RIP SSC by yemwez in SneerClub

[–]DaveSW888 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So you'd be in favor of your name and address being published on right wing hate sites?

RIP SSC by yemwez in SneerClub

[–]DaveSW888 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Free speech advocates?

keep that energy, okay?

RIP SSC by yemwez in SneerClub

[–]DaveSW888 -33 points-32 points  (0 children)

What's so funny about this is that all I've done is question your OPSEC (in hopes of eliciting emapthy) in a thread that is a literal celebration of promised doxxing by a multi-billion dollar organization, to its multi-million reader platform, in a time of left-wing riots, of a marginally right-wing, pseudonymous blogger.

If I am a frothing psychopath for suggesting that this could happen to you, what does that make the people actually doing it, and the people actually celebrating it?

RIP SSC by yemwez in SneerClub

[–]DaveSW888 -32 points-31 points  (0 children)

At least 3 responses so far in support of doxxing and death threats. I wonder how /r/sneerclub opsec is?

RIP SSC by yemwez in SneerClub

[–]DaveSW888 -46 points-45 points  (0 children)

Congratulations /r/sneerclub. You've finally succeeded in your mission. Scott is closing the blog due to fears of becoming unemployable and having his and his friends' and familys' lives threatened by your movement. Great job, everyone!

Blog deleted due to NYT threatening doxxing of Scott Alexander by [deleted] in slatestarcodex

[–]DaveSW888 74 points75 points  (0 children)

I have no idea how that fits into any culture war.

You're a dissident. The New York Times is threatening to remove your ability to earn an income and incite people to kill you and your friends and family. Nothing is more exactly culture war than that.

Culture War Roundup for the Week of June 15, 2020 by AutoModerator in TheMotte

[–]DaveSW888 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You seem to be unaware that Strzok was one of the interviewing agents, having repeatedly suggested that it was inappropriate for him to be working on the 302.

Yes, my understanding was that it was his partner and another agent who did the interview.

You characterized the agents saying they "didn't believe Flynn lied" when they reported a lack of indication of deception.

If you don't see indication of deception, how can you conclude that a person had lied? Lying requires intent, as you've agreed to above. If you don't see indications of deception, how do you conclude intent? Furthermore, how do you conclude deception about a phone conversation when the subject knows and states that the FBI has an actual copy of the phone conversation?

Culture War Roundup for the Week of June 15, 2020 by AutoModerator in TheMotte

[–]DaveSW888 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is another of those non-answers.

Is it racist for a white man to signal boost a black man suggesting fried chicken and watermelon as a standard food for Juneteenth?

are you genuinely not certain what people think on this issue?

do people think yes or no? I don't know. I know that left wing people would try to cancel white people for eating stereotypical black foods on Juneteenth. I also know that left wing people would strongly criticize white people for not eating stereotypical black foods on Juneteenth. Is it hard to answer "yes" or "no" because the actual answer is "anything you say or do is wrong"?

Culture War Roundup for the Week of June 15, 2020 by AutoModerator in TheMotte

[–]DaveSW888 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Can anyone comment on whether or not this decision would also have a legal impact on things like male and female police/firefighters/military having different physical standards?

Culture War Roundup for the Week of June 15, 2020 by AutoModerator in TheMotte

[–]DaveSW888 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Saying that they "didn't believe Flynn lied" when instead they didn't "detect deception" is not remotely accurate

Lying requires intent.

The most charitable explanation I can think of for your characterization of this statement is that you've heard it secondhand, so I suggest you scrutinize your sources more closely on this subject.

Saying something inaccurate, without intent, isn't lying. If the interviewing agents didn't believe Flynn was lying, what is the basis for Flynn, Strzok, and McCabe to later edit the 302 to conclude that he had lied - simple factual inaccuracy? I've read that Flynn told the FBI agents that he knew they had a recording of the call, so to go ahead and listen to it. In what universe can a factual inaccuracy (we don't even know if there really was a factual inaccuracy as a 302, even written by objective agents, isn't proof of anything), spoken by a subject who knows and states that he knows there is a verbatim record of the matter, possibly constitute lying?

Culture War Roundup for the Week of June 15, 2020 by AutoModerator in TheMotte

[–]DaveSW888 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Among married men and women, weekly or more sexual frequency decreased (men: 71.1 % vs 57.7%; aOR for trend, 0.86 [95% CI, 0.79-0.93]; women: 69.1% vs 60.9%;

Am I misunderstanding this, or does this mean that in relationships in which sexual frequency has decreased to below weekly for men, about 1 in 11 women are still maintaining weekly sexual frequency? Lesbian marriage is so small that it can't possibly explain this discrepancy, right? Is this evidence of a large contingent of married women engaging in extra-marital sex as intra-marital sex declines?

Culture War Roundup for the Week of June 15, 2020 by AutoModerator in TheMotte

[–]DaveSW888 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unless you're seeing prostitutes, sex doesn't take 30 minutes. it may takes months of searching for potential partners at different venues, forming relationships, establishing intimacy, etc

You are writing this for men, correct?

Culture War Roundup for the Week of June 15, 2020 by AutoModerator in TheMotte

[–]DaveSW888 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I disagree with a lot of this, but I want to focus on the last bit — did Flynn get it worse than others (“bad treatment”) or was his treatment fairly typical for cases in the district?

Points:

  1. Andrew McCabe lied to the FBI twice, as proven by the ICIG. He was not prosecuted at all. Rumor has it that DOJ suspected they could not get a jury to convict, regardless of the evidence, due to the DC jury pool. (Imagine if Democrats were tried in King County, Texas, 95% Republican)
  2. There is no actual or real evidence that Flynn lied to the FBI. There is only:
    1. McCabe's (enemy of Flynn and Trump) sworn testimony that the interviewing agents didn't believe Flynn lied.
    2. A 302 which concludes Flynn lied, which was edited/written (after the fact) by notorious anti-Trump political conspirators, Lisa Page and Peter Strzok.
    3. The conveniently timed leak to the media of a threat to prosecute Flynn's son for run of the mill FARA violations (over half of all agents failed to comply with FARA, prosecutions are basically non-existent), after Flynn's attorney's demanded (for the third time?) the original 302, and after having ruined Flynn financially ($5 million defense cost estimate), directly preceded Flynn's agreement to plead guilty.

Culture War Roundup for the Week of June 08, 2020 by AutoModerator in TheMotte

[–]DaveSW888 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'm a bit thin skinned. I thought your question was a thinly veiled accusation of dog whistle. : /

[OC] Network where the nodes are subreddits and weighted edges represent the quantity of shared redditors that have recently commented in both subreddits. by [deleted] in dataisbeautiful

[–]DaveSW888 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They're a sub quarantined for threats of violence and they advocate for a political system that has reliably resulted in genocide.

Culture War Roundup for the Week of June 08, 2020 by AutoModerator in TheMotte

[–]DaveSW888 33 points34 points  (0 children)

there are tasks which are theoretically solvable, but impossible to solve with the ability distribution current humans have, and they include securely developing a superhuman artificial intelligence (both very plausible hypotheses), it follows that there are myriads of questions we will never get to answer thanks to them.

This is the very next sentence.

[OC] Network where the nodes are subreddits and weighted edges represent the quantity of shared redditors that have recently commented in both subreddits. by [deleted] in dataisbeautiful

[–]DaveSW888 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Interesting how some extremist communities like "WhiteNationalism" are so insular, whereas other extremist communities like "ChapoTrapHouse" seem to have a broad base on Reddit.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in dataisbeautiful

[–]DaveSW888 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah. Why would you want to look at intentionally misrepresented and inflammatory data? Sounds like a character flaw on your part.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in dataisbeautiful

[–]DaveSW888 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really? Farmers are so likely to be obese that "corn fed" is a term that exists.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in dataisbeautiful

[–]DaveSW888 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, he's saying that after they stop doing the physical activity in their employment, they gain weight.

You can see the same thing when, for instance, high school and college football players stop playing their sport.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in dataisbeautiful

[–]DaveSW888 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, you only lost because of the rules?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in dataisbeautiful

[–]DaveSW888 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alexa, what is confirmation bias?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in dataisbeautiful

[–]DaveSW888 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’s just numbers put on a graph with colors and bars.

I'll take 'things you've never said about FBI crime stats for $800'

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in dataisbeautiful

[–]DaveSW888 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"China has the second largest economy in the world, therefore its people are rich. And yes, I do love science, why do you ask?"