oo, like fatbergs 🤢

beautiful 🥲

ah, of course

How did he take this photo?

hm, I do think what I meant by “yay” is some kind of supportive or positive emotional response, which is still happening when you are upvoting terrible news for being informative, i.e. what you are responding to with “yay” is being informed and wishing others to be informed, not the content of the news itself.

(For context I’m drawing on the metaethical theory of emotivism here as a framework.)

I think this has been covered already.

Sometimes. I think the meaning of the arrows are somewhat contextual.

Downvoting spam for example isn’t “disagreement”, but it is a kind of disapproval.

Upvoting your post isn’t “agreement”, but I do it because I think it’s an interesting question (maybe a kind of approval)?

If we generalized I guess we could ask whether upvotes are always relating positive emotion (approval, agreement, joy, etc.) and downvotes always relating negative emotion (disagreement, disapproval, anger, etc.)?

That is, are upvotes “yays” and downvotes “boos”?

Oh, sorry - maybe I wasn’t clear. That’s not what the video implied was going to happen, the audience always knew nobody was going to be hurt, and that the train was going to be stopped before it hit the workers. The episode shows how the “live” video feeds were actually recordings.

What was upsetting was that they made it seem like there was someone not in the know who thought they were actually having to make that choice, who didn’t know it was staged, which of course would be unethical.

vsauce’s trolley problem episode made me lose respect for him - he pretended to simulate the actual trolley problem, so you watch the episode thinking real people are being put in a situation where they have to make a choice of whether to pull a lever and kill one person or not pull the lever and let three people die. They even have an ethics board. This is of course distressing to watch because you think he’s doing this unethical thing by forcing them to actually make that choice. He never discloses, but researching the people in the video I found out they were actually actors, so the audience was being duped by thinking it was real. Either way it’s deceitful and upsetting.

like that time Elon Musk removed all the LiDAR sensors from Tesla vehicles that allowed them to be driven safely on auto-pilot?

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/critics-call-teslas-elon-musk-irresponsible-for-casting-doubt-on-need-for-lidar-sensors-in-self-driving-cars-2019-05-26

You are capable of googling and finding Elon Musk’s history of cost-cutting, he guts products - Twitter is another great example

This article is written by James Hayton, a professor at a business school focused on “innovation” and “entrepreneurship”, and who received funding from the Nuffield Foundation, founded by William Morris, one of the largest financiers of the British fascist movement.

Just to be clear about the ideological commitments of the author and his financiers. I would suggest taking this article with a lot of skepticism.

yesss

CW: self-harm

I enjoyed self-harming and feeling pain when I was dissociating a lot, I think there are clearly examples where people inflict pain on themselves for non-sexual and non-religious (i.e. not for punitive / atoning) reasons. Besides some kinds of self-harm, eating spicy food seems like a clear example of this. Pain releases endorphins, you can get high on pain. For what it’s worth, I also have enjoyed every physical trauma I have experienced (being hit by a car, being thrown over the handlebars of my bicycle at speed and my face hitting the asphalt first, etc.).

yeah, was going to say - there have been trans mass shooters, lol

Another notable case:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Springs_nightclub_shooting

Aldrich’s attorneys have said in court documents that their client identifies as non-binary and uses they/them pronouns, preferring to be addressed as Mx. Aldrich. Neighbors allege Aldrich to have made hateful comments towards the LGBT community in the past, including frequent usage of homophobic slurs. Aldrich never mentioned being non-binary prior to the shooting and was referred to with masculine pronouns by family members. Police testified they found rainbow-colored shooting targets in Aldrich’s home. Experts in online extremism have voiced the possibility that Aldrich’s proclaimed self-identification could be disingenuous, while the Center for Countering Digital Hate acknowledges the suspect’s past actions and impact on the LGBT community.

I am personally inclined to agree that the self-identification is likely disingenuous, a stunt for the courtroom (maybe to make it harder to argue he committed hate crimes).

I took my partner’s last name because I like their family more than mine, and I liked the idea of no longer being associated with my family.

But I think most people just want to do what is normal or expected of them, so I would imagine that is why most women change their name. Not doing so would go against the grain, putting them in awkward situations where they have to explain they didn’t take the last name.

Since I transitioned I’ve been thinking a lot about how little I knew about trans people until I realized I was one and then took much more seriously educating myself.

It makes me feel ashamed because of how little I understand so many other oppressed groups, and how little true empathy I have. Even if on the surface I have respect for people and consider myself an “ally” to various groups, I feel I should do more than just signal respect and support. Maybe it’s an unrealistically high bar, but my conscience certainly thinks I need to do more to empathize with and better understand other groups.

I can’t help but feel my default tendency is towards a kind of accidental tribalism - I understand perspectives I choose to engage with and understand and this results in a cultural cloistering, an accidental in-and-out-grouping because of how I naturally do or don’t understand someone’s life experience based on my own. Unless I go out of my way to do a lot of work to understand other perspectives, I otherwise won’t be likely to do that.

the tl;dr is that they are not really feminists, and they use feminist-sounding rhetoric to justify anti-trans views, they’re basically just anti-trans activists.

For more rabbit-hole, ContraPoints has a video about “Gender Criticals” (synonymous with TERF): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pTPuoGjQsI

Her video on JK Rowling would be a good follow-up.