ArjinFerman
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ArjinFerman
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18hr ago
Had a busy New Years but I managed to get some work in. The latest version of the app is deployed, but it didn't quite go without a hitch, as I had to scramble to fix some issues stemming from discrepancies between sqlite and mysql. But it works!. The old data is migrated, and everything else works pretty damn snappy. I have to decide what to do next, either I'll go back to importing data from Substack, which is what got interrupted before I went on this whole refactoring tangent, or I'll add some AI-automated tagging, and/or image description for categorization and easier search, which is what I found myself wishing for recently.
How have you been doing @Southkraut?
ArjinFerman
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19hr ago
What mod history? It was a first post.
There's a log of all mod actions. He checked it to see what happened with your first post.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
Will starting a war be what drives his supporters away from him?
Not an American so can't speak for his actual supporters, but yup, that's the last stop on the Trump train for me.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
One might also speculate the Venezuelan success might be a contagion that furthers socialist (really "social democracy") popularity in the Americas and a successful model of defiance of the USA imperial authority.
I don't particularly disagree with you on the foreign policy angle, but if you consider Venezuela a success, how does a failure look like in your mind?
Finally, for the fascists surrounding Trump, the response might be a win win, based on calculated risk and win. A total successful foreign interventionist coup might distract the public with more zone shit. It might impress his base that are otherwise realizing they're miserable with vicarious jingoism "we are strong" vibes.
Weird, as a Trump-adjacent """fascist""", I'm pretty sure I want them to leave Venezuala and Iran alone.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
My first impression is that it would be "someone wanting to keep things the way they are". A definition that boils down to "being a scold" doesn't sound particularly useful.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
That doesn't make any sense. The temperamental conservatives raised in liberal culture became the """classical""" liberal free-speech warriors. The whole point for them was that wokeness was radical detraction from the liberal status quo of the 90's and 00's.
Sure, they're about as untrustworthy as any western institution. Though in this case, since they are already yes_chadding the highest incarceration rate in the world, I don't quite see the point in lying about it.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
In the long run, they simply have to be executed. Keeping them locked up is unsustainable
Surely they can earn their keep with a bit of forced labour?
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
Is the relaxing part happening? My read of the data (which Bukele is trying to obfuscate) is that the prison population of El Salvador is continuing to increase even after the murder rate stabilised at a low level.
That's a bit misleading. We are not seeing the same kind of increase as we did earlier, so we do definitely see relaxation. We are also quite definitely observing the rest of the population living under sunshine and rainbows.
Despite the calls for longer sentences on the populist right, there still seems to be a consensus within the MAGA movement that the Trump tariff revenue and DOGE savings should be used for tax cuts, not prison building.
The average person's views on taxation and spending are incoherent, and that's true no matter whether you're talking about the left or the right. Either way, if you want to imply that the DOGE-enjoyers want to cut spending on prison, maybe you can provide a link to an example or two.
ArjinFerman
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7d ago
Christmas turned out to be a crunch of it's own, but I managed to wrap up the script for migrating data from V1. If I manage to eek out some time I'll deploy the latest versions as it has some bugfixes, QOL improvements I'm eager to get my hands on in my daily usage.
How are you doing @Southkraut?
ArjinFerman
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9d ago
Kinda. Yes, Austrians are in favor of free trade, and tend to say deficits are just a natural part of trade, but they're quick to note that this is only the case under something like a gold standard, which has built-in balancing mechanisms, and that under fiat you can have perpetual deficits, which aren't good for you in the long run. Peter Schiff in particular had entire hours of rants about how the US is printing IOUs to buy consumer goods from Asia. The sentence I quoted from Noah Smith is literally indistinguishable from the kind of stuff he used to say (and probably still is).
ArjinFerman
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9d ago
Sorry to hear that, bro.
ArjinFerman
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9d ago
The second problem is that Europe’s trade with China is increasingly unbalanced. Europe is not trading services for the flood of electric cars, solar panels, and so on that China is sending. Instead, Europe is writing IOUs. That’s what a trade deficit is — the writing of IOUs in exchange for imports. Robin Harding of the Financial Times recently warned about this unbalanced trade, in an eloquent article entitled “China is making trade impossible”:
Huh? Isn't that the supposedly pea-brained Austrian Economist take? Why are neolibs copying other people's homework now?
ArjinFerman
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9d ago
You could just... get the new credentials?
Yes, going back to school for 3 years (to learn things I already know, mind you) is just what I want to do when I'm 40.
Plus, this would likely cut down on the impetus for nearly every shop to do Leetcode style interviews, so you'd be just exchanging one set of nonsense for another.
Hearing Americans talk about Leetcode is one of those things that makes me go "wait what?". Every job I had over the past decade just handed out an assignment to be completed over a couple hours / a day, and they judged based on that.
ArjinFerman
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9d ago
Oh, kick me out of the one field that pays me well despite the lack of credentials, why don't you?
ArjinFerman
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9d ago
The H1B program has been going on for 35 years, so I don't know what the "now" is referring to.
Hasn't the scale of the phenomenon changed over the years?
Wasn't that the first episode (or at least one of the first)? Also... the first time Q met humanity, he put it on trial for being a violent and savage race. When he met Sisko he got clocked in the face... do you really want to say "only a black man could have done this"?
Franco maybe had more justification (the republicans in the civil war also did some bad shit) but he took it too far.
Last I heard the atrocities on each side were roughly equal. The Republican cope was that their atrocities were "the spontaneous and chaotic expression of the anguish of the masses", and that this somehow makes them less morally objectionable.
Maybe that’s just selection bias on my part
Yeah. Keep in mind that I'm nit saying he's particularly loved (though he certainly has his fanboys), but the kind of person that lets Franco live rent-free in their heads is a particular type of Polite Company Participator that we're all well familiar with.
If I were to shit on Lenin, Stalin, or Mao who did similar shit I would get no pushback on this forum, but because these guys are right wing and traditionalist, they get defended here. This is why leftists don’t usually frequent this place.
You're making the leftists look pretty immature. These kind of conversations are completely normal, even if they're controversial, and if someone won't join or will leave in a huff over people taking a no-no position, they'd do more to stifle the conversation with their presence than to enrich it.
Also, we actually had a few Lenin, Stalin, and Mao fans over the years. We even had a guy who thought that if you think they're worse than Hitler you must be a Nazi. I don't recall any liberal handwringing over what the trads will think about this.
ArjinFerman
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14d ago
Franco and Pinochet both committed large scale mass murder.
Suddenly, and for no reason at all, I'm sure.
Franco was exhumed from his tomb because of how much the Spanish hate him now.
The Spaniards mostly don't care about him either way, it's the chattering classes that seethe over him, but that's not exactly what I'd call the result of a dispassionate analysis of his pro's and con's.
ArjinFerman
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16d ago
I too would love to have a Multiverse Viewer, but I don't think the stock market is a particularly good measure of economic performance.
ArjinFerman
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16d ago
One big thing I see missing from all these "the solution is simple: force women to have children by coercion!" answers is - are men ready to be fathers?
I mean, isn't that a solved problem? You coerce them too.
ArjinFerman
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16d ago
Been in a bit of a pre-Christmas crunch, I started working on migrating the data from v1, but didn't get very far.
How have you been doing @Southkraut?
ArjinFerman
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16d ago
I used to see the "You like politics? Here have some John Oliver" algo in all it's glory, nowadays I mostly get slop that's neither here nor there. Then again I mostly watch it through FreeTube (effectively watching everything via an anonymous tab). What you're getting sounds looks more like profiling than outright boosting, though you probably were on the edges of the cluster they put you in originally.
Lately my grandpa was directed to this gem.
Man... what do I have to do to get this recommended to me?
ArjinFerman
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17d ago
How do you figure? There's been leaks of the Google algorithm where it came out they explicitly derank small independant websites. There was also an analysis of YouTube's recommendations that shows they're trying to pull people to the mainstream. I wouldn't be surprised if Elon was boosting his favorite causes, but it's definitely not what I'd call "boosting diasident voices".
To be fair, you are going to bizarre lengths to imply that Israel doesn't have nuclear weapons, as well as to refuse to state that directly, or to deny it. Just stating your beliefs plainly would probably dispell any suspicion about your luminosity levels.
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