Nov 5, 2023
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@weiszklee
Been ages since I showed myself on here. Quite happy with how these turned out.
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An underrated part of why politics (all of it, left and right) is kind of fucked is because the unfolding climate catastrophe appears unstoppable. It's the (seemingly) immovable object around which everything else is bending. And we've only just started, over the last decade, experiencing the early stages of the disaster; we should expect politics to break entirely as real food and other supply chain shortages become universal regular occurances, which may be our reality in less than a decade (climate-driven food disruption already is reality across a lot of the global south).
So it's my first summer living and not just vacationing in Europe, and this simply must be said.
If you bring up the concept of air conditioners with anybody on the continent, they will explain to you that they don't need them. They will do this consistently, with several reasons given; they may argue that the climate doesn't get hot in summer (it does), that units are expensive (less than heating), that it causes environmental damage (less than heating, per temperature degree). This is because they have been brainwashed by an evil wizard.
It is ninety degrees right now in Freedom units, the buildings are all designed to trap heat, and all the Europeans are sitting around me miserable and sad and irritable, clearly in need of an air conditioner, but too much in the thrall of the evil wizard. Work and travel have ground to a halt, everybody is trying to go out shopping because shops are the one place not cursed by the evil wizard. But still! Still! They refuse to consider that there is a straightforward technological solution to this widespread misery.
I was patient, I was willing to work hard to understand cultures somewhat foreign to my own, to learn what motivates practices I do not share in environments I have not fully explored. I do not want to destroy what I do not understand. But no, there is no reason. They just do it. They are wrong and I am going to etch their wrongness on to the surface of the moon so the whole world knows how wrong they are.
2023!Toggle remains correct.
I don't think hammering on this works at all, though. It's like that thing where people are more likely to entrench their anti-vax opinions when you try to argue with them about child mortality figures: the more costly it is, and the more people die, the more it gets entangled with identity and stuck fast as a cultural practice. My guess is that the more effective way would be to establish a beachhead, and subsidize a/c units for the people most open to the idea. Let the rest follow suit as it becomes the 'done thing.'
Still, questions of strategy are a little gauche, in that they treat people as puzzles to be solved and not fellow-travelers. When you say "hey, summer is going to be killing thousands of people every year from now on, but we have a solution and here's how to fix it," and people respond "no, we'll just take the excess mortality," then... that's that, to some degree. This isn't like vaccination, where a lack of a/c is somehow dangerous to others or antisocial. There's no law or anything. They just do it.
The problem is that nobody ever actually says "we'll just take the excess mortality." That kind of thing feels like a horrible thing to say directly, and it's a weak rhetorical position, so people just talk in circles and evade the crux over and over. It's never clear how much of this is actually informed consent, versus some sort of self-deception or sincere confusion. But it's not a particularly complicated situation; I've got to figure that a large majority is embracing this outcome in full knowledge.
tbh "religious liberty" always felt like a uniquely weak reason that you should be allowed to do something. "I know it seems bad, but have you considered that I'm doing it because it's important for no reason?"
idk like. even modern secular liberal societies display such a common penchant for using innocuous feature of religion as an excuse to harass and legally punish the other that an instinct to carve out protections for religious practices seems indisputably useful? otherwise you get situations like France's "muslim women can lose their jobs for wearing hats, even ones required to do said job," nominally coming from a place of secularism and no state religion and feminism and in fact just an excuse to harass muslim women.
so i think understanding "religious liberty" as providing a degree of presumptive (but not infinite) protection is a good instinct for society to have bc people are always trying to figure out new excuses to be dicks to members of social groups they don't like and religion is a major axis along which this dickish behavior occurs.
Eh, I think "banning inoccuous religious practices" and "making a carve-out from the rules which are supposed to apply to everyone specifically for religious practices" are quite different pairs of shoes. The second can be a protection against the first, in theory, but 1) that is a principle which is ripe for abuse, and 2) in practice, France is not gonna ammend the law to say "Headscarves are banned, except for Muslims." That makes no sense. Being islamophobic is the point of the law. We shouldn't pretend that there is a need for a principle which protects against the rampant problem of well-meaning laws inadvertently hurting religious people. That's not what is happening in France.
a slight variation on the "it's not X -- it's Y" construction they love so much.
AI Progress is just starting to foom so human poasters are still better than the bots for now, but weapons grade deepity porn is only a matter of months away. Maybe weeks. And people will absolutely slurp that slop until the heat death of their amygdalas, despite the fact that it contains no human wisdom at all. Because the feeling of having had an insight was always the point. The actual insight was just keeping it company.
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I do not know with what arguments discourse war 3 will be posted, but discourse war 4 will be posted with paperclips - Albert Camus
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My intuition is that society only works (to the extent that it does work) because a lot of workers who know better just ignore what their managers tell them. I think part of the reason tyranny sucks so hard is because it's harder to get away with this.
if you're even slightly sympathetic to the EA cause then listening to normal people talk about charity will make you go insane. Talking about the work charity matching service the other day and one of my coworkers was like "Yeah I put the $50 promotional credits we got towards a local rabbit rescue charity".
Like look. I'm sure they do great work. Rabbits are very cute. But it's on a website where three clicks over you can donate to New Incentives or the Against Malaria Foundation. Somewhere there exists a correct amount of worrying about charity effectiveness.
*gooncave begins to fill with rushing water*
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I don't believe religions should have any single right above those afforded to a youth footy league, a knitting circle, or a book club. certainly not any rights above a private citizen. Its utter lunacy that we live in a world where this is not the norm for civil society!! You live in a world where just because someone believes something it means they can be exempt from certain civil law and from certain taxes!!!
tbh "religious liberty" always felt like a uniquely weak reason that you should be allowed to do something. "I know it seems bad, but have you considered that I'm doing it because it's important for no reason?"
theyre making the minions white now
somebody has to do something about this
They semi-cancelled Timothee Chalamet for simply saying he found opera and ballet boring, by the way.
How does Hollywood work these days?
Being a bit of a naive, foolish young man and (wrongfully) calling opera and ballet irrelevant?
“You must apologise immediately! No Oscar for you.”
Acknowledging you stole terrified teenage girls from their bedrooms?
“Eh, you get a pass.”
Kidnapping teenage girls seems kind of worse than being stupid and uncultured, in the grand scheme of things.
”Well, Tim is dating a Kardashian sister.”
Embarrassing as it is, this other man admitted to war crimes.
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a slight variation on the "it's not X -- it's Y" construction they love so much.
AI Progress is just starting to foom so human poasters are still better than the bots for now, but weapons grade deepity porn is only a matter of months away. Maybe weeks. And people will absolutely slurp that slop until the heat death of their amygdalas, despite the fact that it contains no human wisdom at all. Because the feeling of having had an insight was always the point. The actual insight was just keeping it company.
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if I see one more "why age verification is bad" post that doesn't even bother to mention that locking young people out of huge sections of the public sphere - literally the stated goal and primary impact of this shit - is wrong in and of itself I will simply start hitting people with bricks
yes yes biometric data privacy blah blah adults can hypothetically by harmed by this too. what about the immediate and deliberate and not at all hypothetical harm to youth. why are you acting like a potential data leak about what your face looks like, which if it ever happened would at least be generally recognised as a problem, is a more serious issue than cutting millions of people off from information and community and public expression which is happening right now in the open with large scale support
it's got the stench of fucking "banned books week" on it. thousands of adults congratulating themselves for reading books literally no one is trying to stop them from reading while doing nothing to improve access for the young people who are the ones actually having those books made off-limits to them.
