WhiningCoil
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WhiningCoil
2d ago
Random question. I just wrapped up the chapters in Gibbon about Belisarius, so I wanted to ask. Is he your namesake because you imagine yourself the greatest general of a degenerate and declining age, or because your wife is one of the top 10 most flagrant whores of history?
I kid, I kid. But man, what a way to go down in history. Greatest general of an era, and the biggest cuck.
WhiningCoil
2d ago
I need to circle back to that and finish it. Well, I need to find it first. I left it on the end table too long and it got "cleaned up". So many wonderful anecdotes, and Feynman was a national treasure.
WhiningCoil
3d ago
I'm dying to cook up a batch of shortbread cookies this weekend. Or maybe cheddar and chive scones.
It's funny you say that about intermittent fasting. How are you managing it? I try to restrict all my eating to an 8 hour window or less each day, but I see other people skip entire days. I try to give myself a cheat day a week, and that goes OK I guess. I donno. Starting to think I should drop it down to every other week. Whatever changes in body composition I was seeing seemed to have dropped off, though my energy levels are more consistent throughout the day which is nice.
WhiningCoil
4d ago
He knows reds don't have the temperament or interest to "show up" for museums or libraries
I really don't think it's a "showing up" issue. Federal vaccine mandates during covid caused a lot of institutions to shift from purple or light blue to turbo monoculture extreme left. Turns out when you find a wedge issue to forcefully terminate red tribers over, a lot of public institutions are suddenly extremely blue.
WhiningCoil
4d ago
I'm sorry, no, Trump's just being retarded. This isn't, like, an innate property of being right wing or anything. If Curtis Yarvin got to choose the top 50 people in the Trump admin, it'd be different. (Or so I'd like to think...) But, no, Biden didn't send innocent people to a prison in El Salvador, and then pretend it's a state secret so he doesn't have to tell a judge who they are. He doesn't randomly Truth out new completely pointless tariffs twice a week. (I'm not huge on tariffs, but I am a fan of targeted and competent state intervention in the economy, and you could use tariffs in such a way. That's not what Trump's doing). When Biden did something truly insane (announcing the Equal Rights Amendment was in force), everyone basically ignored it, instead of agreeing and amplifying.
Your bias is showing. Biden's DOJ went after J6'ers so hard they got thrown in solitary confinement and had exculpating evidence hid from trial because apparently the security footage proving their innocence was a "state secret". Biden's regulatory apparatus would randomly exterminate American businesses left and right. Happened to Juul, crypto, energy sectors, etc. To say nothing of the countless red lines Biden put on the Ukraine/Russia conflict or the Israel/Palestine conflict that just got blown right past to no consequence what so ever.
Talking about classified intel, does nobody else remember the leaks of classified info on Discord during the Biden admin? Or the various other high profile leaks?
I'm saying your perceptions are being abused because yes, the Biden administration was just as retarded. Pete Buttigieg was just as retarded when Boeing planes were falling out of the sky, trains were derailing causing permanent ecological damage and bridges were collapsing. Their fucking AWOL secretary of defense was just as retarded when he vanished for months while WWIII was breaking out, telling nobody. The emergency response to Western North Carolina was pants on head retarded.
And these are just the stories we know about that broke through! Largely isolated to an online news ghetto full of people going "Can you believe this fucking shit?!" But now you have the MSM, as well as the online news ghetto going "Can you believe this fucking shit?!" and that tricks your perception into thinking it's somehow more retarded. It's not. What you had before was professional liars and people trying to fairly call balls and strikes. During the Biden admin the profession liars constantly tried to bring the temperature down. Now they are trying to raise it. The independent media trying to fairly call balls and strikes generally think the last 8 years have been completely retarded. But all you see is that 50% of the news thought Biden was retarded, and now 100% thinks Trump is retarded, therefore Trump is worse than Biden. You are still letting the professional liars influence your perception.
WhiningCoil
4d ago
I mean, forget all the euphemisms I've seen like "struggle snuggles" or whatever. Who carries who? Who picks up who? Who holds who up against a wall? There are ample non-violent opportunities during sex to notice a strength difference.
I donno, maybe I'm opening the kimono too much. If you put on smooth jazz and languidly do whatever you do with your genitals that makes it happen for you, more power to you.
WhiningCoil
5d ago
Maybe I've been watching too much Financial Audit, but I severely question how many people who are wildly innumerate function adequately in practice, versus in appearance thanks to endless financing.
WhiningCoil
5d ago
So noted! I don't recall the exact description of the lady in Queen of the Black Coast either. But perhaps we can also admit that not every Conan story spent equal time fluffing the physical valor of a woman who was to be Conan's equal. Although I recall even in Red Nails, Valeria was disabused of any notions of superiority to Conan, and the people they fought were a fairly degenerate and sorcerous bunch.
I mean, yes, Amazons were a trope, and lost parts of the Greek Epic Cycle even had them. Maybe I over stated my case that "at no point" were the authors of those works describing women as strong. But it was rare, and far short of the almost compulsive behavior of modern creators of culture trying to give equal, or even superior time, to the ability of 90 lb totally normal women to overpower hulking 6'4" 300 lb manly men.
WhiningCoil
5d ago
Do you have the same feeling about weight classes?
I mean, does an announcer belting out "In the red corner, the Heavy Weight Champion of the Wooooooorld" have the same gravitas as Feather Weight Champion? I mean, I'm not gonna fuck with a featherweight champion just because I weigh more. But all the same, which weight class sells more tickets on average? Heavyweight is where the big bucks are. There is a perception that the Heavyweight is the champion of champions.
WhiningCoil
5d ago
That's because of information warfare.
Look, you think the Biden White House wasn't an absolute fucking shit show? They kept a lid on his dementia the entire time, and only after the debate did three years of stories all deluge the news all at once. Imagine a hostile media and a hostile deep state, instead of keeping a tight lid on all these stories, leaking about the naked incompetence of the president for 3 years straight. If instead of attacking people pointing out the moments when Biden was obviously demented in public, accusing them of hateful rhetoric and making fun of the poor president's stutter, they uncritically amplified them?
I don't want to say it's all fake. It's not. But your perception is being heavily abused.
WhiningCoil
5d ago
You know, it's funny you point that out, because I never thought of it like that, but it really crystallized something for me from reading so much pre-current year literature lately. At no point in any novel I've read pre 1980 is any woman ever described as physically strong. Not in Dickens, not in Howard, not in Homer, Tolkien, Niven & Pournelle, Lovecraft, Ellison, Twain, or Burroughs. Women are not described as strong, even graded on a curve, there are no feats of female strength (though cunning is fair game). Though perhaps Gibbon occasionally describes the women of certain barbarian tribes as possessing manly or warlike virtues. I don't have quotes on hand.
Point being, there was a before time, when there wasn't the constant cultural obsession with giving equal time to flattering women as being "strong".
WhiningCoil
5d ago
I donno man. Maybe it's all perspective. It's more forgivable to be off in degrees (Lots when it's actually almost everybody, or a small minority versus a tiny minority), it seems less forgivable to be wildly innumerate and off by several orders of magnitude. Like when a cable news host claimed Bloomberg could have made everyone in the US a millionaire with the amount he spent on his failed presidential campaign.
WhiningCoil
5d ago
I mean... I hate to out you but...
Nor spent any time being physical with women
So like, age 25, you found out about physical strength differences between men and women from a senate transcript before you got any hands on experience?
I'll be out with it. It's really difficult for me to square total ignorance of the sex differences between men and women with first hand carnal knowledge of the opposite sex. So when I hear "I honestly had no idea and zero exposure to any physical reality that could possibly contradict that men and women are equally as physically capable" I just think "So.... you're a virgin?"
Although I suppose the bottom quintile and the top quintile could shack up from time to time. Just odd to think of that being someone's sole experience from which they extrapolate out to the entire human population. I mean, everyone has a type I suppose, but then again, if it's your type, you'd have to be aware of that fact, right? Which means there are lots of people out there outside your "type"?
WhiningCoil
5d ago
All this person is describing is remaining forever a child. It's actually kind of amazing. He blames that on being neurodivergent? I can't really assess whether that's a valid defense of his willful ignorance or not.
Even in his own post, he repeatedly points out all the places he recoiled from any exposure to base reality.
Men don’t compete against women, so a casual watching of a nearby TV during a conversation doesn’t give any observations. To notice a difference I would have to look for the reported numbers somewhere on the screen, write them down, and compare them across the events.
I mean, on the one hand, I can't recall the last time I actually watched the Olympics either. On the other hand, you are rarely comparing similar numbers here either. If it's some track event, all the men's times will be clustered, and then all the women's times will be clustered say, 30% slower. You aren't comparing decimal places here. Even casual observers should notice.
I opted out of gym as much as possible, it was humiliating and vulgar. The only post-puberty phys ed class I was forced to take was sex segregated so I wouldn't have had any opportunity to see differences. In earlier gym classes I didn’t look around much. Why would I? Are people comparing themselves to see how many jumping jacks they can do? I just wanted it to be done with.
I mean, did his school never do the Presidential fitness tests? He never noticed how different the standards were for even barely pubescent boys and girls?
Nothing about this entrenched ignorance seems accidental. Some seed was planted that caused him to recoil from any confounding evidence. And it's like after he got through childhood carefully selecting the reality he was exposed to so as to not challenge his pre existing views that were passed onto him, he just never gave it another thought ever again. Nor spent any time being physical with women, as even relatively sedentary man strength is often greater than female gym bunny strength.
WhiningCoil
5d ago
Not particularly? Or maybe properly informed parental consent is good enough? You see this a lot with football now, where the concussion risk is so high that parents won't let their kids play it anymore, and instead encourage other sports.
I'm of two minds about it. I'm a huge proponent of fitness, and I fucking loved the decade I spent in martial arts. The concussion I got from it was not so much fun. Nor the spots I still have in my vision, my torn ankle that aches at night if the sheets are tucked in, or the fact that I broke my right hand twice and the knuckles on my right hand line up different than the knuckles on my left now. But I suppose for a 10 year amateur career, that's not horrible, and those were the choices I made largely as an adult. Nobody rode my ass, I pushed myself exactly as hard as I wanted to, until I didn't anymore. And I wouldn't fault anyone for wanting their kids to do a sport, within the boundaries of safety and reason.
It seems somehow more sinister when coaches are pushing children beyond the limits of safety and reason, with health outcomes they would be in a unique position to be aware of, but which they ignore. And if there were programs or coaches that systematically abused children in that way, I would like to see them banned.
WhiningCoil
6d ago
I remember even 15 years ago, when all this seemed like a fever dream, the activist claims that "If a child decides they want to, they can just resume a normal puberty" seemed insane to me. My mind automatically went to all the wrestlers I knew in highschool who's growth was stunted from constantly having to make weight for 4 years. There was no catching up on that growth after they quit wrestling. The chip on their shoulder manlet former wrestler stereotype exist for a reason. They were tricked by their coaches into peaking at 15, and sacrificed the stature of an adult and the romantic successes that come with it.
I doubt your typical highschool female athletic encounters this, but I know with Olympic level female gymnast (and other sports) who've been lifers, they often struggle with fertility, though I think it's an open and debated question how much of that is permanent. There does seem to be some risk of permanence if the condition occurs at the wrong time or for a long duration.
So I mean, in the context of these pre-trans examples around how important healthy puberty is, and how you don't get a do-over, it was shocking to me that anyone believed the activist lie that it was "fully reversible".
WhiningCoil
6d ago
Interest travelogue. I went to China with my Kung Fu school about 10 years ago to visit the home school, along with a dozen other places with a tour guide. How's the insane levels of smog these days? When we visited, we could see no more than 3-4 city blocks in Beijing before the smog obscured everything, and even visiting the Great Wall, the mountains were quickly obscured in smog within a mile or two. I'm told it's better these days, but I can't tell if these are flagrant lies from the CCP.
One thing that has fascinated me about Chinese culture is trying to square Chinese Communist ideology with a culture that at every possible angle seems to celebrate success and laud becoming wealthy. I like these people. They strike me as spiritually more American than most of the people I've met in Europe. American rightists would find themselves more at home here than American leftists.
This also struck me when I visited. There was a "Greed is good" sort of shamelessness that was disorienting even for a "Rah Rah Capitalism!" sort of guy like myself.
Locals stare, and kids keep staring even after you stare back. Some of them have never seen a white person in the flesh. I'm not offended by this at all, just an interesting experience. No one is aggressive or rude, just curious. Almost no one here speaks any English unless they've retired from elsewhere.
When I went with my tour group, we had a black guy with us. Random people straight up wanted to take pictures with him, he was so rare. Outside of that, can confirm the staring. Especially when we ventured into the more rural parts on our Kung Fu pilgrimage. One funny thing was, we did get random groups of people out at night coming up to our group, wanting to practice their grade level english with us. We also had a few more worldly, though unable to speak a word of Chinese, people with us who helped us along purchasing things and navigating using the universal language of pointing, shouting, and holding up fingers.
I visited before the CCP fully devoured Hong Kong. Are they still doing separate Visa's for Hong Kong and mainland China? That was certainly an experience for me when I had to do it. Super hot day, one guy was throwing up in line all over my luggage. That sucked.
Super fascinating to read more of an insider view of the region and culture than what we got.
WhiningCoil
6d ago
It's very schizophrenic. A coworker of mine told me a story about a base he worked on. To finish a step in acquiring your clearance to work there, you had to log into a secure system. You could not log into the secure system because you hadn't completed all the steps in acquiring your clearance. Therefore, someone who was already cleared had to log into the system for you, so that you could finish all the steps to get your own clearance. This itself was a violation of the rules for both the person who logged you in, and yourself.
Nobody cared. Everyone knew the system was bullshit.
But it's hard to imagine having to break the rules to get inside the circle of trust a clearance represents doesn't input a certain fundamental disrespect for said circle of trust.
WhiningCoil
7d ago
I don't know if you remember being a kid, and had somebody fuck with you (steal your toy, punch you, cheat off you during a test) and then to add insult to injury they also successfully lied and got you in trouble for it?
That's all this is. It's virtually inconceivable these people don't know who's really committing the rapes and knife crime in the UK. This is just the victory lap of their conquest, presaging how'll they'll write the history of the genocide of the Anglo-Saxon's.
WhiningCoil
7d ago
So, one thing I keep wondering about, is does the US have a massive cultural divide with the UK over pornography, or is UK media completely unhinged and unrepresentative?
Like, in the US, it's currently a minor flashpoint that conservative state governments are requiring age verification for pornographic websites, and the websites are choosing to block access from those states instead of implementing age verification. Liberals seem to be low key against this? At least I've seen liberals like Krystal Ball act like Republicans are harming people's sexual health by "banning" pornography in her state of Virginia. It's not exactly a hill they'll die on, but they'll spend some breath on it from time to time. Like liberals seem to be pro pornography, or at least in some sort of weird hyperposition between being pro some abstract form of pornography that's good for sexual self discovery, and against some abstract for of pornography that degrades women.
I know... I know... just.... moving on.
So anyways, a lot of US left coded Narrative following shows seem to be very laissez-faire about pornography, especially with lots of "safe horny" scenes of diverse peoples and sexualities having sex on screen.
A lot of what I can only assume are left coded Narrative following shows produced or co-produced in the UK (Broadchurch, Inside Man, Black Mirror) have as their central conceit that pornography is the singular corrupting force behind evil patriarchy and violence against women. The consumption of pornography repeatedly leads to a chain of events where men rape and/or murder women.
Is this actually a view that the UK public holds? Or is it just more of the same top down forceful lies that gets pushed in the US media, totally out of touch with the people who watch it?
WhiningCoil
10d ago
I could have easily been swayed if I didn't have the luxury of a bigger budget that can't be better spent elsewhere.
Kids these days. There is always the S&P500 :P
Seriously though, enjoy your prestige build.
WhiningCoil
10d ago
How much future proofing you trying to do?
Only thing I'd recommend is make sure you have extra memory slots to expand to 64gb in the future. I noticed recently that Doom: The Dark Ages has 32gb as it's recommended amount of ram. So you know, the 32gb you are getting is enough. Probably be enough for the next few years. But I built my PC at the tail end of 2019 and I put 32gb in it then. It's starting to feel like it's getting to be about the time to future proof with at least the option of 64gb in the future.
Also, if you ever plan on abandoning windows for linux, maybe go with the AMD card? Drivers are supposed to be better, and this latest generation seems to have finally got it's shit together in terms of ray tracing performance. Still lacks a lot of features like ray reconstruction or frame generation, and DLSS is the superior upscaling technology. But I'm currently taking a 20-30% haircut on my FPS for raytraced games in Linux that use DX12. I'm under the impression AMD does not have this problem.
WhiningCoil
10d ago
I believe this is known as fed-posting.
Yeah, don't fed-post. It might feel good, but one day you may have to actually resort to violence. And you don't want to end up like the Charlottesville guy where a bunch of private, semi private, and anonymous online conversations were used against him while he was railroaded in court.
WhiningCoil
10d ago
The rule compliant way to express things in both cases is "dont hate the player, hate the game".
"The progressive ideology has ruined libraries for me. It seems to ruin everything it touches. I wish the ideology was dead and buried with other past terrible ideas."
Do you promise? Cause I can just quote that word for word when I short circuit in rage and disgust.
I truly, truly wish you could see from my perspective how hilarious all this is. I mean, I know now that you can't. But I wish you could.
This was not drive by derailing, I've actually had a hard time keeping up this week since I've been building my wife a new chicken coop, and reading Gibbon in the evening to unwind. I literally did just read the chapters about what a (apocryphal?) whore Belisarius' wife was, and thought it'd be a fun conversation starter since you are obviously a fan. I don't literally think you are a cuck.
Also, I mean, I guess it's uncouth to talk about this. But I've been getting all these notifications tonight that I can't see because I have Amadan blocked. I find his argumentation style tailored to try to get me to break the rules and then punish me. I had to check the thread in incognito mode to even see what the hubbub is about. So yeah, no love lost there.
For what it's worth, I'm sorry. I wasn't trying to literally imply your wife is a whore. It's like if someone said they were a huge fan of Bill Cosby and you asked "They show.... or the other stuff?" The joke is how obviously it's not the other stuff. Obviously Belisarius is notable in history for being the greatest general of his age, not the biggest cuck.
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