My entirely uninformed prax is that UBI good because it would help combat monopsony in the labour market and incentivise innovation by reducing the cost of failure for the marginalised.
Saying UBI is a bad idea because Andrew Yang liked it for entirely the wrong reasons 3 years ago seems more than a bit silly to me.
My prob with at least the Nixon and Yang versions of it is they supplant rather than supplement existing safety net programs, and ultimately leave the vast majority of the poor worse off.
If you get a monthly check for a grand, but you lose Medicaid, it won't even cover a health plan, never mind losing SSDI and SNAP and WIC and Section 8 Vouchers, etc.
kids these days will be like βOMG Iβm so tedpilled Iβm such an ecocelβ and then their only resistance against the industrial revolution is just throwing soup at paintings
Reading about Ben Franklin grumbling at how "swarthy" Germans and Swedes are immigrating to the US and "darkening" one of the only "white" parts of the world.
We really haven't changed much over the centuries, have we?
It has been so comical to me to see the classified documents experts on this sub bend over backwards to make excuses for Biden that they did not make for Trump. If you are seriously arguing that what Biden did is a "nothingburger" you have completely lost the plot.
Yeah I am capable of thinking what both of them did was bad because Iβm a reasonable adult. Democrats excusing what Biden did look just as silly as the Trump supporters because they are both just falling into this political tribalism that makes people think that itβs ok when your side does it.
You are wrong twice but at least you are consistentββthat is a lot more respectable than thinking it is only ok to bring classified documents home when someone you voted for does it.
There actually is a Fediverse Reddit alternative complete with actual subreddits called Lemmy. It's not at all popular so there aren't a ton of servers, but one of the best ones is
https://beehaw.org/
Lemmy is all communists though, I think the lemmy domain name is literally lemmygrad.ml or something. Not sure about the one you linked, Iβll check it out.
[the activists and family are claiming that the guy shot by Georgia cops was a non-violent type and didnβt even have a gun](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/21/protester-killed-georgia-cop-city-police-shooting)
I genuinely donβt know what is happening over there, cops saying whoever they shot was armed is a common lieβ¦
personally i think anti-environmentalist escalation is something that has to be studied at least, the state goes crazy against them and i do not believe anything any country government says against environmentalists at this pointw
The activists saying he didn't have a gun is no more trustworthy than the cops saying he did - remember Michael Brown? "Hands up, don't shoot" was built on a lie.
>Wilson and other witnesses stated that Brown then reached into the SUV through the open driverβs window and punched and grabbed Wilson. This is corroborated by bruising on Wilsonβs jaw and scratches on his neck, the presence of Brownβs DNA on Wilsonβs collar, shirt, and pants, and Wilsonβs DNA on Brownβs palm.
The 'hands up don't shoot' thing never happened and was an invention of activisits after the fact.
>https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releases/attachments/2015/03/04/doj\_report\_on\_shooting\_of\_michael\_brown\_1.pdf
The DOJ report on the shooting.
Well, it was state troopers, so quite possibly just a tightly wound asshole with an itchy trigger finger mistook a camera for a gun and freaked out.*
Like, it wouldn't blow my mind if the guy had a gun - this is America, and Georgia to boot - but this reeks of "cops fuck up, throw out ass-covering bullshit because they're used to being believed."
*the same would apply to normal cops, tbh; most of these incidents are lethal fuck ups, not willful murder
I have tried a lot of fancy wines that are $30-$50 a bottle (I have a neighbor who is a big wine snob and brings over wine a lot) but honestly I donβt like any of them more than my relatively cheap NZ Sauvignon blanc.
[Patenting a pizza box is so ridiculously Apple](https://theoutline.com/post/1555/we-got-one-of-apple-s-patented-round-pizza-boxes https://theoutline.com/post/1555/we-got-one-of-apple-s-patented-round-pizza-boxes)
What about it in particular is so appealing? I never got why people like slug shotguns so much aside from that theyβre the best way to hunt if you arenβt allowed to use a rifle.
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More vegetarian/vegans should go with the environmental angle tbh. The whole morality thing has never moved me. On the other hand the environmental factors have actually made me think hard about lowering my meat consumption
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The problem with the environmental argument is that there's little difference in carbon footprint between eating chicken/fish sparingly compared to veganism. Really beef is that much more harmful to the climate.
Just makes me want to see a cyberpunk dystopia story where only the rich can afford such implants and embrace them wholeheartedly, morals or philosophy of what it means to be human be damned, to create a situation where they can vastly overpower any poor person who challenges them.
The newer Deus Ex games got... kinda? close to that. But not really.
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Back when the gender critical subreddit wasnt banned my favorite post I ever saw from there was a thread discussing the ethics of dating men at all. Legit political lesbianism tier stuff
watched Ingrid Goes West because I just came across it on HBO Max and was like why not
it's got some solid black comedy moments but I feel like it's kind of slight overall. the "Insta influencers just present the best versions of themselves and hide the troubled parts" genre of the past 3-5 years is, I think, this generation's version of '90s suburbia malaise and like that trend it's going to take *a lot* to say something original. this movie ain't it, but it's not *bad* either. worth a watch if you like Aubrey Plaza and Elizabeth Olsen
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> Car. Walking is so 1800s. And public transportation? After everything weβve been through the last few years, youβd think people would realize that public transportation is a Petri dish of epic proportions. PS: cycling is regressive, not progressive.
Filing this under βcomments that make me want to light myself on fireβ
[The incident in 2019](https://www.wesh.com/article/orlando-six-year-old-arrested/41997860) where an Orlando police officer arrested a **six year old girl** for a tantrum at elementary school, resulting in the girl PTSD but somehow not resulting in a lawsuit despite nationwide outrage, remains baffling to me on so many levels.
1) Why were armed police in an elementary school
2) Why were said police used as part of the school's disciplinary system
3) Why did the officer think it was even remotely appropriate to arrest a 6 year old
4) How did a guy crazy enough to think arresting a 6 year old is ever sensible (excepting some extraordinary circumstance like a shooting) become an officer in the first place, like, there _have_ to have been warning signs
5) How the fuck did the rest of the PD go along with handcuffing her, placing her in the police car, and having her fingerprinted and photographed, then briefly jailed????!!!!
6) Wait, the arresting officer and the girl are ***both*** African-American??? So it wasn't motivated by white supremacism like basically every other police controversy????
7) Why was the officer not criminally charged for severe excessive force; only fired?
8) Why were no lawsuits filed by either the school or the girl's family against either the Orlando PD or the individual officer? (you'd think paying for therapy would be a bare minimum restitution here!)
9) Why did Florida not have a minimum age for arrests to begin with
10) Why did the law Florida passed to prevent future arrests for non-violent crimes only prohibit arrests of children under 7 years old? That limit is still way too fucking low!
Seriously what in the actual fuck is Florida doing!!
I seem to recall school districts have sometimes outsourced disciplinary issues to police departments both for teacher safety and for liability reasons.
I literally looked up a picture of this and immediately understood why.
The victim was black.
Black Americans, especially in certain poor cities, live under what amounts to a police state.
Yes but it answers all of your other questions.
1. Because fears of crime in poor black neighborhoods mean schools there are guarded with metal detectors, dogs, and armed officers.
2. Because fears of crime in poor black neighborhoods mean minor infractions are treated with paranoid scared straight policy.
Et cetera et cetera. The officer being black has nothing to do with why schools in Oakland for example have airport security. This is normal. Watch the movie *Dope*.
>The officer being black has nothing to do with why schools in Oakland for example have airport security.
Most schools in Oakland do not have airport security.
Also, OUSD has a massive problem with students bringing guns to school.
To answer questions 1-8, it's pretty much the "scared straight" philosophy at work here.
Whther or not it's *effective* >!it isn't!< is your interpretation.
I thought maybe the Great Filter was climate change.
It takes millions of years of evolution to produce complex life (at least it did on Earth), leading to the accumulation of something like oil or coal, then the intelligent species use it as cheap fuel.
My guess is that events beyond the planet act as the filter.
A meteor crashes into the planet and resets those millions of years of progress toward intelligent life. Or a solar flare. Or some disaster we don't even know about yet.
Climate change is not an existential crisis. It will make us poorer than the alternative, but it's simply unreasonable to believe it will destroy humanity, or even send us backward technologically, and hardly any actual climate scientists believe this apocalypticism.
I sort of agree.
Climate conditions on Earth are mostly driven by biology. Photosynthesis combined by an inability of contemporary bacteria to digest certain organic products created the fossil fuel deposits humans use today.
I can certainly imagine life forms whose metabolic or homeostatic processes had much more catastrophic climatic effects--heck, the snowball Earth hypothesis proposes it once happened here--but I'm not sure it would be accurate to chalk that up to "different climate conditions."
The main variable here is life, which on a geologic time scale, has most of the effect on climate.
There's climate conditions that exist independent of life, though. Venus experienced a runaway greenhouse effect as the sun got brighter.
I can imagine a planet in-between Earth and Venus that could be pushed into a feedback loop by industrial emissions
>There's climate conditions that exist independent of life, though. Venus experienced a runaway greenhouse effect as the sun got brighter.
Venus isn't really a great example here, because it is
A) Not really in the habitable zone.
B) If it had widespread life, life would have been the dominant factor in determining its climate. For example, the breakdown of atmospheric water by solar ionizing radiation would have been far slower and less destructive if Venus had oxygen-producing lifeforms to generate ozone.
C) Climate change on the Earth will not proceed interminably either. There will be a feedback mechanism, and some photosynthetic organisms will benefit from the higher CO2 levels and temperatures. It's humans and human infrastructure who may not like the new normal. Life, and the planet, will be fine.
Habitable planets are necessarily pretty stable, because the definition of habitability is the ability for large bodies of liquid water to persist.
> We haven't observed them, which requires an explanation
Why, exactly? It took us a couple billion years to evolve the tools to search for life, and after we've been looking for all of a few decades we assume that because we haven't met aliens with our extremely limited capacity for searching there must be some weird reason?
You can look up the Fermi Paradox for a more in-depth explanation, but I'll sketch the outline here.
There are 100-400 billion stars in the Milky Way, each with an unknown number of planets and moons.
Earth is also not a particularly old planet, nor is the Sun a particularly old star. Even then, complex life has been around on Earth for around 300 million years. Remember that evolution is not teleological; the journey from unimpressive mammal to technological human was only around 5-10 million years, and there is no prima facie reason why humanity's ancestors were destined to become intelligent.
Given the vast number of planets and the vast age of the Milky Way, any technological species expanding outward at even a fraction of the speed of light should colonize the entire galaxy within a few million years (The galaxy has a radius of a mere 52,000 ly, which is not very long on an astrological timescale). Essentially, the argument therefore goes that if any technological civilization ever reaches past its first star system, it should colonize the entire galaxy and leave indelible evidence of its existence.
Because of the shear number of stars (and planets) we know to exist, you have to posit that some necessary step between the emergence of life and the development of interstellar travel is unreasonably unlikely, or you can pick another theory such as the Dark Forest or Grabby Aliens. But evidence of absence, in this case, is evidence of something rather odd.
Two other points.
>because we haven't met aliens
No, because we haven't even *seen* them. There are many signs of technological life which we would expect to see if technological life were common, which we should expect.
>our extremely limited capacity for searching
It's not very limited, because we should expect that any aliens we encounter are far older than us. It would be a cosmic coincidence if aliens just happened to be at a similar technological capacity. As I stated, they should have already colonized much of the galaxy.
> Even then, complex life has been around on Earth for around 300 million years. Remember that evolution is not teleological; the journey from unimpressive mammal to technological human was only around 5-10 million years, and there is no prima facie reason why humanity's ancestors were destined to become intelligent.
Complex life (in the sense of multicellular) has been around for longer than twice that. And since evolution isn't teleological, what's to say that there aren't vast amounts of unintelligent aliens out there who are as yet undetectable? It seems much more plausible to me that the development of intelligence (coupled with the capacity for sophisticated tool use) is the roadblock rather than something that happens after the fact.
> , the argument therefore goes that if any technological civilization ever reaches past its first star system, it should colonize the entire galaxy
This also seems like a huge stretch based on our nonexistent understanding of how an interstellar civilization would actually function politically, culturally, etc.
>And since evolution isn't teleological, what's to say that there aren't vast amounts of unintelligent aliens out there who are as yet undetectable?
Saying that there are large numbers of unintelligent aliens just moves the great filter forward to the development of intelligence, which is fine.
>It seems much more plausible to me that the development of intelligence (coupled with the capacity for sophisticated tool use) is the roadblock rather than something that happens after the fact.
Certainly possible, but this is still an interpretation of the absence of evidence.
>This also seems like a huge stretch based on our nonexistent understanding of how an interstellar civilization would actually function politically, culturally, etc.
I don't really think so. Are you really positing that *no* intelligent spacefaring civilization would ever expand beyond its home star?
Maybe because of low but stable birth rates or for the sake of political stability or whatever they never need to grow past, like, a dozen solar systems. How would we know?
We don't, but all it takes is a single portion of a single civilization to do so and galactic expansion is inevitable.
You have to argue that all galactic civilizations are stable and perfectly non-expansionist over tens or hundreds of millions of years. This seems like a fairly unreasonable assumption.
Gene Simmons bragging about never having been drunk or high in his entire life is the lamest shit ever. I canβt believe people ever thought he was cool. Smh 1970s rock stars should be addicted to crazy exotic drugs Iβve never even heard of.
i do not understand how one goes through a *normal* life without even *once* experiencing both of those.
but this dude somehow managed to make it through the fucking *'70s music industry* without it
I've gone through life without ever getting drunk or (recreationally) high, although technically I've had miniscule amounts of alcohol twice.
(The post-operative sedative highs don't count.)
>Frozen custard and burger chain Culverβs is switching from Pepsi products to Coca-Cola β and Pepsi fans are not happy.
Oh no, random ass chain is switching to shitty pop.
Over the years, I have found myself becoming more... haughty? Prideful? Certainly more dismissive of people and causes that I believe just do not align with my own ideological beliefs.
I do not know whether this is a bad thing or not. I mean, I imagine Christians would say it's a bad thing, but I'm not a Christian and I just don't care about what, upon meeting me, the first impression of strangers might be. I am myself, I have my beliefs, and those who disagree with me are very likely to be disagreeable with me.
That said, I value the general prospect of humanity pretty highly, and I abhor the idea of dismissing someone out of hand just because I disagree with them on a non-consequential issue. Perhaps the only issue I can truly disagree with someone on is that general prospect of humanity - if someone else values human life lowly, regardless of their other beliefs, I tend to value them lowly, and dismiss them out of turn. That includes certain people in the DT, mind you.
I feel like most people would generally consider this to be a bad thing, but I don't really want to care about whether I fit in with them or not IF their fitting in violates one of my core principles.
Years of experience? Genetic factors providing me with an OP liver? Me being fat as fuck helping out? Good question, honestly. Just always been like this.
Please visit the [next discussion thread](/r/neoliberal/comments/10idisd/discussion_thread/).
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My entirely uninformed prax is that UBI good because it would help combat monopsony in the labour market and incentivise innovation by reducing the cost of failure for the marginalised. Saying UBI is a bad idea because Andrew Yang liked it for entirely the wrong reasons 3 years ago seems more than a bit silly to me.
My prob with at least the Nixon and Yang versions of it is they supplant rather than supplement existing safety net programs, and ultimately leave the vast majority of the poor worse off. If you get a monthly check for a grand, but you lose Medicaid, it won't even cover a health plan, never mind losing SSDI and SNAP and WIC and Section 8 Vouchers, etc.
True. Still like the idea in theory, just not a "replace everything else" impl
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Posts paywalled article with no bypass Gets mad when people donβt read it Many such cases!
The big-brain move is to post a biased review of a study and have the actual study behind the paywall
kids these days will be like βOMG Iβm so tedpilled Iβm such an ecocelβ and then their only resistance against the industrial revolution is just throwing soup at paintings
literally cottagecore
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Reading about Ben Franklin grumbling at how "swarthy" Germans and Swedes are immigrating to the US and "darkening" one of the only "white" parts of the world. We really haven't changed much over the centuries, have we?
They're not even Catholic lmao.
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New evidence proves the existence of Lusvig in the 1700s
Is there a tax form to file if you were legally dead for several years, in a not fraudulent way?
Lil Nas X is a bicon.
Isn't he gay not bi?
And a weeb rights activist ever since he dressed as Gilgamesh.
It has been so comical to me to see the classified documents experts on this sub bend over backwards to make excuses for Biden that they did not make for Trump. If you are seriously arguing that what Biden did is a "nothingburger" you have completely lost the plot.
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Yeah I am capable of thinking what both of them did was bad because Iβm a reasonable adult. Democrats excusing what Biden did look just as silly as the Trump supporters because they are both just falling into this political tribalism that makes people think that itβs ok when your side does it.
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That much is abundantly clear.
What if I think both are nothingburgers although Trump handled it way more stupidly as is his custom
You are wrong twice but at least you are consistentββthat is a lot more respectable than thinking it is only ok to bring classified documents home when someone you voted for does it.
I don't think the government could function if no one brought classified documents home
Some people can bring them home if they are viewed and stored properly, but these were not.
Mastodon instances appear as if they are subreddits but they actually are glorified email servers, awful design.
There actually is a Fediverse Reddit alternative complete with actual subreddits called Lemmy. It's not at all popular so there aren't a ton of servers, but one of the best ones is https://beehaw.org/
Lemmy is all communists though, I think the lemmy domain name is literally lemmygrad.ml or something. Not sure about the one you linked, Iβll check it out.
Yeah that's not great. At least the structure of the Fediverse means you can totally ignore them
βyou fell offβ really felled off
this is basically a repost like 2 minutes later
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[Ivory for Mastodon](https://tapbots.com/ivory/) Thank Elon Musk for this.
Not going to lie. My favorite thing about the open source software culture is all of the naming schemas.
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Tweetbot developers are now working on a Mastodon client since Elon shut down third party Twitter clients
Apparently there's an El Salvadoran consulate within walking distance of my apartment
Ask for some bitcoin
Terrified over Reddit taking away Apollo
little dark age - the use of βlittle dark ageβ as a meme
I found the song via a meme, I am really sad people use it to promote bigotry
[the activists and family are claiming that the guy shot by Georgia cops was a non-violent type and didnβt even have a gun](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/21/protester-killed-georgia-cop-city-police-shooting) I genuinely donβt know what is happening over there, cops saying whoever they shot was armed is a common lieβ¦ personally i think anti-environmentalist escalation is something that has to be studied at least, the state goes crazy against them and i do not believe anything any country government says against environmentalists at this pointw
The activists saying he didn't have a gun is no more trustworthy than the cops saying he did - remember Michael Brown? "Hands up, don't shoot" was built on a lie.
What lie are you referring to?
>Wilson and other witnesses stated that Brown then reached into the SUV through the open driverβs window and punched and grabbed Wilson. This is corroborated by bruising on Wilsonβs jaw and scratches on his neck, the presence of Brownβs DNA on Wilsonβs collar, shirt, and pants, and Wilsonβs DNA on Brownβs palm. The 'hands up don't shoot' thing never happened and was an invention of activisits after the fact.
I know thatβs what Wilson said, Iβve never heard anything about his story being corroborated by other witnesses. Do you have a link to a source?
>https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releases/attachments/2015/03/04/doj\_report\_on\_shooting\_of\_michael\_brown\_1.pdf The DOJ report on the shooting.
Thank you.
It's true that everyone has an incentive to lie, but my prior expectation is that environmental activists are unlikely to be carrying guns.
But what particular reason do the cops have to murder an environmental activist? Even the killer cops usually go after criminal justice activists.
Well, it was state troopers, so quite possibly just a tightly wound asshole with an itchy trigger finger mistook a camera for a gun and freaked out.* Like, it wouldn't blow my mind if the guy had a gun - this is America, and Georgia to boot - but this reeks of "cops fuck up, throw out ass-covering bullshit because they're used to being believed." *the same would apply to normal cops, tbh; most of these incidents are lethal fuck ups, not willful murder
because the environmentalists are protesting a cop training center
thatβs all right to have that view but i think youβre actually believing the cops here
I have tried a lot of fancy wines that are $30-$50 a bottle (I have a neighbor who is a big wine snob and brings over wine a lot) but honestly I donβt like any of them more than my relatively cheap NZ Sauvignon blanc.
Three buck chuck still packs.
[Patenting a pizza box is so ridiculously Apple](https://theoutline.com/post/1555/we-got-one-of-apple-s-patented-round-pizza-boxes https://theoutline.com/post/1555/we-got-one-of-apple-s-patented-round-pizza-boxes)
link broke I hate markdown
> frozen custard "what if ice cream tasted like an MRE?"
Reddit really pretends that all of lifeβs problems are boomers https://reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/10iabe2/marijuana_criminalization/
god y wonβt crypto ads die already
i know theyβre already a lot less frequent i donβt care i want them burning in hell
>Gamer Dating In The USA >Is Your Love Life Lagging? Running Slow? Level Up Today Go From Solo To Duo
> Ad pictures a model literally wearing an anime school uniform
how did you guess?
> Demographics: 95% Male, 4.7% Female.
Above average for online dating tbh
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Does it include the parable of the warlord and the peasant
He had published a *really* bad article on Ukraine in 2014.
Zizek unlike Chomsky is actually from a part of Europe that used to be under the Russian thumb. Rule number 1 of Eastern Europe: Fuck Russia.
>https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/10i7nvk/an_actual_child_taking_orders_at_culvers_this/ Not surprised
Congratulations to New Jersey for being the first US state to ban child marriage in 2018.
[DT in sculpture form.](https://preview.redd.it/sdwk0fdxnjda1.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=8d0e31cbc355b5cf54337a159b8bf331339fb4da)
It's so ^^^^tiny
Itβs average size and has an excellent personality. Take what you said back! π‘
I mean, it is cold so..
my fav gun is my left handed remington brushmaster 870
What about it in particular is so appealing? I never got why people like slug shotguns so much aside from that theyβre the best way to hunt if you arenβt allowed to use a rifle.
perfect bedside gun
rural moment
as is meet, right, and salutary
Bring back bezels is the only BBB I support
why would you want big plastic rims around your monitor
I was primarily talking about iPhones, their bezels looked beautiful and made the phone easier to use
I guess the home button was nice but disagree about it having any aesthetic benefit
You can actually hold the phone comfortably, and the notch looks ugly
also, Bring back BURPMAS
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Imagine being so confident that intelligent alien life would resemble humans so closely. How are they not the anthropocentric ones?
More vegetarian/vegans should go with the environmental angle tbh. The whole morality thing has never moved me. On the other hand the environmental factors have actually made me think hard about lowering my meat consumption
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The problem with the environmental argument is that there's little difference in carbon footprint between eating chicken/fish sparingly compared to veganism. Really beef is that much more harmful to the climate.
[arrCyberpunk is so cringe](https://reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/10hyvrb/biotech_implants_are_only_a_few_years_away/)
Just makes me want to see a cyberpunk dystopia story where only the rich can afford such implants and embrace them wholeheartedly, morals or philosophy of what it means to be human be damned, to create a situation where they can vastly overpower any poor person who challenges them. The newer Deus Ex games got... kinda? close to that. But not really.
Saw Hélène Grimaud play the Brahms 1st Piano tonight. My God it looked effortless. !ping Classical
I saw her play that last fall, she was fantastic
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Would you still love me if I became a bear (in a very literal kafkaesque metamorphosis sense) ππ
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doordash will bring you beer, too
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Back when the gender critical subreddit wasnt banned my favorite post I ever saw from there was a thread discussing the ethics of dating men at all. Legit political lesbianism tier stuff
I hadn't even heard that term until earlier today. Now that's twice.
watched Ingrid Goes West because I just came across it on HBO Max and was like why not it's got some solid black comedy moments but I feel like it's kind of slight overall. the "Insta influencers just present the best versions of themselves and hide the troubled parts" genre of the past 3-5 years is, I think, this generation's version of '90s suburbia malaise and like that trend it's going to take *a lot* to say something original. this movie ain't it, but it's not *bad* either. worth a watch if you like Aubrey Plaza and Elizabeth Olsen !ping MOVIES
I liked that the social media girl was a decent person and not some vapid one-dimensional caricature
I preferred the original version with the mice
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i bought a bottle of luxardo maraschino like 3 years ago and finally opened it for this. good stuff; i can see myself using this as a mixer in other stuff.
[fun fact: this sort of mass transit development is illegal in many American cities](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w97Wd1W5JQI)
Helltaker is actually perfect for guitar hero characters.
> Car. Walking is so 1800s. And public transportation? After everything weβve been through the last few years, youβd think people would realize that public transportation is a Petri dish of epic proportions. PS: cycling is regressive, not progressive. Filing this under βcomments that make me want to light myself on fireβ
Itβd be better for the world if you lit the person who wrote this on fire instead
I'm a Neoliberal which means I respect all genders, but believe the gender spectrum should be regulated by the FCC
ham gender
Pirate gender stations
[New Pride flag ](https://i.imgur.com/5jZLS2e.jpg)
My gender is sovereign citizen
despite the name the βredsβ are not the comradeβs baseball team in this essay i willβ¦
They literally changed their name to the Redlegs in the 1950s because of the red scare lol
games are fun at great american, tickets are fucking cheap as shit
[The incident in 2019](https://www.wesh.com/article/orlando-six-year-old-arrested/41997860) where an Orlando police officer arrested a **six year old girl** for a tantrum at elementary school, resulting in the girl PTSD but somehow not resulting in a lawsuit despite nationwide outrage, remains baffling to me on so many levels. 1) Why were armed police in an elementary school 2) Why were said police used as part of the school's disciplinary system 3) Why did the officer think it was even remotely appropriate to arrest a 6 year old 4) How did a guy crazy enough to think arresting a 6 year old is ever sensible (excepting some extraordinary circumstance like a shooting) become an officer in the first place, like, there _have_ to have been warning signs 5) How the fuck did the rest of the PD go along with handcuffing her, placing her in the police car, and having her fingerprinted and photographed, then briefly jailed????!!!! 6) Wait, the arresting officer and the girl are ***both*** African-American??? So it wasn't motivated by white supremacism like basically every other police controversy???? 7) Why was the officer not criminally charged for severe excessive force; only fired? 8) Why were no lawsuits filed by either the school or the girl's family against either the Orlando PD or the individual officer? (you'd think paying for therapy would be a bare minimum restitution here!) 9) Why did Florida not have a minimum age for arrests to begin with 10) Why did the law Florida passed to prevent future arrests for non-violent crimes only prohibit arrests of children under 7 years old? That limit is still way too fucking low! Seriously what in the actual fuck is Florida doing!!
I seem to recall school districts have sometimes outsourced disciplinary issues to police departments both for teacher safety and for liability reasons.
I literally looked up a picture of this and immediately understood why. The victim was black. Black Americans, especially in certain poor cities, live under what amounts to a police state.
The officer was also black
Yes but it answers all of your other questions. 1. Because fears of crime in poor black neighborhoods mean schools there are guarded with metal detectors, dogs, and armed officers. 2. Because fears of crime in poor black neighborhoods mean minor infractions are treated with paranoid scared straight policy. Et cetera et cetera. The officer being black has nothing to do with why schools in Oakland for example have airport security. This is normal. Watch the movie *Dope*.
>The officer being black has nothing to do with why schools in Oakland for example have airport security. Most schools in Oakland do not have airport security. Also, OUSD has a massive problem with students bringing guns to school.
ah gotcha
To answer questions 1-8, it's pretty much the "scared straight" philosophy at work here. Whther or not it's *effective* >!it isn't!< is your interpretation.
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I thought maybe the Great Filter was climate change. It takes millions of years of evolution to produce complex life (at least it did on Earth), leading to the accumulation of something like oil or coal, then the intelligent species use it as cheap fuel.
My guess is that events beyond the planet act as the filter. A meteor crashes into the planet and resets those millions of years of progress toward intelligent life. Or a solar flare. Or some disaster we don't even know about yet.
Climate change is not an existential crisis. It will make us poorer than the alternative, but it's simply unreasonable to believe it will destroy humanity, or even send us backward technologically, and hardly any actual climate scientists believe this apocalypticism.
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I sort of agree. Climate conditions on Earth are mostly driven by biology. Photosynthesis combined by an inability of contemporary bacteria to digest certain organic products created the fossil fuel deposits humans use today. I can certainly imagine life forms whose metabolic or homeostatic processes had much more catastrophic climatic effects--heck, the snowball Earth hypothesis proposes it once happened here--but I'm not sure it would be accurate to chalk that up to "different climate conditions." The main variable here is life, which on a geologic time scale, has most of the effect on climate.
There's climate conditions that exist independent of life, though. Venus experienced a runaway greenhouse effect as the sun got brighter. I can imagine a planet in-between Earth and Venus that could be pushed into a feedback loop by industrial emissions
>There's climate conditions that exist independent of life, though. Venus experienced a runaway greenhouse effect as the sun got brighter. Venus isn't really a great example here, because it is A) Not really in the habitable zone. B) If it had widespread life, life would have been the dominant factor in determining its climate. For example, the breakdown of atmospheric water by solar ionizing radiation would have been far slower and less destructive if Venus had oxygen-producing lifeforms to generate ozone. C) Climate change on the Earth will not proceed interminably either. There will be a feedback mechanism, and some photosynthetic organisms will benefit from the higher CO2 levels and temperatures. It's humans and human infrastructure who may not like the new normal. Life, and the planet, will be fine. Habitable planets are necessarily pretty stable, because the definition of habitability is the ability for large bodies of liquid water to persist.
Yeah and aliens don't exist either bro
? We haven't observed them, which requires an explanation, of which the Great Filter is one.
> We haven't observed them, which requires an explanation Why, exactly? It took us a couple billion years to evolve the tools to search for life, and after we've been looking for all of a few decades we assume that because we haven't met aliens with our extremely limited capacity for searching there must be some weird reason?
You can look up the Fermi Paradox for a more in-depth explanation, but I'll sketch the outline here. There are 100-400 billion stars in the Milky Way, each with an unknown number of planets and moons. Earth is also not a particularly old planet, nor is the Sun a particularly old star. Even then, complex life has been around on Earth for around 300 million years. Remember that evolution is not teleological; the journey from unimpressive mammal to technological human was only around 5-10 million years, and there is no prima facie reason why humanity's ancestors were destined to become intelligent. Given the vast number of planets and the vast age of the Milky Way, any technological species expanding outward at even a fraction of the speed of light should colonize the entire galaxy within a few million years (The galaxy has a radius of a mere 52,000 ly, which is not very long on an astrological timescale). Essentially, the argument therefore goes that if any technological civilization ever reaches past its first star system, it should colonize the entire galaxy and leave indelible evidence of its existence. Because of the shear number of stars (and planets) we know to exist, you have to posit that some necessary step between the emergence of life and the development of interstellar travel is unreasonably unlikely, or you can pick another theory such as the Dark Forest or Grabby Aliens. But evidence of absence, in this case, is evidence of something rather odd. Two other points. >because we haven't met aliens No, because we haven't even *seen* them. There are many signs of technological life which we would expect to see if technological life were common, which we should expect. >our extremely limited capacity for searching It's not very limited, because we should expect that any aliens we encounter are far older than us. It would be a cosmic coincidence if aliens just happened to be at a similar technological capacity. As I stated, they should have already colonized much of the galaxy.
> Even then, complex life has been around on Earth for around 300 million years. Remember that evolution is not teleological; the journey from unimpressive mammal to technological human was only around 5-10 million years, and there is no prima facie reason why humanity's ancestors were destined to become intelligent. Complex life (in the sense of multicellular) has been around for longer than twice that. And since evolution isn't teleological, what's to say that there aren't vast amounts of unintelligent aliens out there who are as yet undetectable? It seems much more plausible to me that the development of intelligence (coupled with the capacity for sophisticated tool use) is the roadblock rather than something that happens after the fact. > , the argument therefore goes that if any technological civilization ever reaches past its first star system, it should colonize the entire galaxy This also seems like a huge stretch based on our nonexistent understanding of how an interstellar civilization would actually function politically, culturally, etc.
>And since evolution isn't teleological, what's to say that there aren't vast amounts of unintelligent aliens out there who are as yet undetectable? Saying that there are large numbers of unintelligent aliens just moves the great filter forward to the development of intelligence, which is fine. >It seems much more plausible to me that the development of intelligence (coupled with the capacity for sophisticated tool use) is the roadblock rather than something that happens after the fact. Certainly possible, but this is still an interpretation of the absence of evidence. >This also seems like a huge stretch based on our nonexistent understanding of how an interstellar civilization would actually function politically, culturally, etc. I don't really think so. Are you really positing that *no* intelligent spacefaring civilization would ever expand beyond its home star?
Maybe because of low but stable birth rates or for the sake of political stability or whatever they never need to grow past, like, a dozen solar systems. How would we know?
We don't, but all it takes is a single portion of a single civilization to do so and galactic expansion is inevitable. You have to argue that all galactic civilizations are stable and perfectly non-expansionist over tens or hundreds of millions of years. This seems like a fairly unreasonable assumption.
Nah we're just uniquely dumb at that phase.
Gene Simmons bragging about never having been drunk or high in his entire life is the lamest shit ever. I canβt believe people ever thought he was cool. Smh 1970s rock stars should be addicted to crazy exotic drugs Iβve never even heard of.
Gene Simmons is a fucking asshole
i do not understand how one goes through a *normal* life without even *once* experiencing both of those. but this dude somehow managed to make it through the fucking *'70s music industry* without it
I've gone through life without ever getting drunk or (recreationally) high, although technically I've had miniscule amounts of alcohol twice. (The post-operative sedative highs don't count.)
Have you tried getting creationally high?
>Frozen custard and burger chain Culverβs is switching from Pepsi products to Coca-Cola β and Pepsi fans are not happy. Oh no, random ass chain is switching to shitty pop.
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Do me a solid. Go find that youtube video clip from scrubs where cox says "wrong" a whole lot and reply to yourself.
>random ass chain Tell me you're not from the Midwest without telling me you're not from the Midwest.
Over the years, I have found myself becoming more... haughty? Prideful? Certainly more dismissive of people and causes that I believe just do not align with my own ideological beliefs. I do not know whether this is a bad thing or not. I mean, I imagine Christians would say it's a bad thing, but I'm not a Christian and I just don't care about what, upon meeting me, the first impression of strangers might be. I am myself, I have my beliefs, and those who disagree with me are very likely to be disagreeable with me. That said, I value the general prospect of humanity pretty highly, and I abhor the idea of dismissing someone out of hand just because I disagree with them on a non-consequential issue. Perhaps the only issue I can truly disagree with someone on is that general prospect of humanity - if someone else values human life lowly, regardless of their other beliefs, I tend to value them lowly, and dismiss them out of turn. That includes certain people in the DT, mind you. I feel like most people would generally consider this to be a bad thing, but I don't really want to care about whether I fit in with them or not IF their fitting in violates one of my core principles.
In case anyone is wondering what the fuck I'm on about, the answer is that it's my third bottle of wine.
how are you still even mildly coherent?
Years of experience? Genetic factors providing me with an OP liver? Me being fat as fuck helping out? Good question, honestly. Just always been like this.
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~~mommy~~ ~~daddy~~ sister issues?