Barrista

Bushra and Laura Fine competing to see who can ratfuck harder

Spinception

That’s the crazy thing, if you lead this org, you can still come out and say you like the guy. Weird but ok. But slapping an org logo on it only suggests a dysfunctional intermingling between the leaders and institutions in the quest to give someone your credibility

The number of 10 grad school buddies and a PO Box in a trench coat orgs I have seen jesus

Band of Brothers features soldiers of the SS, so yes he knew what a Totenkopf was

This is kinda what I mean about a lot of political activism organizations being centered around the personality of whoever happens to be in charge of them rather than having an independent mission. This is a few people who run an org liking a guy not a comment on racial justice

Depends what you want from it

At deterring people who are rationally considering their goals? Yeah. The reason it doesn’t work in practice is because most people in this position are not rationally considering their goals

No. We should conclude they are irrational because it’s most likely true. Maybe they were paid by big window to break some windows. But, probably not.

But if they’re part of a deliberate scheme, we should crack down on that.

No it's not that this is what means they're not rational. They're not rational for other reasons. It's just that, were you to persuade people they are doing this rationally, the response would probably be one you wouldn't prefer.

Because people that have considered intent are more difficult to deter

I wouldn't want to help that analysis, it doesn't seem very good. Generally people engaging in wanton destruction aren't thinking it out too much at all. And if they were, the responses we should engage in would be a lot harsher than if we assume they're acting irrationally.

I think it's not useful to reinvent the wheel on "shattering windows with rocks in a public street in the middle of the day is bad", like, we could, but people have stuff to do. Reconstructing the concept of morality from 0 every time we see people do harmful things is not worthwhile.

I think it's more scathing to say that an addled dude in public is rationally evil rather than irrationally crazed

I think rational depends on your goals and we have some reasonable base assumptions that people have long goals like "not suffering". If someone throws rocks through windows we generally assume they are not considering the long term consequences for them, not actively trying to get locked up.

I wrote an article for a blog where they said "slave" was depersonalizing and I should use "enslaved person" and like, I hear you, but that's kind of the point.

Why doesn't this result in a cordon sanitaire and a split prime minister-ship like happened before?

My home circuit holds that under recent Supreme Court precedents, states may lawfully refuse to provide gender-affirming care through Medicaid. This is very, very bad. In part because of endemic workplace discrimination, trans folks are almost 3x as likely to live in poverty.

Wait so they're just taking the position that anything a person does on purpose is per se rational? All conscious actions are responses to stimuli. Obviously some of them can still be irrational

Ilhan Omar somehow keeps drawing worse and worse primary challengers with time

There are foldable tablets you can already buy old models of in the US, this is cool but like both the US and China have AI-based surveillance and cool computer gadgets

Yeah way more likely they take their word for it on it being a mistake. No investigations under this government can be trusted

No one else is brave enough to say it so I'll say it:

Mike Johnson is James Talarico post-twink death

Seeing this message on a magic box replaced a horseman who would have needed to deliver it to me over many months. I think that's a good thing

Hey I want to thank you for this bc it did not occur to me and I might be able to get $605 a week for my time out of a job which will almost make up all the difference

Someone in MOIS sending twitter DMs to SecDef telling him minesweeping is gay

I’m going to campaign for her specifically because she said she was going to reunite Greater Taiwan

Broke: Lawrence of Arabia
Woke: Sandy Sandilands

They’ve been pretty good to me honestly