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ultrafilter posted:The prefix "trans" shows up all over the place, but I can't recall seeing "cis" outside of chemical names. Because it's practically never used, and neither is it's antonym: trans = on the other side of. Trans- primary definition is across, and it most often describes the direction of a certain motion rather than a static position. The Romans slapped it on the front of approximately a million different verbs, later languages like English picked those words up and now trans- is all over the place, while the much less versatile cis- is largely confined to chemistry and nerds reading old books about Roman conquests.
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It sounds like there's a story here that I have no awareness of. Did this guy show his rear end with this "New Discourses" thing?
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Lemniscate Blue posted:It sounds like there's a story here that I have no awareness of. Did this guy show his rear end with this "New Discourses" thing? He and his ilk are trying to conflate "trans women are women" with "2 + 2 = 5" as clearly false statements that the evil SJWs are forcing people to believe. People with way more education than sense have had fun showing that it's not so obvious and that the Orwellian connotation is false, to which he replied with a long screed about how he knows math but everybody hates math or something (he has a Math PhD).
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Here's Kareem Carr, the guy James Lindsay tried to cancel, explaining why 2 + 2 does equal 5 in certain contexts: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a33547137/why-some-people-think-2-plus-2-equals-5/ Notably, despite what his bad-faith critics say, it's not because everything is meaningless and facts don't matter.
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The very important detail you need to understand is that Kareem is black and a Harvard grad student. For some people, that's a problem in and of itself.
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Has anybody coined the term "cisteria" for people getting het up about the prefix cis?
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And I'm proud to be an rear end in a top hat from El Paso ...
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Aug 9, 2020 01:41
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That guy's display picture is damnably familiar, wasn't there some account a while ago that had that and it was either a parody or another really weird racism account?
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My "2+2=4" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
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Pththya-lyi posted:Here's Kareem Carr, the guy James Lindsay tried to cancel, explaining why 2 + 2 does equal 5 in certain contexts: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a33547137/why-some-people-think-2-plus-2-equals-5/ 
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there wolf posted:Because it's practically never used, and neither is it's antonym: trans = on the other side of.
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Skwirl posted:Some follow up This is many pages back, so I am sorry. But why isn't Wohl in jail? If I remember rightly when he made false rape accusations against Robert Mueller(?), or it could have been one of the other ones, the thing was forwarded to the FBI, who tend to take that kind of poo poo seriously. So what, if any, legal repercussions did the lying fascist grifter face?
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BrigadierSensible posted:So what, if any, legal repercussions did the lying fascist grifter face? is this a serious question? considering who is in the white house?
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This is some Ayn Rand stuff. In Atlas Shrugged, John Galt keeps saying objectivism is all based on A=A but never really explains.
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Gross Dude posted:This is some Ayn Rand stuff. In Atlas Shrugged, John Galt keeps saying objectivism is all based on A=A but never really explains. Isn't the A=A something from Mister A, that objectivist comic book by Steve Ditko? I can never remember the history of all this
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BrigadierSensible posted:This is many pages back, so I am sorry. his dad's rich
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Shirec posted:Isn't the A=A something from Mister A, that objectivist comic book by Steve Ditko? I can never remember the history of all this Ditko was a Randian, Mister A is based on her philosophy, and Rorschach was based on Alan Moore realizing how crazy Ditko was
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Pinus Porcus posted:Yea, retail and restaurant workers aren't paid enough to deal with the verbal abuse from folks over masks, much less the more physically violent types. Hey, Louisville Kroger employee here. So first, that guy is a store manager. He is paid enough to deal with that, it is his job to deal with that, and he is explicitly the only person in the store allowed to deal with that. But second, unlike other stores that have followed through on their mask policies, Kroger absolutely has not. When KY implemented a mask mandate, Kroger’s position was “ask nicely then let them shop.” And now that it is ‘Kroger Policy’ that you have to wear a mask inside the store? Same thing. Tl;dr: If you want to shop for your groceries somewhere that enforces masks and social distancing, stay far away from any Kroger or Kroger-owned store.
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killa-pope posted:Hey, Louisville Kroger employee here. Where I am, the only place that truly enforces is the Costco 60 miles away. No employee want to deal with the absolutely insane backlash. As someone pointed out, a person was shot over this. I hate it, but I understand the apathy. I will grant, as the store manager, he is the one dude paid to deal with poo poo. I thought he was just one of the normal managers, some of whom get paid like poo poo, so sorry about that. Also, Kroger is just a poo poo company anyway. Expecting competency (no offense) is something I gave up on there decades ago.
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BrigadierSensible posted:This is many pages back, so I am sorry. Being white and having money makes you invincible
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Mak0rz posted:Being white and having money makes you invincible Until you piss off someone richer, whiter, and more powerful. See: Martin Shkreli, the Enron people, that Ponzi scheme guy, Conrad Black, Micheal Milken, and dozens of others. Wohl is stepping all up in it and is absolutely not connected or rich enough to get away with this poo poo forever.
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Doc Hawkins posted:his dad's rich His dad’s not rich. He’s a grifter, and Jacob takes after him.
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doesnt Wohl have a life time ban on fin trading? (thats some how a thing??), he's already effed with richer people's money and now he just does that weird con/griefing game. if you want to see a a truely immune fail sons (that also have the family / social connections to actually get some real minor power), look at the Donnie sons, James O'Keefe, and tiny Ben.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:And I'm proud to be an rear end in a top hat from El Paso ...  can you mail me some chicos?
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These things are always like "The guy had dark skin, differently colored than mine, not white, wore some clothes I guess"
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1Period2Spaces posted:I had a criminal justice class in college in a big auditorium. The prof was on a sort of stage in front. On one particular day, mid-way through the lecture, a guy came from stage left, walked all the way across the stage in full view of everyone, grabbed her purse, and exited stage left. She then stopped and had everyone write down an eyewitness statement identifying the person that just walked in full view of 200+ people. He was anywhere from 5'5 to 6'5, and was literally every form of brown person that you could think of. Indian. South American. Black guy. Mexican. It was amazing, and horrifying. I didn't do any better than anyone else.
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Gross Dude posted:This is some Ayn Rand stuff. In Atlas Shrugged, John Galt keeps saying objectivism is all based on A=A but never really explains. I’m surprised they’re not going with the THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS thing from Star Trek, seems like it’s more on the nose
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Data Graham posted:I’m surprised they’re not going with the THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS thing from Star Trek, seems like it’s more on the nose Oh, I assure you that some replies have that, too.
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Four lights on the edge of a cliff...
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Criminal justice works the same way.
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Gross Dude posted:This is some Ayn Rand stuff. In Atlas Shrugged, John Galt keeps saying objectivism is all based on A=A but never really explains. I think the 2+2 thing is a 1984 reference. The fact that Ayn Rand may have cribbed a better author like Orwell should surprise nobody. Both of them had a grievance with the way the CPSU attempted to exert total control over the historic narrative in the USSR. Comparing this to how it's unpopular to say racist and transphobic poo poo in academia is of course just a huge persecution complex circle jerk.
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Gross Dude posted:This is some Ayn Rand stuff. In Atlas Shrugged, John Galt keeps saying objectivism is all based on A=A but never really explains. he's saying that moral truths can be determined by using your big logical brain to observe the world, and that from there the only rational and objective course of action is to ban food stamps and sell babies for profit if that's what you want to do objectivism is a joke philosophy waved around by assholes because it sounds smart enough to get you in the door of the big boy academics. like it mimics the trappings of formal philosophy just enough that you can pretend it is one, like a kid wearing his dad's suit
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Computer, show me The Fakest Post:
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Stack Machine posted:I think the 2+2 thing is a 1984 reference. The fact that Ayn Rand may have cribbed a better author like Orwell should surprise nobody. Both of them had a grievance with the way the CPSU attempted to exert total control over the historic narrative in the USSR. Comparing this to how it's unpopular to say racist and transphobic poo poo in academia is of course just a huge persecution complex circle jerk. It's like how "people will get unfairly fired for exercising their religious freedom
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Pinus Porcus posted:Where I am, the only place that truly enforces is the Costco 60 miles away. No employee want to deal with the absolutely insane backlash. As someone pointed out, a person was shot over this. I hate it, but I understand the apathy. I will grant, as the store manager, he is the one dude paid to deal with poo poo. I thought he was just one of the normal managers, some of whom get paid like poo poo, so sorry about that. I love that Costco enforces it, and Target enforces it here as well. Can’t speak for any other place as I try to limit my already over-exposed self as much as possible. And no offense taken! There was a lot of underlying frustration getting vented in my post, and I just wanted to make sure everybody was on the same page about management v labor. They will call the police in a heartbeat if they think somebody’s going to walkout with a $100 grocery order, but a somebody who could be infected with a pandemic-causing virus not taking basic precautions is a hands-off matter. Anyway, have an idiot tax: If you’re going to set up a dummy page, set up a dummy email to go with it. https://twitter.com/tinybaby/status/1292514787331411968?s=21
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It was a gag. https://twitter.com/adam_rahuba/status/1292522575982141441?s=21 My internet cynicism got set off by the ‘too easy to find’ Shapiro email address, that turned it from a fake right wing run site to a fake left wing run site.
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