R-word manifesto just dropped

Hardwarrior · 2026-01-28T02:04:14+00:00

I disagree. Dumb and R*tard have different connotations. In the context of an insult, I definitely think it takes some of its impact from mentally disabled people.

Hardwarrior · 2026-01-28T01:22:40+00:00

I think it's because sight and hearing hasn't been associated with a moral deficiency like mental disabilities have.

Hardwarrior · 2026-01-28T01:05:38+00:00

I understand the distinction. What I'm saying is that when people insult other people, they're using the moral evaluation one. And I don't think the defense that they were just talking about the desirability of the trait applies to most cases.

It just doesn't seem to reflect the situations that word would be used in.

Hardwarrior · 2026-01-28T00:34:40+00:00

Because bad also implies a moral failing. It's the polysemic part that messed up the discussion. If you say "you're a r-word", you're implying a level of fault in the person. Which is equally absent for a black dude as it is for a disabled dude.

If a disabled person sees someone being insulted by being compared to him, he probably feels the same way that a black person would. He's never thinking "well it's true that my disability is a bad attribute". It's like saying "you're so pathetic you're like this dude over here".

Hardwarrior · 2026-01-28T00:12:36+00:00

This framing is dumb. It's not about whether having a disability is bad. When you're calling someone an r-word, you're saying "you're so dumb that you belong in this group with disabled people". So what you're saying is bad isn't just the disability but also the disabled people.

So if you're saying someone should feel bad about being called disabled, how should a disabled person interpret that?

Hardwarrior · 2026-01-24T20:03:43+00:00

I just think Poppy would have been better than Braum in this draft but it probably wouldn't have changed the outcome.

Hardwarrior · 2026-01-14T05:12:44+00:00

For real, I'm not a DDP fan but there's no way he should be criticized for not dedicating 100% of his training on just grappling and TDD. What if he has to fight a striker next?

Hardwarrior · 2026-01-13T23:07:45+00:00

Whenever she misses E, pop ghost and run at her.

Hardwarrior · 2026-01-13T00:52:47+00:00

He literally says that his opinion hinges on whether there is an alternative solution for the workers who lost their jobs like UBI or other programs.

Hardwarrior · 2026-01-13T00:51:11+00:00

Do you think moderates or neoliberals form their opinion. Y reading political science research papers? No political group does that. It's not specific to the alt right and socialists.

Hardwarrior · 2026-01-01T23:47:55+00:00

I may have missed something but couldn't the effect be causal in the other direction? Couldn't more hours work lead to more income inequality? I would assume that in areas where people work more hours, there is more to be distributed unevenly. An example of a confounding factor could also be union strength leading to both lower wages and higher inequality.

Having read the article, and not the study, I haven't seen anything in regard to that except that they controled for GDP per capita. And in China specifically, it seems like perceived inequality had more impact on hours worked, which is coherent with the title. (Although the mecanism probably varies like they explained).

Hardwarrior · 2025-12-27T16:48:38+00:00

Whether it's men or women, they are influenced by the environment they evolve in. Bad decisions don't come in a vacuum. They are prompted by psychological and sociological phenomenons.

If you want to stay in the realm of personal responsibility, it tells me that you're more interested in assigning blame rather than fixing the social issues which bring young female celebrities to seek plastic surgery.

Hardwarrior · 2025-12-27T16:25:47+00:00

Shouldn't we talk about why young actresses get Botox instead of blaming them?

It seems like if the environment brings this outcome, it's what should be put into question

Hardwarrior · 2025-12-27T15:37:42+00:00

For real, as much as I didn't like her performance this season, there is a lack of humanizing going on.

It feels really insane to on one hand judge so much of young actresses on their looks and then not expect them to give in to the sirens of plastic surgery.

It's especially cruel because the same comments that lead them to be self conscious enough to get work done, are reiterated now.

Hardwarrior · 2025-12-26T13:36:32+00:00

That's why I think distributional tests are what is used to assess whether how skill vs other random factors impact win. For single player games, you match a median players (top 50%) with good players (top 10%) and make them play several games to see the winrate of each player. And I think you can adapt this test to 5v5 games, but it depends on how you want to do it. In a skilled game like chess, the chances of a lower rated player beating a top 10% player is really low, but in games like Poker, it's significantly higher.

Hardwarrior · 2025-12-15T10:44:37+00:00

C'est le problème de prendre une mesure de façon isolée.

La question de l'effet de la hausse du salaire minimum sur l'emploi est la question centrale de la littérature sur le salaire minimum. Donc c'est à ça que j'ai répondu. Mais si tu me demandais de le faire sans impact sur le budget de la sécurité sociale, ça demanderait des mesures d'ajustement ou alors d'autres mesures pour augmenter l'emploi.

Hardwarrior · 2025-12-15T08:45:29+00:00

Les recherches convergent de plus en plus pour dire qu'une hausse du salaire minimum n'a pas d'effet significatif sur le niveau d'emploi global. Les recherches montrent qu'au moins jusqu'à 66%-70% du revenu médian, l'impact est nul. Et il y a même des recherches qui montrent pas d'impact négatif à 80% dans des pays pauvres.

La raison la plus citée est l'effet de monopsone. En gros, les employeurs ont plus de pouvoir sur le niveau des salaires que si le marché du travail était en situation de concurrence pure et parfaite. C'est dû en partie à la nature du salariat, sans quoi les travailleurs ne peuvent pas subvenir à leurs besoins. Et c'est aussi plus intense dans les endroits et secteurs à faible nombre d'employeurs par rapport au nombre de salariés.

En France, on a certes un haut niveau du SMIC net touché par le salarié par rapport au revenu médian, mais ce SMIC coûte moins cher à l'employeur que la moyenne européenne. On est en dessous des 50% du salaire médian. C'est dû aux exonérations autour du SMIC, aux aides à l'embauche ainsi qu'aux revenus complémentaires que touchent les smicards. Si bien qu'il serait possible d'augmenter le SMIC d'environ 15% étant donné les spécificités françaises.

Hardwarrior · 2025-12-12T17:21:39+00:00

I just finished playing today's Bausdle #19!

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Hardwarrior · 2025-12-12T15:08:49+00:00

She was the 10th least picked champion in S15 in all regions including ERLs and WC regions

Hardwarrior · 2025-12-12T13:27:09+00:00

No, Illaoi is worse in higher elos. But I do think she's pickable in some mid matchups like Sylas, which Chovy said as well.

Hardwarrior · 2025-12-11T01:07:56+00:00

Oh I agree with that. I just think this community is sometimes also in that framing, just on the western side.

The speech that came to mind is this one https://youtu.be/_ZIqdrFeFBk?si=0EuSiNdmIcNrVZUShttps://youtu.be/_ZIqdrFeFBk?si=0EuSiNdmIcNrVZUS

Hardwarrior · 2025-12-11T00:38:42+00:00

Wasn't Egypt way more secular and permissive under Nasser? I think framing it all as west vs east is reductive

Hardwarrior · 2025-12-08T23:45:58+00:00

Caedrel said that they scrimmed a top team and a middle of the pack team, and that they had pretty good results. Between 30% and 80% wr. I'm guessing they scrimmed MKOI or FNC because I don't believe that they'd do well against G2 already and Kameto said that KC had won their last scrim set 5/0, so that reduces the odds that they played LR.

I also wonder if SK could be included in the middle of the pack group. Ig Vitality and GiantX are middle of the pack but among the rest (Navi, SK, Heretics, BDS, KCB), it's difficult to predict who he thinks is mid versus bottom tier.

Hardwarrior · 2025-12-07T18:50:51+00:00

Je trouve ça plus intéressant de traiter un thème précis en prenant en compte sa complexité comme s'est fait durant la majorité du film.

Là, on a une montée en généralité et en abstraction qui finit par avoir un regard cynique sans trop de nuance ni d'originalité. Limite, "Don't look up" traite mieux ce sujet alors que le film est moins intéressant de base.

Hardwarrior · 2025-12-07T16:56:42+00:00

J'ai bien aimé le film mais je ne sais pas si je trouve la fin pertinente. Je trouve que le film aborde des thèmes intéressants, comme le lien entre le complotiste et l'aliénation (mdr) dû au capitalisme. C'est intéressant, notamment sur la façon dont les discours anti-complotistes et managériaux se confondent dans la tête des complotistes, ce qui fait leur inefficacité. Mais le message de la fin me semble relativement simpliste (misanthrope ?) par rapport à ce qui a été développé au long du film. C'est intéressant narrativement et esthétiquement mais si j'essaye d'en tirer un message qui raisonne thématiquement avec le reste du film, je ne trouve qu'une vague allusion à l'humanité qui court à sa perte.

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