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The Right Wing argument is that he does not belong in Europe, no matter if he's a doctor or what he tweets, in a box or with a fox, not here or there, not anywhere in Europe.
SEcUreSignalS—coincidence? I think not. I'd read the shit out of an anti-Arab and African migration book written in this style.
Keith Woods is correct, and the Right Wing who pretends that mass migration from the third world is only a problem because of religious incompatibility do not form the ranks of the DR, and people like Woods have long made the argument that it's about race and not about religion.
I'm not familiar with Keith Woods, but my sense is that the part I bolded isn't true. Granted the dissident right (I presume that's the DR) is a nebulous coalition, but I think most of them are not HBD-pilled, or at least think the religion aspect is more important than the racial aspect. Change that from a descriptive "do not" to a prescriptive "should not" and I'd agree.
quiet_NaN
24m ago
The likeliest scenario imo seems to be a psychotic episode. Presumably, for hallucinations just as for dreams, the brain twists concepts it already has. (Often the specific symptoms of mental illness are what your culture expects them to be -- like if the mind still follows some script.) I think your world view will inform what hallucinations you are 'supposed' to have. A Christian who is convinced that the devil talks to people and entices them to evil deeds might be more likely to hallucinate the devil, while someone who presumably thinks that the great evil in the world is Islam might be more likely to have a vision of Allah ordering them to do some stereotypical terror attack.
My other scenario is slightly on the conspiracy side. Presumably, someone from a Muslim country who is loudly against Islam is an irritation to Jihadists, who might just decide to get hold of some of his loved ones (perhaps in the Arab world) and blackmail him into committing some atrocity. Of course, this has very much not been their playbook so far. Also, they would likely want to claim responsibility for the attack after the fact.
Sloot
30m ago
Do American tourists consume taxes on net, disproportionately commit sexual and violent crime, turn neighborhoods into no-go zones, and leave behind another generation of themselves to do largely the same? Or do they mostly just stimulate and support local economies with their relatively large disposable incomes and bounce?
Folamh3
38m ago
I'm not sure what's going on with the adults eating exclusively chicken nuggets and Mac & cheese, but it sounds like depression again? Or an eating disorder? It certainly doesn't sound enjoyable.
I work with a guy who's an extremely picky eater. Every day for lunch he eats a cheese toastie from the nearby garage. His wife cooks him chicken nuggets and chips for dinner every night. The team once went out for lunch at a nearby Thai restaurant, and he had a bowl of ice cream.
While it will not surprise to learn that he is rail thin (almost emaciated) and his teeth are in shockingly poor shape, he gives no outward impression of being depressed at least as far as I can see.
TitaniumButterfly
39m ago
There's no gameplay at all there. Figure out your army composition, mash it into the other army.
Well, again, you just elided a huge number of complicated and involved tasks and decisions under that sentence. I mean I could do this with any game, right? "Just do the correct things needed to win and then you win the game. Boring."
It's because military sucks ass as a game mechanic without the one unit per tile system.
Are you sure you're not just doing it wrong?
TequilaMockingbird
42m ago
The last hundred years of psychology, sociology and neurology have chipped away at the idea of human agency, attributing more and more of our decisions and outcomes to fact ors outside of our individual control.
While i agree with and endores the overall thrust of your post, i would like to break our this specific claim as i do not think this is true at all. I think that this is the "big lie" that the left tells itsself to avoid grappling with the manifest contradictions of thier ideology and continue looking down thier nose at al those "things conservatives have been saying for decades" (and in some cases centuries). In the meantime, the material truth is that the only thing that any individual will ever have complete control over is thier own decisions.
Templexious
50m ago
Been playing Mario Oddyssey. Took about two weeks between real life and and casually poking around. Oddyssey is the most entertaining Mario game in existence, and it perfectly strikes that balance between rewarding skill and being accessible.
spiky_fungus
57m ago
anyone working in software needs to either pivot to developing AIs themselves or else look for an exit strategy.
I will start panicking when I will see AI-generated code working correctly and requiring no changes. For three simple cases in row, that I needed to implement.
Right now AI is powerful tool but in no danger whatsoever to replace me.
Though yes, progress is scary here.
working in software
why this field would be at unusually high risk? Of all things it is field where minor mistakes and inconsistencies may take down entire system. And for now AIs are failing at being consistent at large projects.
NexusGlow
57m ago
Still, I think we'll notice a big difference when you can just throw money at any coding problem to solve it. Right now, it's not like this. You might say "hiring a programmer" is the equivalent, but hiring is difficult, you're limited in how many people can work on a program at once, maintenance and tech debt becomes an issue. But when everyone can hire the "world's 175th best programmer" at once? It's just money. Would you rather donate to Mozilla foundation or spend an equivalent to close out every bug on the Firefox tracker?
How much would AMD pay to have tooling equivalent to CUDA magically appear for them?
Again, I think if AGI really hits, we'll notice. I'm betting that this ain't it. Realistically, what's actually happening is that people are about to finally discover that solving leetcode problems has very little relation to what we actually pay programmers to do. Which is why I'm not too concerned about my job despite all the breathless warnings.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1hr ago
So if a tourist from the US does something similar next week should the EU ban all American tourists?
I live in a small town, and somehow found myself sharing a rented office with 2 Californians. Quite frankly my opinion on the matter is: why wait?
There's more of us entering Europe every year than the entire Arab population of the continent.
Are you sure this is making the argument you want to make, given that precisely zero of these attacks were committed by American tourists, despite such high traffic?
FiveHourMarathon
Listen to Pierre
1hr ago
This is a great post.
One of the problems adults seem to have is assuming that kids have no agency in their interpretation of their instructions from adults. One of the classic examples is the Participation Trophy, widely decried for making kids think they did something when they didn't. I grew up at peak participation trophy, I have a box of them somewhere or other. Little marble bases with little plastic baseball players on top, given to me for playing first base on a winless team when I was nine years old or so. Most critics think that the problem is that kids will think they achieved something that they didn't, and maybe some did, but all I got was a distaste for trophies in general. I had some trophies, they weren't interesting, why worry about them?
On the other hand, when I was 12, and my little league team went 18-0 and made it to regional playoffs, and one of the parents had little pullover windbreakers made for that team, I valued that jacket greatly. I still have it, somewhere. Achievement is an objective fact, strength is an objective fact, beauty is an objective fact. Attempts to hide the ball will simply create new instances of Euphemism Treadmills.
In the same way, I think a lot of what is getting criticized as childishness by Freddie is in reality a warped view of maturity inflicted on kids. Being quiet, being compliant, being unobtrusive, are all traits that are valued and rewarded in children. Then we find ourselves with adults who grew up that way and wonder what happened.
spiky_fungus
1hr ago
We perversely choose not to.
not sure how perverse it is
massively upgrading my laptop would cost me (after converting time to money) few days of work
rewriting my OS/text editor would take years of work
Enormous quantities of computational power squandered on what could be much lighter and faster programs.
I am not sure whether even total overall costs of badly written OS/apps would cost much more than rewrite costs.
16GB RAM for laptop costs about 5 hours of minimum wage work, and it is in a poor country.
And if it would be overall worth it - we again have standard issue coordination problem. And not even particularly evil one.
OK, I can make some program faster. How I will get people to pay me for this? People consistently (with rare exceptions) prefer buggy laggy programs that are cheaper or have more features.
BurdensomeCount
Apparently "BIPOC" is a racial slur now.
1hr ago
Yes, and they are able to drive within urban cities and for urban city driving have a lower accident rate per mile driven than humans who are also urban city driving.
No_one
1hr ago
Similar to Civ:
SMACx if you haven't played it, go play it. The graphics is a little rough but I think you can get used to it. The game itself is excellent, almost unsurpassed. Check if there aren't mods that fix AI, iirc there are some, the vanilla game has uneven AI that can be exploited. This mod is probably good.. Good writing & memorable leaders. Some quotes even made it into the real world iirc. Not the ones linked but I swear I saw certain phrases outside of the game context..
Endless Legend. It's kind of like Civ V/SmacX except it has quests and researching or even stealing a tech makes all further research more expensive. Units stack, are pretty customizable and battles are tactical but not that long. Factions are truly asymmetric, unlike in Civ with significant differences in playstyles due to different abilities. The only downside I know is that there's really no religion / cultural layer to the game. AI is good on normal difficulty, to lethal on higher difficulty settings due to cheating.
Less similar:
Age of Wonders 2 +(Shadow Magic DLC). Hard to describe it, it's like a mix between Heroes of Might & Magic and Civ. Supposedly a remake of the old Master of Magic games. Every player in the game controls a wizard, whose magic can affect the entire map. In addition to the classic 4x resources, there's mana. You don't have to control mana sources but it's massively beneficial, as it allows casting and maintaining enchantments of ..units, cities, or entire map regions. If you're a water-magic based swamp civ, you can turn your entire domain into a literal swamp, hindering everyone's movement but yours.. etc. In addition, there's 3 underground layers of the map and certain units can tunnel through soil (but not rock).
AoW 2 is notable for having a religious system that actually matters and it's not just a few % modifiers .. you have to take your God into consideration. IIRC you need to build a temple to do so, then it starts. So If you worship a War god, war & genocide gets you in his good graces. He will grant you war-related boons... it's not very deep but it wasn't all that deterministic and was a pretty nice touch. E.g. if a War God commands you to destroy a city, and you don't do so because your impious ass cares about diplomacy, well..
Master of Orion 2 -needs dosbox, only 640x480 is a classic 4x game. Pretty much like simpler Civ except tech are exclusive - in most research tiers you have to pick 1 of 3, so there are trade-offs to make and combat is godly because it's done using starships and these are designed using your known techs and then the fight itself is iirc initiative & turn based. Ship design is about twice as complex than Stellaris and the turn based combat is pretty fun. Even with it, it's nowhere near as time-intensive or tedious as Stellaris, even a huge map can be finished in ~12 hours.
Endless Space 2: the economic / research system is pretty similar to Endless Legend,but it's a space based game. The combat is a little disappointing bc you can't control it, only select tactic to be used. So it's like Stellaris. Very stylish game.. Also disappointing: the blurbs/concepts for various economy-related techs are seemingly very low effort and nonsensical on second look.
BahRamYou
1hr ago
I had another thought about this. Given the type of money you're talking about... screw renting a table. What if you just buy the whole damn club? One of my many many frustrations with clubs is that the staff often hog the attention of women for themselves. If you're the owner, I guess you can mog them all. Or tell them to encourage women to come talk to you. Then you can also have a private room without the loud music so you can actually talk. Of course, I have absolutely no experience with this, and I've never even heard of someone doing that, I just feel like that's a power move that could work if you throw enough money at it.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
1hr ago
Considering that people already thought LLMs could write code well (they cannot in fact write code well), I'm not holding my breath that they are right this time either. We'll see.
TIRM
1hr ago
let it loose in popular OSes and apps and optimize them so we're not spending multiple GB of memory running chat apps
To be fair humans could choose to do this. We perversely choose not to. Enormous quantities of computational power squandered on what could be much lighter and faster programs. Software latency not improving over time as every marginal improvement in hardware speed is counteracted by an equivalently slower software.
BahRamYou
1hr ago
Ok, but what makes it interesting? It used to be that people took photos to comemorate a real moment in time. That "grainy photo of some crappy sandwich" might be the sandwich you ate on your birthday, or you wedding, or your graduation, or whatever. Now, people have to get a catered sandwitch with a professional-looking photo to "remember" those occasions.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
1hr ago
Well, obviously I am speaking for myself. ;) But I strongly disagree with your statement there. I fully admit that moving a large army in the 1UPT system is tedious. But that's a small percentage of the time spent, and the rest gives you very engaging gameplay. Whereas the old army system never gave you engaging gameplay. It's a clear upgrade in my eyes.
Honestly, if one could mod Civ IV to have the unit mechanics of the newer games that would probably be the ideal Civ for me. The stacking army system just plain sucks and it's the only serious blemish on an otherwise great game.
Lazuli
2hr ago
Nicholas Hoult is in everything lately. He's one of the hardest working actors in Hollywood.
aardvark2
2hr ago
I'm afraid apps won't become lighter -- getting light is easy but there is little market incentive to, AGI programmer would rather create more dark patterns than
Rov_Scam
2hr ago
So if a tourist from the US does something similar next week should the EU ban all American tourists? There's more of us entering Europe every year than the entire Arab population of the continent.
Interesting, I wonder what's going on there? And whether social pressure would get him to eat more variety, or just cut him off socially? It seems like it might be a problem if they have kids, though now the schools offer free lunches even on breaks I guess.
My uncle once talked my father (baker at 5 star restaurant, foodie of the French and James Beard tradition) into eating more wasabi with his sushi than he preferred. He talked for several days about how much he regretted it, and how annoyed he was.
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