LibertyLizard @ LibertyLizard @slrpnk.net

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Yeah but I mean he was pretty clear about what he was going to do and it was not some carefully calibrated and cautious system of tariffs.

Kinda hilarious to see the market surge when he won and now plummet as he implements his widely advertised policies. Shocked pikachu face.

A lot of them are gender neutral nowadays. I see them all the time, though I do live in a very progressive and queer-friendly neighborhood and city. When my local university tried to do this in a new dorm, a bunch of far-right idiots from out of town tried to start a big stink about it.

Yeah the researcher who came up with this so-called rule has said that it should not be used this way.

It’s a statistical association in the data, not a law of physics.

Yes, more so in this tradition though I have significant differences of opinion from him as well.

The piece or the events upon which it’s based?

I think Freetown Grafton it was an interesting experiment though obviously poorly organized and underpinned by wacky people with an excessively individualistic idea of how human society should work, which predictably led to many problems.

It’s important to note that the core ideological thread of libertarianism is liberty. That is, opposing domination and coercion of people by others. These other ideas the modern American libertarian movement has grafted on about individualism and capitalism really aren’t that closely related to that core concept, and in some ways are in tension with them. It’s fully possible to be an anti-capitalist libertarian who believes that humans need to work together to solve problems. That is my position, and my hope is that with more rigorous planning and cooperation, a society where state coercion is minimal or absent is possible. But it would require a less coercive form of social organization to take on the services currently offered by the government.

In my view, this should happen first before attempting to completely overthrow or dismantle government. This is one of the mistakes made by the Grafton libertarians. That said, there are some institutions like the military or prison systems that are so harmful that I think it’s justified to fight against them even without a clear alternative in place.

But I still think it’s good to see people experimenting with alternative social arrangements so we can gather evidence on what works and what doesn’t. The results weren’t great, but neither were they so catastrophic as to not be worth the attempt and information gained from it. In contrast we see many horrific failures and abuses of government power all around us, but people fail to question the foundations of that power, despite these dire consequences.

Very true. I consider myself one but I don’t usually share that since people will get the wrong idea.

Yeah I was wondering how noncompliance would work lol. Smuggling? But I think they just mean retaliatory tariffs. Weird and misleading way to describe it.

He’s just not any kind of libertarian. He’s the head of state and supports a lot of strong and unnecessary interventions into people’s lives. As well as power grabs like the one in the article.

Lol in one of our campaigns a player wanted to awaken an otter and teach it to be a wizard. Me being the asshole realist DM I made him roll for stats to see if the otter had the aptitude for wizardry. Since it was random, of course it didn’t and so he went on awakening otters until he happened to find one that was gifted in wizardry. This led to a large group of awakened otters who went off and did their own thing… until in our next campaign the next DM brought them back as a basically an organized crime ring. The player’s reaction as he realized his previous character had created all of the problems we were now dealing with was priceless.

“Libertarian”

Isolation is the one part of the carceral system that does have some effect, but I don’t think it’s the best way to achieve even that part.

I guess I don’t know the previous situation in Italy with regards to this issue. Was there a large number of people getting caught for these offenses and then released? Because killing someone and locking them up for 20 years is basically just as good from the perspective of separating victim and offender. It would be better to focus on consistent investigation and capture than on harsher penalties.

Or on programs that work to prevent violence in the first place. But we would only pursue those if we cared more about helping potential victims than about hurting offenders. That doesn’t seem to be the priority for most people.

Yeah I was trying to avoid those details. I think it’s fair to summarize that as a system that detects the direction light is coming from.

I wish… doesn’t seem likely at this point.

Extreme punitive measures from the police and carceral organs of the state will not solve misogynistic violence. I’m glad people are fired up about the problem but this is the wrong approach. It’s been tried 1000 times for other things and it never works.

Now this is the kind of news the people need to hear!

The most unrealistic part for me is the idea of Trump expressing empathy and attempting to comfort someone. Seems totally out of character for him.

I think this speaks to a significant misunderstanding that most people hold of the way vision actually works.

Most people imagine that vision is a relatively simple process by which our eyes detect and transmit to us the nature of the world. Not so.

Eyes are complex and interesting organs in their own right but fundamentally what they do is relatively simple. They are able to detect and report to the brain certain qualities of the light that hits them. Primarily these are: intensity, direction, and proximity to three points on the frequency spectrum (what we perceive as red, green, and blue). But this data alone is not vision. Vision is a conscious experience our brains create by interpreting and processing this data into the visual field before us—basically, a full scale 3D model of the world in front of us, including the blended information on reflection and emission that color entails.

Quite amazing! Most of this takes place in the human brain, and not the eyes. From this perspective, it is not terribly surprising that an organism with more complex eyes but a much simpler brain might have worse vision than we do.

So the hypothesized mechanism here is that single people tend to have healthier social lives. Another study that accounts for level of social activity might be needed to untangle this. But this does support the idea that the issue is not marriage per se but the atomized nuclear family we’ve built up as the highest form of human relationship in the West. It seems very possible to build a society that has plenty of marriage but also healthy extra-marital relationships.

I would be curious if there’s also a correlation with car and suburban culture which are strong elements that separate families from outside socialization in our culture, especially for the elderly who may eventually lose the ability to drive.

Oh really? I thought that wouldn’t work for some reason. Maybe their instructions just confused me. I’m not very tech savvy for a lemming.