ArjinFerman
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ArjinFerman
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2hr ago
Personally, I still hold “democracy is the best government except for the others”.
Truer words have never been said.
ArjinFerman
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2hr ago
Its not what I want vs what you want, its what seems to work best with the constraints we have.
Since when? The Covid response had very little to do with what works. Transgender medicine has very little to do with what works. "Racism is a public health crisis" had very little to do with what works. Why should I believe that another politically charged topic has something to do with what works?
ArjinFerman
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3hr ago
So? Is it written somewhere that we can't return to an old solution? I'm also not sure I buy that it had no effect at all. And if the solutions seems too cruel, we can always just do the original idea of not subsidizing PrEP. Take your pick, but I don't see why you should get everything you want, and I nothing.
ArjinFerman
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4hr ago
I've not seen anyone talk about it but his statement that aliens are likely on Earth domesticating humanity to keep us from expanding further is insane and calls into question how his reasoning skills have developed over the years.
I mean, It would explain the state of the world better than anything that ever came out of academia or any "respectable" source.
Can I just point to history to show that we are very good as a species in judging our own behaviour objectively against others? The existence of the Russell conjugation proves it really, as it is describing a very common behaviour, for which the term would not need to be created if the action did not exist.
I don't think that's anywhere near sufficient, when I could probably match any instance of a Russel Conjugation you can name off the top off your head with a case of Stereotype Accuracy that I can name off the top of mine. If you want to argue that his particular subject is a case of a Russel Conjugation, you have to do so specifically, particularly when the gay community proudly endorses the observation about itself that you are implicitly disputing.
As for smoking, "sin" taxes are indeed one way to square the circle, because they also disincentivize buying the product. But for gay people sex is the "product"
Well, after establishing that there's nothing inappropriate about the government stepping in to discourage actions that impose a cost on society, it feels like this is just haggling over the price, especially that in the case of smoking the government does not limit itself to taxes. It also issues large amounts of anti-smoking propaganda, bans pro-smoking propaganda, and passes regulations to make the act of smoking as inconvenient as possible. We might be able to meet in the middle where PrEP is still subsidized, but all the government, corporate, and NGO pride messaging is replaced with loud and unrepentant homophobia.
We are well aware that groups cannot be trusted to tell extreme outliers apart from non-outliers when social distaste is involved
Consensus building. No I am not aware of that, and would appreciate it if you would argue for that explicitly. Even if it was true, I don't need to rely on my ability to discern extreme outliers, because the gay community readily admits they are one, so unless you want to argue they have a distaste for themselves, your argent seems baseless.
Plus the study that showed it was cheaper for smokers is contested. It was funded by Phillip Morris after all.
I appreciate the correction, though I reserve the right to skepticism until I look into it further.
Either way you'll notice that, if this is true, it is precisely why tobacco is covered by heavy vice taxes.
ArjinFerman
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8hr ago
some people smoke
They're not amateur alligator wrestlers, they actually minimize their burden on society. They're more like the old men that used to go out "to hunt" in the dead of winter, knowing they will never come back.
Yes but to an extent everyone is an amateur alligator wrestler.
Yes, but that doesn't mean anything. Saying "everyone is an extreme outlier, to an extent" is just saying "everyone is". "To an extent" nullifies the "extreme outlier" descriptor, which was the defining feature of the group I was pointing to.
ArjinFerman
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9hr ago
That's why a dating app should be made by the government with tax dollars.
Seize the means of reproduction!
I actually agree in an ideal world, but I can already see the bitter political fights over dating site policy, and get really really sad.
ArjinFerman
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10hr ago
It's not "I got mine". I'm more than happy to chip in for the healthcare of someone who got mauled in a freak alligator attack, but my enthusiasm drops suddenly when I find out they're an amateur alligator-wrestler.
ArjinFerman
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16hr ago
That is what it means to be a "Creedal Nation"
You just elected a third world communist to be the mayor of New York. There is no creed that will get you booted out, so it's not a creedal nation.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
No. We can't simultaneously have a rule that say we should "proactively provide evidence in proportion to how partisan and inflammatory your claim might be" and then cry about Gish Gallops.
Not to mention, this isn't even a Gish Gallop. The tactic Duane Gish perfected was citing many studies out of context, in a way that make it seem they agree with his point to people who haven't read them, and it turning out that they don't once you look into them. The reason the Gish Gallop was effective in stage debates was that it takes more effort to research and refute the claims, then it is to make them. It was also trivially countered - because Gish's repertoire was actually quite limited, one of his opponents prepared for a debate, and was actually pre-bunking all his claims in real time, making him look like an idiot. Things like this don't tend to happen on this forum, and definitely not from Gattsuru.
Be honest about what this is: you being upset that your side does actually look bad, and being unable to provide counter arguments.
If you have three different topics with something substantive to say, you should post three different comments.
Yes, I'm sure you will be less upset when you have 3 top level Gattsuru comments instead of one.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
I haven't seen a relationship that doesn't go through a rough patch after 7-ish years. Whether they will work through it, or crash out, doesn't seem to have anything to do marrying young or running into your True Love.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
and I do think it was because of their willingness - however heel-dragging - to remain in communication with Rome.
This makes no sense in the current year, from a recruitment standpoint, if nothing else. Leaving the official structures of the Church in order to bless gay marriages means you will now be competing with 7 zillion protestant sects that have been doing it for decades (not to mention, increasingly, the mainstream Catholic Church itself). The only growth option is appealing to the trads.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
Eh.... It took almost a year to resolve the Braveheart saga. Why would you expect more evidence to come out via the court process, when the accusation was fresh?
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
That's a reasonable argument now, not six years ago.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
Because they execute drug dealers, cane robbers, and even fine you for eating in public transport. I rarely hear these things proposed by YIMBY immigration enjoyers.
Maybe I’m reaching a bit, but if you think about it, progressives do support an equivalent of trans “ethnicicity”, in the form of immigration!
I don't recall "I don't have white privilege, I live in a black neighborhood" being accepted as a valid argument.
ArjinFerman
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5d ago
I cut up the animations, and replaced the old spritesheets... I feel ambivalent about the results. I'm not sure how to describe my issue, on one hand it's kinda what I was aiming for, but the old sprites, despite their lower quality somehow felt more defined or something. I'll try to see if adding extra frames to make the animations feel smoother helps, but I'm getting the feeling that this is where the art of sprite creation lies, and it might not be that easy to get what you want with AI slop.
Other than that I fixed the bullet-firing algo a bit, allowing for finer control of RPS fired, and firing multiple rounds in a single frame, which helped to make the flamethrower more dense. I also fixed a pseudo-random number generator in the shader code, because the old one could only return one unique value per frame, and was degrading after a few minutes, always returning the same value. This also improved the flamethrower aesthetics.
How have you been doing @Southkraut?
ArjinFerman
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5d ago
Which leads one to ask why they present themselves as Catholic.
Why do you present yourself as American, given the demographics of the country, which you linked yourself?
ArjinFerman
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6d ago
That doesn’t come with the kind of budget, or by extension firepower, of the presidency
I mean... yes, but the mayor of a major city usually has significant firepower. Cleaning up New York after the 70's might not have been visible in national statistics, but in a country with the population distribution of El Selvador, it would most certainly have been.
I doubt that he was uniquely effective.
How? There is literally no reason to believe the murder rate would have been dropping to even 2019-2022 levels, were it not for him. What is your definition of "uniquely effective" at this point? How many politicians can you show that have similar results?
Regression to the mean suggests that it would have gone down in the absence of Bukele. And was, in fact, going down every year.
No, it was only going down every year if you start counting in 2015, and regressing to the mean means it would it would stop at the 2018-ish levels. Also, as Gattsuru pointed out, he didn't drop into the presidency out of nowhere, he was the mayor of San Salvador since 2015, so it's perfectly plausible the drop from the peak was actually due to him all along.
I wish we had monthly stats for any year before 2019
Someone did collect them, but the source is ultimately unknown, so I didn't post this originally. It does seem to match what I linked though.
because the red numbers in that year still average out below the previous year’s rate.
I mean, we're talking 3346 total homicides in 2018 vs 3228 if you extrapolate the pre-Bukele rate to the end of the year. That's effectively no change.
But he didn’t reverse any trend,
The trend was a flat line, so you can't reverse it by definition. He did turn his country from a shithole (which it still would have been if it settled at the pre-Bukele 2019 levels), and turned it into the safest country in both Americas. It's a major and drastic change, and trying to frame that as riding a pre-exisitng trend is clearly inaccurate.
The TCP was announced late June and involved everything from equipment to public works.
Oh please, this is just grasping at straws. There were public works projects before Bukele.
I think Swedish immigration policy is even less focused. It’s all technocratic compromise politics, where a coalition government considers the recommendations of a committee on I’m already falling asleep. There’s no dynamic individual who said “yeah we’re gonna import Syrians.”
Committees can act dynamically when they want, and they use "I'm already falling asleep" to their advantage. How do you think Europe is pushing through ideas like gender self-ID?
Look at that spike. Policy crafted 20+ years ago for Yugoslavia getting stretched to a new extreme.
There's war going on all over the world all of the time, if the policy involved robotically transporting anyone from any hot zone in the world, how is it that it applied overwhelmingly to Syrians?
That’s what makes the Orebro situation different. Dude has none of the institutional backing and none of the existing law. His proposal is not serious.
I think the question of whether they will be able to consolidate enough power to implement a policy is different from whether the policy would work, if implemented.
ArjinFerman
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6d ago
This bit here:
Secular morality revolves around "context". Secular morality holds that what is happening matters less than who it is happening to, see "punching up" vs "punching down" and "no enemies to the left"
I don't think "secular morality" - without any qualifiers - does that, and the instances of it that do don't seem to appear more frequently than religious morality that does the same.
ArjinFerman
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6d ago
How do you know they got caught easily, rather than it being a fluke due to abnormal incompetence? Do you find nothing odd about the smooth transition from lack of examples of it happening being proof that you're right to an example of it happening being proof that you're right?
ArjinFerman
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6d ago
I'm not asking you to be friends with anyone, I just think if you're going to label things, you should label them properly.
Well, the joke was that the original quote says "...the worst..."
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