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Yeah, other than Kabbalah there really aren't texts Jews don't want non-Jews to read AFAIK; that itself is an antisemitic canard
December 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Yeah, other than Kabbalah there really aren't texts Jews don't want non-Jews to read AFAIK; that itself is an antisemitic canard
Nominally former Christian Atheists get real mad when you say that though
December 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Nominally former Christian Atheists get real mad when you say that though
It's not the spelling, it's the not bothering to fix it.
Means he hasn't noticed and no one he'll listen to is telling him, or he doesn't think he needs to bother, or he doesn't want to "waste time" looking it over before hitting "post"
Means he hasn't noticed and no one he'll listen to is telling him, or he doesn't think he needs to bother, or he doesn't want to "waste time" looking it over before hitting "post"
December 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
It's not the spelling, it's the not bothering to fix it.
Means he hasn't noticed and no one he'll listen to is telling him, or he doesn't think he needs to bother, or he doesn't want to "waste time" looking it over before hitting "post"
Means he hasn't noticed and no one he'll listen to is telling him, or he doesn't think he needs to bother, or he doesn't want to "waste time" looking it over before hitting "post"
My sense is Guy's substance is fashion and his medium is mockery, or anyway sarcasm, while Wagner's substance is mockery and her medium is architecture criticism
December 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
My sense is Guy's substance is fashion and his medium is mockery, or anyway sarcasm, while Wagner's substance is mockery and her medium is architecture criticism
I may be Mandela-ing this, but I feel like there was a time when one of "seasonal promotion" and "only basic subs" was not the case.
I dimly recall a period when neither was, but I'm less certain my brain hasn't invented that
(Per BLS, $5 in 1996 is $10.22 now, so not impossible, I guess)
I dimly recall a period when neither was, but I'm less certain my brain hasn't invented that
(Per BLS, $5 in 1996 is $10.22 now, so not impossible, I guess)
December 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I may be Mandela-ing this, but I feel like there was a time when one of "seasonal promotion" and "only basic subs" was not the case.
I dimly recall a period when neither was, but I'm less certain my brain hasn't invented that
(Per BLS, $5 in 1996 is $10.22 now, so not impossible, I guess)
I dimly recall a period when neither was, but I'm less certain my brain hasn't invented that
(Per BLS, $5 in 1996 is $10.22 now, so not impossible, I guess)
I'm old enough to remember when leftists were horrified to lean that the Minnesota Bail Fund wasn't some guy with a shoebox full of loose bills. They were actually ::gasp:: writing down how much money they had and where it was going!
December 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I'm old enough to remember when leftists were horrified to lean that the Minnesota Bail Fund wasn't some guy with a shoebox full of loose bills. They were actually ::gasp:: writing down how much money they had and where it was going!
Oh, I'm sure "too expensive" was a euphemism at least sometimes. But I think there's a floor on just being *able* to shield ones kid from whatever degree of financial difficulties one may be dealing with
December 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Oh, I'm sure "too expensive" was a euphemism at least sometimes. But I think there's a floor on just being *able* to shield ones kid from whatever degree of financial difficulties one may be dealing with
(My parents would decline to buy things for me on the grounds of "too expensive" when the occasion called for it but I never heard "we can't," at least not in so many words)
December 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
(My parents would decline to buy things for me on the grounds of "too expensive" when the occasion called for it but I never heard "we can't," at least not in so many words)
I knew in general because I'm the eldest (and for most of that decade, only) child of two politics junkies, but "can we afford___" was not a conversation that happened around me, let alone with me
December 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I knew in general because I'm the eldest (and for most of that decade, only) child of two politics junkies, but "can we afford___" was not a conversation that happened around me, let alone with me
Where are you seeing projection? He's describing a pattern so commonly observed that it's barely interesting to point it out other than (as here) to add context for the actual topic
December 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Where are you seeing projection? He's describing a pattern so commonly observed that it's barely interesting to point it out other than (as here) to add context for the actual topic
I don't think this is the first time 50501 has posted something out of the Protocols
December 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I don't think this is the first time 50501 has posted something out of the Protocols
40 years ago Douglas Hofstadter would have said that *is* creativity (I don't want to presume he feels that way now, or extrapolate to how he feels about genAI)
December 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
40 years ago Douglas Hofstadter would have said that *is* creativity (I don't want to presume he feels that way now, or extrapolate to how he feels about genAI)
Though also, people (*probably* not Akiva) who don't like cities are going to see them as squalid regardless of what's actually there.
I've seen a take that was basically "the reason people in cities deny that they're constantly being crimed is because of Woke"
I've seen a take that was basically "the reason people in cities deny that they're constantly being crimed is because of Woke"
December 20, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Though also, people (*probably* not Akiva) who don't like cities are going to see them as squalid regardless of what's actually there.
I've seen a take that was basically "the reason people in cities deny that they're constantly being crimed is because of Woke"
I've seen a take that was basically "the reason people in cities deny that they're constantly being crimed is because of Woke"
Is that why people get so mad about 15-minute cities? Because they think we want to make them live in squalor?
December 20, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Is that why people get so mad about 15-minute cities? Because they think we want to make them live in squalor?
Wild how the people who bang on about "collective action" were utterly unable to think collectively at election time!
December 20, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Wild how the people who bang on about "collective action" were utterly unable to think collectively at election time!
* That second isn't much of a defense, granted, but it's my understanding Epstein was somewhat of a starfucker precisely to generate this sort of chaff
December 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
* That second isn't much of a defense, granted, but it's my understanding Epstein was somewhat of a starfucker precisely to generate this sort of chaff
The 2 things that are true here
1. There are bound to be some people who didn't know, and some people who knew, at least vaguely, but didn't take part*
2. That sounds like special pleading because it is, and it's a bad look to keep insisting your fave is one of those people
1. There are bound to be some people who didn't know, and some people who knew, at least vaguely, but didn't take part*
2. That sounds like special pleading because it is, and it's a bad look to keep insisting your fave is one of those people
December 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The 2 things that are true here
1. There are bound to be some people who didn't know, and some people who knew, at least vaguely, but didn't take part*
2. That sounds like special pleading because it is, and it's a bad look to keep insisting your fave is one of those people
1. There are bound to be some people who didn't know, and some people who knew, at least vaguely, but didn't take part*
2. That sounds like special pleading because it is, and it's a bad look to keep insisting your fave is one of those people
That's not to say LU1 is never used when a different measure might be more appropriate, but reporting a reduction in LU1 as "unemployment is down" is ~true even if other measures aren't tracking it, and comparing the inverse of the LFPR now to LU1 previously is lying
December 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
That's not to say LU1 is never used when a different measure might be more appropriate, but reporting a reduction in LU1 as "unemployment is down" is ~true even if other measures aren't tracking it, and comparing the inverse of the LFPR now to LU1 previously is lying
"The real unemployment rate" is almost always an apples-to-oranges comparison framed as a conspiracy. "LFPR is the unemployment number They don't want you to know about." No, it just measures a different thing than the unemployment rate
December 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"The real unemployment rate" is almost always an apples-to-oranges comparison framed as a conspiracy. "LFPR is the unemployment number They don't want you to know about." No, it just measures a different thing than the unemployment rate
(Plus I recall reading not long ago about genAI trained on a specific band releasing albums of simulated that-band music at a rate the band could never hope to match, but I don't remember the details, I'm open to seeing a debunking, and I'm not sure it's primarily the tech that's the problem here)
December 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
(Plus I recall reading not long ago about genAI trained on a specific band releasing albums of simulated that-band music at a rate the band could never hope to match, but I don't remember the details, I'm open to seeing a debunking, and I'm not sure it's primarily the tech that's the problem here)
And for people currently or aspirationally in creative fields, there's the prison loaf issue
December 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
And for people currently or aspirationally in creative fields, there's the prison loaf issue
If the people who support it are using the claim that it will destroy my life as a selling point, it's not actually all that unreasonable for me to have a problem with it on that basis.
December 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
If the people who support it are using the claim that it will destroy my life as a selling point, it's not actually all that unreasonable for me to have a problem with it on that basis.