ArjinFerman
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ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
24d ago
that it was fake
Duh, he's a politician on the campaign trail. There's something "It's Okay To Be White" about this, where most of the propaganda value of the stunt is in the reaction. A lot has been said about Trump's decline, and I agree, he's not the same man he was in 2016, but either he, or someone running his campaign, still seems to have the touch.
ArjinFerman
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24d ago
Funnily enough I find it far more upsetting that they're shoving politics into personal romantic relationships than that they're turning political discourse into a status game.
Also in many European countries (including Ireland and the UK) most police officers are unarmed.
I don't think this is the case in most of continental Europe.
ArjinFerman
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25d ago
I think that Biden's Kamala endorsement was just a brilliant fuck you to obama.
I'm not really following the happenings, what did he do, and how was it an FU to Obama?
ArjinFerman
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28d ago
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
28d ago
Noice!
This works (well, if it compiled) as a standalone project, or do I have to figure out Stride to get it working?
Aren't organizations incentivized to make the problem they're fighting look worse? Students reach new lows on standardized tests - give more funding to schools; We're falling behind in a particular field of research - give more money for researchers; No one wants to pay for elite art - subsidize elite art; More generally, if you express even the faintest interest in supporting a charity or a nonprofit, they will bombard you with newsletters about how terrible things are, and how the world will end if you don't send them money RIGHT NOW!
And correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't most of these crimes outside of FBI jurisdiction to begin with?
Whoever those fudged numbers are supposed to make look better, it's probably not the FBI, and outside political pressure seems pretty likely, especially when we know for a fact it goes unpunished in the event it's discovered, and undisputable.
The same way I explain debates over methodology in academia, which result in a peer review process that can't outperform laymen simply looking at studies' titles.
ArjinFerman
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29d ago
Yeah, I can imagine. Still:
- I don't know if I want to fuck around with that stuff after my experience
- It's still terrifying to realize I got the equivalent of black-out / vomit-all-over-the-place drunk, on what you're telling me is the equivalent of a single can of Bud Light. I wonder how I'd react if my first hit was the stuff you have in the US.
ArjinFerman
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29d ago
Well, that's terrifying...
Amsterdam weed was the first and only time I tried it, and ended up feeling how my IQ is dropping in real-time, and having a rather disturbing disassociative experience. Someone later told me I may have had too much for my first time, but if that's the "light" variant... damn...
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
29d ago
Yes, and you seem to be implying there's something strange about that?
If the bias is consistently in the same direction, I find it unlikely that they are actually trying to correct it. I'd have to look up the post I'm citing, but I think they were talking about Sweden where their right-populist party was underestimated during one election, overestimated in the next one, and finally estimated correctly in the one after that. This is what you'd expect to see if they were trying.
The prediction markets, if anything, seem to be underselling Trump's chances right now.
As much as I think the "Trump campaign is in disarray! They were not prepared for Kamala! Coconut-couchfucker-joy!" offensive was fake, I'll keep repeating "it's not over until it's over". Someone else also pointed out back then that relying on pollsters' past bias might be risky, because you never know when they might decide to correct for it.
ArjinFerman
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30d ago
If it's for "anybody but whites" it still illegal, fits right into the memeplex it's invoking, and fulfills the promise.
"This won't actually happen" is a poor argument. If you don't want to be criticize for your proposals, don't make them.
ArjinFerman
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30d ago
@Southkraut, how are you doing?
ArjinFerman
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30d ago
Highspace
On one hand things are moving, but on the other I feel a bit stuck. Last week's task was to create a "save game" feature, at least on the backend, to make future testing a bit easier, however:
- A few weeks ago I decided it might be time to bump up the version of the FS2 binary. Since most of the project is is LUA, I figured it shouldn't be an issue. Turns out I actually had a bugfix there that made the in-mission "tactical view" even possible (FS2 forgot to reset lights when rendering a frame from LUA, causing them to accumulate, and performance to drop). I didn't open a pull request with FS2, and no one else noticed the bug, so updating the source reintroduced. Oops.
- Then I noticed that the game gets stuck in tactical mode. At first I thought it must be an issue on the LUA end, but after some amount of painful debugging I thought that maybe it's also a result of the FS2 binary update - yup! So it looks like I'll have to roll everything back to the previous version for now, because I'm not in the mood for debugging the FS2 source.
- Found another bug in the System Map that causes everything to disappear if the time compression is set too high, and enemy ships run into you. I'm still on debugging this one.
Redot
Somehow I got excited for the Godot fork and wanted to set it up, but it looks like their compiled binaries are incompatible with my distro, which either means:
- upgrading the OS (which I'm not really in the mood for either at the moment)
- compiling Redot from source, which I might to if I have some spare time.
ArjinFerman
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30d ago
I might be misunderstanding the intentions in your previous comment, but I was under the impression you're trying to come up with some objective measure to see if this statement from Naraburns is true:
By the mid 1990s at the latest, National Review was much, much closer to the "common man" than anything the New York Times had on offer.
If that's what you're going for, looking at the demographics of each paper seems like a pretty bad approach.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
30d ago
Thanks for picking that year, as that is the earliest Press Kit I can find for NR easily available online. It gives a breakdown of what their readership looks like* for the purposes of selling advertising
You probably could have saved yourself some time, if you agreed on this metric ahead of time. Personally, it seems like a pretty bad approach to measuring who's more in touch of the common man.
That's not the issue. I recognize that some claims to asylum are legit, but I don't think these claims should enable mass population transfers. I also think such a mass-transfer is a greater violation of rights than a denial of a valid asylum claim.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
30d ago
Trump needs massively beefed security, immediately, whether you like him or not.
The good news is that after the first attempt, they seem to be catching the would-be assassins before they get a chance to do anything.
Governments are vastly more powerful than most humans. This is why we limit what governments can do to people
Where? Governments assert broad rights to deploy mass surveillance, control speech, terrorize people with the police for political disagreement, even arrest people on completely arbitrary grounds if they're deemed to be enough trouble.
For example, even if most criminal defendants are guilty, we still want trials to follow due process.
Of course a lot of people claiming asylum in European countries are in fact economic migrants. And of course many of them will not be swiftly deported. But none of that affects the rights of people with a legitimate claim to asylum.
There's nothing in the constitutions and refugee conventions you keep citing, that would prevent a European government from refusing entry to African "refugees", while following due process.
Should this give another EU country the licence to just confiscate property of some other party at gunpoint, because 'taxes are already suspended in the EU'? Clearly not.
All taxes are "confiscating property at gunpoint", and countries clearly can decide their tax policy.
At the end of the day, the migrants in Belarus were shipped there with the explicit goal of annoying the EU.
This complaint seems a bit incoherent. I'm constantly being told that immigration is a benefit to the host country, how can that be annoying?
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
30d ago
next yearscratch that, it's a shit show, next couple years.
I appreciated the laugh, thank you.
unreasonably impatient.
Maybe, but I'm not the one that set the deadlines. You said yourself, we were scheduled for next year to go to the moon, and I won't even mention Elon's private Mars ambitions.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/yearly-number-of-objects-launched-into-outer-space
Admittedly that's a tough number for me to debate. I will notice that this is the number of launches, and not their cost, but I am aware of the implication that such a number would not be sustainable if the costs weren't appropriately low. That said, I would one day like to see an independently audited cost breakdown of these launches, because I do actually think what we're seeing is unsustainable, at least as far as the public-facing part of the company goes. For all I know SpaceX is a front for launching Black-Ops satellites without raising too much suspicion, and is appropriately awash with money.
You are seeing what the early part of an era of exploration or expansion looks like.
(...)
Then given that we are literally on the 5th test flight ever of a new degree of capability, historically speaking 50 years from now would be very soon, let alone 15 or 5.
That's all fine, but shouldn't we then leave declaring new eras of exploration to historians? With everything you've written, it sounds like something that won't become apparent for quite a while.
For example, the Saturn 5 rocket of the Apollo program to the moon had a LEO lift capacity of 118 tons, and about $5.5k per kg. The Starship is expected to have a LEO lift capacity of 100-150 tons, with a forecasted cost of around $1.6k per kg... possibly falling to $0.15kg ($150/kg) over time due to to reusability reduce the cost per flight as you don't have to keep re-making the whole thing.
There's a few issues here. One is - wasn't Saturn 5 optimized for the flight to the moon? It could deliver 50 tons to the moon in a single shot. Starship might have good (forecasted) performance to LEO, but it simply cannot make it to the moon, and even according to best case scenario projections will need a dozen or so refueling launches to reach the moon.
The second problem I have is the "falling over time do tue reusability", why hasn't this happened with Falcon 9? I consider it's announced costs to be a bit sus in themselves, but even taking them at face value, you don't see them dropping over time.
Finally, the third problem is that it's a forecasted cost. Musk's entire MO is announcing some product promising insane performance, falling way short, but acting like he delivered because you can buy something that looks vaguely like the announced product. Wasn't self-driving supposed to be safer than a human driver 7 years ago? Wasn't the Cybertruck supposed to be nearly indestructible and cost as low as $40K? Wasn't the Roadster supposed to be in production in 2019, and offer some insane range like 600 miles? Wasn't the Semi supposed to beat Diesel trucks in terms of costs, be competitive with rail, and be guaranteed to not break for a million miles? Wasn't the Boring Company supposed to cut tunnel costs to a fraction of what they were? What makes you so sure he'll deliver on Starship any better than he did on any of those?
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1mo ago
I really want to contradict you and drop a lizardman joke, but even at my tinfoiliest I have to admit you're right on this one.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1mo ago
I really can't get myself into the headspace of someone who doesn't understand what this stunt is about.
McDonnald's is low-status precisely for the reasons you point out, but people eat there because it's affordable, and they work there because they'll hire anyone right off the street. He's showing he's on the side of people dismissed as "low-status".
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