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
The local public school's art teacher almost got wifi banned from the school because of that (and her friends did get it banned from local public housing, using their credentials as licensed reiki energy healers). Sanity only barely prevailed, and I heard rumors it was thanks to a "can you feel the wifi right now? Well... It's off" gambit at a staff meeting.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
When Mastercard bans you from buying a gun or ammo and reports you to the FBI for it, maybe you'll understand the consequences.
In fairness, "Scottish government toppled by man in dress" is somewhat of a dog bites man story after the last thousand years. There's only so many times you can run what's fundamentally the same article.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
If they were subject to the same conditions as common criminals, they'd have been released without bail and then had the charges quietly dropped.
See here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migrationism_and_diffusionism
Not to put too fine a point on it, but an entire generation of anthropology was communist fanfiction with no grounding in reality, and this stuff still informs the prejudices of our educated class today.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
Seattle police have given few details about the shooting and said the crime scene was disturbed before they arrived. They’ve declined to answer questions, saying it remains an active investigation. No one has been arrested.
one man says, standing next to the crashed Jeep, blood stains on his sweatshirt. “And our people weren’t having it. We already had their right tire out and we [expletive] drew down and took them out the car and we gave them the service.”
And three years later nobody has been arrested, because leftist street gangs can confess to murder on camera knowing the prosecutor won't go after them. That's a bigger deal than some capitol hill hipster business losing a few dollars in knick knack sales, but we get accountability for one and not the other.
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.
The WA supreme court has been pedal to the floor on radicalism for several years now, and almost nobody seems to have noticed it.
I was thinking about posting their recent "it's legal to flee from the scene of your crime in a high speed car chase with an illegal gun, but only if you're not white" ruling, but... Why bother? Anyone who doesn't already oppose it isn't going to have their minds changed by example #56,663, they'd just cheer and gloat that another blow for "equity" has been struck, or try desperately to ignore it and downvote+report anyone who mentions it.
People keep posting these pathetic "peak woke!" cope articles, as if they can't bring themselves to admit that this will never end. It's only just getting started, and it will keep getting more insane and oppressive for generations, because the hatred, sadism, and power of the perpetrators is inexhaustible.
It'll take me a while to come up with a full response, but it starts with wildly gesturing at the "latest news about fusion power" being almost as misleading as their race and sex coverage.
I've seen plainly wrong information from associated press reports copy-pasted hundreds of times across different media outlets that just rearranged the sentences and added some fluff. Google "first with 25 mm shells, then a few hours later with ammunition twice that size" for a basic, non-culture-war example of copy-pasted bullshit repeated by every trusted news source. (Some intern at the AP got "50 caliber" mixed up with "50mm." I only remember because I went "wait, the coast guard have 2" guns now?", searched, and found every article serving the same pasta.)
That kind of thing happens all the time, but it only really gets noticed or called out when it's something Conservatives Pounce on: race, sex, gays, guns, etc. For things like biology, history, or climatology almost nobody notices except a few depressed scientists (and surely Hanania should have added guns and "the climate crisis" to the insanity topics list!)
I take a lot of inspiration from "don't negotiate with terrorist memeplexes."
It didn't feel like I was talking to a person at all.
It felt like I was talking to an AI designed to maximize the number of trans people.
The negotiating with terrorists analogy goes both ways. If you read their books they explicitly say that all negotiation is tactical: luring the victim into a moment of vulnerability to line up a kill shot, just like you would offer to deliver a pizza to a hostage-taker so your sniper can shoot him when he opens the door.
We had some wonderful posts from leftists just a few weeks ago who just couldn't understand why anyone would be foolish enough to keep the terms of a social compromise when they had the power to impose their will; the concept was utterly alien to them, like saying it's wrong to lie to Kant's axe murderer. All compromises are a temporary restriction to be abolished the second they hinder rather than help your goal.
Any negotiation you do isn't between two people who can come to a reasonable accommodation, it's between an agent of a totalizing ideology that will not stop until its goals are accomplished... and a victim that stands in its way. At the very best you might experience "united front work":
a mix of infiltration, subversion, propaganda, bribery, and false promises... Key to this work is a candied eye for what Party leaders would today call “win-win” propositions. Both sides win, then win, then win some more—until the Party is in position to impose a decisive win-lose on the other group
To it, you are the criminal that needs to be lied to, negotiated with in bad faith, and ultimately betrayed because no agreement with you is valid or enforceable. Because the goal is not coexisting with you, it is winning and erasing you and everything you believe in from history. Assurances like "nobody is coming for your children" don't actually mean anything: it's just a soothing noise, like an ambush predator instinctively imitates to make its prey feel safe. Or, like in that linked essay, a 1940s Chinese communist party liaison assuring the gullible Americans how much they love democracy and the USA, yee-haw boy-howdy.
So to the extent that being realistic about the intent of these actors is "denying their personhood", I deny it. "Less than human" would be an odd way of putting it, because in some sense being one component of a massive group-mind makes someone more than human, just not in any way that allows genuine person-to-person relationships to exist.
Putting it another way, a soldier wearing an enemy uniform is not less than human. If he was not wearing the uniform you might be friends. But if you walk up to him and offer to talk things out he will just shoot you, because that is the job he put the uniform on to do for his state, becoming the tool of a massive, uncaring, inhuman intelligence that seeks total victory rather than mutual understanding.
I think "we're coming for your kids" answers that one pretty well. Pretty good singing too.
And yes, do you want me to find endless supporters of the bill on Reddit thirsting at the idea of jailing red parents? Gotta do something with all those prisons after "prison abolition," after all.
And no, that reddit admin that was luring runaway teenagers to his house and giving them drugs was grooming children. Discord admins who do the "oh ur 14, that's heckin cute and valid here put on these thigh highs and send pics, we'd better get you on girl juice before it's too late sweetie hehehe" are grooming children. The art teacher who tried to encourage me to come to school wearing panties because it would be our little secret was grooming children. There's literally zero allegory involved in calling any of this grooming!
All of it should be punished. But most of them are just going to get away with it, because sex offenders are very good at blending in with whatever gives them the best camouflage, and joining whatever coalition offers to enable them.
The past few years have been an education in how many people are willing to enable predators for fear of standing out, causing a row, or "letting the team down". It makes you realize how abuse gets so normalized in prisons, schools, Hollywood, scouting, etc.
Haha, it's been that way for ages. Last year there were people saying that there was no crime increase in 2020, the 30% increase was just random statistical noise and Scott was making it all up https://old.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/vn40ma/what_caused_the_2020_homicide_spike/ie5ct2u/
And of course ranting about the fucking pigs deserved their bricks which somehow never triggered the new mods' culture war detectors.
It's been a long time coming, and was preventable at every step if the obvious subversives had been purged instead of being handed the keys. Don't make that mistake again.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
Wait, the effect also supposedly happens to poor white children, but it's caused by racism but white children can't experience rac--
Are people just so well trained that their brains immediately crimestop the most obvious chain of thought here?
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
so a VTuber announces her intent to play Hogwarts Legacy and is immediately dogpiled to the point that she quits streaming. "All those harassers are just right-wingers in secret trying to discredit and kill trans people!" and "She deserved it anyways."
I wanted to talk about this one, but couldn't write anything dispassionate enough. Watching the narrative flip back and forth in real time was enraging, but it was so blatant that even redditors noticed and started quoting the "narcissist's prayer."
People keep saying things like "shooting themselves in the foot", but I don't see that. I see an exercise in total narrative dominance that's only strengthened by how indefensible the claims are. If even a contrarian like Freddie will bend the knee to it, how can it be a strategic error?
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
Reddit looks more leftist than it is because leftist groups are very good at two things: mod takeovers and brigading from their discord hangouts. Stalking post histories made me realize that in most cases the "radically leftist highly upvoted post in a normally non-political sub" is completely artificial.
But my god it's an amazing tactic for imposing the appearance of consensus. Back in the days of the open internet the left was at a disadvantage, but they've adapted wonderfully to this new environment that rewards procedural manipulation and party organization.
Woo, county-wide power outage right before Christmas, with no bad weather associated with it like usual (just a single digit freeze). If it's someone's resistance op I wish him the best of luck: this is a great target.
Seems like a good time to break out the laptop, curl up by the wood stove, and finish the culture war side of "why forcing everyone to only have electric heat with no form of backup allowed by law may be a bad policy choice."
Not that anyone with any power cares what the consequences are.
Edit: Christmas Eve, and power's out again for at least half the day. Only a day between outages.
This has been out there for months without gathering any attention outside of fringe right wing press like The Economist. It's been labeled a conspiracy to be ignored and sneered at, as it will be here. You don't have the power to confront them with it, so they can just pretend it's not happening until it's time to say "and it's good!"
Unsurprisingly, kiwifarms has all the deets and complete archives of their "research," which decisively answer all the deflection being done in this thread.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
As with most of these things, the choice seems to be "tabloids and dissident press" or dead silence. Meaningful Journalists had to be dragged to cover this saga at every step, and only spoke up when the tabloids hit hard enough that the need for damage control made ignoring and silencing untenable.
May as well post this here, but I got a few full month power bills in for the new mini split I talked about in the big heat pump post.
My kWh use is down 14% year on year (35 to 30Kwh/day, 918 vs 1067 total) despite only using electric heaters for supplementing the wood stove last year, vs for 100% of heating this November. Weather was slightly colder this year during most of November. Also a big chunk of one wall was uninsulated plywood this year, and I'm still using electric for one room and a shed.
This reinforces my point that electric baseboard is the 2nd worst form of heating known to man.
Because my electricity is $.113/kWh (with a variable adjustment of -.003/kWh), I'm only saving ~$17 per heating month so far. But that doesn't take the wood into account, and unfortunately that's very difficult without having direct measurements. If the switch was from full baseboard heating the savings would be significant even at this relatively low kWh price. Having AC now will of course increase my summer bills, but also significantly increase quality of life.
Overall it's been an unqualified success. Massively greater comfort, huge time saved not fucking with the fire (no fine layers of ash all over everything!), and all for less money. My house is all-electric right down to pumping my own water, so it's my only utility bill other than internet. Am looking for other ways to save money or build off-grid backups.
But as mentioned in the main post, I'm in the perfect location for using these things, and the electric grid is likely to be severely degraded over the next few years. More on that when I finish editing most of the swearing and Minecraft PvP fantasies out of the follow-up energy policy post.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
Yes: watching this campaign to exterminate all non-regime media has made me certain the exact same groups would use dirty tricks to "fortify" an election, and that denying it is just an exercise in sadistic gaslighting.
Have you seen the new Equity-Centered Food Health Scale that puts Corn-syrup Nut Cheerios and frozen yogurt above eggs and milk? (Iou link)
Implementing any pigouvian tax system in a non-insane/currentyear manner is a coup-complete problem; if you had the power to do it, you'd already have the power to seize the assets of the coca cola corporation and sentence all their executives to a lifetime of community service cleaning your state-run gyms.
My heat pump just got here, and once I've got it installed would anyone be interested in a post on some of the things I learned planning for the build? I did the usual unnecessary turbo-autism level of research, so it'd be nice for people to get some benefit from it before I close all the tabs and forget the whole thing.
There was a lot of discussion on the last heat pump thread, but nobody drew any conclusions. I think I've done enough to make some solid ones.
Related side question: what are people paying for electric rates these days? We've gone from 8 to 11 cents/kWh, which is fucking ridiculous even for the extra costs incurred here. Natgas isn't available here, but in most places the electric/gas price ratio is a huge factor.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
Just sorta shocked there are still people in that thread repeating "crime is at an all-time low, you're imagining things." Really rubs in that facts don't matter, only Daily Show matter. How do you even engage with deliberately invincible ignorance?
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
Yeah. Mentioned last time this came up, but "fat acceptance" doesn't seem to have increased the status of "people of Walmart", just changed the explicit mockery to focus on their fashion, hair, non-designer-brand mobility scooters, etc.
Remember, sometimes when they want to finish a hit piece with "X did not reply to requests for comments at press time", they literally just called the person's office outside of business hours 5 minutes before releasing the article, making the claim technically true. There's been some drama on twitter about this, with journos coming down on the side of "you can't call it a lie!"
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