ArjinFerman
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ArjinFerman
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5hr ago
Is it possible the "transgender intolerance" of the right is a self reinforcing feedback loop?
Nope. Portraying the trans issue as being primarily about who gets to go to which bathroom, or some visceral "ick" factor, is at least 10 years out of date. The reaction to the trans issues comes from progressives seeing the provision of irreversible medical procedures to minors as an inalienable human right, that justifies nearly everything, including public school teachers transing children behind their parents' backs.
ArjinFerman
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7hr ago
The EU makes no laws about that. The EU has no police force or court. The EU can’t jail anyone.
Oh wait, this is not how you phrased it originally. The EU very much does make laws about it, and it does have it's own courts.
ArjinFerman
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8hr ago
So what?
Right back at you. It's still accurate to portray the EU, particularly the legal entity, as anti free speech, because it clearly is.
I also don't recall people claiming the cases in Germany and the UK are representative of all of Europe, so I'd appreciate a link. I also don't remember anyone's claims being exaggerated, people accurately reported on actually existing cases.
ArjinFerman
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10hr ago
The European Union as an entity has a clear anti free speech stance, regardless of what member states think on the subject.
ArjinFerman
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11hr ago
Presumably this was a Grindr hosted political event rather than a literal gay orgy.
Porque no los dos? Even the CPAC confererence has a reputation for being a depraved pit of debauchery, what chance does a liberal event organized by Grindr have?
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
33% have between 6 and 21 children
What?!
I don't disbelieve, I'm just impressed. Even if the top of the range is that one couple who really fucks, the sheer logistics of it all...
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
Why should I privilege the views of a non American specifically selected on idealogically grounds over the 12 randomly selected ordinary American citizens who apparently spent like two weeks listening to just the testimonies alone who all decided he was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt
I never understood this argument. The evidence the jury gets to hear is curated, so they don't necessarily see everything, the quality of the arguments depends on which side can afford a better lawyer, and people are easily manipulated by the general zeitgeist and the media bombarding them with propaganda about racist police.
Also no one is arguing you to privilege the guy's argument, presumably you posses sufficient reasoning faculties to evaluate his argument on your own.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
The US won for ~20 years, we had dominance over most of Afghanistan while barely even lifting a finger.
The "barely lifting a finger" was a massive money pit that could have funded all sorts of "everybody gets a pony" programa from universal healthcare to a permanent base on the moon, and the "winning" was a state where you failed to subdue your enemy.
The issue techieland has isn't in winning the war, but in convincing their people that a war halfway across the planet is worth the relatively minor expenditure on them against a group of people who see their side as existential and go into hiding.
Even in that framing it sounds like they have a shortage of manly men that would enable them to take decisive action.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
"The government we set up collapsed, and we had to leave" is a curious definition of victory.
If you moved Belgium next to the Taliban any war would be laughably one sided in Belgium's favor.
Belgium has a quarter of the population of Afghanistan, and almost 10% of it is Muslim. Moving it closer would, if anything, work to their disadvantage.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
Who wins?
Techieland obviously.
That's not what I saw in Afghanistan.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
Claude lied to me! So here I was trying to optimize the bullet simulation. To do that I have to create a similar spatial index that I made for the bugs. That one is kept in a series of buffers, which in glsl work kind of like C structs. Now wanting to recreate 3-4 of those I was wondering if there's a way to somehow keep the bullet data in the same buffer as the bugs, but have the data well organized. Since the bug-data is an arbitrary length array that gets tricky, I can't have two of those in the same buffer... but I could do that if one of them is fixed length. Then I find out the glsl also has "constants" that you can set from the cpu-side, and that I can use them to define array lengths. Like I said, lies.
It sort of worked but the program was using the constant's default value, not the one set from the CPU. A series of bugs ensued that weren't entirely obvious to troubleshoot. When I finally got to the bottom of it, it turned out I'm back at square one. Next step: do the same thing again, but with actual compile-time constants.
How have you been doing @Southkraut?
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
I've seen lots of hemming and hawing as to why there's a difference, but not many attempts to quantify it. I suppose someone could go over various pool, darts, or e-sports tournaments and compare scores between leagues, but that's a bit too much work for me.
Well those are the same thing.
Hardly. It clearly means if you're organizing opposition against Skynet, you still should put men in charge of the military affairs. We may ultimately lose, but "we'll all die anyway, so it doesn't matter" is a very defeatist attitude.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
Sorry, I was under the impression you were making the argument that women can contribute to warfare nearly equally to men, not that Skynet will eat us for breakfast.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
But even more importantly, modern warfare just doesnt really care as much about your physical capabilities as nature did. What wins war isn't manly men with thick abs swinging their muscular fists at each other anymore. What truly wins modern wars (if things are even "winnable" traditionally now) is the logistics and science, even Rambo has no defense against a drone swarm.
Women also get btfo'd in hand-eye coordination contests, which doesn't bode well for female drone pilots, and logistics games are probably one of the most male-skewed hobbies on the planet.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
Wouldn't call it "happy", but of that's what it takes, I can take one for the team.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
put a retard in charge of HHS
You are, of course, referring to the person that abolished minimum age recommendations for trans hormone treatments and surgeries, right?
No, somehow this one has not popped up on my feeds.
Not surprising, for my part I've seen an interview with a Ukrainian mother that moved to California because of the war, and had her daughter put into foster care and transed. Blue states are still full steam ahead with this stuff.
Non-woke took over X.
That was a bit of a fluke though. It wouldn't have happened if a mentally unstable billionaire didn't start musing about buying it, and porgressives haven't committed unforced error of actually compelling him through court to buy it, because they thought that will own him somehow.
I'm also anxious about how long it will last. The EU is constantly seething over it. Right now Musk is safe because he's in the US, but if the administration changes, they'll likely go after him, and could easily cause twitter to fall back to friendly hands again.
Woke also overreached on trans issues. Peak trans activism is over.
Sure, but "peak trans activism" was an absolute blitzkrieg, were they could roll into any institution unopposed. Now they're finally getting pushback, but that doesn't mean they lost.
This is something that drives me crazy about the discourse about wokeness. In the blitzkrieg era we were met with denials that anything is happening to begin with, "Woke/SJW is just a boogeyman", etc. They took over essentially every major institution during that time, and now that they stumbled and had to slow down somewhat, the same people who were denying their existence are now declaring the fight to be over.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
They don't feel like they seek out American influences.
But they won't deny or be bewildered by someone pointing out they are influenced by American culture. They'll nod along and probably say we should invest into local stuff so we're not relying on Americans so much. I've had exactly this conversation countless times.
You can't simply forcefully spread just anything. It has to fit into the framework of what the current generation was taught as children and young adults
You'd be surprised how much you can get away with. Whatever you're pushing through, most people won't hear about. Of the ones that do, the majority won't care. Of the ones that care, the majority will be afraid to say anything, because saying something will make them sound like AfD/Orban/Farage/Trump, and the ones that do say something can simply be fired and ostracized to serve as a warning for others.
Wokeness was laundered / whitewashed as just being a decent human being, and basically just 90s race blindness as the foot in the door, and once you pluck all the DEI/representation fruits from that
Even if we go with "race blindness was a pre-requisite for DEI", that just shows that these things have to be spread gradually, not that they can't be spread top-down.
What I'm trying to say is that it's a distributed system
This the part I'm denying. It's not. It's all spread top-down by governments, corporations, and NGOs, who regularly get together and discuss hiw to get around local popular pushback.
Like I said, European leftists believe wokeness will never became a thing in Europe, precisely because they were applying the kind of analysis you're doing here. They assumed spread is organic, and so no organic resonance anywhere around them, so they concluded it will not arrive in Europe anytime soon.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
I get the impression that most Republicans are stuck in a bubble where they don't pay attention to what rank and file Democrats actually do
BLM2 was in 2020 and there wasn't a single rank-and-file Democrat that opposed it. Every single Dem-sympathizing poster here expressed no objection to it, and the majority were outright sympathetic. Biden had age limits on gender reassignment procedures abolished. Then there's the question of if it even makes sense to judge thia by which politician gets elected. You can claim it was no specific politicians's fault that CRT got shoved into school curricula and mandatory corporate workshops, but that just shows your entire approach to this is flawed.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
Yeah, but that's why this one is a disaster. No one was too upset about the earlier engagement with Iran that supposedly obliterated their nuclear program, but here they've stepped in it, and it doesn't look like they have a plan to get out.
with food and gas and general prices increasing from war/tariffs/etc other choices, I'm not sure "no one cares"
"With crime increasing from rape/jaywalking/etc".
No one cares about tariffs or "corruption", but the war is a disaster.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
The choice put before the Ukrainians was tragic and I don't think a reasonable person can blame them for making the one they did, but the idea that the national suicide under the West is somehow less certain than under Putin is hard to substantiate in my opinion.
I absolutely despise modern journalism and it's inability to present information, but hey, turns out you're actually right. On the other hand - darts. I tried to find results for pool / snooker, but that only yielded a lot of mewling from journos. So it's not a clear "no differences in hand-eye coordination" thing, but it turns out Samuel Colt did, in fact, make us equal.
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