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gaius cassius bomaye@bomayecassius·
@Empty_America “thrift” used to be considered a virtue, like patience and it was understood to exist in balance, without which you would be a miser. like how patience could tip over into indolence today, former virtues must be laundered through a program like FIRE, looksmaxxing, etc.
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gaius cassius bomaye@bomayecassius·
@shagbark_hick @Empty_America I think it’s mainly bc it’s just not hard to achieve a stratospheric standard of living today someone who could run an Etsy-based farm would thrive in corp marketing, so they mostly move to Brooklyn and do that and living a parochial life is hard, even if ultimately fulfilling
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I do wonder why, in the age of the internet, we don't see more niches getting filled on such land. I mean, mail-order lavender farming might be genuinely profitable. But the types of people who understand high-end Etsy markets and who want to live a parochial life in a place like Brasher Falls NY are few and far between. Very little crossover.
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VB Knives@Empty_America·
There is a lot of farmland in this country that readily pays for a late 19th century standard of living, but simply cannot fund a normal 21st century lifestyle with all the industrial comforts. Thus the Amish "emerged" to colonize this niche.
Eric Richards@EricRichards22

The Sandy River valley is awash in amish. Five horse buggies on Rt 2 this morning Makes sense, I guess; it's decent farmland but nobody could grow anything that would actually pay for itself and comply with laws

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𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯@atlanticesque·
@str_ingham @ClickingSeason I get what you're saying, but no, hereditarianism still doesn't get you there. To name just one reason why it doesn't, consider a pair of identical twins. Each twin is just one person, and not the other. And there is no reason why.
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gaius cassius bomaye@bomayecassius·
@Empty_America @atlanticesque if you’re defining consume as literally metabolize then you’d probably struggle to spend $100m or less gets complicated if you’re thinking of drugs though — you could surely be the sole funder for a $1bn biotech to develop something that you metabolize but is otherwise inert
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VB Knives@Empty_America·
@atlanticesque I mean you could spend it on art, but the art isn't really being "consumed" like cocaine. The art will still be there after you are dead.
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Adam Zivo@AdamZivo·
I find this discourse perplexing because the solution seems straigthforward: make university marks almost entirely dependent on lengthy in-person exams that combine handwritten essays with oral questioning. Why is this even a conversation? Are there implementation barriers or something?
Luiza Jarovsky, PhD@LuizaJarovsky

🚨 University professors have been saying AI is completely destroying learning and that we'll soon have an AI-powered, semi-illiterate workforce. Here's a glimpse into the educational apocalypse: "Sarah, a freshman at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, said she first used ChatGPT to cheat during the spring semester of her final year of high school. (...) After getting acquainted with the chatbot, Sarah used it for all her classes: Indigenous studies, law, English, and a “hippie farming class” called Green Industries. “My grades were amazing,” she said. “It changed my life.” Sarah continued to use AI when she started college this past fall. Why wouldn’t she? Rarely did she sit in class and not see other students’ laptops open to ChatGPT. Toward the end of the semester, she began to think she might be dependent on the website. She already considered herself addicted to TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and Reddit, where she writes under the username maybeimnotsmart. “I spend so much time on TikTok,” she said. “Hours and hours, until my eyes start hurting, which makes it hard to plan and do my schoolwork. With ChatGPT, I can write an essay in two hours that normally takes 12.” - "By November, Williams estimated that at least half of his students were using AI to write their papers. Attempts at accountability were pointless. Williams had no faith in AI detectors, and the professor teaching the class instructed him not to fail individual papers, even the clearly AI-smoothed ones. “Every time I brought it up with the professor, I got the sense he was underestimating the power of ChatGPT, and the departmental stance was, ‘Well, it’s a slippery slope, and we can’t really prove they’re using AI,’” Williams said. “I was told to grade based on what the essay would’ve gotten if it were a ‘true attempt at a paper.’ So I was grading people on their ability to use ChatGPT.” - AI in education is a serious topic, and many schools and universities are blindly jumping into the "AI-first" wave without considering short and long-term consequences. It would be great to hear more from teachers and educators to understand potential solutions. This might be a great opportunity for rethinking the education system and how students are assessed. - 👉 Link to the full article below. 👉 To learn more about AI's legal and ethical challenges, join my newsletter's 94,700+ subscribers (link below).

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gaius cassius bomaye@bomayecassius·
@corsaren @artmarkham @RandomSprint I think part of the prosodic appeal of kindling is that it doesn’t match the juxtaposition supports the meaning — so you sort of linger and luxuriate on “ivarious”, then there’s a little shock from the double-stress on kindling. it’s a word that can be spat out, unlike firewood
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corsaren@corsaren·
Which sentence do you prefer? 1. It’s like seeing a Stradivarius stolen to make firewood. 2. It’s like seeing a Stradivarius stolen for kindling. Full context below (read before you vote, ideally):
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gaius cassius bomaye@bomayecassius·
@dumbahey @atlanticesque instead we see campaigns in the US mostly focused on consolidating bases — the sort of voter who may flip-flop from election to election, or vote a mixed ballot (e.g, the true “median voter”), is intentionally not engaged by the process
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gaius cassius bomaye@bomayecassius·
@dumbahey @atlanticesque I was wondering this too thinking about it, I wonder if it’s (to extend the market metaphor) a kind of “optimal voter deployment” the parties could structure campaigns and frame issues to cause higher turnout, but it would lead to greater risk/volatility
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𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯@atlanticesque·
My general theory of American politics in a global context is this: 1. Control of America is more important than control of any other country. 2. Unparalleled levels of money and talent is spent on winning American elections. 3. This creates a sort of “efficient market” for votes, with elections approaching precise 50/50 splits. Much like how, in an efficient market, no money is ever “left on the ground,” in America no votes are left on the ground. Both Dems and the GOP do a very good job, compared to politicians in other countries, in maximizing their votes. 4. Because of this efficiency—and as part of it—peripheral issues which seem like uncontroversial minutiae in other countries are passionately fought over here. This post aligns perfectly with my intuitions.
David Shor@davidshor

@jbarro @SeanTrende @Nate_Cohn Maps in other single-member countries actually are usually pretty unfair - the pro-Brexit bias in the UK of the maps there for example were as big as the pro-R bias in the house - it just comes up less because elections are much closer in the US than other countries

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gaius cassius bomaye@bomayecassius·
@royalmidwit @MostlyMonkey the bread part of good NY pizza is really the notable part though Italian crusts are chewier — even Neopolitan pizza, from which NY pizza descends is breadier and floppier and just overall worse
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Overeducated Gibbon@MostlyMonkey·
European bread is generally better than american bread American pizza (in the pizza belt) absolutely mogs italian pizza
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Will@Will_368

@RR_Hartley @Recursion_Agent @GreatHarvest It’s like I’m arguing with a person who only ate dominos pizza his whole life and swears it’s the best pizza in the world. If you never been abroad just don’t contribute to this debate

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gaius cassius bomaye@bomayecassius·
@Empty_America the thing is, it’ll either be the eschaton or ~the same options will be available to your children as are available you: - live a strange, anxious, and unmoored life chasing esoteric pleasures - opt out of much and live fairly simply, even if sort of out of step with the world
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VB Knives@Empty_America·
Society in 2100 or whatever will be very strange. Some people will be uploading their brains into the super-polycule, will be trans-human hermaphrodites, etc. Others will be Kandahar-maxing, etc. But all you really have to do right now is not die out (most bloodlines will).
VB Knives@Empty_America

TFW you become a "moderate" since the only real solution for society is nearly total destruction and genetic/cultural replacement, which will come in it's own good time. So in the meantime there isn't much point in utopian political agitations, just clean your room.

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eigenrobot@eigenrobot·
@thedavidboyd sorry although if you live in the south it works for some reason
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gaius cassius bomaye@bomayecassius·
@atlanticesque @DunkDawk the facts are accurate prima facie (we are litigious, the courts are v powerful) but idk that the criticisms are people usually make it out as we’re litigious because Americans are cagey/provincial and lawyers are greedy when it’s much more about the configuration of the system
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𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯@atlanticesque·
@DunkDawk The criticisms of our litigiousness and the power of our courts are usually accurate, but the upsides are rarely articulated.
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𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯@atlanticesque·
I didn't appreciate this until I read some Supreme Court of Canada opinions, then looked into other nations' high courts We Americans take for granted how smart, fair, and eloquent our judges are and how developed and good our law is, on the whole. It's so much worse out there.
Rookie of the Year@ahereza_nuwe

Every lawyer should read decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States even when they dont apply to their jurisdiction. Pure legal art. The legal reasoning and writing is phenomenal.

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gaius cassius bomaye@bomayecassius·
@eigenrobot yeah Prot relationship to aesthetics is goofy median clustered on ~apathy and 1 std dev towards anabaptist yields “aesthetically opposed to aesthetics”
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eigenrobot@eigenrobot·
some of the details of justification by faith alone were novel to me good works don't count as good works if you dont have "true faith" whatever that is. get fucked emeth all of this is basically horrifying to me aesthetically
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eigenrobot@eigenrobot·
met with the principal of a small local religious school about enrolling our daughter and it was great except he dropped that we would have to sign a covenant acknowledging the set of beliefs we'd be teaching a home or get expelled and it was like 30 pages long protestants man
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gaius cassius bomaye@bomayecassius·
@Empty_America if I were a parent of an about-to-be high schooler I’d make very sure we were living in a good state school state — VA, NC, FL, MI and I would be coming up with excuses to hang around a few of them with the kid (season tickets at a cheap sport) do not get stuck in Louisiana
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gaius cassius bomaye@bomayecassius·
@paleonormie for instance just being able to take wheat to a central mill creates a massive economy of scale
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gaius cassius bomaye@bomayecassius·
@paleonormie it’s also hard to process, easy to farm vs. rice is easy to process hard to farm and improvements in processing tech were low-hanging and incremental vs. farming tech stayed darn near stuck until ~19th c.
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carl 🥦@NightlifeMingus·
His rants have appeared in SCREED, Diatribe Review, The Quarterly Harangue, Jeremiad, and elsewhere
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gaius cassius bomaye@bomayecassius·
@CharlesFlieger @Empty_America doesn’t seem like you want breathable for extreme climates concrete = lots of thermal mass with a relatively low R-value, keeps cool from the night throughout the day too many stick frame houses turn into convection ovens w/o AC
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Charles Flieger@CharlesFlieger·
@Empty_America I always wonder why in North America with its severe weather, tornados, hailstorms, etc., we don’t build with concrete and rebar like they do in LatAm, and why in sweltering LatAm they don’t use the lighter and more breathable building materials we do here.
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