LacciMay 11
This is really important advice, especially for anyone dealing with mental health struggles or a chronic illness.
Show threadGemini6Ice

@Lacci @scattapilla I like to say it as “anything* worth doing is worth doing half-assed [as opposed to not at all]”

* there are a couple small exceptions

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Show threadLacciMay 11
@gemini6ice
I'm not really endorsing this message nor is it at all what the original was talking about, but it's tangentially related to what you said and makes me laugh so have this. https://youtu.be/c0QLdsecRZc?si=ovCkgsPJR14NDEf8
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S08E13 - Cut Every Corner Song

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Show threadSteven ReedMay 11
@gemini6ice @Lacci @scattapilla yup: surgery, nuclear power, and aircraft construction do get an exclusion, but pretty much everything else can benefit from this approach, I think :)
Show threadNatasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸May 11
@srtcd424 @gemini6ice @Lacci @scattapilla We do have to be a little bit vigilant about the definition though, given we're entering an age of generative AI slop. Half-assing a car as human still makes you take care of all necessities, but AI slop will outright forget the safety belt and put an airbag under your butt.
Show threadLeonardo Ferreira FontenelleMay 11

@srtcd424 @gemini6ice @Lacci @scattapilla

Surgery: if a patient *needs* a surgery in an emergency, doing it in subpar conditions is much better than not doing. If the only hospital performing a surgery can't buy a new gadget for every instance of a surgery, sterilizing it between surgeries is better than not doing the surgery

Show threadSteven ReedMay 11
@lffontenelle True - I was listening to a fairly gut-wrenching radio programme about surgeons in Gaza having to make decisions like this recently :(
Show threadGemini6IceMay 11
@lffontenelle @srtcd424 @Lacci @scattapilla yeah I’d say emergencies are the exception to the exception :) though I think subpar conditions are more of a limitation than a half-assing. Half-assing would be not suturing up the entry point, e.g., imo
Show threadGemini6IceMay 11
@srtcd424 @Lacci @scattapilla my (from experience) exception is anal douching
Show threadLinebylineMay 21

@srtcd424 @gemini6ice @Lacci @scattapilla I'd posit politics as another exception, at least a possible one. Reversing a bad law can be harder than getting a good one passed, especially since the ones who passed the bad law (even if they did so in good faith and not on purpose to appease their owners) can feel like they already did something about that problem, why keep worrying about it?

But even then, a merely insufficient law is usually better than no law.

Show threadLacciMay 21
@Linebyline
I'm not sure you can really make a generalization in politics. There are an awful lot of situations in politics that aren't about something as serious as actually passing a shitty law. Taking time to engage positively with a group or an issue even if you can't work out a comprehensive solution for example is important.
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Show threadLacciMay 21
@Linebyline
Also bad laws tend to be pretty carefully planned rather than a result of people not trying. Often in retrospect people try to cast their support for them as them just not knowing enough but generally they actually caved to pressure from specific interests who wanted the bad stuff in the law. And generally if you look closely there's either no evidence for what they knew or evidence they knew exactly why what they were doing was wrong.
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