DS3 is when you say ‘fuck it, this is definitely the last one but we can at least do it well’, and you get back the reluctant Lords of Cinder (Miyazaki-san and the team who worked on Bloodborne) and squeeze out whatever is left for one last hurrah.
It’s the end of Dark Souls but you feel that something new will come along one day and that’s enough to lift your spirits a bit…
Your modus ponens is my modus tollens, though: if the vibes don't match the stats, then either the vibes are wrong or the stats are wrong/irrelevant.
For example, looking specifically at that patent page, do you really believe that innovation from 2010 to 2020 was 2x or 3x the innovation between 1870 and 1990?
Corvos
27d ago
Agreed. Although they make a half-hearted attempt to pin it on 'Mr. Trump' for reducing the level of official deliberation required for these missions, this story is broadly:
- Something I didn't know.
- Something I would have liked to know.
Kudos to the NYT.
Corvos
27d ago
In all serious, I think it's mostly down to goodish users and robust moderation, especially in avoiding #2.
Corvos
27d ago
On the flip side, arguably the most prominent leader, in the whole worldwide pushback against trans, is an Irish woman.
JK Rowling? She's English, born in Gloucestershire. Parents also English, though with Scottish ancestry and on naval posting in Scotland for some time.
Fair. I would consider ‘no meaningful political or extra-political power’ as ‘quelled’ but that’s really quibbling over semantics.
Without that threat, the geographical sortition that has been ongoing for well-over a decade should make it possible to simply allow them to stew in their own shitholes
I would say this is optimistic. The fact remains that the high-paying and high-status jobs are all in Blue areas and are likely to remain so. Your children and their children are likely to have to grapple with some level of Blue domination for as long as this is the case, although having a reliable bolt hole might make this more comfortable.
Corvos
28d ago
I believe that the problem is Blues; if it were possible to coordinate with Blacks and Browns against them, that would be an entirely acceptable outcome. Browns and Blacks are a problem to the degree they empower Blues; if blue power is broken, disputes with blacks and browns are solvable in any number of ways.
But, if I’m reading you correctly, ultimately your end goal is to form a regional society of people who share your moral intuitions. If Blacks and Browns refuse to relinquish Blueness, or at any rate refuse to become sufficiently compatible with your Redness, doesn’t that mean you will either have to quell them or expel them? And if so, isn’t TDJ just skipping the middle steps?
What solutions were you envisaging?
Corvos
29d ago
The trans people went after him hard for making a very funny episode about an MtF trans person before such things were sensitive. It's both very unkind and rather touching, but in any case the trans complex went after it hard.
At the risk of impromptu psychoanalysing, Graham Linehan has always been on the winning side of the culture wars before: Father Ted affectionately but firmly took the piss out of the Catholic Church just as it was dying out in Ireland and while neither Black Books nor the IT Crowd are exactly politically correct, everyone was in no doubt that their author was basically sound politically.
Then suddenly that got turned around on him and I think it was a big shock. All that time being a feminist and so on and suddenly the winds change and he goes from being universally feted to standing with the baddies. I can imagine that being pretty shattering.
Corvos
29d ago
Try Charlie Hopkins:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyJrI7fwl_bP2ZUBhVxJpQJgKHf8RX4Or&feature=shared
It's complicated. They can't protect from depredations by more advanced neighbours, so in that sense no. But they aren't necessarily competing for the same type of resources. 'Produces food if you leave them alone' isn't the worst civilisation trait to have in a neighbour but it depends on whether you are Nuclear Gandhi.
Not just computers. If conscious experience (qualia) is just an innate consequence of information being processed*, regardless of the substrate upon which that occurs, then e.g. a sundial must be very faintly self-aware.
*And just asserting that doesn't give any actual insight into how qualia arise or work
Corvos
29d ago
The creed is viable, inclusion and exclusion work, the nation prospers, but the creed isn't actually western liberalism so we don't want it. I have no examples on hand.
The Amish? Depending on your definition of 'prosper'.
Corvos
30d ago
I wonder if this is just a general human behaviour, and we would have seen exactly the same pattern discussing the Dreyfus Affair in 1894.
Corvos
30d ago
Protestors took over a section of Seattle to create a literal militarised zone in the middle of a major city that seceded from the United States, in which multiple people were murdered. I can't find records of any associated prosecutions.
On the one hand there was no possible way this threatened the US government. CHAZ was dismantled by force after a month, once enough people had tied that police felt okay taking action.
On the other hand I can't see any viable way that Jan 6 threatened the government either. People broke into the government building for a while, milled around and then left. There's no chance they make it past armed security to the VIPs and even if they had, it would have sucked for the VIPs but not affected the US government one iota.
If your argument is that senior officials take threats to themselves from the outgroup much much more seriously than threats to vastly greater numbers of people arising from looting, burning and murder by the ingroup then I agree with you but it doesn't paint a pretty picture.
Corvos
30d ago
I can't help feeling that once you get to the point where you're telling clear, absolutely 100% barefaced lies to public representatives in public on a question of massive public interest, you're reaching 'Here be Dragons' on the map of morals. "If such programs existed, they would be classified and I would be unable to discuss the subject" is about as far as I think you can go before you're in serious danger of losing your soul.
The traditional thing is singing in the bath(room). The tiles resonate nicely for everyone else in the building :)
A family friend was once met in the hotel corridor by a Frenchman who complimented him on his rendition of The Marseillaise; the walls had carried the notes from his ensuite perfectly but thankfully not my friend's words which were his own private tune and began:
"A French-man saaat on the laaaaavatory...!"
Corvos
30d ago
I think you’re right. Twenty years ago, though, he wouldn’t have got away with a lot of the controversies he’s had.
What happened IMO is that the sheer unilateralness of reputational attacks (and the increasingly obvious willingness to manufacture them) became so clear that people stopped going along with it.
The same process is not quite as advanced in the UK which is one reason why Boris Johnson was brought down by IMO a largely confected scandal: Cakegate.
In an ideal world, we would all retrench and agree on what compromises we need to see and what rules we’re seriously willing to hold in common, but people don’t work like that and neither side believes they’ll gain more from peace than war.
Corvos
30d ago
it’s yours, so you can do what you want with it
One problem is that most computers these days is basically a monitor attached to an Ethernet port. Even excluding licenses and EULAs, almost nothing important is happening on hardware you own.
Corvos
1mo ago
Yep, this is the base of it as always. Humans gonna human. Not even sure it's a bad thing per se.
Corvos
1mo ago
I think everyone here is putting far too much thought into this. The well-to-do hate and fear Trump for the same reason that others love him: because he’s been spamming I AM YOUR OUTGROUP signals at them ever since he rode up a golden escalator and announced that Mexicans coming over the border were largely rapists and thugs, and nobody has been able to nobble him for it.
Corvos
1mo ago
older than me
Double-dipping but my instinct is to say that this is correct. In the same way you would use 'He is older than her' rather than 'He is older than she'. But I see there is much disagreement.
I like this reddit post:
So, in the future, you're really better off consulting Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage for questions like this. You can see a preview here.
What it has to say on the issue of than, starting on the left column of page 892, is that "[a] dispute over whether than is a preposition or a conjunction has been going on now for more than two centuries. It is one portion of the price we pay for the 18th-century assumption that the parts of speech of Latin and Greek are readily applicable to English, an assumption that continues to gain uncritical acceptance to this day."
After describing the side championed by Lowth 1762 (holding essentially that after than comes the nominative case, except than whom), the side you're basically getting here, it quite sensibly allows for the use of than as preposition or conjunction, licensing both "taller than I" and "taller than me", citing Shakespeare ("A man no mightier than thyself or me", Julius Caesar, 1600), and several distinguished 19th and 20th century authors for prepositional uses of the phrase.
https://old.reddit.com/r/grammar/comments/oig7q/my_brother_is_two_years_older_than_i_or_than_me/
Corvos
1mo ago
If anime has taught me anything, it's that any physical effort must be accompanied by
haAAH! URYAAH!! dOORYAAAA!!! or at the very least yoi-shou!
You should hear me taking out the bins on a Monday morning...
(All joking aside, I almost never make noise when lifting and it's irritating when other people moan on every rep)
I don't know if it's a mark of emotional health or the opposite, but I would love to have another me around the place. Like anyone, I spend lots of time in my own company anyway, I would expect me to understand me better and cooperate with me better than anyone.
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