Fred Hope

Data Engineer in the SF Bay Area

[Fred Hope @fredakbar]

@LPDonovan To tie back into the prediction market discourse, Biden was <10% to win the primary after Nevada.

[Fred Hope @fredakbar]

@tracewoodgrains They're just letting people become accredited without taking the bar exam?! What is this, 2020? I think you know in your heart that you can't go that route.

[Fred Hope @fredakbar]

@AstorAaron Is there a law that protects them against copyright infringement claims for the logo? Or is it just not worth it for the pro team to bother fighting that battle?

[Jack @tracewoodgrains]

I think the thing that drives me maddest about norms on the left - and, I suspect, one of the biggest things that drives people to the right - is the "infinite tolerance of sweeping group critiques for me, zero tolerance of sweeping group critiques for thee" approach.

If you are in an Oppressor Group there are circles that expect you to nod along patiently as people say your group sucks in ways that would lead to your permanent and unconditional exile if said in much, much milder form about Oppressed Groups.

This in particular is why I think there's a trope of white people being extremely uncomfortable with conversations about race. A lot of white people just sort of tacitly avoid conversations about race because "let's talk about race" means "let's explain why white people are bad in various ways, and don't even think about applying the same scrutiny we're approaching this with across the board."

And the thing is, this has really bad effects on the factual environment. You get people who have all absorbed more-or-less the same baseline set of factoids that they can throw out - redlining! that one study with black doctors! Black Wall Street! - that have been created and disseminated in an environment where only information supporting one specific frame is discussed. "Let's talk about race" means "let's enter that frame," unless you're in the online right and then it means "let's do the same thing with the polarity reversed and become white identitarians."

There is much, much less space for serious conversation about these topics because these asymmetric norms are so ubiquitous in discussing them, and many, many people deal with it simply by not touching the topics at all.

[Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul]

Read this Fauci diary entry closely. Officials refused to admit the vaccine wasn’t stopping the spread because it might weaken the legal case for mandates. That is not science. It is a cover-up to justify coercion.

[Matt, Preschool Diploma @statomattic]

Your periodic reminder that, less than five years ago, people wore masks for the 60-second walk to their table in a restaurant before removing the mask for the entire 60-minute meal, and a lot of people actually thought or pretended that this mattered.

People are STUPID.

[Fred Hope @fredakbar]

@AstorAaron @TheJJChiles And they fixed their spelling of your last name!

[Fred Hope @fredakbar]

@xwanyex @RealDianeYap How fast are we talking? 35 in a 30? There's a line between "nbd, almost everyone does it" and "abnormally reckless" and that line sure ain't the speed limit.

[Fred Hope @fredakbar]

@tracewoodgrains @adastroworld @xereeto @hecubian_devil @Luan75937152 Your whole "make an earnest effort to reply sincerely and continue debating" thing is not really going to work very well with Palestine people. For whatever reason it just completely breaks people's brains (or only the people with broken brains in the first place [etc]).

[Fred Hope @fredakbar]

@orthostice11 @tracewoodgrains @xwanyex There are other non-binary aspects too, like how far of a recline is bothersome (or helpful), how sudden is it (that's something airlines could improve on), etc.

[Fred Hope @fredakbar]

@tracewoodgrains @xwanyex We need nationwide polling on this issue.

I hope wanye is right because I find reclining (all the way back; a little adjustment is okay) to be incredibly annoying and cringe but if most people really do it or are okay with it then I sadly must concede on descriptivist grounds.

[Fred Hope @fredakbar]

@mattyglesias I like how you held true to the "as I said yesterday" by misspelling Rogers's name again.

In your defense, AES would certainly beat Aaron Rodgers in a Michigan election.

[Fred Hope @fredakbar]

@tracewoodgrains fuck yeah

[Fred Hope @fredakbar]

@tracewoodgrains So we can drop f-bombs in our replies to you now and you won't mind?

[Fred Hope @fredakbar]

@tracewoodgrains You stopped censoring swearwords in screenshots. Any particular mindset shift around that?

[Fred Hope @fredakbar]

@tracewoodgrains I guess if fetuses are babies, then newborns are young males. A toddler is practically all grown up!

[Fred Hope @fredakbar]

@tracewoodgrains What's the purchase young male children thing about? Surrogacy?

[Fred Hope @fredakbar]

@tracewoodgrains the ol' is/ought distinction

[Fred Hope @fredakbar]

@ReubenR80027912 Why a guy named Majewski failed to appeal to MAGA voters will remain forever a mystery.

[Fred Hope @fredakbar]

@LPDonovan “It’s up to the oyster farmer to decide if he is going to run. We’re all encouraging him to make that decision, because time is running short.”