AvocadoPanic
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We're not about to see a kids rebel by being performatively right-wing
Aren't most of the 'Active Clubs' young men? I don't think I'd describe them as performative.
AvocadoPanic
4mo ago
masculinity as authority figures for young men
Isn't this why Andrew Tate and Daniel Bilzerian experience the popularity they have? They fill the vacuum of non-converged masculine authority figures, despite their apparent low quality.
Were you thinking of Audie Murphy types as pro-social masculinity? Do you have any examples?
AvocadoPanic
4mo ago
I guess some have, sort of. Pairs of pederastic and pedophilic men can now abuse their victims together. Sometimes they even adopt their victims.
AvocadoPanic
4mo ago
outdoor public places turning into a summer-long gay sex party, but whatdya gonna do
It's possible that in this incident from last week the purported 'victims' were just walking at night in an area known for public sex between men, when they encounterd an armed homophobic gang. There are other scenarios that seem more likely.
AvocadoPanic
4mo ago
hope was that this would go away if homosexuality was normalised
What was the mechanism to accomplish this?
It's like hoping for less crime if we stop arresting and prosecuting criminals.
AvocadoPanic
5mo ago
I know what you mean. I had a 1998 V40 I still miss.
AvocadoPanic
5mo ago
That's why I put it in ' '.
It's like retouching a photo to make them look nude. This or composting their head / face into porn feels a bit different to me than writing a prompt that would generate a similar appearing image.
AvocadoPanic
5mo ago
AI can 'remove' the clothing from photos. It can also composite supplied images into existing or generated scenes. It can generate 'original' images from descriptive text input.
Do we know in this instance how the boys generated the image? Does the particular method used make it better or worse?
AvocadoPanic
5mo ago
If instead of photo-realistic AI generation it was anime would you think the same?
If instead of AI it was hand drawn by one of the boys in the style of , 'I want you to draw me like one of your French girls.'? Is this better, worse or the same?
AvocadoPanic
5mo ago
Could writing be classed as a hand gesture? I find that notes I've taken by hand are stickier than notes taken by typing.
AvocadoPanic
5mo ago
The peer group at the Russian School of Math is a benefit.
This was our first year homeschooling. My wife is happy with the progress they're making.
Before being a FT SAHM / homemaker, she was MD/PhD.
The lack of support for gifted kids is part of it. The lack of rigor in the curriculum in general is surprising. There are no letter grades. Seldom / rarely any homework. Spelling is typically not corrected on any submitted work, students are not expected to correct / revise their own work for resubmission. The concept of penmenship seems to have disappeared entirely. There's no copy work. No spelling / writing from dictation. Rarely any reading aloud. No deficiency notices. Yet there's still somehow less time for recess.
AvocadoPanic
5mo ago
they're paying low six figures at best and there's 10+ meetings a week
I've had this job. The 'meaningfulness' wears off. Now I look for meaning in myself and family, not my work.
At work I trade my time for money to fund the meaningful part of my life.
AvocadoPanic
5mo ago
The distracters aren't really effective if there's not a plausible argument for them. That's largely the point of distracters. The goal is to identify the best answer.
You are productive when you produce stuff. The question details 4 types of items and 2 crops that are produced. The crops are also produce.
AvocadoPanic
5mo ago
Me too. Tech before / during the dot com bust. Finance / investment banking, managed services, defense.
I think I may be seeing some geographic selection effects too. It could be the median candidate in London, UK is better than the median candidate in the Boston suburbs.
AvocadoPanic
5mo ago
I wouldn't necessarily be opposed to the religious schools unfortunately many are sponsored by denominations that have embraced idpol or alphabetism. Also my wife would likely need to return to work to pay the tuition.
We're supplementing homeschooling with weekly foreign language (my wife's native language) in a classroom environment and The Russian School of Math.
I was identified as gifted in elementary school, the GATE program in the district as kooky as it was made school much more engaging.
AvocadoPanic
5mo ago
Even at 6 figures the quality is poorer than I recall.
I suspect it's the increased size of the industry that we're failing to produce the quality candidates at scale or there is insufficient human capital as a starting point.
AvocadoPanic
5mo ago
I think we're doing a poorer job of engaging the the children of smart people.
We have 4 children. They're all smart, but my middle son has tested as > 99.9% in math and taught himself to read somewhere between ages 3 and 4. Despite being in one of the more affluent districts in our state in the Northeast there are no services for gifted children. As long as children are performing at grade level asking for more academic rigor is met with shrugs. This is partially why we're homeschooling now.
In 80's California our class sizes were bigger but there was a GATE program and divided start to better group the class into reading groups by ability / level. I'm sure there are lots of 'studies' but the couple I've dug into seem like bullshit.
AvocadoPanic
5mo ago
How is your sysadmin recruiting going?
Having been in this space for nearly 30 years, the quality of the candidates seems lower now than in the 90's.
I recall working with people enthusiastic and curious about the technology we were administering. They'd have hobbies or intrests in adjacent but relevant areas.
Many now need more supervision than they receive. I also suspect the poor performers drag down the pay scales.
AvocadoPanic
5mo ago
Impossible to know, or impossible to say?
AvocadoPanic
5mo ago
You're predicting Trump loses Alaska?
AvocadoPanic
5mo ago
Trust a New York City jury?
New York City couldn't be trusted to make picante sauce.
AvocadoPanic
5mo ago
I think Stewart Rhodes was overcharged and over sentenced but I wouldn't describe his actions as civil disobedience either. Is he being prevented from writing letters to newspapers?
Weren't the Oath Keepers infiltrated by informants and under cover agents?
AvocadoPanic
5mo ago
@SSCReader inserted Thoreau, I was agreeing as an example of peaceful civil disobedience. I find him a better example than the mobs blocking traffic. Compared to Gandhi he's a poser, but still a better example of civil disobedience than the BLM rioters / looters / demonstrators.
AvocadoPanic
5mo ago
Thoreau, MLK, Gandhi all went to prison / jail. The demonstrations today are not civil disobedience, I understand the demonstrators of today want to inherit the legacy of civil disobedience, at best they're wearing it as a skin suit.
As you correctly point out the demonstrators are in collusion with factions in the government. Where did historic civil disobedience collude with the nominal opposition to effect change by breaking laws orthogonal to their demands?
Can any crime be newspeak civil disobedience, bank robbery, murder?
Some objected to gay 'marriage' on substantially similar grounds.
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