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  1. Comment on Civil cases against Donald Trump for trying to interfere with the 2020 US election can continue while he is president - analysis in ~society

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    i thought this might perhaps have been an analysis written by 161 authors and was excited to see that, but no; only two—scraper bug. (such high author counts are common in like physics and ai, and...

    i thought this might perhaps have been an analysis written by 161 authors and was excited to see that, but no; only two—scraper bug. (such high author counts are common in like physics and ai, and prospectively in mathematics, but i have no idea how that would work in law)

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  2. Comment on The sham legacy of Richard Feynman in ~science

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    it's not just an argument. it's a story—all arguments are stories; and some stories take 3 hours to tell

    it's not just an argument. it's a story—all arguments are stories; and some stories take 3 hours to tell

    8 votes

  3. Comment on Looking to hear experiences about Laser Facial Hair Removal in ~lgbt

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    this typically happens because the technician is not competent. either they have poor needle technique, or they remove hairs in a cluster, which focuses the trauma rather than spreading it out....

    I also know someone who got scarred from it (electrolysis)

    this typically happens because the technician is not competent. either they have poor needle technique, or they remove hairs in a cluster, which focuses the trauma rather than spreading it out. permanent cosmetic procedures are not something to cheap out on!

    touch-ups ... electrolysis ... permanent

    electrolytic hair removal is no more permanent than laser; its effects are just differently distributed. optimum (cost, time, pain, results) in most cases is to do laser hair removal till diminishing returns and then switch to electrolysis

    11 votes

  4. Comment on Are we all capable of being slaveowners or nazis? in ~humanities

  5. Comment on Slop economics in ~finance

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    i promise i don't mean this in a rude way but i really want to understand...what would possess you to do that?

    I had watched a summary of it on one of those YouTube channels where a text to speech voice explains the plots of movies to you

    i promise i don't mean this in a rude way but i really want to understand...what would possess you to do that?

    8 votes

  6. Comment on "Americans get screwed because they can’t read" in ~society

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    can you elaborate? i did not notice this in my agemates then

    can you elaborate? i did not notice this in my agemates then

    4 votes

  7. Comment on The resistance is not coming to save you. It’s tuning out. in ~society

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    wha? nobody in power gives a fuck about trans people. it is a convenient rhetorical target. more prominence is if anything good for them; you need a problem to be (seen as) solving

    The reason the Republican party wants to make trans people miserable is to eradicate them from public life and ideally get them to kill themselves

    wha? nobody in power gives a fuck about trans people. it is a convenient rhetorical target. more prominence is if anything good for them; you need a problem to be (seen as) solving

    3 votes

  8. Comment on As 4B takes the world by storm, South Korea is grappling with a backlash against feminism in ~life.women

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    for clarity: i didn't mean to make any value judgments in either of my comments, and i don't think anything particular about the thing i linked; i just think it's interesting some value judgments...

    for clarity: i didn't mean to make any value judgments in either of my comments, and i don't think anything particular about the thing i linked; i just think it's interesting

    some value judgments now. i think separatism is always bad. i think whether something is 'transphobic' or not is usually beside the point (i find words like this are frequently used as thick ethical concepts when they should be only ontological). more to the point: insofar as it is not separatist, i'm comparatively sympathetic to political lesbianism. why do you object to it? i guess—i am identifying political lesbianism as a particular woman's choice to avoid engaging in romance or sex with men as a political statement. it could also be a prescription that all women should engage in political lesbianism, which i do agree is bad, but that is just because it is unreasonably authoritarian. but either way, i don't see how political lesbianism can be more gender-essentialist than lesbianism or feminism

    why do you think radical feminism is incompatible with trans people? when trans people do it, are they alienating themselves, or other trans people, or something else? (i recently had the displeasure of reading a trans woman who was spouting off mackinnon—gauche; unbearable!—but i didn't really get that from it.)

    unless—are you equating sexism with transphobia? (valid imo but unusual)

    5 votes

  9. Comment on As 4B takes the world by storm, South Korea is grappling with a backlash against feminism in ~life.women

  10. Comment on As 4B takes the world by storm, South Korea is grappling with a backlash against feminism in ~life.women

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    4b seems to me to be a relatively content-free meme—its popularity more a reflection of the zeitgeist than an actual instigator of action. i hear on tiktok lots of people are asking if they can...

    4b seems to me to be a relatively content-free meme—its popularity more a reflection of the zeitgeist than an actual instigator of action. i hear on tiktok lots of people are asking if they can still do 4b if they have boyfriends. and

    most of my female friends are more focused on their careers than dating right now, but that’s not because of 4B, it’s just the reality of being a young professional in Korea

    is the flip side of that

    i've seen it compared to political lesbianism, which seems somewhat apt. but 1) most people are over 2nd-wave feminism by now, and 2) even insofar as they're not, 4b does not have enough substance to be a meaningful separatist movement with teeth or legs

    i think it doesn't really mean anything and the comparison to metoo does not make much sense

    12 votes

  11. Comment on Where does your username come from? (Following up on last year's thread) in ~tildes

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    Moon Child, from the neverending story (a beloved book of mine). I more use the German 'Mondenkind' these days, though.

    Moon Child, from the neverending story (a beloved book of mine). I more use the German 'Mondenkind' these days, though.

    12 votes

  12. Comment on LGBTQ folks check-in thread - how're you all doing? in ~lgbt

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    legal angle is a wash, since you can almost certainly get it domestically, so the chance of its getting discovered is essentially nil. leaving aside the chance of seeing legal consequences if it...

    legal angle is a wash, since you can almost certainly get it domestically, so the chance of its getting discovered is essentially nil. leaving aside the chance of seeing legal consequences if it does get discovered, which is also essentially nil. but don't let me decide your risk tolerance for you

    how long till you can get pr? is the immigration process where you are (de, right?) as much of a pain as it is here in canada? :p

    1 vote

  13. Comment on LGBTQ folks check-in thread - how're you all doing? in ~lgbt

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    testosterone is much safer to get illicitly than estrogen because the market is orders of magnitude larger

    testosterone is much safer to get illicitly than estrogen because the market is orders of magnitude larger

    1 vote

  14. Comment on LGBTQ folks check-in thread - how're you all doing? in ~lgbt

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    fwiw, drugs of all stripes can be gotten easily, cheaply, and safely from the internet

    fwiw, drugs of all stripes can be gotten easily, cheaply, and safely from the internet

    2 votes

  15. Comment on Thoughts on Donald Trump, America and what this all means in ~society

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    there was never any justice (or injustice), nor fundamental human nature. these are abstractions. but the state of the world is much, much worse than i thought it was, and it is heading in a...

    we don't live in a just world. When my partner was crying last night, I think that's what she was feeling the loss of most of all. The idea that despite the imperfections of the world, somewhere underneath there is some form of justice based in the fundamentally good nature of human beings

    there was never any justice (or injustice), nor fundamental human nature. these are abstractions. but the state of the world is much, much worse than i thought it was, and it is heading in a direction that is much worse than the one i thought it would go (which was already quite bad), with material implications for many, many people, including me. at least, that's what had me crying

    13 votes

  16. Comment on Mel Manuel, trans candidate for US House, injected testosterone on camera in a campaign ad in ~lgbt

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    .oO( based based based based based based based based based based based )

    .oO( based based based based based based based based based based based )

    10 votes

  17. Comment on Non-college educated White men used to be ahead in the American economy. Now they’ve fallen behind. in ~finance

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    this confuses me. assuming most people are straight, neither gender should be disproportionately single—they should be single at the same rate. if young men are single and young women are not,...

    Young men are also now much more likely to be be unmarried or without a partner, something that has been increasing for all genders over the years, but has disproportionately affected young men

    this confuses me. assuming most people are straight, neither gender should be disproportionately single—they should be single at the same rate. if young men are single and young women are not, then it must be because the young women must be with older men, and so the older women must also be disproportionately single. but i haven't heard anybody talk about that. i suspect 'young men are disproportionately single' is a cover for a slightly different problem, but i'm not sure

    4 votes

  18. Comment on Non-college educated White men used to be ahead in the American economy. Now they’ve fallen behind. in ~finance

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    i found the comments on those youtube videos somewhat illuminating. also these videos (from a conservative woman) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhvJ-4xqx4A...

    i found the comments on those youtube videos somewhat illuminating. also these videos (from a conservative woman) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhvJ-4xqx4A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n3kEXR2boM. i think it is not so much direct criticism as perceived condescension, which reads indirectly as criticism but also profound disconnect

    second one

    the main thing i find gross about that one is the implication that you should compromise on your political beliefs in exchange for sexual validation. and i think that might be why that ad didn't land. either way, even if that could improve turnout in the short term, it is not how you solve the problem

    9 votes

  19. Comment on US Senate investigation into Medicare and Medicaid insurance providers finds they are using "AI" to deny care in ~society

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    indeed, but traditionally the predictions were interpretable (it's pretty easy to see why smoking might raise your health insurance premiums). not so for an opaque matrix of weights

    indeed, but traditionally the predictions were interpretable (it's pretty easy to see why smoking might raise your health insurance premiums). not so for an opaque matrix of weights

    6 votes

  20. Comment on Community Check-In: How is everyone doing? in ~life

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    Absolutely horrid. I am a pit that things fall into—i'm falling apart, i'm deteriorating, i'm dying. very volatile. so confusing. no energy. So strong but at the same time so delicate. On the...

    Absolutely horrid. I am a pit that things fall into—i'm falling apart, i'm deteriorating, i'm dying. very volatile. so confusing. no energy. So strong but at the same time so delicate. On the other hand I become very reckless which is to the good (normally I am much too risk averse and guarded)

    23 votes