DradisPing
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DradisPing
2mo ago
Nick Fuentes fans. Generally the ones who form online mobs. If you talk about Fuentes on Xitter you'll attract a big group of them at once.
Reporters have been trying to stretch the term by talking about "Groyper-adjacent views" but it's generally very narrow and specific.
DradisPing
2mo ago
There's a huge market for "fun eating" where a unique social way of cooking and eating the food is part of the evening's entertainment.
Korean BBQ. Hot pot. Fondue. Even roasting hot dogs and marshmallows over a campfire.
So think of it as a ready to go memorable dinner party.
DradisPing
3mo ago
It's very telling how Michael Avenatti didn't get disbarred or disciplined until he was arrested for trying to extort Nike. Suddenly the California Bar Association started moving forward on complaints about him stealing client money.
DradisPing
3mo ago
The character creation screen really needs another screen...
I am interested in:
- Men
- Women
- Both
I find mindflayers sexy:
- Yes
- No
- Maybe
DradisPing
3mo ago
Microsoft's focus is on corporate users with remotely managed machines. They don't put much energy into the home user who goes into Control Panel on his own.
DradisPing
3mo ago
Is it providing a real service of protecting the schools from liability somehow?
Most likely the payment processor came to the school with a deal where the processor will provide and install all the hardware and software needed, while giving the school a chunk of that fee.
DradisPing
3mo ago
In the US they used to say "sitting Indian-style". Then that was seen as racially insensitive so they switched to "sitting criss cross apple sauce".
I grew up in an area that just said "sitting cross-legged" and I don't understand why they had to come up with a silly rhyme. Now I occasionally hear adults say it. It annoys me so much.
DradisPing
3mo ago
Dissident Right includes a bunch of sub groups interested in various things, I'm not sure if this nails the correct people you're looking for. These are more from about ten years back than what's probably current.
But here are some books I'd recommend.
Michael Malice - The New Right
Steve Sailer - Noticing
Sailer is a quite important idea person, but his writing is scattered over a series of blogs. Noticing is a handy anthology. Otherwise he's currently writing at http://www.stevesailer.net and https://www.takimag.com/contributor/Steve%20Sailer/6/
John Derbyshire
Collects his writings at https://johnderbyshire.com/Opinions/page.html, has an anthology of essays coming out soon: https://passage.press/products/john-derbyshire
Curtis Yarvin
These are probably the two most important articles to read, https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/05/castes-of-united-states/ https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/05/bdh-ov-conflict_07/
Currently writes at https://graymirror.substack.com/
He has a book "A Gentle Introduction to Unqualified Reservations" that is less accessible than the title would suggest.
Christopher Caldwell - The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties
He's not a dissident right thinker, but the book captures important points
Tucker Carlson - Ship of Fools
Not a deep make you think book, but it lays out the grievances well
Ann Coulter - Adios America
Really only included because it does a good job documenting how the government chooses not to collect a lot of obvious relevant data about immigration, which the left turns into an argument "there's no proof of X, therefore I'm right"
DradisPing
3mo ago
So I'm not on the left, but as far as I can tell it's not really about any specific policy.
The Dem base thinks that Congress isn't doing enough to fight Trump. Schumer supported a continuing resolution back in March to avoid a shutdown and was heavily criticized for it.
There's been talk about having AOC challenge him in the 2028 New York Senate primary. She's leading in some polls.
Mamdani's victory can be taken as a sign that there's a strong dissatisfaction with the Dem old guard in New York in particular.
So with funding set to expire back on September 30th the Dems came out with demands for 1.5 trillion in new spending.
Trump isn't inclined to back down because he's been forced to keep a lot of things in the executive branch due to them being mandated by congressional funding, and now they are technically not funded so he should be free to wind many of them down.
The Obamacare argument is that covid era additional subsidies were set to expire and the Dems want those extended.
Thune is probably quietly pushing for a compromise package where both parties get a bunch of new spending. But I don't think he can sell that to the Rep base without Trump. It's hard for him to go back to voters and tell them that after the 2024 victory he didn't have enough power to keep funding at current levels.
So I think the Dems have the weaker hand, but Schumer probably sees getting a win as existential.
I'm not sure how it's going to play out. It'll be interesting if it's still going on Black Friday.
DradisPing
3mo ago
Reporters are abandoning their standards and playing a game of "we aren't reporting y, we're just reporting that people said y" instead of verifying anything.
Left activists think it's OK to lie in immigration contexts and the press lets them get away with it.
So it's a situation where they trust the government much more instead of absolutely trusting the government. They are willing to wait for DHS Official to look at their records and respond.
You seem to be trying to turn trust into a binary and that's not really how it works.
DradisPing
3mo ago
A lot of that is Americans downplaying British ancestry post 1776. Genetic analysis from 23 and me showed that the US is much more British and Irish than French and German. Scottish vs Irish is hard to tease apart over time.
The US is the only country on earth where iced tea is more popular than hot tea because drinking tea is seen as suspiciously British.
DradisPing
3mo ago
With the SF Bay area the key ingredient was the US Navy doing a lot of research and engineering there. It created a concentration of engineering talent that wouldn't have occurred on it's own.
DradisPing
3mo ago
So I think a lot of the anti-Musk sentiment is driven by him humiliating the wrong people. Space-X makes NASA look bad. Tesla made American car companies look bad. The Starlink deployment in Ukraine made a whole lot of defence companies and EU leaders look bad.
A grossly simplified model of progressivism is that it believes all of the worlds problems are fixed by giving more money to progressives.
A lot of modern problems with governance are caused by the fact that they won't be blatant and just say that 30% of funding must be set aside for fake jobs for families of connected people on the left. Instead they mandate that various consultants must be hired or certain companies must get the contracts. As a result the actual work gets affected.
Here's a video from a NASA subcontractor explaining how the minority owned business requirements are affecting projects: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FIONXPbIkVo
DradisPing
3mo ago
"This post is not available in your country."
Instagram has decided that they are a hate crime in Canada.
DradisPing
3mo ago
A guy with an IQ in the 50s might not even notice he's on it.
He'll probably be sad when his friend the probation officer stops calling and asking him what he's been up to.
DradisPing
3mo ago
These scenarios always seem to end up with either a violent incident where the perpetrators were "on their radar" or a situation that looks like entrapment.
I've heard that the underlying problem is how FBI agents are promoted. They need a bust of a major incident to get a promotion so going in early is a career killer.
So I think this was a good move. It's better to stop a problem early even if you can't get major convictions.
But some of the agents are pissed about it and leaking to MSNBC: https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/fbi-terror-plot-detroit-rcna241148
DradisPing
3mo ago
Outside of that, it's rather obvious KJP is carrying water for Biden. But to what end? Is he not out of politics?
The Biden political machine exists post Biden. Biden was in politics for 54 years. Generations of people have worked for him.
Many of those people are continuing to work post Biden, and I'm sure some of them appreciate her loyalty.
DradisPing
3mo ago
The reality is that forcing them to do a real filibuster would likely kill multiple Senators.
At the very least, there are numerous prominent Senators in their 70s. Putting them through a real filibuster with 24 hour sitting and quorum checks would be humiliating.
DradisPing
3mo ago
I'm kind of surprised nobody else is pointing this out! Am I hitting on some truth neither side really cares to acknowledge because it doesn't support their favorite platitudes or am I just smart enough at economics to twist myself into a gnarly retarded knot?
There's a direct line from that argument to strict immigration policies on a national level. The high housing price areas are also all very liberal so making basically assures they'll never listen to you.
DradisPing
3mo ago
I think Trump wants to get out of Ukraine without taking blame for it.
EU leaders are fully committed to Ukraine as part of their grand EU project, but don't want to commit their own resources on scale or take the blame for failure. EU foreign policy experts are basically in a state of delusional groupthink.
So Trump is doing a dance where he acts cooperative enough that they won't all band together and blame Trump while also attaching conditions that EU leaders are unwilling to meet.
He probably enjoys messing with them, but not enough to actually affect his behaviour.
DradisPing
4mo ago
I think something that we should at least try is getting the SEC to require major companies to price in a 10% chance of a strategic China shutdown into their projections for the next year.
They have risk management teams anyways. It'd be much less invasive than trying to do strategic tariffs.
It might not work, but I think it's worth a try.
DradisPing
4mo ago
The mosquito-borne disease discussion always bothers me. The diseases are tied to specific species and to me the solution is obviously that we should make an effort to eradicate those specific dangerous species.
There's always a knee jerk "oh no we can't do that". But generally things like the Anopheles mosquito are invasive and well outside of their natural territory. There is just no downside to exterminating them in most areas, and no real downside to completely wiping them out.
DradisPing
4mo ago
an older piece that has unicode hiccoughs
Younger coders have no idea how rough the CP-1252 to UTF-8 changeover was. It was complicated by writers who knew nothing about it but loved pasting in text from MS Word with curly quotes.
DradisPing
4mo ago
Mohawks seem to have a reduced fear of heights. Some people think it's genetic, but I'm not aware of any actual science on the subject.
They aren't exactly a terrorist group like you're probably thinking, hidden with cells.
Somalia is in a civil war. Al-Shabaab is an Islamist faction in that war that commits terrorist attacks and is affiliated with al-Qaeda.
A lot of the Somalis in the west were refugees because they were supporters of Siad Barre before his government fell in 1990. Somali naming conventions are somewhat opaque to outsiders, so it was easy for colonels to just say they were teachers. The Barre government is hard to pin down ideologically, it was allied with the Soviet Bloc and also Islamist groups that opposed westernization.
So a lot of American-Somalis have family aligned with al-Shabaab due to tribal loyalties, support for Islam, local family strategies, etc.
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