@pony
The French at least have baguettes
@grips @igeljaeger @dwaltiz
@igeljaeger
They are stationed in Germany so they can drone strike goat fuckers from a safe distance.
@grips @pony @dwaltiz
@pony
Having to learn German in school is one of the primary reasons for my hatred of Germans
@grips @igeljaeger @dwaltiz
"But many people reading it are not high-decouplers; they hear “eugenics” and “work” and immediately all of the history, from Francis Galton to Josef Mengele, is brought into the discussion: you can’t separate the one from the other."
Just use the word brainlets
"The analyst John Nerst, who writes a fascinating blog called “Everything Studies”, is very interested in how and why we disagree. And one thing he says is that for a certain kind of nerdy, “rational” thinker, there is a magic ritual you can perform. You say “By X, I don’t mean Y.”
Having performed that ritual, you ward off the evil spirits. You isolate the thing you’re talking about from all the concepts attached to it. So you can say things like “if we accept that IQ is heritable, then”, and so on, following the implications of the hypothetical without endorsing them. Nerst uses the term “decoupling”, and says that some people are “high-decouplers”, who are comfortable separating and isolating ideas like that.
Other people are low-decouplers, who see ideas as inextricable from their contexts. For them, the ritual lacks magic power. You say “By X, I don’t mean Y,” but when you say X, they will still hear Y."
Interesting
@rasterman
Apparently it's entertaining
@igeljaeger Zoo shit in a place he frequents with flashing text
@popko Both have their advantages and disadvantages. I think that Mastodon is more newbie friendly.
@wowaname The joke is just that it's gardener's
@popko Because I already told you like 3 times
@popko Fuck off
I'm the joke, but you're the punchline.
I run this website. I like posting funnies and fugging lolis.