alex @alexthecamel@schelling.pt

ok assuming i haven't miscounted :P
but RIP the blue wall

Interesting to look back on these results after 2 election cycles. The most 'Yes' voting electorate still in Coalition hands is the seat of Flinders, in 2016 it was the 12th most Yes-voting such seat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Marriage_Law_Postal_Survey#Result

this sounds like the sort of thing i want to make grumpy postrat noises about
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RT @yashkaf
so far it's like: ok we have this dude on the left he's called "higher mind" so you know he's awesome and the other guy is an asshole so we're gonna solve politics by rooting really really hard for the guy on the left to kick the other guy's ass yay liberalism!
https://twitter.com/yashkaf/status/1628189959453646848

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RT @pawnofcthulhu
@0xfbifemboy yeah
chronic pain patients exist and i get the sense they are rather grumpy about the current state of affairs
https://twitter.com/pawnofcthulhu/status/1628265598479384576

there was some proposal about dispensing opioids in a controlled manner through vending machines
something like this https://mysafe.org/2021/04/vice-a-vending-machine-in-canada-is-dispensing-a-drug-twice-as-strong-as-heroin/

"what do you think the correct amount of supply is for the next month"
not complicated

do opioid addicts even like being addicted or is it just a system 1 need-drug-now thing
i feel like the second is pretty solvable without limiting patient autonomy

man there has to be a better solution to opioid addiction then "make doctors a cartel"
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RT @mattyglesias
What happens when physicians face new competition from expanded scope of practice for nurse-practitioners?

Physicians hand out more prescriptions for addictive painkillers and for combo prescriptions of opioids opioids and benzodiazepines. 😬😬😬

https://www.nber.org/papers/w30889
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1628211303415177224

maybe the correct way to design this as a social technology is to start out as making it a sex party and then iterate tamewards

I suspect there's a tendency when doing this sort of thing to forget/discourage that discomfort is an emotion that belongs at the table too

ea rat culture should be more careful with weird shit, for weird shit = circling, radical honesty, maybe? :P

v suspicious priv qts

this seems very @QiaochuYuan

i didn't realise i was allowed to ask for things asking for things sounds scary
but i am allowed to state True and Relevant facts about the world

there's a weird autistic traumabrain difference between how easy it is to say
"can I kiss you?"
vs
"i'd quite like to kiss you"

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
etc.etc.

welp, this explains Certain Parts of radical feminism...

(also "are people who have X opinion Same Tribe or Enemy Tribe")

now we get arguments about "are people who commit crimes Same Tribe or Enemy Tribe" instead of like actual practicalities

man i feel like the way our criminal justice system works is trying to direct the part of our brain that used to think about Enemy Tribe towards criminals and therefore completely borked our ability to think about morality
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RT @pawnofcthulhu
@xphilosopher seems to me social punishment is much more likely to serve some other purpose (community is audience and this helps the community understand a norm/prevent future harm from this …
https://twitter.com/pawnofcthulhu/status/1627067582531633152