I've been thinking of people who use postmodernism as a sword, but it's like a katana -- blade outwards, never inwards.
Use postmodern deconstruction on their care/harm morality and it falls apart like wet tissue paper. Who gets to call something care or something else harm? Why do we end up having to ignore anything that's harmful that doesn't fit a certain grand narrative of oppressor/oppressed? If you're not allowed to speak if it might cause harm, yet silence is violence, then how are we supposed to figure out which speech is harmful and which speech's silence is harmful if you're not allowed to speak the thing you think is truth and discuss whether it's harmful or not?
In the end, you have to be able to say things that might hurt in the short term in order to make sure what you're saying is what is the most true, the most correct, the most useful. If you're too stuck in an orthodoxy and doing something because you've been told it's the right thing unexamined, then all it takes is one pig nosed ugly Socrates to come up and ask one piercing question and your whole worldview is cut to shreds.
Some people might go "just listen to the experts, just listen to the authorities", but if the experts and authorities were always right, then believing the experts or authorities from 50 years ago would be correct, and most people agree that's not the case. You also can't believe experts everywhere because experts disagree on things in important ways, sometimes fundamentally. So we're stuck with the terrifying prospect of having to think for ourselves.
Use postmodern deconstruction on their care/harm morality and it falls apart like wet tissue paper. Who gets to call something care or something else harm? Why do we end up having to ignore anything that's harmful that doesn't fit a certain grand narrative of oppressor/oppressed? If you're not allowed to speak if it might cause harm, yet silence is violence, then how are we supposed to figure out which speech is harmful and which speech's silence is harmful if you're not allowed to speak the thing you think is truth and discuss whether it's harmful or not?
In the end, you have to be able to say things that might hurt in the short term in order to make sure what you're saying is what is the most true, the most correct, the most useful. If you're too stuck in an orthodoxy and doing something because you've been told it's the right thing unexamined, then all it takes is one pig nosed ugly Socrates to come up and ask one piercing question and your whole worldview is cut to shreds.
Some people might go "just listen to the experts, just listen to the authorities", but if the experts and authorities were always right, then believing the experts or authorities from 50 years ago would be correct, and most people agree that's not the case. You also can't believe experts everywhere because experts disagree on things in important ways, sometimes fundamentally. So we're stuck with the terrifying prospect of having to think for ourselves.
From a certain perspective, it's kind a great thing if you're not a big fan of the elite.
It doesn't matter how powerful a person you are, if you throw a rock, eventually it'll fall back down. If a bunch of people tear their muscles to pieces trying to make the rock hover by throwing it harder, then the rock might stay in the air for a while, but gravity doesn't care how strong or important you are, that rock will come back to earth.
How many fortunes would be wiped out today if the mag 7 went back to proper valuations for their actual revenue?
It doesn't matter how powerful a person you are, if you throw a rock, eventually it'll fall back down. If a bunch of people tear their muscles to pieces trying to make the rock hover by throwing it harder, then the rock might stay in the air for a while, but gravity doesn't care how strong or important you are, that rock will come back to earth.
How many fortunes would be wiped out today if the mag 7 went back to proper valuations for their actual revenue?
I always love the "The Secret Service under Joe Biden was trying to help get Trump elected" narrative because it just seems to raise so many questions.
Hoping that the same great things happening to you guys right now start happening to us this October when our next election is supposed to happen.
Everything is suggesting it'll be huge, one of the biggest electoral defeats in Canadian history for the Liberals, from first place to fourth.
Everything is suggesting it'll be huge, one of the biggest electoral defeats in Canadian history for the Liberals, from first place to fourth.
No, I'm a canuckistani, but you can still get a license for a hunting rifle or the like.
I'd like to get a gun, but in the same way I'd like to get a motorcycle license, and I haven't gotten that done yet either.
Ever since the executive order saying "sex at conception", a bunch of galaxy brained morons have been saying things like "Oh, then everyone must be a girl because sexual dimorphism doesn't happen until much later in gestation!"
Do these people think Chromosomes are purchased at the dollar store when it's convenient?
Chromosomes are determined at the moment of fertilization when the sperm and the egg combine their DNA to create a new set of DNA. Then, at the moment of conception, you either have Two X chromosomes or One Y Chromosome (like the subreddits) and you get a male or a female 99.95-99.99% of the time if the pregnancy makes it to term.
It's like the subreddits (All the galaxy brains saying this shit know reddit, right?) Two X Chromosomes for women, One Y Chromosomes for a man. There's exceptions but it's an extreme rarity so to make the federal rule "What do your Chromosomes say" is an achievable and consistent standard the vast overwhelming majority of the time.
It's just infuriating because they act as if "sex at conception" isn't a thing, when that's when sex is almost always determined.
Do these people think Chromosomes are purchased at the dollar store when it's convenient?
Chromosomes are determined at the moment of fertilization when the sperm and the egg combine their DNA to create a new set of DNA. Then, at the moment of conception, you either have Two X chromosomes or One Y Chromosome (like the subreddits) and you get a male or a female 99.95-99.99% of the time if the pregnancy makes it to term.
It's like the subreddits (All the galaxy brains saying this shit know reddit, right?) Two X Chromosomes for women, One Y Chromosomes for a man. There's exceptions but it's an extreme rarity so to make the federal rule "What do your Chromosomes say" is an achievable and consistent standard the vast overwhelming majority of the time.
It's just infuriating because they act as if "sex at conception" isn't a thing, when that's when sex is almost always determined.
The devs of Celeste have cancelled their follow-up game Earthblade https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/the-devs-of-celeste-have-cancelled-their-follow-up-game-earthblade/
I mean, you should probably be hosting your own so you're your own janny. You should also be hosting a nostr relay.
Boys you betta be 6 feet tall, 6 figures, 6 inches, and on that last one I mean your heels!
Someone said "I saw the video, Elon did a Hitler salute twice, I'm just calling a spade a spade. He should just apologize."
I responded "Spade is a racial slur and you said it twice everyone can see, apologize immediately."
I responded "Spade is a racial slur and you said it twice everyone can see, apologize immediately."
"there’s a bloody galaxy and a half of difference between pardoning innocent people you think a fascist is about to persecute and" pardoning innocent people a fascist already has persecuted for 4 straight years. Oops.
The sixth and fourteenth amendments have been violated en masse here, but people think it's ok because they disagree with the point of the protests (which given this is the state is a violation of the first amendment). If they think the summer of love rioters should have been treated the same as the j6 rioters, well maybe we can have a discussion. That's not what happened and will not happen, so it's just a faction wanting to punish people for wrong think. Obviously attacking the government is ok, we saw it happen for 6 months in 2020. The president and his family were forced into bunkers because the attack on the Whitehouse was so violent. Firebombs were set off at courthouses. Dozens of people were directly killed. But it's ok because they have a message the fascists agree with.
The sixth and fourteenth amendments have been violated en masse here, but people think it's ok because they disagree with the point of the protests (which given this is the state is a violation of the first amendment). If they think the summer of love rioters should have been treated the same as the j6 rioters, well maybe we can have a discussion. That's not what happened and will not happen, so it's just a faction wanting to punish people for wrong think. Obviously attacking the government is ok, we saw it happen for 6 months in 2020. The president and his family were forced into bunkers because the attack on the Whitehouse was so violent. Firebombs were set off at courthouses. Dozens of people were directly killed. But it's ok because they have a message the fascists agree with.
You know, in Canada suicide hotline is like pizza hotline -- 30 minutes or your suicide is free.
I want to know what Russians think (I didn't see them on the list but it's early and I haven't had my coffee)