May the Bridges We Burn Light Our Way Home

If there is one issue I'm willing to reach across the aisle over it's ai surveillance cameras. Fuck flock

I have been impressed and pleased to see that absolutely every point on the political spectrum hates Flock.

Definitely; the ruling class very reliably dgaf about the human impact of their actions. However, this isn’t a specifically capitalist problem, but an industrialist problem that all industrialist nations INCLUDING non capitalist industrial nations, like China.

Um, Hispanics are classified as white on employment documents, DMV documents, basically any legal document. That's why when you are asked race on official documents there is an option that says "white (non Hispanic)". That's not sneaky, it's been like that since at least the 90s cause that's what I had to check when I first got my license in '95. Hispanics have been classified as a subset of white since at least then. This isn't some Insidious attempt to make whites look bad, this is how they've been marked on the consensus for no less than thirty years.

why the fuck is protein in everything now

The Walmart thing was an early one: since Walmart has a pharmacy, they could easily link together the first shoppers who went onto Ozempic with changes in their shopping cart and realize that Ozempic prescriptions very reliably changed buying habits.

and like why is there even still gender segregated tennis in the first place. it's hitting shit with a racket. anyone can do that against anyone. like I feel like we've had pretty significant proof that women can and do whup any man's ass at tennis for uuuuuuh however long the Williams sisters have been doing it. what on earth is the point of "sex testing" the players. let them all just hit the fucking balls at whoever they want who gives a fuck.

Love how the progressives flipped on women’s sports over the last 50 years and now want to abolish them after they created them.

If a post expressing an opinion has more than ten thousand notes you can be absolutely dead sure that it's bullshit. There aren't ten thousand reasonable people on tumblr.

Counterpoint: The notes could be from unreasonable people arguing with the OP.

Big fan of these. More sites should run ads that sell nonsense, badly.

Did you know that after they switched to blind auditions, major symphony orchestras hired women between 30% to 55% more? Before bringing in “blind auditions” with a screen to conceal the the candidate, women in the top 5 major orchestras made up less than 5% of the musicians performing.

The case of blind auditions for orchestras and how it dramatically changed the gender makeup of orchestras is a very illuminating example of gender bias, and an interesting possible way of countering it.

You can be sexist without knowing it. You can be racist without knowing it. This is not a moral failing; it is a moral imperative to remember that you are fallible, and take steps to limit the damage your squishy ape brain’s foibles can cause.

Lots of people want to see their favorite bands and singers. This is not the same as wanting to see orchestras, something I pretty much never hear about anyone wanting to do.

Did you know that after they switched to blind auditions, major symphony orchestras hired women between 30% to 55% more? Before bringing in “blind auditions” with a screen to conceal the the candidate, women in the top 5 major orchestras made up less than 5% of the musicians performing.

The case of blind auditions for orchestras and how it dramatically changed the gender makeup of orchestras is a very illuminating example of gender bias, and an interesting possible way of countering it.

You can be sexist without knowing it. You can be racist without knowing it. This is not a moral failing; it is a moral imperative to remember that you are fallible, and take steps to limit the damage your squishy ape brain’s foibles can cause.

Having a family member dealing with the American chronic pain medical process it does make you wonder how much the opiate crisis is linked to the doctor shortage. Can only get an appointment every three months, they look at you, shrug, tell you to wait for a bit and waste your time for three months until it becomes unbearable.

Yup. Publishing houses have been shorting authors on advertising for basically forever, but it’s gotten much worse. Books from people who have platforms have always been preferred (Read: Misha Collins can get a cookbook published more easily than you can, even if it’s the exact same cookbook), but now it’s simply obligatory. Even beyond the AI issues, the demise of editing is destroying books.

Now, something that I do find implausible is how the purported deadly toxicity of children has such a stranglehold on the monsters inc world. Like they just straight-up aren't toxic to monsters at all! This is very conclusively established! And yet monster society has built an entire semi-militarized agency of hazmat-suited goons capable of arriving within thirty seconds of an exposure event with portable incinerators and decontamination chambers. And not even just at the power plant where exposure is a known occupational hazard, they can be anywhere! A kid is sighted at an upscale restaurant halfway across town and you've got hazmat SWAT immediately rappelling through the windows and an entire five-block radius is under lockdown within two minutes. It's basically unheard of that a child could exit their door, let alone escape the power plant, but they're ready for action miles away at the drop of a hat! Insane amounts of preparedness, insane amounts of funding and monsterpower, for literally no reason! Did no one ever bother to actually test the toxicity of children? Did no one ever notice that precisely zero recorded exposure events had ever caused so much as a head cold? Why is a stray sock making it back through the door a drop-everything-and-run health and safety emergency but walking over a kid's bedroom floor with no hazmat protection is just business as usual? Are they stupid? Also why was the agency's highest-ranking officer deep undercover as the power plant's desk clerk?

Can we rule out the possibility that kids are in fact toxic at very high concentrations, but the paranoia about exposure to them is the result of an overcautious linear no-threshold model of child toxicity?

If that were the case I wouldn't expect them to be unbothered by walking across children's carpeted bedroom floors many dozens of times a day without any protective measures or sanitation at all!

Every single worker at the power plant would be in the prodromes of child lung disease and Monsters, Inc. would have a massive labor rights lawsuit on the horizon

Maybe the degree of fear of the contamination resulted in panic attacks replicating symptoms of toxicity, like cops being trained to have panic attacks if they think they touched fentanyl.

Then let’s see the stats that actually show that instead of stats we all know not to trust when gun grabbers use them.

Are they not making any more, though?

Mmmm, how many post 2022 published books have you read?

And how certain are you that they weren’t fully or partly ai generated or translated?