ArjinFerman
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ArjinFerman
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13d ago
Do you assume women's prisons are meaningfully less violent than men's prisons?
Yes, and even if they weren't they can't do as much damage as a man, even on hormones.
ArjinFerman
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13d ago
Most of his launches are in-house for Starlink, and it's not clear Starlink's model is sustainable. His competition is slowly catching up to him, and much like with Tesla, his ideas to stay ahead are not panning out, to put it mildly. I'm pretty sure the trajectory of the two companies will be the same.
Also, you're shifting the goalposts. Your original argument was that it's not a big deal that Starship is delayed, and I gave an argument for why it is. Looping back to "but look at all the cool things that they did with Falcon" is irrelevant. This is the typical cycle of the conversations about Elon: use hype about the future to claim he's amazing, then claim the past should already be enough for you, when someone questions the claims about the future.
ArjinFerman
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13d ago
I am not saying "Elon can do no wrong". I am saying "Elon is our only hope".
What I said was that there was a time when people were acting like he could do no wrong, and at that time claims like "he's our only hope" would be somewhat understandable, they're not anymore. Not only is he not our only hope, right now he's the limiting factor. Any of the competing landers would have had a better chance of success, and the way things stand right now, they might still succeeding over Starship.
To be fair, it's it's not just Elon's fault, there were very odd things going on at NASA when the decision was made to go with him, but no, "Elon succeeds or nobody does" are not the only two options.
ArjinFerman
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14d ago
If anything, Elon Musk is the only person who is preventing this outcome - if not Musk, it would be correct to conclude that the race is definitely lost and it's just a matter of time before the structural collapse reveals itself in a way that is obvious to the public
Yeah, no that's crazy. Nothing about the mission architecture of going to th moon with Starship can be reasonably described as preventing this outcome. 10 years ago, when nearly everybody thought that Elon can do no wrong, I could at least understand the belief that he'll conjure something out of thin air to solve all the problems that are plain to see right from the drawing board, but nowadays, after seeing how Hyperloop, "Full Self-Driving", Cybercab, Robotaxi, and Optimus are turning out, I'd hope people would be a bit more skeptical of him.
ArjinFerman
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14d ago
One can argue that losing the space race had been beneficial, serving as a wake up call that stimulated increased interest in space technology in particular and science and technology in general.
If the argument for Elon Musk's brilliance is supposed to be that he will make you lose the space race and serve as a wake up call, then all I have to say is that you're getting ripped off. I can make you lose the space race for a fraction of his price!
ArjinFerman
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14d ago
Starship is mostly funded by SpaceX too, so it's not like its a big deal if there are delays.
Losing the Space Race Boogaloo to China seems like a fairly big deal.
They unironically proposed building a space station near the moon to make up for this, make the moon mission even more complicated and expensive.
Not a very good argument in terms of "non-Musk space companies being a dumpster fire", as he unironically proposed having a dozen or two of orbital refuellings in order to send a single rocket to the moon, which they don't even know if they can do. Using Starship as a lander doesn't strike me as particularly sane either.
There are definitely people too invested in painting him as a clown, and I will further say they're almost certainly doing so for political reasons, but he's also definitely overhyped.
Actual British nationals, or the kind of British nationals that have very British names like Muhammad?
EDIT:
Ah, here we go:
There are two men in police custody.
They are a 32-year-old black British male and 35-year-old British national of Caribbean descent.
ArjinFerman
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15d ago
It has nothing to do with Scott, they were literally paying $7000 per post to influencers.
ArjinFerman
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17d ago
If socmed metrics are anything to go by, drama sells. Also mainstream companies have proven time and again they will pick ideology over profit.
ArjinFerman
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17d ago
Christ, what a wanker.
ArjinFerman
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17d ago
discussion with him and Alex of a then ongoing psy-op to convince people that the "ok sign" was a white-nationalist dog whistle. The two of them thought it was hilarious that they had helped get some truck-driver fired over it.
The whole story is very odd, but this stood out. How did they contribute to it exactly? Was there a 4chan campaign to email the guy's employer that I haven't heard about? Because if not I find it bizarre they'd even see themselves as contributing to the guy's firing.
Scott Alexander was wrong. The natural end state of liberal discourse is not "seven zillion Witches and three Principled Libertarians" it is "seven zillion Witches and zero Principled Libertarians" because all the libertarians have been shouted down, driven off, or banned, for refusing to compromise on one point or another.
You're both wrong. There is no natural state of liberal discourse, and liberalism's obsession with pretending that it's merely riding natural tides rather then shaping them, is exactly why it's taking such a beating of late.
ArjinFerman
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18d ago
If the dude that got knocked for cracking his knuckles while driving a van somehow managed to become known, discriminated upon HVAC technicians should manage to bubble up as well. "It's totally happening in a completely symmetrical way, it's just that one side's cancellations are somehow cmpletely invisible" is not very compelling.
ArjinFerman
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18d ago
That's a pretty common view where I'm from, but I thought Americans see it different. In any case this sort of "taking matters into your own hands" / bottom-up self organization for the benefit of your community, is somethingbI always admired about Americans. Would be sad if youblet thatvpart of your culture go.
ArjinFerman
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18d ago
Can we please stop the endless repetition of "it's just a couple of crazy kids on the internet" meme? What would have to happen at this point for you to admit you're wrong?
Protesting is well within their rights, and arguably their obligations as citizens, so I would buy it from them to that extent.
I don't think that argument justifies rioting, looting, and chasing down a guy running towards the police. This I wouldn't buy from them, but I'm not seeing the similarity to Rittenhouse.
ArjinFerman
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18d ago
Or alternatively, how many of them really believe their talking points are so obvious to reasonable people that they just can't be disagreed with if explicitly stated.
How is that an alternative?
HVAC techs will do the same thing in the opposite direction.
Please, shower me with stories of people getting fired from their dream HVAC technician job for being insufficiently chud. Note: quitting because you don't like the chuds or they don't like you, doesn't count.
ArjinFerman
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18d ago
wasn't exactly anti-Motte
Eh... the name he picked has implications. Also, even when he was posting here, he was trying to scoop people away towards his hangouts. I've also see an exchange between him and gattsuru, where he used gattsuru's tolerance of the Motte as a mark against his character.
Zero personal connection.
His father lives there, and he works there, IIRC.
ArjinFerman
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18d ago
Back when I was young and innocent I'd ask "...w ...why can't you deport them for being terrorists?", but after the seven zillionth undeported child rapist in Europe, I might need to sit this one out.
Honor culture means that when someone insults your honor, for example by calling you a "retarded faggot", you are compelled to retaliate in order to restore your honor. If you're quick on your feet and have sharp wits, insulting the other party even more might suffice, if not your fists may need to get involved. This is contrasted with "dignity culture" where you would show yourself to be the bigger man by letting the insults slide off you.
Even if members of honor culture did find it insulting for you to point out their statement to the cops (and honestly I think most of them would just YesChad it), all that means is that they'd kick the shit out of you for pointing it out, not that they wouldn't do it.
ArjinFerman
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18d ago
"Honor culture" doesn't mean you can't lie to the authorities to get a shorter sentence, what are you talking about?
ArjinFerman
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18d ago
I appreciate the sentiment behind the idea, but this sounds about as brilliant as the American embassy asking "are you a terrorist" on a visa application.
When a left-leaning person at work brings up Kyle Rittenhouse, they're not looking for philosophical debate on the merits of self defense. They're not looking for a proper legal assessment to uncover whether he was acting in accordance with the law. They're mad that those people got a murderer off the hook, and they want their fellow coworkers to appreciate how upset they are over such a ridiculous ruling.
Sorry, but you still need to work on your autism a bit, because there's a lot you're missing in that hypothetical conversation.
There's a reason small talk is called small talk - it's not supposed to touch on "big" subjects that people are invested in. There were even sayings like "never talk about religion or politics at work" that were attempting to crystalize that wisdom in people's heads.
When Lauren brings the Rittenhouse affair to the water cooler she is at best saying that she can't possibly imagine any moral and reasonable person disagreeing with her, or, at worst, is an utter sociopath that is perfecrly aware such people work in her office, and she's daring them to show themselves so she can ratfuck them later.
When people push back against her talking points, they're not being autistic, they're saying "be careful how you talk about 'those people' some of them might be here with you right now", hoping Lauren is just a tad egocentric, but well meaning. What many people did not take into account in the last decade or so, was how many Laurens are sociopaths.
ArjinFerman
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19d ago
Biased propaganda is more truthful than complete fairytale nonsense passed off as truth.
This is completely wrong. Fairytale nonsense is easier to correct. Lies of """truthful""" but biased propaganda have a stronger effect and correcting them requires attention spans longer than 5 seconds. Claiming AI hallucinations are worse is insane.
Uh-huh. How did the competition "being behind" Tesla detract from Cybertruck, Semi, Robotaxi, FSD, and Optimus being dumpster fires, and the Chinese offering as good or better cars for cheaper? How does "being ahead" supposed to magically help Starship?
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