ArjinFerman
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ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
Reading Iris's about us page, my impression is this is likely a transgender person
Without even clicking the link, the name alone is enough of a tell.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
We've had a decade straight of the absolute worst of the Blue Tribe not only being loud, but actually being in charge. We didn't win by evaporative cooling, the evaporative cooling started when we started winning.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
Then why does everybody and their dog freak out about transgender therapies being banned for lack of evidence, and start appealing to patient autonomy instead?
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
One tangential thing this video made me realise again is how curiously the culture of the right and the left is drifting apart even in more subtle ways now. This is the nth time I notice that a seemingly quite popular right-wing youtuber talks in a way that is just viscerally offputting for me
On one hand I kinda wanted to agree with you after seeing that Klein vs. Coates interview and some panel with Yglesias on it, back to back, on the other hand I don't know if we want to start judging political subcultures by incredibly popular influencers... or do you want to answer some questions about Hassan Piker?
As a right-wing listener of this sort of narration, how does it feel to you?
I can't stand the Quartering even on a good day, but I was somewhat surprised by Lunduke being thrown in the same basket. Sure he's an outragemonger, but most of the time I'd read him as jolly rather than angry.
Honestly I think the price of ec2 in terms of server time is somewhat reasonable. Not reasonable-reasonable, but like within 4x the cost of actual hardware and electricity, and honestly it's close-to-cost if you sign a year long contract for provisioning.
Last I looked, the moment you ask for something with a bit more RAM, the prices start getting very goofy.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
How does Amazon get away with charging like 1200x the commodity price of bandwidth of a data center provider like hurricane electric?
That's how:
I could just do it how I'd do at work and have something in like an hour
There was a point where I was questioning my own sanity about AWS / GCP / etc. prices because my calculations were showing similar price differences, but any time I take a look it does seem like they charge literal orders of magnitude more, and not just for bandwidth.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
Whenever anyone says anything to anyone, we should at least consider the possibility that what they said was meant literally. But there's nothing here to suggest a literal interpretation, this is no different than Lyndon B. Johnson's "war on poverty" speech.
And if you disagree, then put your money where your mouth is, and bet me.
it is a promise of war against domestic political opponents who are broadly popular in Chicago
No it's not, unless we're going for selective literalism. If you really believe that, I'll happily offer you a bet on whether military force will be deployed against local Chicago politicians, the same way I offered you one about whether Trump will run for a third term.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
Work cooked my brain last week, so no update.
Since your last comment was on Monday, @Southkraut, I take it the same goes for you?
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
the most we have to show for it is incredibly slow robotaxis operating in geofenced areas within a few select cities that don't have weather, which taxis are under constant monitoring from central command.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
A lot of the failure comes from the fact that European countries could not really fathom a guest worker program with NO route to permanent residency.
I'm pretty sure they existed within my lifetime.
It's not the messaging that spooks me out, it's the sheer size of the marketing and education infrastructure that was deployed in order to drive adoption, the speed with which it was ready to go, and who it was targeted at. Public and public-adjacent institutions aren't usually pushing people towards the latest fads, but this is exactly what's happening right now.
The best mundane explanation I can think of is that it's some galaxy-brained eurocrat scheme to Lead The World In Innovation or something, except that doing a free marketing campaign for American tech companies (which they usually low-key hate) is a bit of a weird way of doing that, and even if we go with that explanation that still kinda is a conspiracy.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
Back then the police was the target of a mass freakout the same way ICE is now, when the Blues stop using their media apparatus to drive a moral panic about ICE the shootings will also stop. It has nothing to do with organic unpopularity.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
No, not in their sleep.
Instead, I was treated to a bizarre presentation, which felt strangely paternalistic and maybe even a little desperate?
Partially out of laziness, and partially out of paranoia (sharing details could lead to my doxxing) I never written out a longpoast that's been on my mind since AI went mainstream. Basically I am deeply convinced that some dude(s) at Davos or wherever TPTB hang out these days, decided in advance that AI is going to be The Next Big Thing, whether it makes a lick of sense or not. I've seen, with my very own eyes, the very kind of workshops you're describing being rammed through in mere weeks since GPT-3 was published, and this happened in sectors famous for their calcification. There's an entire "Tech in Education" infrastructure devoted to getting kids hooked on chatbots as soon as they learn to read or write. There are incentive programs for public sector workers to sit through these kinds of presentations. It's nuts.
Now, is it a bubble? I dunno, someone recently linked some stats about OpenAI revenues, if they didn't do insane overinvestment, I think they should be fine, but the hype about it reshaping the world (+/-, chatbot romantic partners cooking people's brains, people's ability to research and think going into the toilet, etc.) feels pretty fake.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
It's my opinion that if you make concessions to your partners that they require as a basis for partnership, you cannot then renege on those concessions simply because you don't like them.
Yeah, a person I otherwise respect used to have a saying "accept compromise, but keep fighting", and boy I sure have a lot to say about how I hate the very idea of it.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
For one, I don't see why you need any of that evidence.
When people tell me it exists, I like taking a look.
The optics suck, you can tell they suck because they're terrible. You can tell they suck because people are shooting at ICE officers.
If you get shot, does it mean your optics suck, or does it maybe say more about the person doing the shooting?
This was an incredibly popular electoral issue. He crushed the election on it. Now he's underwater on it. I wonder why???
Polls generally are a lame argument, and I'm even more puzzled about why you think the names of The Economist and Nate Silver specifically should carry any weight with me.
By the way, did you just type out the same 2-3 paragraphs in 3 different comments? Are you ok?
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
Yes there is???!
Step me through this, please. Evidence of this being true would require a reasonably deep look at the anti-ICE narrative, the pro-ICE narrative, and some analysis of not only why the anti-ICE narrative is closer to the truth than the pro-ICE one, but an ironclad case for why ICE is being unnecessarily cruel.
I say some reasonably unoctroversial things like "gender affirming doctors are prescribing chemical castration drugs to children" and I'm expected to provide evidence with citations, but you make your case with "yes there is???!?" and repeating "thr optics are so horrible"? Why should I accept that?
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
There's a million ways he could've implemented the ICE program, and he chose one with the greatest optics of cruelty.
Give me the power of mainstream media, and I can portray a "free school lunch" program as having the optics with the greatest cruelty. Like why, after everything that we discussed here overe the years, should anyone, including left-wingers, take any of these declarations seriously?
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
I dunno, yeah I saw people calling the election the moment it happened, but it sure didn't feel so certain to me.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
Fine, let's say I overstated. How many pro-Democrat posters can you find that called her a "blunder"?
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
I think you're presenting a fringe opinion (on the motte, not in the States as a whole) as a consensus, or at least a major fraction.
Ok, hold on, this is likely poor communication on my part. I didn't mean to say or imply that, because the majority of people here rooted for the other side. I mean of the people who rooted for the Democrats, the majority thought Kamala was pretty good. Maybe "great" was an overstatent, but even that is a far better portrayal of the sentiment than "blunder".
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
Receipts please.
Even Ulyssessword came up with several as he was disproving me.
This really does not mesh with my memory of the period;
That's always how it works, doesn't it?
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
Even Naraburns thought she would win IIRC, and I remember Netstack's top level comment how the vibe shift even affected his parents. I think there were two posts about kids sending memes (I didn't make thisbshit up, dude), but one of them was deleted shortly after it was posted. I think Netstack can confirm it's existence, because I asked him about it once (mods can see deleted posts), though I guess if it was deleted ao quickly, it couls have been some astroturf op.
I'll look for this stuff later (am on mobile now), but it's insane we're pretending that there wasn't a fever of pro-Kamala sentiment.
Oh, so then people definitely shouldn't say that it's a decision between a child, their parent, and the doctor, when the doctor is making statements that aren't backed by evidence. Like when a doctor says something like "puberty blockers are fully reversible", or "would you rather have a happy daughter or a dead son (/the other way around)" something should happen to them, right?
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