free_rms

35 ms·

331.
by free_rms 6y ago
Maybe we're very precisely estimating the reach and are appropriately terrified? If you can't get the people you want, but you really want to get somebody ...
332.
by free_rms 6y ago
Mao leveraged the movement to try and get himself back in the driver's seat, after he had been sidelined following the Great Leap Forward. He amplified them greatly for his own selfish reasons, which is also happening in our current m
333.
by free_rms 6y ago
That's actually a great summary of the beef with cancel culture -- it only punches down. They can't touch Trump, or Ben Shapiro, or any of the other people that they really hate. Those people's actual jobs are to say things
334.
by free_rms 6y ago
Losing your livelihood, in a nation famous for it's relative lack of safety net, is in fact a big deal. Here's the thing, you don't have to pick a side so hard. It's not, either we get this dude fired for citing a study
335.
by free_rms 6y ago
The UN is a diplomatic forum, it's not a western global hegemony mechanism. Or, at least, not these days anymore.
336.
by free_rms 6y ago
It is a change, because it's centralized and national in scope. No single partisan local newspaper editor had the kind of reach that facebook has.
337.
by free_rms 6y ago
The cultural revolution is interesting. Yet another famine exacerbated by govt screwups is a lot less so. Like you said, it's all about which side people are on. And I agree on pol pot. The only self-genocide I'm aware of in th
338.
by free_rms 6y ago
But you hadn't even heard of that. Or the gwangju massacre in korea. Right? Why is that? How come some things are marketed extensively to the American public but others are never mentioned? (Also, if the goal is to criticize maoist
339.
by free_rms 6y ago
I hear what you're saying here, and no, our country doesn't have to be perfect before criticizing someone else. But still, we should wonder if the criticism is motivated by something other than pure concern for human rights. You
340.
by free_rms 6y ago
I think you're understating the human rights impact of going from third world to first world living standards. You like having your teeth?
341.
by free_rms 6y ago
Different != Improper. They're not perfect, but over the last 30 years they lifted half a billion out of poverty and didn't wage war all over the world. Not everything needs to be wrapped in our style of propaganda, sometimes it c
342.
by free_rms 6y ago
It was a conditional probability of Trump winning a bunch of states he was behind in, naively projected as if they were independent. It turned out they all swung the same way, and those probabilities were not independent.
343.
by free_rms 6y ago
The intellectual class media I should say, then. NYT, Washington Post, etc.
344.
by free_rms 6y ago
Eh. Most of the mainstream media ran headlines predicting 99% chance of a Hillary win and a few of them sniped at Nate Silver for giving Trump a 30% chance (stupid tech bros). A single contrarian take doesn't undermine that trend.
345.
by free_rms 6y ago
It's not just money, there were decisions made over the course of 30 years that got us to this point. And, yes, those decisions were influenced by money but they were also influenced heavily by American Exceptionalist arrogance. Of co
346.
by free_rms 6y ago
You're saying it's reasonable to publish "main kampf rewritten using woke language", and "a study on how men should regularly use dildos on themselves to improve their social attitutes"? If it was just the dog
347.
by free_rms 6y ago
But did the authors of "who's afraid of peer review" face censure? The only difference is who's ox got gored.
348.
by free_rms 6y ago
So, when Sokal did something similar in the 90s, we all had a laugh and life went on. Now that it's today, we're more vicious and this kind of punking will not go unpunished. Good checkpoint on where we're at.
349.
by free_rms 6y ago
The bad characters are part of the gag. Mindless attractive teens in this horrific society. You even wind up with the two most vapid characters, after having found love elsewhere, winding up together because why not, those other, better pe
350.
by free_rms 6y ago
If you were told the gag before you watched it, it might seem too on the nose. But check the reviews when it came out -- most of our enlightened, educated cultural critics missed the gag.
351.
by free_rms 6y ago
Have YOU read the book? It's earnest, non-sarcastic, with an entirely different message. Calling it 'opposite' would be unfair but it's almost that.
352.
by free_rms 6y ago
You don't seem to understand the premise. Flipping burgers is manifestly not bullshit compared to filing TPS reports. People eat burgers. That's not to say that there's no human value to a TPS report, somewhere down the l
353.
by free_rms 6y ago
In my mind, that's an internal Chinese matter. I don't want to devalue your experience, but Anglo powers have a terrible record of "colonialism for their own good", "we'll be greeted as liberators", etc.
354.
by free_rms 6y ago
Presuming to control HKs fate after taking it in the freaking opium wars is. Giving HK back to China is an act of decolonization. Putting them under Taiwan and loading up the island with US weapons would not be.
355.
by free_rms 6y ago
If you're gonna go pro-colonialist might makes right, that's your prerogative, but then you're just gonna have to eat it on the fact that the PRC had a lot more might nearby.
356.
by free_rms 6y ago
The UK running HK in the first place was stealing from China. They originally got it as part of the peace settlement from the Opium Wars, then signed the 99-year lease later when the Qing empire was in terminal decline and unable to resist
357.
by free_rms 6y ago
Why not pick all those other hills to die on, then? If you want to talk about statistical methods being a horrible idea for policing, I'm with you. Probably most machine learning experts would be, too, just like most software engineer
358.
by free_rms 6y ago
If you're saying CS people need to read more humanities, I'm absolutely with you. But I didn't say that science and technology are inherently ethical. I said that most people care about ethics. They might have different p
359.
by free_rms 6y ago
Why does everything need 50 disclaimers before anyone can say anything. Shouldn't "I care about ethics" just be assumed? How many people do you know who would say "I don't care about ethics"?
360.
by free_rms 6y ago
The US doesn't 'annex', we 'liberate' :) I'd say that any location in a strategic mountain pass that was invaded by a great power who has interest in that mountain pass.. ok, there are technicalities about whe

More ›