you do this for their stuff. The flipside of this is that Instagram is a great, and in many scenes, the best way to keep up with what public events are happening, so you may find that an unexpected bonus.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
2hr ago
Serves me right for replying from the raw comment feed.
MayorofOysterville
2hr ago
I can't really buy this we had Atheist Greeks and Philosophical schools before Christianity. The Enlightment is pretty non Christian. And China was ruled by a secular philosophical school as base value rather than religion. It seems way to much a just so story. The concept of the secular is definitely not unique to Christianity.
Pynewacket
2hr ago
for me, it was when they published the Damore memo with all the citations removed and almost nobody in the comment section questioned why (fuck you Jango The Blue Fox)
OracleOutlook
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
2hr ago
Kazuo Ishiguro writes the same story over and over and over again, but he does it well. The servant who believes in their service and doesn't mind that it eats their life up.
It's kind of an anti-novel. You hope for character development, but it doesn't happen. It's more like a series of vignettes.
His other novels do have more development and plot, but never to the point where the main character advocates for themselves.
I found his body of work poignant and depressing.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
2hr ago
Everyone always talks about gerrymandering at the level of congressional representation, but I think it's far more insidious at the city level: in the city I live in (and I suspect this is true of many cities in the country), the '24 presidential vote shares (which haven't changed much) were somewhere around 65-35 blue-red. But wouldn't you know it, every city council district voted for a blue candidate (even notionally "non-party-affiliated", but as far as I can tell everyone is aware of the alignment from the messaging), and there was no shortage of complaining when a single red candidate won a special election for a truncated term a couple years back.
As far as I can tell, this statement describes almost every moderate-size or larger city in the country.
OracleOutlook
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
2hr ago
Kazuo Ishiguro writes the same story over and over and over again, but he does it well. The servant who believes in their service and doesn't mind that it eats their life up. Klara and the Sun is the same. After reading The Remains of the Day, Klara and the Sun, and Never Let Me Go I realized that I've seen pretty much all he has to say.
Started it this weekend too. I like the weird, but I am very disappointed with how mediocre the writing is. Pacing problems, basic facts (~known by the heroes) obfuscated likely only because they had no confidence in filling it out properly.
Bodies of previous expedition members all share same uniforms (so far) and the numbers on their armbands are missing - how do you screw this up so hard? Predecessors you are expected to feel camaraderie with, reduced to very liberally sprinkled props, literally denied their place in the history of the expeditions.
Still, I will definitely finish it.
Bartender_Venator
2hr ago
Plus, there are studies coming out that says nattokinase is great for your blood pressure. Sadly not the case with these girls.
MayorofOysterville
2hr ago
I don't know about lectures, but I've heard the vastness of the universe as a kind of awe. I don't think most secularism is sold on miracles anyway and when most people say miracles they are more talking about supernatural feats of wonder.
Regardless multiple faith traditions are filled with people having religious epiphanies indeed many religions have been started based on religious epiphanies so those don't seem very useful in discerning Truth.
Soteriologian
2hr ago
The weirdest thing is the administration brought this on themselves. It's not like Epstein was a grassroots thing that they were forced to confront. It is specifically their making noise about it during the campaign that revived interest in the affair in the first place. Keep in mind Epstein died during Trump's first term, and yet somehow the fanfare then was minimal compared to what we see now. Why would they drum up attention about it, only to backpeddle? I mean, they did the same thing with auditing the Federal Reserve and Fort Knox. And annexing Canada. And Greenland.
Like what is sincere analysis of this stuff even supposed to look like? Because the most charitable interpretation I can give is "Ah, don't worry about it, they just say dumb shit for attention," which should already be a sharp indictment of officials entrusted with enacting national policy, and even that's not what I really believe.
CertainlyWorse
No one is coming. It's just you.
2hr ago
Yes, I think it is.
I'm saying the exietence of the universe will never be answerable by science. You can't get an answers for "why is there something rather than nothing" by looking at it from within the something.
It's not even a particularly controversial observation from what I understand.
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