A team of researchers, including Binghamton psychology professor Richard Mattson and graduate student Michael Shaw asked men between the ages of 18–25 to respond to hypothetical sexual hookup situations in which a woman responds passively to a sexual advance, meaning the woman does not express any overt verbal or behavioral...
“Big” is not a negative adjective. “Truck” is not (mostly) an identity or demographic group. You’d have to make up some term like maybe “murder trucks” to get close to an analogy. Would you not suppose that someone who advocated against “murder trucks” thought trucks were bad?
“Crowded” - maybe mildly negative. “Places” - not an identity or demographic.
“Toxic” - Ok. “People” - This hardly seems like an identity or demographic. Maybe if martians start talking about “toxic humans” we’d have an analogy.
And that whole last paragraph is just a straw man.
I was flying home with a snow globe souvenir one day. TSA had to huddle with their team and a calculator to figure out the volume of a sphere on the spot. I don’t know if the volume ended up being under the limit or they just gave up.
So I didn’t watch the video (I prefer to get my serious information in old-fashioned text form) but the topic at least has me thinking about degrowth.
Whenever I read about this theory, it’s typically presented in terms of GDP, “We need to reduce our GDP,” “We need to stop using GDP as a measure of progress,” etc. But it seems to me that GDP isn’t really the right topic. Is it not resource consumption that is the real target? Water, energy, food, steel, concrete, and so on.
This seems an important distinction to me in that GDP has several significant factors, including labor, productive capital (machines/factories), and knowledge, in addition to material inputs. You could, for example dramatically reduce GDP by bombing factories or suppressing technical knowledge. This would be a disaster in terms of human well-being, but also in terms of degrowth’s own objectives in that productive capital and technical knowledge enable more goods to be produced with less input resources in many cases.
Further, it is conceivable for it to occur that a breakthrough in technical knowledge would allow more valuable goods or services to be produced using fewer resources, and result in a situation where both GDP is going up, and resource consumption is going down. There are probably good, real examples of such technologies. The information revolution of the end of the 20th century is probably one of them.
It’s possible that this is more thoughtfully considered in the literature (I’m not terribly well-read on this topic) and I’d be interested in some good references in this direction. If not, I think many of the criticisms of degrowth are probably sound. I think it is unnecessary and undesirable to reduce the quality of life for the majority of people in order to create an economic system compatible with the real limits of ecological resources, and focusing on reducing GDP risks causing that.
If the focus is actually resource consumption, as I think it should be, then I think the rhetoric around GDP, and even the name degrowth, is misleading and unappealing to most people. It seems to me that the operative word ought to be efficiency. Doing more with less. In that view the path forward looks more like investing heavily in R&D, rearchitecting urban infrastructure, and driving down water, energy, and land usage per capita. GDP hardly seems relevant.
You know I had this same thought just the other day, and decided to look up some numbers to see just how comparable the situations really are. What I found was that the number of people attempting to cross the US southern border is like four times as many as have tried to cross into Europe, per year. No I didn’t bookmark the source, but you should be able to Google it up like I did. I don’t know why this is a much bigger problem in the US, but it does seem to be.
Pretty much title. I haven’t had cable in a decade, and I’m not really a sports person, so I’d really rather not have to sign up for some sports streaming package, but I do kinda like watching Avs games. A friend asked me why I didn’t just get an antenna to watch the games, but the broadcast TV page on the Denver Post...
Yeah I’ve done the whole ripped streams thing. It’s just the ads and spam and attempts to install crypto miners on my machine make the experience unenjoyable.
It’s a constitutional amendment that was ruled on. The Constitution applies the same in all states. If it were just Colorado law I think it would be much harder to appeal the ruling to the US Supreme Court.
People don’t hate on Epic because their store has content. They hate on Epic because they tried to buy market share with exclusivity deals. Nobody wants PC gaming to turn into the streaming services.
This is a classic case of tragedy of the commons, where a common resource is harmed by the profit interests of individuals. The traditional example of this is a public field that cattle can graze upon. Without any limits, individual cattle owners have an incentive to overgraze the land, destroying its value to everybody....
A truly poor analogy. LLMs don’t remove anything from anywhere. They consume no shared resource.
It’s been wild watching people flail about searching for arguments for why LLMs should be stopped. I’m not even saying they shouldn’t, just that I haven’t seen a solid argument for it.
“More than 5,400 minors were married in Michigan between 2000 and 2021, according to the nonprofit Unchained at Last. More than nine in 10 of the minors were girls, with 12 under the age of 16.”
So I guess it was mostly 16 and 17 year olds who now have to wait to 18.
Pakistan has a one of the more remarkably bad histories with blasphemy laws, if you’re looking for examples. I think they’re not uncommon in Muslim majority countries. Western nations had similar laws as well, but I think you have to go back a couple centuries to find them.
If your question is merely about public relations, sure it’s a terrible move. But I think there’s actually a more meaningful question underlying all this furor; what are the limits of friendship or love? What is one supposed to do when someone close does something horrible? Cast them aside? Pretend you never knew them?
Kutcher must have had some idea of the risk he was taking, but he did it anyway. I find that striking. For some people friendships can be like family. I feel like this is an older sentiment that doesn’t find expression often today. Would you find it appalling if Masterson’s mother spoke on behalf of his character, or should she likewise keep her distance?
I don’t know. It all just seems more complicated and tragic than the typical social media mob can process.
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A team of researchers, including Binghamton psychology professor Richard Mattson and graduate student Michael Shaw asked men between the ages of 18–25 to respond to hypothetical sexual hookup situations in which a woman responds passively to a sexual advance, meaning the woman does not express any overt verbal or behavioral...
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Can I watch Avs Games with an Antenna?
Pretty much title. I haven’t had cable in a decade, and I’m not really a sports person, so I’d really rather not have to sign up for some sports streaming package, but I do kinda like watching Avs games. A friend asked me why I didn’t just get an antenna to watch the games, but the broadcast TV page on the Denver Post...
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