HandwovenConsensus @ HandwovenConsensus @lemm.ee

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Formerly known as Zach Weiner and Kelly Smith. They compounded their last names when they got married.

You're getting massively down voted. I really feel like this is a huge obstacle to mitigating poverty in the first world. People focus on appearances; getting rid of things that look poor even when they actually help people.

Yes, it's upsetting to see people taking such desperate measures. But those measures were taken in response to desperate need. If you fixed the need, then they would go away on their own. If you need to apply force to remove them, then you have not.

It's the same reason people oppose public transit, dense housing, and informal businesses. Things that are just part of life in the third world. But wealthy and middle class westerners have decided on behalf of poor westerners that poor westerners are too good for them.

I realized after reading about people with aphantasia that what I do is kind of a combination of visualization and conceptualization. If you ask me to imagine a cow, I'll tend to visualize the cow itself, but it doesn't come with a field for the cow to stand in. The cow is just in the concept of a place. That is, until I concentrate on visualizing details of the place, at which point I'll probably lose the visual of the cow. Like, it's still there, it's just become the concept of a cow.

Well, it comes down to the fact that professional athletes strive to be the best of the best.

Obviously we don't need everyone to practice those skills at that level; if we did, then we'd be out of luck because only a small minority is even physically capable of doing so.

But to say that practicing those sports doesn't have practical benefits is another matter, especially at the amateur level.

Like, you could apply it to any field. If the best chef in the world disappeared, we'd probably be fine. But that doesn't mean that cooking is a useless skill in general.

I just thought of a possible exception: cycling. Being able to ride a bicycle can be a pretty practical skill in some cities.

Edit: Swimming and diving too have practical applications.

Had to think about it, but you're right. It only becomes a sport when it's not needed any more. Before that, it's a skill.

Horsemanship, archery, hand-to-hand combat, fishing, shooting... all practical skills at one time. Then they became sports.

The two South Park RPGs.

3. looking down on the low arts such as needle point, crochet, comedy, street art, dance, etc

Huh... I never realized that, but you're right. People who look down in other cultures also tend to be the ones who look down on folk art even within their own culture.

I've noticed before that the people saying, "If there's an African American Culture club at this school, why can't we have a White Culture club?" are never actually the ones interested in learning about the culture of white peoples for its own sake.

The irony being that Russia would have worked fine if the Right wasn't in their pocket.

Well, I only know of two off the top of my head, but I really doubt they're the only examples: Irish and Mandarin Chinese.

I think some Irish don't even habitually use them when speaking English. If you ask them "Are you ok?" they'd answer "I am" or "I am not."

Nevada isn't just Vegas. There's a big values dissonance between Vegas and the rural North, and if the country starts fracturing I don't see them staying together.

I could actually see Vegas seceding from Nevada to either join with California or become an independent city-state.

Fallout: New Vegas would become real, in other words.

Why? It's not like you're costing the shop money by taking trash off the floor. If anything you're more likely to spend money at the shop you do it at for supplies and such.

1:60 = one minute and 60 seconds, or two minutes.

120 would be parsed as one minute and 20 seconds, or 80 seconds.

Took me a bit to get too.

I fixed it lol

I still don't get why it's called that.

That is such a funny mental image.

"Drink" is such a weird word in how it has both a general and specific meaning, but no other word for the general meaning is commonly used.

"Drink your milk! No drinking until you're 21!"

My parents didn't specifically tell me if Santa Clause was real or make-believe. They wanted me to come to my own conclusion, I guess. My dad is a rationalist person, and my mom's from a culture that doesn't traditionally celebrate Christmas.

So what I believed was that the appearance of presents on Christmas was an unsolved mystery, and Santa Clause was just a hypothesis to explain it.

I suspected the real explanation probably involved the tree working as an antenna for some kind of cosmic energy that triggered the appearance of presents. Perhaps in ancient and more superstitious times they discovered this phenomenon by accident and continued to put up the tree ever since.

From what I understand, it was a blanket pardon for anyone who met certain criteria, and this judge just happened to meet them.

What they should do is push for voting reform. There are tons of proposals for voting systems that solve the two party stalemate and the issue of gerrymandering.

If they really wanted to stop the insanity of the Republican party, that's what they would do. Until they do, they are complicit in it.