In the context of a software project like Linux this sounds eminently reasonable, verifiable, and more about reading than writing. Linus's comments on AI with this being the context seem fine. Like I'm extremely AI skeptical for my field but at some point you're just reinventing religion and sin.

You'll notice my phrasing was careful, talking about the admin and missing this specific quality of it, nothing specifically about the man himself. In light of this this response is deranged and unhelpful, doing nothing more than trying to scream the loudest. My feelings on Biden are complicated.

I've been helping a few people through the application process for my university and my least favorite part is having to coo coo people through things like the statement of purpose and GRE because everyone thinks they're somehow above it and that it serves no purpose.

I am somewhat surprised at the final outcome but it makes sense. I am a CS doctoral candidate in a non-AI field if that means anything to anyone for this result.

Big agree! It is not hard to find examples of this.

Well well well if this doesn't apply to my pet issue I don't know what would.

I think this take is an actual dud, bordering on actually just anti-intellectual. There is science on the effectiveness of therapy, it can do things psychiatry can't. You landed on all duds somehow, makes me think the problem might not be them.

These people are pedophiles.

LRT this broadly applies to genital cutting as well

Not everything needs to be a Greek tragedy, jeez. If you don't like this kind of storytelling then don't write it, that doesn't make it "the enemy" or the people who do write it beneath you. Things are allowed to just be fun sometimes, and the all-worldbuilding approach can also still have meaning.

You see there are trucks with giant electric billboards on them that exist solely to drive back and forth on the Las Vegas Strip and surroundings, so every now and again one of these end up on the street in front of me. Usually they're for callgirl scams or energy drinks, this one is refreshing.

What is this, an affirmation? At least make a joke or a dig if you're not going to make an argument. Porn does not need to be censored, and it's as much an insult to human heritage to suggest so as any other solely-censorious campaign.

We probably agree on a lot but I hate this and block over this, this tells me that this person finds socially acceptable violations of consent funny. It's _almost_ a rape joke, it's the same shape and comes from the same place.

I looked up a handful of reasons given and these are worse than I thought!

Okay so I half agree half disagree. I think that some of this has freed us from the tyranny of the village. However, until the current administration the federal gov was one of the biggest employers of people of color, especially black women. If we count DOD then trans people too.

This is about it being bad to stuff everything with AI chatbots, which I largely agree with, but the first part of this is a little fraught IMO. It implies anything other than speaking is necessarily undesirable, primitivist vibes. Freedom is just not possible without literacy, sorry.

I misremembered it was just the original Enterprise but there's some concept art out there for it!

Seems relevant given today's discourse. Fendereski K, Horns JJ, Driggs N, Lau G, Schaeffer AJ. Comparing Penile Problems in Circumcised vs. Uncircumcised Boys: Insights From a Large Commercial Claims Database With a Focus on Provider Type Performing Circumcision. J Pediatr Surg. 2024 Nov

Childbirth is not really a proportional comparison. Screenshot for block.

"they always come out looking better" pedo fetish shit

Its sounds like you had dysphoria and it was bad enough you resorted to self harm, then had to get a bunch of surgeries to fix both when you were older. I'd believe it, and in these cases sure a cut should be available to you, but that you cant imagine this in reverse is you being stupid, not me.

You have made a number of equally absolutist statements and assumptions about me this conversation and have done it in hysterical language. You are hysterical and either need therapy yourself or have a fetish for cutting baby dicks and use medical language to convince yourself youre not a pedo.

Looking at some journal entries for foreskin restoration, cite in replies, this one is so bad it borders on rape apologia but it never questions that it exists. This conclusion boils down to an insensitive "it's all in your head." You'd never say this to a trans person, dysphoria is real.

I'll agree that proponents of foreskin restoration often overuse medicalized language but 1. this is just rude 2. it does appear in journals infrequently, existence is never a question 3. skin stretching is pretty well established scientifically 4. body mods don't need clinical trials to exist??

Any path to making the economy just will be long, arduous, and complicated. How will we tell if the changes we make are actually improvements without the chart perverts? The chart perverts also overwhelmingly want to make the economy more just and justice is more than just vibes.

This is an old thread and I suspect the author is not sympathetic to the practice but still to be said, tradition does not exempt you from ethics and this is BITE model stuff. Branding, hazing, making sure they can never leave, would not be acceptable in any other context.

1. Cynicism about who seeks power is one of the foundational ideas that gets people caught in the "both parties are the same," "revolution only," mind traps. 2. Secular state institutions have outperformed all alternatives for a reason, religion is at least non-optimal for flexing state power.

The wrench in this is that all of this applies to Mormons as well and Mormons absolutely overindex discrimination against them, there needs to be a more complex back and forth system in place to tell what's real and what isn't or everyone will be caught in a persecution complex spiral.