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You could say abhorrent to someone. Like

"It is abhorrent to me that conservatives are such rubes and, realizing this, they say 'hurr durr not who I voted for' when it literally is."

That is gramatically correct and means "I find it abhorrent". You could say "... abhorrent to [anyone]" as long as the person you're referrencing has the capacity to find that thing abhorrent.

You couldn't say "this woman's brain is abhorrent to her skull", though, as one's skull can't have opinions - even if hers metaphorically seems to be rejecting her brain.

gundam when

The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence. Documentaries about the personal and psychological effects of the massacre of ~1M suspected communists (really just working people in unions, landless farmers, and some intellectuals) in Indonesia in the 60s and 70s following the military coup in 1965. This was directly aided and abetted by the US and other Western nations. The US intelligence aparatus provided lists of suspected communists to the coup government which then interned them in concentration camps and murdered them. The Indonesian perpetrators of the mass murders still directly control the government, military, and police.

The Act of Killing is a strangely surreal exploration of the banality of evil and a character study of members of Indonesian death squads as they make a movie (a very strange movie) about their actions during the massacres and are confronted with the effects of their actions - both their own psychological trauma as well as the pain and suffering they inflicted upon others.

The Look of Silence is a deeply personal documentary that follows Adi, an optometrist, and his family as he travels rural Indonesia interviewing people involved in the brutal murder of his brother under the pretense of fitting them for glasses (he presumably actually makes glasses for them).

A bit dark for the holidays, but they are amazing films. Deeply disturbing, sad, moving, and often funny films about a period of history that doesn't get talked about much in the West.

We have the benefit of hindsight. It is possible Chomsky didn't know about that. Possible. Epstein knew lots of people - only some of them went to the island and not all of those went to assault kids.

It's correct to be suspicious. Even very suspicious. It is not correct to draw definite conclusions without more information. The information that we have does not implicate him in illegal stuff, so far.

What is a gun if not a tube that you can choose to put explosives into to fire a projectile from the tube? I see no reason you couldn't load a clarinet like a tiny blunderbuss and fire it once. Turns out AI is pretty smart afterall

That is a bit of a misnomer since figuring things out requires at least a double-digit IQ and I don't have one of those.

--TheGreatWhiteNorthFreePress

True - I totally agree.

I will read it. Regardless, though, he is associated with the left and him going down for this would be bad PR for the left broadly, which sucks - that's my only point other than we don't know he's done anything untoward here.

If you look at his emails with Epstein, it's literally Epstein asking him about his academic work, Epstein toying with various little theories and asking Chomsky about them, etc. All above board so far. Him being on the plane is not great, but it doesn't necessarily mean he's a pedo. It opens up that possibility, but there is not proof of him doing anything wrong. Yet. I really hope he didn't do anything wrong, but it's obviously a possibility.

No matter what you think about Chomsky, he's an extremely important intellectual figure and is associated with the left. Him going down would be bad for all of us - so I hope he's not a bastard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzbuch_Kapitalismus

https://mltheory.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf

Damn I saw that guy on like 19 pages of the epstein dump!

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They aren't promoting an environmentalist message here though, but an anti-animal-cruelty message. You can agree or disagree that it's a good message, but it has nothing to do with their shitty AI ad.

This guy looks like George W Bush's latino cousin Jorge Dubleve Bush

That's a really good point - especially because soccer in the US is more popular among girls. Less so now, but traditionally more women played soccer in highschool/college than men - who were more drawn to basketball/baseball/football. I was just talking about mens soccer, but womens is a great example.

Tbf I don't think there should be mens leagues. Just an open league. So i don't entirely disagree. But regardless that is supposed to be the point of having separate leagues.

Gender segregation is usually done to encourage less dominant groups in sports. Like chess, for instance (good comparison to video games).

Women have higher avg IQ than men. Sex based physiological differences have zero impact. Women are in theory just as good as men at chess.

In practice, women do not perform well at chess compared to men in high level competitive play. Why? Fewer women play chess because of sociological/cultural reasons, therefore by the law of large numbers we don't yet have a Magnussy Carlsen.

The solution? Create womens leagues where they can compete against other women in the game and see more success. If womens chess leagues continue to gain traction, inspire more women to play chess, increase the size of the talent pool, then eventually womens leagues won't be necessary - the talent pools between genders will homogenize.

Another example is football (soccer), but between countries. American atheletes have dominated a great many sports at various times - basketball, american football, track and field, swimming, tennis. Why has the USA never won the world cup? Relatively few Americans play football compared to other countries, so the talent pool is smaller and the USA doesn't have major global talents like other countries do. The answer? Build the domestic competitive infrastructure needed to produce talent. If the US does this, eventually it will not suck at football because the talent pool will be larger and it will have global talents.

Additionally, in times when the crops required less care (so not planting or harvesting) peasants were required by their lords to do various amounts of labor. Like "build X feet of fences per year, mend Y feet of fences, serve Z days of conscripted labor", etc.

So on the one hand, peasants weren't ruled by the tyranny of the clock like we are, but on the other: work still had to get done, was much less efficient than today (bc technology), and was often unpaid

First mention by hhhhwhite people was in 1869, apparently. But mentioned in chinese texts as early as like 2000 years ago

I was there once. Some old white dude in flip flops told me about how 1) aliens made this with cold lasers (because no burn marks on the rock/they aren't melted) and/or gave humans the technology to make it, 2) he's psychic and has prophetic dreams - particularly he predicted a bunch of natural disasters, he said.

Either way, yep those rocks fit together really tightly; it's neat.