ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
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ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
2d ago
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
3d ago
there’s some lobby, somewhere, which has been clamoring to remove this exemption.
After lying low for years following a costly debacle, the shadowy hand of Big Shaving Cream makes the opening move of its master plan to win back the hearts of normal Americans...
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
3d ago
You do realize what a shame it is that Reddit midwit sarcasm has ruined so many useful phrases...
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
3d ago
Spanking is appropriate for a baby, community service is appropriate for a juvenile delinquent, and beheading is appropriate for a hardened, unrepentant public enemy.
Nobody thinks we should instantly behead babies or lunchtime rowdies, but many people think we should stop handing out spankings and community service to hardened, unrepentant public enemies.
Not super invested in this argument, but --
Obliterating Somalia because some enterprising fishermen decided to moonlight as pirates would be silly on top of appalling.
This only makes sense if you extend care to all humans equally as part of an internationalist humanitarian ethos. Many people don't, so they don't really care if 1 or 100 or 100,000 Somalians get killed in reaction to bothering us. If you ask them directly they would probably mumble something about how terrible it is because it's socially expected, but if you asked them to e.g. pay 5% higher taxes to Stop the Nuking of Somalians I doubt you would get much support.
It's a level of deranged collective punishment that would instantly turn the rest of the world against the US because nobody is sure when we're going to make an absurd demand at nukepoint.
Internationalist humanitarian true-believers are only (somewhat) common in U.S., Europe, and maybe Japan, countries so rich that luxury beliefs have become widespread. Most other nations' peoples still posses the tribal mindset I outlined above, and so to them the value of Somalian lives is approximately zero. Belgium and France might whine about it, but they increasingly irrelevant. Russia and China, who are relevant, would not care, though they would certainly cynically posture and feign outrage (just like the U.S. often does).
I don't really think maximum brutality is as beyond the pale as many (including myself) hope. There is a lot of room for American nastiness before Russia and China seem like more trustworthy and reliable allies, IMO.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
4d ago
@CrispyFriedBarnacales
Is that his Mexican alter-ego?
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
7d ago
"Alice's Adventures Through the Windshield Glass"
Maybe AI will do what Ron Paul failed to do and make anime real.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
9d ago
Much of our politics is being driven not by events viewed rationally, but by narratives about events.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. There's no such thing as a "neutral" viewpoint. It's narratives all the way down, always has been. The liberal consensus is breaking down and as a result so is its narrative (which is what I presume you mean by "events viewed rationally"), and there are now two major narratives competing to replace it. The liberal narrative is dying because it's no longer a coherent frame for the things that are happening in our society. You can't just roll that back.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
9d ago
When I have seen this on the right among normies, it's usually in response to the left's own Manichaean worldview, not because they view the left fundamentally as enemies who cannot be reasoned with.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
9d ago
They already fancied themselves Jedi rebels and Dumbledore's Army before the ICE masks. I've seen the bumper stickers and reddit comments. ICE agents could wear rainbow tracksuits and helicopter beanies and they would still get called stormtroopers.
Making ICE scary definitely seems to be freaking out illegals judging by the empty Walmarts and Home Depots we saw earlier, so it seems like an effective way to encourage self-deportation. And if my brother or son were an ICE agent, I would definitely want his face covered and his name hidden while doing his job given the now-regular leftist violence against right-wingers. The extreme left is going to hate his guts regardless.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
9d ago
When this happens, they will be met with stone-faced negation from Red Tribe,
I can only hope. If it were to happen tomorrow, I don't think it would play out that way. There are still too many right wingers (mostly boomers, but also some enlightened center-rightists) who think we can rollback the clock to 1990 and will thus aid and abet the left by chiding and policing their own side.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
12d ago
Thanks, this is a good reality check. There seems to be a lot of romanticization of the trades happening these days, and I've always been a little skeptical. Sounds like hard but steady work that comes with its own set of tradeoffs. One of my sons is technically inclined but a bit ADHD/on the spectrum. I've been wondering if he would do better as a field tech of some sort rather than as a white collar desk jockey. Personally, my years as an IT dispatch tech were the most fun I ever had in my working years. Long hours and lots of BS, but a great crew, rewarding work (you can see the things you fix), and I loved getting paid to drive around and see different towns and the "backstage" side of many businesses. Sounds like working a trade has some similarities.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
13d ago
How has that worked out for you? I have been thinking about whether or not I should send my kids to college. My kids are smarter than average and we plan to homeschool, so I think we could set them up for success pretty well. At the same time, I'm concerned that not having the magic paper might hinder them early in their careers. Have you experienced that?
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
13d ago
I am in my mid-30s, so I imagine we were looking at colleges around the same time. To be fair, I do also remember being shown the shiny new cafeteria and student union, and hearing about the new football stadium they were building, but I didn't care at all as a 17 year old. My parents were there with me, though. In hindsight, perhaps these amenities were aimed at convincing the parents, since they would be the ones actually footing the bill. Kind of obvious now that I write it out.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
13d ago
Okay, that's fair. I suppose I might be typical minding. I think I am considerably less nerdy/autistic than many users here (no offense meant, I just mean that I'm a socially integrated normalfag) and even I based my choice of college mainly on (1) the fact that it had the field I was interested in, (2) that it wasn't located in an inner city shithole, and (3) that they gave me a fat scholarship.
I've often heard hat new stadiums/cafeterias/fancy dorms are built to "attract students" but I do not personally know anyone who compared universities in this way. Even the 100 IQ normies at my HS who you would expect might care about that stuff were much more interested in whether a particular school had a good "party school" rep, whether their bf/gf was going there, or whether it was the "correct" school for their family sports fan dynasty (I lived in the southeast). I do not recall once ever hearing about the quality of the dorms or gyms.
However! If I were an unscrupulous admin trying to expand my bureaucratic power, this seems like a really convenient argument to make. "We need 50 million dollars for a new gym to attract students to Foobar State! If we don't build it, students will choose University of Foobar instead! We can't fall behind!" And all the other admins have grifts of their own and know how to play the game, so I doubt anyone would stand in the way except to try to grab those funds for their own power expansion ("We don't need a gym, we need to expand and renovate student housing!")
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
13d ago
I didn't say international students were demanding shiny facilities and more administrators, I'm just saying that the money from international students most likely goes towards increasing bloat and add more irrelevant facilities. Does a university actually NEED a state of the art massive gym complex or sprawling student union center? These always seemed like make-work bureaucracy expansion projects to me. More facilities = more employees = more admin. At least football can be justified as pulling donations from alumni. Certainly none of the money goes to making education cheaper or better (cheaper books, higher prof salaries, more profs to decrease class sizes, etc).
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
13d ago
No? I don't think I said that? I'm sure the admins, like all useless bureaucrats, will cling to their gibs until the bitter end, even if it means completely hollowing out the educational mission of the university.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
13d ago
Tell me more about that, because when I was in college I didn't demand any of that. I wanted cheaper textbooks and affordable housing close to campus. I went to local restaurants or cooked at home. Our gym was a little old, but it was fine. I don't recall any student protests demanding fancies facilities. Maybe that's a common thing at other universities that I'm just not aware of?
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
13d ago
International students are subsidizing (superfluous) university services, wages and administrative bloat. I don't think native students see much benefit from the money at all.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
15d ago
I don't think they will meekly accept it, no. But under the bioleninist framework, they are only strong because they are organized and their opponent is not. If the normie right begins to organize, it will successfully oppress the left. Probably not only via peaceful means.
I'm not sure how to define the "most leftist" ideas I accept. Probably some economic policies. I have some sympathy for protectionism, labor unions, and reducing income inequality.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
17d ago
Anyone played around with voice cloning and generation? ElevenLabs came out of nowhere a while back and blew everyone's minds, but are there any serious competitors to their quality? Or are they still the best around? Is it possible to do it locally?
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
17d ago
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
17d ago
I don't want my enemies dead, but I do want them to think twice about expressing their ideas. Maybe I even want them to be afraid to express them. I want TPTB to run a propaganda campaign to associate people who express those opinions with foolishness, cowardliness, malice, perversion, and disloyalty. My enemies can go back into the closet and stop spreading their intellectual contagion. They will eventually dwindle in number and influence as they are no longer able to convert others.
Will this work? For a while at least, yes. I know because it worked on my side. But I think it will be more effective when we do it, because aristocracy is more stable and intuitive than bioleninism, and we have all the strong gods on our side (blood and soil, ancestral religion, family, unvarnished truth).
Then we can be friends and grill together in peace. No killing required.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
17d ago
It's been a while since I studied this, but IIRC the occupation of Taiwan was much less draconian than the occupation of Korea or the wartime occupations of the mainland. The Japanese built a lot of infrastructure there and developed the island somewhat. They also engaged in cultural repression, but again, I think it was less strictly enforced than in Korea.
What I don't understand is how absolutely swamped with shovelware and cheap scams every app marketplace seems to be.
Mobile app stores have been bad for a while -- any popular game will have tons of shitty knockoffs with similar names available for download almost immediately -- but in the last few years, even Nintendo of "Nintendo Seal of Quality" fame has their eshops flooded with low-effort sleaze like "Hentai Girls: Golf"
Clearly this is a solvable problem; Reddit and Facebook purchased armies of jannies to carry out "Anti-Evil Operations" against wrongthinkers. The depressing conclusion would be that there are enough slop enjoyers and straight-up cretins out there to make stricter app store curation a financially unwise decision even taking into account the reputational damage caused by this slop. But I'm hoping there's some other reason for it.
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