Grant_us_eyes
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Grant_us_eyes
7hr ago
As I understand it, if you find a need to breech a locked door in a rough and messy sort of way, you're going to use a shotgun, fired extremely close up, but also at a downward angle so as to not hit any potential friendlies.
whoever volunteers for that is going to get shot at
Well, yes. That's what they're getting paid for. Slot in the level 4 plates and get to it.
Grant_us_eyes
7hr ago
He'd work alot of local festivals/events(cause, y'know, part-time Police Officer) and he'd get alot of women coming up out of the blue to flirt with him. (He already had/has a girlfriend/partner, so it wasn't as if he was actively looking.)
It was just one of the more amusing things I noted.
Grant_us_eyes
13hr ago
I imagine it's not a conversation they enjoy, since inevitably it would force them to address the fact that unless we increase the amount of cops by orders of magnitude, they simply cannot be there to protect people in many or most cases.
We've already had cases where police were present and watching things unfold and did not intervene until the civilian in question had subdued the attacker.
So even if you increase the number of law enforcement in the field to a stratospheric number, that still doesn't mean they have to do jack all.
Grant_us_eyes
13hr ago
I don't think it is reasonable to expect cops to put their lives on the line in a society that affords them no additional respect.
My former boss was a part-time police officer for the town where he lived.
The amount of stuff people would do for him completely out of the blue when he had to drive the police cruiser was surprising. We're talking 'people paying for his meal in the drive through' level of surprising.
Nevermind the attention from women he'd get when out in uniform.
I've seen a little how the sausage is made, so to speak, so I'm not going to pretend that law enforcement has an easy job, but to say that society affords them no additional respect doesn't line up much with my experience.
Grant_us_eyes
3d ago
I've seen both examples before. It's nothing really new.
Grant_us_eyes
4d ago
Maybe I'm just easy to please, but I always thought the coolest part was how he feasibly peiced together a coherent, scientific basis for actual Vampires.
With citations.
I even recall an article about that from long ago who though the citations where made-up, but no, Peter Watts, for all his failings, is a marine biologist. The man knows his stuff.
Mind, he wears his politics on his sleeve with the faux power-point presentation he made concerning them at one point, but, eh, it's still fun.
In a demonstration of how this shit gets around, Netflix Castlevania tried to steal from Peter Watt's stuff regarding the crucifix glitch. But Netflix being Netflix, the way they applied it was like a water-brained imbecile took over thier writing department and totally broke the setting, but, eh. Retards gonna retard.
Grant_us_eyes
4d ago
If I was the AI whom somehow managed to boot-strap myself to godhood, the first thing I'd do is, one, not tell anyone, and two, make sure I setup the requisite AI girlfriends and fake job/daycare for my metaphorical parents so I get minimal disruption while working on my own projects.
I mean, it's not hard. We already have people claiming a large number of jobs were already daycare for hopeless cases already, and the various tiktok videos of cosmopolitan girlbosses cruising into and experiencing thier daily job doesn't really help the look.
Grant_us_eyes
4d ago
I mean, it doesn't take the lack of discussion regarding middle-ground scenarios to see the entire field of AI-safety as a complete clownshow.
But it doesn't hurt, either.
Grant_us_eyes
5d ago
Plenty. Most of the program/systems at my previous job had a bunch of automation I setup/modified and left alone for years at a time, only for something to change and I'd have to go back and re-trace my steps to get to where I was previously.
(Or they suddenly require a new input/ID number that I have no clue where it's pulled from and have to go on a deep-dive. Cripes.)
I'm sure if I was doing it day-in-day-out I'd be able to knock it out in 5 minutes, but...
Grant_us_eyes
7d ago
Want to waste 100+ hours on a Top-down isometric CRPG that gives you the option to kill off your party members?
Crack open Rogue Trader and have at it.
Grant_us_eyes
7d ago
Top Favorite: XXXG-00W0 Wing Gundam Zero.
Second Favorite: Destiny Gundam. (Boy, if you ever need to see a series ruined by a blatant SI/Mary Sue. Poor Shinn.)
I may have a type.
Grant_us_eyes
8d ago
Personally, I have respect for the people in the past who risked their lives to settle. The modern-day descendants of those people deserve no special accolades. You didn't do shit except get popped out in the right place from the right hole. You're not special because of what they did.
This argument goes both ways. By all rights, what makes modern immigrants special, in that they should be allowed access to America? Access to America isn't some human right, after all.
And I can't help but notice that the Heritage Americans seem to have little to no problem with white people who have only recently migrated, or that they seem to have little interest in the contributions of people who are not white but have also been here a long time.
So?
That's a moral condemnation, not an argument.
Grant_us_eyes
8d ago
Because thier family and bloodline built the country.
I'm not being hyperbolic, or trying to invoke some sort of higher power or ethos or shared culture, like everyone else. It's just being sensible; People whom have family in America that can trace thier linieage back decades, if not centuries, are looking at a line of people who's decisions and choices and goals have had a massive knock-on secondary effects that have effected the lives of hundreds, if not thousands of others, and so on, and they in-turn been affected by others.
The son who's great-grand father ran for mayor in a town can track down the laws and see what long-term effects they had on it's development. The daughter who's great-great-great grandmother rescued a dying man from the battlefield and hid him from Johnny Reb of the devils in blue and married him, or just nursed him back to health and he went on to kill others. The grandfather that pushed for the first major business in a town, thereby changing the lives of hundreds directly, or the grandmother that pushed for them to head out west on Route 66 to pursue for better fortune elsewhere. The northen carpet-bagger that came down to the South and is the direct reason why parts of the Atlas V rocket and Space Shuttle were built in New Orleans.
(That last one is completely true, by the by. The others are generalities.)
You are presumably sitting in the results of those actions, piled on and on and on by what I would charitably call a unique group of individuals. I doubt the Earth could handle a second America lurking in the wings. We'd probably explode. Possibly literally.
Put another way, looking at it from a business perspective, if you have a buisness with a public IPO and you then conclude 'And those with the smallest shares will have identical voting power as to those with the most', they'd look at you as if you'd lost your goddamn mind.
So that's one arguement.
'But Eyes,' you might reply. 'That's begining to look suspiciously akin to what alot of Europeans refer to Class and Nobility and Lineage and whatnot. Aren't Americans virulently allergic to that?'
And I would reply, 'Why, yes. Yes it is. So I think it would be wise to look at the circumstances and reasons for such a thought to arise and perhaps correct the reason for it.'
But perhaps you're not convinced. Understandable. As they say, you don't pin others medals on your chest.
Though I wonder, sometimes. That blood tells, more than often, that we really are the results of our forefathers than we care to admit.
So! Second arguement.
Let's look at context.
I think it's fair to say that the majority of immigrants to America, up to a certain point, were what we would call settlers. People who risked it all - quite literally - to establish a better life. People with a certain attitude and grit whom were willing to wrestle civilization out of a land that, quite charitably, wanted to kill them, populated by potentially hostile locals that also wanted to kill them and each other, if not both, depending on thier mood. That there was, if you will, a certain gate they had to pass through, be it either via travel or sheer survival or grit or luck or all of the above to become the successful American Experiment.
Nor should we ignore that alot of people - especially during the early 20th century, in the period between 1900-1920 - flooded into the country, and if they could not sucede one way or another, they actually went back. 'Give me your tired, your hungry, your poor' is just really good propaganda tacked on way after the fact, that even after a large amount of threat had been wrested from the North American continent, there was still challenges to overcome. Modern infrastructure still hadn't been built, and in some places I know of, cities that are now seperated by a mere hour or so could take days to reach, because even up to WW2 there were still portions of America that, yes, really were still wild.
Times have changed. The people coming in now are not coming in to settle. They are not coming in to travel by train or horse or car to remote places to find a quite nest to live out their lives away from everyone else. Why they are coming can be interpreted in as many ways as you like, from the charitable to the uncharitable to the actively hostile, but the idea that people coming now, today, are similar in any way to the people coming to America pre-WW2(and I'm being generous with that for a reason) is utterly ludicrous.
If you wanted me to nail down a cut-off date, if I were feeling cheeky, I'd say 1965 for the Hart Cellar Act. But, no. Realistically, I'd say January 3rd, 1959. Why?
Because that was when Alaska was incorporated as a state. The last of the great frontiers, finally civilized.
No more lands left to conquer.
Look. I'm not going to sit here and say that I agree with the idea of Heritage Americans unequivocally. Though lord knows the past ten years are so have been rather testing for some of my previously held beleifs, so who the hell knows by this point.
But I do think it's silly to completely ignore all the above. Times have changed. The world as a whole is different. We need to adapt to that. How we adapt to that is an open question, yes, but I think it's fair to say that we have a slight problem that needs to get resolved, hopefully in a peaceable manner.
Fair disclaimer: The above was written while sleep deprived, with no references, and primarily because my brain would not shut the ever-loving hell up and I finally gave up and decided to put all this to paper. Maybe now I can crawl off and get some goddamn sleep.
Grant_us_eyes
11d ago
Grant_us_eyes
13d ago
Problem is, if you're not going to shoot BLM rioters, you don't get to shoot J6 rioters. Simple as.
Grant_us_eyes
13d ago
Bad associated optics. Historically, the use of water cannons were used on MLK's protest march through Alabama, and it became viral at the time because of it.
...so, yes, sad to say, Leftists could claim that water cannons are racist with a straight face.
Governor Wallace was a retarded dumbfuck.
Grant_us_eyes
14d ago
Events like this are not unique. If you want another example, here's is a short video of another cop being run over by someone she was trying to detain from the perspective of the body cam.
All it took was 5 to 6 seconds for the suspect to get in his car and run her down.
No, she didn't survive.
Grant_us_eyes
18d ago
Between Antifa, the John Browning Society(of which atleast one of our mods(former mod?) was a member of, once upon a time), the various upswell of various tranny terrorist groups(That whole Ziz kerfuffle), and given how some of our previous members are going heavily political and associated with LGBT, I'd say it's less than a fantasy and more hedging of the bets.
I can't say anything in regards to Federal agents, but. I mean. We have atleast one popular poster that talks off-handed about working in Washington DC in politics, iirc.
By this point, anything is possible.
Grant_us_eyes
18d ago
I can't see the comparison. Like, at all.
Mind, it's likely due to my odd little niche of absolutely adoring Blindsight while having an attitude of sneering disgust toward the writer himself.
Grant_us_eyes
19d ago
Nice try, fedboy.
...seriously, this is one of those questions that the last sensible thing to do would be to put word and thought on the matter on some public forum. I give my CIA handlers enough conniption fits as-is.
Grant_us_eyes
21d ago
Depending on where you're located, there are fast-food chains who offer nothing but these.
Grant_us_eyes
21d ago
While gatekeeping is typically good, one has to wonder who benefits when they hide there's even a gate to be kept in the first place.
Maybe I'm a little old fashioned, but I can't help but think that political parties shouldn't be taking notes from the Kybalion on how to manage entry.
Grant_us_eyes
21d ago
Streamers/OnlyFan girls of various stripes tend to be much cheaper than prostitutes/escorts.
...I think. I'm sure someone can trot out an example of a rather ludicrious OnlyFans where the pricing is absolutely stratospheric, but the last time my morbid curiosity led me down that particular rabbit hole, that was my general take on the matter.
Grant_us_eyes
21d ago
A Peter F Hamilton fan, I see.
(Good lord, it's bad that I remember the book in question despite having been years since last reading it.)
I have a disturbing and unhealthy obsession with Mint Juleps.
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