If Mort Divine ruled the world

[rms]

welp, another can 'o worms

 

[Dak]

I was quite young when I saw Forrest Gump. I didn’t know who Gary Sinise was then (sorry, Gary) and for the first time IN MY LIFE, I saw another human being whose body looked like mine, a double above-the-knee amputee (don’t get me started on the fact that he was a man — lack of female perspective is a separate letter altogether). Then I found out that Gary was able-bodied, wearing long green socks on his lower legs, and they erased them out of the film. And in that instant, I felt erased too.

Sounds like someone needs therapy, not pampering their pettiness.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Individuals with disabilities make up almost 20% of the world’s population. We are the largest minority and the “most marginalized group in Hollywood,” according to a 2017 study conducted by Fox, CBS and the Ruderman Family Foundation (an organization I know you are aware of and engaging with now). The study found that in last year’s TV season, less than 2% of characters were written to have a disability and of THOSE characters, 95% of the roles were filled with able-bodied actors.

Pretty sure that 20% figure includes mental illness and that there's no shortage of that in Hollywood. Not sure how being a depressed pedophile qualifies one to play a below-the-knee amputee though.

 

[Dak]

Pretty sure that 20% figure includes mental illness and that there's no shortage of that in Hollywood. Not sure how being a depressed pedophile qualifies one to play a below-the-knee amputee though.

Yeah that figure seems a bit inflated. Certainly not referring to paraplegics.

 

[Dak]

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...-might-be-misunderstanding-conservatives.html

These scales, in short, are all too often structured in a way in which respondents’ tendencies toward dogmatism or close-mindedness or intolerance are ascertained by asking them about issues that are politicized. And while social and political psychologists have sometimes asked about rigidity in ways designed to tap liberal ideas — the famed authoritarianism researcher Bob Altemeyer, for example, did publish a left-wing authoritarianism scale — this has been the exception rather than the norm.

Why this asymmetry? The Malka team carefully states early in its chapter that “[W]e make no claim that ideological bias plays a role” in any of the rigidity of the right model’s shortcomings, and that they “leave that as a matter for other scholars to debate.” But one obvious possibility that other social psychologists have raised, in both this context and others, is that certain weaknesses in the field flow from how ideologically slanted it is: Within social psychology, there is something like a 14-to-1 ratio in favor of liberal-identifying researchers relative to conservative-identifying ones. Even if you’re not broadly sympathetic to the idea that liberal bias in academia is a major problem — and I certainly view that claim as overstated — 14-to-1 is, well, a big gap. That’s how blind spots creep in — that’s how you keeping gauging study subjects’ “sensitivity to threat” by asking them about crime or terrorism, but rarely about climate change or right-wing police violence, and then “discover” that conservatives are more sensitive to threat. “This sort of ‘soft bias’ can be really hard to spot if most or all researchers have the same ideological outlook because it is built into people’s ideologically guided beliefs about reality,” said Yoel Inbar, a psychology researcher at the University of Toronto and a co-author of a key paper that revealed the ideological tilt within social and personality psychology. “Worrying about the threats your side cares about seems entirely well-founded and reasonable, worrying about those the other side cares about demands an explanation.”

 

[rms]

you guys give a shit about Zuckerberg/Facebook's stance on eliminating fake news?

MZ: I’m Jewish, and there’s a set of people who deny that the Holocaust happened.

Interviewer: Yes, there’s a lot.

MZ: I find that deeply offensive. But at the end of the day, I don’t believe that our platform should take that down because I think there are things that different people get wrong. I don’t think that they’re intentionally getting it wrong, but I think-

Interviewer: In the case of the Holocaust deniers, they might be, but go ahead.

MZ: It’s hard to impugn intent and to understand the intent. I just think, as abhorrent as some of those examples are, I think the reality is also that I get things wrong when I speak publicly. I’m sure you do. I’m sure a lot of leaders and public figures we respect do too, and I just don’t think that it is the right thing to say, “We’re going to take someone off the platform if they get things wrong, even multiple times.” What we will do is we’ll say, “Okay, you have your page, and if you’re not trying to organize harm against someone, or attacking someone, then you can put up that content on your page, even if people might disagree with it or find it offensive.” But that doesn’t mean that we have a responsibility to make it widely distributed in News Feed. I think we, actually, to the contrary-

https://www.recode.net/2018/7/18/17588116/mark-zuckerberg-clarifies-holocaust-denial-offensive

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I thought it was funny how he said that several hours after Obama made a statement about not silencing people for being white or male, which in turn came several hours after Soros saying some Democrats were moving too far to the left. Libs are starting to realize that identity politics can and do backfire.

Also, I like the Politico article where they discuss the Zuckerberg thing and randomly through "Infowars" into the title, never directly saying that Alex Jones is a holocaust denier but never attempting to differentiate the two. Fingers crossed that Zuckerberg buys his way into the DNC nomination for maximum lulz.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/mb4e7n/how-to-treat-fat-people-ally-fatphobia

Can't wait for the day of the gastric band.

 

[Dak]

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/mb4e7n/how-to-treat-fat-people-ally-fatphobia

Can't wait for the day of the gastric band.

"16. Understand that “fat” and “unhealthy” are not the same thing."

Not all unhealthy people are fat, but all fat people are unhealthy. Sort of like not all criminals are illegal immigrants, but all illegal immigrants are criminals.

21. Erase the words “obesity epidemic” from your vocabulary. Demonization of fat bodies is a classic scapegoating tool employed by governments. When they talk about the "obesity epidemic," they’re using coded language to get you to blame systematic societal problems (poverty, crime, climate change) on poor communities and communities of color. You’re smarter than that.

Cool story bro. I guess I'm just imagining the "POC" I see weekly with heart failure in their 30s.

 

[The Ozzman]

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/mb4e7n/how-to-treat-fat-people-ally-fatphobia

Can't wait for the day of the gastric band.

>vice

The day of the rope can't come soon enough for those knuckle draggers

 

[Dak]

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-poli...noah-france-french-ambassador-araud-world-cup

Trevor Noah believes genetics = nationality. uH OoOoh. Actually, he's not nuanced enough for that. Africa is not a homogeneous suite.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

tbf there probably is a small percentage of people that are fat and healthy, in as much as "healthy" is defined along terms of longevity and not the ability to run a mile in a certain amount of time. I watched a shitton of Hogan's Heroes as a kid with my brothers, and it blew our mind that Leon Askin/General Burkhalter almost hit 100 and outlived almost all of the rest of the cast, despite being quite fat for at least the last 50 years of his life. Some people pack it away only in their bellies instead of their arteries I guess. Of course, Sgt Schulz died in his early 60s.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-poli...noah-france-french-ambassador-araud-world-cup

Trevor Noah believes genetics = nationality. uH OoOoh. Actually, he's not nuanced enough for that. Africa is not a homogeneous suite.

One of the few cases where the comment section of some American TV host's video was the source of reason. A few of those players have origins in the Congo, which was colonized by Belgium, not France (Trevor Noah apparently considers the fact that some Africans speak French to be an atrocity unto itself).

It is funny to me seeing that Europeans are actually less governed by leftist racial politics than the USA is. Will be interesting to see if they hold to that or if they're just in a place where America was in the 60s or so.

 

[Dak]

tbf there probably is a small percentage of people that are fat and healthy, in as much as "healthy" is defined along terms of longevity and not the ability to run a mile in a certain amount of time. I watched a shitton of Hogan's Heroes as a kid with my brothers, and it blew our mind that Leon Askin/General Burkhalter almost hit 100 and outlived almost all of the rest of the cast, despite being quite fat for at least the last 50 years of his life. Some people pack it away only in their bellies instead of their arteries I guess. Of course, Sgt Schulz died in his early 60s.

Longevity is not the greatest marker with modern medicine. We can keep a very unhealthy but medication etc regimen adherent person alive for quite some time past their more accurate expiration date. Plus there's always an anomaly possible. Schultz is more the norm.

Excess weight all by itself contributes to hypertension first and foremost, which when unmanaged destroys pretty much every organ in the body. Of course, the likelihood of finding a healthy obese person (and specifically referring to someone where the weight is coming from fat, not muscle; healthy meaning no sorts of diagnoses like hypertension, T2DM/PreT2DM, etc) over the age of 30 are rapidly vanishing.

 

[rms]

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-poli...noah-france-french-ambassador-araud-world-cup

Trevor Noah believes genetics = nationality. uH OoOoh. Actually, he's not nuanced enough for that. Africa is not a homogeneous suite.

it is kind of messing me up on this, though. I disagree with Araud, fundamentally, in that when one becomes French they rid themselves of any cultural and ethnic heritage they may bring with them (or should [must]). This has always been my opinion of European race relations though and for him to say it so publically is hilariously bad. Saying Africa won the WC is stupid though, as I doubt he would have said it Brazil won again

going through the vox article and the author goes from "traditional French assimilationism" to "than by a racist French politician" within like 2 paragraphs

 

[Dak]

https://www.newsweek.com/shell-gas-...nty-sheriffs-office-natural-ice-1032333?amp=1

Tired of the "didn't deserve to die over X". Play stupid games win stupid prizes. Loled a bit that the strongest praise was "he was a half-decent guy". A half decent felon who steals beer supposedly on his way to work after probably hitting his gf.

 

[rms]

firing a missile into a dwelling

wtf

 

[HamburgerBoy]

https://www.newsweek.com/shell-gas-...nty-sheriffs-office-natural-ice-1032333?amp=1

Tired of the "didn't deserve to do over X". Play stupid games win stupid prizes. Loled a bit that the strongest praise was "he was a half-decent guy". A half decent felon who steals beer supposedly on his way to work after probably hitting his gf.

I hope the shooter gets off. I was disappointed to learn that Florida's castle doctrine doesn't protect defense of property in this kind of case, as it would have in Texas.

 

[The Ozzman]

>Natural Ice

C'mon dude, at least make it worth your while. That's some Yoda level shit.

 

[Dak]

https://www.econlib.org/third-thoughts-about-trigger-warnings/

Spot on:

However, there is a deeper problem with trigger warnings. According to the most-basic tenets of psychology, the very idea of helping people with anxiety disorders avoid the things they fear is misguided. A person who is trapped in an elevator during a power outage may panic and think she is going to die… If you want this woman to retain her fear for life, you should help her avoid elevators.
...........
Students who call for trigger warnings may be correct that some of their peers are harboring memories of trauma that could be reactivated by course readings. But they are wrong to try to prevent such reactivations. Students with PTSD should of course get treatment, but they should not try to avoid normal life, with its many opportunities for habituation… And they’d better get their habituation done in college, because the world beyond college will be far less willing to accommodate requests for trigger warnings and opt-outs.