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Thinking about that guy a while ago—some kind of gamer or streamer, I hadn’t heard of him prior—who torpedoed his career for the sake of what’s right. No matter if it cost him sponsorships, he had to speak out against all those drag queens sexually harassing children. That there is why a sense of conviction is no substitute for a brain.

Thinking about that Libertarian I argued with who said stealing is inherently immoral even if you’re starving, but also said he would steal food if he was starving. Pressured, he eventually said someone else starving is “a you problem.”

As best I can guess, this fic author looked at Raine, and instead of going “this character isn’t a representative of ‘male’ or ‘female’ genders,” they went “this character is representative of a singular, distinctive ‘nonbinary’ gender.” So while a more bigoted author would divide all their characters into men and women, this author finds enlightened PC-ness in dividing all their characters into men, women, and people who present their gender the way Raine does. Maybe next we can try to get this author to understand the concept of “bigender.”

Post on Fandom Secrets; “Formula 1 must be staged; otherwise, wouldn’t they care about player safety?”

This is the equal and opposite of that comic that goes “Harry Potter must teach children to be Satanists; otherwise, why would people be so obsessed with banning it?”

Inspired by talk about what it means in the Persona series to sacrifice old Personas to create new ones: what does it mean if you’re a completionist who wants to add every Persona to your records? What kind of person would do that in-universe?

Reproducing an exchange from someone else’s notes:

A: “but are you seriously gonna call me an "uwu liberal" and complain about expansionist imperialism on your Human Domestication Guide fanblog”

B: “Maybe the things we enjoy in erotic fiction shouldn’t be used to determine real world policy?”

I’m degrading from “I can do accounting for four hours before I feel like shit” to “I feel like shit after three hours” to “I feel like shit after an hour and a half.” It’s specifically accounting that does this, because I have to be sure every number is correct before I pass it along. I can read a book or play a (not extremely hard) game for hours and not feel tired, which makes me feel guilty and lazy.

Come to think of it, I’ve been getting tired out earlier on nights when I game as well. I guess it’s a general degradation.

“This was the one thing that almost made me stop playing Star Wars Squadrons immediately, and I wish I had

“The Imperial pilot daydreaming about retiring to a quiet planet with his husband

“In between missions where he helps you commit horrible atrocities against fleeing civilians”

Am I supposed to object to this?

People talk about science as objective, but I actually think of science as the embrace of subjectivity. You don’t know this medicine works, but you’re 95% confident. You don’t know you’ve found every organ in mice, but you record the organs you know until you find another one. You’ve found a correlation between television and obesity, but you can’t objectively show that television makes people fat. Objectivity is a goal that can be chased but never reached as you put together subjective perspectives and find more or less evidence (not proof) for them.

I think the unifying anti-science take is “your claim to subjectivity undermines my claim to objectivity, and it’s bad for you to do that, because I’m objectively right about everything.” Like the claim that astrology is true and science is “white” for denying astrology. Science doesn’t have the power to show that astrology is false, because astrology is variable and ambiguous and you can always amend it to explain your newest observations. But science can show astrology is less likely.

Also, I think people act against the ideal of science when they claim science has “proved” black people are dumber than white people. Pull out your correlations, and I’ll pull out variables you didn’t check for.

In the fanfic I’m reading, a dictator takes extreme actions and uses unnecessary violence, so some people stop trusting him. They won’t agree to do what he wants, so he could either let it go or force them to comply. But he inevitably chooses extreme force, so more people stop trusting him and won’t comply without force.