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Nationalism and socialism caused WW2... and today their popularity is growing again. Shit.
This proves that strong criticism of modern #feminism is not a fringe position in 2023 by any means, and that _even among women_ and _even among the youngest generation_ a large proportion of people (ranging from ⅓ to ½) are sceptical, resisting, or noticing discrimination against #men.
It's [a 32-country survey of 22+K adults](https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/international-womens-day-global-opinion-remains-committed-gender-equality-half-now-believe-it) by #Ipsos (the world’s third largest research agency) and the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership (King’s College London).
Not all aggregates are representative because some countries with large populations (eg India, China, Indonesia) probably skew less feminist than others. But even the figures for specific Western democracies (and those _are_ accurate) show less than clear enthusiasm, even from women themselves.
This will be surprising.
To some people.
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Some people don't realize how big galaxies are, so I added a banana for reference.
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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?
