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by djur 2y ago
Wegovy is approved for weight loss (since 2021).
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by djur 2y ago
Right. All of the people trying to say "yes, of course supporting trans people are woke" are proving my point: the rational, classical-liberal case Graham claims to be making against "wokeness" is such a thin layer over
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by djur 2y ago
They were trying to sell beer to the demographic that likes Dylan Mulvaney. None of the existing consumers of Bud Light were affected by the campaign until right-wing activists started promoting a boycott. They didn't run a national
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by djur 2y ago
The premise here is that the existence of trans people is inherently political, but in any case, Graham didn't define "woke" as "political", he defined it as "an aggressively performative focus on social justic
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by djur 2y ago
You're saying people will face professional consequences for their political opinions. That seems like the kind of thing Graham is complaining about to me.
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by djur 2y ago
Also: * That Bud Light was boycotted for excessive wokeness
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by djur 2y ago
Yes, that's what people actually mean when they say "woke", but would Graham openly admit that?
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by djur 2y ago
There are no "tenets of wokeness", because "wokeness" isn't an ideology, a movement, an organization, etc. but rather a pejorative.
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by djur 2y ago
Contrapoints, her defenders, and her critics (mostly) were all on the left. I don't know the person you linked to, but she seems to be defending Contrapoints from a left theoretical perspective. It's deeply disingenuous to argue t
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by djur 2y ago
You're saying that the heretics will be suppressed?
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by djur 2y ago
Hard not to interpret this: "Consumers have emphatically rejected brands that ventured too far into wokeness. The Bud Light brand may have been permanently damaged by it." as an endorsement of the social conservative elements of &
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by djur 2y ago
Germany has laws against hate speech! There are opinions you can be jailed for in Germany that you couldn't be in the US.
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by djur 2y ago
Even Paul himself uses the word in a way that sure seems inconsistent with his definition: "Consumers have emphatically rejected brands that ventured too far into wokeness. The Bud Light brand may have been permanently damaged by it.&q
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by djur 2y ago
In this article, Graham claims the following: "Consumers have emphatically rejected brands that ventured too far into wokeness. The Bud Light brand may have been permanently damaged by it." Bud Light was boycotted because they did
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by djur 2y ago
I've read his earlier writings on the topic and they are substantially less conspiratorial and influenced by neoreactionary thought. He even previously used the term "prig" in this 2004 article: https://paulgraham.
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by djur 2y ago
Right. The original meaning was just "politically aware", the same basic metaphor as the "Wide-Awakes" in the Civil War era. If you go back far enough you found it sometimes used in the "wake up sheeple" sense
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by djur 2y ago
Swatting and doxing aren't ideologically-aligned actions, though. They certainly don't have anything in particular to do with "woke".
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by djur 2y ago
I don't think he would have written this 10, even 5 years ago. It only really started becoming a trendy viewpoint in his social circles recently.
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by djur 2y ago
The antiwoke crusaders are just as intent on moralizing and language policing as the worst of their opponents, and in places like Florida they're actively implementing limitations on speech and academic inquiry. To the extent that Grah
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by djur 2y ago
People (mistakenly, I believe) thought that "master branch" was derived from the disk and database "master"/"slave" metaphor, which had started being eliminated years earlier. "Master branch" was
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by djur 2y ago
"Differently-abled" feels '90s corpo to me. The disability rights people I know pretty much all favor "disabled" or "with disability" and have for many years.
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by djur 2y ago
Every company I worked at which put this change into practice did it as a result of employee volunteer effort, not as a PR thing.
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by djur 2y ago
I assume you think it's a good thing that we don't use phrases like "[black person] in the woodpile" or "[black person] toes" or "[black person] rigged" anymore. Maybe you agree we shouldn't use
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by djur 2y ago
Even if you believe that about trans people, how does that justify using slurs and personal attacks against them? (You also massively, massively underestimate how many people think this about the LGBs.)
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by djur 2y ago
I'd never thought about it that way, but you're exactly right. Roguelikes that feel like roguelikes always have a certain "open/transparent case" sense to them, even if the actual mechanics are hidden away from you
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by djur 2y ago
You especially wouldn't use `read`.
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by djur 2y ago
If you're familiar with Haskell, this is something you can just look at and parse without thinking. It's all basic Haskell syntax and concepts (function composition and partial application). I haven't touched Haskell for a fe
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by djur 2y ago
I was looking forward to it and was disappointed. The skin is a little too thick for my taste, too.
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by djur 2y ago
What people want, judging by their market behavior, is reliability. A lot of the best-tasting apples are inconsistent in quality, ship or store poorly, or have a short growing season. I love eating fresh heirloom apples, but Honeycrisps are
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by djur 2y ago
Why is it an offense for an American to write about the apples available in their market?

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