erwgv3g34
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erwgv3g34
16d ago
erwgv3g34
17d ago
Ramona's danger hair definitely classifies her as casual sex material rather than wife material; she is not the kind of girl you bring home to mom.
erwgv3g34
25d ago
Truly a thinking man's fetish.
I can't tell if you're calling George's words or Tolkien's "cope", but if it's the latter then I think you're mistaken. Tolkien was Catholic, and his setting reflected his beliefs. Death is absolutely a good thing in that framework, because you get to be with God, and that is such a profound joy that all else pales in comparison (even being in an 18-year-old body until the heat death of the universe).
Only because Christians rarely bother to spell out what day-to-day existence in heaven actually means. When they do, it ranges from the boring (eternal rest and praising God) to the pedestrian ("Heaven is a city 15,000 miles square...") to the horrifying (profound joy at being in the glorious presence of God is just religiously flavored wireheading).
Transhumanists sometimes write about what heaven on Earth might look like (Star Trek, The Culture, Friendship is Optimal, etc.) and if we fall short, I don't see the Christians doing any better.
One thing I've noticed in spending time with old people (proper old, not @George_E_Hale lol) is that they are often quite ready to lay down their cares and rest. And the young never quite understand it because they just haven't been through enough of life to get to the point where death seems like a welcome end to things (with some exceptions, like very depressed people). But it's a very real thing, and to be honest I can understand it a lot more now at (almost) 40 than I could at 25.
Well, I'm 35, and I still don't see it; my reasons for being weary of life are all fixable. I'm tired of getting old, but that can be fixed by being eternally 18. I'm tired of watching my friends and family die, but that can be fixed by making them all eternally 18. I'm tired working a job I hate, but that can be fixed by making AIs do all the jobs. I'm tired of having lost the love of my life, but that can be fixed by forking her and modifying the copy just enough that she will want to be with me until the last star grows cold and the universe comes to an end.
You know, simple solutions to simple problems.
SOMA is one of those Muggle Plots that immediately gets solved once you accept the pattern theory of identity.
Literally just put the original in dreamless sleep before making the copy (
Before the process, there was one of you in the old body. After the process, there is one of you in the new substrate, which is what we wanted. No one had to experience
EDIT: Original post defining the term.
The human condition is its frailty and finitude. The Gift of Men, as Tolkien wrote.
"Aging and death are good, actually" is the biggest fucking cope I have seen in my life.
I'm not as much of a transhumanist as some of the other rationalists, but I really don't think wanting to live until the heat death of the universe in an 18-year-old body is too much to ask.
erwgv3g34
27d ago
And they came to regret it. As did the indians.
Sometimes, dying with dignity really is the best option.
erwgv3g34
28d ago
lol, I used to do that on the subreddit. I don't do it here because the mods can see who reported what.
They aren't being prosecuted; they are simply being told that their jobs manufacturing Hugo Boss uniforms and swastika flags for the government are done, and that they will have to find some other form of employment in the private sector. That seems like a reasonable consequence and a proportional punishment.
From "The Rules of Engagement are the problem" by John T. Reed:
Blackhawk Down
In Somalia, bad guys who had the U.S. Army Rangers pinned down in the Blackhawk Down incident would hold a woman or child against their chest as they crossed the street to prevent the squeamish Americans from firing at them. The Somalis would blast away at the American with their guns as they thus crossed the street. Apparently, it worked. I would have told my men to shoot the SOBs through the civilians.
Would that cause the civilians to have a bad day? Sure. But it would be a great thing for the remaining civilians because the fighters would immediately stop using that tactic as soon as the Americans started killing the fighters by shooting them through the human shields.
Like ransom
It’s like ransom. Paying ransom is generally illegal because it encourages continuation of the kidnapping business. If the various governments would enforce their laws against paying ransom to the extent that ransoms stopped being paid at all, the kidnapping business would cease to exist for lack of incentive. Everyone who pays a ransom to get their loved one back is culpable for subsequent kidnappings of other people’s loved ones.
Paying ransom is a classic case of beggar thy neighbor--that is, a policy that benefits the person engaging in it, but which only can do so at the expense of other similarly-situated people. It is a classic example of taking care of number one and to hell with everyone else.
The U.S. and allied soldiers who refrain from shooting where civilian human shields are benefiting themselves by enabling themselves to claim they are great humanitarians who held their fire. But they do that at the expense of the rest of the American and allied military who will be in continued danger from the bad guys in question. Indeed, the bullet that kills the humanitarian soldier who held his fire, or his best friend, may be fired by the bad guy he let escape with his decision not to shoot where he knew or suspected bad guys were--because of the presence of civilians.
Similarly, refraining from shooting at an enemy soldier because he uses innocent (or maybe not) civilians as shields rewards and thereby encourages the use of human shields. It is immoral to encourage the use of innocent civilians as shields. Furthermore, refusing to refrain from shooting at those who use civilians as shields will immediately end the practice which will lead to fewer civilian and military casualties on all sides and an earlier victory in the war. Paradoxical thought it may seem, ignoring the possibility of civilian casualties by shooting at the enemy regardless of the presence of civilians will save civilian lives in the long run.
The right has plenty of intellectuals; they have simply been systematically excluded from academia, so they publish their work in blogs instead of journals and get funded by subscriptions instead of taxes.
erwgv3g34
29d ago
Threadreader link for those without Twitter.
erwgv3g34
1mo ago
None of the people I know who got their green cards this way actually moved in together, except the one marriage that was real. They all just pretended to.
I once heard the process summed up as "find a gringo who is willing to participate, take a dozen photographs together, and practice the right answers for the interview". It's a little more complicated than that (e.g. the woman is expected to change her last name), but not much. That's why you pay an immigration lawyer; he knows what the immigration officials want to see and will teach you how to fake it. Honeymoon photos can be as simple as taking a trip to Disneyland together for one weekend.
I really think you are forming an inaccurate picture of how thoroughly the government investigates these marriages based on the documents you are reading online. Having seen the process with my own eyes, I can tell you it's not like that.
erwgv3g34
1mo ago
I know multiple people who got their green cards through a fake marriage, and they each paid $10,000. I was offered that much to do it myself, but I turned it down because I wanted to keep the option of marrying a mail-order-bride for real. Now, granted, that was before inflation, but even now I don't think it would be more than $20,000-$30,000, plus a few thousand more for the lawyer and fees. Definitely cheaper one million dollars, let alone five.
erwgv3g34
1mo ago
(Except the part about sexual histories. Having to accept that you probably won't be marrying a virgin - yeah, that part is true. Live with it or take the shahada, I guess.)
I have seriously considered doing this, but the fact that Islam is polygamous plus the fact that I would be starting out as a random outsider with no social capital to speak of gives me pause. I would probably just end up as one of those surplus males that are forced to fuck dancing boys for lack of women, which is not what I want.
Rather, I want white sharia.
erwgv3g34
1mo ago
There is no source I can cite for something like this; all I can do is report what I see with my own eyes.
Except that men's form of promiscuity is different from women's form of promiscuity.
The male form of promiscuity is the harem, where a man has sex with multiple girls at the same time and they don't have sex with anyone else. Even trying to propose this to your girlfriend would get you derided as having a One Penis Policy.
More likely, a man would have to cheat on his girlfriend to practice promiscuity, something which is universally condemned for it's dishonesty. By contrast, a woman can be completely honest about her dealings and still end up promiscuous by simply having those feelings change, and have society back her up. A man can't.
Women now have more sexual partners over the course of a lifetime than they did a hundred years ago; men have bifurcated into incels who have zero sexual partners and Chads who have tons of sexual partners. Focusing on the Chads is classic apex fallacy.
erwgv3g34
1mo ago
No, it doesn't. Society thinks of relationships like jobs; it is perfectly acceptable to hop around looking for a better deal as long as you give two weeks notice before you actually start. Even marriages work like this now, though the divorce might take a little longer than two weeks.
Doesn't matter how long you were with your old partner and how much you promised to love them forever, you can just wake up one morning and say "I just don't feel that way anymore" and as long as you wait a whole week out of respect for the heartbroken it is totally kosher to start a sexual relationship with someone else.
It is now totally normal for a girl to have a high school boyfriend who she breaks up with when she goes to college, a college boyfriend or two who she breaks up with when she graduates and relocates for work, and another boyfriend or three before she is ready to settle down in her late twenties to early thirties. Toss in a handful of hookups and you are expected to be OK with a woman having half a dozen sexual partners before you marry her.
I hate it.
erwgv3g34
1mo ago
I'm going to dissent here and say sell it all.
Yes, it would be great to just build upwards and create skyscrapers and parking garages and multiply the number of lanes on every highway, but we are not going to do that. If the only thing we are allowed to build are suburbs, then we need more land.
And yes, some of that land is very pretty, but I don't ever get to visit any of it, because I have to work and only get 2 weeks of vacation per year. America's wild beauty only exists on paper to me. Going on hikes through the Appalachian trail or whatever is only for rich professionals. I'd rather have lower rent.
erwgv3g34
1mo ago
From Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, Chapter 78:
Later, looking backward, Harry would think of how, in his SF and fantasy novels, people always made their big, important choices for big, important reasons. Hari Seldon had created his Foundation to rebuild the ashes of the Galactic Empire, not because he would look more important if he could be in charge of his own research group. Raistlin Majere had severed ties with his brother because he wanted to become a god, not because he was incompetent at personal relationships and unwilling to ask for advice on how to do better. Frodo Baggins had taken the Ring because he was a hero who wanted to save Middle-Earth, not because it would've been too awkward not to. If anyone ever wrote a true history of the world - not that anyone ever could or would - probably 97% of all the key moments of Fate would turn out to be constructed of lies and tissue paper and trivial little thoughts that somebody could've just as easily thought differently.
erwgv3g34
1mo ago
Copyright law also means that entire videogame libraries vanish into the aether every five years when a new generation of consoles comes out.
And the move from physical media to streaming has been brutal for the classics; Netflix barely has any movies from before 1970.
Makes it hard to "engage with enduring cultural artifacts that are 30+ years old".
I've seen Zoe Quinn analogized to Franz Ferdinand.
World War I was always going to happen, because the entangling web of alliances was predisposed to make all the great powers go to war with each other; the assassination of the archduke was simply the spark that lit the waiting powder keg.
Likewise, gaming journalism had already been taken over by SJWs who hated games and hated gamers; some slut fucking five gaming journalists in exchange for giving her shitty game good reviews was simply the point where it went public.
erwgv3g34
1mo ago
Playing videogames is a coup-complete problem.
It is truly ridiculous how Hollywood has managed to meme 18 into the one true age of consent around the world despite it being lower in 39 states and most countries you could mention (Japan: 16, Russia: 16, Canada: 16, UK: 16, Spain: 15, France: 15, Germany: 14) just because that's what it happens to be in California.
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