theincompetencetheorist
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theincompetencetheorist
6d ago
Wasn't the kickoff event of Gamergate to do with artsy SJW types capturing some sort of indie game award, though?
The rage was ignited by the coordinated attack of about bunch of articles(about 20 IIRC) showing up in various media outlets trying to "kill" the gamer identity, because a small bunch gamers of notices the SJW types getting coverage for their shit. Gamergate wouldn't exist and nobody would have noticed if it weren't for the "gamers are dead" articles. It just showed that activist had infested the gaming journalism space and people started noticing on how the infestation was present in regular media.
theincompetencetheorist
21d ago
Too bad the adults in the "room" whenever a disaster strikes on social media are drowned out by the tribal people. One tribe blames DEI and looking at mastodon yesterday the other tribe is putting the blame Trumps federal employee shake up. Fuck that, it is a tragedy most likely a tragic accident and the tribes takes to social media to score political points and if someone tries to say that this isn't the time get shouted down by immature idiots in both camps.
My take is that most of the people that are trying score points haven't grown up yet!
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” - Oscar Wilde.
No but the question here is that you are explicitly looking for an good faith argument for justifying Nuclear Energy even if it costs more, without specific political valence added to it. My argument is that we shouldn't sacrifice the environment to save the climate, even if nuclear costs more. You need almost a thousand average size windturbines to replace a single average nuclear power plant if you calculate it with the Capacity Factor. And then you start looking at the lifespan of the wind power vs nuclear power it isn't looking that nice either.
theincompetencetheorist
1mo ago
Given the financial cost of this type of energy source compared to other low emission energy sources, I am yet to find a defense of Nuclear as a feasible strategy for lowering CO2 emissions that comes across as based, good faith argument by someone with true concern about the issue, rather than an attempt at subverting the discussion around energy transition.
OK I'll bite. There is a huge difference in used land area used when compared between the same amount of power generated between wind power when compared with nuclear power. Because when you calculate in the Capacity Factor (and actually look further down on the actual combined capacity of wind compared with nuclear you see the difference is 3x). I'll give you the initial number 1000 MW of power from a nuclear power plant and the average size of wind power plant of 3 MW. How many turbines do you need to get the same amount of power when you have the Capacity Factor in the calculation? I'm not going to run the numbers for you! You need to calculate them yourself to understand the argument. You need educate yourself on how much forests are cut to avoid wind shear on the turbine blades, to have maintenance roads and so on. And how that deforestation affects the fauna around the turbines. There are cost calculations on the displacements of humans but seldomly I see a monetary value associated with the environmental costs of displacement of wildlife. I crunched the numbers and I think that the environmental costs of just the land use with what I know about wind power made me pro nuclear.
Their wildfires are worse than they should be because environment groups sue to stop brush management to reduce fire spread.
Even after they rediscovered a Chesterton's Fence with 'Good Fire'? As far as I understood indigenous people of California used to do controlled burns for Brush Management.
Privacy and Security is not the same thing. Just because there is opt-in feature that supposedly keeps your privacy with cryptography it is not that the same thing as securing information with cryptography from untrusted parties. I usually detest analogies around these things. But the lock for your bathroom door is for privacy and the lock on your front door is for security, the requirements for the lock designs are different. Kerchoffs's Principle still applies for any kind of key escrow in that your information security will be as secure as the security guarantee of the escrow provider.
Also directly from Apple Machine Learning Research page about the homomorphic encryption. Identifying the database shard relevant to the query could reveal sensitive information about the query itself, so we use differential privacy (DP) with OHTTP relay — operated by a third party — as an anonymization network which hides the device's source IP address before the request ever reaches the Apple server infrastructure. With DP, the client issues fake queries alongside its real ones, so the server cannot tell which are genuine. The queries are also routed through the anonymization network to ensure the server can’t link multiple requests to the same client. For running PNNS for Enhanced Visual Search, our system ensures strong privacy parameters for each user's photo library i.e. (ε, δ)-DP, with ε = 0.8 , δ = 10-6. . i.e. it requires a trusted third party not to leak information to apple about your IP as a sidechannel.
Further I would like to have independent cryptographic review of the homomorphic-encryption both of algorithm and implementation before even trusting it with my privacy. There are so many ways of creatively undermining cryptography algorithms and implementations for information leakage.
theincompetencetheorist
1mo ago
Well that doesn't help with disproving conspiracy, because it would be within the imagination of the conspiracy theorist that he was coerced to making the device and in a last act of heroism he intentionally built it less destructive. It is also a well known plot device in movies and TV-series ... eh.. so yeah, the western media is actually what feeds into the conspiracy theories.
theincompetencetheorist
1mo ago
An active duty special forces soldier that can't build a more destructive bomb? I'm not a fan of conspiracies but this doesn't smell right...
theincompetencetheorist
2mo ago
We are not in court. I'm just speculating that this would be a potential flashpoint for revolution with the reasoning that health insurance companies are extractive institutions and with historical example of the American Revolution that extractive institutions can be overthrown violently if they reach a breaking point of the "extracted". It is triggered by your "Let them eat cake!" moment! But for me the cost of being either right or wrong are extremely low, since I live in a country with a single payer health insurance.
theincompetencetheorist
2mo ago
Insurance companies sell a service to individuals that the day that the individual needs healthcare they will pay the healthcare provider for that healthcare. So usually this is person is working and pays for that service of eventuality needing healthcare out of their salary, because in most cases if you need healthcare the person can't pay that premium(I hear that it is what is called). Now if that insurance company delays or even denies payment for that healthcare it means that the person can't get back to work to continue paying the premiums. It is more profitable for the insurance company to extract the money for a service and have people literally dying so they don't pay anymore for the service that possibly would have helped them survive.
This event has the potential of becoming a trigger of revolution and if this is the potential "tea party" this is the equivalent of going like "Well the profit margins on running the British Empire are low so we should be paying more taxes on that tea!". You can cue up all the technical differences with that situation is different from colonial taxation but the bigger picture is that both of these situation is extremely extractive institutions for the benefit of an elite, it never lasts forever and has potential to violently be ended by the subjugated.
theincompetencetheorist
5mo ago
Where does the idea of "Late-stage Capitalism" come from? What are the other stages?
I don't know for certain since I don't have the time nor resources to verify, but I do believe the ideas are a continuation from Deleuzes Societies of Control. The general idea late-stage capitalism is that capitalism controls us through various means, and there is some truth to that because of corporations we can't have any discussion we want on Reddit for example. The problem is the parasitic ideas of neomarxism has tagged along with it.
theincompetencetheorist
6mo ago
I didn't write anything about creating values ex nihilo, the point was slave morality is the passive values that is foisted upon the masses and never questioned. This forum is a rejection of slave morality essentially because the purpose is to come here and discuss our values, not come up with new ones but make our values more well grounded and well though out.
Yes, thank you for the precision that my language lacked. But yes master morality and the transformation to superman requires being active, so they look masterly to the slaves because they are passive.
theincompetencetheorist
6mo ago
I would also like to use the same disclaimer here.
I’m an expert on Nietzsche (I’ve read some of his books), but not a world-leading expert (I didn’t understand them). So take all of this as a riff on the concept, rather than a guide to Nietzsche’s original intent.
In my interpretation of slave morality vs master morality is a matter of being passive with your values vs being active with your values. To become the superman you want to actively decide what is important for you and live accordingly despite norms and structures of society. In a way consumerism is a slave morality, you buy your values to show off for others. And in a way Andrew Tate talks Master morality but he is just a Slave when buying a car to show the trappings of success. That is why there is the example of the MAGA Republicans as having Slave morality, most of them have just passively adopted the opinions of their tribe. Then there there are the woke tribe doing the same, passive values virtue signaled with the subtlety of throwing a brick at your face. Slaves locked in eternal conflict as we know as the Culture War.
theincompetencetheorist
7mo ago
The American IT industry was hit hard by COVID. Businessmen, C-suite execs, saw their people remoting in from home and trying not to return to the office. These execs, many of them free riders, realized they could halve their costs by hiring remote MSPs from out of country for IT and relying on Crowdstrike to be their security bottom line. A flood of IT layoffs happened this past year, deflating IT wages and making entry level jobs scarce.
I do think that it is slightly more complicated than that. First off all the lay offs of 80% of Twitter showed everyone that you don't need that many people to run a website. It was predicted by multiple of people that if Twitter didn't stop working other big tech companies would follow. Then there is the whole deal with Section 174 also that has affected the bottom line. Tech isn't unaffected by higher interest rates, when money was cheap they could amass people to be ready for "initiatives". Well not anymore.
I can give you the point of the free riders. The worst thing about them is that they actively make our tech worse to promote some number go up on their OKRs. Google is making search worse so people stay longer trying to find what they came to google for and watch more ads. Windows search always hits Bing when you do a search locally on your computer, just that it increments a number so a free rider can get a bonus. Just to take examples of search.
theincompetencetheorist
8mo ago
So I've started to see Elon (and many other tech CEOs for that matter) as living LLMs most of them can guess the correct technobabble to look smart for people that don't have knowledge of the areas they talk about. There is no true understanding of the things that he has been speaking about lately and has managed to staff with people that have been able to correct him in the past, but now no one can contradict Elon anymore. He is surrounded by yes-men and has been successful too many times being contrarian that there is no one to save him anymore. You are essentially listing stuff that is straight from Elon and someone who truly knows something about cars, running a social media company or rockets are able to correct or massage the message down the hierarchy anymore.
theincompetencetheorist
9mo ago
The whole point I'm trying to make is that the given that it is very public protest against the Israeli-Palestinian situation and Israel getting the second place in the popular vote. So if that vote is political then calls on cracking pro-Palestine protests would have been bigger than it is now. People are sitting at home and basically "fuck your virtue signaling" to the protestors and voting Israel. I see that as an apolitical act. One of the reasons we have a culture war is that we allow people to make everything political.
theincompetencetheorist
9mo ago
That is the point. It wasn't the queer theme or the politics that matter it is if people enjoy the show or act, my comment is in response that the "usual suspects" are "organizing a ballot stuffing". Well the usual suspects should have also been stuffing with UK votes. Ukraine winning because they are being invaded is an exception.
theincompetencetheorist
9mo ago
Or the televotes result is a disorganized majority that is tired of the agenda that shove politics in their face by what is en vogue for the terminally online, they just come for the entertainment and music. Because if you look at the UK televote votes. They received 0 points for almost a gay live show. And Israel received more televote points than the LGBTQIA+ winner. So in my mind, people simply didn't give a fuck and voted for the act they liked the best.
theincompetencetheorist
10mo ago
Tech choices mostly impact the business on how easy it is to hire for it and how much the tech has a tendency to create messes. There are bunch of over engineered Java projects and PHP hacks out there that just messes with the businesses. Other than that, it doesn't really matter if you avoid that trap with sane choices. Mostly wanting to play with cool tech is an exercise in masturbation that started out with scratching an itch that last project caused. e.g. "The web UI was a kludge of JQuery, lets do it in a framework like React."
So mostly we are entertaining ourselves with the next cool tool unless it is something that is awful slow to get things done in for one reason or the other.
theincompetencetheorist
10mo ago
So you think that "food deserts" don't exist because you can walk an 30 minutes to yours? There doesn't exist places where people live where they have to drive an hour to get "real food" while passing various corporate fast food chains on the way?
theincompetencetheorist
10mo ago
Do you know what a sumo wrestler is?
or their food is still so much more pure.
I wonder how much HFCS you can find in their food that they get from 7-11s? The options for good food at 7-11s AFAIK better than anywhere else ( not that I've looked myself but know people who have lived in Japan and talked about the cultural difference).
theincompetencetheorist
10mo ago
If you look at the history of "fat pride" it essentially started as dating for guys that loved fat women. And the post-modernist got its claws into it and gave it the social construct treatment and here we are: "healthy at every size". But the greater point I tried to make that some of the obese people have less choice in becoming obese, because their options are limited with what food is available to them. Yes being obese is a disease but I'm just making the claim that it is in big part caused by ultra-processed food much like cirrhosis is caused by overconsumption of alcohol, but it is much more reversible with better food and more excercise.
In my view Gamergate is only a symptom and not the cause for anything. It didn't do anything with the political landscape although I agree that it just happened to malign a group people that happened to be used to it so they stood tall to the abuse, and gave the opportunity to spotlight it for the more general populace. But I'm convinced that could have happened in other ways because the core of the ideology these activist in media espouse is rotten. There are no blank slates and noble savages!
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