“Libertarian”

Isolation is the one part of the carceral system that does have some effect, but I don’t think it’s the best way to achieve even that part.

I guess I don’t know the previous situation in Italy with regards to this issue. Was there a large number of people getting caught for these offenses and then released? Because killing someone and locking them up for 20 years is basically just as good from the perspective of separating victim and offender. It would be better to focus on consistent investigation and capture than on harsher penalties.

Or on programs that work to prevent violence in the first place. But we would only pursue those if we cared more about helping potential victims than about hurting offenders. That doesn’t seem to be the priority for most people.

Yeah I was trying to avoid those details. I think it’s fair to summarize that as a system that detects the direction light is coming from.

I wish… doesn’t seem likely at this point.

Extreme punitive measures from the police and carceral organs of the state will not solve misogynistic violence. I’m glad people are fired up about the problem but this is the wrong approach. It’s been tried 1000 times for other things and it never works.

Now this is the kind of news the people need to hear!

I think this speaks to a significant misunderstanding that most people hold of the way vision actually works.

Most people imagine that vision is a relatively simple process by which our eyes detect and transmit to us the nature of the world. Not so.

Eyes are complex and interesting organs in their own right but fundamentally what they do is relatively simple. They are able to detect and report to the brain certain qualities of the light that hits them. Primarily these are: intensity, direction, and proximity to three points on the frequency spectrum (what we perceive as red, green, and blue). But this data alone is not vision. Vision is a conscious experience our brains create by interpreting and processing this data into the visual field before us—basically, a full scale 3D model of the world in front of us, including the blended information on reflection and emission that color entails.

Quite amazing! Most of this takes place in the human brain, and not the eyes. From this perspective, it is not terribly surprising that an organism with more complex eyes but a much simpler brain might have worse vision than we do.

So the hypothesized mechanism here is that single people tend to have healthier social lives. Another study that accounts for level of social activity might be needed to untangle this. But this does support the idea that the issue is not marriage per se but the atomized nuclear family we’ve built up as the highest form of human relationship in the West. It seems very possible to build a society that has plenty of marriage but also healthy extra-marital relationships.

I would be curious if there’s also a correlation with car and suburban culture which are strong elements that separate families from outside socialization in our culture, especially for the elderly who may eventually lose the ability to drive.

Oh really? I thought that wouldn’t work for some reason. Maybe their instructions just confused me. I’m not very tech savvy for a lemming.

This is the one that requires the GameCube disc, right? Or is there a way around that?

Ironically I once owned that but it’s long since been lost.

My understanding is that this type of infraction would have normally merited an administrative response, but no criminal charges. Since she wasn’t employed by the government anymore at that time, there wasn’t really much that was warranted.

I mean, I’d be fine if they wanted to throw the book at her. I support this with any powerful members of society. But I don’t think this case was particularly unusual.

What shady stuff have they published in the past? I’ve generally found their coverage good and they often cover stories like this that other mainstream sources won’t.

Sorry I feel like that came off a little more dismissive than I intended. I’ll check out the podcast, it sounds cool. I fucking hate war and I love unraveling the bullshit the powerful use to trick us into thinking it’s in our best interest.

I mean I know he touches on related themes but I’ve not seen much that is explicitly about this stuff—though to be fair he was living on another continent in a different time, so it’s natural that his interests would differ from mine.

Marxists always want me to read some 800 page book. That might be fine within your own circles but do you really expect people to put in that much work to understand an ideology they don’t already endorse?

If you’ve got a shorter essay or podcast or something I’ll check it out.

I’d be way more into Marx if he wrote about these topics lol

Well that settles it as far as the artist but I’m not sure why OP posted it. From their other submissions, they seem to be a socialist.

It’s too bad because I have plenty of criticisms of Marxism and socialism according to many lemmings but there’s just nothing here to engage with. It’s completely without understanding or thought.

I can’t tell if this is meant to be satire or not.

Great case study of how removing a dictator through autocratic power doesn’t make things better. Don’t call for a military coup, it doesn’t end well.

Let’s go Sacramento! 🌉🌳🍴

Love to see my neighbors giving the fascists the boot.

Why would they ever approve the adoption of a 13-year-old to another continent? This seems extremely sus even without any evidence of wrongdoing.