ArjinFerman
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ArjinFerman
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14hr ago
discussion with him and Alex of a then ongoing psy-op to convince people that the "ok sign" was a white-nationalist dog whistle. The two of them thought it was hilarious that they had helped get some truck-driver fired over it.
The whole story is very odd, but this stood out. How did they contribute to it exactly? Was there a 4chan campaign to email the guy's employer that I haven't heard about? Because if not I find it bizarre they'd even see themselves as contributing to the guy's firing.
Scott Alexander was wrong. The natural end state of liberal discourse is not "seven zillion Witches and three Principled Libertarians" it is "seven zillion Witches and zero Principled Libertarians" because all the libertarians have been shouted down, driven off, or banned, for refusing to compromise on one point or another.
You're both wrong. There is no natural state of liberal discourse, and liberalism's obsession with pretending that it's merely riding natural tides rather then shaping them, is exactly why it's taking such a beating of late.
ArjinFerman
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23hr ago
If the dude that got knocked for cracking his knuckles while driving a van somehow managed to become known, discriminated upon HVAC technicians should manage to bubble up as well. "It's totally happening in a completely symmetrical way, it's just that one side's cancellations are somehow cmpletely invisible" is not very compelling.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
That's a pretty common view where I'm from, but I thought Americans see it different. In any case this sort of "taking matters into your own hands" / bottom-up self organization for the benefit of your community, is somethingbI always admired about Americans. Would be sad if youblet thatvpart of your culture go.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
Can we please stop the endless repetition of "it's just a couple of crazy kids on the internet" meme? What would have to happen at this point for you to admit you're wrong?
Protesting is well within their rights, and arguably their obligations as citizens, so I would buy it from them to that extent.
I don't think that argument justifies rioting, looting, and chasing down a guy running towards the police. This I wouldn't buy from them, but I'm not seeing the similarity to Rittenhouse.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
Or alternatively, how many of them really believe their talking points are so obvious to reasonable people that they just can't be disagreed with if explicitly stated.
How is that an alternative?
HVAC techs will do the same thing in the opposite direction.
Please, shower me with stories of people getting fired from their dream HVAC technician job for being insufficiently chud. Note: quitting because you don't like the chuds or they don't like you, doesn't count.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
wasn't exactly anti-Motte
Eh... the name he picked has implications. Also, even when he was posting here, he was trying to scoop people away towards his hangouts. I've also see an exchange between him and gattsuru, where he used gattsuru's tolerance of the Motte as a mark against his character.
Zero personal connection.
His father lives there, and he works there, IIRC.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
Back when I was young and innocent I'd ask "...w ...why can't you deport them for being terrorists?", but after the seven zillionth undeported child rapist in Europe, I might need to sit this one out.
Honor culture means that when someone insults your honor, for example by calling you a "retarded faggot", you are compelled to retaliate in order to restore your honor. If you're quick on your feet and have sharp wits, insulting the other party even more might suffice, if not your fists may need to get involved. This is contrasted with "dignity culture" where you would show yourself to be the bigger man by letting the insults slide off you.
Even if members of honor culture did find it insulting for you to point out their statement to the cops (and honestly I think most of them would just YesChad it), all that means is that they'd kick the shit out of you for pointing it out, not that they wouldn't do it.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
"Honor culture" doesn't mean you can't lie to the authorities to get a shorter sentence, what are you talking about?
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
I appreciate the sentiment behind the idea, but this sounds about as brilliant as the American embassy asking "are you a terrorist" on a visa application.
When a left-leaning person at work brings up Kyle Rittenhouse, they're not looking for philosophical debate on the merits of self defense. They're not looking for a proper legal assessment to uncover whether he was acting in accordance with the law. They're mad that those people got a murderer off the hook, and they want their fellow coworkers to appreciate how upset they are over such a ridiculous ruling.
Sorry, but you still need to work on your autism a bit, because there's a lot you're missing in that hypothetical conversation.
There's a reason small talk is called small talk - it's not supposed to touch on "big" subjects that people are invested in. There were even sayings like "never talk about religion or politics at work" that were attempting to crystalize that wisdom in people's heads.
When Lauren brings the Rittenhouse affair to the water cooler she is at best saying that she can't possibly imagine any moral and reasonable person disagreeing with her, or, at worst, is an utter sociopath that is perfecrly aware such people work in her office, and she's daring them to show themselves so she can ratfuck them later.
When people push back against her talking points, they're not being autistic, they're saying "be careful how you talk about 'those people' some of them might be here with you right now", hoping Lauren is just a tad egocentric, but well meaning. What many people did not take into account in the last decade or so, was how many Laurens are sociopaths.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
Biased propaganda is more truthful than complete fairytale nonsense passed off as truth.
This is completely wrong. Fairytale nonsense is easier to correct. Lies of """truthful""" but biased propaganda have a stronger effect and correcting them requires attention spans longer than 5 seconds. Claiming AI hallucinations are worse is insane.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
On a smaller scale, I recently wrote several pages of documentation at work - in Confluence. Having gotten entirely used to the auto-save features of modern text editing software, I thought nothing of just shutting down my machine at end of day. Come next day, it was of course all gone.
I could swear Confluence does autosave as well... welp, one more thing to keep an eye on.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
The user you saw is blocking you so they won't see your responses, messages, or notifications, but since you're not blocking them you're seeing them normally.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
End my life now. I actually finished with all the refactoring work.... but managed to nuke my project folder, of course without pushing the feature branch either to Github ot to my private server. I just hope things will go faster now that I know exactly what I need to do.
How have you been doing @Southkraut?
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
I wouldn't call it offensive, but there's something risible about this being a property specific to this forum, or that the people making the acvusation are exempt from it.
As others pointed out this has already happened in the past, and it was defended in the exact manner it was rescribed... just not by the people some might be thinking about when they originally read the accusation.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
Trump's behavior is kinda lame here, I tend to be of the "just fucking own in" school, but I suppose that's why I'm not a politician.
But for all his annoyance, I think Ontario is basically well within it's rights to use ads to affect US trade policy.
This on the other hand is more debatable. Wasn't there an entire drama about some pittance that Russia spent on Facebook ads during Trump's first run?
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
I have not gone down the rabbit hole of analysis of the video, so I'm going to try to defend Taylor's interpretation.
Is there a "not" missing there, or are you literally saying you'll defend something you want to plead ignorance about later?
Anyway, I think the concept of "two screens" has to stop short of covering scenarios where someone is outright lying, or it will lose any meaning and usefulness.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
Maybe the real Hock was just the landwhale waifu we met along the way.
ArjinFerman
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5d ago
Then maybe it's a bad idea to use their voting pattern as evidence that Jewish people are uniquely unsafe around the world?
I don't think those countries hate Jews nearly as much because of the lack of interaction
So...you do think they hate them, just not as much, correct?
but they do like to be part of the coalition that is formed as a result.
That such a coalition could exist, I can buy. When it supposedly encompasses literally the whole world minus two countries, that's hard to believe. "When you run into an asshole, they're the asshole, when everyone you run into is an asshole, you're the asshole" applies.
ArjinFerman
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5d ago
Have you missed the part when I said "even by proxy"?
If everyone is saying Jews bad, it must be deserved, right?
Before we continue, please clarify if you actually believe that the Chinese and Indians are full of hate for the Jews, and that hatred is what explains their UN voting patterns.
Christ, what a wanker.
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