DradisPing
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DradisPing
7mo ago
It feels leftist to me that “if we just had more schools/spent more money” we would not have “maga/disinformation problem” instead of most of things being fundamental disagreements.
I think it'd solve the opposite problem. Costal Dem voters have minimal contact with the interior of the US. One of the things that flipped Obama voters to Trump voters was that once the Northeast and West Coast recovered from the 2009 financial crisis, DC patted themselves on the back and declared "job done". Regions who were still trying to recover were then hit by crippling new regulations.
Sending wealthy costal kids to visit rust belt cities would at least create some awareness in their communities.
DradisPing
7mo ago
I think this is what was being discussed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dor_Yeshorim
AFAIK it's voluntary and mostly anonymous, they do offer counselling so obviously that can't be completely anonymous. Couples who don't do it just face judgement from the community if they have a child who dies a horrible death from Tay-Sachs at 4 years old.
DradisPing
7mo ago
Islam is fargroup to the blue tribe, so they don't see it as any threat. Whatever Muslims do is excused under the "no enemies to the left" policy. Progressives generally assume that all domestic Muslims will convert to proper progressive values in short order and ignore all evidence to the contrary.
In places like prisons in the UK it's popular to convert to Islam because it grants you protection from both the Muslim gangs there and the progressives running the prisons.
The progressive - Muslim alliance is quite old at this point.
The Toronto District School Board was letting Muslim students use the cafeteria as a gender segregated prayer room back in 2012, https://torontolife.com/city/allah-in-the-cafeteria/
Also the TDSB logo is cleverly an apple, an Islamic crescent, and a communist sickle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_District_School_Board#/media/File:Toronto_District_School_Board_Logo.svg
So protection from progressives is the major thing driving Islamic conversions and their growth in culture. It'll grow until they are powerful enough to turn on the progs.
DradisPing
7mo ago
Things like low testosterone due to a medical issue or childhood trauma that makes him distrustful of strangers seem more likely.
DradisPing
7mo ago
Caffeine has a distinct bitter flavour, so all decaf coffee will have a noticable difference.
DradisPing
7mo ago
Image hosting is straightforward, jpeg decoders are well established and safe.
They can be easily generated by taking a screenshot.
Bundling text and images together into a safe format that works in different screen aspect ratios is a surprisingly difficult problem. You're introducing a lot of complexity in generating them and safely displaying them.
DradisPing
7mo ago
Noam Chomsky gives a lot of talks, he schedules them years in advance. The people booking wanted to know the topic far in advance.
He discovered that he could reliably use "The Current Crisis in the Middle East".
Swimming favours long torsos. That means cold adapted people. Also tall.
Black people tend to have longer limbs and shorter torsos, so they have a reach advantage in a lot of sports.
The mechanical device probably eliminates the reach advantage in cycling and rowing.
I wonder if you could adjust the gearing and crank length to field a Kenyan team.
DradisPing
7mo ago
Do you mean anything longer than a marathon is dominated by whites?
There are no gold medals or large prize pots so Kenyan's don't bother competing in them. Basically realtively affluent whites make up running categories no one else cares about.
DradisPing
7mo ago
The "Anti-Gluttony Door" is a myth, it's a serving hatch for trays of food:
https://fakehistoryhunter.net/2021/10/09/not-a-monasterys-anti-gluttony-door/
DradisPing
7mo ago
I'm not sure anyone is really being principled here,
When you're losing badly it's wise to be strategic rather than principled. University admins currently claim that they have the absolute right to crack down on heretical speech while also claiming absolute freedom for speech they support.
A court ruling here will create a losing precedent for them either way unless the appeals courts chicken out and refuse to look at the issue.
DradisPing
7mo ago
I think it goes back to an idea best explained by Paul Graham: https://paulgraham.com/say.html
"The spread of the term "political correctness" meant the beginning of the end of political correctness, because it enabled one to attack the phenomenon as a whole without being accused of any of the specific heresies it sought to suppress."
The post 2000 academic left learned that lesson well. They fight hard against any attempt to label them. They are just a bunch of people who want "good things" not a political group with an agenda.
This flows into some other areas. For instance some people get upset with the term Democrat when discussing politics. There was a guy on HN who insisting that saying Democrat was like saying Jew instead of Jewish. Of course that leaves the english language without a verbal way to distinguish between democratic policies and Democratic policies. Which is exactly the point. It makes discussions difficult.
Meanwhile both Republican and GOP refer to a clear group.
DradisPing
7mo ago
My view is that there's a small chance that a super intelligent AI will enslave mankind in eternal totalitarianism.
A super intelligent AI controlled by the intelligence community? 100% chance of enslavement.
DradisPing
7mo ago
I'm not sure either way, but some points against the accused person being guilty:
- The feds always love to lead with anti government white people as the assumed perpetrator. The actual DC snipers were interviewed by police but released because they were both black and the profile said it was a white guy.
- The National Enquirer got anthrax envelope sent to their corporate HQ. The company name is "American Media". That's the sort of mistake I'd expect to happen if it was done by someone foreign.
- The first one was mailed 7 days after 9/11, which to me fits in more with a pre-planned follow up than someone coming up with the idea and implementing it after 9/11.
DradisPing
7mo ago
Does anyone have thoughts on the Halo show? I know the fans are outraged, but I've been enjoying it.
I generally enjoy serials, space ships, space marines, and bad aliens being shot. So it's a pretty easy sell.
The writing could be better. They kind of botched the flood reveal.
The budget limits show. The first five episodes were shot in Ontario, they switched to Budapest for covid reasons for the rest of S1. You can definitely tell that they were shooting some outdoor combat scenes in stone and gravel quarries.
But they made practical spartan suits and warthogs, which is fun.
It seems fans were expecting Band of Brothers meets Lord of the Rings in space. Which was never going to happen.
DradisPing
8mo ago
There are more risks involved in giving new drugs to women of childbearing age because of unexpected pregnancies.
DradisPing
8mo ago
They've banded together and declared standard commissions, so they can't compete on price.
Given how commissions are structured they are incentivized to close deals fast instead of holding out for the best price.
Basically people want real estate agents in their network because they believe they are less likely to screw them.
DradisPing
8mo ago
One theory I've heard floated is that there are a significant number of dead French special forces in Ukraine. Putting troops into the country and staging a bus explosion or something gives Macron cover to bring them back with full military honors.
DradisPing
8mo ago
Here's a big point you're missing:
Video games stole the action movie audience. These days if a young man wants to see some explosions, gun fights, and mild titillation he's not going to go to a movie theatre.
DradisPing
8mo ago
Rings of Power was doomed to be bad. They wanted to do a prequel, but didn't have the rights to The Silmarillion. So they could use aspects that were implied by other works but had to change details to avoid infringement.
Naturally most showrunners wanted to avoid that whole mess.
DradisPing
8mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbusting
from the link,
The tactics included:
- hiring black women to be seen pushing baby carriages in white neighborhoods to encourage white fear of devalued property
- hiring black men to drive through white neighborhoods with their radios blasting
- hiring black youth to stage street brawls in front of white homes to generate feelings of an unsafe atmosphere
- selling a house to a black family in a middle-class white neighborhood to provoke white flight, before the community's property values decline considerably
- saturating the neighborhood area with fliers offering quick cash for houses developers buying houses and buildings, leaving them unoccupied to make the neighborhood appear abandoned – like a ghetto or a slum
DradisPing
8mo ago
I would like to throw out all my socks and buy only one style of perfectly matching socks so I don't have to match a sock again.
For the longest time Amazon Canada would only sell packs of assorted socks, which was very annoying. Now they sell packs of Amazon Basics identical socks. The big downside is now I have exactly the same socks as some of my friends.
DradisPing
8mo ago
It's called a loose meat sandwich. They were very popular in the period after ground beef became commonly available but before canned tomato sauce appeared in stores.
DradisPing
8mo ago
In Ottawa, 20 years ago. A local pub near Parliament Hill had a special. For $200 you could get a bottle of Dom Pérignon and 12 chicken wings. It showed up on the receipt as "wing special" so customers could expense it as food.
Fundamentally it'd be a political trial, so venue is key. DC & SDNY are famous for going along with whatever the elite liberal opinion is, regardless of the details.
He'd have a decent chance of acquittal elsewhere but the federal prosecutors are very aware of that, so one of those two districts is likely.
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