DradisPing
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DradisPing
1mo ago
A couple of things do that.
First the facial feature proportions of house cats are close to human babies. This activates nurturing instincts in women. More so than other small animals.
If you pay attention you can really see how that affects how men and women interact with cats. Men tend to see their cats akin to jobless friends crashing at their place. Some women become deeply concerned for their cats socialization and emotional life.
They match up better to yin and yang traits, cats being yin.
Most people these days have met enough loud outing women that yin traits don't strongly code feminine to modern eyes.
Some languages need to classify everything as masculine or feminine and from what I've seen there's a lot of randomness. In French cheese is masculine but apples are feminine.
I'll try to tie this together for a closing. Their wariness towards new people is seen as traditionally feminine coded. As is their quietness compared to a puppy. Dogs interests match up better to traditional masculine tasks -- patrol the boundaries of territory, go on hunting expeditions. Cats keep an eye on the homestead.
In modern life the feminine coding comes more from women who get them because of unmet baby desires. Also men are expected to at least pretend that they regularly trek through the wilderness.
DradisPing
1mo ago
Listing cartels as terrorist organizations is actually a big deal. It enables the government to aggressively track money.
It's widely suspected that payments from the cartels to Chinese chemical companies are being laundered through Canadian real estate.
DradisPing
1mo ago
Ridley Scott is 87. I imagine that he's been handing off duties on the film that he used to manage himself.
DradisPing
1mo ago
Well there is this: https://instagram.com/p/DA8kWHdPBRw/
But for something longer format the rehab stories from John Mulaney: Baby J were hilarious.
DradisPing
2mo ago
There was a push on Twitter to start calling them "Para-Governmental Organizations" instead of "Non Governmental Organizations" because they are intertwined with the government but don't have normal oversight like government groups do.
DradisPing
2mo ago
Blair is allegedly working for free
He's working for free in the sense of drawing no salary. But by doing this he gets to maintain the world leader lifestyle to a certain degree because the NGO covers all his expenses.
Eg fly by private jet, expensive dinners with important people, stay in nice hotels, etc.
DradisPing
2mo ago
Since he's inherited one of the richest and most powerful activism networks, I thought it'd be worthwhile to look up Alexander Soros' dissertation to try to get some insight into him.
"‘Jewish Dionysus’: Heinrich Heine and the Politics of Literature"
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4x51t409
However I am completely unfamiliar with History PhD dissertations. Skimming it over I only noticed that he seems very into being Jewish and also that I find the text incredibly uninteresting.
Does anyone who has some subject experience have any take aways?
DradisPing
2mo ago
Things like Flash Attention, https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.14135, suggest that there's a major problem where US AI researchers don't have enough of an understanding of the realities of what GPU hardware actually is at a low level.
DradisPing
2mo ago
Paul Graham released an essay "The Origins of Wokeness" a few weeks ago. If you're not familiar, he's one of the co-founders of Y-Combinator and a key person in kicking off the post 2005 tech startup scene. His early 2000s essays were sort of proto-rationalist.
https://www.paulgraham.com/woke.html
He's strongly anti Trump and a prominent figure in the tech scene. I'd guess that essay got enough exposure in the leftwing tech scene that people who were used to saying "woke is just being a good person" suddenly found that they needed better arguments.
DradisPing
2mo ago
Since renaming bodies of water is a thing these days, I'd like to point out that the "north sea" is a particularly bland name. Are there any better historic names?
DradisPing
2mo ago
Their 'innovations' were things like a fucking talking paperclip which would try to distract you in word.
MS pushing Microsoft Bob and then the cartoon assistants in Office makes a lot more sense once you know that the future Melinda Gates was a marketing manager on Bob and later Office and thought that the assistant technology was an amazing step forward. Bill Gates came away from those meetings thinking he heard some amazing ideas. Eventually he realized what was up and started dating her.
DradisPing
2mo ago
I haven't seen one. You'd need to write the parser to specifically take notice of whitespace like that and it's so unusual in a programming language that the designer would have needed to be very insistent on it.
Something mathematical like Maple or MatLab might support it. It's basically implementing a math shorthand to avoid parentheses.
DradisPing
2mo ago
Sailer has written about this.
They react to surprise dangers better. White people are likely to look and freeze up while black people start running.
In general the pattern seems to be that they are better at spur of the moment improvisation while whites need to build and execute a plan.
You can argue it's cultural since there hasn't been enough proper study to prove a biological aspect.
DradisPing
2mo ago
I thin it's due to a technicality. While under trial they are held there under a court order.
The prosecutors have to send a notice to the judge to dismiss the case, then they get released.
It's a procedural inefficiency no one has bothered fixing.
DradisPing
2mo ago
Robert Barnes, https://www.barneslawllp.com/ is know here for some of his more long shot political cases and commentary, but his main job is as a tax lawyer. I think he does this sort of thing, it's probably worth sending his firm an email. You should at least get a referral.
DradisPing
2mo ago
The trust is eternal so it escapes inheritance taxes. The fact that it's not technically the property of the person receiving the benefit provides some protection against lawsuits, liabilities, certain government actions, etc.
DradisPing
2mo ago
I think since he brought in crypto regulation, it's important to bring up FTX.
FTX was one of the key companies fighting for crypto regulation since SBF was confident his political ties would put his company ahead.
The fact that he was fighting for regulation while committing massive crimes should tell you a few things about the sort of people the SEC is likely to put in charge.
DradisPing
2mo ago
One of the strengths of John McCain as a candidate was that due to torture in Vietnam he couldn't raise his arms up very high. Thus the press could never run with the "Nazi salute" narrative.
It's an old slur the press loves to run with. The reality is that people wave at crowds all the time in ways that can look like Nazi salutes in short clips or photos. Republican candidates are actually taught to avoid waving in certain ways so that photographers can't claim that their waving is a roman salute.
Musk, of course, never received such training.
Meanwhile Dems can wave freely with gleeful abandon. Lady Gaga introduced Hillary Clinton while wearing some sort of ode to an SS uniform.
DradisPing
2mo ago
They are good for anything you want to reheat that will get soggy in the microwave. If there is oil in the surface layer of the food you'll get more of a frying affect. Otherwise it ends up as more of a dry bake.
DradisPing
2mo ago
Opening games with a boring tutorial and giant infodump is unfortunately very common. I think it is so common because reviewers and people who paid full price will give it at least five hours before they decide they don't like it. Crippling you character for the intro is also weirdly common. RDR2 had you wading through snow slowly, MGSV had you limping around a hospital.
I don't really understand where it comes from. I think the art directors are trying to be "cinematic" while not grasping that movies don't make you hold up for ten minutes while the intro credits play.
DradisPing
2mo ago
Yarvin is basically a historian and has a lot of interesting insights on the past. He also turns his analysis on the present and comes up with interesting ideas there as well.
However he often veers into recommendations on how to fix things, and I think he's less qualified on that point.
He also grew up as a State Department brat, which gives him a lot of knowledge about how things actually operate in high level government.
I think that "castes of the united states" and "the bdh-ov conflict" represent a decent model for understanding the current political conflicts in the US. In a better world undergrad polsci students would be expected to read them.
https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/05/castes-of-united-states/
https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/05/bdh-ov-conflict_07/
Also he's much less verbose in interviews. I'd suggest watching his interviews with Michael Malice, but that's a decent time commitment.
DradisPing
2mo ago
Technically the Archivist of the United States has the final, non-reviewable, say on validity of amendments, and she came forward last December and said it wasn't valid.
https://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2025/nr25-004
This is more an attempt to acclimate the public to a future Archivist declaring it valid. It's interesting because the Archivist traditionally avoids doing anything controversial. There would be a whole lot of legitimacy questions if it happened.
DradisPing
2mo ago
Solo dining is more of a city thing, and I think it's largely due to small apartments and a decline in public spaces.
If you live in a 300 square foot unit, you're going to want to get out of the house to eat. Cooking and eating alone in a tiny space is depressing. The "me time" response is just a poor classification of the problem. Trying to schedule things with friends every time you leave the house is a huge amount of work. No one ever did that all the time. Prior to cell phones it was basically impossible.
Due to the difficulty in scheduling everything, striking up conversations with random people was way more socially acceptable.
Also people would pick up location based hobbies like bird watching and just chat with the other bird watchers.
I suspect that packing a meal and eating it in the park was more common in the past. People in the park were able to beat up anyone harassing picnickers without the police getting upset. Police carried batons and used them to deal with small problems without the courts getting involved.
Old homes have front porches because prior to TV people would just sit there in the evenings. Watch their kids play, chat with neighbours.
DradisPing
2mo ago
Firstly, those examples which I just listed were examples in which the forces of capital were neutral (CFCs, gay rights)
For an even more cynical interpretation I'd like to point out that CFC ozone damage was first discovered in a research paper in 1974. The CFC patent expired in 1978. Things didn't get rolling on a CFC ban until the 80s.
Sure these things take time, but I think the forces of capital saw the introduction of new patentable refrigerants as an opportunity.
Big cats are a massive money sink. A world leader having a private zoo big cats is basically proof that they are crooked and impoverishing their people.
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