Found on Bsky, but feels truthy to me:
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Found on Bsky, but feels truthy to me:
@cstross Makes sense....
@cstross “it's not paedophilia, it's 'barely legal' ” 🤡
pour ceux qui aurait loupé un numéro, c'est un commentaire de Megyn Kelly, commentaire descendu en flamme sur les tubes, il va sans dire.
Kyle Kulinsky corrige: c'est plutôt 'almost legal ...' PAS 'barely legal'
@cstross It’s a clever update to the classic definition, “A libertarian is someone who knows the age of consent in every jurisdiction.”
@cstross This shows the limitations of a 2d model here, with no option for "punch both the Nazi and the annoying guy the the lower right quadrant".
@mattblaze @cstross Those two axis alignment charts (not only the political ones, the psychological and the others too) remind me how AI handles ideas as n-dimensional vectors. How many dimensions would be required? 
@cstross This shows the limitations of a 2d model here, with no option for "punch both the Nazi and the annoying guy the the lower right quadrant".
@cstross only if you think being sick is worse than choosing to be abusive.
Which I guess tells one something about the people compiling the diagram.
@Colman You know that's the current rape-apologist discourse in US Republican circles over the Epstein emails and likes of Matt Gaetz?
@cstross yeah, I know, and I’m very tired.
Raping teenagers for the hell of it because you’re a self obsessed dickhead who gets off on the exercise of power and the sense of taking something from them is morally *worse* than raping prepubescent children because you’re wired wrong and have crap impulse control. They’re not the same thing at all.
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