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While I agree in general, I think at a certain point, e.g. Japan after its behavior in China, you're entitled to a free swing if there's a reasonable case that it might hasten the end of the war.

Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 8h

This reminds me of the comment on a clip of a wild animal approaching a human to help with a problem that the animal kingdom appears to operate a shared playbook of "if all else fails, seek out the elves and pray their fickle nature is kindly that day".

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Take it from an autistic guy who got stoned once and had this revelation: the primary purpose of social interaction is generally not the exchange of goods, services, or information. Once you figure that out a lot of the economy and society make a lot more sense.

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Equal contributions to a marriage do not require that both parties contribute the same amount, or at all, to every contribution required. You personally are welcome and indeed encouraged to aspire to more, but if more isn't working, sometimes reconsider expectations.

I don't suggest any of this is optimal, I think I'm just describing reality. We're not blank slates. Socialization only goes so far. Sometimes you just have to look at the guy you're with and go, "alright, fine, fuck off until the kid's old enough to play catch. Focus on bringing home the bacon."

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Likewise, a substantial number of men are going to end up with women *who might be good women and good providers in many other ways that should not be dimished*, but who yearn on a genetic level to drop out of the work force and devote themselves heart and soul to raising babies.

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A substantial number of women are going to end up with men *who might be good men and good fathers in many other ways that should not be diminished*, but are not going to have a paternal instinct that matches the woman's maternal instinct when it comes to infant childcare.

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It is obviously ideal to find a man who's an effortful father with his infant child, but again, bell curve. God's only making so many of those men, and pro-social "nurture" is going to move the needle only a few percentage points.

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And that typical reality is that the median man is wired very differently than the median woman, in a way that primes each to focus their efforts in ways that reflect a traditional division of labor. This makes lefties profoundly uncomfortable.

I think this is noteworthy because it reflects a typical reality in hetero relationships that the advancement of women's rights/feminist models of society ironically leaves new mothers much less prepared for than I think they likely were in 1950.

It's remarkable that OP thinks this guy has been "dissuaded" from reading a book to his child, rather than the obvious truth that he doesn't give a solitary fuck. There's a bell curve of male interest in engaging in infant childcare, but the peak is way, way to the left of the female bell curve.

Grizwald @grizwald.bsky.social · 23h

This was very much on display with her attitude toward Indigenous consultation over separation, too. It becomes rapidly clear that the intellectual edifice exists solely to support the unstated, perhaps unrealized proposition "only my interests are meaningful".

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Every day you wake up and have a choice to be or not be in Brit Bachmann's shoes. Do not be in Brit Bachmann's shoes.

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Apologies to Steven Galloway

There are more than a few people on here who would do well to recognize that precisely because sexual assault is so serious, stating unproven allegations about it as fact on Bluesky can end up with their full legal name under a groveling apology on the internet.

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Very well put in that thread!

mallow's hyperrealistic blood @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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i'm afraid i must diagnose this as queen shit

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If I had to list Mexico's problems, they would look something like this: 1. Corruption 2. China stole its manufacturing base 3. More corruption

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This pimply little idiot that just yesterday literally needed you to wipe his ass for him is suddenly demanding that you treat them like an adult, and that must be *so* goddamn hard.

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Obviously some parents are just assholes, but I think more broadly what happens is that a lot of parents don't do a good job shifting between the condescending, dictatorial relationship that is somewhat necessary with young kids into the peer relationship that is required as they reach late teens.

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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think it's probably really hard for even thoughtful, well-meaning parents to grasp that all their sacrifices raising their child does not entitle them to a place in their adult children's lives... ...but that knowledge is so critical to doing what's required to ensure that you do have that place.

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Try our new service, Shamm-AI. The only LLM that generates two answers per prompt and asks you to say which one is more helpful, but then vehemently disagrees with your choice and starts arguing with you about it

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But if I have to choose between a cherry red non-stick sauce pan and a fighter jet that accumulates grime over multiple missions, the sauce pan is what's getting bumped down the priority list.

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It's very funny to see you say this, because I had the exact same reaction. I don't *want* to purchase a full-price AAA game and fall in love with it right now, I'm a busy man budgeting for other things, like Le Creuset cookware.

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More broadly, though, outside of that specific Navier-Stokes incident, I think the writing's on the wall - the industrial revolution has arrived for advanced mathematics. Mathematicians aren't going to be out of work, but their field is going to be fundamentally altered going forward.

I think that's a correct read of the subtext of Tristan's original complaint. I didn't see the response by OpenAI that you linked me to. I do acknowledge that it's plausible AI is just that good now, but bluntly, I don't have sufficient knowledge or expertise to judge credibility here.

I feel mildly guilty for saying this, but it's very obvious to me that we'd have got a complete set of novels years ago if he needed the last four books to make his mortgage payments the way he needed the first three books.

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Very little about Carney's election can be reasonably attributed to his own merit. It's a different story after a year and a half of watching him demonstrate competence.

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It's worth keeping in mind that by the end of his time in power, Canadians loathed Trudeau, and a substantial number felt he'd taken the centrist Liberals too far left. It's also worth keeping in mind that to an increasing degree, Carney is succeeding on the merits of his own governance.

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We are entirely agreed that the entire drafting phase for the enabling legislation appeared to consist of people shrugging and telling each other "eh, it'll probably be fine".

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What appears to be an accurate statement of what happened is that OpenAI used its access to the private work of others to achieve a result for which it claims sole credit. If that's not plagiarism, tell me what the accurate word is that captures the necessary moral condemnation for that act.

IMHO if we're talking about the Millennium Prize proof, it may not be plagiarized in the normal sense of the word, but there's nothing normal about AI, and the invention of a new type of cognition requires re-evaluation of how we reasonably define plagiarism.

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Not true! There are very valid reasons to not want organized crime supplying and regulating a popular pastime of the general public that many people who partake in it have no problem enjoying responsibly.

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Until every police force in America has body cams on their officers backed by effective regulations regarding use, storage, and access, not enough has been done to declare policing a write-off as a concept.

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What you're essentially proposing is to reinvent the police. You can skip a couple intermediate steps by just starting new police agencies to take over from corrupt ones. (And a couple more by rooting out corruption within existing agency via better regulation).

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One of the things that I am very keen to see left behind in Woke 1.0 is the sentiment that grand well-meaning gestures are a satisfactory replacement for miserable sweaty policy wonk detail work.

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

IMHO the problem wasn't legalizing it, the problem was thinking that legalization didn't need to be accompanied by any meaningful regulation. It's the same issue Canada ran into with harm reduction programs (i.e. legalizing drugs). It's sloppy progressive policy implementation.

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"I went to heaven for 18 days and I just followed Jesus around the gym saying, 'Wow, Lord, you're keepin' it really tight. Lookin' good! Can I spot you?' and then he kicked me out of heaven"

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CyberOtters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"I want a big tent, in the sense that I want more people to become the exact same kind of leftist I am. It's the only way we can win."

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I don't know Brazilian politics. Was he implicated in his father's attempted coup, or is there a "sins of the father" thing going on?

Respectfully, to me this sounds like insisting there's nothing more progressives could have possibly done before even attempting an analysis.

I'm just perusing Lula's wiki page, and I think if a political party is running a convicted felon with five decades of political baggage that include multiple corruption scandals, "there's nothing else we could have possibly done to inspire the electorate" rings hollow.

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Canada's doing fine? I think there's a tendency to not look too hard for answers because they implicate progressive failures, whereas if the electorate is just sinful, then what can anybody do?

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5. It might be helpful to see Lula's most recent term as a freak aberration representing public loathing of Jair Bolsonaro - the Brazilian legislature is apparently solidly right-wing, so the moment the electorate was given a shot at a non-authoritarian conservative, they took it.

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Honestly, there is more than a little of the same things we've seen recently with Dems at the national level - guys like Biden who were far too old eclipsing the careers of others in their movement. Lula starts to sound like a dead tree blocking out sunlight to younger progressive pols.

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