Amy

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[Amy @CapriYeee]

@postoctobrist Her politics were reprehensible but it did feel like the blindness of privilege rather than blood thirsty psychopathy.

[Amy @CapriYeee]

@itinerant_sun @KaskaJessica Sure but like, why do you think _you specifically_ have worse dysphoria than some of the trans women you're looking at that got through it?

[Amy @CapriYeee]

@vivi_darkness @KaskaJessica I've been trying to transition for 3 years (changed my discord bio)

[Amy @CapriYeee]

@DadaJudith @anshublog @dee_bosa @jaminball Do you not feel that your inability to see the secret sauce should prompt curiosity and investigation on your part rather than a diminished standing for the other person? I wouldn't presume to tell experts in another field they're wrong without doing my homework.

[Amy @CapriYeee]

@ManishEarth There's a bit around 40:00 where Robert spends a full 2 and a half minutes giving a popsci explanation of high-dimensional embeddings, Emily finally has to cut in and try to explain where he's going wrong, and he's just flatly like "no that _is_ true" as if this is new to them.

[Amy @CapriYeee]

@ManishEarth I think it being a debate is the problem. The framing of the conversation is clearly that it'll be a regular book interview where they're just pitched opportunities to discuss their arguments, but then Robert starts arguing back despite being wildly out of his depth.

[Amy @CapriYeee]

@ScarsFlownProud whats a scapula

[Amy @CapriYeee]

@786alhumdulilla @CantEverDie Yup "Silver only up 48% since the start of the year instead of 49%" isn't news.

[Amy @CapriYeee]

@CantEverDie "US DOLLAR CRASHES IN VALUE!!!"

> the entire year actually looks like this

[Amy @CapriYeee]

@CantEverDie Nah this is meaningless engagement bait. It just had a silly jump over Thursday/Friday and then went _some_ of the way back down. These accounts love to zoom in on a graph and pretend it's a big deal.

[Amy @CapriYeee]

@the500mphtorto1 @GarethDennis I'm happy to talk but I don't think you're familiar with this topic friend. This isn't a personal theory of mine, journalists were saying it at the time and the tory's were basically just responding "what else are we supposed to do, raising taxes would hurt business".

[Amy @CapriYeee]

@the500mphtorto1 @GarethDennis Those tax cuts were initially funded by north sea oil revenues and that shift to private pensions was a core part of the Conservative's 1992 manifesto right as they collapsed. It's that classic thatcher-era language about "freedom from state reliance" but we know what that means.

[Amy @CapriYeee]

@GarethDennis So yeah that's /thread basically. We should have just met in the middle with ~63 for both at an older cut-off and kept corporation taxes higher to pay for it.

[Amy @CapriYeee]

@GarethDennis And so naturally with it being only really upper middle class women that have the time and resources to campaign on the issue at a time when gender equality is still open for debate, a straight forward wealth inequality issue gets sidetracked into an endless culture war debate.