DelendaEst
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DelendaEst
1d ago
FWIW (1) In general I find Margaret Qualley to be very attractive; and (2) to me, that dance routine was not attractive at all.
Same. I first saw her in Nice Guys around when it came out and thought she was gorgeous in that so I have watched a lot of what she has been in, and I have to say she is one of those Nepo Babies with real talent. That dance is one of the least attractive things I have seen her in. She was prettier in Maid where she was dressed all the way down as a poor single mother.
DelendaEst
21d ago
My evidence would mainly be that for almost all immigrant groups they have followed a pattern of starting off relatively separate and economically down and then in a generation or two melted into the pot culturally and their economic results either hit around the median or even a little higher.
Blacks, despite being here longer than most of these groups and 70 years of actively tilting the scales to give them a hand up remain more culturally distinct and economically downtrodden. This pattern does not match to any European or east asian groups, but does map pretty well to third world migration, especially in Europe, where 2nd, 3rd, and even 4th generation think of themselves as GROUP first and NATIONALITY second (if that), are culturally and economically separate from the main body. Again, patterns that hold pretty well for blacks in America.
DelendaEst
22d ago
Blacks remain meaningfully unassimilated after all these years, probably because of the many third world cultural and genetic traits they have. That does not bode well for the future. Assimilating whites and east asians is not proof that you can assimilate anyone.
DelendaEst
28d ago
I bought my first house in July 2008, so basically the top of the market before the housing bubble burst. Sold it 5 years later for basically the same amount, which considering the overall housing appreciation trends of the past 30 years is REALLY sad.
DelendaEst
2mo ago
I could not disagree more, I love this change from the source material.
In order to have that version work everything after her perception gets rewired functionally makes her a zombie, unable to perform basic actions like suggesting her daughter not go rock climbing today, because she has seen the future and is unable to change it. She is functionally a prisoner inside her own life as she is forced to read from a script. Her take away is to relish the good times and try to remember every detail of them since she can relive those moments ad nauseum, which is a lovely take away from what is essentially a nonsensical horror story ending.
In the movie she sees potential future but retains some agency. Which the science works less well than in the book, it avoids the question of what exactly is forcing her to act out the script and instead focuses on the question of if she believes the good times with her husband and daughter are worth the bad. This is a more beautiful and meaningful ending IMHO, it gives her suffering meaning because she went into it with both eyes open in order to grab onto the good that comes with it instead of her being locked in her head screaming that she wants to pick up the phone and tell her daughter to do anything else today OTHER than rock climb but being unable to do so because she is locked out of agency by 4th dimensional vision.
That worked fine for Doctor Manhattan because part of his story was that the 4th dimensional vision and associated super powers altered him so much he was no longer meaningfully human, and I really liked those parts of Watchmen. But they explained it better and worked with it better.
I got the Ted Chiang Short story collection this story is from, and frankly I found The Story of Your Life (the one Arrival is based on) to be the best one despite my many problems with it. I was pretty unimpressed by Chiang tbh.
DelendaEst
2mo ago
Civil War was a 3 year commitment (which ended early)
The Civil War went from 1861 to 1865, 4 years by my math, so I don't see how that statement works. It was also the deadliest war in American history which I feel like might be relevant, but I am more concerned with how you came to this statement. Are you just thinking about those drafted in 1863 and ignoring the earlier soldiers?
DelendaEst
2mo ago
I used OKCupid during what was apparently it's heyday and I found it pretty good, certainly compared to stats I see thrown around now, which I am deeply immersed in as I am in the process if getting divorced (from someone I met on OKC). I got a reply from like 25% of the girls I messaged and once I had a reply my conversion rate of turning it into a date was like 75%. From what I can see people saying of the swiping apps that is several orders of magnitude better than present day (though the effort involved in finding good matches and generating good initial messages might have been higher, dunno). Once the divorce is final and I spend some time on the new apps I will report back and give my impression of the differences.
DelendaEst
3mo ago
I don't think this works in a world where western liberals automatically assign moral virtue and correctness to whichever party appears to be weaker and "oppressed". In this world providing evidence of your complete helplessness as well as the cartoonish evil of your oppressors wins brownie points, so I don't think we can assume "this makes me look bad, so it much be true else why would I say it?" obtains.
DelendaEst
3mo ago
You just have to remember that Freddie is a no joke commie, but at least he is internally consistent. Commies want to level out all playing fields. Most leftists turn into blank slatists because if the low can be raised up that would be a nice world to live in, and "this would be best, therefore it must be possible, anyone who says otherwise is a bigot" is their standard way of seeing the world. FDB is smart enough to know that's bs, so his solution is that the top are therefore genetically lucky and responsible for lifting up the bottom artificially. When he is talking about taking their money and giving it to the bottom that sucks, but its standard commie bs so it kinda goes unremarked on. But he ALSO thinks the top need to pay in terms of giving the bottom wide leeway in annoying them, disrupting them, inconveniencing then, etc since it would be somehow unfair to ask anything of the poor benighted bottom and the glorious top can surely take the hit. He doesn't QUITE go as far as saying the top should grin and bear being beaten, raped, and killed in order to spare the bottom the indignity of being policed but he sure implies it.
DelendaEst
3mo ago
He is saying Kirk actually died and that still didn't generate much actual shock and disapproval in normies, so an event without a dead body is unlikely to do more.
DelendaEst
3mo ago
Because Patel's Indian and this guy just hates white people is the only thing I can think of. Otherwise complete mystery.
DelendaEst
3mo ago
The onboarding for my new job has been an annoyingly long process, and a lot of that seems to be processes to try to stop Indian fraud, including me needing to go to the recruiter's office to show them my ID in person because the client (the company I will actually be working for) had been burned so many times by Indians coming in to interview for different Indians.
DelendaEst
3mo ago
To your job issue, I was laid off in January and had a really hard time in the job market. Dozen applications a week, no interviews, and only a couple even bothered to send a rote "we had more qualified applicants but thanks for applying" emails, most just ghosted me.
Then I updated my LinkedIn to be more attractive to recruiters. A recruiter got in touch with me within a week. Two weeks after that I had an interview. Day after interview, had a job offer for more money than the job which fired me at the start of the year.
In talking to Claude about this it said that most mid-market software dev jobs use recruiters and that the few jobs that do make it to the job boards are often not even "real" jobs (already internally filled or looking for H1-B and the job listing is just to check a box) and the ones that are get 100+ applications in the first day. Not sure how the market for Network Engineering works, but from my experience getting in touch with a recruiter might be a good idea.
DelendaEst
4mo ago
I got a 1530 and wasn't even close to top of my class, to me it seems like you guys are all living on easy mode.
DelendaEst
4mo ago
Given that Jews have been here a lot longer and thus are not benefiting from as much selection effect I strongly expect that Indians will lose that edge soon enough.
DelendaEst
4mo ago
The notAllMen part of that really annoyed me. The daughter correctly identifies that a lot of the manosphere fans were mistreated by women and then generalized to all women and that makes them wrong and sad. But all men, including her dad, need to feel shame for the choices of those 15 year olds. I know that if it weren't for double standards the woke wouldn't have any standards at all but the brazenness of it never fails to shock me.
DelendaEst
5mo ago
I made a project of reading through some of the classic sci fi I hadn't read before a few years ago and most of it I liked, some I loved, some I thought was meh, but there was only one classic I loathed and that was Childhood's End. It was very pro transhumanism and viewed the entirety of humanity changing to the point they are no longer meaningfully human as a win whereas I see it as mass suicide. The spiders genetically alter the humans plot reminded me of this.
DelendaEst
8mo ago
Immigrants are taking our jobs, except when they're mooching off welfare. (You can make this not-doublethink by phrasing it as "either immigrants are taking our jobs, or they're mooching off welfare". But at that point the fig leaf has wilted and you might as well just admit that you don't have principled economic reasons to oppose immigration.)
That seems pretty different to me. It seems very possible to believe that a large number of immigrants have jobs where they are working for below market wages and undercutting native wages as a result (both illegal immigrants and H1B fall under this) and also that many more are not working at all and are mooching, and that only a small number have market rate jobs. This does not require believing that any single individual is doing both at once in a double think manner. It is even possible for a given immigrant to believe they have done both, say starting as a wage undercutting day laborer and then mooching off of welfare once he was able to get signed up for benefits, or that this individual with the wage undercutting job is ALSO getting food stamps or medicad supplementally or for their dependents. I don't think it requires believing the superposition of A and NOT A simultaneously the way the other examples do.
DelendaEst
8mo ago
I think the reasoning is (1) What he (Mangione) did was right; so (2) he should be acquitted; but (3) his best chance of being acquitted is if he didn't do it; so (4) I will convince myself he was framed.
I am also certain that is the thought process, I just don't see how you can actually convince yourself of that. That's why I used the people jokingly giving alibis as a counterpoint. That seems like the same thought process, but processed by a sane mind.
DelendaEst
8mo ago
I really don't understand the "cops framed him and planted backpack" style comments. They support him BECAUSE he killed a CEO, how can they square that with thinking he was framed. How can you love him for doing it and think he didn't do it at the same time? Literal crazy people I guess.
This is very different from the meme of "Hey Luigi, thanks for helping me hang drywall at X time on X day" which is a joking attempt to provide an alibi. That is gross but at least only requires them to hold the thought of "he did it, and its a good thing" and not ALSO "but actually he was framed."
DelendaEst
8mo ago
That wild difference between patrons and views screams "bot inflation" to me. There are tons of youtubers getting like 5% of that viewership who have an order of magnitude more patrons.
That Candace is an attention whore and the fact that she touts those viewer numbers to make herself seem like a big deal, and that she is a conspiracy theorist who surely assumes everyone else is already botting (many are of course, but hardly all) are all ALSO reasons to make me think her support is largely fake. I assume a mix of bot views she buys to big herself up and ones provided by China and Russia who benefit by promoting the biggest morons (same reason I assume Hasan Piker and the other craziest leftists you can think of have a ton of bots).
DelendaEst
8mo ago
In America today it is already the case that basically no one has to die of hunger or scarcity. But there are still fent zombies, crazy people, and wildly anti-social cohorts which one might want to keep away from ones home.
DelendaEst
8mo ago
From the Indians I have worked with I'd say India follows a particularly brutal version of the 80/20 rule, call it then 98/2 rule. There are a few who are really, really good. The rest are so bad I don't know how they got through their interview (though I have heard having your friend do the remote parts of the interview for you is common amongst that community).
DelendaEst
8mo ago
There's no stable HBD argument that rules out antisemitism. You can't build an argument around 13/52, that simultaneously avoids questions about Jewish over-representation.
That doesn't seem right to me, if anything stable HBD arguments would notice the higher average IQ of jews and say antisemitism is combination of invalid jealousy and valid concern about ingroup bias, same as lefty feelings about white people in general are.
Cosign. It is a spiritual sequel to Kiss Kiss Bang Bang which is the best buddy cop movie of the aughts. I have a hard time deciding which is better.
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