Not everyone matures or comes into their own at the same rate and that's very important, but this pseudo-smol-bean "I'm just too intelligent and awkward for these hoes" thing is insufferable.
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Not everyone matures or comes into their own at the same rate and that's very important, but this pseudo-smol-bean "I'm just too intelligent and awkward for these hoes" thing is insufferable.
It's literally just a skill issue lol I was an awkward, intelligent kid and pubescent. Guess what? I learned, and by 16-17 had blossomed. I literally prefer men and I kinda suspect I've been with more women than these chuds.
Every day on Twitter someone posts like "my lifestyle is extreme and my beliefs are whackadoo but on the plus side I'm rich and I can't believe I'm single."
This sort of ties into another idea I’ve been kicking around, that if I was an actual theorist I’d take a shot at writing up coherently: we have freedom of the id, when we need freedom of the superego. We live in the tyranny of revealed preferences, totally disregarding expressed ones as legitimate.
has* not is has
This, combined with its central location in Europe and ties to the DACH specialized industry and financial worlds, mean it's one of the wealthiest national subdivisions in Europe. (Also fun fact, my glasses are from there)
Basically, it's an autonomous region with a lot of self-government and that sets its own tax policy, not paying most standard taxes to the national government.
...(as opposed to just German) signs, and it's started the whole thing back up again. But these days even with flareups like this the movement is miniscule, because Trentino-Aldo Adige/Südtirol is has a great fucking deal being part of Italy.
I mention this elsewhere in the thread :) Indeed, there are constant kerfuffles/back-and-forths about place names. The current far-right government, with Meloni as PM, has tried to do some minor Italianizing lately by insisting that places in Südtirol have *bilingual*...
He looks like if you took the head of an off-brand stoner comedy protagonist circa 2005 and stuck it on a He-Man action figure.
Okay, with the caveat that my pattern of attraction is not exactly the same as straight women's, as a gay man I just don't find this attractive. This is clearly a redditesque optimizing hobby meant to impress other straight men with only the notional goal of attracting women.
yo WTF. this cat is involved in RANSOMWARE
And for a long time in the early-to-mid-20th century the strongest separatism was from Südtirol (Alto Adige in Italian), part of Austria Italy carved off after WWI which remains German-speaking, and where I have part of my family from. To the point of (low-grade) terrorism in e.g. the 1950s.
However, at various times in history since the risorgimento (Italian unification in the 19th century), different groups have been the most viscerally separatist. Back then, for example, the former Kingdom of the Two Sicilies arguably had the most resentments.
It's how the far-right Lega, Matteo Salvini's party, got its start. The former version was La Lega Nord (Northern League). Fortunately, the separatist forces have weakened, hence the rebrand by even Salvini.
In most recent history, the strongest separatist movement has been so-called "Padania" which encompasses most of Northern Italy (Lombardia, Veneto, Emilia-Romagna, Piemonte, Liguria, FVG, Trentino-Südtirol, Valle d'Aosta). This is a decidedly right-wing separatism however.
We're still barely holding Italy together and sometimes question if it's even a good idea.
It is nearly always clear from context that when people use "during Covid" they mean "during the emergency response to the Covid-19 pandemic" (too long to write every time!) and are not making any statement at all about the continued circulation of the virus or the effects of the disease.
Probably just a data entry error. I have the original CSVs and the absolute values are in line with the time period, just with the wrong sign.
Yes not at all, it's just 3:40 here (I didn't intend to stay up this late), I'm distracted, and I misread you. Va bene, ciao!
I thought you meant that it was mostly the US that accounted for the decrease, not that most of the deaths in the last month were US. Sorry. We're in agreement then.
Yes. I apologize, I misread your original statement completely.
...of course, if I am too critical of something they like or disagree too much, I am suddenly the Southern European who doesn't understand. They can also abuse me with American because I'm a dual-citizen - I think they must flip a coin since the substance of the insults is the same.
I will say, as an Italian in Germany (and a pale blue-eyed one at that), I feel like I've had many interesting observations of inclusion/exclusion. Most of the time, the AfD types say I don't count as an "immigrant" because I'm European. But...
Italy showing a similar pattern to the US on COVID mortality over time, from the depths of the replies.
What's sad is that a lot of immigrants who spend too much time online are buying into this rhetoric in a misguided but understandable effort to fit in. They are being played by the far right.
We have this in Germany too, they call themselves "Bio-Deutsch." It's equally pathetic.
So if you have a bad month in Portugal and say 15 more people die, yes that will affect the rate relative to the population a lot more than in a bigger country, but it doesn't indicate very different dynamics.
With small countries like Portugal, one must bear in mind that relatively small spikes in a given month or week will show a much bigger proportional change, since we're not dealing with a continuous magnitude. There aren't fractional COVID deaths.
...and given I'm multitasking I won't graph it right now, but you can find it here: www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Ge...
I wouldn't say just Portugal indicates "mostly the US." Regardless I'm in Europe (Italian in Germany) and it shows the same broad dynamics here as Michael's original graph. Which is what you'd expect given vaguely similar fundamentals. The German data is good but annoying to work with...
After all, in the limit the ideal "pathogen" ceases to be a pathogen, since it replicates very successfully without harming its host population at all.
A pathogen that remains both extremely contagious and lethally virulent in the same host population *should* be weird and rare. It's been a while since I studied this stuff academically, but there *should* be a tradeoff there.
This would make immunological and eco-evolutionary sense. Indeed it's what you'd expect in most cases.
Precisely
Locked and loaded
However, to act like we are still in an acute pandemic à la 2020-2022 and expect people to act accordingly is just deranged. This is a qualitative-level shift in mortality.
I wouldn't be as nice as Michael is being here personally, but he makes a very important point here. COVID is now at the status of "serious addition to the arsenal of viruses humans have to routinely face," and that's a real medical problem like the others.
This is what, in our Rawls discussion earlier, I politely called "nationalism_2"
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Update: I gave into temptation and switched to the big suitcase. I love shoes 😵💫
I need at least one pair of black and one pair of brown shoes. Debating my mix of: * Black suede chukka boots * Black Puma flat-top sneakers * Dark brown Armani leather monkstraps * Beeswax chukka boots
One things leads to another and I need to avoid needing 3 pairs of shoes to work with all my outfits 😩
(6/n) I could of course be wrong as these kinds of sociopolital games are intrinsically highly uncertain, but it has the whiff of plausible deniability to me, rather than simply making a (correct) seminar-like point about Rawls' thought.
(5/n)...in his social environment. But he can always fall back and say "oh no, I'm only defending the nationalism_1 that plenty of liberals would defend."
(4/n)...Matt Y, someone well-known for his punching left, centrist positioning, and continued xitter use in the current political moment, is spitballing about "national liberalism" with memes to try to meet that position, appealing to fans of nationalism_2.
(3/n)...at least if we mean nationalism_1. But this isn't what particularly interests me. Certainly as I don't particularly care to defend Rawls one way or the other, not a big fan myself. Rather, while I could be wrong, it seems plausible to me that what's going on here is that...
(2/n) ...to lend plausibility or prestige to bad a form of nationalism, call it nationalism_2, that is popular in the circles he's increasingly marinating in. I just saw the followup post of his where he points out that LP is nationalist. As you say he's straightforwardly correct...
(1/n) Agreed, I'm not denying that Rawls is a nationalist. Rather, I think I'm making two claims: 1. Rawls is a nationalist in some sense. Call it nationalist_1 2. Matt Y is probably not merely claiming that Rawls is nationalist_1, but is using the fact that Rawls is nationalist_1...
I didn't even read it that way, I just read it as an easy way to tease/mock Matt Y for the triangulating nature of his political re-calibration. On a rhetorical rather than theoretical level this seems like a pretty obvious attempt to meet his current environment halfway imo
I'm doing what we call the Philo circuit, which is rotating between philosophy posting, packing for a furcon, and making another drink.
And one can of course then further argue that this and its implications amounts to a form of nationalism. In fact I agree - I lean towards a more radical form of cosmopolitan than Rawls. But to me this is quite different than "I'm a nationalist" in the way that say FdI in Italy is nationalist.
Put yet another way, I might say that with his assumptions which you listed so clearly, Rawls accepts a picture of the political world where the nation is a fundamental unit. This is pretty obvious from Law of Peoples.
Even if that's fairly obvious to a political theorist, in my view it's still quite different from how most explicitly nationalist political movements operate on a level of rhetoric and identity-shaping.
You're right, I phrased it wrong. I don't think he's implicit about the presumptions you just listed of course. Rather, I meant that he is only implicitly nationalist compared to explicitly nationalist political movements. One has to draw out the implications of those assumptions.
I moved to Bluesky first and foremost because I thought the technology was promising for enabling better social media governance than either classic centralized platforms or AP.
I'm actually still cautiously optimistic about AT, there's a lot of cool stuff going on in the space, but we definitely took a big step backwards by basically just trying to turn Bluesky (as an AppView, the Bluesky PDS etc.) into "twitter but good again."
I think he's implicitly committed to nation-state presumptions in a way that certain more radical cosmopolitans and global justice people have criticized him for, but also he's not a "nationalist" in either the ordinary or even Miller senses of the term imo
he's currently trying to argue John Rawls was a nationalist
Well Korsgaard did say that journalism was more his speed.
Indeed. There was a period in 2023-2024 when they were really promising about this, but they caved to the demands for xitter-style verification etc. due to heightened emotions around the US election.
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Congrats Matt Y you have reinvented nationalist Wilhelmine politics de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa...
Me if you wake me up before 8:00
Human-like or species-accurate dick?
The thing is, they're right, because the Italian embassy in Berlin is so backed up for CIE appointments, I might as well just wait and see with the lost mail situation. Still extremely annoying to carry a passport rather than an ID card though.
...just wait because if it ever made it out of US customs and was undeliverable (requires my signature), it would be returned to the NYC consulate who would then mail it to me. I followed up recently and they still told me to keep waiting.
...but you cannot actually file an international mail dispute until 45 days, and only the sender can initiate. So I had to file it with Poste Italiene. I also asked the NYC consulate and the relevant ministries (foreign affairs and interior) what I should do, and they both said to...
Yeah it's fucking annoying. I needed to get my CIE (Italian national identity card) renewed and was still living in NYC at the time. According to the usual timeline, it should've made it with about a month to spare before I moved to Germany. US customs in NYC lost (or "lost") it...
Devo portare il passaporto anche quando viaggio nell'UE perché la dogana statunitense ha “perso” la mia CIE e il ministero mi dice di aspettare ancora "un po." Passati tre mesi 🙄
Living dangerously but comfortably and taking the small suitcase.
heterosexual poly people who are assholes about queer people, btw, do exist but they are a *tiny* minority, and if those kind of people (like Aella et al) are who you think of when you think poly, you *basically are* letting cultural appropriators distort your view of a practice
*GOOGLE NOT REQUIRED TO SELL CHROME IN COURT ANTITRUST RULING
"Russia has never had, does not have, and will never have any desire to attack anyone" -- Putin in Beijing. He simply keeps mocking all those who, for 25 years, have bent over backwards for this petty creature, tiptoeing around him in fear and granting full license to his megalomania and sadism.
Something I didn't think possible
Put otherwise: Skill issue There are monogamous gays of course (I know some) but we gay males are notoriously poly and open and it's great having that option easily accessible with a lot of accumulated community wisdom about how to do it, actually.
to clarify this: polyamory was originally a practice from the LGBT community. it does not come from "polygamy," it is not an extension of some horny dude's desire to have multiple wives, it is a thing that heterosexuals who were in relationships with queer people picked up to a limited extent
I’m just normal
Ma réaction quand je vois le système de refroidissement
Considering her enthusiasm for both ghosts and unicorns that also tracks
It would completely track if she was poly too.
The one J6er I actually knew in a personal capacity (occasionally drank together at the same bar when I lived in the US) was a self-taught yoga instructor, health woo nut and self-declared "lover of gays" who was also a qanon transphobe who hated black people.
As an aside, I've long strongly suspected that the conservative bent of swinger culture is in part an attempt to emphasize that they're not like us *actual* sexual degenerates. It poses as a kind of über-straightness when it's really just fashy poly.
...the problem is that in a rich post-industrial society with current family structure norms for straights, the *opportunity cost* of having children is very high. Part of the solution is, obviously, to socialize childcare in some manner. Hence the French example.
There is a crucial general point here. I think a lot of people think of the problem as "it costs X to raise a child in an acceptable way, but I don't have X. So the state should help bridge the gap." But that isn't the problem...
I might put it like this. Just being straight is just being heterosexual in a clinical sense. It's a pure description of raw desire. Being *a* straight is being invested in heterosexuality qua institution, which is a whole other thing.
You straights can be adorable
A funny thing about this website being very PMC is that everyone’s reactionary hangups are channeled at poly people
Oh we're doing poly discourse, delicious *Grabs gay popcorn*
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As an Italian I like your way of doing things 😁
Based on the current pace of things, it looks like I'm going out to dinner rather than cooking. But the Italian food in this neighborhood is mostly shit. Where to go? 🤔
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