Southkraut
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"So rowed they till day broke, and a light wind sprang up fresh and keen. Juss waked, and stood up to scan the gray glassy surface of the sea spread to vast distances where sky and water faded into one. Astern, great clouds bridged the gates of day, boiling upwards into crags of wine-dark vapour and burning plumes of sunrise. In the stainless spaces of the sky above these sailed the horned moon, frail and wan as a white foam-flower blown from the waves."
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Southkraut
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4d ago
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It is kinda wholesome tbh. I enjoy the extra time with the little one, who is actually 100% cooperative when she's alone with me. As opposed to the screaming obstruction she turns into in her mother's hands. According to my wife that's because with her she's not afraid of being honest, whereas with me she's terrified into obedience. Screw that view. Conservative parenting fucking works, and to hell with self-sabotaging housewives. As if a kid being turned into a dissolute, undisciplined third-generation depressive whose only aspirations in life are sugar and screentime were somehow preferable because it means nobody has to ever buckle down and do anything they don't like.
We spend pretty much the entire weekend at the playground, and are looking forward to summer, which we intend to spend entirely at the pool, like we did last year. Anyone who tells me that this is somehow worse than keeping her locked up indoors and telling her to let the adults stare at their phones is full of shit.
Southkraut
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4d ago
I had one of those melatonin sprays a few years ago. Not sure if it did anything, but I guess it's a good idea to try that first. Worth an attempt. Thanks!
Southkraut
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4d ago
Can someone recommend sleeping pills (I assume pills are the conventional form) that work with a minimum of side effects and/or long-term damage?
Lately I've been alternating between nights of 12 hours of sleep, and others with pretty much none. Right now I'm at two all-nighters in a row. This is a little unusual for me, but I can't afford to be groggy all day long, so I'd like to get back on a solid schedule by any means necessary. Any advice appreciated.
Southkraut
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5d ago
Have I been doing? I've been dadmaxxing. Even more so than hitherto. The previous deal where my wife and daughter are with grandma during weekdays is off because they not only fail such basic tasks as getting her to kindergarten but even manage to neglect her at home to the point where she has a breakdown and cries that nobody loves her. So I took over kindergarten duties (which means 2h of driving, daily, plus getting the kid ready in the morning) in addition to full-time work and all tasks that involve leaving the house. I don't know whether to pity my wife or wish that lightning strike her. I alternate between sleeping 12 hours a night and not sleeping at all. Something's gotta give, but for some reason I have "persevere" as the entirety of my OS. So that's what I've been doing.
Southkraut
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5d ago
intended result of meaningfully weakening the European far-right
It may suffice to simply delay any far-right power moves until demographics neutralizes the far-right forever.
Southkraut
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6d ago
Ana-Taylor Joy
I like the look of that one. Very unique face.
Southkraut
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6d ago
I'm a mid-level software dev who mostly spent the age of the LLMs doing Java Spring Boot backend development at two different companies. I've tried using the various chatbots provided to me, and so far they've been useless in 100% of all cases. It's entirely possible that I'm doing it wrong.
Southkraut
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6d ago
FWIW, housing is ludicrously expensive in other parts of the world, too.
500k would just about suffice for building a bitch-basic one-family home here.
Southkraut
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6d ago
Around Christmas I found a slim volume containing five short stories (including "The Garden of Forking Paths") by Borges, who I'd never read anything by before. I read the whole thing in one day and enjoyed it, it's easy to see how influential he is.
I've also been reading Borges short stories. I'm still not resolved on whether I find him meandering and self-indulgent, but overall his writing is pleasant to read.
Southkraut
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6d ago
Source on the use of prisoners for such tasks?
Southkraut
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9d ago
It is as @ArjinFerman says.
Die Grünen (and to a lesser extent die Linke) are married to the activists, which form the so-called APO (Außerparlamentarische Opposition / extra-parliamentary opposition). The two don't compete; they cooperate.
Southkraut
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10d ago
Absolutely, yeah. I mean, I don't know anything about the specific rationalist in question here, I speak in abstracts, but rationalists have huge blind spots, preferably near their own sacred cows. A rationalist can gain esteem enough by writing on topics other than those.
Southkraut
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10d ago
Yeah, if nobody they had no reason to mistrust previously informed them that the emperor wore invisible clothes.
Southkraut
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10d ago
wouldn't being autistic make it less likely you'd have the requisite cognitive machinery in place necessary to delude yourself about the state of the world for the purposes of social signalling?
In my unprofessional opinion: Autists accept the signal at face value and then boost it because the original signal comes from a trusted source. No delusion required; it's genuine belief.
Southkraut
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10d ago
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The comparison to Weimar is apt, IMO. Back then democracy showed a failure mode in being young and not having the people's trust so that power players could just run roughshod over it; now it shows another by being old and all the players knowing how to exploit its loopholes while the people have become so accustomed the status quo that the liberal order is taken for granted.
I think the endpoint will probably be constitutional reform that further enshrines progressivism, to such a point that any significantly right-wing platform becomes legally untenable. We can see the first attempts at this in the recent inclusion of "Climate Neutrality By 2045" in the constitution - if that works, then similarly ideologically-charged items can follow, until it becomes impossible to campaign for materially right-wing goals without first campaigning for simply undoing those changes, which wouldn't be attractive to voters.
Whether the road there is cleared by weimarian violence or just another long march probably depends on how rapidly, if at all, the right grows from here on out.
Southkraut
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10d ago
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I'd predict that it will turn into a change of strategy. So far the way of it was to contain the AfD through social engineering to dissuade the electorate from backing them, and political firewalling to prevent them from affecting the running of the country. The social part isn't effective enough, and the political part will cease to work if they should grow any further.
So I expect that the fever will heat up more yet. We may see increasing sabotage, honeypots, agent provocateurs, political violence and other more proactive measures to prevent the AfD from functioning as an organization and to discredit it as not just evil but incompetent. Key actors within the party might be bought off, imprisoned on flimsy evidence, or personally assaulted on a broader scale and with more decisive violence. Perhaps a party meeting will be bombed. Maybe trustworthy intelligence agencies will discover incontrovertible proof that the entire party leadership is a bunch of pedophiles, or something similarly odious that not even right-wingers would tolerate.
This might be further facilitated by funnelling more money into "pro-democracy" NGOs that serve to coordinate activists and provide them with financial and legal support.
Southkraut
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10d ago
We recently had our federal elections in the Federal Republic of Germany, and the winners, the CDU and their sister-party CSU, are currently organizing their coalition with the SPD.
The CSU got to pick the future minister of agriculture, and they chose Günther Felßner für the job.
Felßner has now cancelled this plan, because animal rights activists broke into his farm-home to protest against some form of animal abuse or another. Supposedly his wife feared for her life, and he considers his family's safety more important than high political office.
The protest has been condemned by the future government parties, but overall not much is made of it.
Southkraut
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10d ago
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Not sure about that. I'd say it has been worse.
- The tone of cancel culture has shifted from "he's a nazi who obstructs the progressive transformation of society, we must ostracize him forever and ever" to "he's a russian puppet, we must ostracize him until he repents". It's more temporary and limited in scope.
- People around me are generally a lot more openly critical of the progressive project, and much less openly supportive of it than they used to be. I hear more broadly pro-free-speech positions and fewer calls for censorship than I used to.
I think overall people are just more insecure than they used to be. Trump getting reelected, right-wing parties gaining more support, war making a comeback in Europe, the whole goddamned pandemic episode, Überfremdung (increasing numbers of foreigners) becoming noticeable to normies - all of that shook people, one way or another. The instinctive desire to take the moral high ground and preach remains, but it seems that most of the regular people who would turn into opportunistic preachers are sufficiently unsure of the world right now that they're much subdued compared to a few years ago.
Southkraut
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10d ago
Generally speaking however, I think you're slightly off the mark in your observations. The style of discouse you describe, in which a party is described as irredeemably evil due to an excessively right-wing position, is usually directed at third parties. You and your politically agreeable interlocutor paint someone who is not actually a participant in the discussion as an acceptable target and not part of polite society. It's not directed at a participant in the discussion, because you, a respectable progressive, would never have a discussion with a nazi in the first place! The whole exercise serves to strengthen in-group alignment on common friend/enemy distinctions. It's a rallying cry for allies, a measure to ensure uniformity, not an attempt to convince someone who might disagree with you - because outright disagreement is evil, beyond the pale, and marks such a one as unfit for discourse. The evil must be deplatformed, not given opportunity to voice their intolerable views.
Southkraut
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10d ago
Citation of what exactly?
Southkraut
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10d ago
Not sure if 1:1M. I buy it, really. It's not too far off from my own teenage experiences. All it takes is the right brain wiring to accept statements by authority at face value. "Men and women can be equally physically capable? Sure thing, I trust you mom/teacher/book.". Add a few examples of exceptionally physically capable girls/women (as were present around me at the time, though of course they were given extra spotlight and never put into direct competition against equally ambitious boys/men.) and it can seem quite credible. Especially when you yourself are a bookworm for whom taking a walk is peak physical activity, and those guys/girls running marathons seem like aliens and you have no interest in observing their activities at all, nevermind gender disparities.
I'm glad I grew out of it, but I suppose there's ways enough for similar teenagers to instead double down and become physically illiterate adults instad.
Southkraut
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10d ago
Deplorable transparency. If only the state would hide its inner workings more thoroughly from its citizens!
Southkraut
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11d ago
Dipped a toe into animations, but it's still a foreign country to me. Keyframe animations sound like a simple concept, but actually wiring things up takes some getting into. Not sure how much I'll be doing with it, it's mostly idle curiosity driving me on that point. Going through some basic tutorials right now.
Other than that, not a lot. Work, parenting, and being very tired.
Southkraut
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12d ago
One of them, which most closely fit this pattern, used the imagery of cutting beams and hewing rocks so that God may build a house for you.
Interesting idea, but no. Too distasteful, and I'll have a hard time telling my daughter why she shouldn't if I lead by bad example.
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