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due to lack of interest the human race has been cancelled
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due to lack of interest the human race has been cancelled
3d ago
I think if wokeness will get a second wind it will look quite different, see Tea Party and MAGA. If I had to take a swipe at how it might be different I could see there being a luddite/anti-tech angle. I think you can already see some seeds with phrases like 'tech bro'. Plus it's fertile ground for anyone with grievances or misgivings about the negative cultural impacts of social media, as well as the economic impacts of increasing automation.
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due to lack of interest the human race has been cancelled
3d ago
No, no. It's perfect.
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due to lack of interest the human race has been cancelled
4d ago
In 1921 Wittgenstein wrote a nearly incomprehensible book that, if i understood it correctly, puts forth the idea that trying to find definitive answers to questions like 'what is truth?' and 'what is justice?' is stupid. We might come up with a definition that we find personally amenable, but in creating this definition we have not made a discovery about the world itself. In rat-speak Wittgenstein might have said that trying to find answers to big mysterious questions is trying to map an unseen territory. My personal answer to the big questions is that the questions are stupid.
Despite this Wittgenstein did believe in God, and passionately, but rejected intellectual proofs. Whether that's enough really depends on what it is precisely that you're grappling with. Do you want assurances of immortality? Comfort in mortality? Belief that what you do matters?
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due to lack of interest the human race has been cancelled
5d ago
Damn that's amazing, I've been really frustrated with the limits subscribers have on Sonnet.
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6d ago
From what I've gathered with D4 there wasn't much for the community to judge, just some short gameplay clips without commentary and ladder positions. I assume if he had done longer streams and tried provide commentary on D4 he would betray a similar lack of understanding.
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7d ago
D4 is just as much as a time sink as PoE so it's a reasonable assumption not all his progression on his D4 character is his own. I'm not a D4 player so I don't understand the specifics of the record. What i've gleaned from the community is if he did get the record illegitimately he didn't leave a smoking gun. Judging from the gameplay it's very item and character dependent, some familiarity with the game is required but it's nowhere near the level of skill typically associated with speedrunning.
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7d ago
His characters in both games are very advanced, meaning he needed to play a lot to get to that point. Anyone that plays that much knows how to play the game very well. Because Elon doesn't play the game well it is a safe bet that he didn't advance his characters but instead he paid someone to advance them for him.
A little while ago someone posted asking if it was credible that Musk had achieved a world record in Diablo 4.
In a follow up to that, recently Musk has been streaming another ARPG, Path of Exile 2. For those not in the know PoE is what the true rarified ARPG gamers play. It's the Salty Spitoon. Diablo is Weenie Hut Jrs. Much like in D4, Elon's PoE2 character is absolutely decked out, the work of hundreds of hours. But not his. He also zero grasp of the game. He doesn't understand itemisation, he fumbles with interfaces, doesn't know how to play the build properly. I would bet against him having even having completed the campaign once. I have little doubt that his total misunderstanding of the significance of an item's character level requirement will be a meme in the community for years to come.
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11d ago
If you made this comment in 2016 you'd be asking why he hasn't tried to take Kyiv yet.
Regardless of that Russia is not in a good position even if it desired to do so. Russia failed it's security commitments to Armenia in 2022 and Syria in 2024 in all likelihood due to funneling the vast majority of its military resources into Ukraine, starting a second invasion would severely diminish its ability to prosecute the war effectively in Ukraine. Even if fighting in Ukraine ceased tomorrow Russia would still want to let its economy cool, and rest and rearm before attempting even a fairly modest invasion.
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11d ago
The US/Britain forced Ukraine to consistently talk the most hawkish stance and reject negotiation with the promise that the US/UK would have their backs.
Negotiations went nowhere because Russia's terms would leave Ukraine as good as defenceless. I wouldn't characterise this as hawkish any more than I would characterise someone that strikes back in self-defence a violent person.
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13d ago
I really enjoyed all the planets except Aquilo, I didn't mind the slightly different manner than bases need to be constructed in due to heating requirements but the way that expanding out your heating network too fast could cause a shutdown was a source of frustration. I also wasn't the biggest fan of platform design and interplanetary logistics.
But I do empathise. Because despite Space Age stealing my soul for a couple of weeks I can't imagine myself replaying it any time soon. With biters off vanilla is practically therapeutic. Needing to be attentive to possible jams or freezes on multiple planets and paying a high cost for fucking up makes playing Space Age feel like juggling flaming swords.
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20d ago
I haven't played 2 since release and I still spontaneously recall the I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down rant.
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21d ago
How exactly?
I specifically meant initiation/manhood rituals might be disjoint from the betrothal process. I do agree that men will also screen suitors, but it is the women around the bride to be that initially select suitors, aiming to weed out the lechs, cheats, gamblers, liars, creeps etc. AWDTSG groups are analogous to this latter process in that the daters are seeking judgement from other women.
Or something else?
I believe men are much less likely to want to subject themselves to the possible public humiliation of dating a known tramp.
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21d ago
in reality, generalized and simplified expressions of women's overall frustration and latent anger directed at the loss of manhood initiation rituals that characterizes modern post-patriarchal atomized societies; namely, the current social reality is that adolescent boys and young single men are no longer vetted by fathers, elders, brothers, uncles and other pre-vetted eligible men before they are, in effect, released into their wider social circle from the family environment
I'm no anthropologist but my gut sense is that manhood initiation rituals are much more significant to a man's place within the male social order and the vetting of prospector suits for a maiden was primarily women's work. In more patriarchal societies the former might be downstream of the latter, but they might also be completely disjoint.
I’m rather certain we’ll never see a “Are we dating the same girl” online men’s group anywhere.
I expect this is because in public male social contexts men bear the brunt of the social cost, probably more so in the west. Look no further at the semantic creep of cuckoldry and the degree of blame that gets heaped on men when their girl is faithless.
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2mo ago
I finally finished The Night Land. Hodgson's imagination is certainly prodigious and it's easy to see why his ideas have been so influential, but The Night Land has very little to offer a casual reader. The patience is takes far outweighs the payoff. Doubtless I wouldn't have finished it if I wasn't determined to explore the full breadth of the dying earth genre. More than any other book I have read is it deserving of an abridged version. Such a version wouldn't abridge so much as it would jettison chapters whole, and the book would be better for it.
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2mo ago
Putin ready to end Ukraine war
This implies that Putin's terms for ending the conflict/war goals have changed since Trump became president elect. In June this year Putin stated terms were Ukrainian recognition of Russia's annexation of the four oblasts and abandoning any plan of joining NATO and that still seems to be the case.
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2mo ago
I'm almost done with it and all in all I've been very pleased with it. There are several design choices Earendel made for SE that I much prefer over SA though, mostly related to ships and platforms.
Reaching the derelict platform in SE is both a really cool moment. But it also serves as a good introduction to working in space as you can very quickly see which buildings you might want to rocket up. Its also provides a very tactile and satisfying experience of scavenging for new toys. In SA you launch your first platform and you get a popup about building out your platform. It's not particularly well explained, noob traps abound and unless you had the foresight to build a lot of rocket silos you will be waiting awhile before you even start building out your platform simply due to the time it takes to launch stuff into space.
SE's focus on doing research on your space platform also makes SE feel very distinct from the vanilla experience of working on terra firma, and it acts as a focal point to your interplanetary activities. You go planetside, you build a base, you rocket your new widgets back to your platform to do more science. SA has you shipping all your science back to Nauvis, it's the vanilla experience but more so.
All that said most of what I haven't mentioned is lightyears aside of SE. SE's planetary outposts felt like setting up mining outposts with 10-20x the busywork. Each planet in SA provides fresh and unique challenges that require novel approaches to factory design, especially Gleba. Interplanetary logistics mostly just works compared to the SE's which despite my best efforts I never managed to master.
I'm pretty iffy about quality, it's too good not to use, but simply unlocking introduces UI frustrations, never mind actually trying to design and deploy it at scale.
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2mo ago
a salary of US$2,000 for North Korean soldiers
I have seen claims that the norks doing the actual fighting will see a fraction of that while Kim takes the lion's share, but even a fraction of that will go a long way in NK.
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2mo ago
11 years ago in NZ a man named Gareth Morgan seriously proposed eradicating/phasing out domestic cats for conservation reasons and it was enough to make him a household name. So much so that when he tried to launch his own political party three years later 'the cat thing' hung around the party's neck like an albatross. It wasn't even party policy, the meme was just too strong.
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due to lack of interest the human race has been cancelled
2mo ago
I having been chewing my way through William Hope Hodgson's The Night Land. It is incredibly repetitive and an excellent soporific. Given to a vicious editor I expect 2/3rds of it would end up on the cutting room floor, and be better for it. Whilst incredibly boring it is refreshing to read something so sincere and unselfconscious.
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3mo ago
I was pretty deep into image generation at one point and got the following wrong
Fancy Car, pretty obvious in hindsight but when I was looking at it I convinced myself that the headlights and wing mirror had some weird distortions. Rainbow Girl, the way the artist chose to render the hair on the right side of the image is frankly bizarre and I thought the ear was a bit odd. Giant Ship, decided it was AI at a glance based on the subject matter and rendering style. Very obviously CG/photobash if you know that frontier models still struggle with ship rigging and other similar linear patterns. Still Life, didn't notice any obvious tells Paris Scene, thought I recognised this. Even knowing it's AI there aren't many things I can point to as obvious tells. Pretty Lake Colourful Town, wrote this off as AI because I couldn't make sense of the composition
Many correct guesses were with very low confidence. Stylised landscapes and certain outdoor scenes may as well be a coinflip.
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due to lack of interest the human race has been cancelled
3mo ago
I remember reading an extract about a Soviet anthropological study, possibly in a rat-adjacent blog post. The researchers interviewed poorly educated rurals who when confronted with a hypothetical/counterfactual couldn't seem to understand it and rejected the premise. Can anyone recall these extracts and where they're from?
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due to lack of interest the human race has been cancelled
4mo ago
This is a weird one but: cosmetic microtransactions in videogames.
I started really getting into video games at a point where these were still somewhat novel, and thought that despite some obvious fumbles like horse armour I thought they were the future. They provided the means for developers to sustain continued development without the requirement for subscriptions, expansions or pay-to-win benefits. And these benefits have been realised, MTX have proven to be an incredibly strong revenue stream. They are also consistently damaging to the games that use them. They bloat install sizes. They're often a source of framerate or other optimisation issues. And worst of all they inevitably descend into garish absurdity as developers try to tempt more purchases with offerings ever more outlandish and extravagant. There is nothing I have come to hate more seeing developers craft a rich and immersive world and proceed to desecrate it for money.
These days I'm team subscription.
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due to lack of interest the human race has been cancelled
4mo ago
How do you become a better writer ?
Humourously I often ask myself the same question for precisely the opposite reason. I am concise to the point of cutting vital details, I find it extremely challenging to write at length. I'm two sentences deep into a comment and already getting writer's block. It's awful.
It does seem contradictory and self-defeating, but so does much of the progressive orthodoxy. Regardless what I am positing is anti-tech rhetoric and maybe something performative like restricting phone use to strictly utilitarian ends, not full blown ludditism.
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