ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
Writingwise Warcraft 3 was not great compared to WC2 and Starcraft 1, but gameplaywise it was solid. And yhe writing was definitely better than the garbage we got in Starcraft 2. Warcraft 3's greatest sin was that it was so popular it was able to kickstart World of Warcraft's popularity which in turned sucked all of the oxygen out of the MMO genre and also got a ton of studios to waste mountains of cash trying to imitate it.
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
What do Japanese sources say about Yasuke that differs from English ones, specifically?
A short summation of what actual historical primary sources say about Yasuke:
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He was brought to Japan by Portuguese Jesuits. They gifted him to Oda Nobunaga because he was fascinated by his dark skin
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He was present at the Honno-Ji temple incident when Nobunaga was killed
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He got returned back to the Jesuits
There are a couple of very minor other details (like Nobunaga ordering him to bathe to prove that his skin was really dark) but that's about it. In total there are maybe 20 sentences about him in primary sources. Compare this to William Adams a few decades later. Adams has far more written about him, and we even have his own diaries from his time in Japan under Tokugawa Ieyasu.
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
But all the hobos hang out by Pioneer Square (or at least did when I had the misfortune of living in Seattle a decade ago), and it would be oppressive to force them all to trek up to the Space Needle to shoot up safely.
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
I liked Hlynka but my biggest issue with him was when people would respond to him with specific arguments and he would completely ignore them and/or refuse to address them
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
The pHD dissertation on the colonialism bias of the smell of Indians is beyond parody
Got a link? I need to read this
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
a side effect of this taken across a whole society is an extraordinarily vulgar* culture that produces little thought, little art, and can't handle critical perspectives
How do you square this with the phenomenon of "this artist expressed rightwing opinions, we have to disavow anything he ever made"?
It actually slows you down in many cases to try to use LLMs for programming.
For an example of this happening literally right now, see ThePrimeagen and other Youtubers spending a full week streaming themselves making a tower defense game through "vibe coding." Prime and the other streamers he's working with are all talented and knowledgeable devs, but what they're making is an absolute mess. They (or two or three decently competent devs at a weekend game jam) could make the same or a better game in a fraction of the time if they were coding directly instead of using an AI to do it. And the amount of work they have to do to fix the AI's messes are way more than they'd need to do to just make the damn game themselves.
They dump some large datasets as well. It's entirely possible they faked it all (or at least the parts to show discrimination) but the amount of data leaked makes me think it isn't fake.
A hacker hacked NYU (both some of their internal databases and their public website) to show that NYU is still practicing affirmative action in spite of the supreme court ruling that was supposed to end the practice:
What would be the way for the courts to actually make sure this ruling gets enforced? Would some sort of federal commission like the ones that were put in place to monitor black voting rights in the south work?
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
The Crazed Caca Consumer and the three fingers > all
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
Or you could put your skills to use making your home country less of a shithole so that you don't need to immigrate
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
I just feel like being excessively harsh on illegal immigration is punching down.
Unfortunately it's the natural and necessary reaction to things like benefits specifically for illegal immigrants and certain states like California bending over backwards to favor illegals over citizens and legal residents.
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
A reasonable compromise here would be giving people who’ve been here for a certain amount of time amnesty and a green card. Hard to support this
We tried that compromise in the 80's, and it didn't work then to stem the tide of illegal immigration it only encouraged it. Why would things be any different this time?
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
I mean a more expansive view of language as a series of context-dependent games
Conservatives don't do this due to a "remarkable lack of intellectual imagination", they don't do it due to highly accurate pattern recognition that people who view things this way love to destroy civilization and law and order.
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
Why do you even need an SUV to buy things? You could just walk a few blocks in a sensible city and get whatever you need. The SUV solves the problem the stroad created.
Do you have children? How many people do you need to buy groceries for? Have you ever needed to buy one (or multiple!) sheets of plywood? Do you own your own home, or do you rent an apartment?
Car/stroad haters seem to overwhelmingly be young, childless, apartment-renting city-dwellers. If you somehow aren't, then your critiques make no sense.
I lived in Europe as a missionary for two years. Carried all my shopping by hand either walking or on public transit. It sucked then, and I was 19 to 21 at the time and extremely physically active and only shopping for myself (my companion was carrying his own groceries). It would suck far more now.
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
Hillary Clinton
That's because rumors about her being a lesbian have been around since the 90's
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
Hard to properly and believably inflate your billable hours when you can't do math.
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
My mom was a special education teacher for many years, most of that time was with the moderate to severe kids. I worked as an aide in her class on several different occasions. The reality is that many mildly mentally disabled kids can be taught enough to be able to be mostly functional adults (though they'll likely need help on a somewhat regular basis) while the moderate to severe ones never will, and will require constant care and supervision for the rest of their lives.
Schooling does little to nothing for these kids, but the problem is that school's real purpose is to be a state subsidized daycare to enable women to leave the home and work. Even though I vehemently disagree with school being used this way, that's the reality. Without these programs these parents will have to (gasp!) take care of their kids instead of working two jobs!
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
Maybe we could have a subforum where the copy is posted and a reply with a link to the subforum post is put here, to avoid clogging up this thread with duplicate walls of text
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
In 1994, Ukraine, Russia, the UK and the US signed the Budapest Memorandum.
Important note that almost everyone who brings up the Budapest Memorandum always seems to forget (or even intentionally omit): it was never ratified by the US Senate. In the US, the constitution requires all treaties to be ratified by the senate. Without being ratified, any treaties are not legally binding and aren't good for much more than toilet paper.
This phenomenon also seems to happen in literally any discussion about the Paris Climate Accords.
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
Yes, but they mean the USSR wasn't just "An evil country more or less minding their own evil business"
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
An evil country more or less minding their own evil business is quite a different thing to an evil country successfully marching on the entire civilized world.
The USSR invaded or otherwise annexed through underhanded means Finland, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and parts of Romania (hint, this is part of why Moldova is its own country) at around the exact same time that Germany was conquering Poland, Czechoslovakia, etc.
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantu_expansion
The population that was actually native to the cape region were the Khoisans
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
At least in the US, the courts have sadly made booby traps illegal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katko_v._Briney
I had a college history class (ancient near eastern history from the earliest written history up to about the time of Alexander the Great) where all our exams were essays that had to be written in the school's testing center within a time limit. Sucked majorly but I learned more in that class than any other. For the essay we were given a prompt as well as a list of historical ideas, people, events, etc. that we had to tie into our essay in an intelligible way (or rather we had to tie a significant amount of them, something like 80%, into our essay).
I knew I had truly learned/internalized the course material when I was walking through the school library and saw some ancient Egyptian papyrus framed on the wall. My brain looked at the person depicted and how they were presented on the papyrus and said "that's Amenophis the First" despite not knowing a lick of Hieroglyphics.
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