Southkraut
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"Behind our efforts, let there be found our efforts."
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Southkraut
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1d ago
You can have all that already!
Southkraut
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1d ago
Discipline, uniformity, obedience - those things have been part of soldiering for quite a while, and are all prerequisites for a well-functioning military. Having everyone adopt the same appearance plays into that. Obviously the question of beards is not a practical one - they don't make enough of a difference. It's a matter of the asethetics fitting the psychological ideal.
Southkraut
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1d ago
That's just called "life".
Southkraut
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1d ago
For a very specific value of "allow", maybe.
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1d ago
It'll be over because pure consumers of value who produce nothing and aren't even related to the producers of value will cease to be around sooner or later. Sooner or later some paperclipper will optimize us away, and there'll be no good reason not to do it.
Southkraut
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1d ago
I think a lot of people are just plain embarassed by their country's inability to do anything of note in those foreign wars military-humanitarian aid missions. They might be fine with staying out of there and they would be fine with going there and getting things done, but going there, being unable to say what you're trying to do, wasting time and money and then going home to see a house of cards immediately collapse is just profoundly unsatisfying.
Southkraut
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1d ago
You! I don't know whether you went to some knockoff Oktoberfest or a tourist trap, but if you think German food is bad then your opinions are wrong and your taste is bad!
Southkraut
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2d ago
Ah, thanks, makes sense. My bad, that was just me being non-anglo.
So where do you work where you can get away with talking to Hassan for 45 minutes?
Southkraut
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2d ago
Well, so much for my simple left/right shooter/target heuristic (https://www.themotte.org/post/3277/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/370315?context=8#context).
Where do you work that employs someone like Hassan?
At what level of non-functionality should people lose rights? Should they, if they've never done anything wrong, in spite of the non-functionality?
At what level of functionality should people be given rights in the first place?
At what level of functionality should something be registered as people?
Registering anything born by people as people, and then giving it adult rights as soon as it's been around for exactly 18 years is a bit of an oversimplification in the first place. Asking for a scrupulously well-designed threshold at which to remove rights seems like an isolated demand for rigor.
Which is to say - I shrug. There's no clean answer.
Southkraut
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2d ago
Fascinating. Thanks for posting this.
Do you think the Egyptians are trying to keep this buried in order to protect the world from a cursed undead Mummy?
It's the wrong way around. The armed one must be from H2, because the unarmed version was in H1.
Southkraut
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5d ago
Personal Assistant.
"AI, please do my taxes, handle the car damage insurance case in a maximally profitable way, and tell me which area of work to focus on today. Also, which one of my friends have I neglected to catch up with the longest? Remind me to call them this evening, but not too late."
Southkraut
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7d ago
Sure. Alright. I can agree to that much.
But for the love of basic sanity, don't let them loose! Give them the bare minimum of time to do those things - maybe a day or two - and keep them under constant watch by at least one law enforcement officer at all times!
Edit: You sneak, you edited your post! Two days or two weeks, that's a question of economics to me - can the relevant law enforcement agencies afford to commit manpower for that long without neglecting their duties elsewhere? But in any event, I have alarm bells going off in my mind when immigrants are just let off the hook, even if just temporarily.
Southkraut
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7d ago
This all sounds overcomplicated for something that is essentially a very simple issue.
They already broke the law by coming in illegally, and the right thing to do is to make them go away. Letting them go free, monitored or not, especially after they've already been picked up by law enforcement, is just plain wrong. Your proposal would simply create more busywork and more opportunities for law enforcement failures and more incentives to immigrate illegally compared to holding on to them and shipping them off at the first opportunity.
No offense, but I get the feeling that you effectively want more immigration.
Southkraut
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7d ago
the monitor mysteriously turns off - then you get detained.
I'm missing some details, I'm sure, but this sounds flawed. Attempting to detain them after they made themselves significantly harder to track...I dunno, smells like self-sabotage to me.
Southkraut
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7d ago
I'll give you the following simplification:
- Target is right-wing: Shooter is left-wing.
- Target is left-wing: Shooter is right-wing.
Southkraut
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7d ago
I want to ask y’all what “the left” should be doing.
Exactly what they are doing. They've overextended with wokeness and demographic engineering and lockdowns, which eroded a significant part of their ability to exercise power with seeming legitimacy. Galvanizing their supporters and sympathizers by escalating the conflict allows them to solidify what power they have while increasing their apparant legitimacy. They can choose between doubling down on the narrative that currently has traction or folding entirely and admitting fault, which is a fake choice because only one of those options actually offers them prospects of future success. Especially since the Right has also been going that exact way - sticking to their guns, attempting to match or exceed the other side's escalations, defecting in the face of prior defection by the other side.
It's a conflict, it does conflict things. The left will continue conflict-ing in this, because that's the only way for it to go.
Southkraut
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7d ago
unadorned weaponry
Wasn't it arguably the very right-wing Christchurch shooter who started the trend of plastering political messages all over your gun?
Southkraut
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7d ago
Thanks for asking, as always.
I had an opportunity to sit down for about two hours, uninterrupted and not dog tired, and lo and behold that actually let me take a good enough look at my codebase to figure out what I was doing wrong. It wasn't Unreal's fault after all. Of course not, in the end it's the world's most successfully used game engine, of course it works and it's the user's fault. I had simply botched a refactor and dropped a few lines that ended up missing entirely.
So I went on, thinking hey, now I can finally do something moderately creative! But hey, what's that, my projectiles don't collide with terrain or other geometry. Let's check...colliders look okay, meshes look okay, movement components look okay, what's going on here...
...as it turns out, it's Unreal's fault. Apparently ProjectileMovementComponent doesn't detect collisions if the collider isn't the actor's RootComponent. And I had written a custom RootComponent that I put in charge of situationally instantiating subcomponents, including said collider and the MovementComponent. Sad. So my options now are:
- Always make the collider the root. But that leaves a blank spot for actors that shouldn't have a collider, and they'd have to be treated differently. But I guess I have to do that anyways.
- Let my custom RootComponent inherit from collider. Wait, no, that won't work because there are separate collider classes for each primitive shape. And also doesn't account for acotrs that shouldn't collide.
- Write my own MovementComponent that doesn't require this specific setup.
- Attempt to fix Unreal's MovementComponent and hope they accept my changes, most likely only to learn that it has to be the way it is and I am abjectly ignorant of the many good reasons.
So I'll probably have to write a bunch of extra code to differentiate between actors with and such without a collider. Annoying.
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8d ago
Despite that, I highly doubt @ArjinFerman and the other race realists here are sexist against men and racist against all ethnicities other than East Asian.
Of course I am. Of course lower-class German men are more suspicious than middle-class Turkish women.
Asians, dunno. Not enough of them here to form proper prejudice.
Southkraut
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9d ago
I live in a European country and there is a social class that behaves in identically disruptive ways on public transport, despite being as white as the rest of the population.
Absolutely, yes, that exists. And most of the blacks, arabs, turks etc. one sees behave that same way, even more so than the relatively smaller percentage of the whites that do so. This doesn't necessarily make race rather than culture the cause - but damn is race a good proxy for culture here!
Good luck. Putting Truth, Logical Debate, or some moral Good ahead of winning seems like a good way to get plowed under. I hope you find a way to highlight how these Good things can be leveraged for winning more successfully than the Evil things that are currently being done instead.
In a contest between societies, I can very well imagine the one that sticks to virtue coming out the stronger. But in a Culture War within one society, I doubt it somewhat. If the past decades are any indication, then being manipulative, vindictive and combative are the qualities that let one dominate, whereas sticking to more benign qualities just lets your enemies dictate the order of the day.
I hope to be wrong.
Edit: @IGI-111 explains this much better than I.
Southkraut
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10d ago
Well she just told the whole world.
You're not wrong, mechanically.
But please name the wars in which that would have actually achieved the goal for which the war was started in the first place.
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