Tyre_Inflator
1yr ago
I'm wondering what approach if any you use when talking to acquaintances or friends who skew liberal, who broadly are happy to have the inertia of universities or the intelligentsia on their side
I do not, because all the motte has taught me is that it's pointless. You don't convince people, you shift the ground under the feet and they go along with it.
Tyre_Inflator
1yr ago
Hourly btu is a standard unit of measure everywhere. Air conditioners are always listed as some multiple of "12,000BTU" all over the world.
Tyre_Inflator
1yr ago
Wrong unit? Her old gas stove did have the correct propane jets, if that's what you mean.
I was going to make the same distinction, but disagree with you that people conflate NPC-dom with ideological possession.
Was just reading "Religious Nationalism and the Coronavirus Pandemic: Soul-Sucking Evangelicals and Branch Covidians Make America Sick Again," in which the author "addresses the wider implications of Christian nationalism on American politics, and capitalist ideology... (and) concludes that privatization, austerity capitalism, and ‘gig economy’ need to be replaced by socialist alternatives and seeks inspiration in theory and practice of Marxism and South American liberation theology."
This is a serious case of ideological brain-rot, but it's not "being an NPC." The author will completely predictably twist literally anything into advocating for maoist revolution, but will do so in creative and original ways despite much of the content being regurgitated stock phrases. And even more importantly he will never change his programming in response to outside input. He should be modeled as a limited AI: a paperclipper for leftism. And I don't think anyone would call him an NPC, despite recognizing him as a no-longer-human pile of brain cancer that exists only to single-mindedly carry out his programming.
The distinction is that NPCs are just making "mouth noises" they don't even understand to have meaning. They can't creatively use those noises to make arguments, even in a rote chinese-room manner, because they don't have a phrase dictionary. They often don't even notice that they're saying or doing mutually contradictory things, like a woman I know who talked about the need to ban gas stoves for the environment while a handyman was installing her new 50kBTU outdoor propane patio heater which feeds from the same tank as her removed gas stove.
So yeah, I think you're right that there are two very distinct patterns of behavior, but that people actually use "NPC" to refer to the correct one. We just need a new word for the other that isn't as niche as "paperclipper."
Here's a good parallel: "democrats will never tolerate gang shootings: they hate guns and anyone who uses them"
In practice, we get decriminalized gang shootings combined with ever more aggressive laws against legal gun owners, because it turns out the hatred wasn't directed at the guns and violence, but at the (white, male) gun owners featured in their anti-gun propaganda.
Similarly, leftist hatred of sexual misconduct is targeted at "the (cis-white) patriarchy," not the misconduct itself.
A girl at my local school had to be withdrawn recently because another student with a penis wouldn't stop aggressively sexually propositioning her, and the staff with the new progress pride flag in every classroom window wouldn't do anything about it. They said "she" was just expressing her identity as a lesbian.
This is only going to escalate in the same way that anti-gun rhetoric coupled with pro-crime policies did. The same leftist prosecutors already have "queer affirming" prosecution policies that are going to effectively decriminalize age of consent violations as long as it's "queer," while legislators simultaneously increase penalties for 17 year olds getting married.
And there's another factor. When leftists really don't like something, they get aggressive about it. They "problematize," they make hashtags, they get people fired, they set a party line and ruthlessly establish conformity by any means necessary.
When they don't really care and just want to stop conservatives from doing anything about it, they make whatever soothing/mocking/rationalizing mouth-noises necessary to convince the person they're talking to that nothing is going to happen, and anyway it won't be bad... besides, it's too late to stop it, and anyway you probably deserved it.
Which of those modes do you see happening here? Because I see a lot more anger from leftists here about "election deniers" and "residential school genocide deniers" than I do towards pedophiles. The excuses and rationalization about pedophilia look an awful lot more like the "deflect" mode than the "deal with" mode. And I think you're too smart to be doing this unconsciously.
Edit: and of course the second I open twitter CNN is going to bat for a gay man who raped a 12 year old
Edit edit:
The growing consensus among scientists is that pedophilia is biological in nature, and that keeping pedophilic urges at bay can be incredibly difficult. “What turns us on sexually, we don’t decide that—we discover that,” said psychiatrist Dr. Fred Berlin, director of the Johns Hopkins Sex and Gender Clinic and an expert on paraphilic disorders.
You know what's going to happen when the "sex and gender clinic" starts talking about a "growing scientific consensus," don't you?
Tyre_Inflator
1yr ago
Yes, the entire chain of reasoning is "this dog is vicious: it bites when you kick it"
What degree did you get? What job did you get with that degree? Where did the money come from?
Tyre_Inflator
1yr ago
I'd normally say power supply too, but there's a possibility there's a power-saving setting causing either your psu or mobo to be too slow ramping up supply to sudden demand during games, causing a crash. That would explain why it only happens in games rather than benchmarks. This has been a big problem with the new graphics cards, and I've even had it on my old system.
It's also by far the easiest thing to check, since you just need to google all the different power saving options and disable them.
But imo it's still likely to be your psu, which is good news because they're one of the cheapest and easiest things to buy and replace. And even if it was your mobo, you'd need to buy a new psu for a new rig anyway, so there's no waste in getting one now.
Sorry for the late reply. Ironically couldn't post earlier because I had my PC apart to add some M2 cards and scavenged fans.
Tyre_Inflator
1yr ago
It's not an engineering issue, it's that interest rates now exist and SpaceX is going to run out of money, and also that the regime is literally trying to destroy them and will get what it wants.
The only space programs that will be tolerated are military satellites launched by the highest bidder, and NASA's artemis program to spend 100 billion dollars to put some black woman on the moon.
On the off chance this is real, you have probably already screwed yourself. You've obviously internalized a script that made you vulnerable to this narcissist's manipulation strategy out of guilt and the need to feel like a good person. Still, the best chance you have right now is the following:
Do not meet with him. Do not contact him. Leave his texts unread. Lawyer up and have him draft you a complaint to HR, with an eye to signaling to HR that it would be a costly mistake to throw you under the bus.
Do not try to change his mind or "clear up misconceptions." He does not have a misunderstanding: he has an internal narrative in which you are an object that feeds his fetish of being valued and protected "as a real woman." When you contest this, he will switch to a different narrative and turn on you instantly. This will most likely be that you were a "chaser" sexually harassing him because he is an irresistibly beautiful woman. This is what he will report to HR if you destabilize his current obsession.
You already screwed up by interacting with this guy in any way, because your HR department will be pressured to take his side by two things. First, HR ladies natural hatred for cis-white-males and a desire to hurt them. Second, and most importantly, your corporation thirsts for ESG scores from leftist queer "rating organizations" that act as mafia bosses. Only one of you can cause a multi-million dollar lawsuit if the company throws you under the bus, and it's not you, regardless of how much fear your lawyer can put into them.
Again assuming this is real, you have an opportunity here to learn a very important lesson, but it is probably already too late to stop the fallout from this entirely preventable mistake.
Tyre_Inflator
1yr ago
Do you see the irony in "I wish we had more leftists, like that other place where they ban anyone who isn't leftist"?
If you're still confused about this, there are several reasons for it.
First is that heat pump efficiency depends on the difference between high and low temperatures. It takes more energy to pump heat to a higher temperature, just like it takes more energy to pump water uphill. The outside in summer is maybe 30-40F hotter than inside (100F to 70F). The outside in winter might be 60F colder than inside (10F to 70F). The heater has to do more work to push each unit of heat "further uphill."
The second is that heat pumps need to heat up air to much hotter than room temperature for comfort. A 65F breeze in a 70F room feels like heaven in the summer. A 75F breeze in a 70F room feels like a cold draft in winter, so they pump the outlet heat all the way up to 100F or so. That can mean a 90F difference between inside and outside temperature, so even more energy per unit of heat moved.
Third, a lot of house temperature in the summer comes from sunlight on the roof. And cooling a 100F house down to the same 70F as the outside is very efficient (if you had a thermodynamically perfect heat pump you could gain a tiny amount of energy from it). In caveman days we used something called an "electric fan" for this.
Countering all this, heat pumps get a +1 to their efficiency ratio because they can use their waste heat as an output (like a regular electric heater), while ACs have to reject their waste heat to the hot outside air. That's the "+100% efficient" thing you talked about. It doesn't make up for the rest of it.
Tyre_Inflator
1yr ago
Oh no
nice trigger discipline. Steady as a rock.
Yeah... but I shoot with this hand!
Tyre_Inflator
1yr ago
You don't need a sovereign territory as the world collapses, you need it before the world collapses to enable you to set up the conditions that keep you sovereign after the world collapses.
The neoreactionary concept of preparing to be handed power while still under the rule of a (decrepit, flailing) government doesn't seem to work super well.
Tyre_Inflator
1yr ago
I can't find full episodes of the show that aren't subbed in chinese. The BBC is really vicious about copyright enforcement of shows they never plan to make available.
Tyre_Inflator
1yr ago
If you went back in time to 2015 and told people that the left had become so extreme that Nate Silver, Mathew Ygglesias, and Glen Greenwald were all considered far-right fascists, you'd have been locked up in a psych ward tossed into a homeless encampment.
Tyre_Inflator
1yr ago
I've been working on a post claiming that Biden and Fetterman are the perfect white male democrat candidates because they are a literal mental blank their handlers can puppet however they want, but your explanation is much better.
Tyre_Inflator
1yr ago
There was a previous conversation about this for reference. I am interested to hear what policy you're proposing.
Tyre_Inflator
1yr ago
I'm trying vivaldi and like it: haven't even needed any addons yet, it's that customizable. But it's got an annoying bug where the browser crashes if you move your mouse too fast in the main menu. It's tolerable because you don't need the menu for much, but wow that's dumb.
Tyre_Inflator
1yr ago
Proper vertical tabs support was missing in chrome for a long time, but Vivaldi has it now, so either google finally implemented it or someone came up with a clever workaround.
I think chrome is always going to feel faster than (if I understand what you're using) a firefox fork that still uses the old engine.
The browser market share stats for the last 15 years are crazy. Mozilla looks to be on their way to total Internet Explorerfication.
Tyre_Inflator
1yr ago
Is anybody on Bluesky? There is some sort of drama going on that looks like an attempt to skinsuit the dev team.
The devs have already caved from the looks of it.
Ten years ago liberals would have sworn to you that Sista Soulja style "whiteness is the devil" rhetoric was dead and gone, and would never come back.
And now we know that they were deliberately hiding and nurturing it for over two decades, bringing it out of the closest at the first possible opportunity. When a group treats all interactions as tactical engagements to shift the overton window, that's exactly what happens: the quiet part stays quiet, until a memo goes out and suddenly the absurd strawman extremist position is once again party doctrine.
So we already have one example of an extreme leftist position that was pushed out of the overton window only to return far stronger than before, apparently with the assistance of liberals with a no-enemies-to-the-left policy. Why will this be any different?
There's also the point that only heterosexual age-gap relationships seem to disgust progressives. 8 year old boys in stripper dresses getting cash tucked into their panties by adult men is a library activity, while girls getting married at 17 has been made a crime. This means we're a lot closer to the days of the Berlin adoption agencies giving boys to paedophiles than you'd think from the rhetoric about "predatory (straight) men"
Tyre_Inflator
1yr ago
prolific users with hidden profiles. One of them has a few quality contributions! (Thanks!) Two of them are neutral. And seven of them have repeated antagonism, with many of those getting banned or permabanned.
That's why private accounts became my number one tool for troll-spotting. Pedofash guy is the highest value private account I can think of.
Tyre_Inflator
1yr ago
perhaps disturbing how many young women will automatically call you "daddy" in bed these days, without any prompting
It's always awkward having to stop in the middle and say "Sweetie, I don't know how to tell you this... but you're adopted"
With apologies to Christopher Lasch's Angry Ghost, who said it better than I ever could:
Describing the process describes the people.
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