@natosaichek i don't really think killing apes is challenging, you just shoot them or put them in a gas chamber or something. whereas sucking their dicks would be both dangerous and unpleasant in ways that are difficult to avoid
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tom bombadil
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tom bombadil
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if the bartender hitting me with a shovel is wrong, i don't want to be right https://t.co/wfGZiwTXSI he/him. born 1989
Cleveland, OH Katılım Şubat 2009
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@Authw8 I thought of this as "I would do a high status challenging thing to save human life" vs "ah! but would you do a LOW status challenging thing to save life"
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okay i have to admit i don't feel like i even understand the point being made here. presumably matt's view is that apes are morally equivalent to objects. trading their lives for a human life is a no-brainer under that assumption because you're trading zero value for positive value.
but matt is a person, so his suffering counts. asking him to suck a bunch of ape dicks to save a life is a totally different sort of trade
A Mithra Is Fine Too@Mithra_Is_Fine
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congress should pass a non-binding resolution asking disney to take another pass at the star wars sequels and try to get it right this time
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@xenocryptsite horror is just structurally different from other genres in a lot of ways. most people don't like horror, but people who do like it tend to really like it. it's a genre where there's often more money to be made catering to enthusiasts than normies.
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People think of horror as a collective theatrical event, more than other genres. I'm not totally sure why. Every other kind of genre is also more heightened if you see it on a big screen with a crowd. We've all laughed at things in a theatrical comedy that we wouldn't at home.
Arthouse Shawn Levy@firagawalkwthme
Obsession’s box office run is impressive give how the entire film has been recorded and posted online
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I remain of the view that translating 27,803 lines of Greek is a far worthier task than error-hunting in translation.
Wilson's translation makes some choices, some I really don't like, but is overall fine.
If you think you can do better, LEARN GREEK and do so!
/end
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@saturnine_grace @NovayaSaf the thing is that paul's letters are older than the gospels. so it may be that paul has the more authentic tradition and the gospels are dialing things up
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@NovayaSaf Lol yeah he kind of dials back Jesus's message just a little
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It's extremely obvious that Jesus pretty much categorically prohibits involvement in money, property, sex, and violence, and it requires massive amounts of subversive cope to disguise this fact. A faithful Christianity would have looked like Jainism or Shakerism.
Ealdwine@laisofealdwine
@AccurateCaption Yes. I’m assuming on the understanding that other sexualities were already banned, making the one permissible one, no longer permissible.
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@xeixeira146866 yeah this is a situation i've been in. i've been the white guy who is skeptical of the cops in a meeting with black folks who want the cops to do more stuff in their communities
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@Authw8 They don’t actually talk to black people; I do and they say that they want criminals arrested.
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it is just sort of obvious when you dig into these things that what codes as racist/not-racist has little to do with what black populations want and has everything to do with cultural trends among affluent educated people
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Black DC voters: We should arrest criminals. White DC voters: No that's racist.
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i wonder if people will be making star wars movies 1,000 years from now. it sounds dumb but we're still making movies based on greek dark age epics so who's to say
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in general i think there's a glitch in how people think about the past where they think there's some sort of sin in suggesting something you can't totally prove. especially if you're making a claim that might make some modern people upset.
but the way i've come to look at it is that jared diamond is in the arena. he's looking at the world, he's confused, and he's trying to figure out what's going on. imo the attempt is valuable. i wish more people just came at the big questions head-on
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@Authw8 Yep. It's the same song and dance with any pop science-history book, eg Sapiens. Gets some stuff wrong, has some compelling rebuttals, and then gets a reputation by annoying people who never intended to read it in the first place of being complete misinformation
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imo if you read this book you will be more informed about the past than if you don't read this book
isaac Samuel@rhaplord
Guns, Germs, and Steel
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my view these days is that it's best to model people as mostly just repeating whatever they're exposed to. someone's view on the civil rights movement doesn't reveal any deep secret of their soul. most people on the left would be perfectly happy to enslave and kill black people if that's what they were taught was right.
relatively few people are genuinely selfish, but almost everyone is intensely groupish.
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@Authw8 I don’t think most people are awful, I think most people are somewhat selfish but would find it disturbing how common it is on the right to oppose the CRM
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thesis: people on the right are good people and we should compromise with them
antithesis: people on the right are awful people and must be crushed
synthesis: most people are awful but the only way things get better is through compromise and negotiation
thomas mckean thompson mckennan@fightinbobbyl
it has been fascinating watching Respectable Center Left People come to the realization during this whole ridiculous Rosa Parks retconning/debate that yes, in fact, many (not all, but many) on the Right are just straight up racist, by any reasonable definition of the term
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@MeathGuerilla the other change is how mass media has caused ethnolinguistic signifiers to align on a larger scale than in the past
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The dumbest leftslop idea is that nations didn’t exist until the 19th century. Ethnolinguistic signifiers have been identified as the binding unit of a collective political identity since ancient Sumer lol, the distinction is really the relationship of the nation to sovereignty
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voters like it when politicians Do Things but they don't like it when politicians do things
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@langofmind we know that optical illusions are culture-bound. so we know the same exact image produces different phenomenology in different people based on cultural upbringing. imo it's not crazy to think cultural background could affect color perception
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No, they did not perceive colors differently than we do today. They just described them differently. But lots of languages describe colors differently! That doesn't mean they're perceiving them differently, we all have the same kind of eyes
Thanos Angelopoulos@Th_Angelopoulos
This man insists that Achilles was Brad-Pitt-in-Troy blonde. However, we know that ancient Greeks did not perceive colours in the same manner as we do today. They described them contextually by brightness, shine and quality rather than fixed modern hues. Xanthos, the term applied to Achilles’ hair, covered a range of bright, light shades; including tawny, honey, golden, auburn and reddish tones. Plato in the Timaeus explicitly defines xanthos as the result of mixing bright (lampros), red (erythros) and white (leukos), producing a fawn-like or tawny shade, not the pure Scandinavian yellow we imagine today. That is also why the Romans, who were quite familiar with the Trojan cycle, consistently depicted Achilles with reddish or auburn hair Achilles's son Neoptolemus was nicknamed Pyrrhus (“the fiery/red-haired one”) for the very same trait. The ancient Greek history is not a canvas for contemporary fantasies of morons who seek to steal a glorious past that it isn't theirs to begin with. PS: 2 Roman mosaics and 1 fresco. 1 shows Achilles with his centaur tutor, and the other 2 with Odysseus when Odysseus went to Skyros island to find Achilles who was hiding on his mother's orders and pretended he was a girl named Pyrrha (aka the redhead/firey one).
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It's really hard for moderns to understand that medieval "countries" were family zones of control that kind of conincidentally/partially overlaped with linguistic and ethnic boundries.
And that standardized national languages like "French" and "Italian" didn't really exist yet.
Yaz Minsky@Yaz_Minsky
I’m gonna be honest, one of the best broad-strokes bits of historical advice I’ve ever gotten was in a Crusader Kings III walkthrough: countries do not exist, this game is about families and their property. Anyway marriage grows out of that.
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they are leaving money on the table. this type of mispricing creates what economists call "deadweight loss", value which is just sort of destroyed.
the reason companies do it is because customers have a psychological aversion to price increases, so it ends up easier/better to underprice your product than deal with angry customers.
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Can an economist explain how scalping is even possible?
If you can buy a $50 product and immediately resell it for $100, then the company selling it at $50 is clearly leaving money on the table.
yeet@Awk20000
YungFika from H3 was able to grab a Pokémon box after a scalper got distracted by a kerfuffle
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it's a continuum, but it's also difficult to tell where any particular work is on that continuum. bad actors are trying to look like good actors, and they know more about the field than you do, so it's easy for them to hide the ball. also, people trying to act in good faith will still repeat ideas that originated from people operating in bad faith.
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@Authw8 @armancuso I could see the argument that there aren't just 2 cases here, it's a continuum from ppl who are aware of their biases & scrupulously present the facts & alternative viewpoints all the way to ppl making thing up & omitting key info. But not that they're all just the same thing.
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i don't think academic historians fully appreciate the epistemic situation they've created for conservatives who are curious about the past. conservatives can see plainly that modern historians are biased, but the only way to develop the skills to separate fact from nonsense would be to spend years studying with those biased historians in an academic setting. in practice all they can do is toss the new stuff out and read older historians or rawdog the sources.
as someone who started off woke, i can read woke history and usually separate the real stuff from the nonsense, but that's a harder skill to develop if you're not really aligned with woke culture.
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