“He is not a very good person.” -a major magazine article about Mike Pence

I don’t think true AI is anywhere close. It’s still very much stuck in philosophy. The latest wave of Large Language Models are already disrupting some markets, though. And they are distinctly capitalist.

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Glad to hear you get a bit of refuge here, comrade

Our wreckers used to complain all the time about the admins being anti-white. Gotta love it.

Unfortunately, we drove off a lot of PoC users before we could have a proper reckoning on that. I think most of us would acknowledge that the site skews extremely white and western and is a shittier experience for some people as a result. That doesn’t mean a few folks won’t lose their shit at the mention of the topic, though.

This has been brought up before and a few regulars have piped up. There are, indeed, cis women on the internet. /lh

Cybernetic socialism has major potential imo. I’ll check it out

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I’ve been complaining about where I live and considering moving north but making no effort towards making it happen for years now. Seems pretty southern to me.

Realizing that my state is going to receive an influx of genocidal conservatives in the near future

Attraction and attachment are actually very complicated and people’s experiences with them are diverse, so it’s not a bad idea to describe your experiences.

I’m gonna hide a long post behind a spoiler, but wanna directly answer your question first.

Yes, it varies from person to person. Most people don’t talk about it as if it varies, but it does. I consider a crush to be sustained romantic attraction for a person you’re not partnered with.

I experience the same “crush” feeling for my long-term partner, but it would be weird to refer to it that way, because society is allo-centric and just calls that love (it also calls a bunch of other stuff love). It’s just romantic attraction, which can feel different between people, but for me is kind of a fluttering warmth in my tummy that makes me wanna smile. Feels similar to admiration.

Some people experience that very strongly very quickly. Others need to establish attachment first. Some people experience it fleetingly. For others it’s overwhelming and constant, even after a long period of time.

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Sounds like someone rage quit

Just in case anyone was wondering, there’s a scientific consensus on holding kids back a grade. It’s typically unhelpful and often detrimental.

Also, a proper reading intervention for a kid who’s testing below grade level should be individualized and involve wholistic assessment, not just standardized test scores. The idea that you could actually summarize a single person’s reading ability in a single number, let along an entire population’s, is preposterous.

To be clear, Mississippi is actively raising an entire generation of people with learning disabilities who are being isolated from their peers and excluded from official statistics because their intelligence is “too low”. The vast majority of these kids could meet or exceed their peers with the proper assistance. For a lot of them, it’s not a capacity thing at all. The standard instructions methods just don’t work.

America, land of “fuck you I got mine”

I feel like if you’re hooked into political discourse enough, you can smell it every time a think tank adviser takes a shit. Some special interest group decided they wanted more people to believe in the war on drugs, and so they do.

This is the full quote, according to Parenti:

Left anticommunists remained studiously unimpressed by the dramatic gains won by masses of previously impoverished people under communism. Some were even scornful of such accomplishments. I recall how in Burlington Vermont, in 1971, the noted anticommunist anarchist, Murray Bookchin, derisively referred to my concern for “the poor little children who got fed under communism” (his words).

It’s literally a personal anecdote claimed by Parenti, so I don’t see that being corroborated.

Cis society is built on passively affirming people’s assigned gender. It’s built into everything from clothing to basic social norms to medical care.

I try so hard to compliment my children regularly about things that they’ve expressed value for. I complimented one of them today that they were drawing eyes “really rectangularly”. Do I value that? No. But it made them really excited.

Potential explanations for this behavior:

1. Confirmation bias
2. The father is quicker to complement the daughter
3. The mother is quicker to criticize the daughter
4. The mother already knows how pretty the hair is because she was the one brushing it
5. The mother was taking pictures of the process and seemed distracted
6. The father participates in less care tasks (brushing hair can uncomfortable and boring and explaining why it’s necessary can be upsetting, so if the mother is taking on all that work, the father gets off the hook implicitly and doesn’t suffer the negative backlash)
7. The father is normally the one who brushes her hair
8. This behavior is modeled by the mother showing off her hair to the father

Note that none of these explanations involve the innate sexual preferences and desires of literal children