ArjinFerman
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ArjinFerman
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12hr ago
Superficial just means surface level or shallow so far as I typically use it. Lots of superficial attributes are important in achieving various outcomes. We haven't elected a president shorter than 6 foot since Jimmy Carter,
Ok, if you want to make this point about the things you listed before, you'll have to show me similar statistics about work relationships breaking down due to cullinary choices, etc.
There's significantly more baggage that comes with being American than just being born in a particular place
Correct, which is why they're not both "American". Or at least not the same kind of American
And whether or not an American wants to be an agent for the empire, they are
Completely irrelevant to the point being discussed.
ArjinFerman
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13hr ago
I'm pretty sure "important" and "superficial" are antonyms. I'm not saying it's impossible for, say, food to be the focus of an irreconcilable difference of values (see: "I will not eat the bugs"), but whether one person eats Itallian and the other Chinese won't affect their ability to cooperate, so declaring there's a smaller gap because people eat the same just sounds bonkers to me.
And even in terms of ideology, MeanRedMan and MeanBlueGuy are most critically, promoters of the American cultural hegemony and distributors of various propaganda.
"American" here only means "originating on roughly the same continent", and it's not even clear how many people of either tribe even want to be cultural hegemons of the world.
ArjinFerman
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15hr ago
The polities live similar lives, eat similar foods, consume similar mass media, display similar politics on issues primarily determined by age (social security, medicare), enjoy similar past times, have similar incomes, etc. The median red and blue voter are both very identifiably American when mixed into a global pool of people.
How is that a far lesser divide? These things are completely superficial.
ArjinFerman
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18hr ago
It used to be a podcast, don't know if it's still going on.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
That just means you’re paying more for less!
Customer: "$25 for a T-bone? That's outrageous! The butcher down the street sells his for $15!"
Butcher: "Then why didn't you buy it from him?"
Customer: "Because he's all sold out."
Butcher: "Well, when I'm all sold out, I sell mine for $7!
And if they don’t overlap, how exactly are they countering?
Both sides call each other our when they're acting stupid, constraining their behavior to the non-stupid set. "Centrists"/"moderates"/etc. have shown they can't do that, as they lack motivation and even a spine.
Is there someone out there who would drop grievance studies if only they had more creationist papers to read?
As others pointed out: how about HBD papers?
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
Why are their nation arguably handling mass immigration even worse? This was voted for, was it false conciousness?
Huh? The only mass immigration that can be described as "voted for" was the intra-EU one. Everything else was fait accompli, and parties who did want to oppose and reverse it are being suppressed by various means.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
Reversed stupidity is still not intelligence.
Sure it is. The stupidity of the tribes doesn't overlal much, so if you can get them to counter each other, everyone ends up better off.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
It was actually "Substack" all along, but I was acting like it's a slur.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
Yup, that or nationalize them outright, or provide a public platform.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
And I say this as someone who thought Jack’s original app, from ~2010 and right up to the way it introduced dissenting voices during COVID-19, provided an indispensable service to humanity.
I'm not seeing how this particular belief would increase your credibility on the issue.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
So those who are against free speech on the basis of conflict theory are openly admitting that they don't believe that they have an advantage in the realm of ideas.
Not so simple. It's pretty trivial to come up with justifications why my ideas are good but not immediately obvious. For example, I believe my ideas tend to be good in the lonf term, but inferior ideas are more appealing in the short term, and that there's a lot of people with high time preference. A progressive, on the other hand, might believe that someone's bigotry might prevent them from trying something, but once they do, it turns out to be not so bad (see for example "but have you considered the Irish" arguments when immigration is brought up).
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
I feel pretty darn maskless here. I can talk about Jewish influence on Western politics, and I can talk about my deep abiding desire to become a woman. Rare is the space that tolerates both.
I think what he means is that the place is perfectly open to Google CrawlBot, and how many AGP antisemites can there be in the world? Between your posts here, and the rest of your Internet fingerprint, you might get got like Light Yagami.
Some of us have come to terms with it, even as we maintain a fig leaf of plausible deniability, but he might not be ready for it.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
Lot's of work at work, so I didn't get a lot done this week. I did manage to chip away a little bit at the refactoring, and I am quite sure this is the right way to go as it will save me some work in the future, but it's still not finished. Until then, no Substack integration, and not much new.
How are you doing @Southkraut? I was planning to respond to your report last week, but never got around to it, so let me say here:
...as it turns out, it's Unreal's fault. Apparently ProjectileMovementComponent doesn't detect collisions if the collider isn't the actor's RootComponent. And I had written a custom RootComponent that I put in charge of situationally instantiating subcomponents, including said collider and the MovementComponent. Sad. So my options now are:
- Always make the collider the root. But that leaves a blank spot for actors that shouldn't have a collider, and they'd have to be treated differently. But I guess I have to do that anyways.
- Let my custom RootComponent inherit from collider. Wait, no, that won't work because there are separate collider classes for each primitive shape. And also doesn't account for acotrs that shouldn't collide.
- Write my own MovementComponent that doesn't require this specific setup.
- Attempt to fix Unreal's MovementComponent and hope they accept my changes, most likely only to learn that it has to be the way it is and I am abjectly ignorant of the many good reasons.
I think every non-game programmer that dabbled in game engines had the brilliant thought of "I'm going to design it in an 'engine agnostic' way, so if I need to switch the engine, it can be done easily"... and then you always run into to this sort of shit. I swear to god, the GameDev people hate us.
As for your link, the reason communities don't "feel like home"
No, you're missing the point a bit. It's fine if this place doesn't feel like "home" to you, but I'm saying that the reason it does for me, is that I don't feel like I have to work for, buy, or sell anything here. Your shopping mall analogy might be quite apt, because if all you're doing is buying the hottest new product, I guess at some point it's going to feel a bit empty.
From my side, I guess I could try upping my game to make this place more appealing to people like you, but the issue is that for me the whole appeal is [insert that Buena Vista Social Club anecdote], and also that I don't have to.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
Well then, you are doing it right.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
I hope I don't get banned.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
Have you considered opening a S***tack?
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
If you're baiting for a "please don't go", consider me baited. I'm yet to come up with the optimal way to converse with you, but I always enjoy your perspective.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
Bro, this place is just a hangout without pretensious ideals like Less Wrong, I doubt there's a lot of people who post here with the goal to blow lurkers' minds, and the ones that do are probably eyeing a S***tack career. Anyway, if you're mainly here for consoooming instead of participating as an equal, you're probably doing it wrong.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
My cash could be bound up in investments.
I don't know how American banks do things, but surely they'd take your assets into account as well? Worst case scenario, I'm sure they'd give you a loan against your investments as collateral? Isn't that how Elon financed his Twitter purchase?
What's the practical difference between "I can prove I have been earning $X/month for years" and "I can prove I paid back $Y/month of credit card loans for years"?
The former establishes your ability to pay given responsible behavior, the latter establishes that you had a pattern of responsible behavior, while providing some useful metrics on the size of loans you were able to manage.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
Because "living above your means" exists on any income level, and if you earn so much, but aren't financially irresponsible, why aren't you buying with cash to begim with?
Why put so much effort into pretending you're not exercising power?
You can say whatever you want. That doesn’t mean what whatever you say must be published by loudspeaker media institutions and promoted by social media algorithms.
Megaphone media has the excuse of limited resources, but SocMeds have no justification for manipulating the kind of content their users will see. Technologically it's perfectly possible to let every user write their own algorithm, but at the very least people should be given the option to switch to a basic "people who liked X also liked Y" algorithm.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
My plans to start World War 3 foiled again.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
I mean, let's get real, French food is kinda meh, even German cusine is better.
But we're talking about specific things. I'm saying that what you're pointing to is not relevant to what was said before.
I mean, I agree, but you're the one that started talking about the frequency of short(er) presidents being elected.
Note, how this is not a problem with food, it's exactly the sort of problem of incompatible values that was brought up before.
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