BANNED USER: Persistent culture warring and petty antagonism
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
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User ID: 1266
Banned by: @Amadan
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
Oh man, please name names, because that's hilariously thin-skinned.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
Just a theory: you don't have like a million tabs open with one of them including your notification page, do you? Just asking because the same thing happened to... uh, my girlfriend... in canada.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
Is he or is he not at risk of deportation? Give a clear answer.
That's so weird: I also just assumed there's some NEC rule limiting breaker amps on a panel to like 150% or something, but section 220 says it really is just based on the load calc. It's never come up for me for obvious poorfag reasons.
It's funny how nitpicky and micromanaging some parts of the code are, and others are just like "yeah, use common sense or whatever, I'm not your mom"
Yes, there's an odd thing going on right now where "people of walmart" are still acceptable targets, but the obese people closest to rich urban liberals are statistically most likely to be professional black women (60% obesity rate, something like 50% for high income black women), who are very dangerous to appear to be mocking. What I see is the explicit sneering shifting to the other, safer low-class markers of PoWs, like mobility scooters and trashy clothing. Even if their obesity is obviously implicitly part of the sneer.
The local public school's art teacher almost got wifi banned from the school because of that (and her friends did get it banned from local public housing, using their credentials as licensed reiki energy healers). Sanity only barely prevailed, and I heard rumors it was thanks to a "can you feel the wifi right now? Well... It's off" gambit at a staff meeting.
Shirtless bodybuilder looks up from his small publishing extra-based translation of Carl Schmitt: "Excuse me, was this steak cooked with seed oils?! I demand to speak to the manager!"
So in your Schism crosspost, trolls are pointing at my heat pump thing "over at tHe BaD pLaCe" as evidence for banning gas appliances (ignoring that induction stoves are resistance heat, not heat pumps with a 3-4x efficiency multiplier over gas!)
This is exactly why I was reluctant to make the post without a ton of disclaimers, and obviously I should have been strident enough to stop people like that feeling it supported them.
(Also how the hell do people fill up a 200amp breaker panel without running a machine shop? I'm so fucking tired of being lectured about the "climate crisis" by people who waste dozens of times as much energy as I do on frivolous upper middle class lifestyle signalling. My house panel only has a 100a feed, and it's nowhere near maxed out!)
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
The tractor beam stuff was all over the EU books IIRC. I think it was Stackpole(?) who had a corvette beating a star destroyer by tractor-beaming a moon or something. It just irritated me after a while.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
Besides, he knows he'll have people like you help dismiss it all as nonsense and cast those paying attention as crazy conspiracy theorists.
I hate psychoanalyzing people I like, but 2rafa, have you recently seen a big wave of mocking Davos/Schwab/pod/bugs "conspiracy theories" in your finance circle? Are you trying to distance yourself from a low-status, low-class phenomenon?
To be fair as a kid I felt the exact same way about the New Jedi Order series (R. A. Salvatore, really?), but it sounds like popular opinion swung in favor of those sometime after I checked out.
This isn't the first time someone's decided to destroy the happy endings of beloved characters and throw everything they built into a dystopian war with a few hundred trillion deaths that makes every earlier struggle meaningless. And at least Chewbacca didn't die in the new movies.(in an off-screen flashback? Or maybe that was from a "last time on star wars" scene from another book. It's been a while)
I mean, he's convinced me that the holocaust will only be relevant to Americans until the second some group feels empowered to start the "White Tears About The Holocaust And Other Myths That Perpetuate White Supremacy" game, at which point none of the tactics you've used against SS will work any more.
Which is a fucking shame, because allowing it to become yet another forgotten genocide in the long string of them that make up most of human history means nobody learned anything, and we're probably in for an even worse one someday.
There was Rey being a Mary Sue
I mean, at that point it's a choice between Rey Sue or Mara Sue, the perfect jedi girl with a Dark Past who the hero falls in love with but all the other girls hate because she's just so perfect (also her eyes change colour, original character DO NOT STEAL).
(It's been a while since I read the series and other books she was in, maybe I'm just misremembering. I definitely remember not liking all the stuff EU authors did with tractor beams, which should have revolutionized warfare but didn't because nobody was smart enough to think of it until the hero of that particular book.)
"We received a lecture on how the offshore team was very sensitive to criticism, and we had to make sure that no one lost face."
"Maintaining face is very important in many cultures."
"In Software Culture, maintaining face is not hard. It's actually very simple. The rule of thumb is: don't formally submit code that looks like it was written by two cats copulating on top of a keyboard."
I can't breathe, this guy was amazing. Really miss that text to speech format, don't even know what it was called.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
I'm currently using an electric range because, uh, someone was throwing it out (for being the wrong colour!) and you can't beat free. But piping propane from an outside tank for my previous range wasn't difficult, and imo the results were a lot better. Hauling propane tanks from the truck to the storage alcove was a bitch though.
Probably going to get a big propane burner for a semi-outdoor cooking area I'm setting up. Seems like the best option to avoid having to vent half the house air every time I do a steak or stir-fry, and obviously not ideal to set up an induction burner outdoors. Ideally will save the indoor stove for low-temp, low-splatter stuff.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
Couldn't you just label the dial positions?
Yes, there are a lot of people more intelligent than any of us out there. I find them whenever I do a deep research dive and end up on a forum for guys who build their own circuit boards or micro-turbine-integrated off-grid power generation.
Often suspect that we range from midwit politics-obsessives (hi, mein name ist bernd) to time-wasting borderline-geniuses who could easily be doing something more productive. And most of the highest level people who used to be part of the LW diaspora, like Gwern, have found their own niches in less generalist and more goal-oriented places.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
Wait, some people verbalize what they read? I have the problem of not knowing how to pronounce or spell a lot of words that are in my "read" vocabulary because I learned the symbol without verbalizing it.
Not to mention cost. I got into this with the heat pump article, but "It's 95% vs 80% efficient!" is an incredibly misleading thing to say when one form of energy costs three times as much per watt.
Which is the whole point behind this forced all-electric thing anyway. Realized when I did the heat pump research that there's a huge amount of industry and public money pouring into orgs like the "Rocky Mountain Institute," to launder all these all-electric mandate policies. Once the price of electricity skyrockets as it did in germany, they don't want people to be able to substitute.
It seems like you've adopted the "conservatives pounce" position that was sent out as soon as people realized the trial balloon was made of lead. Now all of a sudden it's a "vile culture war attack from conservatives, which just proves they're not human"
I found the conservative media response to be a bit baffling
Indicates that you didn't actually see the response: you saw the left narrative about the response.
The rollout was a flop, but the damage control gaslighting was very effective. Notice how the messaging is now an incoherent mix of "it's fake news" and "stupid conservatives are fighting for the right to have cancer, this proves we have to ban gas stoves."
What's really amazing is that different levels of the left are getting individual narratives tailored for them that are completely contradictory, but this doesn't seem to hurt the overall message! I've seen everything from "this is already a big victory" from professional eco activists who don't have to lie about their goals, to "this was a false flag by the gas industry to make eco activists look bad" to people who need to be lied to.*
You got the "fellow traveler" package that focuses on the "boo conservatives" angle, from the sounds of things. That one's always a safe bet for a broad demographic.
* You see a lot of this multi-track messaging now. Remember how the europe painting attacks were both "a conspiracy by an oil baroness to make us look bad" and "fully justified Direct Action, comrade" depending on how deep down the leftist rabbit hole the listener was? You also see it on the very extreme right where a shooter can be both an FBI false flag crisis actor _and_ a righteous $racialSlur-slayer who should be imitated.
Oh thanks, I'm dumb, just assumed that
The mod who created it (and some suspect he did so purposely to divide and destroy the community) doesn't even post there
was talking about 895158 rather than TW, since the malicious intent was way more obvious from numbers-guy. Went "oh, he's a podcaster too?" without even considering the obvious answer >_>
Clearly bedtime.
What do you think of "red dot plus flip magnifier" for mostly-short-range shooting? Worth thinking about, or too messy?
Trying to decide if it's worth getting a variable optic or just buying the matching magnifier for my current dot.
I have noticed more hardline thoughtless rightwingers on datasecretlox forum as well. You know the ones who repeat obviously false or misleading rightwing talking points they just saw on Fox news.
>Checks post history: /r/antiwork. Every fucking time. And lots showing up from /r/subredditdrama, /r/hobbydrama, /r/leopardsatemyface, /r/socialistprogrammers, /r/sneerclub, /r/onguardforthee, /r/LateStageCapitalism, etc. Plus all the usual names: callmejay, lightweavernaamah, evinceo. And everyone disagreeing with them getting downvoted, as if there's some kind of brigade...
It's almost like the goal of all these complaints is to enable the leftist colonization and domination of a space they don't control, to censor... well, let's just quote them: "Those who engage in bad faith with intent of disseminating a worldview deemed unfit for civilized society"
On a related note, has anyone noticed how enforcement of the "no culture war" rule completely vanished from SSC so that people from those subs with names like "marx789" can come in and wage it without opposition?
BTW, what's that talk about /u/895158 going on a podcast and getting canceled? First I've heard of it.
And is the ssc discord a leftist echo chamber? Like the poster said, I kinda figured because of the general discord userbase, but still sad if true. They must have to do a lot of self-gaslighting.
Ehhh, given the number of NYT/new Yorker articles about "the dark secret of tech reactionaries: they could be hiding in your boardroom!", they clearly have some kind of hangup.
Like, ignoring tone entirely, we could compare the number of articles about furries to nrx/ssc/etc., and I think furries get less media attention despite being a significantly bigger thing in tech.
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