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aren't gorillas gentle giants or something. i stay out of his way, he doesn't maul me, we have a nice time picking out clothes together in opposite sides of the mall

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Male gorillas are super aggressive and territorial. Also they interpret nearly every human mannerism as a sign of aggression or a challenge. Smiling and eye contact are both things that zookeepers have to be taught to suppress when they’re in the vicinity of gorillas.

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Well unless the mall is his native territory I think I'm fine, I wasn't planning on smiling at him

max1461

This is all irrelevant because the obvious answer is five black mambas. I mean, that’s not actually very many snakes, and malls are fucking huge. And unlike a gorilla you can definitely outrun a snake if it does show up. Find an open space in the mall where you can see any snake coming and just hangout out there. Fucking easy.

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Here's a very important thing to keep in mind:

Imagine a position you disagree with. Now imagine the sort of person who you think typically holds that position, the cultural and personal background you think they have, the way you think they look at the world. Imagine the reasoning that you think lead them to hold the position they do. Ok. Now the person you're imagining may very well exist. They may indeed be common, and may very often hold the position you attribute to them. But I guarantee you that there are innumerable other sorts of people, with other cultural and personal backgrounds, indeed ones you may not expect to hold the position at all, who nonetheless do hold the position. And they may have similar reasoning to the person you imagined, or very different reasoning. And furthermore there are certainly many people with the cultural and personal background you imagined who don't hold the position, or who do hold it but for different reasons.

There is a tendency to treat claims about the world principally as markers of group identity instead of principally as, well, claims about the world. And this tendency makes sense, because beliefs about the world often are markers of group identity. But they can never be just markers of identity—our beliefs about how the world around us works have a genuine impact on how we interact with the world around us, and they cannot in fact be effortlessly swapped out to select the group identity we most desire. You must be able to engage with beliefs as beliefs, as claims about the world with real and specific content, as well as being to engage with them as internally-contentless identity tokens in a larger social system. If you are only or principally doing the later without any concern for the former, you are likely to mislead yourself significantly and you are likely to be more prone to stereotyping.

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Is this post about twitter style anti-“film bro” sentiment, or about the people who keep getting mad at me because I talk about settler colonialism? Yes!

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max1461 asked:

Holy shit I just saw more evidence of the vibe shift. Wtf is going on what caused this to occur? Not that I like, doubted it, just default skepticism. But no really there's a vibe shift. ???????

vriskakinnieaynrand answered:

sure, i’ll bite, what are you seeing?

seems to me that the “vibe shift” is conservatism legitimizing itself among coastals (and reaching cultural hegemony as “just be normal” and the kiwifarms to fox news pipeline) and the changing economic situation killing zero interest rate phenomena like lifestyle subsidies for young urban professionals and upward mobility without repression

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Tumblr user who I follow, who in spite of everything has through the years retained a very bog-standard 2015 social justice approach to the world, reblogged some posts about the metal gear solid skimpy outfit girl tweet tenth anniversary thing. The post was to the general effect of “it’s kinda cool that hideo kojima was so horny on main lol, cool that he put a naked girl in his video game”.

effectiveresistance
So the author of this tweet doesn’t want work to exist after the revolution, but they also don’t like industry, and don’t want there to be mining for things that are necessary for technology? So they don’t want to automate all the work, because that...
max1461

So the author of this tweet doesn’t want work to exist after the revolution, but they also don’t like industry, and don’t want there to be mining for things that are necessary for technology? So they don’t want to automate all the work, because that would require lithium mining for sure. But they also don’t want anyone to have to do the work. So uh. What. The commune is we all sit there till we starve? Genuinely fucking baffled by this one.

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Oh my god, I just…

Yes, I think this is true on a literal level. Like, intuition isn’t reliable in general (see: all of modern physics) and is heavily influenced by culture (see: research on implicit bias etc.). So like, yeah. If we’re being epistemically careful here, I agree. But the way this is phrased is A) very obnoxious, like a conservative caricature of what a leftist might say, and B) promotes a deeply insidious pattern of thought, like “don’t trust your own mind, only trust [these doctrines developed by [Marx/Lenin/some random French intellectual/woke twitter]”. Bad and gross.

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triviallytrue
triviallytrue

it bothers me when people are obviously half-assing their political analysis but that’s pretty much the default on twitter, how much nuance can you pack into 280 characters anyway

max1461

This is literally why twitter is bad (well, one of several reasons).

On a lot of social media sites, there’s this perennially discussed issue where people will post e.g. some article with a clickbait headline, and everyone will start yelling at each other in the comments without even having looked at the contents of the article, basing their anger purely over what they guess is in it based on the headline. Because the number of words you can fit in a headline is perfectly optimized to be attention grabbing, while also excluding as many important details as possible so that you’re still enticed to click the link. Of course, a side effect of this is that if someone doesn’t click the link, if they decide they just can’t be bothered, then the headline has given them just enough information to be mad about while giving them too little information to actually know what claim is being made in any detail. So they get mad at the claim they imagine is being made, i.e. the most strawmanned and cartoonishly evil version of whatever their opponent is saying.

Ok, so now imagine that someone designed a social media site where literally, structurally, every post is nothing but a clickbait headline. No article to go with it, nothing you can turn to for elaboration. Just the inflammatory and informationless bit, nothing else. If you want to catch people’s eye in 280 characters, you have to either shock them or piss them off, and since you’ve only got 280 characters, there’s no room to explain yourself afterwords. You might say that threads provide a solution to this, but threads are cumbersome to navigate and split text up in a restrictive way that makes both writing and reading long and detailed thoughts quite difficult. A twitter thread invariably makes you feel like you’re reading more than you actually are, because of the way it’s formatted. But the amount you can communicate is still starkly limited by the structure.

Anyway, yeah, that’s twitter: Not Reading The Article Simulator 2006.

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