I’m going to assume, charitably, that you’re not lost in the conspiracy sauce.

If you’ve seen the way flat earthers argue, you should understand why I’m grilling Soup over this. It’s not helpful, and there’s nothing but fan fiction in their head to even substantiate it.

You could expect that, yeah.

…okay, and?

Are you suggesting that if the bullet was real, Trump wouldn’t pose for the cameras?

You know, to reassure his base that he is a very big, very strong man, the only thing they like him for?

I’m not shocked, I just think they’re morons.

It’s like watching a fifth grader struggle with their homework. Except I don’t expect the fifth grader to know anything yet. XKCD’s lucky ten thousand is not helping these people this time.

Yeah, but we only know that with empirical evidence.

What empirical evidence is there here? The video is too grainy? “I’ve seen too many hollywood movies—this is something the joker would do”?

Moon landing is fake.
Earth is flat.
9/11 was CGI.
My wife cheating on me was gen AI.
The blood on Trump’s ear was an Instagram filter.
Nothing’s real anymore.

God, you’re so smart. You’re just the smartest person, you know that? Everyone likes you for how smart you are. I’d like to start an applause for this hero, if everyone doesn’t mind.

clap

Oh, right, you people think the revolution is starting. Fuck me.

Only if you believe in spherical cow, newtonian views on events happening in the world.

Trump is now a genuine victim of terrorism and that can only help his campaign in the public eye. Why the fuck would I support that.

I think it’s funny you talk about revenge porn like it’s just so tiresome and tedious to think about.

“Oh, a hurricane struck Florida again.”
“Oh, there’s revenge porn of my neighbor’s daughter again.”
“What a terrible saturday.”
“Anyway, I think my toast is done.”

Imaginary grenades.

Having porn made of you is imaginary?

At some point the “it’s just a game” also stops holding water…

The video game doesn’t produce anything.

AI is not the cause for generating deep fakes,

DUIs can be reduced with public transportation. What do you propose reduces… porn fakes?

Ain’t it interesting how coming up with a consistent framework, makes it applicable to different areas of life?

Fucking lol.

My problem with machine learning porn is that it’s artless generic template spam clogging up my feed of shit I actually want to see. But you know, to each their own.

Billy Jean is not my mother~
She’s just a girl - who claims that I am her son~
But the girl is not my mum

Doctors do shit for money.

Yeah, it’s all fucked, man.

Doctors do stuff like appendectomies—literally cutting out a part of you.

Doctors made my grandpa go through chemo. That was before he co-in-ci-dentally lost all his hair.

Doctors will literally take out all of your blood and give you someone else’s blood. For why? They’re not keeping it. It’s not like they’re vampires. Literally, for what reason?

I know the reason.

It’s MONEY.

You don’t gotta do all that shit. I drink my own urine and I’ve never been healthier.

I’m generally skeptical enough to read between the lines.

Haha, honestly, some of that was just me putting down thoughts I had while looking for some kind of supportive argument.

Yeah, I think it’s a paradox only to absolutists

I mean, it is called a paradox, haha.

I like the idea of resolving it, but that’s only because I like math. I imagine both could be rhetorically useful.

If you’re talking to someone with a strong belief in fairness, telling them about social contracts seems useful. It reminds me, actually, of the best prisoner’s dilemma strategy: cooperation, retaliation, and forgiveness.

If, however, you’re talking to someone who likes splitting the Earth, the punk rock energy of telling god to go fuck himself, and rotating 4D objects in their mind for a laugh, telling them they can just accept the paradox as-is and invoke it on purpose seems just as well.

leads to people like Ayn Rand

Oh, speaking of Ayn Rand, have you read this? I love this.

This isn’t a fair comparison.

The game should get to go through the same compression algorithms first.

I believe this is the article that kicked off support for the idea. Thankfully it’s not a Medium-requires-an-account article (ugh).

One thing I’m not sure about: when academic ideas filter through other parts of society, they’re often stripped of most of their nuance. “Toxic masculinity,” for instance, a lot of people misunderstand to mean that masculinity is toxic.

I can say that I view this article as a general response to questions from conservatives circa 2005 about why the left was antagonistic to, I don’t know, racism. But I don’t know if this challenge to them is the same as a challenge to Popper.

I think I have to admit I don’t actually know what Popper has to say on the matter. Though, I get the impression these two authors might agree, at least broadly, and are simply viewing the same problem through different lenses.

That is, resolving the paradox might be interesting to someone if paradoxes bother them, and perhaps “but it’s not a paradox” is something they could say on a Fox News panel, but I’m not sure it will otherwise inform their political strategy.

My friend,

Trans women are women but they aren’t female.

Female atheletes understandably feel that it is unfair to have male atheletes breaking female atheletic records

where I said that it was unfair for trans women atheletes to play against female atheletes.

Explain to me how I am supposed to resolve these.

If you’re not anti trans athletes, then whatever, but come on.

And the ones I’ve made can be double-checked by taking a sociology class.

If I am to be charitable, I think you’re just glazing over the elephant in the room. When a little girl is told “they’re not as able,” they’re not as likely to continue. If only 13% of players are women at all, then yeah, duh, they won’t be represented in the grandmasters.

What are you even talking about, then? “The problem is sex, but it isn’t sex actually”?

If trans women can play in women’s leagues just fine (after hormonal treatment I think is the typical rule), what is “females don’t want to play with males” supposed to mean?

Is it just the hormonal treatment? You have to understand how confusing it is to phrase this point that way.

like abolishing womens sports

My man never heard of co-ed.

Is any of this true? Or is it just post-hoc, evo-psych bullshit taken from the era of scientific racism to justify the results men see after gatekeeping their very special hobby.

Oh, hi, wikipedia.