Dursleys were middle class social climbers (the most universally despised class). weasels and malfoys were the two types of old money with no money (and fathers who had to stoop to taking govt sinecures as welfare, or in shady business with The Wrong Sort ("directly in business" being the most disreputable part of course)). Hermione was the acceptable kind of rising middle class (dentist, daughter in higher education, probably going into non-profit work). Harry was the ideal form of old money, with a good pedigree on the father's side, fresh blood of undeniable quality from the mother's side, and the money still there (and nobody asks where it came from because it obviously wasn't from anything as tasteless as working for it). Goblins were the international finance class obvs.
Harry is the classic storybook prince who grew up noble living in a pig pen and instantly takes to the ways of his people through pure blood memory.
I'm not sure we even saw anyone who was legitimately from the lower orders except a few parodies like hagrid and the house gnomes, maybe the bus driver? There was probably a scholarship boy hanging from a bannister by his underwear that nobody bothered to mention because it would be gauche to bring attention to it.
I love that Americans can look at the same scene through an entirely different colour spectrum, and all the flashing red bits just look gray to them.
I'd start quality right away. Zero downside to quality-ing module production (and you need infinite prod1s for purple science). Same with lots of finished products. Assem2s, split off qual+, combine with qual+ speed1s= guaranteed uncommon/rare assem3s for platforms or maximizing return on your first prod3s.
Beacons are amazing too. All this stuff is basically free and goes right back into boosting the high end of the value chain that multiplies everything else.
Having your prod2 era science running at 1.28x1.14 (46%) vs 1.24x1.12 (39%) productivity while you're handling off-world science is a big speed boost for zero time or resource cost, unlike trying to scale your mining before getting artillery.
The big problem is that you want a madzuri/mojod style automall so that everything you request is being done by one assembler with your highest quality quality modules. And the 2.0 version of that is bleeding edge combinator tech I dont have time to learn.
I haven't had time to play much. Took 6 hours just to get space science up, and I'm not organized enough to take the next step yet.
My suspicion is that the race thing got a bit too real once journalists and academics started losing jobs to dei, the transsexual thing is an oozing wound they don't want to touch with a 10' dilator right now, and so the only culture war left to push is warmed-over '12-'18 feminism.
And the idea of not pushing on any culture war front just doesn't occur to people who consider journalism and activism to be synonymous (and who are out-bidding each other for #resistance jobs that seem to be in shorter supply this time)
SteveKirk
8d ago
Did any of the guntube alternatives survive? I figured if any alt platform had a draw, "watch machine guns shooting and learn how to finish 80% lowers" would be an easy sell. Maybe people are just that lazy.
SteveKirk
8d ago
Just search "is gtx970 good for gaming 2024 reddit" and you'll feel much better about your situation.
I think someone covered this a while ago: "my kingdom for a horse!"
The concept of value breaks down in illiquid markets, but it's just an extension of the same gap between bid and ask price as any other sale. If you are willing to buy a stock for $1.02, and the lowest seller is willing to sell for $.99, what's the real value of the stock to you? Do you owe him the extra three cents you were willing to pay over what he wanted? It's exactly the same issue in microcosm.
SteveKirk
8d ago
Those sysreqs sound like they're giving up on their traditional audience playing games on PCs salvaged from an eastern bloc computer lab. Unless I'm behind the times and all the Estonians are rocking 3090s now.
Not so much "dangerous" because a) the benefits of cps-elimination for good kids might outweigh the harm done by yobbos anyway, and b) taking away that specific tool would encourage people to support real solutions to youth crime.
It's mostly that a lot of people are going to see cps-elimination as taking away the one thing they see actually being used against ferals in their community. And people are so sick to death of unpunished crime right now that you don't want to become an acceptable target for their anger. (It's a lot safer to attack white libertarian free-range kid activists than it is to give a physical description of the Youth who stole your bike.)
It's "you can't take my broken stapler; what else will I use to pound nails?" You need to at least hand the guy a rock if you want him to give up his stapler without a fight.
SteveKirk
8d ago
That's the thing: you're right in general, and I don't have any evidence about specific cases other than the ones in my local community. But CPS is still a tool to "do something about those damn kids" that normies find a lot easier to stomach than caning the little shits, so unless you can deal with the underlying problem your CPS-reform movement is going to be resisted by people who are sick and tired of having all their shit stolen by 17yr 364day & 23hr old minors who get away scot free.
Nybbler is going to shoot me as a back-the-blue conservative normie for this, but it's also the case that sheriffs know who the troublemakers are, and use stuff like this to go after them.
It's unfortunate, but there's going to a lot of free range kid incidents that do involve genuinely negligent parents or feral kids, and from our perspective 30,000ft above the media firestorm we'll never see it.
Where I live there's a group of tweens+teens who roam around breaking into empty summer houses. The sheriff can't really even arrest them, and even if he did the leftist prosecutor wouldn't do anything about it. So naturally his only leverage over the parents is going after them with CPS. So far this seems to be working, with little pushback because the local head of the ACLU isn't inclined to start a fuss due to her summer house being broken into.
But if it did blow up, I can already write the reason dot com article about "rural kids reported to child services just for riding their bikes to town!", and the resulting shitstorm would distract from any real conversation about how law enforcement got like this in the first place.
See this locally famous case for another example. Any attempt to do something about the kid before his crimes escalated to international aeroplane hijacking would have been based around a CPS investigation, because realistically there was nothing else the police could do about him. Many such cases, and a lot of them end in deadly carjacking rather than just hilarious levels of property damage.
So for the "free range kids" movement to win, it's going to need to help solve the youth crime problem that incentivizes helicopter-parenting mandates. And since a lot of the big media figures are left-libertarians like Radley Balko who also went all-in on BLM, the odds of them owning up to this are low.
You're getting responses like that because you're talking to a group that is notorious for screaming at people who are driving the direction they want, but at the speed limit rather than smashing the accelerator. See the current redditrage blaming Harris' loss on not Centering trans persxns in her campaign.
Eventually it always converges on the rationalist "well they won 70% of this fight by calling us cis-demons enough times, you need to follow their rules now"
I'd actually be curious if you'd ban gwern for his 2012 comments linked in that thread, btw. It'd be a good demonstration of how far the Overton window has shifted left even in a place dedicated to resisting forcible shifts.
SteveKirk
8d ago
the low-quality responses you've generated
Were literally the product of a troll single-purpose-account, and you know it. But you can't let the place stray too far from leftist Orthodoxy, can you?
Well, this entire red-hot and starting to backfire economy is propped up by the laptop class looting federal money to subsidize their lifestyle spending. There's nothing else propping up demand, so if Trump kicks the chair out I suspect we're in for a crash just in time for 2028.
Washington State literally passed this fucking law last year, please just stop lying to our faces that it's not happening (and also it's good), if only to prove you can notice it doesn't work and try some other tactic.
SteveKirk
9d ago
we had a professor banned from teaching first-year mandatory courses because he donated to the Republican party in 2012,
Do you have a link for this? I want to use it next time the "there's no discrimination, conservatives are just too stupid for academia" card gets played.
Always check the sub overlap thing, whatever it's called (and if it still works with the API restrictions). Neoliberal users are basically just the political wing of /r/traaaaaansIRL_egg-crackers.
Focus on winning the election, focus on telling people what they want to hear and hide behind the carpet all of the progressive electoral poison pills. After you’re in power, you can go back to those points.
If there isn't a name for this there needs to be. The sneering condescension and treating voters as pawns to be manipulated, and expecting them to never figure it out no matter how many times you openly say you're lying to them, as if they're video game NPCs who can't see you stealing if you stick a bucket on their heads.
And hey, to my discredit I thought it was working for them again right up until 2am on election night.
Dont you mean the "alleged Waukesha holiday parade incident caused by an SUV"?
The headlines for that were beyond parody. I wonder if all the arguments are still on the wiki talk page, or stuck in an archive. There was a level of shamelessness in the propaganda reached in 2020-2022 that seems almost unreal now, like a fever dream.
Chesa Boudin didn't have a machine of his own and they gave him an entire department at UC Berkeley after his disastrous recall loss. A department specifically made for creating propaganda for his policies that the voters rejected.
There's a larger machine at work, much greater than the petty personal ones individual politicians can build. There's a chance she gets nothing, but I expect they'll at least give her a nonprofit doing $10000/plate "rich women's issues" dinners. That was her key demo, and they need to send the signal that they take care of their own.
Yes, I honestly can't blame them given how hard we've leaned into menacing banjo music intensifies to goad this exact sort of ovaryaction, see "your face, my mace" etc.
I know, but I've spent the last decade joining in on the "hey ATF, my dog shoots first" thing, and I really hate the "lol you're crazy for hallucinating all those things I said" gaslighting tactic.
Even if they're immoral for doing it, I'm not going to mock someone for taking things I said in jest (steely unironic intent) seriously.
Water is a universal solvent, it's normal to have all sorts of shit dissolved in it, depending what rocks are in the aquifer. Mine has so much iron you can pick up the used sand filter with a magnet.
Iirc it wasn't a big deal in the old days before effective pumps, because people mostly lived off surface water of various kinds (where it has little contact with the bedrock and the worst you can get is, uh, cholera). But even natural spring water can be full of sulphur, lead, copper, mercury, arsenic, radium, oil, methane, etc.
SteveKirk
15d ago
we already do engage in a fair bit of "affirmative action" moderating.
Wasn't this strenuously denied for years and claims of it were met with accusations of being paranoid conspiracy theorists?
who wrote in the government system messages such as: “Trump sign no entry per leadership.”
What a brilliant way to make a paper trail that's less deniable than whistleblowing that would be dismissed as "claims without evidence." If your boss doesn't overrule you, he's nailed himself she/her has nailed herself.
To be fair though I wouldn't want to be knocking at Trump houses in a Florida swamp going "Hi, this is FEMA. Before you ask, yes these are level 4 plates, but I'm out of spares so please don't aim for the cracked bits"
Oh, Snape's wifebeating dad definitely was. His mom married down and Paid The Toll in American racial terms.
Unless he got a very good match Snape's children would have fallen out entirely, which is one reason him being in love with Lily in spite of his class anxiety was so meaningful.
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