BANNED USER: Persistent culture warring and petty antagonism
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
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User ID: 1266
Banned by: @Amadan
This is excellent advice for anyone who is currently engaged to and planning on marrying a man. All of those rational explanations will be very convincing if we make the one small assumption that his fiance is, in fact, a bearded adult male who will nod sagely and propose to spend the money on matching rifles and a sensible investment portfolio instead.
Unfortunately it may not be the best route to avoiding hurt feelings if he's for some reason planning on marrying a woman.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
3yr ago
Yeah, they're invaluable, especially when you're working on dirt. Work for cantilevering trees for easy bucking too.
In fairness there's no extra overhead to storing them at active reactors because they're all required to be ridiculously well guarded anyway. It's the ones that shut down and force you to move the fuel that cause trouble, but so far they seem to just be foisting it off on still-active plants.
(Tangent, but that's something that always annoyed me about the Small Modular Reactor hype this guy was involved in. Are they going to reduce security requirements down to "if the alarm goes off my cousin Bob will drive round with his shotgun" to make them cost-effective for, like, heating steam in paper mills? Good luck pushing that one through.)
Just started trail running again after like a year of avoiding it, and oh god my shins lol. I can't even remember if there's any tricks for this any more, although the increase in fallen trees has made it exogenously harder. (Maybe this belongs in the wellness thread? It's certainly not much fun without a partner.)
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
3yr ago
Fair. We'll leave it in your capable hands then, and good luck to you.
I'd love to hear what they did (assuming there was even a "they" to begin with), but it doesn't sound like they were too successful. Griefing vulnerable infrastructure in minecraft is an understudied tactic, and it's fascinating to notice the potential for it all around you in, uh, your local server.
Transformers seem like the big one due to the shortage and huge lead times, especially specialist ones. Some guys from the utility asked to make sure I was keeping my wood stove after installing a mini split, because the single HV transmission line that brings power to our whole area relies on transformers they don't have and possibly can't get replacements for; they did manage to call the supplier's old number a few years ago, but the lady on the phone didn't seem to speak much english and couldn't tell them if the company was still in business.
Also another example of "dimmer vs switch" violence (assuming any of it's true); leftists are a lot better at strategically applying violence to target enemies and bully bystanders into compliance. Rightists only know how to go straight from zero to death con 1. "Go Wolverines!"
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
3yr ago
Oh, so blocking doesn't make the whole thread invisible so you can't reply to anyone in it? That's way better than reddit at least, although it'd be hard to be worse.
Oh, definitely seconding that one. A good leave-in thermometer too, if they don't already have one.
Only risk is that it might come across as backhanded if they overcooked a meal for you at some point. "Oh, don't mention it: it's really a gift for me and that poor turkey you cremated"
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
3yr ago
He does have the rockets already, which puts him ahead of most...
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
3yr ago
Not going to lie, I have never thought to buy someone a 2-ton floor jack for christmas.
There are lots of little cues when you look at a twitter bio, but obviously they only apply to people who are "out". "Pro Contact" or "Pro-C" is obvious, and they get in fights with the "virpeds" over the whole "yes look, no touch" thing. That reddit admin who got fired a while back was part of that circle IIRC, and Vice is starting to peddle humanizing bios of them.
But the real problem in these communities isn't mostly harmless weirdos like that, who if you read their tweet history are usually like "housebound fibromyalgia sufferer on state benefits." The ones you have to watch out for say things like "furry conventions/smash tournaments are totally safe for kids, why don't you come and room with a totally safe adult like me tee hee."
But yeah, if you look it up there's a big normalization push coming from groups like Prostasia, which Snopes will continue to call an imaginary conspiracy right up until it's Just Basic Human Decency Bigot.
I don't really have a dog in the fight, but the gaslighting infuriates me.
I really wish we had access to the machine learning stuff on this that came out last year. It seems like nobody's touched it since, but 70% accuracy is a good sign there's something there. Unless it was just detecting external clues, like selfie angles or club vs bar or bathhouse vs rodeo lighting.
Even if we did talk about, we don't get labelled as a sexual deviant
This is absolutely not true. I don't remember leftists standing up for Larry Garfield after he was fired for kinky sex stuff his employer only found out about by someone doxxing and reporting him.
It's the hypocrisy and gaslighting that's most upsetting about this. Who gets absolute freedom to do anything they want to whomever they want is strictly "who/whom," and the rules will never be applied to protect a group that isn't under the untouchable shield of "queerness."
different groups get treated differently.
One group gets to do BDSM sex play in front of children in public or get paid to come to your kids' library dressed like this, and the other is hunted for sport by the exact same groups promoting the former.
The question is why this goal is so important to these groups. Do you have any ideas from the inside?
The phrase "coup-complete problem" comes up again and again in these scenarios, because keeping censors from having power over you goes way past "make your own international banking system," right up to "pull a Napoleon and conquer europe."
In the call Wednesday, Musk agreed to let the EU's Executive Commission carry out a "stress test" at Twitter's headquarters early next year to help the platform comply with the new rules ahead of schedule, the readout said.
That will also help the company prepare for an "extensive independent audit" as required by the new law, which is aimed at protecting internet users from illegal content and reducing the spread of harmful but legal material.
Violations could result in huge fines of up to 6% of a company's annual global revenue or even a ban on operating in the European Union's single market.
It's literally illegal to not censor things that are perfectly legal, governments can order you to ban anything they consider "harmful content", and we've gone way past the point where rearranging deck staff on the Titanic could fix anything.
To me it reads as "this latest round of funding is obviously just for us to smear around for political purposes rather than solve the problem. Btw if we don't solve the problem earth is doomed, whoops my bad lmao"
The pro forma earth being doomed bit makes it worse for me.
It's actually pretty funny, but no matter how much people make fun of rural Republican politicians for their very clean cowboy hats and boots that have never seen a horse (let alone a cow), they don't dare go for the dishevelled working-man look because the grooming standards in congress are so high and there's a terrible risk people might think you actually work for a living.
That's hilarious, no wonder they always try to make the activation word something weird by default (although "Alexa" must have caused some embarrassing issues in strip clubs)
To be fair all you need to do is click ninja02's profile there to see a furry going
"The reason I like animals in a romantic way is often the same as the reason two humans come together."
And then one click away from that you have they/them/foxself posting Minor Attracted Person Pride Flags
And a click away from that there's zoophile callout posts from a guy who was a "furry daddy" for a 15 year old boy he was chatting about sex with(wtf, how the hell is this not open grooming that would never be tolerated if a straight man did it. How do these people have infinite license to break the law and every social standard?)
The guy may be seeing patterns in gibberish, but you can't dip a paw in furry fandom without turning up zoophile groomers (and it's not because of the art you want banned).
Something really bad happened since I stopped paying attention to furries, and the batshit political radicalization is a tiny part of it. I 100% cannot blame that guy going a bit loony from digging into it, and feel bad my first post sounded unsympathetic.
But as you've pointed out many times, even listening to those at work is grounds for a federal investigation (what was the case with the Gadsden flag(?) you cite whenever this came up?)
Afriad I only got as far as "The Department is committed to a consent-based approach to siting that enables broad participation and centers equity and environmental justice", but boy that sure reads like "taking all the study money and smearing it around political allies to do sociology studies and learning the ancient nuclear engineering wisdom of the Waquampa tribe"
It's just more federal money down the hole accomplishing nothing, so it shouldn't be so upsetting, but the intro speech about how nuclear is necessary to save the earth makes it chafe.
Still eating out of the garden in December, but limited to spinach, kale, collard, a few broccoli still putting out shoots, etc.
Last of the cauliflower has frozen and thawed enough to go mushy, should really do something about a decent dry cooler next year and just yank the lot. On the plus side, the frost-sweetened collards are putting out really nice shoots.
Fall gardening is a lot of fun for all the weird timing challenges between the end of oppressive heat and the death of the sun. Digging that well turned out to be a good idea, because there was hardly any rain until November.
One last call for mini split data before wrapping up the post, specifically from Europeans:
What brand and type do you own, or what brand do you see most often?
For all the "Europe is so far ahead on mini splits" talk, it appears that in Finland they provide a tiny minority of heating (6%?), with the majority being either coal/gas/wood-byproducts district heating (in cities) or gas/wood (in the country). I'm starting to suspect it's another one of those cases where Americans are mostly just hearing from the kind of Europeans who have multiple vacation homes.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
3yr ago
Tell me, are you a John brown gun club member, or associated with similar groups?
What an odd conflation of highly identifiable niche/deviant behavior and uselessly broad identity categories.
If a man with swastika tattoos applies for a job with you after several other men with swastika tattoos blow up a Jewish orphanage nunnery, and your coworker says "woah there, you can't be prejudiced against all men just because other men have committed crimes," I think it's reasonable to suspect that the coworker is simply trying to deflect from the swastika tattoos, yes?
Was sitting outside feeling down one winter night when a cat walked up and climbed into my jacket, instant adoption. Never had a pet before or since, just her.
Wish I could have taken better care of her without keeping her indoors, because she lost a fight with a raccoon only a few years later.
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