Part of my evolution has been to have much less strong opinions about what even constitutes "good" vs "bad" and to be more aware of the vast complexities and uncertainty involved. Leaving aside any specific candidates, it would be interesting to discuss what our criteria would be.
For myself now, or for myself in my earlier "moderate liberal" incarnation? Even as a liberal in the early 90s, I didn't like Bush but I saw him as preferable to Reagan -- it's hard for me to imagine a liberal who wouldn't have felt that way once the time for election rhetoric was gone. From the same perspective, I don't see how Dole was any worse than Bush I. And surely any liberal would've preferred McCain to W -- McCain was popular across the aisle until he became the candidate (and of course that also changed with his selection of running mate).
For myself now - I haven't taken the time to go back to Reagan and re-appraise now that I'm no longer of the Left, but otherwise much the same as that theoretical liberal. And Romney would've been fine, he was an institutional Republican -- I voted for Obama but by that point was not-liberal enough that I wouldn't have been distressed by Romney winning.
Three years ago: "We have to follow all the CDC guidelines to the letter! They're the experts, who are you to question them! Anyone who doesn't follow them is literally killing people!"
Today: "Well of course they made some mistakes, science isn't perfect!"
It's not the scientific process that's being criticized, it's the many loud schoolmarms who took the original guidelines as if inscribed on stone tablets and are not now engaging in self-reflection about their past behavior.
Only 4 or 5?? That doesn't begin to scratch the surface -- these guys came up with 15, separated into high- and low-salience: https://www.roguebasin.com/index.php/Berlin_Interpretation
I wonder if anyone has done a linear regression...
Yup, makes sense - thanks. Re the concept, that's basically what I thought too, but one site suggested that it had to be a lot more similar to Rogue to qualify as roguelike (turn-based combat, grid layout, etc).
What would you say is the difference between roguelite and roguelike? Is it mainly that in -lite games certain things carry over from previous runs? I found a couple sites with definitions but they didn't agree with each other and neither quite matched how I usually see these terms used.
Thanks! I actually didn't realize until after I posted that the tweet itself already basically made a similar joke, so i had some post-Post regrets. Glad it got some appreciation.
If you had to decide whether to trust them, this would make more sense -- but the information is all out there for people to judge for themselves regardless of who publicized it.
Like, if the schoolyard bully tells you your fly is down, you shouldn't necessarily believe him because he might just be yanking your chain; but if you check and it really is down, you should probably zip it up even though the bully was the one who pointed it out.
Do I personally? No, I know where to find it if I want to explore more. I think there are some very interesting conversations happening in general about what is or isn't culpable plagiarism (sort of like what's culpable racism vs "everyone's a little bit racist"), but I doubt it's worth spending more time on Gay's specific sins.
Is it like driving 65 in a 55 MPH area (many people do it but you can get a ticket if you're unlucky), or more like driving 90 in a 55 MPH area (many fewer people do it, basically guaranteed ticket if you're caught)?
John McWhorter does us the favor of providing the reasonable take while also being a Black Democrat and thus avoiding some of the more facile charges from people like Chip.
Somewhere I read that the ultimate goal of this plagiarism hunt is not so much to find more culprits as to get more people to read more examples of scholarship from these X Studies fields and make their judgments from that.
This has also brought up an interesting division between (some) academics and writers -- academics tend to be more concerned about copying ideas and not nearly as bothered by copying wording, while writers tend to have a much stronger reaction to the latter (unsurprisingly).
It was definitely a pretext, but to say "someone they don't like" is obvious BS -- there are specific decisions and actions of hers that they are objecting to, as well as treating her and these other college presidents as stand-ins for the larger DEI & identity-based approaches dominating higher ed.
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Part of my evolution has been to have much less strong opinions about what even constitutes "good" vs "bad" and to be more aware of the vast complexities and uncertainty involved. Leaving aside any specific candidates, it would be interesting to discuss what our criteria would be.
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For myself now, or for myself in my earlier "moderate liberal" incarnation? Even as a liberal in the early 90s, I didn't like Bush but I saw him as preferable to Reagan -- it's hard for me to imagine a liberal who wouldn't have felt that way once the time for election rhetoric was gone. From the same perspective, I don't see how Dole was any worse than Bush I. And surely any liberal would've preferred McCain to W -- McCain was popular across the aisle until he became the candidate (and of course that also changed with his selection of running mate).
For myself now - I haven't taken the time to go back to Reagan and re-appraise now that I'm no longer of the Left, but otherwise much the same as that theoretical liberal. And Romney would've been fine, he was an institutional Republican -- I voted for Obama but by that point was not-liberal enough that I wouldn't have been distressed by Romney winning.
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You're certainly confirming my comment, though perhaps not in the way you think.
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Be the change you want to see in the world.
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The only thing worse than the last Republican candidate is the next Republican candidate.
On “Open Mic for the week of 1/15/2024 (belated)”
LOL, i saw this in SOTD out of context and was very confused for a couple seconds.
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" It’s Occam’s Razor, but you never need more than one assumption."
Occam's Racism.
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Three years ago: "We have to follow all the CDC guidelines to the letter! They're the experts, who are you to question them! Anyone who doesn't follow them is literally killing people!"
Today: "Well of course they made some mistakes, science isn't perfect!"
It's not the scientific process that's being criticized, it's the many loud schoolmarms who took the original guidelines as if inscribed on stone tablets and are not now engaging in self-reflection about their past behavior.
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Sorry, this is classification, so I should've said logistic regression.
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Only 4 or 5?? That doesn't begin to scratch the surface -- these guys came up with 15, separated into high- and low-salience: https://www.roguebasin.com/index.php/Berlin_Interpretation
I wonder if anyone has done a linear regression...
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Yup, makes sense - thanks. Re the concept, that's basically what I thought too, but one site suggested that it had to be a lot more similar to Rogue to qualify as roguelike (turn-based combat, grid layout, etc).
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I LOLed (just so you know).
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What would you say is the difference between roguelite and roguelike? Is it mainly that in -lite games certain things carry over from previous runs? I found a couple sites with definitions but they didn't agree with each other and neither quite matched how I usually see these terms used.
On “Open Mic for the week of 1/8/2024”
Reason didn't pluck this topic out of thin air -- do y'all not realize that there have been Congressional hearings with Fauci the last few days?
Maybe it's a bubble thing -- when I do a News search, I see a lot more hits in the righty or independent sources than I do in NYT/WaPo etc.
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Suit yourself, it’s not like any of us are getting a commission on these. At least I can confirm that I’m not.
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Wow -- I'm sure i'm the 5 millionth person to think this, but it's like a real-life version of this comic.
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Thanks! I actually didn't realize until after I posted that the tweet itself already basically made a similar joke, so i had some post-Post regrets. Glad it got some appreciation.
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It's insider trading right up until the point that he's sucked out.
On “Open Mic for the week of 1/1/2024”
If you had to decide whether to trust them, this would make more sense -- but the information is all out there for people to judge for themselves regardless of who publicized it.
Like, if the schoolyard bully tells you your fly is down, you shouldn't necessarily believe him because he might just be yanking your chain; but if you check and it really is down, you should probably zip it up even though the bully was the one who pointed it out.
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Do I personally? No, I know where to find it if I want to explore more. I think there are some very interesting conversations happening in general about what is or isn't culpable plagiarism (sort of like what's culpable racism vs "everyone's a little bit racist"), but I doubt it's worth spending more time on Gay's specific sins.
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Is it like driving 65 in a 55 MPH area (many people do it but you can get a ticket if you're unlucky), or more like driving 90 in a 55 MPH area (many fewer people do it, basically guaranteed ticket if you're caught)?
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John McWhorter does us the favor of providing the reasonable take while also being a Black Democrat and thus avoiding some of the more facile charges from people like Chip.
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Somewhere I read that the ultimate goal of this plagiarism hunt is not so much to find more culprits as to get more people to read more examples of scholarship from these X Studies fields and make their judgments from that.
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This has also brought up an interesting division between (some) academics and writers -- academics tend to be more concerned about copying ideas and not nearly as bothered by copying wording, while writers tend to have a much stronger reaction to the latter (unsurprisingly).
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It was definitely a pretext, but to say "someone they don't like" is obvious BS -- there are specific decisions and actions of hers that they are objecting to, as well as treating her and these other college presidents as stand-ins for the larger DEI & identity-based approaches dominating higher ed.
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