Chris Kiser
@steampunk-willy.bsky.social
AuDHD, #ActuallyAutistic, Astros fan, math guy, dog lover
Yes, the 20 years you're concerned with are contained within that 40 year streak.
December 13, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Yes, the 20 years you're concerned with are contained within that 40 year streak.
You mean the era when Dems held a majority in the House for 40 consecutive years & both chambers of Congress for 34 of those 40 years? Not to mention the fact the GOP literally had to amend the Constitution 2 decades prior to stop Dem dominance of the White House.
December 13, 2025 at 3:05 AM
You mean the era when Dems held a majority in the House for 40 consecutive years & both chambers of Congress for 34 of those 40 years? Not to mention the fact the GOP literally had to amend the Constitution 2 decades prior to stop Dem dominance of the White House.
thx for being wrong & condescending for absolutely no fucking reason
December 6, 2025 at 3:38 AM
thx for being wrong & condescending for absolutely no fucking reason
An assertion is an idea intended to have some truth value, which is exactly the kind of ideas Peterson is talking about. The fact there are as many wrong assertions as right ones is counter-intuitive, but that does not mean you can use the ambiguity of "idea" to make your intuition correct.
December 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM
An assertion is an idea intended to have some truth value, which is exactly the kind of ideas Peterson is talking about. The fact there are as many wrong assertions as right ones is counter-intuitive, but that does not mean you can use the ambiguity of "idea" to make your intuition correct.
Whether or not you subjectively find it significant doesn't takeaway from the fact that any true statement provides information you did not have before. There are provably *not* infinitely more wrong ideas than right ones, bit there *are* provably many, many more unprovable ideas than provable ones.
December 5, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Whether or not you subjectively find it significant doesn't takeaway from the fact that any true statement provides information you did not have before. There are provably *not* infinitely more wrong ideas than right ones, bit there *are* provably many, many more unprovable ideas than provable ones.
2 + 2 =/=5 is a true statement. Knowing that a statement is provably false is often just as informative as knowing that it's provably true.
December 5, 2025 at 5:37 AM
2 + 2 =/=5 is a true statement. Knowing that a statement is provably false is often just as informative as knowing that it's provably true.
I think Coogler made Remmick Irish because he's drawing upon the discourse in Ireland around the ongoing death of the Irish language due to Irish people adopting English as their primary language to inform his concept of vampirism. The vampires aren't white so much as they are accomodating whites.
December 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I think Coogler made Remmick Irish because he's drawing upon the discourse in Ireland around the ongoing death of the Irish language due to Irish people adopting English as their primary language to inform his concept of vampirism. The vampires aren't white so much as they are accomodating whites.
Personally, I wouldn't characterize the vampyric appropriation the same way I would white supremacist appropriation. The former is a misguided attempt to rebuild lost community, common to the experience of people's living in diaspora, while the latter is extractitive, exclusionary, and hegemonic.
December 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Personally, I wouldn't characterize the vampyric appropriation the same way I would white supremacist appropriation. The former is a misguided attempt to rebuild lost community, common to the experience of people's living in diaspora, while the latter is extractitive, exclusionary, and hegemonic.
We see Stack & Mary at the end to make it clear the real benefits they have gained in spite of the incredible cost of being cut off from their culture & people. The movie is less concerned with which choice is better & more concerned with offering empathy & a path toward a more peaceful coexistence.
December 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
We see Stack & Mary at the end to make it clear the real benefits they have gained in spite of the incredible cost of being cut off from their culture & people. The movie is less concerned with which choice is better & more concerned with offering empathy & a path toward a more peaceful coexistence.
The movie does tonally favor the benefits of being a human over a vampire, but it doesn't shy away from how much harder it is to be a human than a vampire. Of the two human survivors, one dies valiantly resisting oppression & the other is grievously scarred but gets by with his exceptional talents.
December 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The movie does tonally favor the benefits of being a human over a vampire, but it doesn't shy away from how much harder it is to be a human than a vampire. Of the two human survivors, one dies valiantly resisting oppression & the other is grievously scarred but gets by with his exceptional talents.
It's not supposed to be a simple, "For what does it profit a person to gain the world but lose their soul?" sort of message.
The vampires do gain real benefits like power & secured survival, and they even still have their soul, albeit trapped under the vampiric hive mind.
The vampires do gain real benefits like power & secured survival, and they even still have their soul, albeit trapped under the vampiric hive mind.
December 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
It's not supposed to be a simple, "For what does it profit a person to gain the world but lose their soul?" sort of message.
The vampires do gain real benefits like power & secured survival, and they even still have their soul, albeit trapped under the vampiric hive mind.
The vampires do gain real benefits like power & secured survival, and they even still have their soul, albeit trapped under the vampiric hive mind.
That's exactly why Mary is the first of the twins' group to become a vampire and why she fell victim to the vampires when she naively attempted to use her apparent whiteness to benefit her community.
It's also worth appreciating that the movie vilifies vampirism while sympathizing with vampires.
It's also worth appreciating that the movie vilifies vampirism while sympathizing with vampires.
December 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
That's exactly why Mary is the first of the twins' group to become a vampire and why she fell victim to the vampires when she naively attempted to use her apparent whiteness to benefit her community.
It's also worth appreciating that the movie vilifies vampirism while sympathizing with vampires.
It's also worth appreciating that the movie vilifies vampirism while sympathizing with vampires.
Mary's character is perhaps one of the most thematically consistent aspects of the movie. She naively believes that being white-passing is a tool she can use to protect her community when in fact it makes her *more* likely to be an inadvertent vehicle for the erasure of her community's culture.
December 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Mary's character is perhaps one of the most thematically consistent aspects of the movie. She naively believes that being white-passing is a tool she can use to protect her community when in fact it makes her *more* likely to be an inadvertent vehicle for the erasure of her community's culture.
Peterson is not only wrong but he argues in bad faith by pretending he takes issue with the truth of Marx's ideas to hide the fact that he rejects humanist values in favor of values he knows are deeply unpopular. He is nothing but a grifter.
December 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Peterson is not only wrong but he argues in bad faith by pretending he takes issue with the truth of Marx's ideas to hide the fact that he rejects humanist values in favor of values he knows are deeply unpopular. He is nothing but a grifter.
Second, Marx's ideas are actually among the minority of ideas that are, in fact, falsifiable & Marxist theory persists precisely because the core of Marx's ideas have uet to be proven false. Whether or not one agrees with Marxist values (aka humanism) is not an issue of falsifiability.
December 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Second, Marx's ideas are actually among the minority of ideas that are, in fact, falsifiable & Marxist theory persists precisely because the core of Marx's ideas have uet to be proven false. Whether or not one agrees with Marxist values (aka humanism) is not an issue of falsifiability.
What point does *he* even think he's making?
First off, for any wrong statement it's contradiction is necesarily right, so there are equally as many right ideas as wrong ones. What is actually true is that almost all ideas cannot be proven either right or wrong. That's why falsifiability matters.
First off, for any wrong statement it's contradiction is necesarily right, so there are equally as many right ideas as wrong ones. What is actually true is that almost all ideas cannot be proven either right or wrong. That's why falsifiability matters.
December 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
What point does *he* even think he's making?
First off, for any wrong statement it's contradiction is necesarily right, so there are equally as many right ideas as wrong ones. What is actually true is that almost all ideas cannot be proven either right or wrong. That's why falsifiability matters.
First off, for any wrong statement it's contradiction is necesarily right, so there are equally as many right ideas as wrong ones. What is actually true is that almost all ideas cannot be proven either right or wrong. That's why falsifiability matters.
nah, the AfD is already under heightened state surveillance for far right extremism which puts them precariously on the brink of expulsion. This is the value of regulating organized political activity to be explicitly anti-fascist rather than content neutral.
December 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
nah, the AfD is already under heightened state surveillance for far right extremism which puts them precariously on the brink of expulsion. This is the value of regulating organized political activity to be explicitly anti-fascist rather than content neutral.
The way we have normalized the lack of consumer/public control over the software & hardware we use for everything is the one reason I think there is any merit to the idea of "techno-feudalism". Right to repair is low key one of the most important liberation movements of our time.
December 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The way we have normalized the lack of consumer/public control over the software & hardware we use for everything is the one reason I think there is any merit to the idea of "techno-feudalism". Right to repair is low key one of the most important liberation movements of our time.
I was just gonna say, whiteness is a social construct and a pretty arbitrary one at that. You can include/exclude "swarthier" peoples to make white the minority/majority as you like, but it really says a lot about a person if they think there is a good or bad number of "whites" to have in the world.
December 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I was just gonna say, whiteness is a social construct and a pretty arbitrary one at that. You can include/exclude "swarthier" peoples to make white the minority/majority as you like, but it really says a lot about a person if they think there is a good or bad number of "whites" to have in the world.
okay, but like, how is poker right-coded? It's a game played by working stiffs gambling with some of their meager wages in a back room/break room with booze & smokes. like, what does a left-coded game look like?
November 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
okay, but like, how is poker right-coded? It's a game played by working stiffs gambling with some of their meager wages in a back room/break room with booze & smokes. like, what does a left-coded game look like?
This is just depressing
November 18, 2025 at 3:02 AM
This is just depressing
MVP is not about affirmative action based on position. If Judge hadn't already won the MVP multiple times, it would be pretty clear he's MVP this year.
Also, every team owner is definitionally an oligarch. Some just spend more than others.
Also, every team owner is definitionally an oligarch. Some just spend more than others.
November 15, 2025 at 6:42 AM
MVP is not about affirmative action based on position. If Judge hadn't already won the MVP multiple times, it would be pretty clear he's MVP this year.
Also, every team owner is definitionally an oligarch. Some just spend more than others.
Also, every team owner is definitionally an oligarch. Some just spend more than others.
Worth noting that there is no way to justify calling for genocide. Vox is only right about how shitty the angels are, but he's calling for a retaliatory war, not liberation.
November 15, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Worth noting that there is no way to justify calling for genocide. Vox is only right about how shitty the angels are, but he's calling for a retaliatory war, not liberation.