Incanto
1yr ago
The library of Slaanesh by Qiaochu Yuan.
Incanto
1yr ago
In Australia it's potential illegal to even question someone's claim of Aboriginality.
For gaming get the best GPU you can afford[1], 16GB RAM, and a decent SSD. You can skimp on the CPU a bit as long as you get a 6-core at least.
[1] check benchmarks, focusing on raster performance. I wouldn't worry about ray tracing at this budget level.
Tried it on Gamepass but didn't really like it. Feels like 50% of the game is loading screens, menus, and inventory management, and the other 50% is pretty bland combat.
Incanto
1yr ago
If the class is mandatory, asking him that risks him retaliating against you if he gets offended.
Incanto
1yr ago
Did they become more ethnically homogeneous and develop higher inborn disposition for intelligence over the course of that time?
Basically yes! Many things happened since 1AD to impact northern European genetics, including the church ban on cousin marriage (leading to less clannishness), harsher punishments for violent behaviour, and the accidental pressure for high IQ in Jews due to usury laws.
Incanto
1yr ago
I used to use Firefox with the tree-style tabs plugin, but ended up switching around for Mac performance reasons. Have currently settled on Brave also - it's nice to have ad blocking and vertical tabs (even if they aren't as powerful as tree-style) without needing plugins.
Incanto
1yr ago
Correction: the Sudanese crime rate is more like seven times the native population, not 50+.
Thanks, looks like I misremembered the actual number or muddled it with something else.
Incanto
1yr ago
There is some - years ago there was a scandal where there was a spate of Indian students being assaulted on suburban trains - but not sure it's any worse than other Anglo countries.
As a (white) immigrant to Australia this is much rosier than my view. I've heard plenty of woke and anti-white rhetoric from non-white immigrants (including from Indians and East Asians), to the point of losing friends over it. And while Australia's immigration story has been pretty successful overall, a lot of that is down to selectivity. The cases where that's been abandoned, such as Sudanese refugees, haven't always gone so well - the Sudanese commit crimes such as burglary at a rate a whopping 50+ (edit: 7) times the native population - a fact that was reported in The Age, hardly a right-wing outlet.
I also think COVID lockdowns were largely unjustified bullshit (especially the restrictions on outdoor activities), but that's another story.
Edit: now that I think about it, the most aggressive wokeness from non-whites I've heard has mostly been from 2nd gen or people who immigrated here as children rather than adults, so probably more down to absorbing the surrounding woke culture. Of course 2nd gens are an inevitable effect of immigration so that doesn't fundamentally change the story.
Good summary. There's scheduled to be a public congressional hearing on July 26th which will hopefully help clarify if there's any substance here or just more of the same old rumours and blurry videos.
Incanto
1yr ago
I think something like your last paragraph is the most likely story - heavy secrecy and over-compartmentalisation around aerospace secrets that has lead to a persistent UFO rumour mill that's now being amplified by true believers within the DoD itself (Elizondo, Grusch, etc).
Incanto
1yr ago
A good 3 minute song wouldn't necessarily be better stretched to 10 minutes, and the same goes for stories.
Incanto
1yr ago
If it takes 1 minute with AI instead of 20 minutes manually, that seems significant enough to affect volume.
Incanto
1yr ago
Unlike the other respondents here I liked the books but didn't care for the show (watched a few eps).
Incanto
1yr ago
“I hope this revelation serves as an ontological shock sociologically and provides a generally uniting issue for nations of the world to re-assess their priorities,” Grusch said."
This makes it sound like he's doing a one-man pro-bono psyop to try to unite humanity or something.
Incanto
1yr ago
That seems like a matter of China having had repressive policies for longer (Seems Qin's saga started in the 80's), not that they're necessarily more repressive now.
Incanto
1yr ago
In which country are you more likely to actually be arrested (or at least have the police show up) for posting in contradiction of state mandated beliefs? I actually don't know the answer. I do hear about it more often from the UK but that doesn't prove much for multiple reasons.
Incanto
1yr ago
One thing is that most people have at least some preference to be around people demographically similar to themselves, which can partly compensate for other factors.
If you liked Jonathan Strange I can recommend Piranesi by the same author - also good but much shorter and tighter (though on the downside, from my point of view, the homoeroticism moves from subtext to text).
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