@__drewface I agree with your characterization of the easy stuff, and I believe the reason the easy stuff isn't being done is because the median voter's empathy (or need to signal empathy) for criminals is simply too high
@avidseries Btw for any hicks reading, that "relevant to the zeitgeist" translates to "Americans are supposed to hate ourselves this century, so we punish ourselves by making ugly things"
@teachrobotslove I'll give ya another one: my buddy at the gym was cutting weight and I asked him about it, he said "yeah I just don't eat on Mondays and Tuesdays now"
Rationalist (high-decoupler): "here's a thing that's literally true"
low-decoupler: "what LOL you hate beauty? omg you hate humanity??"
happens every day
@moultano@AaronBergman18 Was it "skewing Twitter to favor his political views" or "skewing Twitter to be less biased, which would favor his political views" ?