HandwovenConsensus

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[–] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago
  1. looking down on the low arts such as needle point, crochet, comedy, street art, dance, etc

Huh... I never realized that, but you're right. People who look down in other cultures also tend to be the ones who look down on folk art even within their own culture.

I've noticed before that the people saying, "If there's an African American Culture club at this school, why can't we have a White Culture club?" are never actually the ones interested in learning about the culture of white peoples for its own sake.

[–] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

The irony being that Russia would have worked fine if the Right wasn't in their pocket.

[–] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well, I only know of two off the top of my head, but I really doubt they're the only examples: Irish and Mandarin Chinese.

I think some Irish don't even habitually use them when speaking English. If you ask them "Are you ok?" they'd answer "I am" or "I am not."

[–] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nevada isn't just Vegas. There's a big values dissonance between Vegas and the rural North, and if the country starts fracturing I don't see them staying together.

I could actually see Vegas seceding from Nevada to either join with California or become an independent city-state.

Fallout: New Vegas would become real, in other words.

[–] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

What I mean is once you've made the decision to do this instead of buying, it doesn't matter which shop you don't buy from.

[–] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Why? It's not like you're costing the shop money by taking trash off the floor. If anything you're more likely to spend money at the shop you do it at for supplies and such.

[–] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

From what I understand, it was a blanket pardon for anyone who met certain criteria, and this judge just happened to meet them.

[–] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

What they should do is push for voting reform. There are tons of proposals for voting systems that solve the two party stalemate and the issue of gerrymandering.

If they really wanted to stop the insanity of the Republican party, that's what they would do. Until they do, they are complicit in it.

[–] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Unfortunately, that's not true. Dodge vs Ford Motor Co established the precedent of shareholder primacy when Henry Ford was successfully sued for attempting to reduce dividends in favor of reinvesting profits.

[–] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

I feel like there must be a layer to this joke I'm not getting.

Like, who is this targeted at? People who overestimate the sophistication of their city? Surely there must be more to it than that.

[–] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Grapes in a burrito sounds weird, but raisins don't sound too bad. Maybe he's planning on dehydrating them.

[–] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Everett is at least a minor toon force user, so normal power scaling doesn't apply. He can beat anyone or be beaten by anyone depending on which is funnier.

Mrs. True can usually overpower him because he's usually being a jerk to her, but when she's in the wrong she's usually cowed by him.

 

The idea is that if the coin flip goes in the player's favor, they win double their bet. After winning, they can either collect their winnings, or risk them all on another coin flip to have a chance at doubling them. The initial bet is fixed at, let's say $1.

Mathematically, this seems like a fair game. The expected value of each individual round is zero for both house and player.

Intuitively, though, I can't shake the notion that the player will tend to keep flipping until they lose. In theory, it isn't the wrong decision to keep flipping since the expected value of the flip doesn't change, but it feels like it is.

Any insight?

 

I just kind of wonder with how casually people express these thoughts. It's a little disturbing how normalized it is to entertain such notions, given how other types of fantasies are very stigmatized.

Like when discussing char.ai, acting out sexual or romantic fantasies is something a lot of people do, but it's considered embarrassing. While people freely discuss violent roleplays without any shame.

And then there's the cliche of fantasizing about killing one's boss or coworkers.

Are these really common thoughts for mentally sound people to have?

 

I've never heard of these candidates, they have no party affiliation, and there's almost no information about them online that I can find.

Are those positions just for people who work closely with those departments to vote on?

 

A lot of times, when people discuss the phenomenon of employers ending work-from-home and try to make their employees come back to the office, people say that the motivation is to raise real estate prices.

I don't follow the logic at all. How would doing this benefit an employer in any way?

 

I'm not a parent, but going by pop culture, it seems like literally every child has the same fears.

In pre-modern times, I imagine that they'd be sleeping in the same room as the parents, but if modern notions of privacy don't permit that, seems we could at least design an enclosed capsule or something.

 

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