cheesecake_llama
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cheesecake_llama
6d ago
You haven’t articulated at all why exactly where somebody’s grandparents grew up or what language they spoke has any connection whatsoever to how “American” that person is. In which chromosome is it recorded whether or not somebody’s great great grandfather was American?
cheesecake_llama
2mo ago
Why not? Why pass up an opportunity to keep blue tribe under the heel of your boot? “My rules > your rules fairly > your rules unfairly…”?
cheesecake_llama
2mo ago
The accuser is a legendary player—one of Daniel’s childhood heroes. I can see how being villainized by someone you’ve spent your whole life trying to impress could lead someone into a downward spiral.
cheesecake_llama
2mo ago
I just tried the exact same query. Other than some predictable "this is bad m'kay" throat clearing, it had no problem serving me videos of Hitler.
cheesecake_llama
3mo ago
You argue that the relative lack of technology back then necessitated a higher degree of assimilation, but it’s not evident why this wouldn’t actually have the opposite effect. It could very well incentivize immigrant groups to form even stronger enclaves.
For instance, if I were to visit China, but you took away machine translation and the ability to easily contact my family, one of the first things I’d do for security and comfort would be to find a reliable expat community. While technology does allow people to hold onto their roots, it also enables them to branch out.
cheesecake_llama
4mo ago
What conspiracies are you talking about?
cheesecake_llama
6mo ago
The problem is that the original comment wasn’t even an argument.
There is a fundamental tension with this moderation stance: while “Black people are a violent invasive species” may be ban-able, it’s at least an idea that can be challenged and dissected. However, “I hate black people” cannot, especially if it’s expressed without any surrounding context to challenge.
What is someone supposed to even say to that? There is no idea to respond to, only a person, but we are not allowed to make personal attacks. It’s frustrating to hear the only response to @shoeonfoot — “just debate the hot takes” — completely miss the point.
cheesecake_llama
7mo ago
This is much less of a problem now that basically everything is posted on the arXiv.
cheesecake_llama
8mo ago
It’s also possible, and I’d argue likely, that both are correct. Partisans from every corner regularly discard inconvenient facts.
cheesecake_llama
8mo ago
This is wildly uncharitable.
cheesecake_llama
9mo ago
Are you one of the three genuinely principled civil libertarians who is also routinely incensed at, e.g., Democrat governors blatantly ignoring court orders regarding the 2nd Amendment?
I certainly am. I feel politically homeless because neither party seems particularly interested in protecting civil liberties they find inconvenient. Meanwhile, the libertarian party is run by pants-on-head crazy people. The whole situation makes one want to scream into the void.
cheesecake_llama
9mo ago
Count me as a third. That many of our interlocutors are having trouble conceiving of this as a good-faith position is itself revealing of something about which I probably shouldn’t speculate.
cheesecake_llama
9mo ago
The hairdresser case is probably just as bad tbh, at least from an optics perspective.
cheesecake_llama
9mo ago
Thanks for that, I really appreciate it. I’ve been grinding leetcode and feel very confident, if only I could manage to get my foot in the door. I’ve just haven’t had any luck getting interviews in the first place. I’ll try spamming more recruiters, but as for networking, I don’t think I know anyone working in FAANG at the moment.
cheesecake_llama
9mo ago
This isn’t particularly related to your post, but I’m curious about what it takes to get past that initial screen to be considered at FAANG.
Long story short: I have a PhD in (pure) math and am finishing up a postdoc, but I’m just done with academia for a number of reasons and wanting to transition to industry. Other than a brief 1 year stint at a small company before starting grad school, almost all my coding experience is in an academic context.
I’m fairly confident I would demolish most Leetcode-style DSA interview questions and can learn new skills pretty fast, but it’s hard to get my foot in the door because I don’t have any shipped products or industry connections. I’d really appreciate any guidance or advice!
cheesecake_llama
9mo ago
I don’t think we’re going to find any common ground, but I apologize for calling you a sycophant. That was uncalled for.
cheesecake_llama
9mo ago
The only dispute was where he was removed to.
That’s a pretty nontrivial dispute in this case!
cheesecake_llama
9mo ago
As to the “cross-border invasion,” I don’t think we’re going to find any common ground, because this sounds to me more like a fever dream than any description of reality. I live in a border state and haven’t any kind of “invasion” like you’re describing.
As to your other examples of excesses on the left, I couldn’t agree more! I hate that shit too! I’m in academia and argue with my colleagues about it all the time. But I don’t understand the point you’re making. We can open up the file cabinet and pull out all the worst examples of political violence and extremism over the years, but those are in a separate category from the excesses and extremism coming from the President of the United States.
cheesecake_llama
9mo ago
The inappropriate part was sending him to indefinite detention in a torture-prison that we are paying for and then, after admitting that it was an error, winking at the camera, chuckling “aww shucks sorry about that but there’s just nothing we can do… By the way, wouldn’t it be great if we could send citizens here too?”
Why do you have to lie about what the objection here is? Don’t let your animus overcome your faculties.
cheesecake_llama
9mo ago
I criticized the “Handmaiden’s Tale” chicken little-ing on “my team” for years, because unlike the MAGA cult, I don’t feel any compulsion to twist myself into defending whatever insane bullshit “my team” decides to push any given week.
Nobody is crying about an alien simply being improperly deported, don’t be disingenuous. Administrative errors happen, I get it. The problem is that he was sent indefinitely to a torture-prison without due process, while the the government is arguing at the same time that 1: they want to send citizens to the same place, and 2: if they fuck up, there is literally no remedy.
I’d just like you to imagine if Biden or Obama were advocating this sort of thing. The people on this website would be calling for armed rebellion.
cheesecake_llama
9mo ago
I don’t think you or any of his other sycophants have any place to call out “hysterical catastrophizing” after painstakingly justifying every abhorrent thing this man does. When the catastrophe actually happens, you’ll be here, typing away about how good and necessary it is.
cheesecake_llama
9mo ago
If the man didn’t have a legitimate asylum claim before, he sure as shit has one now.
cheesecake_llama
9mo ago
Do you have a source for this? Both Grok and Perplexity say this claim is false.
cheesecake_llama
9mo ago
Perhaps the previous administration should have thought of that before they threw all those J6 convicts in jail
It was juries and Article III judges who threw the J6 convicts in jail. They got their due process.
(Not OP, but I agree with their position)
Yeah, that’s obviously true? I wouldn’t call credit lenders “benevolent”, but yes, access to credit reveals a lot about how some people value deferring great cost for short-term benefit.
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