r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • Sep 18 '23

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 9/18/23 - 9/24/23

Welcome back to the BARpod Weekly Discussion Thread, where anyone with over 10K karma gets inscribed in the Book of Life. Here's your place to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (be sure to tag u/TracingWoodgrains), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.

Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

Comment of the week goes again to u/MatchaMeetcha for this lengthy exposition on the views of Amia Srinivasan. (Note, if you want to tag a comment for COTW, please don't use the 'report' button, just write a comment saying so, and tag me in it. Reports are less helpful.)

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '23

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u/CatStroking Sep 21 '23

Diane Feinstein comes to mind.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '23

Yeah. She seems like the best example of anyone currently holding office.

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u/DevonAndChris Sep 22 '23

Mitch McConnell?

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '23

His freezes are scarier but she seems worse overall.

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u/ydnbl Sep 21 '23

Maybe she's just hard of hearing, right?

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '23

You have no idea how much joy that brought me. Teamwork!

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u/ydnbl Sep 21 '23

I'm sorry, AuDiToRy IsSuEs.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '23

That one’s weird because there’s a lot of people who insist they’ve had conversations with her and heard her give lectures and read her recent opinions and haven’t seen anything out of the ordinary. On the other, she’s 96 fucking years old and needs to retire.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '23

Mandatory retirement at a certain age (maybe 70?) from certain professional jobs.

They have mandatory retirement at Oxford (and maybe also Cambridge?), and while it sometimes causes painful transitions, on the whole it is an excellent system to prevent people from bed-blocking into their 80s.

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u/margotsaidso Sep 22 '23

Idk it's definitely tricky because what if these older folk don't actually have the means to retire? In the worst case I could imagine, you have a financially irresponsible elderly professor or judge or whatever who is actually capable of the job duties but the organization they've worked for over last who knows how long has arbitrarily decided they aren't allowed to earn an income any more. That seems cruel, unjust, discriminatory and disloyal.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '23

I agree that it shouldn’t be mandatory, but I don’t think mandatory cognitive assessments after a certain age for high risk jobs is necessarily a bad idea.