This morning I woke up to a story: a woman who walked into a ER with an ectopic pregnancy. She lived in a state with trigger laws. She had to wait nine hours while her doctor consulted a lawyer. She almost died.
So pro-life folk, did you actually consider ramifications of this?
— Angel Powell (@AngelBrittanyxo) June 26, 2022
And so it begins.
We are not ready (and by we, I include me) to accept that casual, reliable business or air travel is over. It's not coming back. It is going to take some time to accept. We're only at stage 1 or 2 (denial, anger) or at most 3 (bargaining w airlines on Twitter) of Kübler-Ross
— Dr. Thrasher (@thrasherxy) June 24, 2022
Like most things, this is a choice that dumbasses like this are telling us is fait accompli. They just like taking things away, really. That’s all it is.
My regular friends "do you think they will really go after gay marriage"
My lawyer friends "Do you think women owning property in their own name is clearly established? It was not at the time of the signing of the 14th, would a trust survive?"
— Melissa Hall (@CasualLaw) June 26, 2022
Indeed. Things are getting serious now.
Childhood obesity ruined my life. DON’T overfeed your kids!!! PLEASE!
Ten million Fat Acceptance nutters scream as one….
I hate tattoos.
How much the world changes: the same woman that some army acquaintances made fun of me for dating because she was a little overweight would now be considered skinny by most.
She was 5’8″ or so, and weighed about 165 pounds, so a BMI of about 25.
Another application: Why are empirical methods so arcane? Not necessarily because they grant us huge new insights, but because **institutionalized science has adversarial incentives** in a way that firms (mostly) don't. https://t.co/DxDvmVCDdQ
— Cameron Harwick 👾🏛 (@C_Harwick) June 24, 2022
I think about this a lot. I’m not a statistics expert, but a lot of tools (both software and mathematical) in statistics are 1000x harder than they need to be, to produce only 5% better results, with higher mistake rates because they are so difficult to use. I don’t think this has a thing to do with better science, but rather an arms race within the field to weed out those who won’t devote ridiculous hours and efforts to competing within that field.
A lot of fields are like this (mine included).
To defend the libs somewhat before trashing them again as they deserve, I do think power imbalances in a relationship can be harmful, particularly if a narcissist is involved (and, yes, narcissists can be and often are women). However, believing that power and its imbalance is the only thing that matters is roughly like believing the only consideration in what to eat is how many calories the food contains.
Also, relevant to the above point, PMC libs can only conceive of one sort of power, which is the HR-defined sort. They can’t even think about other forms that matter and often take precedence over what I’ll refer to as managerial power.
Just a totally broken worldview.
Heron uses a dead bug for bait while fishing!!
Cc: Gamer200431 pic.twitter.com/hgKNYLr68t— DAPPER DON DHARSHI • K A M I L • (@SoloFlow786) June 25, 2022
Ok, now they are getting too smart.
There is no coherent liberal agenda.
We can't enact policy the way Republicans do because that's authoritarianism, but we need to uphold the policies passed by authoritarians because that's democracy, and we have to vote for Democrats, but we can't expect them to do anything,
— Ian Danskin (@InnuendoStudios) June 25, 2022
This is one of the major problems, along with the great and pointless effort liberals have put into policing words and people’s personal relationships rather than achieving anything useful.
The first ten on today’s playlist:
Zeynep Tufekci is the only human being alive that I trust more than myself to evaluate evidence and its application to the real world.
I really need her when I’m Galactic Overlord.
The Fat Acceptance movement is particularly clever in that it has an enormous (pun intended) effect on children, which locks in food company profits for decades into the future.
Extremely slick.