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MadMonzer
Temporarily embarrassed liberal elite
3hr ago
holds the high ground of the academy
The academy is the "high ground" in the sense that a defeated tribe can hide out in the mountains and wage guerilla war until a suitable opportunity arises (like Hilary wanting a way to attack Bernie from the left) - not in the sense that it is the key strategic terrain being fought over. That would be the government and corporate bureaucracies that actually implement cancellations.
A bunch of stupid nominally left-wing politics was defeated in the late 1970's, hid out in the academy for a decade, came out again as 1990's political correctness, lost again, hid out again, and came back as wokestupid in the 2010's. But wokestupid doesn't come out of academia - it comes out of tumblr - the changes from PC to wokestupid are very obviously driven by the need for social media virality. Academia was just a place where a parasite could be kept on life support until a new host turned up. If wokestupid is retreating into academia, it has been defeated (but not destroyed).
IGI-111
God was a dream of good government.
3hr ago
I don't find the proposition that the argument in favor of the the weak is self justifying convincing at all.
There have been plenty of successful societies throughout history that considered such a principle to actually be evil. And I don't see their arguments as any less self serving.
Why should we acquiesce to ressentiment? Why ought the weak be protected from the strong.
Divine command maybe the only argument I can actually contenance for this position, and even then God (the one of Abraham) is weary of weakness as an animating principle and gives not a command to submit all ressources and efforts towards it but demands the weak be shepherded by the strong. Establishing a specific subsidiary position where the weak's concern may not jeopardize the operation of all of society.
Southkraut
A tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
3hr ago
· Edited 3hr ago
Please let me know if you find out something useful about this topic.
FWIW, I also eat like a combine harvester, pace a lot, don't gain weight, and my skin ages poorly.
Not sure if there is anything to it all; maybe we're just reading too much into a bunch of coincidences.
hooser
4hr ago
VA had a hiring spree last year, in large part because of the expanding benefits from the PACT Act.
Your impression of a hiring freeze remains partly correct, because VA has budget shortfalls and plans to lay off staff:
More recently, though, the VA told Congress it now expects to have about 5,000 more employees in VHA next year compared to this year. That's created a new problem, as the VA is warning it is facing a multibillion-dollar budget shortfall.
I suspect that VA tends to paint a bleak picture to Congress as a standard operating procedure, in hopes of getting more funding. Though my nephew assures me from his VA experience that more funding would not go amiss.
So back to my off-the-cuff idea of importing doctors: my point is that any VA hospital that finds it challenging to attract a decent US doctor ought to be able to do what the private sector does. Right now, the VA follows AMA's standards, which require any non-US-trained doctor to do 3+ years of residency (plus other things) before they can practice medicine in US. Residency slots are, apparently, the bottleneck for US doctor supply in the first place.
My question is: just how crucial is it for someone already practicing as a doctor in a French or German hospital to do 3+ years of residency in US?
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
4hr ago
Only in America.
It's why cases where people see what works in American society and try and replicate it in their own makes me wince more than anything.
Hopefully this doesn't come off as too pedantic, but doesn't that imply it's not only in America? I'm probably just as disturbed by their cultural hegemony as you are, but in my experience it's so great that trying to draw a distinction between, say, American and European woke causes is rather futile. Maybe there is more of a distinction between the broader West and the rest of the world.
clo
4hr ago
Actually, what bothers me about them is the odd double standard where they demand recognition from our society, yet refuse to play by any of its standards
Only in America. Be all you can be and all that, tear down every fence and shatter every glass ceiling. If you're not who you could be, it's your fault, in the land of opportunity.
Oh, and you don't owe your fellow man anything. Why would you?
I share your disgust, but the targets are more broad. It's why cases where people see what works in American society and try and replicate it in their own makes me wince more than anything. The world has internalized their hegemony so hard that it genuinely believes the lies, often with awful results.
orthoxerox
If you can read this, you're using a custom theme
5hr ago
There's an image by https://x.com/patrickjfl that shows there's been a realignment between 1996 and 2024, but it has no dataset attached. To summarize (summarizing a tweet, lol), the parties have switched places: the GOP is now relatively more popular with the plebs, while the Dems have become the party of choice for the PMC.
There's another chart in comments by Kyle Saunders, with even less hard data on it, that shows that the cleavage line on the good old political compass has been rotating since 1960: it used to separate socialists from capitalists, but now it separates progressives from conservatives, with the GOP/Trump side becoming slightly more pro-redistribution that the Dems.
magic9mushroom
If you're going to downvote me, and nobody's already voiced your objection, please reply and tell me
6hr ago
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I'm not so sure, I kind of doubt Social Media's broader impact on the conversation, because the testimony to it always seems one sided.
As a sort of one-and-a-half-sided attempt (i.e. I am opposed to SJ, but this is something that anti-SJ did via social media), I think Musk buying Twitter and gutting Trust & Safety is the likely key component of Trump's election win based on the demographic breakdown showing the swing being extremely concentrated among the young (which I hypothesise to be from the breakdown of the false SJ consensus created by silencing everyone who didn't fit).
EDIT: I didn't realise this was so old when I posted, although I'll leave it up as an example of "new evidence".
stuckinbathroom
6hr ago
Musk buying Twitter was a crippling blow to SJ, to be sure, but it's far from dead and it still holds the high ground of the academy.
Wokey-wan Kenobi: It’s over, Elonakin, I have the high ground!
Elonakin Blueskywalker: You underestimate my power!
WK: Don’t try it!
clo
6hr ago
Miyoo Mini+ with onionOS is the best OOTB, you can pay a bit extra to have an SD card loaded up and preconfigured from sites like Litnxt. They also offer the Crossmix version of the Trimui Smart Pro similarly preconfigured.
The latest versions of the Anbernic 35XX SP (clamshell) are pretty dang good. And the Anbernic 40XXV is the only 40XX device I'd consider decent.
If people don't mind tinkering a fair bit to get everything to run right on Android, Retroid pretty much has the market cornered although the prices are significantly upwards.
roche
6hr ago
But isn't it more fun to find these truths yourself? If you figure everything out, you will be bored (this seems a bit like your current problem actually)
I'm not interested in truths, really, but results. Belief is cheap. So long as we're confined to the same outcomes as the ancients, it's hard to be optimistic.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
7hr ago
therefore any evidence against this theory must be wrong somehow.
What evidence?
I do understand the temptation to latch onto the hottest and most bikeshedd-y of all culture war items: the CICO thesis.
I didn't see anything especially notable in the post except for this wild claim I'd never heard of before of skinny people often putting away over five thousand calories a day in the past.
In any case, since I can't resist either, I will propose that higher body temperature provides a possible mechanism for people to burn a much higher (or lower) amount of calories than can be explained by the Mifflin-St. Jeor Equation.
There's obviously some degree of RMR difference between people (and the existence of people at the tails of the RMR distribution does not contradict CICO in the slightest btw).
However, it's notable that people are eating way more food these days than at basically any point in the past. That figure is a little rough since it doesn't actually measure what people are eating - those numbers show a similar story but they only seem to go back to the seventies. So it's a little hard to imagine that our ancestors had significantly higher metabolisms while eating significantly less. Small changes are possible and not that interesting to me.
JarJarJedi
7hr ago
That sounds contradictory. Giving people I-Bonds (or cash I guess) is the maximum materialistic gift - it contains the most material component and the least emotional/spiritual component. If anybody, Christians should know that material things can have spiritual meaning, and thus material things (like gifts) can be used to convey emotional/spiritual messages.
magic9mushroom
If you're going to downvote me, and nobody's already voiced your objection, please reply and tell me
7hr ago
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Musk buying Twitter was a crippling blow to SJ, to be sure, but it's far from dead and it still holds the high ground of the academy. I'm not saying it definitely will make a comeback in the next few years - it's no longer got either stealth or an aura of inevitability, and that's a big deal - but it's premature to definitively say it's peaked; I'll believe it's decisively defeated when the SJ party here in Australia (the Greens) either falls below 10% of the vote or recants its hair-raising "let's ban politicians from taking anti-SJ positions" policy (relevant part's on page 5).
Folamh3
7hr ago
I think Middleton is the exact guy I was thinking of when I posted this question.
Folamh3
7hr ago
About sixty pages into My Brilliant Friend. It makes Italy sound like Beirut.
RaiderOfALostTusken
7hr ago
I definitely get more bot friend requests post elon. There was a while that i was getting lots of fake messages right at first, that's about it
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
7hr ago
but when properly disambiguated I'd say not many Dems really believe in the crazier takes (e.g. Trump is a KGB plant).
It sure didn't seem that way back when it was discussed on the subreddit during Trump's first term. Maybe they honestly changed their mind, but it just feels like they got quiet after seeing they won't make a lot of hay with it.
I also think you're not really understanding what I (or the writers I linked) mean by "crank". A crank isn't just anyone who believes in stuff that isn't supported by science or evidence, it's specifically conspiratorial views like
"The police are hunting down innocent, unarmed, black men like they were animals"? "Patriarchy"? "Rape culture"? "Systemic racism"? Before you try to do a motte-and-bailey on these, bare in mind that there's no shortage of people actually believing the bailey.
Also how do true conspiracist beliefs enter into it? Were people who believed in Epstein's Pedo Island For The Elites back in, say 2018, cranks? Am I a crank if a believe in a conspiracy of Queer Theorist clinicians and academics to normalize and promote various forms of body modification? Am I a crank for believing children walk into gender clinics identifying as inanimate objects, and gender clinics are happily affirming them with little to no pushback? Am I a crank if I believe some global elites are coordinating to promote LGBT acceptance, including putting pressure on politicians through private channels, if the the pushback from the local culture turns out to be too high for them to take a stand publically?
If the term "crank" includes true beliefs I have to question it's usefulness. If it doesn't, how do you handle cases where the truth of a given belief is uncertain? Are people who thought it's plausible for Imane Khelif to be male cranks? What about people who think Epstein didn't kill himself?
How do your resolve these questions in a way that doesn't boil down to "people who disagree with me are cranks"?
jeroboam
7hr ago
This is begging the question.
You assume that caloric consumption is determined almost entirely by activity level, and therefore any evidence against this theory must be wrong somehow.
My post of course, was about body temperature, not really about the causes of obesity, but I do understand the temptation to latch onto the hottest and most bikeshedd-y of all culture war items: the CICO thesis.
In any case, since I can't resist either, I will propose that higher body temperature provides a possible mechanism for people to burn a much higher (or lower) amount of calories than can be explained by the Mifflin-St. Jeor Equation.
Tits_Mcgruff
7hr ago
If not then what percentile human being would you say is doing menial supermarket work?
Where I’m from, most supermarket workers are a mix of 1st generation immigrants, highschoolers, and university students. Is this not the case where you live?
OliveTapenade
7hr ago
I was thinking of Robinson. I always remember an incident in his debate with Chris Rufo:
Robinson: But then I open the leading leftist magazine in the country, Jacobin, and I look at the headlines, and they are about things like the writers’ strike, or they’re about the fact that you can’t afford a one-bedroom apartment working full time.
Rufo: But would you say that Jacobin is representative of the—
Robinson: Of the left?
Rufo: Would you say Jacobin is the ideological force behind the largest movements of the left? I don’t think so.
Robinson: It’s the leading leftist magazine in the country. I think they’ve got a higher circulation than any other leftist publication.
Rufo: I don’t know about that.
This seems absurd, because it's obviously only possible to consider Jacobin "the leading leftist magazine in the country" if you have an extremely idiosyncratic definition of what counts as "leftist".
Whereas I'd say that most people would use the word 'left' to mean 'of America's two big political factions, the one that is further to the left'.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
7hr ago
It's no longer possible to read much of anything without logging in, which I suspect is a load shedding measure.
Lewis2
8hr ago
When I was younger, my normal body temperature was around 99.7. I ate a terrifying amount of food, yet even without any regular exercise other than walking, I had a BMI that was barely above underweight. I thrived in cold weather, my blood pressure was on the verge of being too low, and my resting heart rate was in the 50s. I’m also fairly tall, and, interestingly, also used to generate a lot more static electricity than most other people I knew (@Gaashk, are you aware of any connection between body temperature/metabolism and static electricity?).
Unfortunately for me, it seems there may be something to your theory. Not only do mice studies present me with a bleak picture of my future, but when I compare myself to my former classmates, I seem to be wrinkling much more rapidly than any of them, even though I generally have a vampiric aversion to the sun, while they spend much more time in it.
Perhaps I should just take this as a hint from the universe to stop procrastinating and do something more with my life before my time is up.
Noah claims that progressives were in favor of immigration primarily, if not only, because Trump was against it, and that the right in general is against immigration on racial grounds. It's hard to take someone seriously after this kind of statement; The left has been very strongly in favor of immigration in general since the 90s, and this has been the case worldwide. The backlash to immigration has likewise happened worldwide, and for near-identical reasons: The number of immigrants were much higher than expected, the strain on the welfare systems, increased crime, etc.
Maybe it's because I'm in academia, but all the extremely woke people here haven't actually changed their opinion, and they haven't actually lost their positions, either. If I read the university newsletter, it's still full of "how to appreciate our diverse gender presentations" and very thin on hard science. If I walk around the campus, it's full of "critical orientation week" advertisements, which is exactly the kind of "critical" you'd expect. The university provides rooms for this week, which ostensibly is against the university, completely free of charge, of course. It's not even very long ago that the university kicked out a right-leaning moderate because "university is not political" and that the university should not "provide resources to political groups".
And this is the core problem imo: If there is a conflict and the right-leaning side is losing, the left will often successfully take away positions up to and including booting them out entirely. If the left loses, they just keep everything they try again after a while. Universities are still de-facto purging themselves of even moderately right-leaning people and promoting quite frankly completely insane people, so long as they are sufficiently far left. Unless we start kicking out far-left cranks the same way we do for the right, I don't see the general trajectory changing much. Sure this or that particular DEI statement gets discontinued, but the next thing is already being implemented.
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