If Mort Divine ruled the world

[Einherjar86]

Couldn't do better at this point in his presidency.

 

[Dak]

Poll numbers man, poll numbers.

 

[Einherjar86]

Masses gonna mass.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Daily reminder that we live in a federal Republic and that NYC's representatives have far more responsibility to their city than Trump does.

 

[Dak]

Daily reminder that we live in a federal Republic and that NYC's representatives have far more responsibility to their city than Trump does.

*Should have

 

[CiG]

Kinda old but still gold.

 

[Dak]

The longer the pandemic persists, the more likely that we have a hard right pendulum swing politically. Liberal philosophical memetics (and I mean this in the broadest sense, to include classical liberalism) are not well equipped to deal with concrete external threats. The virus is a concrete external threat. The geopolitical and economic order that will emerge the longer this lasts is going to reveal a multiplicity of concrete threats and is going to deal harshly with the liberal/left world view in ways the liberal/left world view cannot even fully comprehend because their views are so baked into/emerge from the current system.

 

[CiG]

#NoRefunds

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

@Mort Divine

 

[Dak]

I was thinking recently about what is wrong with the current state of "science", and the "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" issue, being otherwise characterized as the small minded looking for keys only under the streetlights, seems to encapsulate most of it.

Edit: Not to suggest that I'm remotely the first to think of this, but I'm agreeing with others who have suggested it.

 

[Einherjar86]

I don't know what you're talking about specifically, but here's a quick thought:

The keys-under-streetlight joke is a metaphor. The point is that if we try and see something where sight doesn't work, the odds that our efforts will be fruitless go way up. It's true that science shifts when people think outside the box, as Thomas Kuhn has shown; but it's also true that among herds of scientists thinking outside the box, very few of them will produce anything of long-lasting value. In a time-crunch scenario like the one we're in, looking for solutions in darkness amounts to little more than toddlers throwing Nerf darts at a goal post.

I'm all for trying to see solutions in the dark; but when we're faced with high mortality rates (relatively speaking) and a small window of time, the responsible scientific thing to do is put its trust in the light (i.e. known and tested bodies of knowledge).

 

[Dak]

I don't know what you're talking about specifically, but here's a quick thought:

The keys-under-streetlight joke is a metaphor. The point is that if we try and see something where sight doesn't work, the odds that our efforts will be fruitless go way up. It's true that science shifts when people think outside the box, as Thomas Kuhn has shown; but it's also true that among herds of scientists thinking outside the box, very few of them will produce anything of long-lasting value. In a time-crunch scenario like the one we're in, looking for solutions in darkness amounts to little more than toddlers throwing Nerf darts at a goal post.

I'm all for trying to see solutions in the dark; but when we're faced with high mortality rates (relatively speaking) and a small window of time, the responsible scientific thing to do is put its trust in the light (i.e. known and tested bodies of knowledge).

I was thinking more broadly rather than specifically what's going on with the SarsCov2 response.

 

[Dak]

Trump has done half as well as he should have, and twice as good as most would have liked.

 

[Dak]

https://twitter.com/CureHipHop/status/1250576334201466880?s=20

Republican minority outreach success. Only took ~$23-30bn.

 

[rms]

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1252722338254159872?s=19

Privilege relativism lol

 

[CiG]

@TechnicalBarbarity just heard LTG got banned from EVO Championship Series for shitting on a trans participant and then the trans participant got banned from the same place because someone dug up an old Tweet of theirs using racial slurs lmfao.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

GETCHO DICK SPLIT!

amazing. Fuck EVO. Those wokelets are going to go down the drain if they keep banning everyone in the FGC because of nonsense like this. Shit talking IS and ALWAYS WILL be a part of the FGC.

And that lame wasnt even completely bashing trannies either. He did say something retarded along the lines of "if you really want to be a girl..." nah brah, a guy cant be a girl.

 

[CiG]

And that rant happened because he ragequit their match lmao. But yeah EVO is trash.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

And that rant happened because he ragequit their match lmao.

i would've been disappointed if he didnt. It's become one of his staples. Hes so used to it that even when he doesnt ragequit, he actually goes through the menu and has to stop himself from quitting the game.

 

[CiG]

Yeah he does that all the time it's funny as fuck.