ArjinFerman
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It drives home the incredible degree to which Nazi Germany was this backwards economy pulling off a Potemkin village of industrialization.
I kinda have a problem with this. How do you do 6 years of basketcase "Potemkin industrialization", and proceed to whoop the ass of half of Europe?
ArjinFerman
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15d ago
More acutely, though, this seems like disastrous political strategy from reactionary elements on the American Right. There are so many easy wins to be had against progressivism, from defending the value of markets and pushing back against affirmative action to attacking the bizarre and incoherent ideologies of contemporary critical race theory and gender self-ID. Why on earth would you jeopardise these favourable battlefields to tilt at ideological windmills that the large majority of Americans and Westerners consider sacrosanct? Bad and stupid ideas, but also bad and stupid strategy.
My question here is more: howcome an edgy journalist interviewing an edgier historian is enough to tar an entire political / intellectual movement, but academia gets to argue for pedophilia and family abolition, and high-ranking officials use their position to abolish the age limits on sex change procedures without anyone feeling like they have to answer for them?
ArjinFerman
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15d ago
Well, feel free to go Kamala Campaign on me, but that's not particularly moving as an argument. It's not like I'm advocating to unleash mass-scale unschooling, I'm saying a system where you're not allowed / heavily discouraged from doing any productive work until much later on in your adulthood, and where advancement is gatekept based on spending time in classes, is insane. Historically that state of affairs is a little bit too recent to call departing from it "weird", in my opinion.
No, sorry, knee-jerk wild accusations of perfidy by your outgroup, backed up by baseless speculation in the total absence of concrete evidence, is clownish behavior no matter who does it.
I get it, and you're not wrong. However, I maintain we've seen some wild shit over the years, and it has remained essentially unacknowledged beyond a shrug and a "what are you gonna do about it?". Glowies running cover for the Hunter Biden laptop story is by itself insane enough, that people smelling bullshit here ware entirely justified. And damn it, it just feels so good when you stick your neck out, and end up vindicated. Though the problem with sticking your neck out is that you sometimes end up decapitated, c'est la vie.
ArjinFerman
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16d ago
The same people who insisted over and over and over again that we know this diary contains information that must be incredibly damaging to The Narrative™️ are the same people who, within minutes of the Trump assassination attempt, confidently asserted that the progressive media was directly responsible for inspiring the shooter to commit the act,
I absolutely did not do the latter!
it’s getting increasingly difficult to take any of them seriously.
You're being a tad dramatic. After several Alex Jones -tier conspiracies turning out / becoming true before our eyes, I think you should cut us some slack. If people don't course correct after a while, then you can shit on us.
ArjinFerman
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16d ago
so they cannot be reasoned out of trying to do a Nazism, only suppressed.
The conflict with Communism is much more of a mistake theory conflict. Even the Communist elites had it worse than Capitalist elites under Communism
That doesn't mean they can be reasoned out of communism. I've made this point before, but ideologies based on good intentions are often no better than ones based on blind hate. There's no limit to what a man can do, if you convince him it's all in the service of the greater good.
and it's more of a common knowledge that Communism was bad for everyone in general. That's why it doesn't need as much suppression.
This makes no sense. If fewer people believed communism was bad, than you'd have even more people arguing it doesn't need to be suppressed.
ArjinFerman
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16d ago
Sort of, but not really. I have a small mountain of unfinished projects on my hard drive. Inspiration for them comes and goes, I was able to finish maybe one or two of them. I feel some amount of regret for not being to apply myself enough to have something I can show off, and to some extent the point of this thread is to help me finish the one I'm currently working on... but at the same time, come on, tinkering is supposed to be fun, for me at least. It sounds like you're trying to get some side-hustle off the ground with your projects, and maybe that's the thing causing you burn-out.
ArjinFerman
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16d ago
1) thinking TFR is a problem and 2) belief in the efficacy of diverse/inclusive/woke media. Not valence, efficacy.
Efficacy for what? They were always justified with trying to increase tolerance / reduce ism, but they seem almost custom engineered to do the opposite, so how do we measure efficacy?
Then there's also the fact that bad propaganda also exists. Eastern commies were quite bad at it, for example, so they had to make up for the shortfall of hearts and minds with more conventional methods.
ArjinFerman
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16d ago
Well then, definitely a point for the commies!
There are some things money can buy. For everything else, there's the CIA.
ArjinFerman
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16d ago
That feels a bit oddly phased. Presumably it is the patient who is expressing a desire for this
I see nothing odd about it. A few years back there was a story about a patient who went to a psychologist, and expressed a desire to be blind (and, if you're curious how it ended, the psychologist did oblige), it's still the doctor's job to discourage rather than encourage it, in my opinion.
and going through a fairly lengthy bureaucratic process - especially for anything non-binary
The process is neither lengthy nor particularly bureaucratic.
I don't think there's a bunch of doctors out there going "have you considered transition?"
The issue I brought up is that there are doctors explicitly advocating for removing all guardrails, including age, history of mental illness, and even the incidence of gender dysphoria. The response that they're (probably, maybe) not going out of their way to sell transition, does not alleviate my fears stemming from the issue I brought up.
That said, if someone knowingly undergoes surgery, and this routinely makes those people happier, I don't see any reason to stop it.
Well, you originally made it sound like it's a question of best medical practice. If diagnosis doesn't enter into it, and we're just fulfilling people's arbitrary desires, hoping it will make them happy, it would appear the original argument is invalid.
In any case the reason that I see to stop it, is that young people are not known for their good judgment, so I don't think we should be letting minors undergo irreversible procedures on the basis of their sayso.
There's also an argument for limiting access even for adults, but if we can't agree on minors, I don't we'll get far regarding adults.
My general understanding is that very few people regret these surgeries, partly because there is still generally a lengthy bureaucratic process weeding out anyone doing this on a whim.
I'm not talking only about surgeries, but about the whole "gender affirming care" package (blockers, hormones, surgaries). Further, my entire point is that specific doctors, and organizations like WPATH are explicitly working towards abolishing any such process, wherever it exists. If the reason why you're not worried about people undergoing these procedures is that there are safeguards in place, then I think the biggest worldwide association of gender care providers arguing to abolish them should be a bigger deal to you.
In any case what you said is inaccurate. Until recently you could get all of these things, with zero questioning, and few bureaucratic hurdles, even as a minor. In response some jurisdictions decided to clamp down on the practice, and impose age limits through legislative action. In other places, this was done through medical oversight institutions finding little to no evidence for the effectiveness of the practice. But there are still many jurisdictions that did not regulate the practice, and even doubled down on making it even more accessible.
ArjinFerman
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16d ago
That's a good point as well.
I mean, I'd actually bet that in 2024, the life of say, a 19-year old female psychology major at a mid-tier state school (aka, the average American college student) is actually less hedonistic in many ways the median non-college educated 19-year old in the United States, working a low wage job.
He's talking about a specific subset of people who were able to take responsibility for themselves thanks to how their environment was structured, why are you responding like he meant all people earning a low wage?
Don't a lot of the latter grow up in exactly the environment you're advocating for, anyway?
Also, a not-so-secret part of why even in a world where having college degrees being mandatory for jobs were illegal, a lot of workplaces would still prefer college-educated people because it shows them you can follow directions and finish something, even if the directions and tasks were possibly not related to the job.
And an even-less-secret part of that is that "a lot" is not nearly enough for degreeless people to worry about finding a job, which we see in today's world, in industries where degree requirements are optional, not illegal. At least I never worried about finding a job so far.
ArjinFerman
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16d ago
Well, the question was rhetorical, but thank you for answering, because this is exactly what I was hinting at.
What's 4H, by the way?
ArjinFerman
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16d ago
This is just an extension of the weird rationalist view that everybody hates school and it's pointless.
If everybody loved it, it wouldn't have to be mandatory, and it's not pointless in principle, just the way it's set up nowadays is.
Plus, no, it'll mostly be technological advances.
This makes no sense. You spend approximately 0 hours learning how to handle modern technology in school, and even if you did, you don't need that knowledge for most service sector, and corporate office jobs.
options in the economy and thus making them more independent
Here's the thing though, I don't think it makes anyone more independent, neither men nor women. You're spending massive amounts of time idling to get a piece of paper, that will allow you to get a piece of paper, that will hopefully unlock some doors for you, sometime in the future. But all things considered, that's limiting your options, not expanding them.
I mean, yes, I think any form of education that's more than just 'be happy and have babies' for young women will lead to this, when there's any sort of political and societal freedom for women, along with access to consistent birth control.
Why would education lead to arrested development? I'm not talking just about reproduction, I'm saying the whole system is deliberately designed to minimize one's ability to support oneself until you are quite old.
Now, I know people will point to say, the 50's or early 20th century or whenever about educated women going happily into marriage, but again, if you actually look at what well-educated wives of lawyers, doctors, and so on actually did, they actually didn't dote on their five kids or whatever
I'd counter with pointing out you don't have to look back at the 50's. You can look at now, just somewhat above doctors, and lawyers. The most rich have lots of kids.
Again, the reactionaries are actually basically right - women's education (and I mean, like basic education, not whatever you think the evil modern western college is) + available contraception = a dramatic drop in birth rates no matter what else you actually try.
It's not about "education", unless you think it is impossible to have an education system that doesn't result in arrested development well into your thirties.
Iran & Saudi Arabia are having big drops, and as noted, even places like Mongolia are dropping and Hungary's attempts largely failed unless judged on a curve.
Nah, what they're finding out is that power is about a lot more than who sits on the throne.
The Christian Right got what it wanted - far less pregnant single teen girls.
What's up with the gloating? You want to solve the problem or you just want to confirm the strawman portrayal of the secular left was not a strawman at all?
ArjinFerman
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17d ago
You assume the parents think their children have had a positive effect on their lives.
I don't think that's an assumption.
, or more importantly, telling your kids at 18 to pop out some babies will overwrite the previous 18 years of complaining they've heard about the cost of raising them or getting in the way of their own lives, and so on.
Absolutely, end the schizophrenic messaging around children.
ArjinFerman
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17d ago
@Southkraut, how's your Unreal Engine thing going along?
ArjinFerman
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17d ago
If you were going to increase the birth rate how would you do it?
Assuming I have control over / loyalty of the CIA / all the other glowies, it's pretty easy. Bribe Taylor Swift, and all the other female role models, to start having kids (make the bribe dependant on staying within a marriage for good measure), bribe a few media outlets to cover it positively, and have anyone who covers it negatively meet an unfortunate accident.
ArjinFerman
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17d ago
It's really hard to say if it represents the actual community, because there's some loud voices that want to make the newest ideology the only one, but I do think there's a lot of people like me, and still are, even if we're no longer the majority within the trans community. I think there's a lot more of us than you'd guess
Well, my guess was roughly what you're describing. I saw a pretty big generational difference in the trans community, and figured the more old school view is probably still strongly represented, but trended on it's way out I was wondering if an insider's view was different.
But my problem here is that this isn't a question of numbers and loudness, but one of position. Ten thousand reasonable trans women, who aren't bothering anyone, and just want to live their life, will easily be outweighed by a single Dr. Ren Massey simply by virtue of him being a doctor, and being in the position of training other doctors.
I have a bit of trouble taking someone seriously as a "trans woman" if they just want to self-identify, don't have dysphoria, and aren't even taking HRT
Well, if I understood the new approach to the issue, it's less about being trans without dysphoria and HRT, and more about taking HRT without dysphoria. The way you described it, HRT / pronouns / gender affirming care generally is something we do, because it's the best way to alleviate suffering. I'm not into causing unnecessary suffering, so I can go along with that, but the new view on this matter seems to be that there might not be any suffering involved to begin with, so this is where my patience starts to wear thin - I didn't sign up to be a part of anyone's grand project of self-expression.
most cis women I meet who identify as "non-binary" just seem unhappy with society's concept of "female", or are viewing that concept through a fairly narrow lens. All that said, if you're actually going out and getting surgery, I'm going to take you seriously.
That's interesting, because that's the opposite of my instincts. As long as it's about "roles" it's no skin off my nose, it's when doctors encourage body modification to express one's non-binariness that I'm starting to think that things are getting out of hand, and we need to put a stop to it.
HighSpace
This week was also pretty slow, but I'm pretty satisfied with the progress.
- Icon for bomber wings
Nothing fancy, but it's here! Still, an important feature when deciding which ship you want to send in for the job.
- Finishing the map AI
Last I was only able to set up a basic AI system that took the player ship "aggro" into account. However, all that meant was relative prioritisation when there was more than one player ship on the map. In the event there being only one ship (or several being grouped into a fleet), it would mean instantly drawing the attention of every single enemy on the map. The goal for this week was to make it a bit more subtle. Not wanting to implement a whole-ass sensor system, that make the player invisible to the ships further away, I opted to add a distance component to the aggro calculation, and a threshold for reacting. I also wanted to make aggro "infectious", so:
- Ships detaching from a fleet would inherit the fleet's aggro
- Ships joining a fleet would infect it with their aggro, if it's higher.
Killing an enemy ship now also causes an increase of aggro for all ships participating in the mission, so as you progress through the map, you will draw the attention of more and more ships. This doesn't mean much right now, as enemy ships don't join each other to form fleets yet (unless by accident), so this does not increase the difficulty of each mission. But I like how it already causes a few things to emarge from it. You can, for example bump up aggro for your fighter wing, and use it's superior speed to draw the enemy away from rescuable ships.
I made a little video to show off the mechanics, but it's been a pain in the ass to get to to a manageable size and still have it be readable. I'll give it another go tomorrow.
Goals for next week were:
- Fix bugs introduced in this week
- Something weird happens when a friendly ship gets shot down causing a crash. - Shooting down a ship does not remove it from the list of active AIs (which is why the debug aggro information is still shown after the mission, in the video above).
Are two known ones. Hopefully there aren't any more, but I wouldn't bet on it.
- See if there's any low-hanging fruit to make the AI more interesting.
Like I said joining into groups would be cool, as that would increase the difficulty of the mission upon encounter. I was also wondering if I should it "lore friendly". Right now, once an AI locks in it will automatically course-correct as it chases you. I was thinking of forcing it to way until it exits subspace, adding a subspace cooldown, etc. OTOH it might be too early for this right now as it would make the enemies too easy to dodge, it might work with a sensor system, and having ships be invisible while in subspace.
- Reinforcement mechanics
I was considering having the System Map be active even in-mission, and letting the player call in reinforcements from there. The problem with that is it would imply time still flowing in the system map, which in turn would imply the possibility of parallel battles. I think I'll opt for High Fleet mechanics again, where the world-time will freeze for the duration of the battle, but ships that happen to be close enough to it can be called as reinforcements (perhaps with some distance-dependant time-cooldown).
- More annotations / code refactoring
If I need something menial to not tire the old noggin too much, I might opt for this one instead. There's a whole bunch of stuff one can break by accessing each object's fields directly, so I want to hide them via annotations, expose some methods to change, that will guarantee everything working correctly.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills...
Sure, I can buy the Nazis skewing their economy heavily towards the military sector, to the detriment of civilians, but portraying the economy writ-large as "horse and mule drawn" makes no sense. Forget about the Wunderwaffen, tell me how the horses and mules produce, in terms of raw numbers, enough tanks, fighters, bombers, and their respective munitions, to conquer France, challenge Britain, and drive deep into the Soviet Union at the same time!
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