ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
6d ago
I don't think the Russian military is especially competent but that same logic was used by the Axis in WW2 for propaganda posters designed to demoralize the Allies:
https://i.redd.it/teagx5lffh791.jpg
Obviously the Allies reached Berlin a lot faster than 1952, albeit not from the direction of Italy obviously.
ChickenOverlord
7d ago
transferring that guilt onto their descendants
If the New Testament is to be believed (and I believe it) the Jews that killed Christ willingly chose to transfer that guilt to their descendants (inasmuch as such a thing is actually metaphysically possible I suppose, but I'm not here to debate Original Sin):
"And all the people answered and said, 'His blood be on us and on our children.'"
Matthew 27:25
ChickenOverlord
8d ago
No idea about the catch rate, but when I attended my local district court in Middle of Nowhere, San Diego County (for my law merit badge in boy scouts) every single case was either speeding or fishing without a license.
when moot picked the wrong side (Gamergate) for whatever reason
Luggage Lad was tired of being a cuck and was hoping he could get some from the danger hair feminists in his social circle if he ruined his legacy for them.
ChickenOverlord
9d ago
Does an earthquake come and devastate Lisbon on a feast day for a reason? Do people get horrible, agonizing diseases for a reason?
Yes and yes. There are literally thousands of years of writing on theodicy (i.e. trying to answer the question "Why does God let bad things happen?"). You can disagree with the many proposed answers and explanations, but it's obnoxious when you ask those questions like they're some sort of irrefutable gotcha.
For me personally, amongst the many reasons for why God allows bad things to happen, the biggest one for me is that this life is just a tiny moment in our eternal existence and as awful as it seems within that moment in the long run all that happens in our mortal life will have been less than a blink of an eye in eternity. And the suffering and pain we experience in this life serves a very important purpose in our eternal existence.
The only examples I can think of are "strongfats", i.e. weightlifter musclebro types that are optimizing for mass as opposed to musculature. Outside of them it's hard to picture anyone else who might fit here, and even strongfats aren't nearly as fat as the median body positivity activist
ChickenOverlord
11d ago
Not by significant portions of either side. The ACLU criticized it, but I don't recall any other mainstream institutions on the left speaking out. And on the right it was only libertarian types, who no one has listened to for decades.
ChickenOverlord
11d ago
Was going to say, I think the US in Gulf 1 was probably the peak of military might of any nation in human history when measured by troop competence and weapon technology and intelligence capabilities. Tech and intel have improved in most ways, but I doubt modern US troops are ready for a conflict in the same way they were immediately after the end of the Cold War.
ChickenOverlord
14d ago
Sure, but despite their small percentage they were absolutely dominating the insurgents in guerilla warfare. The Rhodesian Bush War was arguably the most successful counter-insurgency ever, or at least in modern warfare.
ChickenOverlord
14d ago
Don't know enough about SA, but sanctions absolutely played a major role in the fall of Rhodesia from what I recall from Ian Smith's memoirs. In particular the loss of Portuguese support following the end of Salazar's government (meaning Mozambique could now be used as a safe base of operations from rebels) and loss of South African support after Operation Eland (when the Rhodies decided to go after Mozambique-based rebels anyways and the rebels were able to falsely portray it as a brutal massacre of innocent refugees).
ChickenOverlord
16d ago
My precise feelings on Germany vs. the USSR in WW2
ChickenOverlord
18d ago
I haven't read the book (though you've piqued my interest) but I have this to add: in my time as a missionary in the Czech Republic (one of the most atheistic countries on earth) I'd estimate that a majority of the atheists I met there still believed in all sorts of new age mysticism and general woo.
ChickenOverlord
18d ago
Honestly the entire tech hiring process is fucked and looks at the entirely wrong things. If I were doing hiring, my interview process would involve things like:
"Take a look at this (terrible) database schema. What would you change about the design and why?" If the dev knows what third normal form is and why it matters (and when it doesn't) that puts them in the top 5-10% of devs already.
"You've been assigned to build [hypothetical product]. Explain the overall design/architecture choices you would go for and why. Also explain some alternatives you might choose and why. What are some potential difficulties (both immediate and long-term) you might run into with your choices, and why you feel your choices are worth it in spite of the potential problems." Being able to actually consider pros and cons, think about the future, etc. also put a potential hire in the top 5% of devs.
ChickenOverlord
18d ago
I have a degree, but in History. I'm completely self-taught in IT and software dev and am currently a senior dev at a highly dysfunctional megacorp (not a FAANG type, more of an old school megacorp but I guarantee every single poster here is familiar with the company). Simply having the degree (in an irrelevant , unrelated field) helped me immensely with getting through pointless application filters early on in my career. I'm sure it still does but now my experience counts for more.
I'm just annoyed because a lot of advancement for me seems to be blocked by my not having a degree in CS or a related field, even though the incompetent Pajeets that make up 90% of my coworkers have CS degrees from India but couldn't code their way out of a paper bag. In fact the technical debt they've piled up over the last decade or so in my subdivision of the company finally came to a head last week. Performance and stability issues with our software finally pissed off enough of our large customers that all new development has been frozen and our sales teams are no longer selling our products (instead some similar software made by a separate recently-acquired-by-us company will be getting pushed by sales).
After we do some work to stabilize and improve performance is done in the next year or two I expect our products to be kept on life support with a skeleton crew for security updates etc. As a result I'm strongly considering getting my masters in CS because the job market (and all of the retarded filtering done by HR and hiring managers) makes it so much harder for someone like me without a relevant degree to even get considered.
ChickenOverlord
18d ago
There was a Nubian making obeisance to him and some other details I can't recall now. I looked at the description under the frame and it confirmed what I thought.
ChickenOverlord
19d ago
I had a college history class (ancient near eastern history from the earliest written history up to about the time of Alexander the Great) where all our exams were essays that had to be written in the school's testing center within a time limit. Sucked majorly but I learned more in that class than any other. For the essay we were given a prompt as well as a list of historical ideas, people, events, etc. that we had to tie into our essay in an intelligible way (or rather we had to tie a significant amount of them, something like 80%, into our essay).
I knew I had truly learned/internalized the course material when I was walking through the school library and saw some ancient Egyptian papyrus framed on the wall. My brain looked at the person depicted and how they were presented on the papyrus and said "that's Amenophis the First" despite not knowing a lick of Hieroglyphics.
ChickenOverlord
20d ago
Writingwise Warcraft 3 was not great compared to WC2 and Starcraft 1, but gameplaywise it was solid. And yhe writing was definitely better than the garbage we got in Starcraft 2. Warcraft 3's greatest sin was that it was so popular it was able to kickstart World of Warcraft's popularity which in turned sucked all of the oxygen out of the MMO genre and also got a ton of studios to waste mountains of cash trying to imitate it.
ChickenOverlord
20d ago
What do Japanese sources say about Yasuke that differs from English ones, specifically?
A short summation of what actual historical primary sources say about Yasuke:
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He was brought to Japan by Portuguese Jesuits. They gifted him to Oda Nobunaga because he was fascinated by his dark skin
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He was present at the Honno-Ji temple incident when Nobunaga was killed
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He got returned back to the Jesuits
There are a couple of very minor other details (like Nobunaga ordering him to bathe to prove that his skin was really dark) but that's about it. In total there are maybe 20 sentences about him in primary sources. Compare this to William Adams a few decades later. Adams has far more written about him, and we even have his own diaries from his time in Japan under Tokugawa Ieyasu.
ChickenOverlord
24d ago
But all the hobos hang out by Pioneer Square (or at least did when I had the misfortune of living in Seattle a decade ago), and it would be oppressive to force them all to trek up to the Space Needle to shoot up safely.
ChickenOverlord
27d ago
I liked Hlynka but my biggest issue with him was when people would respond to him with specific arguments and he would completely ignore them and/or refuse to address them
ChickenOverlord
29d ago
The pHD dissertation on the colonialism bias of the smell of Indians is beyond parody
Got a link? I need to read this
ChickenOverlord
29d ago
a side effect of this taken across a whole society is an extraordinarily vulgar* culture that produces little thought, little art, and can't handle critical perspectives
How do you square this with the phenomenon of "this artist expressed rightwing opinions, we have to disavow anything he ever made"?
It actually slows you down in many cases to try to use LLMs for programming.
For an example of this happening literally right now, see ThePrimeagen and other Youtubers spending a full week streaming themselves making a tower defense game through "vibe coding." Prime and the other streamers he's working with are all talented and knowledgeable devs, but what they're making is an absolute mess. They (or two or three decently competent devs at a weekend game jam) could make the same or a better game in a fraction of the time if they were coding directly instead of using an AI to do it. And the amount of work they have to do to fix the AI's messes are way more than they'd need to do to just make the damn game themselves.
They dump some large datasets as well. It's entirely possible they faked it all (or at least the parts to show discrimination) but the amount of data leaked makes me think it isn't fake.
At least in Zimbabwe, black Zimbabweans now have fewer political rights and less economic prosperity than they did when it was Rhodesia. A real win for decolonization!
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