4/
the correct answer is, of course,
"and who isn't?"
5/
my view:

don't let the subject of beauty vs profanity tear up a good community.

the problem is that standards require society-wide enforcement, but the subject is very private; nuance and exceptions abound.
6/
most of publicly available pornography is evil. both because it harms the people taking part, and also because it taints the beauty of human body and erotic love.

most of publicly available nude high art has element of sexual attraction and erotic love.

dual is human nature.
7/
any *human* who sells you a "silver bullet", one-stop, all-encompassing solution is lying to you.

respect your elders and do your utmost. the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

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9 Dec
1/
>keeping manufacturing capability up and running is bad

it's good. expensive, sure, but good none the less. especially several *competing* programs and organizations in parallel.
2/
>rockets and tech wins wars

???

we've been there before, several times in fact. every single time humans turned out to be better at it. every time guns were removed from a fighter aircraft, they had to be re-introduced *ex post haste*.

3/
"but mark", i hear you object, "how could an imperfect human perform better than a perfect machine?"

humans are much better at making spot decisions
and at OODA, precision observation, etc.

than at predicting all possible scenarios and programming machines.
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1/
#Substack - good for dissenting writing or not really?

i've been reading their ToS & guidelines, thread follows
2/
the hot piece first: Content Guidelines

nebulous "Hate" is banned. even including *calls for exclusion* based on protected characteristics 🤐.

no more Boy Scouts or Lady's Day at the gym 🤡 Image
3/
Content Guidelines, cont.:

>anything that violates laws or regulations

obey Pakistani blasphemy laws? nah, luckily the Publisher Agreement ascertains that's the California, USA, jurisdiction. not bad, but...

>causing harm

in CA that means "criticism of feminists". welp :-( ImageImage
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1/
Alex delivers interesting news 👌

let's grab a few choice screencaps
2/
>yay book burning

wtf journalist. wtf? Image
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>reactive censorship is not enough

wtf journalist. wtf?? Image
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8 Dec
1/
reminder, there are plenty of short leftist memes floating around

we don't consider them *memes* because the reward is very alien to us (moral permission to do evil for "greater good")

2/
Daniel implies that strong reactions are propagandized, while natural reactions are weak and need deep deprogramming to surface.

3/
what is leftism?

*destroying social structure*, says Daniel

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2/
reminded me of this 2017 vintage
>i'm a professor
>how dare you
>f--k you >f--k you >f--k you

ah yes, the good old one

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6 Dec
1/
a good read, recommend.

critique follows downthread.
2/
the language choices made - what do they tell us about the author?

how do they influence which readers will return to revisit the this particular article? Image
3/
a lot of #trad superstructure, and yet none of the keel of #RespectYourElders to be found
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