No_one
Underemployed Slav. Likes playing Factorio.
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No_one
24d ago
The one thing they cannot have a fetish for is 'homosexual behavior' I have been told online.
IRL, I used to work in the same building as a therapist and I used go to lunch with him. He told me it's fairly common in male victims of child rape to fetishize the behavior, that is, at least in the ones who are troubled enough to seek therapy. This didn't take place in a therapy-happy country mind you.
No_one
24d ago
The evidence is literally destroyed, along with the ballots.
Do you think this was someone getting scared of the ballot stuffing they engaged in and torching the evidence, as opposed to someone trying to invalidate votes in a GOP advantage prectinct ?
No_one
24d ago
I don't think there have been any updates except people -mostly SF tech types etc are now using embryo selection during IVF, and there are companies doing so. Might check, I recall reading something about some improvement on crispr but may be misremembering.
Crispr is useless for eugenic purposes because the error rate is unacceptably high and now we know interesting traits are all very polygenic. This wasn't clear back in '10s.
I know of only one single point mutation that's remotely useful, and that's related to myostatin deficiency. People with it are really strong at the expense of increased food consumption and possibly something else.
Couple ways myostatin production can be diminished or impaired, and there are several now teenagers or young adults who have it, but they're choosing to be anonymous. Probably don't look nearly as freakish as the animals that have it. (check image, same breed of dog, 1 letter mutation).
No_one
24d ago
Not really. You can read Gwern's pretty exhaustive blog post on it, a classic really.
https://gwern.net/embryo-selection
Sadly, we don't really have time for any of that.
No_one
25d ago
Harris was apparently pretty good at confidently saying nothing substantial back in the day, according to what Harmeet Dhillon said during her TC interview. Wasn't known for stumbling over her tongue..
Dhillon met her in San Francisco, Kamala was self assured and cool meeting people. Something happened to her since then.
No_one
26d ago
Nuclear is going to come back because it must.
Bad nuclear juju is a matter of propaganda. It's not unsolvable, it's mere perception management. Undoing degrowth scaremongering won't be that hard.
Surely you're aware there has been a big vibe shift on nuclear recently?
No_one
26d ago
Do you think lower castes are stupid enough to reject embryo selection if it were offered at a reasonable cost or for free?
Captain of Industry: a short review
Synopsis: a 3d factory automation / colony management game, from a very small indie team. Grapics are neat but not great. No enemies to struggle against, but resource management is a lot tighter and the fully modifiable 3d terrain is a constraint on official maps. If you aren't good like I'm on my 1st playthrough, it'll take forever to get anything done.
Instead of one death spirals, there's several. None are that nasty or irrecoverable. There's a world map which you can't colonize, but where you can do some rudimentary combat, solely based on the tech installed on your sole combat ship, and not that rudimentary trade.
I feel this is underdeveloped, as a factory builder game where you can build a fleet and use it to explore the map, steal resources, and if you're cheeky enough cause someone's angry battleships to come and flatten your island seems like a natural development. The warfare in this game so far is just a very simple mechanic tied to how much tech and resources you've invested into your starting ship.
The game is in alpha. Devs are going to add trains in december, and it does seem good gaming rigs can handle fairly extensive factories, about 20x-30x the size of what you can see in the (Five) screenshot down here.
For screenshots, see links down under the line. For gameplay vids, this guy isn't too annoying and not bad, if overly wordy.
A somewhat more detailed description:
You start with a broken down cargo ship and 20 pickup trucks and couple hundred people on an island with a particularly fortuitously geology: there is coal, iron ore, copper, usually also gold and sometimes uranium. Time runs really fast: 1 game seconds is one day, so, there's no night-cycle. Fastest speedrun I've seen was 200 years. You can, luckily, pause the game.
So, at the start, you have potatoes. Unless you start farming them pretty fast, game is over in about a year. Food is an important resource in this game. Sustains the population, but if it's monotonous, people won't be as motivated. Motivation aka 'unity' is a resource in the game, used to sustain the non-critical trade contracts and allow instant construction. Something like 4 years unity production allows you to instantly teleport resources to build say, a 10th of the end-game factory needed. If you don't need unity, the materials are delivered by vehicles, which takes time. Some buildings like oil derricks or pumps can't be built this way, so you need to grade a road to them. No bridges so far apart from landfilling enough. Relatively easy in shallow bays, takes enormous mountains of material in deeper water. Material that has to come from somewhere.
The population, which runs the factory has to have a roof to sleep under. There has to be access to drinking water, to prevent disease. Waste has to be collected and disposed of ecologically. Later, as it gets bigger, disease becomes a problem. Now you have to get drugs, and of course more food, so fertilizers and more water. Maybe you'll have to desalinate water, as aquifers have a limited capacity, and collecting it requires vast amounts of space.
In short, there's a pretty simple colony game involved. If you fail it - run out of food, catastrophically mess up with disease and enter a doom loop, it's over ,as even with computing, server farms and automation, there's still some need for a workforce. It's pretty forgiving. You can prioritize buildings and even fucking up and losing 25% population to a combination of infectious disease, pollution-related issues etc isn't a game over. If you don't provide consumer goods, you don't have enough unity. Ditto for varied food. Funnily enough, one of the hardest items in the game to make is cake, requiring 5 component types. CPUs are harder though.
The automation part is similar to Factorio, but belts are only one sided. You can, however, stack them 4 high, with a 5th level able to cross over such a stack. There are no inserters, buildings have input ports.
Seems simple, but there are no underground belts yet, and crossing belts isn't that convenient, so you can easily end up with an unholy mess. Pipes are a lot more forgiving, but only for some chemicals. There's auto-design where game finds a path between two endpoints, which can lead to absolutely abysmal pipe spaghetti. Vehicles are indispensable, as they're, apart from world-map contracts the only way of extracting resources other than water and oil. You can use them for logistics, but there is a vehicle limit that is not so generous, and they use diesel fuel. You're probably going to find out what I found out, which is, never use them for logistics unless it's really early game or you're in a crisis.
Sadly, there is no circuit logic yet, but there are filters and customizable belt splitters and assembly modules can have several recipes. I'm not confident it's going to be added into the base game. If there'll be good mod support, not a problem. Multi-item belts are possible, however, one must carefully meter the inputs and outputs so they don't get clogged. And there's no way to meter item insertion onto a belt other than using a slower belt.
The recipes are a bit more shallow, somewhat reminiscent of Angel's & Bobs, but not in extense, but the game has a much broader scope, so there's a lot more of them. E.g. the tier I building construction material takes brick/concrete, iron and wood. Tier 2 construction material needs tier 1 and electronic parts. Tier 3 requires tier 2 and glass and steel. Tier 4 requires tier 3 and microelectronics. There's no tier 4 but end-game, you need to build servers to run automated factories which double to quadruples production while reducing manpower needs. Overall I'd say it's pretty much like Factorio in complexity, except it's a little differently spread out.
The big difference to Factorio is, you can dig. Indeed, you have to dig. Every resource but oil and wood requires physically removing ore from the ground and creating a hole. Sometimes, because devs weren't original enough to make the factory only a means to an end, people dig just for the hell of it, there's a youtube vid with someone making an open-pit mine going half a mile down if we go by car scale. In a normal game, people usually use waste and slag and rock to make the island more conveniently shaped. See e.g. evolution of the landscape and factory in screenshots. One. Two. Three. Five.
The geological part isn't too great, water table is sadly only placeholder, there's a several of types of terrain, which if dug up and put back in behaves just as new. So bedrock and mined out rocks chucked out of a truck, same thing. Also same volume. The dirt, rock and ore only differs in the angle of repose, which is the angle at which a pile can be piled without it slumping. Rock is best - if you want to construct ramps, which you'll need, best make them out of rock if the space is tight. No landslides, sadly.
The official maps are constrained. They're up to what seems like several square kilometers in size. You have to build on a flat area, and most maps are anything but flat and roomy. Unless you have a trade contracts, lots of space is needed for growing trees which are used for construction. There's no money, sadly, and no trade system apart from contracts, but if you play well, it's possible to import all resources and pay for them with laptops, CPUs, car parts or washing machines..
The kinda bad part: In what can only be described as a techie's lack of imagination, the game goal is once again, build an orbital capable rocket.
Overall, I like the game quite a lot. If Factorio had this kind of presentation and terrain modification, I'd like Factorio more, but as it doesn't, and I've played a lot of Factorio, this was a nice change. Modding is possible, at least changing recipes and adding new buildings is fairly straightforward as I recall.
I'll probably add something more to this later as it's late.
No_one
26d ago
I don't recall seeing any Coen brothers movies
Lucky you.
They're about the best American film makers of the last 30 years.
No_one
26d ago
What do you do with your newfound ability, if anything at all?
Steal money through any means from people I don't like. (Steve Jobs's ex-wife, that Norwegian vegan cretin, Soros etc) Use said resources to develop useful and aligned 200 AI agents, probably based on my own personality so it'd feel less wrong.
Using said agents, automate online and irl bullying of people engaging in scams, self-dealing, corruption and so on. So, a planet-wide campaign against corruption that's not constructive (e.g. bypassing bad legislation etc). With enough AI agents, it'd be easy to know this.
Destroy rap music in its entirety. Worms on every digital device that brick it if someone tries playing rap music. Super powerful memes making it look really cringe. End to renewables subsidies. End to demand subsidization.
Wage warfare against people developing superhuman AIs. Promote bio-singularity or try to find out whether you can run human consciousness on a machine substrate and it's the same thing as doing it on a biological, if that, push that. I'm assuming the 400 IQ is biological in nature, so, should be pretty easy to reverse-engineer somewhat.
Unless there's a more convenient way of seeing something novel like say, paratime- build a bunch of von-neumann starships and go see the universe, either in person using uploads or by cloning in case biological agelessness is unattainable.
Probably clone myself and also set up a Venus terraforming program using atmosphere re-engineering and comet-redirection.
Yes, I've read a lot of pointless SF, how can you tell?
No_one
26d ago
You could fix India by instituting embryo selection on a large scale.
IQ improvement of about 5 pts per generation. Assuming lower castes are 85, in 3 generations India could be a reasonably normal country. Unlike gene editing, this isn't even 'cucking yourself', it's just making sure you pick a good roll of the dice.
No_one
30d ago
I'm not sure about that anymore, they had a non-SD minister proudly say that for the first time in 40 years Sweden expects to has negative yearly migration.
“The Government’s efforts have produced results. The number of asylum applications is looking to be historically low, asylum-related residence permits continue to decrease and Sweden has net emigration for the first time in 50 years. This development towards sustainable immigration is necessary to strengthen integration and reduce social exclusion,” says Minister for Migration Maria Malmer Stenergard.
Member of a 'Moderate Party'. Looks very much like she heads a HR department for a multinational, even.
No_one
30d ago
This nation is doomed, you cannot even vote such problems out since upper castes are a minority
Even smarter and more homogeneous nations struggle a lot.
It took 40 years, untold billions of $ and much woe for Swedish nation to start thinking, collectively, maybe we shouldn't be importing refugees on a massive scale.
if I ever tell people that I am Indian and the stuff wrong with my nation, they would probably think that
You could just refuse to identify as Indian and use caste & state or point out that India has the cultural and generic diversity of a continent, which it has. Even a normie should understand that. Ask him if he thinks Finns are the same as Italians perhaps . .
Stupid idiots who cannot see your manifest genius in googling advertised capabilities of thermal cameras and high resolution satellites provided by small scrappy cheap startups. They can see a 20km by 20km space with 30cm fidelity on a geosynchronous position. The size of the pacific ocean within Chinas EEZ is after all only a mere 4 million square kilometers. You only need 40000 satellites in geosynchronous positions and no cloud cover for real time coverage. O
I suggest taking remedial basic numeracy classes, and also some physics as radars are not greatly affected by clouds. And I didn't imply they needed continuous monitoring. Ships aren't fast, they can move only cca 1000 km per day. Getting a fix every six hours is good enough, and final targeting can be done using high flyingrecon drones at worst.
Those satellites aren't geostationary either, as getting a radar return from up there would require enormous power outputs. The commercial ones are at 600km orbit.
Hint: read up on what radar signals reflect off of before you spout off your next gish gallop of justifications.
Terminal radar guidance of anti-ship missiles is no great secret. It was put into practice in 1960s. It's much easier than using radar to accurately hit ground targets.
J35 only because they PRETEND to be interested in these capabilities.
Chinese are rich enough to research even things they don't really need, and stealth planes have their utility. You, however, seem to think they're a magic bullet.
No_one
1mo ago
If this is fake, then why is yours not fake?
I didn' say it's fake, I said the evidence for S400 failing to intercept non-evading ballistic missile is nonexistent. It was destroyed but by something more complex. ATACMS is not a missile capable of evasion, it doesn't maneuver and so on. Russia has routinely shot down similar missiles, such as Tochka, during the war.
You are free to believe in the superiority of a 3000 buck thermal camera being a superior option that obviates all other equipment. I can give you, for example,
It doesn't obviate it, it means decent thermal sensors are now available for a very cheap price. I'm not sure how good they're for aerospace applications but the first viable anti-air missiles used a single IR detector and direction was determined by spinning a mask in front of it. That worked pretty well for a while.
Not a 320x240 array. which is what those FPVs use.
I can tell you that 'finding a target' out at open sea is in fact REALLY FUCKING DIFFICULT
Why do you think Chinese put up radar satellites ? Why do you think they have very high altitude rocket recon drones? Do you really think you can hide 200m long 20m high ships from radar ? No, finding giant floating ships at sea is not a 'fucking difficult problem' you just require cope to sustain belief in a way of warfare that stopped being relevant in a superpower context cca 1970. Now it's civilian tech, see this startup here.
force was so overwhelming in nature that the normal tasking of 'defeat the enemy' is automatic
No, I'm saying you are an idiot because 'defeat of enemy' is not automatic when 'enemy' is any structure in Yemen big enough to conceal a viable anti-ship missile, which in this case is small enough so that several can be put into a big truck.
US doesn't have the recon assets to find the 'enemy' in Yemen and never had. It'd require either a solid human intelligence network or vast amounts of small drones operated by entire brigades of techs, neither of which is something US is interested in because it's just not a very good way of getting retirement money or generational wealth, unlike gold-plated weapon systems you know and love..
And Belief that your paeans to your God will make him manifest, while ignoring that Gods church is busy sucking down all the heretic dick it can find because its own teachings rotted the house from the inside.
..are you ok ?
No_one
1mo ago
The Alpha Gal is basically permanent, although there is this kind of woo-woo acupuncture treatment which supposedly works.
I've seen reports of people getting rid of it by eating tiny amounts of the offending substance, working up from miligrams to normalcy.
No_one
1mo ago
Russias cheap and 'effective' aircraft have to do long distance lobbing because they are too afraid to operate in a battlespace with uncertain air superiority.
Thinking any plane is safe today in an environment where $3000 thermal cameras are routinely used to blow up $5000 boomer-vintage frontline supply trucks is truly astonishing. What do you think would happen in a war ? You can't hide plane acoustics, even if you had a perfectly invisible plane Chinese are liable to have an acoustic network too. Coupled to their own air traffic control, it's going to know exactly where jet engines are operating, which means it can launch IR seeker missiles and those will find that plane given they have 2.5x speed. You're reduced to thoughts such as 'maybe NSA can take down Chinese military networks' despite those being run by Chinese, on Chinese domestic hardware, with no physical access whatsoever.
So no, you're not going to have battlespace superiority because of stealth aircraft, unless the US secretly borrowed cryo-arithmetic engines from god knows whom alone, ones capable of hiding a few megawatts of heat in the sky, cool the entire plane to sky temperature.
You're back to lobbing missiles and hoping GPS isn't jammed too hard.
systems rely on terminal guidance for final strike
Which can be something as simple as a thermal camera, which costs $5k today according to people sticking them on drones in the Donbass. Not $300k. Yet RIM-116 costs a million $.
Warships are launching SSM interceptors to strike threats 20 to 40NM away, not 1-5NM.
The cheap command guided missiles used in for example, the Pantsir have a range of 15 km, mostly limited by missile size. Same with Crotale.. Your country's navy is dead set on engaging the Chinese mainland, which means a large quantity of middling class missiles can destroy the entire strategy by forcing a retreat. If Houthis managed that against the US navy, what would the result be with China ? Odds are the war devolves to a cringe standoff with both sides blockading trade and US hoping Chinese give in first. Seeing as they're the ones obsessed with building large stockpiles, not that likely.
Having gold-plated nonsense that might win a theoretical purely naval engagement if Chinese decided to treat warfare as a sport is quite the idea.
EW against command guided weapons
So why then is everyone using it ? You're surely aware multiple European countries are using evolved versions of the 1960s Crotale ? Have you considered that maybe, just maybe, disrupting a laser beam or a highly focused very powerful radar is ..actually pretty hard ?
EW against command guided missiles worked in the past when the signals weren't really powerful and focused. Today you're pretty much talking out of your ass because there's no way you can outjam a highly directional radar. To say nothing about laser-beam riding missiles.
A S400 is a billion fucking dollars, and we've seen multiple S400s get destroyed by less than 50m worth of ordinance each.
You are taking propaganda at face value. 'Muh one-two atacms hits S400'. In reality it was probably quite different, seeing as ATACMS is a very bad missile with no evasion and no one will tell you what happened because it's likely secret and in any case involves some complex mission profile, probably EW or god knows what else. Even just to get GMLRS to hit a protected target required launching a MLRS salvo to saturate air defense.
Needless to say, US systems have entirely the same problem and are much more scarce.. One more example from Kiev..
Afghans thinking their own lives are worth less than a thousand US dollars is their calculus and consequence.
Afghans won because US was totally and utterly clueless as to what they were doing there.
century. Modern militaries are making a risky calculation that deepstacking intelligence and precision striking allows for decisive victory at individual engagements
Yeah, and it's bullshit because as we have just recently seen, something as simple as a saturation attack by gently maneuvering ballistic missiles overwhelmed Israeli defenses and hit their air bases. And this was Iran, a relatively small, low IQ country with a shoestring economy, vs Israel, which has all the shiny US toys taxpayer money can buy.
What do you think would happen in the case of a war with China ? That was cca 200 missiles, something just the People's Liberation Army's Navy Air Force could launch daily.. Forget the actual Chinese air force which has about 3x that launch ability, forget the coastal defence missile batteries, forget the intercontinental range anti-ship ballistic missiles, just the land based naval air assets could send 200 mach 4 anti-ship missiles. The stated US tactic to deal with such is destroy the launch aircraft before that happens, which requires having air superiority at 500 km away from the carrier group.
risky calculation that deepstacking intelligence and precision striking allows for decisive victory at individual engagement
Seeing how 'Prosperity Guardian' has fared, and how many drones US has lost over Yemen, it's clear you are talking total and utter nonsense. Were US in the possession of a sufficient number of stealth drones, they'd have not kept losing those defenceless drones over Yemen.
In reality your 'deepstacked' system of intel and PGMs cannot deal with a bunch of inbred half starved goat-herders launching harassment strikes on shipping using a small amount of thoroughly obsolete Iranian weaponry.
You'd think the strongest navy in the history of the planet would be able to convoy ships through and protect them from strikes, but apparently not, so shipping is down to 50% of last year.
No_one
1mo ago
, but in the end what matters is the force getting something they need.
No, they aren't. If you've only got 10% of the air defense missile you need because your procurement is buying $1 million dollar gold plated bullshit with seeker heads that integrate radar, IR and god knows what else, and China and Russia are simply using command guided shit hooked to a powerful radar that cost 5% per unit, you're going to lose.
Because they won't have any problems with replenishment and you're out after a few battles.
This is what happened with the Houthis - they were firing milion dollar missiles at $2000 drones.
It's criminal waste of money.
Example 1
https://www.novinky.cz/clanek/domaci-cena-dronu-z-izraele-nebude-15-ale-27-miliardy-korun-40407332
Heron 1 drone. Utterly, totally useless against the supposed enemy - Russians, who'd shoot it out of the sky without blinking an eye. 100 million$ cost, per 3. That's an utterly absurd price for an unmanned plane with a speed of 200 kph. If it were completely stealthy and low IR observable, maybe it'd be worth considering. It's not.
People ought to be shot for this.
EDIT:
Oh, it got changed to loitering munitions which will be useful for a short while.
At an absurdly inflated cost though.
Za 40 operátorských sad a 400 střel zaplatilo 140 milionů euro,
that's 350k€ per one battery driven loitering munition! (the Hungarian deal, but I'll expect Czechs won't have a much better one).
No_one
1mo ago
Bare minimum competent execution without real threats: Norway, Sweden, Czechia
Czechia?
The system is hopelessly corrupt.
What's not said is he asked for $20 million which were to fund a major political party (ODS). I highly doubt he wasn't working for them.
No_one
1mo ago
Now, one can certainly say that somebody like Trump was overdetermined to appear once SJ started drastically curtailing what counted as "acceptable for Polite Society".
It wasn't SJ. Trump happened because the US was sold out by the 'dead souls'- what Huntington called transnational globalists.
If that hasn't happened, he'd have gotten nowhere at all. But these people didn't care for the US, US power, only their bottom line and staying cool in the globalist crowd.
No_one
1mo ago
Realistically they'd need to develop and market a major tech breakthrough like the next Ozempic or something in AI.
Extra smart people have an edge in trading, finance or management.
No_one
1mo ago
No_one
1mo ago
but also because this is the apparent calibre of American leadership. Even if we assume that Elite Human Capital or the Deep State is running the show, why can't these people find a decent media spokesperson? How hard can it be?
That US is led by midwits has been evident since 2001 at least. The war on terror was a grotesque miscalculation-the neocon dreams of seven countries in five years delusions, Iraq a fumble, the war was a strategic victory for Al-Qaeda because it led to a decrease in US power and influence, loss of trust in the USG. Then you had the Arab Spring, which succeeded only in ruining things and not increasing US power either. Let's not even speak of Afghanistan. Then we got to Ukraine. Chinese have made no secret they're not going to be color-revolutioned, yet Americans thought driving China and Russia closely together was just the thing.
Putin clearly wanted in, was cooperative post 9/11, asked to be considered for membership and seeing as NATO has at times contained wholly authoritarian regimes like Turkey's various juntas , Portugal (somehow a founding member) etc, there were no obvious reasons why not to admit them. This would've gone some way to containing China.
That China would become extremely powerful was obvious since early 1900, when they were found to be not intellectually deficient, just merely medieval.
Emanuel Todd, the anthropologist famous for calling Soviet decline back when people thought USSR was eternal has an some interesting remarks in an interview about his upcoming book. Translation here.
Lot of women get off on humiliation, if that intersects with a rape kink, getting some sweet involuntary love from a hobo is probably a bit of a dream aspiration for them.
There isn't? My dad has, for some unfathomable reason read about a dozen of the Anita Blake vampire hunter books and related it involves the protagonist being promiscuous.
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