ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
8mo ago
The far, far simpler option than either of these is, of course, to go through the caucuses or central asia, or just hide in rural russia for awhile.
Yeah but a lot of those countries are on pretty good terms with Russia and would actively aid in a manhunt if pressured. I imagine Finland would if they knew you were in their country, but I picked Finland because if you keep your head down and avoid notice you can easily slip away to anywhere else in the EU.
ChickenOverlord
8mo ago
Finland? If we're limited to countries sharing land borders with Russia
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8mo ago
The Silmarillion is my favorite book of all time (though I haven't read it in years now). I'm just kind of baffled now at what you just told me, I knew Rings of Power was bad but not that bad. Why did they have to bring the Silmarils into them at all? Their target audience obviously wasn't Tolkien nerds so what were they hoping to gain by bringing them up at all? The median Rings of Power fan has no idea what the two trees were, or who Feanor and Morgoth were. Meanwhile the median Silmarillion enjoyer avoids the entire series like the plague.
ChickenOverlord
8mo ago
Exactly, the "dead tired" line to the flight attendant, the "I'll kill you last" line to Benny along with the later follow-up of "I lied" right before he drops Benny off a cliff, and I think he says "cool off" or something like that after impaling the final bad guy with a refrigeration pipe or something like that.
ChickenOverlord
8mo ago
Former spec ops guys become (rightwing?) terrorists and are trying to put a Latin American dictator back in power but they kidnapped Arnold's daughter for some reason so he has to kill them all is heavy subject matter?
ChickenOverlord
8mo ago
Oscar Isaac (Leto) was probably the most "Middle Eastern" looking cast member, but he's Guatemalan
It doesn't help that Rust is actually a good language (though I won't pretend it's perfect) while still enabling C/C++ levels of performance. Wokes got in on the ground floor of what is likely the future of systems programming. I mean it's possible something like Zig could win in the long run but given the Linux kernel adopting Rust and Microsoft beginning to use it for important parts of Windows it's hard to see it losing with that kind of momentum.
But even alternatives like Zig are going to attract plenty of weirdos. Interest in low level computing and being a weirdo seem to go hand in hand, just look at how 90% or more of prominent emulator developers seem to be trans and/or furries. Even the more normal ones are still massive weebs.
ChickenOverlord
8mo ago
And the baron specifically wanted to rape 15-year-old Paul, and even had a drugged up slave boy who looked similar to Paul. They definitely toned down how truly terrible the Harkonnens were in the movies (both 80's and new).
ChickenOverlord
8mo ago
Had to do it twice, in fact, IIRC. You can check Lex Friedman's interview with Musk for a source.
ChickenOverlord
8mo ago
At least in regards to the White House statement on using memory safe languages, I don't see any sort if conspiracy there. The reality is that massive hacks have been pulled off again, and again, and again, and again, and again due to buffer overflows and other memory safety errors. This includes in software written by people with significant experience with C/C++ and who are aware of common exploits.
Metro 2033 by Dmitriy Glukhovsky. Basically in 2013 there was a global nuclear war, 20 years later the survivors who holed up in the Moscow metro system have formed their own new society, creepy mutants rule the surface. Despite sounding like "Fallout but in Russia" (and the fact that there was a video game adaptation of the book doesn't help) it's actually very well written, but there are a lot of translation issues with the English version that somewhat mar the overall experience.
The main character, Artyom, is very relatable. And other than his ability to power through certain supernatural events in the metro tunnels that completely debilitate others, he doesn't seem like a Mary Sue at all, he's very normal but quite a bit naive.
Also it's thanks to this book that I learned Russia does criminal convictions in absentia. The author was sentenced to 7 years for spreading false information about the Ukraine invasion supposedly (I can't find any Western news sources that state the exact details of what he was charged with) and is currently living in exile in the EU.
ChickenOverlord
8mo ago
For the 10th year running I've kept all three of my resolutions-
- Don't die
- Don't go to jail
- Don't walk on the moon
I fully expect to keep them again this year, or be in such a state as to not care if I didor not
ChickenOverlord
8mo ago
High fat with lots of fiber too, if only for cleansing your intestines and making bathroom trips better. I can't speak to the overall health benefits of one vs. the other though.
ChickenOverlord
8mo ago
Portuguese position: Thank God everyone forgets about Salazar
ChickenOverlord
8mo ago
And Heinlein messed with readers until the last page or two of the book, making you think Rico was Hispanic the whole time only to reveal that he's Filipino.
ChickenOverlord
8mo ago
Fascism is considered reactionary by academics because it is. In the Nazi case, it was also revolutionary,
I refer you to George Orwell's essay, "What is Fascism?" The point being that the word had already been diluted beyond any sort of agreed upon meaning before WW2 had even finished. No one can agree on what fascism actually is:
https://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/As_I_Please/english/efasc
ChickenOverlord
8mo ago
STRICT tables might interest you:
ChickenOverlord
8mo ago
that didn't automatically imply religious.
To be honest, I don't really think such a thing exists. Non-religious conservatives are a thing, absolutely, but the most prominent and famous ones seems to have, uh, colorful personal lives at best. I love Clint Eastwood and his movies, but I definitely would not want to emulate his personal life.
ChickenOverlord
8mo ago
If you need a SQL database and don't need multiple concurrent writers nothing beats SQLite in terms of performance and simplicity. But yeah if your usecase falls outside of that it's not really a good fit. Though the SQLite docs explicitly acknowledge that.
ChickenOverlord
8mo ago
Eh Carmack probably isn't a super good role model of conservative values outside of a role model for the value of hard work and education, I agree. Though he is anti-woke to some extent (good friends with Musk, guest speaker at an explicitly anti-woke sci fi convention, etc.).
Richard Hipp on the other hand would probably be a good conservative role model. Devout Catholic, family man, hard worker and successful. Also massively impactful worldwide (you probably have a few dozen instances of SQLite running on your phone or desktop as we speak). And appears to be very humble in spite of that.
ChickenOverlord
8mo ago
You can say that black people are stupid and trans people are deluded pedophiles every day for years, as long as you maintain decorum.
But if someones recognizes that what you're saying there is 'fuck everyone not like me' and responds with 'hey, fuck you too', that person is not being polite and must be eliminated.
Do you consider there to be any possible explanation for those views other than "fuck everyone not like me?" I don't believe that black people are "stupid," though I do believe that there will be fewer high IQ blacks per capita than whites and Asians. I don't hate them, I just want to stop giving them handouts and discriminating in their favor. And I don't believe that all trans people are deluded pedophiles, just the overwhelming majority of the MtF ones.
Knowing that I hold these views, do you believe that I personally think "fuck everyone not like me?" If so, why?
ChickenOverlord
8mo ago
Local scout leaders, church leaders, etc. Two of my bishops growing up (I'm LDS) were huge role models for me.
My biggest secular role models as an adult are probably John Carmack and Richard Hipp, but that's because I work in software development.
ChickenOverlord
8mo ago
I'd much rather engage with a Buchananite than a Reaganite if I'm going to get '80s right-wing politics brought forward.
I have a feeling that I'm the closest thing we have to a Buchananite here, and even I have a decent number of views that an 80's-90's era Buchananite would see as beyond the pale. Mostly because I've got a bit of a crypto-anarchist streak. At least when I'm not channeling Uncle Ted.
I am a registered member of the Constitution Party though.
ChickenOverlord
8mo ago
Hlynka's was unique in that he reported marrying the girl he accidentally knocked up. It was simply a very different vibe.
FWIW I married the first girl I ever kissed. And the first I ever went on more than 3 dates with, for that matter.
Just some useful legal context to add to this:
In the 90's the Clinton administration cracked down on so-called "kitchen table" FFLs. A lot of gun enthusiasts became FFLs in the 80's because it allowed them to bypass a lot of the onerous gun control regulations that had been passed in previous decades, at the small small cost of a fee, record keeping requirements, and allowing the ATF to search your home without a warrant or prior notice. But hey at least you can own post-1986 machine guns!
The Clinton administration changed this by requiring that FFLs be "in the business" of manufacturing and/or selling firearms, eliminating the ability of these smaller gun enthusiasts to become FFLs. Even though my state can set clear limits for automobile sales to determine who needs a car dealer license, the ATF seemes unable to set clear limits/amounts for what determines whether or not someone is "in the business" of selling firearms.
They've intentionally left it vague for decades because it creates fear amongst gunowners who never know if the ATF might arbitrarily and capriciously decide to go after them for even a small number of sales. And in cases like OP's story where they seem to be intentionally flirting with that line it gives all the more power and justification to the ATF for overreach.
Source on the Clinton admin FFL changes:
https://www.nraila.org/articles/20220321/democratic-administrations-flip-flop-flip-on-gun-dealer-licensing
Also for your consideration, my state's rules on who needs a car dealership license vs. the ATF's guidance on what counts as being "in the business" of selling firearms:
https://mved.utah.gov/licenses/faq
https://www.regulations.gov/document/ATF-2023-0002-0001
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