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  • It’s a heuristic that says ‘most often the simplest solution is the best solution’. It’s supposed to be used to shorten the path of finding a viable solution to a question or problem.

    Basically, you find the simplest possible solutions, the ones with the fewest variables to account for, and you test them. They usually take the least amount of time to test, and they usually yield a solution faster because of that.

    This heuristic is often misused by concluding that very simple answers are immediately correct without actually verifying. Its best application is for selecting possible solutions to test only.




  • I’m a huge fan of Kid A, though I can also accept that experimental music isn’t everyone’s bag.

    Thom Yorke had something of a mental break and made Kid A, which was fueled by a feeling that rock ‘was dead’, just a formulaic and commodified product now.

    I still like Creep, it’s a great-sounding song. I do get why they don’t like it, based on their statements about why they want to leave it behind.

    Yorke told Rolling Stone in 1993: “It’s like it’s not our song any more … It feels like we’re doing a cover.”[13] During Radiohead’s first American tour, audience members would scream for “Creep”, then leave after it was performed.[7] Yorke said the success “gagged” them and almost caused them to break up; they felt they were being judged on a single song.







  • ‘Basically no one in charge’ is not exactly correct. Heirarchies are allowed to exist, but ideally should be as brief and flat as possible.

    My best understanding of the end-goal is an intermeshing alliance of small democratic collectives working together to provide for one another. This type of system has existed previously, such as with the various tribes across the Americas which often traded and collaborated with one another. In contrast with previous times, there is vastly more understanding of how the world works now, and thus many more possible projects to strive towards.

    There is also no expectation of some supposed utopia from this, as i understand - conflicts are still expected to flair up every now and again. The main aim is for equality and the absence of a single constant power structure which oppresses and dictates the conditions of all, but instead that there is a democratic collaberation defining the conditions for folks involved.





  • I have yet to meet a woman I’m close enough friends with who doesn’t have a personal sexual assault story. Not a harrassment story, an SA story. Could just be bad luck but i don’t think it is. It also lines right up with the statistic that 3/4 women get sexually assaulted before 30 (that stat is from memory, but I’ll try and track it down in a bit.)

    I believe It is much worse than you think.

    EDIT: so on the stat I popped: NSVRC says 1 in 5 women in their lifetimes and RAINN says 1 in 6 in their lifetime. It’s been a while since i’d read that stat so it makes sense it’d be off.(though it is disappointing just how far off it ended up being, big whiff on my part) Those stat pages also have numbers for men as well



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    Well, that’s because TERFs are posers that don’t know any of radical feminism’s actual theory.

    It’s kind of like how anarchocapitalists call themselves ‘libertarians’. They are entirely just muddying the waters either out of sheer ignorance or active malice.


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    I think you need to read up more on what radical feminism is. It is more down the rabbit hole than you’re describing.

    It’s not the flipping of society to place women in men’s roles. it’s the eventual elimination of man-woman destinction entirely. Their end goal is for genitals to eventually not matter culturally. They attack ‘The Patriarchy’ because it is the current cultural zeitgeist that must be dismantled to make way for this liberated non-binary society they envision.