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9 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I guess that's more like, samoyed warmth.
Noah is always like "Twitter is a search for the worst of humanity" and IDK I think of it more as a way to talk to people I like about things I like to talk about.
Admittedly I am in that sweet spot of having 9000 followers.

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11 Jan
There's this weird black-and-white discourse pairing on this site where on the one hand "the elite are always the real fascists" but on the other hand "people are radicalized by material suffering" and it kind of just goes around in circles because they're both too simple duh.
So like when that guy shot up Vegas, someone found IDK he'd lost money gambling, "aha here's the material suffering!". But he was also rich so "aha, it's the rich guys you have to watch out for!". And it's all just like, scoring points or something?
So then people end up arguing about the material circumstances of these people they've never met based on like, pictures of their stuff, in order to score points for one or the other side, which then implies ??? about anything useful.
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10 Jan
How would the general public do?
I wonder how predictive you can or can't get of "general factor intelligence", math ability, education level, with a single question.
There's that "Wordsum" thing in the GSS, ten questions, supposedly does pretty well.
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10 Jan
Glad someone else noticed the terrible editing of "Man Of Steel". I honestly don't notice editing except when it's really egregious so it's nice to watch an analysis of why I sat there with my jaw on the floor at that midnight screening.
When I notice editing it's just like "this is...wrong and bad, isn't it?". But I don't really know how to explain it.
It did also have nice lighting though.
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9 Jan
I mean part of this is the problem with "never-ending stories". Batman CAN'T put a permanent dent in the Gotham crime problem (at least not the "Joker keeps killing everyone" kind of crime). Personally I just take each issue/run as its own thing.
If you want something where a galactic war story slowly transitions into a "managing a reasonable near-utopia" story, well, I bet there's some great sci-fi novel series (there must be, there are so many sci-fi novel series). But "Star Wars" just isn't likely to ever do that.
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9 Jan
"If Twitter were nationalized then it would have banned the President long ago" is an opinion probably someone on here has had.
I mean maybe, I don't actually know how aggressive it would be about such things. Would it depend on if it were run by like a Congressional committee vs. direct hires in the bureaucracy vs. Presidential appointees.
Or some kind of self-perpetuating quasi-independent board like uh, the New York Public Library? Is that how it works?
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8 Jan
Yeah I do not really know what the claim of the "this is what happens without humanities" people is. I don't know if they know what it is either.
There's kind of a parallel right-coded discourse but they call it "civics" or something.
I am, you know, pro-humanities, see for example how I spend all day reading and writing about politics and history as I have for many years. But is the idea that the median American knew more humanities in...1930? 1950? 1970? 2000? What?
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