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Mantergeistmann
24m ago
The new nuclear Renaissance! Anyone know of any good writeups comparing and contrasting the various new reactors/companies in development, i.e. Terrapower vs. NuScale vs. eVinci?
Folamh3
25m ago
Playing tennis in a 3-piece suit is just about the most insane thing I've ever heard.
Folamh3
27m ago
Earlier than your stated timeframe but Scott's "Can It Be Wrong to Crystallize Patterns?" might be relevant.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
36m ago
Looking at the list of Jewish presidential candidates, there's plenty of right wingers and libertarians (also curiously several green party members). Indeed, the guy who got closest was Goldwater.
The_Nybbler
Does not have a yacht
43m ago
What substance? The idea is to simply spoil the claim that ex-Communist Eastern Europeans have any wisdom, by connecting them to a disliked group. By the time anyone researches the disliked group, sees if their similarities are actually substantial or if there are significant differences, and posts a rebuttal of some sort, the conversation has moved on and no one cares any more.
Come on, give us some substance so we can actually discuss it, if you find the comparison interesting.
Do they remind you of them in any substantial way or just in being from Eastern Europe, and claiming to be fearful about totalitarianism?
The_Nybbler
Does not have a yacht
1hr ago
Believe it or not, there is agency outside the United States.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
1hr ago
Dreher's anecdotes about the wisdom of Communist East Europeans always reminds me of another group of Eastern Europeans moving to the US from the sphere of a totalitarian regime and suddenly finding themselves fearful about the signs of the same totalitarianism developing in the United States.
Mottizen
1hr ago
A decentralized exchange is relatively low-trust since you just use it to convert and don't deposit. Uniswap the most popular example.
How would physical cash not assist? Likely easier to slowly convert that into your preferred currency than raw BTC
self_made_human
Kai su, teknon?
1hr ago
If they're Buddhist, they're usually not that beholden to prohibitions on beef, but otherwise, they fall in with the other Hindus from down south in India who do partake in it. Those are Tamil Hindus, and even some of the Brahmins eat it.
Mottizen
1hr ago
I've seen Tamil Sri Lankan restaurants with beef on the menu, is this typical or just random emigrant change?
SkoomaDentist
1hr ago
So basically what you're saying is that as long as Biden doesn't invade Italy or try to appoint bishops, he's going to be fine.
FiveHourMarathon
The Gun Would Go Off
2hr ago
This might be the geographical variation you referred to, or it might be a difference in definition or emphasis on the tribal concept.
In my mind, the Blue Tribe/Red Tribe split is meant to encompass the vast majority of white Americans (non-Whites have different dynamics, though may be in alliance with Red/Blue whites in different cases). Of course there are geographies and professions where one side has a vast preponderance and the other is rare as hen's teeth. But a huge percentage of the white American population lives in between, neither in Manhattan nor the Yellowstone ranch, in suburbs and small cities. Their attitude toward that liminal location, whether they want it to be more like Manhattan or more like Yellowstone, tells you more about the attitudes of tribesmen than their actions, which are mostly pretty similar. The core red triber isn't a quiverfull oilfield welder who goes to church every Sunday, and the core Blue Triber doesn't have a masters in Gender Studies they use at their email job. Those are extremes, the tiny outer percentages of the population. Rather, distinguishing Red/Blue is about how two sets of suburban parents conceptualize how to teach morality to their 2.5 kids, how they go about lying to their parents about whether they're going to church every Sunday, etc.
This might be geographically personal. I live at the rural exurb edge of the I-95 megalopolis, the last highway exit on the East Coast. Drive west from my house for ten minutes and you see nothing but farms, red tribe country, until you hit Pittsburgh. Drive east or south from my house and in two to three hours you can be in the middle of any of four major cities. I live in that liminal space, where every house on the block might vote differently, and I conceptualize its importance. The keystone, the swing vote, the tipping point. Lose the suburbs, electorally and culturally, and Red Tribe is dead. Win them, and as Hunter S. Thompson said about the 60s, the great wave from the coast will break and roll back from that high water mark.
orthoxerox
I realized I can change my flair color to Barbie pink
2hr ago
This video is probably the funniest I've watched this year or last year.
Lizzardspawn
3hr ago
Latin America continues to mostly think Communism is a great idea, no matter how often it screws things up.
Well Munro doctrine has its second order effects.
orthoxerox
I realized I can change my flair color to Barbie pink
3hr ago
I don't think his cognition was literally zero-sum. It's more of a marginal utility question. If spending X additional mental effort on social graces provides you with M utilons and spending it on thinking about math provides you with N utilons with M << N because people are willing to put up with your eccentricity, then even if you have virtually boundless mental effort it makes sense to spend it all on thinking about math.
He basically spent enough of his cognition on social graces to graduate from "insane" to "eccentric" and then considered the problem solved.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
I was writing that description for, specifically, a younger crowd, because that seemed like what the normie blue tribe description was aiming at. And IME for male red tribers likelihood of getting the Covid vaccine is straightforwardly correlated with age(although keeping up with boosters is just not a red tribe thing- or seemingly a mainstream blue thing).
I do think you’re understating the differences in behavior a bit. Hlynka did marry the girl he knocked up; most motteizeans would have settled for uneven custody and child support payments. Suburban subdivisions generally do literally get more red the farther out you go, functionally every white person in a church on an average Sunday is red tribe, and the core red tribe has a substantial fertility advantage.
self_made_human
Kai su, teknon?
3hr ago
In terms of what's usually consumed? Yes. But they do eat plain old beef, from cows.
Lizzardspawn
3hr ago
Isn't it mostly buffalo meat though?
stuckinbathroom
3hr ago
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MadMonzer
Temporarily embarrassed liberal elite
3hr ago
But they did excommunicate the SSPX leadership after the Econe consecrations - schismatic consecrations are still one of the reliable ways of getting excommunicated - or technically given the law around latae sententiae, of excommunicating yourself in a way the Vatican will wish to publicise.
You will notice that most of the historical exommunications I mentioned didn't succeed in crushing anyone - the practice of unrepentant excommunicants thumbing their nose at the Papacy is as old as the practice of excommunicating people.
orthoxerox
I realized I can change my flair color to Barbie pink
3hr ago
The Papacy couldn't even crush SSPX in 1988.
Primaprimaprima
Bigfoot is an interdimensional being
3hr ago
Keeping humans in the loop puts pressure on the processes to be more legible and comprehensible. If you dump everything into an inscrutable ML model, then the danger is that people will simply offload their thinking to the model and take its word as law. When your account gets banned at youtube, no one can actually say why (except in high profile cases) - it’s just, “The Algorithm said so, and we trust The Algorithm”. I don’t want society to work that way. I want there to be a person who has to take responsibility for the decision, and who can explain their reasoning. No hiding behind a binary blob of trillions of parameters.
Of course, humans can build labyrinthian inscrutable bureaucracies too. And humans can be outright evil. But I’d still rather take my chances with humans. Unlike AI, they have skin in the game - they are conscious entities, they have desires and fears. They can be persuaded or bribed, they are subject to political and social pressures, they will grant exceptions under the right circumstances. These are not aberrant modes of operation - they are necessary to the functioning of a humane society.
FiveHourMarathon
The Gun Would Go Off
3hr ago
I have no idea how indoor rock climbing became the quintessential sport/activity among yuppie tech workers.
I used to manage a rock climbing gym, and I'm now a yuppie, so...
The thing about Rock Climbing that makes it so popular is that the part that makes climbing a route cool to normies is separate from the part that makes it technically cool to insiders.
When I tell people I climb, they ask things like "How high do you go? Do you go all the way to the top? Do you climb outside?" That's what people get excited about, or maybe free solo shit or overhangs and dynos if they're watching. They don't really care about route grading, just doesn't enter their head, luckily because once stats enter the mainstream they tend to get lied on so often they become useless.
There are 80-ft outdoor toprope routes around me that are beginner grade nonsense, I could take any reasonably athletic mottizen there next weekend and coach them through it. But your average normie is going to be more impressed by that video on Insta, than they would by me finishing the V6 benchmark project I've been working on for the Moonboard for months, despite the latter being vastly harder and rarer.
So the first day you show up at an indoor gym, you do what the general public perceives as just about the coolest thing there: you climb up a big wall on top rope, all the way to the top. Any decent gym has a route for beginners on a big wall, I would always make sure our route setters kept something easy on the tallest wall in the gym for that exact reason. After that, it's all progress, and it's a sport-hobby you can whittle away at infinitely.
Compare the classic ne plus ultra of yuppie sports: distance running. When I ran the marathon that gave me my username, I didn't train for it at all, it was on a bet (with another rock climber, coincidentally). Why did I casually stroll 26.2 miles and not 20 or 25? Because finishing a marathon has a cache to it, and the part normies ask about is finishing the marathon. The cool part of endurance running is the endurance, not the running. Only those who are into marathons care about your time, most people just think it is cool that you did it. So no matter how good you are at distance running, if you finished, you did the cool part. It's not really any cooler, in normal conversation, to brag about your three hour marathon than it is to say "I ran a marathon."
Similarly, going rock climbing is cool because you went, not because you climbed 5.12. This makes it popular among the casual, because the part they brag about isn't hard. Post a picture of you climbing on instagram, nobody is looking at the holds and saying it looks juggy except serious climbers, most people just notice how high you are off the ground.
I also like rock climbing personally, and think it is popular, because as a workout it will actually naturally build the body most people want: lean, muscular, upper body focused. MyFitnessPal logs an hour of rock climbing as some absurd number like 950 calories burned, and my forearms and biceps are tough to fit into shirts after I got into climbing.
Do keep in mind that while it's still bizarre it was probably less bizarre at the time - back in the day wearing a suit was much closer to default behavior, and therefore this may have been an eccentricity, but not as far off from appropriate.
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