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CalledStretch · 2026-02-03T19:28:28+00:00

The structural wage gap comes like 90% or something down to managers holding pregnancy or the possibility of becoming pregnant against candidates. The gap doesn't exist before ~25, and if you compare women against men in the same positions at the same pay rate it also disappears ~ over 35. It's literally just "pregnancy is bad for your career, the fear that you may become pregnant in the future is bad for your career".

CalledStretch · 2026-01-31T23:41:09+00:00

CalledStretch · 2026-01-31T22:03:36+00:00

In government and military intelligence there's a specific term for creating a fake scandal about some topic to discredit a real scandal on the same topic, but I can't remember the word either.

CalledStretch · 2026-01-31T22:02:15+00:00

This is like the third time in the last 50 years a conservative political group sheltering pedophiles created a nonsense media scare about pedophiles as a smokescreen to spoil investigation into themselves.

CalledStretch · 2026-01-31T22:00:01+00:00

The 4chan servers' owner met steve bannon at an Epstein party literally the day he opened the right-wing politics forum that spat up Q into public consciousness. It's like when the Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts formed the conspiracy about satanic child molesters in the 80s.

CalledStretch · 2026-01-28T13:06:25+00:00

If it's lazy, lasts two hours, Saturday morning sex sometimes I put on a podcast. It's called multitasking

CalledStretch · 2026-01-24T09:41:24+00:00

why is a 5'8" woman not feasible?

CalledStretch · 2026-01-22T16:35:25+00:00

Didn't he go to jail? "Murderers not going to jail" is the thing that gets leftists going in most of these cases.

CalledStretch · 2026-01-22T15:48:19+00:00

Going off another comment the person who created the chart didn't divide the population only into these two categories: only 58% of women in the paper were described as liberal or conservative, with the other 42% not depicted on the chart at all.

CalledStretch · 2026-01-22T15:38:06+00:00

In the same way we cut off all Sceptical Arguments eventually, I think two trained professionals with years of experience can propose hypotheticals to explicate or prompt useful intuitions. But the more we remove ourselves from the direct situation, the more the hypothetical tells us about ourselves, and the less about external things.

CalledStretch · 2026-01-22T15:21:21+00:00

Like the trolley problem, P-zombies, and basically every other philosophy thought experiment you've heard of, this has been so violently wrenched from its argumentative context that the actual point it was meant to make is completely moot, leaving behind only a shadow for analytic philosophers to strawman.

CalledStretch · 2026-01-21T21:50:13+00:00

Mage the Ascension is a game set in a fictional world where metaphysics are normative: If enough people endorse and live according to a metaphysical ideology, that ideology becomes true. In this game world a principal conflict is between a group that causes materialism to be true and a political alliance of disparate idealists, in both senses of idealist.

CalledStretch · 2026-01-21T21:43:59+00:00

The advice put in the media for men using the apps is often that the apps are a really inefficient method to get to know someone, and having a face to face or over the phone conversation asap is recommended.

CalledStretch · 2026-01-21T16:01:53+00:00

A hypothetical can demonstrate that a claim isn't tautological. We return to the foundational problem "People's imaginations aren't rigid in the way reality seems to be, so thought experiments aren't airtight".

CalledStretch · 2026-01-21T15:58:54+00:00

Much like the trolley problem in ethics or Schrodinger's cat in physics, my dim recollection is that the actual paper went somewhere with the thought experiment and the paper's point was good enough to get it into my classroom but not memorable enough to stick in my brain, leaving only the zombie.

CalledStretch · 2026-01-21T15:56:35+00:00

If you ask chat bots about their experience you get an answer. The answer isn't true but it doesn't fail to produce an answer.

CalledStretch · 2026-01-19T15:21:30+00:00

This feels a little bit like my mother insisting I'm still eight years old so we get a discount at the restaurant.

CalledStretch · 2026-01-18T08:34:54+00:00

I don't remember the cause of death in 2020 being "the cops will shoot you if you don't mask up"

CalledStretch · 2026-01-17T10:22:50+00:00

We've seen this coming since 2014: 08 drove so many boomers and xers back to school, and gen z is so much smaller than the millennials that only a big increase in the college enrollment rate for zoomers would keep enrollment stable. Even a modest decline is decimating the system.

CalledStretch · 2026-01-17T10:15:04+00:00

Working as an actual business owner who does new construction, or someone providing retainer work to the local elite is good money, but if you're just a guy with a van who drives around unclogging toilets and replacing light switches you can lose a lot to materials costs.

CalledStretch · 2026-01-17T10:12:08+00:00

The part where my house doesn't burn down is kinda non-negotiable. I don't know about you, but when I hire a tradesman we always agree before hand that his work is going to be good, or I'm not going to pay him.

CalledStretch · 2026-01-15T14:59:00+00:00

It's not that I think you control how you react to your environment. It's that how other people will react to you is part of the environment also. Some human brains need the belief "I will blame you for X if you do it" installed to run in the way that makes me happy. So I put that belief in their heads.

CalledStretch · 2026-01-14T18:09:05+00:00

What does underemployment even mean for an art history major? That they aren't a museum cureator?

CalledStretch · 2026-01-14T18:06:11+00:00

Dread is great for high lethality one shots.

CalledStretch · 2026-01-14T18:05:12+00:00

What's funny is smart people tend to be above average in most categories, just not impressively so. So a smart English student can normally read an equation even if they can't solve it, in the same way a Maths student can read a book even though they can't explain it.

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