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One of the great unwashed.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=p_TLzmjbhG0&t=1368 I couldn't do this, but the philosophy is correct.
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11hr ago
Yep, but as usual the original isn't always the one that goes memetic.
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11hr ago
I don't want to see any politicians rewarding their supporters, but I guess I might as well wish to hold back the tides.
I'm particularly reminded of USAID disbursements to progressive NGO's worldwide, and also welfare allocations to client groups in Minnesota.
He needs to much more aggressively steal from and prosecute and expropriate leftist activists, make their life hell the way the left did to the right in power. This has far better long term utility. Put people on no fly lists, have banks close their accounts, stop renewing passports and drivers’ licenses.
Yes. Basically this sort of weaponisation needs to be turned on their original developers. Only then you can you reach detente through MAD. There are some hardcore conflict theorists that think this will never happen and that the end goal is the destruction of the political opposition. Things have been pretty bad, but I'm surprised at how far this is all going.
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12hr ago
I agree. I think its just 'arguments as soldiers'. Tools to be used or discarded according to how convenient they are in the moment.
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15hr ago
People have tongue in cheek started pushing for ethnic weapon carrying. For the English this would be the Seax.
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15hr ago
I think there's an argument to be made that those from honour cultures find that 'fighting words' are sufficient to prompt violence. I clearly don't agree with this, but I believe that this is the cultural operating system that the family is running. It explains their 'you're racist' outbursts 1 2 3 against the judge and Nowak's family after sentencing. They find the killing justified because of the words they were told were spoken by Digwa.
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16hr ago
A lot of 'anonymous' police sources seem to be telling influencers they aren't happy with the DEI policies, but they need to eat. Here's a front page Times article showing how some are feeling pressured by DEI guidance. One officer of the four attending has resigned, although this was after the damning bodycam footage was released.
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16hr ago
Bit slow however you slice it.
I think the entire family is complicit in detestable tribalistic behaviour here. They deliberately tried to pervert the course of justice by conspiring to hide the murder weapon. The brother and the murderer spoke punjabi about their need for an alibi in the back of the police car on the way to the station. The mother removed the weapon from the crime scene.
Beyond the failure in the police response, the largest thing that makes me upset about this is that while the encounter between Digwa and Nowak occurred at around 11:17pm, the police did not arrive on the scene until 11:37pm. The family knew that Nowak had been stabbed. They called the police and either did not describe the serious wounds of Nowak, or otherwise did not call an ambulance. All of this talk from the pathologist about how the police's actions could not have prevented Nowak's death are irrelevant in so far as an ambulance could have been requested by the family and saved Nowak's life. Instead they let him bleed out.
If leaving the scene of a car accident can be considered gross negligence to the point of manslaughter, why isn't this family being adequately punished along those lines? The system is impotently stacking weapons charges on the murderer, his father and brother, but nothing about how they let him bleed out for an hour before the police arrived.
Edit: I should add there is viral picture of henry being handcuffed floating around with his anemic, sliced hand visable (SFL, but pretty chilling).
2nd Edit: Changed times to match telegraph article, after reading pathologists comments, death was certain.
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3d ago
Yeah, I really liked most of his work as a kid and not surprisingly was receptive to libertarianism when I came across it more formally later in life. Looking back, he did seem to consider space as a new frontier where freedom was maximised.
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3d ago
If anything is a bit implausible, it's the politics - a Moon colony formed by a space industry based out of Kenya, just based on the government deciding to let rocket companies do what they feel like with minimal taxes and regulations? And becoming sufficiently populous to resemble a real city with hardly any real government at all? Seems like a bit much of a Libertarian pipe-dream to me.
Have you read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlein? Similar libertarian themes.
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4d ago
I finished the Aubrey Maturin series about a month ago. Afterwards I got about halfway through Midshipman Hornblower before putting it down in depression. I haven't been able to pick up a fiction book since.
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4d ago
There must be a correlation with certain highly specialised kinks, autism, IQ and earning potential.
I don't recall ever meeting a stupid furry. I had a talented artist friend once and 90% of her commissions were for drawings of furry porn.
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4d ago
She came back from the loo, told me she wasn't feeling it, didn't want to lead me on, and would rather go home. Which is, I want to stress, the considerate way to do it, the rejection equivalent of a clean surgical margin. I told myself this. It did not take. I'm a psychiatrist; I can narrate my own distress in correct terminology while it ignores me completely.
There's always a bit of sting to rejection, even by people you aren't interested in. With the exception of those you're looking for a way to escape from. Kudos to this girl for saying it cleanly and to your face though rather than ghosting you after the date.
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5d ago
My dad had told me that if I ever got suspended for self-defense he'd take me to Taco Bell, and that's what we did. The Mexicans still gave me shit after that but only softly. Softly.
If I ever have a son this is basically my bully plan. Complete permission for self defense, telling him he will need to unfairly get 'punished' by the teachers and then I'll take him to the movies.
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6d ago
I just watched it. I'm a fan of all the Kane Parsons YouTube series, and have spent time on the Backrooms fan community wiki. I prefer Parsons' universe as its more consistent with its lore.
I thought it was good. 7-8/10. Mainly because I like the lore and got more out of it than your average normie.
I like how the lore was expanded and it puts past renditions of 'monsters' into hi-res context, which is great. The universe is more or less fleshed out now in detail, so if this movie does well commercially we might get more.
The twist is that Male Lead is the monster, and the climax is his grotesquely personified id rapaciously chasing Female Lead through a hellscape maze of his own creation.
This is a very valid interpretation of the film. My theory is
As usual with Backrooms, I love that they have normies enter the place and do normie things, which is kind of part of the setting. I don't get how the 'other organisation' is still so unprepared, incompetent and shit scared at going in there, but I guess they're like MRI technicians or something and completely unprepared to that environment.
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6d ago
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6d ago
The Joint Ventures are meant to be putting things under the one roof (and they will literally do so sometimes with a shared Project Office). This is mainly cosmetic though as every individual organisation within the JV will consistently act in their own interest. Its common to see people from one part of the JV send through a deliverable that is meant to go to the end client that says 'no we aren't providing this thing that was clearly in the Master Specification because its outside of our scope' until they get their skull bashed in have things explained by a project manager somewhere in the chain that they need to present their deliverable as if they representing the JV.
The short version is that better reporting structures and hierarchies could be made, but there are incentives against it. Having experience in major bids, there is massive pressure to quickly spin up a Joint Venture and divide the scope of work as soon as a tender is awarded so as best to meet delivery deadlines. This can cause massive confusion in communications at the start of a project as 'who is doing what' and 'what needs doing' is often unclear. Unclear communication channels and reporting hierarchies can persist long into the project, not helped by sub-organisations joining and leaving the project as their scopes are started and completed.
Also the usual financial and contractual incentives can create delay in communication and delivery. For instance, there is an incentive to be competitive on your company's individual bid for a scope of work. This might mean that you don't have much 'fat' in the fee, so to reduce costs you will limit the time you spend on the project (and will be responsible for to your internal line management). You will also not commence work on any part of a scope until a contract has been agreed. Even though the broader project itself may have hard deadlines coming up and a part of the scope has been overlooked and a variation needs to be negotiated and builders are notoriously tight fisted and wish to waste time arguing with architects, engineers and consultants that something is within their prior scope even though it isn't.
There isn't really a way around these issues. It can be common for some correspondence or deliverable transmittals to have over 100 recipients, leading to inbox hell which is its own problem as things get lost in the noise. It was also common to have to remind senior stakeholders that I had already responded or completed a task and here are the attached meeting minutes for the meetings which they chaired six months ago and three months ago where I discussed and resolved the issue at length after being accused of indolence.
tldr; Haven't really found a better way to deal with this except perhaps to push for a single point of contact for communication, but that just plain doesn't work on larger projects.
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6d ago
Major Building projects are often structured under a EPCM (Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Management) model, and sometimes even in a PPP (Public-Private Partnership) arrangement.
This means you can have multiple organisations quickly spinning up a Joint Venture or other structure to deliver the entire project. This might consist of a public procurement organisation, along with a building consortium, an architectural company and an engineering company. In this case you would consider the public organisation to be the end client, but even they may be overseen by independent regulators for certain sectors (eg aviation or rail). Also the engineering or architectural company might subcontract out certain specialist disciplines (acoustic engineering, or landscape design) to other companies. So in some cases you can go: Independent regulator > Public Procurement organisation > Building conglomerate > Architectural Co > Engineering Co > Subcontracted Engineering Co. Due to contractual and other reasons (including individuals with controlling traits), every organization between you and the regulator may want you to line communicate through them rather than directly with any organisation above them. Also within any of these organisations as discussed there could be their own line chain of communication.
Now in practice you can normally talk directly to individuals across the project as long as you cc in relevant stakeholders, but sometimes, particularly when contracts and specifications are involved, things can be bogged down as every person in the chain wishes to review (and sometimes censor or otherwise modify) information provided by those below them.
Also, with mega projects there can be a ridiculous number of stakeholders that might presume you are available for the duration of a project that runs for 5+ years and attempt to contact you directly. This can be why some people refuse to put their mobile phone numbers in their email/Aconex signatures.
Now most of the time things don't go badly, but it has been known for people senior in the hierarchy to have a bad day due to things entirely outside of the control of people lower in the hierarchy and disproportionately escalate issues because they don't understand the systemic reasons for the issue existing in the first place. For a person at the bottom of the hierarchy, this can be very very stressful in some circumstances. Like if the Executive Project Manager Builder screams at an engineer that they are in breach of contract because the engineer didn't immediately provide a deliverable because the architectural firm above them hadn't actually authorised them to do the work, because Janice from Finance had gone on maternity leave.
There is so much more that could be written about this, but just understand that consulting runs into miscommunication issues all of the time, due to factors that are often outside of your control, even if you are pro-active with your communication.
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7d ago
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7d ago
Consulting is very similar. You will have a line manager and then a number of different projects that have a project manager and various stakeholders that you're meant to talk to (including directly to clients for those projects). Sometimes the stakeholders of those projects are in other companies stacked 5 deep (and I mean 5 companies deep, each with their own hierarchies) before you get to the end client.
When going on leave, you're basically meant to tell everyone yourself that leave is happening. Do the procedure with your line manager, but email practically everyone you work with that you won't be available. Then fill out the outlook 'out of office' auto respond.
It's pretty exhausting. No, you can't trust anyone to do this for you. Most of the time your project managers are cc'd in on a lot of correspondence so if someone requests something from you they will step in and remind the stakeholder you are on leave and cover for you. But not always.
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16d ago
How the mighty have fallen.
I was actually regretting equivocating men (even high value men) getting fast food with sex addicts who think that any hole is a goal, but there should be some standards for the women we choose in our lives. Shouldn't there?
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16d ago
In my experience, the majority of guys that really ran up a bodycount weren't picky about the girls they slept with. It wouldn't surprise me if some had a sex addiction or self esteem issue.
I remember one guy who kept telling stories about how a girl he'd bag had big breasts and then a mutual friend would send a photo and you would see that the 'girl' was 40 years old and had 'big everything'. I never understood the appeal of going for unattractive women just to get sex. Mind-boggling.
'Fishing' stories of mass exaggeration were rife in the PUA community. You pretty much learnt only to believe people if you'd personally seen them walk out of a club with an 8+ on their arm.
Edit: Here's a professional athlete that went for some low hanging fruit. When the girl realised he was going for a 'slump-buster' and she'd never be able to wrangle him into a relationship, she went public in a pearl-clutching fake affront. The athlete (while not the best looking) could probably do much better, but is happy to settle for something average. He wouldn't be approaching girls like that on Tinder unless he had success doing so and was comfortable with the quality.
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18d ago
Once you get above the age of 30 your body really knows when it is eating healthy unprocessed foods and when it is not. You can cook very hearty meals that are still made from mostly unprocessed ingredients that are really good for you. Better performance at mental and physical tasks are just the start.
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18d ago
I always used to make eye contact before approaching women, but that's just me. I'd practically never get a cold response doing this, and early on it calmed my approach anxiety.
I knew some guys that would do things like dance up unseen behind a girl and grab her hips and it often had a bad end.
The ostensible realpolitik argument was that by dispersing charity to foreign nations, the US was gaining soft power and influence. It just so happened that there were links between the Democrat party and the people running and working in the NGOs receiving the money to distribute (and fund the required salaries and overheads for the organisations themselves). This was often obfuscated by layers of organisations and sometimes lead to the money being spent on things that were incredibly dubious (eg $2M for sex change surgeries in Guatemala; $47K for a "transgender opera" in Colombia; $75K for a drag show workshop in Ecuador.)
I need to be fair and say I haven't really gone digging for a USAID spending breakdown by left and right wing causes. I guess in some ways 'free welfare' type spending is by definition left wing.
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