bike route road rage

Who let all of this riff-raff into the room?

[regina-bithyniae]

[crunchcrunchteacakes]

[project-catgirlpiller]

[dogpuppy]

[isaacsapphire]

Is it immoral for a pregnant woman to have tests done on her fetus for genetic disorders and getting an abortion if the fetus has a genetic disorder?

It’s immoral because all abortions are immoral

It’s not immoral because all abortions are moral

Most abortions are moral but this is an immoral motive for abortion

It’s immoral because genetic testing is itself immoral

Other answer in notes

Remaining time: 5 days 20 hours

[regina-bithyniae]

No "Most abortions are immoral, but this abortion is moral" button? Would've been an interesting one to test.

[textsfromtheemblem]

[academicssay]

[catradoraism]

[softlypause]

Haha looks like that relationship didn’t work out… didn’t work out et al.

[regina-bithyniae]

Pride event at a park near my place, was walking through. Gaza flag wavers in attendance. Not a huge surprise considering the left omnicause but it would've been good taste to leave it at home after that muslim terrorist hit the Berlin pride event a few days ago.

But islamo-prideism lives on despite my skepticism. I'm not sure both groups can stay in one coalition forever, though.

[powermonger]

Since the latest attack on the Berlin pride parade, r/askgaybros seems to have at least one post per day seeking to eject Islamophiles from the coalition. Anti-Islam is definitely the majority opinion there (which I infer from the posts being upvoted), but far from the consensus since people keep arguing about it in the comments.

[regina-bithyniae]

They marched with a dude on a megaphone getting them to shout the "from the river to the sea / palestine shall be free." It had strong Waiting for the Worms vibes.

I wonder if Palestine is going to have pride parades to celebrate the coalition?

[argumate]

Richard Hanania in 2023:

One thing the Tech Right provides to conservatism is intellectual and cultural capital. ... The Tech Right having both tons of money and intellectual and cultural influence is a powerful combination, and leftists are right to be worried. They haven’t faced a challenge like this before.

Richard Hanania in 2024:

My view was always that the Tech Right could help solve the right’s human capital problem by making conservatives smarter. But what I didn’t anticipate was that being in right-wing circles makes even the smartest people dumber. Successful businessmen who are publicly supporting Trump regularly fall for fake news and conspiracy theories, and we can watch their transformations online in real time. Twitter has become a cesspool, with the worst accounts profiting off lies rocketing to the top of the algorithm.

All of this demonstrates that no individual is that smart, and also how reliant we all are on our broader environments to have accurate models of the world.

the only based community is the reality-based community.

[morlock-holmes]

He sort of ought to have known it because he himself was once the dumb kind of racist.

I continue to be annoyed at how much he leaves the person he used to be out of his picture of how the world works.

[klatchianmist]

What is he now?

[argumate]

take that as you will

[xcal1bur25]

I mean credit where it's due to changing his beliefs for the better and having the spine to admit it?

[argumate]

[misomythus]

He's not sexist either!

[nonevahed]

the thing is, as loath as i am to, I do in fact have to hand it to Richard Hanania for updating his views when faced with contrary information

[regina-bithyniae]

Thank you, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, for invading Ukraine so badly that former far-right chud Richard Hanania radically re-evaluated his worldview into today's Palestinian liberal activist Richard Hanania persona, beloved member of the big tent.

[argumate]

is that what it took? mugged by reality in February 2022, and now the Confederacy is evil and Frederick Douglass is an inspiration, wow

[regina-bithyniae]

Yes, that was it. I remember pretty much all through 2021 and early 2022 whenever Hanania came up on my twitter feed we were going to get owned somehow. Then sometime a decent bit into 2022 I found his posts and the tone had radically changed, with the focus being about how Putin et al are retards and he was re-evaluating a lot. In comparison, the shift to finally disavowing Trump in early 2025 was much smaller, his mental model was basically that pro-market tech right guys would actually be running the show and governing like state-level Republicans do, and that was wrong and easy to admit.

This also somehow got Richard Spencer onto Team Kamala. I think some right wing guys did just highly value the perception of strength and basedness and when they saw that was hollow they did rethink.

Liberals Read, Conservatives Watch TV

Explaining why Trump emerged on the right, why only liberals debate filibuster reform, how anti-vax became a partisan issue, how David Shor

You can still see foreshadowing of the shift a bit earlier, in ones like Liberals Read, Conservatives Watch TV.

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I'm fairly sure that the Frederick Douglass posting is only about 10% sincere, but he consistently enjoys trolling his rightoid audience and probably knows the over-the-top praise from him will make liberals uncomfortable as well, so it's a win-win.

[argumate]

Richard Hanania in 2023:

One thing the Tech Right provides to conservatism is intellectual and cultural capital. ... The Tech Right having both tons of money and intellectual and cultural influence is a powerful combination, and leftists are right to be worried. They haven’t faced a challenge like this before.

Richard Hanania in 2024:

My view was always that the Tech Right could help solve the right’s human capital problem by making conservatives smarter. But what I didn’t anticipate was that being in right-wing circles makes even the smartest people dumber. Successful businessmen who are publicly supporting Trump regularly fall for fake news and conspiracy theories, and we can watch their transformations online in real time. Twitter has become a cesspool, with the worst accounts profiting off lies rocketing to the top of the algorithm.

All of this demonstrates that no individual is that smart, and also how reliant we all are on our broader environments to have accurate models of the world.

the only based community is the reality-based community.

[morlock-holmes]

He sort of ought to have known it because he himself was once the dumb kind of racist.

I continue to be annoyed at how much he leaves the person he used to be out of his picture of how the world works.

[klatchianmist]

What is he now?

[argumate]

take that as you will

[xcal1bur25]

I mean credit where it's due to changing his beliefs for the better and having the spine to admit it?

[argumate]

[misomythus]

He's not sexist either!

[nonevahed]

the thing is, as loath as i am to, I do in fact have to hand it to Richard Hanania for updating his views when faced with contrary information

[regina-bithyniae]

Thank you, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, for invading Ukraine so badly that former far-right chud Richard Hanania radically re-evaluated his worldview into today's Palestinian liberal activist Richard Hanania persona, beloved member of the big tent.

[regina-bithyniae]

The Pitt is awesome, they invented a whole new genre - Medical Comedy (Unintentional).

[regina-bithyniae]

It depicts a world where diverse ER doctors and nurses labor tirelessly to save patients from every political cause that left wing people care about. Unhousedness, medical racism, profiteering corporate hospital management, the fentanyl overdoses which fall from the sky upon upstanding and functional people and not alley-dwelling drug addicts.

It is also impossible not to Notice that every unsympathetic patient is a white man. The dangerous incel, the accused child molester, the fratboys who steal an ambulance, and worst of all, the fat guy who microaggresses against a nurse. He's my favorite - seems to be either a ticking time bomb, or he's going to be shown the error of his ways.

[regina-bithyniae]

MAGAhat guy punched a nurse as expected, but now it's the turn of white women to do all the bad stuff.

Sex trafficking case (white lady), I suppose the mean pro-life mom (white lady), the anti-vaxxer anti-masker (white lady) who punches another white lady, and also Dr McKay (white lady) got a talking to for cutting corners on an obese woman, because fatphobia is Not OK.

Langdon's stealing meds, but he's too funny to be unsympathetic.

[regina-bithyniae]

Long way into season 2 and the pattern has held almost perfectly. One bad guy, an ICE agent, was hispanic, sort of the exception that proves the rule. Otherwise, again every single person who is unsympathetic or actually violent is a white man or occasionally a white woman. And I mean every one, and it's not a small number.

It's not likely an intentional decision by the writers to smear white men. There are some good ones too. Mostly it's that the show is written to confirm perfectly to the very-liberal worldview of the writers and will not include anything which grinds on it, even into the non-political character personality clashes where being more caring and more empathetic is always framed as the right thing.

It takes itself too seriously, but in a way that is easy to giggle at while I paint warhammer models (every character says "unhoused person" and not even in a sarcastic way) and the character drama is still fun. One thumb up, one thumb down.

[regina-bithyniae]

Pride event at a park near my place, was walking through. Gaza flag wavers in attendance. Not a huge surprise considering the left omnicause but it would've been good taste to leave it at home after that muslim terrorist hit the Berlin pride event a few days ago.

But islamo-prideism lives on despite my skepticism. I'm not sure both groups can stay in one coalition forever, though.

[regina-bithyniae]

Robby-Langdon interactions in season 2

[aorish]

this is really funny data. dating sites basically don't work for heterosexuals at all, but if you're gay it's probably working out great

[regina-bithyniae]

Makes sense, gay men/lesbians have the same hormones and impulses. Much more symmetry in what they're looking for.

"Meet someone at church, marry them young and stay together the rest of your life even if kind of unsatisfied" was a decent second-best solution to square male and female romantic preferences. Social technology, even.

[yenn2137]

Asa and Yoru

[regina-bithyniae]

Russia's Amazon-equivalent e-commerce platform, Wildberries, has been the latest victim of the Ukrainian strike campaign. Distribution hubs are full of batteries and cardboard, very flammable, so Ukraine has been lobbing missiles at them to great effect.

Fire Point, the company that makes those munitions, has been posting a "wildberries bingo card" for people to guess the next hub that's going to get hit.

Guess right and you win a keychain. Interesting, the CEOs of both Fire Point and Wildberries are both woomen. Hashtag MILFTECH

[tophatting]

I got g-pen ink nibs and all of the mangaka in the world are right: they're good