ArjinFerman
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ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
This was juat a way to prevent him from running. They won't do it if he doesn't run to start with.
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
Well, if you actually believe any of this, my offer to bet about him running for a third term is still open.
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
After spending the better part of a day dumpster-diving through the worst MAGA shit I could find
Well that hardly seems fair, would you say the Smithsonian is a dumpster?
I mean, shit, it’s not like whatever I can throw at you is likely to convince you that actually, you’re wrong and I’m right; any more than than your (IMO unimpressive) examples actually convinced me that I’m wrong and you’re right.
So just to clarify, if you saw the exact same workshops / infographics published under Trump by the exact same institutions, but with races reversed, someone got outraged over it, you'd say something like "I don't see where the problem is"?
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
It's been ages since I used one, but I don't remember it being that bad... then again, I don't really mind C++ either...
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
Wait... was it ALL YOUR FAULT?!?!!
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
Not to mention good for the press.
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
Maybe this is why he's the president, and I'm just a pleb, but surely, when you're pushing 80 and already have 2 terms behind you, you might want to just chill and hang out with the grandkids?
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
Partly because it's not actually everyone, but also because they're different controversies. Mr. "I once shagged my dog" is not going to be any more approving of "I think Hitler made a lot of good points", and vice versa.
Yeah, no. Aziz Ansari didn't shag a dog, and Maya Forstater didn't praise Hitler, and I know that you know that. I know we all wish we lived back in the times when everything was sane, but let's be honest about what time it is.
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
I think what he was getting from his second term was revenge / general "up your's" against the people who messed up his first term. Right now he is being treated as a more or less normal president, so I don't see a reason for him to double-down on spite. Maybe if he actually had a clear and specific vision for the future of the country, I could imagine him desperately clinging on to power to ensure it's correctly implemented. The problem is that:
a) He does not strike me as the kind of man who would have such a vision
b) Even if he was, the safest way to get this sort of thing done is to groom an heir to pass the torch to, and JD Vance is a pretty good candidate for that, and he has a whole bunch of kids and other relatives.
c) If for whatever reason there is no acceptable heir, the only way these sorts of gambits work out, is when you have popular support north of 80%, and I'm pretty sure he knows it.
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
What is even supposed to be the upside of this idea for Trump himself?
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
French has a clear vision - Christians can prosper in a viewpoint-neutral public sphere
That's the least clear thing I've heard in a while. What is "viewpoint-neutral" even supposed to mean?
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
Sure, but if there were to be mass migration from Israel, there would be conflict between the groups and the two-tier policing would favor the Muslims.
But it would still place them above native Europeans.
And no, most of that Muslim migration was not caused by Israel.
Yeah, I know. It was the US.
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
If European law was ever actually enforced, the entire continent would grind to a halt.
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
This is an oldie, and the use of AI boiled down to making the voiceovers, but I probably won't get a better chance to share it with anyone who cares, so here's a video version of my Eunuch Archive post.
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
By the way, you don't have any pics of the progress on this project?
Still refactoring. After simplifying the content import I wanted to consolidate everything so that it effectively doesn't matter whether the user is browsing the automatically imported content from the database, or the API directly (in a nitter like fashion), by putting everything into the same type of data transfer object. This is where I ran into a common issue of mine, where a framework / package does 90% of what I need it to, and the remaining 10% is something non-standard enough to cause the majority of my pain.
Well, I think I'm close of digging myself out of this particular hole.
How have you been doing @Southkraut?
That doesn't seem to follow. Just because you lose a vote doesn't mean you have no support. Presumably there were more than two votes in your favor, but if it's you and your bully friend against literally the entire world it might be time to start asking "are we the baddies?"
Also, to the extent Europe is unsafe for Jewish people, it's approximately 100% due to mass migration from Muslim countries.
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
A woman breaking the "no dick-riding" law (or would that be a "no pegging" law?) is still a woman, she's just a woman who's breaking the law.
Can you really? Because I don't think you can, or rather, what you define as 'woman' is wrong.
A woman is 'one whose social role is to be the bottom in the relationship', as contrasted to men which are the designated tops.
I'm sorry... and you're telling him he's the one with the wrong definition of 'woman'?
Now, you'll probably complain, and argue that a woman actually means 'XX chromosome-havers', but you'll need to explain to me why that state had to be imposed rather than the default state of nature for human beings.
I think I can just say "no, it didn't".
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
> Be journalist
> Spam the internet with "Elon Musk doing Nazi salute at Trump rally" articles
> Wait for articles to make it into the training data corpus
> Ask AI if Elon did the Nazi salute
> Chastise AI for getting the answer wrong
Well, looks like chances are good that our AI overlords might hate journalists even more than I do!
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
That is not remotely what non-partisan means.
I... thought "non-partisan" just means "not divided by party lines", so something equally supported, equally opposed, or roughly equally controversial, would indeed be "non-partisan"
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
No... I mean, like, they look at the profile pic, hear his ai-modified voice on a few podcasts, and go "seems legit".
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
Fixed, thanks!
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
In their defense, I've seen people claim and going some lengths to defend, the idea of him being a woman.
I think it's all of them. Regarding the second one, access to an abundant public resource, such as a meeting room in a public library where it's usually only a question of when they will have an open slot, is probably the easiest case for the concept of "viewpoint neutrality", it would just mean "give the slot to whoever asks first, you can't say 'no'". Even then it's an open question of whether we are currently living under such a regime - there's been cases of cancelled meetings that the librarians didn't like - but fine I can accept the validity of having this sort of "viewpoint neutrality" as the goal, and to the extent there are deviations, fighting against them. Though the other issue is what counts as a "viewpoint"? Do I have a right to give public lectures about public infrastructure sabotage which use local power plants. water treatment facilities, and mass transit as examples (for purely educational reasons, of course)? How about a lecture on the most effective way to sanction Israel-affiliated institutions?
Of course the bigger difficulties start when we consider more scarce public resources. Take for example the shelf space of that same public library, does it have to stock every book in existence? Well, obviously it can't, so the answer to that is "no" and some curation will always take place, but then what kind of curation is "viewpointly neutral" and what kind isn't? A while back I got into a conversation about that with my interlocutor claiming it would be highly inappropriate for parents deciding which books to drop from their library, but apparently fine when the librarians do it, and I still can't make heads or tails out of that argument. Then you can take it even a step further than that, a library can stock books, but it can't force you to read them, but what about institutions that can? What does "viewpoint neutral" education look like? I've seen people propose a "teach the controversy" approach, but aside from "viewpoint neutral" institutions like the Supreme Court deeming it unconstitutional with regards to certain subjects, it runs into the very same resource limitation problems that the library shelves do - you don't have unlimited time to teach every perspective. Finally, even if you did, it would be dubious whether teachers can accurately portray every perspective.
As far as I can tell "viewpoint neutrality", at least outside some very narrow scenarios, is a spook. A pipe dream at best, and outright incoherent at worst.
And regarding the first problem:
...and that's the tragedy of David French. He'll be trotted out to be put as an obstacle for his fellow Christians, but the moment he'll want to cash-in any of that "respect", the people who put him there will suddenly realize his limitations as a thinker again.
...This is, of course, assuming he doesn't know perfectly well what's happening...
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