ArjinFerman
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ArjinFerman
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3hr ago
Mark Levin may be a shill, but he's more of a Trump shill at this point than an Israel shill. I flipped over to Hannity late last night and all he (Levin) could talk about was what a great deal this was
So... I originally replied (without reading more than one sentence) asking if the guy isn't having a meltdown, because I saw second-hand reports about it. Then I read the second sentence and deleted my comment, and now I ran into a tweet of his, where seems to, indeed be taking it badly... is he doing ok?
ArjinFerman
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3hr ago
I think of surrogacy as probably involving the implantation of a fertilized egg that does not originate with the surrogate. This way, a mother without a functional womb would still get to pass on her genetic material, and it would also make it so that surrogate-purchasers would not be forced to use the surrogate's genetics
I'm well aware, and I suppose I have to go back on what I said about gay surrogacy, as this clearly shows it is actually worse than the heterosexual version. If we just take the moral dilemma from the end of your comment
My view is that the child clearly belongs to the woman who provided the egg.
We can see that this is not what's happening in case of gay surrogacy, where neither woman gets any claim on the child. It is therefore not a result of a good faith attempt at attributing motherhood, but a deliberate attempt to weaken the legal position of anyone on the seller side of surrogacy, and just adds to the moral horror of the situation. And no matter how you do attribution in this case, be it surrogate, egg donor, or mixed, someone is definitely selling a child there.
Now, back to the heterosexual / general case of the scenario, I'm much more inclined to side with the woman actually giving birth. Exceptions make bad law, and your "ovary heist" scenario is implausible and would extremely rare relative to a much more common one: IVF with an ovary donation. Your approach would presumably hand over the rights to over the child to the donor, if she changes her mind? Or do we go "contracts ueber alles", and the donor has no rights because she signed them away, but the ovary heist victim does, because she did not? Is this a general framework, and people can sign away any right in your opinion, or does it only apply to motherhood?
which is potentially very desirable for both sides of the transaction.
"Potentially" doing a lot of work here. I see only one side clearly benefiting from this. If, at any point, the surrogate has a change of heart, this arrangement only disadvantages her.
The financial transaction here is selling the use of the womb, which seems sufficiently icky for someone to reasonably find it unacceptably unaesthetic, but it does not really seem like selling a child unless the birthmother's egg is being used.
A womb is not a disembodied part that can be rented out while you're not using it, and the experience of childbearing can't be sequestered to just it. It's something a woman goes through with her entire body, and which has a significant impact on her mind as well. This is seen in the surrogacy contract itself, which often includes dietary and health clauses.
ArjinFerman
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6hr ago
Still not much progress on the background generation. Mostly I've been goofing around with benchmarks, trying to see if the previous changes did actually boost performance. Indeed I'm now able to run the simulation with +/- 640K monsters at reasonable framerates (for as long as the laptop doesn't get hot), whereas previously I could only reach +/- 250K. However, this only works when I turn off the bullet simulation. It's not surprising it turned out to be a bottleneck - I basically copy pasted the monster simulation code, just to have something working for now, and I had the thought I'm doing the collision detection the wrong way around:
- Currently for each bullet, I check if it hits any monster. There already is a spatial sorting mechanism for the monsters, so it's relatively easy to look up the ones in the neighborhood of a projectile. However, due to the nature of how they move (in a straight line, and separated from each other), each projectile is likely to have a different neighborhood, and this will cause thread divergence
- Instead, I think I should add a similar sorting mechanism for the bullets, and check collisions from each monster to each bullet in the neighborhood. Monsters are more likely to be clumped together, so their neighborhood will be the same, and they will be doing the same lookups, and not cause any divergence. Hopefully... in theory...
That said, I'll leave that alone for now, and get back to the background generation thing.
How have you been doing @Southkraut?
ArjinFerman
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10hr ago
I'm surprised that no one brings up the option "MAGA are Trump supporters by definition, so you're more likely to see the group itself shrink, than to see the percentage of positive responses drop".
ArjinFerman
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10hr ago
How do we know he actually wanted to win, rather than make compelling drama?
ArjinFerman
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10hr ago
The Iranians know the Democrats actually stand by their word, so when we come back to power, we’ll negotiate a better deal ourselves
Even if people bought the argument, they'd also have to explain how two more years of being bombed would make them more likely to negotiate. It looks like co-owning the war either way.
ArjinFerman
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10hr ago
The blame is getting shoved off onto Trump and Netanyahu, who surely deserve it... I can't help but think that others were in favour and have since jumped ship though.
Subordinates are always in a tricky position when they disagree with their boss, because any administration, be it government, military, corporate, or anything else, should present a unified front. If things get bad enough, you can always resign, but that's the nuclear option.
If he chose to come to work in blackface, would I have to answer the question of whether he's black or white, and whether it is appropriate to consider biological factors correlated with that question?
ArjinFerman
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14hr ago
Because if they vote against it, they co-own the war, nullifying the gains from Trump's unpopular decision to start it. The Reps probably would vote against it either way.
That's assuming Trump won't just do it via an EO, and dare anyone to push back.
ArjinFerman
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15hr ago
If that's what it takes to stop this madness, then yes, this was a great victory, woo hoo, go you. Just please don't start any more of these deranged wars.
ArjinFerman
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15hr ago
Depends on the reasons for it. Sometimes a mother can't produce milk, so if it's either wet nursing or the baby starves, it seems fine. If it's because of some aristocratic lady's notions that breastfeeding is beneath her, someone should slap her around and tell her that maybe motherhood is beneath her (though the issue with that is she'd have your hands chopped off for it).
or at least it seems aesthetically displeasing on the same grounds as surrogacy.
Yeah, sounds about right, though it feels less severe to me, as it doesn't involve literally selling a child. From the child's perspective, it's pretty messed up, though.
ArjinFerman
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17hr ago
Two movies, one screen
Indeed. They were hyping up the rebellion leading up to the war. If it didn't happen after all these decapitation strikes, it's not going to happen now. It's hard to imagine the regime not gaining legitimacy from all this.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
One possible negative consequence of the Iran war that I haven't seen talked about much is that it might encourage both the American establishment and the American public to think too lightly of war with China.
I think this is what happened with Venezuela and Iran, but I don't think the results of the Iran war are all that encouraging to take on someone even bigger.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
Yeah, but how is that relevant to what we're discussing?
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
It doesn't make sense to me. If people were leaving cities for small towns and villages, that should cause the price in cities to drop, or at least stabilize. Ditto, if they were leaving some country for another, but everywhere seems to be affected.
Since the mother has signed up to be paid for surrogacy, I am not particularly inclined to view the child as being torn away from the mother's possession. Possibly, I am not open enough to the infant's perspective
Yeah, there's that, but also, it's rather naive to think that it's all fine because the mother signed on the dotted line, before a major transformative experience. And that's without looking into the gory details, like how a lot of them do it out of desperation, how the contracts penalize them for backing out, etc.
but divorce, mothers dying, infant adoption, etc., seem to me like they are common enough that this is not a huge problem
All of these things are massive tragedies, and we don't go out of our way to deliberately create them. Divorce, given it's scale, is a huge problem.
If surrogacy exists at all, it seems like it has to be an option for gay males.
Correct. Surrogacy should not exist at all, it is a moral horror. I don't understand how the thought that this is about gay men, enters into people's heads.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
...or because they don't want to be regime changed.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
There's no way there's this many people with remote high-paying jobs.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
Given the weakness of free speech laws in Europe, the EU (and member states) could have openly censored unapproved views on trans issues the way they openly censored complaints about Muslim immigration, but they chose not to.
A quote from the executive summary that I saved in my draft, but didn't get around to commenting on before posting:
Since the DSA came into force in 2023, the European Commission has pressured platforms to censor content ahead of national elections in Slovakia, the Netherlands, France, Moldova, Romania, and Ireland, in addition to the EU elections in June 2024.50 Nonpublic documents produced to the Committee pursuant to subpoena demonstrate how the European Commission regularly pressured platforms ahead of EU Member State national elections in order to disadvantage conservative or populist political parties.
(...)
The 2023 Slovak election is one key example. TikTok’s internal content moderation guides show that TikTok censored the following "hate speech" while facing European censorship pressure:
- "There are only two genders";
- "Children cannot be trans";
- "We need to stop the sexualization of young people/children";
- "I think that LGBTI ideology, gender ideology, transgender ideology are a big threat to Slovakia, just like corruption"; and
- "Targeted misgendering."
Other than that, you have national laws like the Selbstbestimmungsgesetz or Ley Trans.
If you want to paint the EU as more sane than the US on the trans issue, you'd have to point to the medical establishment. The legal establishment might as well have been directly transferred from the libbiest gender-studies departament in the US.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
I don't see what the aesthetic opposition could be here
Tearing away a child from it's mother's arms is not aesthetically displeasing to you?
unless it is to such a degree that gay males are not able to "aesthetically" have biological children at all.
They can do it the same way everyone else does.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
I'm getting a similar vibe off of recent discussions about the F-15E Weapons Officer's rescue.
I outright reject the possibility of anyone taking the other side of that debate. No, I don't care how many links and examples you have.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
That's substance, though, not just aesthetics.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
Yeah, that's not an appropriate aesthetic for a man in a position of power.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
All this to say: I think I'm just going to be unapologetically ruled by my aesthetic sense from now on, and say that we can allow some grace.
Your terms are acceptable.
Shout out to the nice customs people who, the one and only time I went to the US, thought it would be fun to play ping-pong with me:
- [After waiting in line] you're at the wrong window, you have to go to that one over there
- [After waiting in another line] No, you have to go to that window over there
- [One more time..., and this may or may not have been the first window I came to...] Man..., you gotta speak up for yourself, you can't let people treat you like that....
I suppose I should be grateful for the free lesson.
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