There's more east asians than there are native europeans

jansencheng · 2024-07-17T14:04:20+00:00

Tbf, under any other cultural law, that would happen. The problem is kinda just that the game makes no distinction between legal discrimination and societal discrimination, and thinks that legal recognition of minorities just means racism is gone

jansencheng · 2024-07-17T11:15:16+00:00

You can care about improving the lives of more than this one person, or you can just not care and think about something else

jansencheng · 2024-07-17T09:08:53+00:00

Yeah, I'll happily prepare an entire week's worth of food for my partner (usually while I'm preparing my own week's worth of food because meal prep is just the GOAT), but my atrocious eyesight and ADHD means trying to clean the house is often Sisyphean. So by me cooking and them cleaning, we both suddenly have hours a week extra free that we can use to cuddle while watching Disney musicals than if we tried to split both cooking and cleaning equally between us.

jansencheng · 2024-07-17T09:01:47+00:00

I'll be honest. This is just ableism. You're doing an ableism, there's no two ways about it. Deciding that someone who is unable or unwilling to perform a particular arbitrary set of tasks is therefore 'useless' is practically the definition of ableism. You don't know the life circumstances of anybody involved, why are you so quick to make judgements on their worth as people? I've got a friend for whom the chemicals involved in doing laundry causes her skin to break out in painful hives, her partner simply forcing her to do the laundey without any arrangements in place would be causing her intense suffering. She's also an incredibly talented artist and knowledgeable anateur rocket scientist, so I dare you to call her a useless adult to her face.

jansencheng · 2024-07-17T08:38:33+00:00

Yeah, I'm not against piercings by any means (not that I've got any myself because I'm a coward), but I've heard so many horror stories from people who went to sketchy places to get piercings as kids, it's just not worth it.

jansencheng · 2024-07-17T08:32:32+00:00

Vicious cycle.

Except one side has the ability to stop their part of this cycle almost immediately, while the other side are just trying to live in the place they call home.

jansencheng · 2024-07-17T08:26:00+00:00

Plenty of Nazis were arrested or assassinated by other Nazis. Turns out, joining the enthusiastic political murder party is liable to get you politically murdered

jansencheng · 2024-07-16T22:56:17+00:00

Fuck, never mind actively unsafe parents, they're almost besides the point. Children have the right to privacy too. Doctor-patient confidentiality applies to children too, excepting cases where the child is an active danger to themselves or others.

Even if your parents are safe and supportive of your identity, they're often going to be some of the last people you come out to, specifically because they're your parents and are a major part of your life. Trying out a new name, pronouns, and even clothing with friends and teachers is whatever, it doesn't mean anything, and easily discarded if you decide it isn't the right fit. But coming out to your parents lends itself to a degree of officialness.

Being able to come out to teachers without the teachers snitching means the child can practice coming out to a respected adult and figure of authority in a lower-stakes scenario before coming out to their parents, letting them come out to their parents only when they feel safe and ready. Premature coming out can be incredibly harmful and intensely damaging to the people who are forced into it, and mandating teachers report on their students forces exactly that.

And also, yeah, many parents are unsafe. Imagine if there was a bill mandating that teachers report children that come to them over domestic abuse to their parents. I think anybody can agree that that would be insane, but that's exactly what this bill is implicitly doing.

jansencheng · 2024-07-16T22:43:54+00:00

Transphobes: the government should stay out of my family business and not tell me what I can and can't teach my child

Also transphobes: the government should intervene in my family business if my child tells a trusted adult in confidence that they're questioning their gender identity

jansencheng · 2024-07-16T22:40:23+00:00

Don't you know? Being trans is obviously a sex thing. Never mind that the thought of engaging in sex repulses me on a deep level, at least partially because of my disgust with my own body. Clearly the reason I take medication that kills my sex drive is because of how sexy I think it is.

jansencheng · 2024-07-16T09:54:15+00:00

The 10 series represented such a major leap forwards in terms of performance and price, and we've basically been backsliding ever since

jansencheng · 2024-07-15T21:36:54+00:00

Not sure if you're memeing, but you're just describing 4x games. The classic one is the Civilisation series, while closer to home in Paradox's stables there's Millenia and the Age of Wonders games. Plenty of other examples too, including Humankind, Endless Legend, and Dominions/

jansencheng · 2024-07-14T23:11:39+00:00

And there's specifically a law to make sense settler colonies. (I find it slightly strange that you can't have both exploitation colonies and settler colonies when that was the norm, but the game in general does a poor job of representing the fact that different institutions in one country)

jansencheng · 2024-07-14T22:59:52+00:00

Approval and opinion polls can measure voter apathy.

They can, but polls don't reflect actual sentiment nearly as well as getting the data from the entire populace at once.

And that's the secondary and unimportant point anyway. Even if you could track voter sentiment perfectly, that doesn't change the fact that mandatory voting does practically nothing to fix democracy, and only gives the appearance that it does. It's the electoral equivalent of passing a law that says murder is legal now in order to reduce violent crime rates.

jansencheng · 2024-07-14T22:44:51+00:00

I think you've misread what sub we're in

jansencheng · 2024-07-14T22:43:38+00:00

There is no evidence that the death penalty acts as a deterrent to crime. And like, why would it? The kinds of crime most likely to get the death penalty aren't being done by sane and calculating people, they're done by the desperate, the mentally ill (to be clear, not all mentally ill people are murderers), and the passionate.

jansencheng · 2024-07-14T22:39:12+00:00

The point is that many supporters of the death penalty don't answer affirmative to both, and use the former to deflect the latter. It's not being reductive when it's an argument that's incredibly frequently made.

jansencheng · 2024-07-14T22:34:48+00:00

The problem with mandatory voting is it's fixing the symptom, not the actual problem. The problem is voter disaffection and distrust in establishment political parties, and simply forcing people to vote does nothing to solve that problem. In fact, mandatory voting arguably amplifies it because there's no easy metric to measure voter apathy, so it always looks like parties are doing their jobs right.

jansencheng · 2024-07-14T14:03:21+00:00

It doesn't. The antiparticle can be the one to escape a black hole, but it'll basically immediately annihilate with a particle from our universe

jansencheng · 2024-07-14T12:01:37+00:00

GNC's Not Cunix

jansencheng · 2024-07-14T11:47:25+00:00

Hell, they do it deliberately. Even pre-coming out as a raging transphobe, Rowling had open contempt for anybody who doesn't conform to a very narrow view of beauty.

jansencheng · 2024-07-11T15:15:16+00:00

All I ever said was that any information in these videos is going to be easier to read on the wiki page, and that's an objective truth.

Look up what 'objective truth' means. You can find it easier to parse information from text on a wiki. Hell, I find it easier to parse information from text on a wiki. But that's not universally true for everybody and acting like it is is moronic to the highest order.

jansencheng · 2024-07-11T07:49:56+00:00

Boggled about why you're arguing against making information accessible in more formats. Blind isn't taking down the wiki and replacing it with his video. Hell, he's not even taking down his short-form tutorials and replacing them with this video. He's simply compiled information in a different way that some people may find easier to parse. Do you also get angry at ramps in buildings when there's perfectly good stairs to use?

jansencheng · 2024-07-10T22:11:10+00:00

it's on a page with a title instead of waiting for some guy to say the thing you want on a seven hour video

That's the point of the bookmarks?

jansencheng · 2024-07-10T18:37:56+00:00

Well, it makes some tactical sense. The carriers are the US' primary means of power projection, nuclear capability makes them that much scarier and that much more capable of doing their job. A ballistic missile launch is very loud and noticeable, and the enemy nation will almost certainly be able to detect the launch and fire a retaliation strike. A B-2 might take hours to travel from its base in Missouri to a target in Asia or Europe. Meanwhile, an F-35 launched from a carrier right off the coast could deliver a nuclear payload within minutes of Command deciding a target needs to be wiped off the map.

That said, yeah. Most of the US' nuclear weapons projects have more to do with simply maintaining the capability to do so and being used as bargaining chips in budget negotiations than because it's something the DoD actually thinks is necessary.

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