Lurker > averagejoel

NightingaleMD posted...

My specific example was wheelchair-bound from intellectual disability :P I see a lot of this at my ED. There is an entire nursing home next to my shop that houses these poor souls.

Hawking was truly amazing. Yet, he proves me point as well. He had an inner drive to succeed. Drive is extremely important. Most people in his situation would just give up.

"drive to succeed" also doesn't really have any bearing on success

capitalism necessitates the existence of an exploited underclass to function. if everyone were skilled and driven to succeed, there wouldn't be more successful people; there would just be a lot more unsuccessful people who are also skilled and driven.

it's functionally a gigantic pyramid scheme. whether or not "anyone" can succeed is irrelevant -- "everyone" can't. the system cannot sustain that

NightingaleMD posted...

Not a cause and effect relationship, but c'mon man

If you take someone so profoundly intellectually disabled they are wheelchair bound and nonverbal and a genius and let them run amok in the wild, one will succeed and one will quickly die.

There is a spectrum that exists in between those two. Varying success will follow that spectrum. Your take is a bitter one.

shut the fuck up

Pepys Monster posted...

LOL no. Success has everything to do with skill.

then how do you explain the existence of incompetent people who are successful and skilled people who are not?

Pepys Monster posted...

They didn't have the skill to succeed.

success has nothing to do with skill

coolguyjimmy posted...

Liberal:
1) willing to respect or accept behavior or opinions different from one's own; open to new ideas.

the ideas expressed in these cartoons are not new. and it's not just a difference of opinion. they're fascist talking points

I've seen those cartoons before. they're fucking vile

SSJKirby posted...

What's LGMA?

lgma balls!!!

gunplagirl posted...

I don't mind honey
@averagejoel

sorry to burst your bubble, but I don't think my girlfriend is on gamefaqs

I don't think my girlfriend would appreciate it if I did that

SydneySweenHero posted...

-When someone says "That was the tits!" it means it was good
When someone say "That was ass!" it means with was bad

this is the one that really won me over

AlCalavicci posted...

She has a son who creates dozens of accounts on GameFAQs and trolls the boards using baby speak.

lol

my girlfriend is good at doing her makeup. it looks good on her. she doesn't usually wear it though. it would probably be a bigger deal for her than for me if she stopped

Pepys Monster posted...

Once the event happens, it's happened. Why would the results be spoilers?

I agree with this. but I also think people need to move on from the idea that knowing a plot in advance "spoils" the experience of watching a movie

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

that is incompatible with capitalism

Nu_Jersey_Devil posted...

Why not both? I think we can evolve into a mixed economy where we have a society of helping hands and not hand outs

socialism and capitalism are different economic systems. they are mutually exclusive

NoMeLx22x posted...

Ok, first id at least try to watch his apology.

cool. maybe you would; that's your prerogative. I wouldn't.

Second, a lot of the N word usage was him using it in a discussion format and not just saying it in a joking way or mocking somebody. I still feel like that is wrong, but I'm not gonna accuse someone of being overtly racist for saying the N word while discussing it with other black people or quoting it from a joke that someone performed. I, personally, would never do it now, but i used to, and through self reflection and discussion with others recognize that it's really ignorant and have learned why, and how it can still be hurtful.

what do you mean "accuse"? pointing out that he said the n word 70+ times on his podcast is not an accusation

Secondly people absolutely can become more reactionary, and it's weird that you think that people can't. But whatever just agree to disagree there.

they can become more reactionary; it just generally isn't due to receiving backlash for espousing reactionary views

Thirdly, i hope that he stops platforming these people, i really do. And if he continues having them on, i hope he starts to pushback on some of the bull shit they spew, or do basically anything to argue. He said that he's going to start trying to have more people on that give all sides of an argument. And i think that at least that's a start i suppose. Idk, it remains to be seen what he'll do.

so the answer to this question, then:

averagejoel posted...

what has he done to attempt to atone for it?

is "nothing"

My question to you though is, and im asking this earnestly not condescendingly, what do you want done to Joe Rogan? Like what do you feel like the acceptable penance is for him?

the most appropriate thing in this circumstance would be spotify taking him off their platform and refusing to pay him any more.

NoMeLx22x posted...

He apologized for what he said and saying the N word and to any offense and harm that it may have caused people. What do you mean, did you not see his apology? I mean he blatantly says how shocking and ugly it sounds.

I didn't see any apology. saying the n word, particularly as many times as he's said it (apparently it's over 70 on his podcast), is really weird and suspect, but it's far from the worst thing he's done

Look, im not saying that he didnt do any wrong, what im saying is in this day and age we have people that go through this and they basically just turn super reactionary and talk about how they're being "coerced to apologize for doing nothing wrong and the cancel culture mob is attacking me", etc.

people don't "turn" super reactionary because of backlash. and even if they did, the rest of your point isn't applicable here. he did do many things wrong.

In this instance we have someone who recognizes his wrong and is at least willing to try to atone for it, and if we just reject that notion and anyone elses notion to try to extend an olive branch, then what are we really trying to achieve?

what has he done to attempt to atone for it? is he going to stop being credulous to eugenicists and anti-vaxxers? is he going to stop having them on his podcast?

NoMeLx22x posted...

This is the best way to explain it.

And while in the case of Rogan I may not agree with the extent it's going, it still fits.

I just feel that as a leftist/progressive/liberal whatever you want to call it, there comes a point where we have to recognize that people can actually change, and not letting them apologize or not recognizing that it's possible for people to open their world view and recognize the fault in the way that they acted.

If not, then what's the point? I know that 12 years ago i had some transphobic or racist views, and while they were mostly just making crude jokes or whatever, i now recognize how dumb and ignorant i was being and have completely changed. If you look at Rogan's apology, it does seem to me that he is sincere and recognizing that the shit in all of the clips is wrong, and if we continue to push and push instead of accepting his apology, then what is the point? How far do we want this to go?

what did Joe Rogan actually apologize for?

it's not immensely difficult to do so

giving $1000 each to three tenants is functionally giving $3000 to their landlord. that's why I do not support UBI

I watched a 2008 (?) version of Macbeth by the Royal Shakespeare company, with Patrick Stewart as Macbeth.

I also watched a version of Hamlet. I don't remember which one I watched in class; it was either the one with Mel Gibson or Patrick Stewart as Hamlet.

I also watched a few movies for French.

I'm good at quite a few different things: I'm a skilled musician and I'm good at teaching music to other people (my main job)

I speak fluent french (though I'm out of practice at the moment)

I'm pretty good at cooking, and I'm getting better at it

I'm pretty good at writing too. I'm good at analyzing and thinking critically about media

Houston posted...

I'm not saying it is, just making an observation. Norway has a different culture, different demographics, much less population size, etc.

/shrug

and none of those have any meaningful bearing on the actual logistics of implementing and maintaining a more robust welfare state

Houston posted...

I'm not a big expert when it comes to various types of governments, but I would imagine the social services Norway has in place is a lot easier to implement with a population of 5 Million versus 320 million in the U.S.

it's not at all clear that this is actually the case

WingsOfGood posted...

"Norway is not socialist, just has free healthcare, tons of social programs and the state owns the wealth!"

"Let us make universal healthcare in USA"
ShUt Up SoCiAlIsT ScUm!!!!!!

I'm literally a communist

some are. some aren't

norway is not socialist; they just have a more robust welfare state than the US

OVERGOATED posted...

Started as anti-covid mandates for truckers, turned into anti-mandates in general, now they want to overturn our election.

it was never actually about truckers or mandates

I suppose she's an okay guitarist for someone who's 19. it's kinda weird that she posts uncompleted arrangements like that though

AlBundy33 posted...

@averagejoel Microsoft buying Activision? Not at all, its actually a brilliant move

yes, from the perspective of microsoft, it probably is. adam conover is not talking from the perspective of microsoft though

Liu_Kano posted...

Is this what the writers intended to symbolize? Or am I reading too much into it?

if there's evidence for it in the text, it doesn't matter if the writers intended it

does that not seem like a legitimate concern to you? it certainly seems like one to me

I don't know fahrenheit but it's -3 in regular

au_gold posted...

Statistically, its highly likely.

too bad it doesn't matter

I've had one 8-4 job with a paid half hour lunch and two paid 15-minute breaks; and one 7-3 job with a paid half hour lunch. those were considered full-time

wired is pretty much always better than wireless

WorsCaseOntario posted...

it's been tried

okay? capitalism has also been tried, and it's been disastrous for most of humanity

WorsCaseOntario posted...

Name a better system than capitalism

communism

FL81 posted...

Capitalism has done more than any other system in history to help lift the masses out of poverty

that is quite the thesis statement!

doesn't skin... stretch and stuff?

RustyFerret posted...

A children's book about Thomas Sowell would be great actually, especially for black history month.

he's an idiot

Neil Patrick Harris

why yes, people in wealthy countries do tend to be better off than people in the countries they stole their wealth from!

WingsOfGood posted...

If people think he is siding with crazy anti-vaxxers, he destroys the credibility of the other things he says.

no it doesn't. if people think he is siding with anti-vaxxers, they are incorrect. that has no effect on his credibility

WingsOfGood posted...

I am not saying that you did not, I am saying that the way he said that is easily misunderstood which makes what he said not so great to say.

I don't think other people's misunderstanding of what he says should have any bearing on whether or not it was a good thing to say

gunplagirl posted...

It weakens over time but in parts 3-5 some of them are very, very obviously a result of the owner's personality. Sex pistols design especially is obviously a result of Mista's hangup with a certain number.

yeah, a few of them. most of them really just bear no relation to the user's personality, and some of them are even contradictory

SweetieBeIle462 posted...

How much should someone get for walking dogs 5 days a week, for a 2 hours a day? This being their only income source btw

the amount that they should get is:
(number of dogs they're walking)(number of hours they're walking those dogs)(amount that they charge per dog per hour)

gunplagirl posted...

That's exactly how I know mine would be awesome. Because my personality is literally just lovebombing until I wear myself out.

as far as I can tell, there's not really any correlation between a character's personality and their stand