Fruck
Lacks all conviction
Fruck is just this guy, you know?
User ID: 889
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
4mo ago
I guess 'or something' would include 'not see the woke in the same light as an invading military force literally shooting people in the street, obviously, why would we?'
Fruck
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6mo ago
There are scum bags everywhere, for sure, but the perverse incentives start with the insurance companies. You can't pull a surprise out of network anaesthesiologist out of your pocket if there aren't any networks. It's the insurance companies who ban pharmacies and doctors from talking about the price of medication and offering cheaper alternatives. And it was insurance companies who instituted the policy of denying every claim first and forcing patients to pull teeth getting their claim covered.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
6mo ago
Can you unban him for 24 hours so I can ask him where he draws the line between 'whole narratives are engineered from the ground up as weapons and should be ignored with extreme prejudice' and Arthur Chu mindkilling himself on a regular basis? Because they are definitely on the same continuum but I'll just look like an asshole asking him now he's banned.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
6mo ago
o3 will probably still be stumbling over "how many 'rs' in strawberrry"
On the side, I reckon this is a perfectly reasonable thing for llms to stumble over. If someone walked up and asked me "How do you speak English?" I'd be flummoxed too.
Fruck
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1mo ago
But by saying they want to self destruct all you are doing is absolving yourself of the responsibility to help them by putting your failure on them. I'm saying absolve yourself of responsibility, it's not your responsibility to fix them any more than you feel is required of your morals - but don't put your failure on them. If you write people off, you probably had good reasons, but you still wrote them off. Saying you wrote them off because they made you is passing the buck. Like always, my biggest concern is personal responsibility.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
3mo ago
I think it would have turned out ok if he'd stuck with them though, or at least not backed down the way he did.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
4mo ago
Did you try the assassin's creed rpgs? Origins and Odyssey? They are my favourite games in the series, like if the Witcher 3 was historical fantasy.
Also based on your list there I'd suggest checking out Arkane's games if you haven't already. Dishonored and Prey are phenomenal and a good balance of strategy and pacing.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
4mo ago
Just after the quote of Matt Walsh saying "white Christians deserve political authority over the rest of America".
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
4mo ago
No don't you see it man? When the state gives you everything it takes away the only thing that matters - purpose. You have 'failed at life' because you were just given all that, you didn't achieve it through hard work, and it is therefore worth less to you. This is felt especially innately by men coming from a culture that values the masculine provider, like the middle east - no matter what rationalisations our Muslim freeloader hears, deep in his heart he knows his father thinks less of him and his father's father wouldn't even spit on him. And it's not like he's too busy at work to brood and plan.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
4d ago
Your semi-trolly comment is based on the shared cultural assumptions that housework = drudgery and art = purpose. We can automate processes, but not purpose, so on the path to eliminating the drudgery of housework, we eliminate the drudgery of soulless art. But people want to do art - not corporate memphis prints of mixed families at a picnic, they want to express themselves. So even while corporations all converge on an art style specifically designed to be 'inoffensive' and mass produced, even as ai makes it trivial to 'bring your imagination to life' and ghiblify your photos, people wistfully dream of the day they can stop working and make art. IGOR beat Father of Asahd in every conceivable metric. We might not notice authenticity, but our brains do.
On a similar note, if you pick a career as an artist to make money, you should get the paint in your house tested for lead. You pick a career as an artist because you want to express yourself more than you want to make money - stupid maybe, but it's true. Sometimes you have to make money anyway though. Does that make your expression inauthentic? No, because it's still driven by purpose. And necessity is the mother of invention. Simply by choosing a life of squalor so you don't have to work 9 to 5 (what a way to make a livin! (fuck that's what I'm singing for the rest of the day now)) positions you to make authentic art. Does that mean you will make authentic art? No, you can still make slop for a paycheck, and that slop might even be popular if you put your soul into it. I don't think anyone would disagree that The Boondock Saints was slop, an attempt to cash in on the Tarantino bubble of 90s movies about hitmen. It is also earnest as fuck and people love it for that.
Artistry is at all times a battle between those who wish to express themselves and those who wish to turn that expression into money. Sometimes and in some places it leans one way, while in other times and places it leans the other. Hair metal and bands like Poison look soulless in comparison to Nirvana and Hair Metal dies, then grunge gets coopted by corporate and refined and streamlined until we get Creed, who look soulless in comparison to The Strokes, and so on, same as it ever was (in case you don't like Dolly).
Fruck
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1mo ago
Lmao I am stealing this framing. And yeah, I remember seeing on the ABC a study showed that in Australia 70% of people are unlikely to ever drive above 120 km/h, let alone miles. My perception of speed is poor in the opposite direction - as a kid I couldn't really believe the speeds in Australia - we have to do 50km/h in suburbs? Why not just walk?
Fruck
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2mo ago
Actually that would provide negative equilibrium, and it is the default I expect people would go to so I'm stepping in quick, because the equilibrium I'm looking for is in emotional valence. Too nice/too mean would solidify the manichean premise that one side are being 'good' while the other are being 'bad' and I think we see enough of that already. Some republicans might revel in the cruelty, but that's just the lizardman constant, some number of people are always doing that no matter the side. Republicans need a way to defuse that angle, and I think naive is a strong response - to the point without being too insulting.
Fruck
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4mo ago
Lmao did I offend you somehow? That was not my intention, but this is a terser response than I expected.
No I am not 'insanely' projecting my post-protestant American work ethic on a culture that blah blah blah. I am describing the mindset of a particular type of person, the kind of person who gets given everything by the government but still works - as a doctor no less - and still also finds time to lobby the government, but still thinks he failed at life. That is the kind of guy who sees handouts as stripping him of purpose - if he didn't he'd be like your pot smoking buddies, languishing in ennui.
Fruck
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5mo ago
You and I have different definitions of good porno if your idea of quality is a nude Bobby Fischer ejaculating every time someone says "those people". Compelling, sure - good though?
Fruck
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7mo ago
Can you explain why so I don't have to watch the video? All of the negative reviews I've seen are bitching about the performance, which hasn't been an issue for me or my circle of gaming friends, the only bitching about the gameplay or story I've seen has been generic 'oh its corpo shlock with cut content and sweet baby were involved' and that's a knee jerk reaction these days.
Also on the side, you shouldn't buy any triple a game that isn't on a deep discount. With things like gamepass and scheduled steam sales triple and double a devs instantly put about $30 on top. It's a sick industry that you should exploit however you can, because it will do the same to you.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
7mo ago
So, back to the original wording, critical theory pattern matches really well into "all have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God, so continue sinning because God can take it- that's the duty of the all-powerful, isn't it?".
How would you respond to that question?
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
3mo ago
Shit man, if you are 59 years old you really ought to have figured out what a bad person is by now. Or at least have some inkling. I am similarly confused if you meant you don't understand what he meant by 'insinuate you are a bad person'.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
1mo ago
Oh you want data? Read all of the motte - it's all in there.
I point blank do not believe you care about corruption. At all. If you cared about corruption by anyone as much as you claim, you should already have investigated the claims against the previous administration, and you would have had no choice but to conclude that it at least looks fishy, and therefore you would have investigated it and you would now have bulletproof arguments that it wasn't corruption. Since you claim that you don't even know what corruption the previous administration has been accused of, I can safely conclude you don't care about corruption, you care about Trump.
And I did not imply that republicans are immune from criticism. My implication is that nobody gives a shit about corruption on their side anymore. I have been beating this drum for years, but I have been explicit about it since Trump's election - this is democrat's own fault. There is a point past which spite becomes an acceptable justification and they pushed the right there. They had plenty of warnings this was coming, plenty of people were willing to point out that the right would only tolerate two tier anarcho-tyranny for so long, but they were ignored. So now they reap the whirlwind.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
1mo ago
Nah man, you don't get to say that, not after people screamed until they were blue in the face trying to point out the corruption of the democrats in the past few administrations only to be gaslit by the fucking government and media and have their lives ruined. You don't get to punish anyone who mentions corruption and then when you have silenced them claim their silence is proof they don't care.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
3mo ago
This is such a fucking weird angle, I don't understand why progressives keep deploying it. No, they were explicitly what the people asked for - an end to stupid frivolous spending. Not an end to social security and Medicare. Nobody asked for that. They just wanted to stop the USG from spending American tax dollars to fund ridiculous frivolous bullshit like communist rap albums and teaching lesbian farmers about sustainability.
And considering your position on Trump, the idea of you wanting him to go after Medicare and social security is confusing. It's like you actually don't give a shit about the economy, you just want Trump to do more big things "where Trumpian buffoonishness is almost immediately apparent in a number of ways", because the only thing you care about is being outraged and outrage at trumpian buffoonishness often has a curious way of dying out with the start of a new media cycle.
Fruck
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3mo ago
No government – regardless of which party is in power – should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue
(Garber quote from the first article)
Harvard struck a blow for academic freedom today when they stood steadfast against the civil rights act. Asked for comment on the matter, Harvard president Alan Garber replied "there is not a single value I hold I wouldn't throw away to make Trump look bad on CNN."
Harvard struck a blow for academic freedom today when they refused to stop asking the JQ, despite threats from the Trump administration. Asked for comment on the matter, Harvard president Alan Garber replied "according to the studies we've been doing over the past few weeks we won't need as much federal funding anyway without ALL THESE MISERLY KIKES around."
Harvard struck a blow for academic freedom today when they refused to allow the Trump administration to dictate policy, despite the threat of a freeze on federal funding. Asked for comment on the matter, Harvard president Alan Garber replied "I originally thought maybe we could moderate a little, but I have been reliably informed that this is the only path that still gets me invited to parties."
Jokes aside this is a negotiating tactic, just like Trump's overbearing demands.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
3mo ago
Was it on the motte that I saw this joke again recently? It feels appropriate though.
A guy is walking through the park when he comes across a chess table with a man seated on one side and a dog seated on the other. The man stops to watch them and he is astounded to see the dog is actually playing! He professes his astonishment to the man "your dog is amazing, I can't believe he can play chess!" The man snorts however, and turns to him with a sneer, "Amazing? Amazing nothing, I still beat him nine times out of 10."
I think it's amazing that we can even consider getting a computer to write a game for us, having grown up in the era where you had to write a game before you could play it (unless you were wealthy enough to own a cassette player).
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
3mo ago
There is some deep-rooted fear in the rank and file of intelligence community at the moment,” a UK intelligence source said.
Another security official said trusting the US will be a “challenge”, adding: “This will make the UK more nervous about the conversations they are having and how they are being discussed across groups.”
Rank and file would not be party to high level security decisions in a leaky environment. And please remember that anonymous sources are always the enemy of humanity.
John Foreman, the UK’s defence attache to Moscow until 2022, said the leak could have led to a compromise of US sources, but “worse still the compromise of allied sources”.
Could. John Foreman is a serious and diplomatic guy, so it's no surprise he didn't say anything of substance, he knows issues in geopolitics are rarely as they appear.
"There must be doubts among the UK that the Trump administration can protect the intelligence and its UK source.”
Must there Nicholas? Actually I agree there must, but I can do that all the way over here in sunny Brisbane, I don't need to be a former NATO Ukraine hawk who protects ALF from the government in my spare time. He looks like the dad from ALF. That might not seem like a robust argument, but I think it's robust enough for "There must be doubts among the UK that the Trump administration can protect the intelligence and its UK source.” Because that means nothing, it's more filler so Richard Holmes and Jane Merrick can reach their word count without relying exclusively on anonymous sources. Instead you get the anonymous sources to say the explosive things, and you get people on record to mention unfortunate potential consequences, and rely on the psychological effect of association to tie them together.
Behind closed doors, senior government officials would likely be discussing the risks of sharing intelligence with the US, amid what could be viewed as a lowering of protocol standards, but the breach would not be a dealbreaker, said Andrew Little, whose ministerial roles covered security, intelligence and defence under New Zealand’s last Labour government.
Andrew Little! He's an actual politician! Oh wait, no he isn't. He was one a few years ago, although not one ever in power. Still, I guess it's informative to know what he imagines might be happening.
Robert Patman, a professor at the University of Otago in Dunedin who specialises in international relations, called the security breach “extraordinary” and “cavalier”. “It does confirm what many of us felt, that Mr Trump has picked people according to loyalty, rather than competence, and this was almost a perfect storm waiting to happen,” Patman said.
"I'm going to badmouth the leader of the free world" Patman said, displaying his expertise in international relations.
And then a piece from Australia that ends with:
So, at this stage, I don’t think America’s Five Eyes partners should necessarily be concerned about the potential for other intelligence breaches.
So I guess the answer is not serious? But a lot of people really want it to be serious and are hoping they can turn their dreams into memes?
Can you please link one of these leftist poster complaints? I haven't seen them and I appreciate a good argument.
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