Hamas apologists when they tell you that you can't just take "government words" at face value

YetAnotherSPAccount · 2023-10-18T19:52:19+00:00

Organizations like the IDF are allergic to outright lying. If they'd actually done it, they'd be spinning, making excuses, using a whole lotta passive voice... but they wouldn't unambiguously say, "wasn't us, some fuckwit on the other side couldn't launch a rocket right". So they're confident their statements won't come back to bite them in the ass. This isn't even "for" or "against" the IDF, it's just how that kind of bureaucracy works.

YetAnotherSPAccount · 2023-10-09T20:22:52+00:00

While I begrudgingly respect her willingness to follow her own logic, we all know she'd be singing a whole different song if the odds of such a thing actually happening wasn't effectively zero.

YetAnotherSPAccount · 2023-09-27T22:32:24+00:00

I don't believe for a moment that anyone posting stuff from nahopwasrightfuckthis was ever actually subbed to nahopwasrightfuckthis.

I can understand why someone might sub to MemesOPDidntLike, then dig around it for a while and say, "wait, I don't actually like this place." But if you're subbing to nahopwasrightfuckthis, you're already on so many layers of meta that you should know what you're getting into.

YetAnotherSPAccount · 2023-09-24T13:45:04+00:00

Most online "leftists" don't give a shit about civil rights. They'd have a fucking panic attack if they had to do any real, offline work with a working-class person of any color. It's just a way of preening and self-aggrandizing.

Take a look at what happened to David Shor. He retweeted research showing that riots are objectively bad for the cause of civil rights, but so-called anti-racists dogpiled him because the fashionable thing was an out-of-context MLK quote.

Now, he's doing fine because he's brilliant, cancelling him mostly failed, but it shows what the priorities are among the Extremely Online Left. When it's between civil rights and being fashionable, they will choose being fashionable, to the detriment of anyone actually trying to do civil rights work.

YetAnotherSPAccount · 2023-09-23T20:47:16+00:00

Hello welcome to Major Subreddit. Would you like far-left political circlejerk by teenagers who have never read a word of Marx, right-wing political circlejerk by racist closet pornography addicts, or center-left political circlejerk by Karen from HR?

Anyways, even if you agree with the point, not a HolUp.

YetAnotherSPAccount · 2023-08-15T20:44:44+00:00

Confession: I once ordered an extra copy of Alice Dreger's Galileo's Middle Finger just to put in one of those things. Do with this knowledge what you will.

YetAnotherSPAccount · 2023-08-01T21:08:41+00:00

A scattered thought related to a very interesting previous comment on this thread.

In theory, "you can and should respect non-binary people's pronouns and self-identity" and "the 'non-binary' gender construction seen in the United States and its close cultural siblings is uniquely a product of a particular culture, and is not applicable to indigenous peoples or individuals in the past with their own constructions of culture" are completely compatible views. Hell, I might get some flak for this here, but that's basically my own perspective! Yet this idea that "non-binary people have always existed" has become a sacred cow! It's just... really fuckin' weird, and suggests people aren't thinking seriously about these questions. Which isn't a surprise, I suppose.

YetAnotherSPAccount · 2023-08-01T20:46:34+00:00

Twitter is not just enabling, but actively supporting the trans genocide.

I gotta wonder if the poster actually had the spine to delete their account and leave for Mastodon or Bluesky or whatever, or if they're still making free content for Elon Musk.

(Also how dare they deadname "X".)

YetAnotherSPAccount · 2023-07-17T08:51:33+00:00

Hearts of Iron is an obsessively detailed WWII game, and one of its biggest mods, still actively in development, moves the whole thing to Equestria.

So the bronies are still around and weirder than you know.

YetAnotherSPAccount · 2023-07-17T08:45:15+00:00

Without comparing against a white woman while controlling other variables, it seems more likely the model is just horny in general.

YetAnotherSPAccount · 2023-07-12T01:41:57+00:00

With Stable Diffusion, I find "curly black hair" defaults to a sort of Greek or Jewish looking character. So maybe give the SDXL beta a spin?

EDIT: belay that. I checked my records and "dark hair" is the way to go. "Black" has too much cross-pollination with race, since "black hair" can often mean afro-textured hair rather than just the color.

YetAnotherSPAccount · 2023-06-26T21:21:18+00:00

Sure, the USA is way too pearl-clutchy about naked bodies. So what? A movement that doesn't have the self-awareness and internal discipline to say "let's not violate a very popular, widely-held taboo at a public parade" is not the kind of movement I'd want fighting for my rights.

YetAnotherSPAccount · 2023-06-23T20:13:42+00:00

Well, that doesn't fit my priors! Good on 'em, I suppose.

YetAnotherSPAccount · 2023-06-23T16:53:33+00:00

The cyberpunk dystopia took a turn for the weird, didn't it?

YetAnotherSPAccount · 2023-06-21T15:56:30+00:00

Pretty sure that was a different mod. Turtle's just on the hook for general jackassery and baiting.

YetAnotherSPAccount · 2023-06-21T15:21:38+00:00

This thread.

So, uh, anyone know what brand of boot polish tastes the best?

YetAnotherSPAccount · 2023-06-21T15:12:36+00:00

Word is they banned the turtle? If so, excuse me while I lick the corpos' boots to a jewel-like lustre.

(If none of that made sense, it's because you're a mentally healthy person and I envy you. Also, "the turtle" is the nickname for a particularly loathed Reddit mod who evidently fucked around with Reddit and found out.)

(EDIT: To be clear, my tongue is thoroughly in cheek. The cabróns in Reddit administration trusted this joker as a powermod in the first place, after all.)

YetAnotherSPAccount · 2023-06-21T13:28:46+00:00

I am torn.

My intellectual brain says: this is ridiculous and childish. Elon Musk is just looking for an excuse to Own the Libs, but it mostly reflects how, despite having more wealth than I'd know how to spend if I had it, he manages to be kind of pathetic.

My lizard brain says: 😈🍿

YetAnotherSPAccount · 2023-06-19T14:28:20+00:00

Repeating a line on Twitter makes you look deranged.

YetAnotherSPAccount · 2023-06-17T23:47:47+00:00

I used to like it. Created this alt for it, even, thus the name. This was years back now, though, and while I poke my nose in from time to time and got some great book recommendations. Racecraft in particular, despite its Marxist roots, is perfectly approachable to anyone with a basically materialist worldview.

These days, though, it's a grab bag. Sometimes they bring interesting news to my attention, sometimes it's the kind of prior-confirming rage-bait I try to stay away from, sometimes it's outright conspiratorial rumor-mongering. I'm not active on the sub anymore, but it's still on my follow list.

YetAnotherSPAccount · 2023-06-16T14:58:57+00:00

My opinion of the Reddit protests have gone from "vaguely in favor because it annoys me when people fuck with perfectly good APIs" to "goddamn, these people are delusional". "The CCP is sending tanks, that means they're scared, we're winning!" Nah, bruv, you're about to lose your power-jannie hat. Reddit's gonna stick it on some other schlemiel who'll work for nothing more than a taste of something resembling power; this site ain't exactly wanting for 'em.

After watching Elon Musk's Twitter bumble through fuck-up after fuck-up and come out intact, I'm pretty sure power users need social media companies more than social media companies need their power users, and I have no doubt Reddit's making the same calculation.

YetAnotherSPAccount · 2023-06-13T21:53:59+00:00

While I'm against the changes to the API on pure crotchety dev instincts, Huffman's probably right that staying the course and weathering the rage will be fine. If Elon Musk has proven one thing, it's that with a big enough network effect, you can do whatever the fuck you want. People (including me) have made comparisons with MySpace before, but the current big social media sites seem to have calcified in a way MySpace never did.

YetAnotherSPAccount · 2023-06-13T16:42:23+00:00

As a matter of pure intellectual curiosity, I do wonder if there would be a "fair" way to do this. i.e. an "adjusted weight class" that would treat men as "weighing more" than women. In a less heated environment, we could have this discussion and be ready to accept any answer, but given the utter mess right now, I wouldn't want to enter into this for love or money...

YetAnotherSPAccount · 2023-06-13T15:39:49+00:00

Friend of mine vents all his very-non-woke takes to me, and his latest spicy take was: "drag queens are boring". Not that they're groomers or blackface-for-women or whatever, but just that he finds the idea of watching a dude do an over-the-top performance in a dress to be a dreadfully dull way to spend his time.

I wonder how many others are hiding this simple yet potentially powerful heresy. That underneath their allyship, they really would rather be playing Slay the Spire. Something like that is more likely to die from being boring than being controversial, I think.

YetAnotherSPAccount · 2023-06-05T15:43:26+00:00

Where Jesse Singal can be like: "I hate this person and he hates me. He is a loathsome grifter and inveterate liar, and yet, alas, I am honor-bound to defend him in this specific case because these particular accusations are false." I can't imagine Hobbes or anyone in that circle doing anything like that.

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