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The issue isn’t that online dating apps suck, it’s that all of the loud voices giving advice to angry young men are giving advice that doesn’t help them, and almost certainly actively hurts them, but keeps them listening to the people giving bad advice. It’s a digital media problem.
has anyone attempted deradicalizing young men by producing a dating app that doesn't suck
December 29, 2024 at 1:58 AM
The issue isn’t that online dating apps suck, it’s that all of the loud voices giving advice to angry young men are giving advice that doesn’t help them, and almost certainly actively hurts them, but keeps them listening to the people giving bad advice. It’s a digital media problem.
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this should be read as "lazy and entitled journalists who haven't been working class for 30 seconds in their lives think dems lost the working class", which is shorthand for "the vibes tell me that the working class prefers Republicans"; it's an indictment of dem social media strategy, not policy
December 30, 2024 at 7:24 PM
this should be read as "lazy and entitled journalists who haven't been working class for 30 seconds in their lives think dems lost the working class", which is shorthand for "the vibes tell me that the working class prefers Republicans"; it's an indictment of dem social media strategy, not policy
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we’re in the minority in all three branches, dems don’t have to do a goddamned thing, policy-wise, for at least the next two years. ask donald trump and mike johnson and john thune what their kitchen table policies are, they’re in charge.
December 30, 2024 at 7:20 PM
we’re in the minority in all three branches, dems don’t have to do a goddamned thing, policy-wise, for at least the next two years. ask donald trump and mike johnson and john thune what their kitchen table policies are, they’re in charge.
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i hear this a lot. it isnt true. dems approach elections with the idea that they cant/shouldnt go into "icky" territory and instead they need to go with boring and stale "kitchen table" stuff. the right goes into the sewer because they understand elections are about emotions.
Critical thought might teach you that the rape issue didn't sway anyone, so better to try something else. We've known this for quite a while. It's a main reason many people have become cynical at best about the decency of Americans.
i just wanna note that among the brilliant strategical moves by the democrats was the idea that they ignore the e jean caroll trial. worked out well! no notes!
December 30, 2024 at 3:43 PM
i hear this a lot. it isnt true. dems approach elections with the idea that they cant/shouldnt go into "icky" territory and instead they need to go with boring and stale "kitchen table" stuff. the right goes into the sewer because they understand elections are about emotions.
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there needs to be a specific term for this, for when successful countermeasures are later taken as evidence that the issue was overblown. See: Y2K, the Ozone Hole, Vaccines. Hindblight or something.
DAMMIT NPR.
I spent nine months upgrading over TEN THOUSAND desktops at a F500 client. The grand total was over SEVENTY THOUSAND applications upgraded.
Y2K "didn't live up to the hype" because the industry busted ass to duct tape everything first.
I spent nine months upgrading over TEN THOUSAND desktops at a F500 client. The grand total was over SEVENTY THOUSAND applications upgraded.
Y2K "didn't live up to the hype" because the industry busted ass to duct tape everything first.
December 29, 2024 at 7:59 AM
there needs to be a specific term for this, for when successful countermeasures are later taken as evidence that the issue was overblown. See: Y2K, the Ozone Hole, Vaccines. Hindblight or something.
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Seeing Steve Nash for the first time when we were in Grade 11 was like seeing a Martian - and he BARELY got a DI scholarship at the last minute.
December 27, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Seeing Steve Nash for the first time when we were in Grade 11 was like seeing a Martian - and he BARELY got a DI scholarship at the last minute.
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it is fucking toxic to use customer burden to ration health care. worse than using money, worse than long waits.
December 24, 2024 at 12:48 PM
it is fucking toxic to use customer burden to ration health care. worse than using money, worse than long waits.
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Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!
December 24, 2024 at 3:11 AM
Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!
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It's something at least. Driving messages works and Democrats should do it more often.
December 21, 2024 at 2:29 AM
It's something at least. Driving messages works and Democrats should do it more often.
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Jamelle Bouie is, as ever, exactly right.
Gift link.
What Do Democrats Need to Do? Act Like an Opposition Party.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...
Gift link.
What Do Democrats Need to Do? Act Like an Opposition Party.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...
Opinion | What Do Democrats Need to Do? Act Like an Opposition Party. (Gift Article)
Now is not the time for surrender.
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2024 at 11:50 AM
Jamelle Bouie is, as ever, exactly right.
Gift link.
What Do Democrats Need to Do? Act Like an Opposition Party.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...
Gift link.
What Do Democrats Need to Do? Act Like an Opposition Party.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...
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From the fucking rafters
December 18, 2024 at 12:13 PM
From the fucking rafters
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somethingawful had the best and smartest rule in the history of any online space: it's against the rules to try to find a grey area in the rules. If you have to argue that what you posted is fine, it's actually not fine, goodbye.
December 12, 2024 at 12:07 AM
somethingawful had the best and smartest rule in the history of any online space: it's against the rules to try to find a grey area in the rules. If you have to argue that what you posted is fine, it's actually not fine, goodbye.
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existentialism/absurdism stay winning nihilistcels absolutely SEETHING
December 16, 2024 at 6:12 AM
existentialism/absurdism stay winning nihilistcels absolutely SEETHING
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I mean the last…3? 2? Seasons have been about not building an airport and one of the other seasons was about not building a development near them so….yeah?
December 16, 2024 at 4:54 AM
I mean the last…3? 2? Seasons have been about not building an airport and one of the other seasons was about not building a development near them so….yeah?
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This is not the ideology of the Old West or of the frontier or even of later Western fiction, this is the ideology of the wealthy Los Angeles NIMBY.
There's literally a line about how disgusting it is to live so close to people you can smell what they're cooking for dinner. Which...I live like that. Tens of millions of Americans live like that. And it is amazing to be sneered at for it by someone who thinks he's "real" and we're "elite."
December 16, 2024 at 4:49 AM
This is not the ideology of the Old West or of the frontier or even of later Western fiction, this is the ideology of the wealthy Los Angeles NIMBY.
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Honestly? It rocks that we just live in a world where a non-trivial number of people who vote are now just completely detached from reality.
Actually just living in fantasy worlds with alien drones and AI dogs and shit. Amazing.
Actually just living in fantasy worlds with alien drones and AI dogs and shit. Amazing.
December 16, 2024 at 12:40 PM
Honestly? It rocks that we just live in a world where a non-trivial number of people who vote are now just completely detached from reality.
Actually just living in fantasy worlds with alien drones and AI dogs and shit. Amazing.
Actually just living in fantasy worlds with alien drones and AI dogs and shit. Amazing.
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dude has fewer than 5k followers here. this isn’t a broadcast platform for him, it’s a mining platform
December 12, 2024 at 1:22 PM
dude has fewer than 5k followers here. this isn’t a broadcast platform for him, it’s a mining platform
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The polio vaccine and Global Polio Eradication Initiative is one of the most significant global health breakthroughs of the last 70 years.
RFK's confirmation hearing will be a circus that spreads vaccine misinfo in general, and on polio in particular.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...
RFK's confirmation hearing will be a circus that spreads vaccine misinfo in general, and on polio in particular.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...
RFK Jr.’s Lawyer Has Asked the FDA to Revoke Polio Vaccine Approval (Gift Article)
Aaron Siri, who specializes in vaccine lawsuits, has been at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s side reviewing candidates for top jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services.
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2024 at 4:25 PM
The polio vaccine and Global Polio Eradication Initiative is one of the most significant global health breakthroughs of the last 70 years.
RFK's confirmation hearing will be a circus that spreads vaccine misinfo in general, and on polio in particular.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...
RFK's confirmation hearing will be a circus that spreads vaccine misinfo in general, and on polio in particular.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...
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The CA Assembly's analysis found AI produced a life-threatening denial because of a statistical correlation: they denied coverage for hospital care for asthmatics with pneumonia bc they have lower mortality... but the lower mortality is *because* they got higher-level care given the risk factor!
I had no idea til I heard this interview that AI was being used to make claim decisions. 🤯 thank you for your important research
December 11, 2024 at 4:15 PM
The CA Assembly's analysis found AI produced a life-threatening denial because of a statistical correlation: they denied coverage for hospital care for asthmatics with pneumonia bc they have lower mortality... but the lower mortality is *because* they got higher-level care given the risk factor!
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you hate ralph nader for throwing the 2000 election. i hate ralph nader for burning america's state capacity to the ground to establish a universal nonprofit veto over any affirmative program, however progressive. we're different.
the modern Left decided it loved the 1970s era public interest law movement (CEQA, NEPA, etc) make than it did the 1940s New Deal and so we ended up allocating hundreds of billions to fill out book reports and pay lawyers instead of building things 🙃
one of the things about the Green New Deal era of US climate politics that I miss has to do with this - felt like there was a real sense that political energy could and should be devoted to building actual stuff. still on that team
December 11, 2024 at 2:14 AM
you hate ralph nader for throwing the 2000 election. i hate ralph nader for burning america's state capacity to the ground to establish a universal nonprofit veto over any affirmative program, however progressive. we're different.
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the Trump voter ranking of political environments:
1. We get free shit and the people we hate get nothing
2. Nobody gets anything
3. Everyone gets free shit
when you hear them talking about socialist-style policies it's important to keep this in mind, they only want the benefits to go to them
1. We get free shit and the people we hate get nothing
2. Nobody gets anything
3. Everyone gets free shit
when you hear them talking about socialist-style policies it's important to keep this in mind, they only want the benefits to go to them
look at Trump voters: they don't want a system where they're equal and provided for - they want a system where they're recognized as superior
this is why I say Fukuyama will remain the theorist of our times
what else other than megloythmia is this? It's more than pure class politics
what else other than megloythmia is this? It's more than pure class politics
December 11, 2024 at 12:05 AM
the Trump voter ranking of political environments:
1. We get free shit and the people we hate get nothing
2. Nobody gets anything
3. Everyone gets free shit
when you hear them talking about socialist-style policies it's important to keep this in mind, they only want the benefits to go to them
1. We get free shit and the people we hate get nothing
2. Nobody gets anything
3. Everyone gets free shit
when you hear them talking about socialist-style policies it's important to keep this in mind, they only want the benefits to go to them