Nov 25, 2024
I think you can tell a lot about how rigorous and committed someone's belief in a human right is by how quickly they are able to name people who they think could or should have that right taken away.
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I think you can tell a lot about how rigorous and committed someone's belief in a human right is by how quickly they are able to name people who they think could or should have that right taken away.
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Along with the "how do we stop young men turning into angry radical right-wing types" discourse there's been a lot of discourse about the need for cishet male allies of the cause to stand up to their racist, sexist, homophobic etc. male friends and tell them to stop being those things, and other people saying "I've tried that and it doesn't really work, they just call me a fag and then stop hanging out with me."
And yeah, given that the left and right are more divided than ever it is kind of strange to assume that a male feminist is going to be hanging out with a bunch of sexist dudebros who will take it to heart when they make a rape joke and he says, "dudes...that was fucked up." That's not how it works.
(Also, yes, I realize that "the right" and "sexist dudebros" are not really the same thing but there's an area of overlap that is specifically being focused on in a lot of this discourse.)
I've been in sort of the Mirror World version of that scenario: being in heavily left-wing spaces, hearing people say fucked up shit about men and being the one who says, "uh that's kinda fucked up why would you say something like that?" and can confirm, yes, this kind of pushback does not work in that context. They just ridicule you and double down on whatever they were saying. Pushing out dissenting voices is a time-honored bonding ritual for these types of groups.
On the other hand, when I am alone with an actual friend, someone I care about who also cares about me, and they say something fucked up and I respond with shocked silence or a quiet "hey now," they usually backpedal pretty quickly.
So I guess if you're trying to stop someone from going down a rabbit hole my advice is not to confront them in a group setting or online where other people can witness the confrontation, especially if you are in a setting where most onlookers are likely to side with them. Talking to them alone, and in a less confrontational way, is what actually gets results.
Getting the player characters in my Dungeons & Dragons campaign entangled in an extraplanar racing circuit with events sponsored by various cities throughout the Lower Planes and seeing how long I can keep it going before they realise the entire exercise was an excuse to have a major campaign event called "the Dis course".
Not saying this is true of every post that isn't jumping for joy about it, but there is a weird amount of discourse on Artemis II by people who seem to think it was deliberately timed to coincide with Trump's war in Iran as a propaganda measure. If you genuinely believe that, not only do you not know much about space travel, but you know less than the average person does. Your acting like a know-it-all doesn't convey authority, it conveys the "I have secret knowledge" rantings of a conspiracy theorist, because that's what you are if you believe this.
Miss Manners is adding denouncing political correctness to her list of conversational prefaces from which no good ever follows. When people announce that they plan to abandon the rules of civilized discourse, they should be taken seriously. The response should be "Well, if you are in favor of being offensive, I'd rather not hear more."
Judith Martin, Minding Miss Manners In an Era of Fake Etiquette
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“there’s too much zutara content in the natla tag!”
that is because zutara was the only good thing about that show. i hope this helps
From heat pumps to offshore wind, the UK’s net zero push is facing growing scrutiny. Are rising costs undermining climate goals?
i was somewhat emotionally prepared for this article thanks to @raginrayguns, but damn, they live like this?
"I'm an early adopter of new technology," says Gavin Tait, a 69-year-old from Glasgow, with a hint of pride. So when he received a lump sum on retirement a decade or so ago, he invested in renewable energy: solar panels on the roof, a home battery and a heat pump. "It seemed like a no-brainer," he recalls. "I could save money and help the environment - why wouldn't I?" At first, it worked. His well-insulated home stayed warm and his energy bills fell. But over the past couple of winters, things began to change. "I noticed my electricity bills were going through the roof," he says. This winter, he and his wife switched it off and went back to their gas boiler, which they had kept as a backup. Gavin - who wrote in to BBC Your Voice about his experiences - says he knows what the problem was. At best gas delivers nearly one unit of heat for each unit of energy put in; his heat pump can deliver up to three or four units of heat for every unit of power. But as heat pumps run on electricity, he is now paying around 27p per kilowatt-hour, compared with less than 6p for gas that powers a boiler - more than four times as much.
for context, the UK has spent years paying people to put in heat pumps, but apparently neglected to balance the consumer prices of gas vs. electricity (which are strictly controlled by the UK government) appropriately.