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"True facts can be hyperstitious slurs. “Black people commit more crime” is a hyperstitious slur, in the sense that racists talk about it more than non-racists, this helps it become a signal for racism, the fact that it’s a known signal for racism causes non-racists to talk about it even less than they would otherwise, and the vicious cycle ends with it being a very strong signal for racism and non-racists avoiding mentioning it."
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/give-up-seventy-percent-of-the-way?utm_source=pocket_mylist
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I still think that REPLs should run in strict mode by default.
The status quo confuses people: I just got yet another complaint why code from my book (which assumes strict mode) doesn’t work as expected.
https://exploringjs.com/impatient-js/ch_syntax.html#strict-mode
#JavaScript
A moment after your child is born, doctors offer you a **one-time pill** for your newborn that would greatly increase the probability that they join the **social and economic elite** (high-rank politician, big company executive, top sportsperson, very rich person, popular intellectual, etc). Only side effect: the pill would also greatly increase the probability that they end up at the **bottom of the social ladder** (criminal, incarcerated, homeless, addicted, suicidal, murdered, etc). Assume the pill is known to be safe and effective.
_Would you give that pill to your child?_
I'm here to correct the #WorldBank: in 🇪🇸 Spain there is no “legal #gender parity”.
Some examples of discriminatory laws:
* Male heirs to the Crown are still given preference over female ones.
* Working mothers get €100/month for three years (including adopting mothers, so it's not about pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding). Working fathers are excluded, unless they are the sole guardians of the child.
* Increased retirement pension pay for mothers only (including adopting mothers, so it's not about pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding). Lesbian couples are both entitled. All males, including gay couples, excluded.
* The law against “gender violence” imposes harsher punishments for men, ceteris paribus. For instance, someone suspect of “coercion and threats” will be detained only if they are male. Fines and prison sentences are different, too.
* A number of institutions, programmes, subsidies and quotas for victims of domestic abuse are available for women only.
* Lower acceptance standards and dedicated quotas for women in many public examinations and public service positions.
There are [lots of laws like this at the national, regional and local level](https://diferenciaslegaleshombremujerenespana.law.blog/) [page in Spanish].
So: no, in #Spain #women are not “on an
equal legal standing with #men in all of the areas measured”.
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A Fire That Gives Birth to Worlds
AI-generated image that I modified in GIMP.
#AI #AIArt #Generative #GenerativeArt #GIMP #Psychedelic #Psychedelia #Rainbow #Colorful #DigitalArt #Art #MastoArt #ArtistOnMastodon
I disagree fundamentally:
Money is not “successful under current conditions in most countries”. Money is the name we give to our better units of value, in general. Even in a Utopian egalitarian society, as long as there are ways to communicate and transfer value, there would be “money” (_that_ would be money), and that “money” would be “successful”.
> So what would “superior” mean to you?
I care about (minimising) suffering above anything else. Well-being is a good proxy for that. And economic output is a good proxy for well-being.
I'm not saying economic growth is all that matters. But GDP per capita is at least concrete and measurable.
Alternative metrics should be well-defined and measurable, too. Otherwise they're not better than economic metrics.
“Textile workers” who are able to “give up their jobs” are, by your own definition, not slaves. The fact that they would do even worse if they decided to resign is unfortunate, but poverty is the natural state of things, and even so it has been declining.
See it this way: would they be better off if that textile industry didn't exist in the first place?
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@admitsWrongIfProven Me too. The Mastodon UI isn't good for that.
My first reaction is: that is allowed now. There are worker cooperatives. No need to change anything.
Then, if that kind of company were superior in some way (more competitive, more stable), market forces (both consumer decisions and workers voting with their feet) would make them rise to the top, and the model would spread. Why doesn't it?
And, breaking news, slavery ended (in liberal democracies). I have been working for almost two decades, and was never slaved nor owned by anybody. I don't even know what you're talking about.
The World Health Organisation groups all causes of death into three large categories.
These were the [global ratios men/women in the last year available (2019)](https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/themes/mortality-and-global-health-estimates/ghe-leading-causes-of-death) for those categories.
Happy #InternationalWomensDay!
First it was #LouisePerry's [case against the sexual revolution](https://www.louisemperry.co.uk/).
Then came #MaryHarrington's [reactionary feminism](https://swiftpress.com/book/feminism-against-progress/).
TIL about #ChristineEmba [rethinking sex](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/622579/rethinking-sex-by-christine-emba/).
What's going on?
I pick up the #kids from school, take them to the park where I play with them and give them their afternoon snack, take them home, keep them busy for a while, bathe them in turns, prepare and give them dinner, clear up the kitchen a bit, brush their teeth, prepare a baby bottle, read them a story in bed and get them to sleep. And at the time of writing these lines they are still alive. (My wife has a long work day plus some appointments today — other times it's the other way around, of course.)
After all that I feel superhuman.
I'm not asking for a medal or anything: this is my responsibility, and I chose this life.
But it makes me realise that in spite of all my complaints about modern #feminism (and boy do I have some complaints about modern feminism) and my tireless defence of men and fathers, it's clear that
#MUMS ARE FUCKING AWESOME, AND THEY HAVE BEEN AWESOME FOR MILLENNIA.
Much respect.
That's a great way to look at it.
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@tripu “Capital” is, for the most part, just another word for “savings”.
Whoever is against capital is also against savings, knowingly or not. And people unable to accumulate capital/savings are forever wage slaves.
Even a UBI will keep people as dependent on the UBI forever unless they save and accumulate capital.
You can't free yourself without capital accumulation.
> _«El gran problema es la consideración del varón como un sexo (o género) moralmente inferior. Los horrores causados por el #hombre, como la guerra o los crímenes, se asocian a la masculinidad, mientras que sus logros literarios, científicos o artísticos se explican por un sistema de opresión que no permitía a la #mujer alcanzar dichos hitos. Es decir, **consideramos que la mujer es tan capaz como el hombre en todo, excepto en la maldad**. La conclusión inevitable de ese discurso es que es necesario acabar con lo que convierte al hombre en hombre: la #masculinidad.»_
— Daniel Jiménez
https://www.elmundo.es/papel/historias/2023/03/04/64021b9421efa0041a8b45d5.html
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The dress colours inside the two rectangles are identical.
