Gooofuckyourself
3mo ago
Have you checked out TW's twitter lately? He's all in on "we freaked the normies out going too hot and fast on the trans kids thing, we need to be more subtle next time." He's not aiming for liberalism, more like "wokeism with a human face, run by enlightened lawyers in policy think tanks rather than HR ladies"
I'm not logged in on this phone, but if you haven't been following him I can get you the choice quotes
Oh please no, giant blocks of spoiler tags are awful. It takes just as much space on the screen, and you have to click through every single one individually.
Collapsible would be ideal. Hell, I'd use it for dumping citations instead of the obnoxious "every sentence has a link" habit we picked up from Scott's early writing.
Solar panels pulled in a peak of 395W this afternoon, or almost their STC rating. 28F and snow on the ground really helps bump up the voltage and backside-absorption. Considering how often we've had power cuts on the coldest, clearest days in winter, it might be worth upsizing a charger/inverter rather than way overpaneling.
Also noticed my wood fire had been burning through logs faster than usual, and the damper wasn't actually damping. Found out the seals around the glass had slipped and were letting air into the firebox. Took out the panel and reseated it, now it's back to proper throttle response and 4hr burn times.
For a cheap shitbox that was discontinued due to quality control issues, I've gotten reasonable use out of that thing. Really need to find recommendations for a better one so I can relegate it to the workshop though.
Makes me wonder just how much stuff runs degraded because people don't know how to notice and diagnose problems around the house.
Does Tesla's stock price have much to do with their sales? I thought the P/E ratio was already absurd.
I think most of the value comes from the assumption that libs will follow through with the gas car bans they've already passed, making people's desires irrelevant.
There's a huge store of untapped talent in nerdy young men who will work wonders for the low low price of not being the side that kicks them in the teeth and spits on them.
Maybe it's possible to set up a "neutral vs liberal" situation, where you get to draw from the entire talent pool that isn't part of the "queer black girls in STEM" internship and scholarship system. Find the Asian guy who still got into Harvey Mudd, or the 1600SAT white guy at Cowpoke State U. who won a competition to decipher ancient burnt scrolls, and be the first person to reward them for their abilities or give them a compliment that isn't low-key accusing them of stealing recognition from "marginalized groups."
(Does anyone have that old quote from the guy whose school tried to disqualify him from some award because they didn't want to celebrate a white boy when there was a perfectly good Marginalized one they'd rather give it to?)
Gooofuckyourself
3mo ago
And here I never even finished reading the translated version. Did you think about reading the TL in parallel to help with the difficult bits? (To the extent it's a faithful translation anyway...)
Tangential, but I was expecting a lot more culture war fallout from Reich's pre-columbian population estimates paper. I guess even in 2020 that fell under "easier to just ignore than attack," especially after Saini's "the return of race science" failed to take him down.
Yeah. The other day they jailed a guy for 18+ years for making lora character models for people's OCs. Literally harsher punishments for drawings than actual rape.
Gotta keep up the "umm actually white men are the majority of sex offenders" narrative somehow I guess, even if it takes making up imaginary crimes as well as ignoring real ones.
I don't even use AI chatbots, but I've been keeping a bunch of cards bookmarked as the cunny in the coalmine for normification. They're all still there, and the list is visible on characterhub.org without an account. You're saying that if they've got the fire symbol in the tags they basically can't be searched?
And yes, the UK has gone completely insane on this. Guy needs to divest or get the hell out right away, because they're giving people longer sentences for "problematic drawings" than for gangraping girls and selling them as kebab meat.
Gooofuckyourself
3mo ago
Don't feel bad, I bought a hundred shares of NVDA on the dip last week. Can't wait to see how it opens tomorrow
Gooofuckyourself
3mo ago
It had already run its course by 2016, which was the year Congress officially banned the biographical "test." That the number of white men kept falling just indicates they kept up all the other well-documented discriminatory behavior even after the biography debacle.
And regardless of the ratios, trace's article shows that faa hiring had been laser focused on race instead of hiring more qualified people to make up their staffing shortfall. The worst part wasn't hiring unqualified people (because they did all pass the same test), it was refusing to hire as many qualified people as they needed because too many of them would be white.
If you haven't read tracingwoodgrain's expose of the mid 10s hiring scandal, that would be a good place to start.
https://old.reddit.com/r/ATC/comments/1aeeg2c/the_faas_atc_testing_scandal_a_quick_overview/ https://x.com/tracewoodgrains/status/1884989215244460398
In 2012 and 2013, the NBCFAE continued pushing this process, with members meeting with the DOT, FAA, Congressional Black Caucus, and others to push diversity among ATCs. By July 2013, the FAA created a "Barrier Analysis Implemention Team" (BAIT, and I swear I am not making this acronym up). Around this time, the FAA decided to pause the hiring of CTI graduates pending the implementation of the biographical assessment.
The TL;Dr is that there was an attempt to hire more ATCs, but affirmative action demands turned it into a decade-long bias and cheating scandal where tests were given random answers that were then leaked to a "black affinity group" to help them pass. "what is your favorite color" had a correct answer that gave you points towards a job controlling air traffic. Most people who weren't given the answers in advance failed.
These were fully qualified people who had already passed the skills assessment, but were not allowed to become ATCs because of a "biographical" test explicitly designed to get rid of the white guys.
Reddit is of course torn between studiously ignoring this and declaring Trace a Nazi trumper.
Gooofuckyourself
3mo ago
Shameless spoon-feeding request here, but what are the best options for an AI research assistant? Local or cloud is fine.
I've just been using the various web clients, and while they're useful the mix of sycophancy and kindergarten longhouse scolding gets really old. Is there one available that just answers your God damn question without adding "wow, that's such a cool idea! What a really creative use of that formula!"
Gooofuckyourself
3mo ago
Yeah, the moral vacuum that made its institutions so vulnerable to being atheism "plussed" by an actual vital moral system that it had no answer to.
Moderator of /r/army pretty much confirms it
I am aware of the name.
Do not get cute. Do not post it. Do not hint at it. Do not describe her background.
Don’t do it.
But isn't it going to be a matter of public record?
Eventually, sure. And when that eventual day comes it won't be as vitriolic a response as it will RIGHT NOW.
Anyone that can't understand why the family has asked that and why we're respecting those wishes can see themselves out.
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The surreal part of this sort of virtue signalling is that while publicly bragging that they're keeping the secret, they have to let on that it's an explosive truth that the MAGA chuds would salivate over. It's exactly how BART had to announce they were no longer releasing security footage because it "aided racists," rather than saying nothing. The built-in admission of guilt is necessary for the virtue signal to work; you can't have people mistaking that you're doing it out of principle rather than tribal allegiance.
"You call it virtue-signalling, I just call it being a good person" is a common gotcha, but it's easy to counter when behavior is optimized for public status-seeking rather than effectiveness. "Verily I say unto you, They have their reward"
Interesting, thanks. That sounds like it was really ahead of its time when it came out. Remembering all the collision disasters in the 70s and 80s there must have been a lot of pressure to come up with it.
You're talking to a different person. But yes, my blackpill take is that they need someone to take the fall for the coming recession, like your pt4 in another post.
Senior Dem and non-profit managers being shocked that their interns actually believe all that stuff has been a running theme for the last decade now. And the city machines are the least vulnerable to activist takeover tactics that originated in colleges and are optimized to take over the college-like environments of modern corps and ngos.
I can see an existential battle between the philly turnout machine boss and the 26yo kamela advisor who, like? hit up Beyonce on tiktok? and ofc she's down with the struggle against like fascism and stuff? and sure she'll help us turn out the youth vote?
Oh, lol no, prices are still retarded. You might be able to get one of the new Intel or AMD ones if you just want to game though. Intel's new gay orc cards are actually pretty good and quite cheap.
Gooofuckyourself
3mo ago
Aren't they setting up a vote to ban the AfD and confiscate all the party's assets before the election?
Gooofuckyourself
3mo ago
What do you mean?
Gooofuckyourself
3mo ago
Same. I've been using some really basic chatgpt web apps to simplify basic research lately, and while it's amazing it seems like a small fraction of its potential. Just being able to feed it vaguely worded tip of my tongue questions and then double checking the answers is incredible.
I'll be damned if I'm going to stop calling it that after I finally learned how to spell it.
And I told them "we promise we're not Chechnya" was a lousy tourism board slogan...
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