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30.1.2025 01:51Comment on Codifying Ignorance by Non Serviam Media Collective… reposted this!
26.1.2025 17:45Comment on Codifying Ignorance by 𝚝𝚓𝚠… liked this!
26.1.2025 17:44Comment on Codifying Ignorance by 𝚝𝚓𝚠Trump’s executive order about gender is even dumber than simply defining everyone as female. That would at least be coherent, if weird. It defines it as “belonging to the sex” that produces egg or sperm “at conception,” obviously before any gametes are produced. It does not specify how one belongs to a sex so it’s … Continue reading Codifying Ignorance
26.1.2025 17:43Codifying IgnoranceIn reply to <a href="https://mastodon.social/@thomasjwebb/113507126528473195">𝚝𝚓𝚠</a>. <p><a href="https://thomaswebb.net/author/admin/" rel="ugc">@admin</a> usual caveats about how terrible Reason is aside, Somin also makes a good case that the election was not a mandate and not to read too much into the election result. He also concedes, like I, that his views (not the same as mine) aren't the most popular ones.</p><p><a href="https://reason.com/volokh/2024/11/12/the-election-wasnt-a-realignment-or-a-mandate/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://reason.com/volokh/2024/11/12/the-election-wasnt-a-realignment-or-a-mandate/</a></p>
23.11.2024 17:09Comment on The Normal People Understanders by 𝚝𝚓𝚠<p><a href="https://thomaswebb.net/author/admin/" rel="ugc">@admin</a> Erin in the Morning also of course did a good writeup related to this:</p><p><a href="https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/opinion-the-trans-sports-attacks" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/opinion-the-trans-sports-attacks</a></p><p>And also uploaded this video to ig:</p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DCiOnqWurXX/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.instagram.com/p/DCiOnqWurXX/</a></p>
19.11.2024 01:49Comment on The Normal People Understanders by 𝚝𝚓𝚠[…] Elections Are Hell, We Can Do Better […]
17.11.2024 06:40Comment on Elections Are Hell, We Can Do Better by The Normal People Understanders – tjwPrior to the 2024 US presidential election, I was one of many people who made the obvious prediction that if Trump wins, there will be…
17.11.2024 06:39Comment on Elections Are Hell, We Can Do Better by adminElection season always pulls me in two directions at the same time – I get more frustrated with radicals who refuse to acknowledge important differences in degree of evil. But I’m also yet more convinced that the state as such is evil. I’m thinking like a liberal Karl Rove, knowing exactly how the electoral politics … Continue reading Elections Are Hell, We Can Do Better
30.10.2024 15:02Elections Are Hell, We Can Do Better<a href="https://thomaswebb.net/author/admin/" rel="ugc">@admin</a> This is an absolutely cracking garage rock song somewhere.
25.8.2023 15:51Comment on I’m a Tourist And Everything Revolves Around Me by Toot Suite, Rodney 💨(Old Facebook post from 2021-08-25) I am a tourist and everything revolves around me. If I don’t sloppily park in your downtown to buy kitchy knick-knacks at the local business that’s more of a hobby than a real business and that barely pays their employees, your economy will COLLAPSE. Non-retail businesses and schools? People working … Continue reading I’m a Tourist And Everything Revolves Around Me
25.8.2023 15:38I’m a Tourist And Everything Revolves Around MeStockton Rush was the CEO of a privately held business that employed less than 50 people. He certainly had delusions of grandeur, and fancied himself a cross between Steve Jobs and Elon Musk. His net worth was about $25 million. He wasn't a billionaire and it wasn't his plan to murder-suicide ocean explorers.
1.7.2023 01:04Musk’s TentaclesIt's a tradition on Christian holidays for memes containing crackpot history to show up. And also for the backlash to said which also often gets things wrong. No one knows what St. Patrick driving snakes out of Ireland is an allegory for, nor even if it really is an allegory or more of the kinds of folk tales that tend to be made about important people.
17.3.2023 18:59St. Patrick’s Day MemesDr. Seuss was incredibly jingoistic and made political cartoons reflecting that. He hated the Nazis but unfortunately he also hated "the Japanese" and as such made political cartoons about Japanese immigrants every bit as vile as something you'd see in the daily stormer about Muslim immigrants. He was pro Japanese internment until a Japanese friend of his talked him out of that years after the fact. He made holy shit anti-black racist ads. He also saw racism as an evil that needed to be exorcised from society and mocked the hardcore racists of his day even while he continued to use racial stereotypes in his books.
3.3.2023 16:04Seuss’ Estate Pulling BooksWhat I'm criticizing here is the classic zoo hypothesis, the idea that intelligent, high-tech aliens are purposely avoiding humans and the planet earth. Any species that is capable of fast traveling to Earth must be populous and diverse enough that total, 100% compliance with no-contact rules or the Prime Directive is impossible. But it gets even worse the more other species or star systems are involved.
27.2.2023 19:36When Space Geeks Sound Like Conspiracy Theorists"You don't want this tool used against your enemies because you're next or it's already been used against you" is for no-fly lists, offshore prisons, grand juries, travel bans, gulags and secret police. Being banned from social media is more like "I'm used to it being used against me and it's totally hilarious when it's used against thin-skinned grievance mongers".
15.1.2023 16:12On Getting BannedAddendum: obviously, shame to any trans people or detransitioners who don't sympathize with the other. But it's people who are neither who have the power and are setting the narrative.
7.1.2023 20:01Comment on Two Women by adminTwo fictional individuals, not based on any specific real people: Ciara is a trans woman who begun medically transitioning in her early 20s. This means she had one endogenous testosterone-dominant puberty in her teens, then a medically induced secondary puberty in her 20s to adjust her secondary sexual characteristics so that she can feel more … Continue reading Two Women
7.1.2023 19:49Two Women<a href="https://thomaswebb.net/author/admin/">@admin</a> ah I didn’t set this right in the activitypub plugin to only show the part above the fold… so the whole damn thing shows up in mobile. Ah sorry for anyone’s timeline I clogged up with a whole blog post. Will fix for next time.
21.12.2022 08:03Comment on Self-Promotion on Social Media by 𝚝𝚓𝚠