ArjinFerman
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ArjinFerman
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20hr ago
Call centers? A bit of an assembly line, but they do pay, and give zero fucks if it's online.
ArjinFerman
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20hr ago
I think you might be using the "dark" theme, which indeed uses a barely perceptible in difference shade of gray. If you don't like the "reddit" color scheme, here's the custom CSS:
.active.arrow-up::before {
color: #ff8b60;
}
I don't think I'm color blind.
Which theme are you usinng? I think there are several dark ones, and I never had issues like that on mine (called "reddit" even if though it looks nothing like it). And if you're using the same one, I might have some news about that color blindness...
But if not, give me the name of the theme, and I'll come up with something.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
There's a custom css page in your settings. You can change the way any part of the website ia displayed from there. Here's my quickfix for the volunteer banner:
.volunteer_teaser {
background-color: var(--gray-600) !important;
}
A missed opportunity for a Zardoz reference, or is it not that bad?
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
You know, this might not be far off from how I was taught, I don't think they literally said "this is how a representative sample of the Holocaust victims were executed". The problem is that the "just one of the methods listed" approach meant that it was indeed a list, a grotesque parade of man's cruelty to man that is now seared into my mind. It doesn't help that it included things that "no one seriously thinks they happened" like soaps, lampshades, showers, and euthanasia trucks.
There are plans, budgets, orders for all of those things...
Not in the sense that is being talked about here. The closest to it that you could come up with is admiral Levine getting the age limits pulled, but the sudden mass-promotion of the phenomenon wasn't done on the order of Transgender Hitler.
On the flip side, the camps weren't operating without budgets, plans, and orders either. The point being raised here is that the order wasn't literally "exterminate all the Jews", so the plans weren't things like "to exterminate all the Jews, we will need XYZ", and the budgets did not include things like "Jew extermination gas canisters" as line items. This again strikes me as eerily similar to how the modern progressive regime operates.
It's not a task that a mid-level officer would just put on his own shoulders because of "mind-reading."
Did the judge that ruled the migrants can stay in the Epping hotel need a direct order, or an act of law being passed? Is it really that surprising an underling might interpret "will no one rid me of this turbulent priest" as an order of execution?
Regarding the logistical issues, it would be interesting to see the orders, plans, and budgets, that they did have. If the mid-level officers were charged with managing the Jewish population, didn't have enough resources to do it properly, and knew no one in the regime would really miss them if they disappeared, but conversely could get into trouble for requeating more resources to be diverted from the war effort, then mass murder is starting to look like a perfectly rational conclusion.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
So there you have it- no plans, no budget, no orders; instead it was "mind-reading" by lower-level officers.
This would hardly be surprising. It's essentially what is happening now with transgender care, infinity immigration, race swapping of historical figures in media, etc. This might have implications that are rather uncomfortable for modern liberals, and academic historians might laugh off the attempt to provide any such explanation in any other context, but on the simple matter of whether it actually happened that way - why not?
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
You were taught that millions of Jews were herded through gas chambers believing they were taking a shower?
Yeah, pretty a much. Every trip to a concentration camp museum focused on elaborate descriptions of the unusually cruel and/or underhanded methods of execution. They were very much attempting to paint a picture that this was representative of the Holocaust writ large.
This wouldn't be the first time in the history of man that a ruling regime thought "the commonfolk are too simpleminded to grasp the nuances of the truth, so we have to teach it in a form they can digest", nor would it be the first time that subversives exploited that to turn those among the commonfolk who can grasp the nuances against the regime. When the latter is happening, a reaction like "no one serioisly believes that", is possibly the worst response you can have.
You were taught that every Jew killed
no one seriously thinks millions of Jews
Do you really, honestly, not see a difference nce between these statements?
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
As Wandering already pointed out, no one seriously thinks millions of Jews were herded like sheep through an assembly line into gas chambers.
This claim has, in fact, been a huge part of my upbringing and education. You saying that "no one seriously thinks" it, is more radicalizing than anything SS could have ever said.
Their problem is that they're trying to get to orbit with a ridiculously huge payload
What's your take on it's performance so far, in that regard? It seems to have taken quite a bit of time for it to pick up speed during launch, just with 16 tonnes of the dummy payload. It's hard to imagine it taking off with double that, let alone the 100 tonnes they're targeting.
The pro-trans position is more like “X and Y are meaningful, but you are sorting some people incorrectly.” This is internally consistent. It explains the vast majority of gender CW issues.
If that was the case, there wouldn't be a famous mockumentary called "what is an X" where everyone from lowly activists to supposed experts can't answer that simple question
It has to be incoherent, there is no other way for it to work. If you go with biology, you sort all the trans people incorrectly. If you go with diagnosis, you sort incorrectly all the ones without it, who want to be in the other category. If you go with social roles, you contrdict seven ziilion years of feminism, and sort incorrectly every gender non-conforming person, who's completely happy in their body.
The defintions of X and Y have to be meaningless, or the whole thing falls apart.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
The first thought I had was the endless arguments about how we need immigration, because otherwise who will make the foodz.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
We truly are living in the Jetsons' world, huh?
I still would have preferred a flying car though.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
Yeah I may have been confused in making the bet, as @roystgnr mentioned above it seems they may never go “to orbit” and instead do suborbital velocities.
No.... Roystgnr was making a rather nuanced point, I assure you SpaceX is planning to send Starship to a proper orbit. They literally say this during the stream from the last test flight, when they were testing the engine relight (around T:+37 minutes, I think). It's just that they're not confident it's safe to do so yet.
Starship was stable enough to release a dummy payload so I’m assuming that’s as far as they’ll go!
That makes no sense. They want to use it to launch satellites. To do so, they need it to go to orbit. The dummy payload was there to test if their deployment mechanism works, and to see how well the ship performs under actual load, but on the current trajectory, it either burned up in the atmosphere, or crashed into the ocean right after the Starship.
Not trying to weasel out of the bet here just genuinely above my pay grade, hah.
I am kinda starting to feel bad for getting you sucked into this. We can downgrade it to a gentlemen's bet, if you want. Honestly, all I wanted was for Elon stans to plant some flags, and tell me what future achievement I should exoect from him, if he's such a genius.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
The US didn't lose for lack of violence. If they'd chimp out, the Taliban could just hide, wait until it blows over, at atart taking shots once the guard is lowered again. The technological disparity is an American diaadvatage there, because the costs of mobilizing a modern army are higher than leaving some IEDs on the road.
The reason why they lost is that they got high on their own supply about muh freedom, democracy, and whatnot. In some inverse of "magical dirt theory" they thought that if you give Afghans and Iraqis a few western institutions, they will become westerners, and neglected basics like teaching them that they should fight for their own country.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
Anything from completely engineering the situation, to following a sudden inspiration to give the girls a gentle push into a a reaction that will do numbers on TikTok.
Though I wouldn't take the groomer hypothesis off the table yet either.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
I've seen the story make it's way through the feeds. I'm reluctant to believe because of how easy it is to prove/disprove for any "field correspondent" and how much egg on face it would be for thrainstream. Not that it hasn't happened before, I suppose.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
Well, I started integrating the substack API, but didn't get very far. Despite the lack of documentation it seems pretty easy to handle, though there are some steuctural differences between it, my app, or even twitter, so it's taking me a while to figure out how to map it.
By the way, is it me or is the FOSS community not quite as vibrant as it used to be? Not long ago, the moment someone exposed an API, you'd have at least one alternative client. Twiiter, Youtube, Reddit, all have alt-readers / viewers, but I haven't found anything for Substack. There's one dude that wrote a Python implementation, and otherwise I've only seen complaints about how there's no Substack API evem though there is.
How have you been doing @Southkraut?
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
is a round-robin
and a small amount of random noise added to people's decisions
Well, that changes the things rather significantly.
(scoring on total utility over all players/iterations)
Come on, you've completely changed the meaning of the game at this point.
ArjinFerman
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5d ago
The fact that we're talking about it is proof that it's an effective way to raise your profile, no?
ArjinFerman
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5d ago
When demand exceeds supply, you gotta make do with what you have.
ArjinFerman
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5d ago
Yeah they do. You think that dude who harassed Central Park Karen was forced to upload it? You think it got leaked?
Thanks for the detailed response!
Yeah, I take it back. When I was watching a livestream, someone commented on it taking it's time (probably it being held, as you say), but what really gave me the impression was a post-launch commentary video, which, looking at the original stream again, must have shown the takeoff in slowmo.
Eh, it would be awesome, but unless some rabbits get pulled out of several hats, Mars feels like a distant dream.
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