Every system has limitations and flaws. The trick is tailoring your system elements to serve your use case.

Fuck French toast because it is decadent but usually entirely to much.

Marry waffles because they are perfect and precious.

Kill pancakes.

The main threat of AI is that it’s software. At least when robots displaced factory jobs, they introduced robot design, manufacturing, and maintenance jobs. But software is infinitely scalable. You don’t have to program every new instance of a software, it’s just copy paste. Sure there’s tailoring, debugging, and developing new models, but the number of jobs displaced is orders of magnitude higher than jobs created, and rollout is relatively quick and easy. Once a software is mature enough, it can displace an entire industry basically overnight.

It had my interest when he started thinking of ways to manipulate wizard currency exchange rates, but it hooked me when he met Ron and decided that no one who thought Quidditch was interesting was worth talking to.

Me either. If you like the HP universe but were frustrated with some of the stupidity, it’s quite cathartic.

Re-listening to Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. It came up in conversation a week ago and since I’ve read it before I can do other things while it plays in the background. Ravenclaw Harry is just so much more compelling than the original.

every time there is an issue discussed it tends to be: women, minorites, whatever have a problem, men are the problem.

This can’t be overstated. There are a lot of loud misandrists posing as feminists, broadly painting men as The Problem just for being men. Speaking up is automatically condemned as condescension, sitting comfortably is encroaching on women’s space, striking up conversation is harassment, glancing at someone in the gym is sexual assault, a drunk hookup is rape.

Of course, there are problematic men who are guilty of these accusations, but the majority are normal people being baselessly lumped in with actual offenders for no other reason than being male. Women get unwavering support for just being women, men get trashed for just being men. That by itself is demoralizing.

Then you combine that with the fact that a large percentage of women want an assertive “manly” man. The boys who err on the side of respectfulness watch the aggressive dudebros succeed sexually and romantically where they fail.

If respect loses to toxic masculinity so often, then it’s only reasonable to think that maybe the guys pushing toxic masculinity know what they’re talking about. And if they’re going to be demonized for being men anyway, they might as well live up to the condemnation and at least get something out of it.

Edit: let me specify, I don’t find Tate compelling, I’m only speaking of the mental state that would bring young men into his influence.

Pickles. Used to hate em, now I will eat dangerous quantities in one sitting.

Same thing I’m doing now: living my life without concern for my cultural relevance.

You didn’t?

Not me, we. Stop trying to weasel out of your mess.

Which is different from you how exactly? All I see are failures.

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Keep up the “I’m rubber you’re glue” act buddy, it’s age appropriate. I wanted Trump to lose, you wanted Harris to lose. You got your wish, this is on you. Or keep blaming everyone else who tried to warn you that it was a stupid idea, how dare they point out the glaring flaws in your strategy. Let’s see if that makes a leftist plan materialize.

Flagrant hypocrisy! This was your plan, not mine. How’s it working? Did a third party win? Did we end the genocide in Gaza yet? Don’t equate your plan’s failure with our recognition that it failed. You gambled, and this is what we get. Own it, maybe learn something about implementation.

A bunch of shortsighted cosplayers with no sense of praxis or political literacy protested the do-nothing Dems and we got the freewheeling fascism MAGAs. How’s that working out for you? How’s the glorious revolution coming?

Up until the moment we have enough confirmed support for a progressive movement, status quo is a hell of a lot better than accelerated fascism; if only to buy more time to build the aforementioned progressive support. I’m all for actual leftward movement, but gambling on unconfirmed support is stupid. Even the liberals understand that, in their sports-team monkey brain.

The left has no plan sufficient to deal with this. I hear vague rumblings about strikes and revolutions and the power of the working class united, but the working class isn’t united yet. There is no organized, validated plan to effect that revolution. There’s no leftist Project 2025. That’s a natural consequence of the commendable independence of leftists, but it has the unfortunate consequence of being tactically untenable. The right uniform under the banner of their dictator, the left squabbles about trivialities.

It’s not that I wish it to be so; I would vastly prefer the left to have a functional plan to secure power. But it is the reality; I see neither such a plan, nor the necessary organization to implement such a plan. That’s why we vote lesser evil. We strive for the stationary phase of the ratchet to avoid the freewheeling phase, because we don’t yet have the organized strength to break the pawl from its housing.

Once we have that organized strength, and not sooner, we can break the pawl. Sooner, and the ratchet spins freely to the right.

I have dozens of highly rated comments over the last two years, but the objectively best one I made was just this past week and it got absolutely no attention.

Yeah I don’t think the protests are going to accomplish much in and of themselves. However, getting frustrated, like-minded people together in one place for one cause is powerful. It shows them they aren’t alone in their anger, it shows them the magnitude of support for their cause, and it connects them with others, which opens the door to much more effective organization.

Listened to me when I made recommendations.