HeimrArnadalr

HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 2yr ago

IIRC, Nazis get the arc and die from opening it in a timeline where he didn't exist.

I think the difference he makes is that without him, the Nazis would keep possession of the Ark after the first group opened it and died. Instead, Jones was able to get it to the Americans somehow, who turned it over to their Top Men.

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HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 2yr ago

All of which is still owned by Lucasfilm, and some of it is still getting published.

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HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 2yr ago

In general I'd expect any prominent review site (not just ones for movies) to be affected by Goodhart's Law. When millions of dollars (not to mention reputation) are potentially on the line, companies will try to game the scores, and whether or not they do it with the cooperation of the review site will depend on how principled the site's management is.

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HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 2yr ago

My understanding is that any element which is stable enough to do anything with has already been discovered

There's a hypothesized island of stability wherein certain isotopes of heavier elements would be stable enough to exist for long times. Synthesis of these materials is currently beyond our capabilities, but is probably easier than superluminal travel.

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HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 2yr ago

Kiwifarms is still up and still thriving, though

Not on the clearnet. kiwifarms.net has been down for several weeks.

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Small-Scale Question Sunday for June 4, 2023

HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 2yr ago

For not so controversial examples, anyone under 60 pronouncing the wh is almost assuredly a very partisan Republican.

What do you mean by this?

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Small-Scale Question Sunday for June 4, 2023

HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 2yr ago

How far south did you go? Are you talking about Mexico or did you go further south?

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HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 2yr ago

Mary's Immaculate Conception wasn't actually defined as a dogma until 1854. During the medieval period it was very much a subject of debate, with prominent religious orders on both sides, although they didn't have much in the way of empirical evidence available.

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HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 2yr ago

Globohomo is a pithy shortening of "Global Homogenization", in other words:

You can count on the locals drinking the same beverages, eating the same food, watching the same TV, dressing up in same fashion trends and living in same houses as you do.

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Wellness Wednesday for May 31, 2023

HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 2yr ago

And then there are words such as Candible and Fervifying that aren't in the Scrabble dictionary, but the meanings of which can be derived if you know the base words and suffixes.

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HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 2yr ago

When the modal I.Q. of a society is below this range to begin with though, raising it may increase violence.

Why would this be the case?

I think the mechanism would be that it makes you smart enough to realize that you can solve your immediate problem with violence, but not smart enough to realize that it will make you worse-off in the long term (assuming your environment is such that violence really is bad for you in the long run).

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HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 2yr ago

It's not enough to just be educated, though. Trump has a B.S. from Wharton, and yet many of the progressive attacks on him focus on his perceived lack of intelligence.

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Small-Scale Question Sunday for May 28, 2023

HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 2yr ago

If you get the uBlock Origin extension, you'll never see ads of any kind on YouTube.

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HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 2yr ago

I can imagine a future in which science shall have passed from the combative to the dogmatic stage, and shall have gained such catholic acceptance that it shall take control of life, and condemn at once with instant execution what now is left for nature to destroy. But we are far from such a future...

I found this bit to be particularly prescient. Much control over our lives has indeed been taken by those who proclaim a sort of scientific dogma, all while the combativeness that kept science honest and producing useful theories is fading. The future he dreamed about is here, right now.

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Culture War Roundup for the week of May 22, 2023

HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 2yr ago

Then again, you also have to show that you are willing to part with some plata.

They have shown that already, which is why the company is as big as it is/was and why the boycott is hurting as much as it is (if they hadn't been spending money, the boycott would have no effect).

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HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 2yr ago

These shows are free to watch, but new episodes are crowdsourced (so if you want to see what happens next, pay up!)

Do you mean crowdfunded, or are they soliciting scripts from random people?

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HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 2yr ago

As will happen to all of us, as will happen to every cause we hold dear.

This is why you should dedicate your life to causes that have survived for thousands of years, such as Catholicism or shipbuilding, since the longer a thing has existed, the more likely it is to continue to exist.

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HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 2yr ago

Removing the streetcar is a substantial loss.

Google Maps shows a bus stop at the location you linked, with several routes passing through it. What advantage does the streetcar have over a bus?

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HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 2yr ago

It doesn't seem obvious to me that the boost towards a bad actor's capacity for destruction will outstrip the government's surveillance boon.

If the threat model that governments are concerned about is terrorists using AI to help them build a superweapon that can cause megadeaths (or worse), then the government agencies have to win every time, while the terrorists only have to win once. Anything less than omniscience and omnipotence isn't good enough.

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HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 2yr ago

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee is one of my favorites. Unfortunately I'll probably never be able to see it in person.

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HeimrArnadalr English Supremacist 2yr ago

I think their narrative is meant to be something like the following:

Ever since the very beginning of history up until the Founding of America, women have always been brewing beer. Girl power!

But then, men took this from women! At some unspecified time and in some unspecified fashion, they took all the respectable jobs of growing and brewing, and stripped the women down to use them as mere advertisements.

But now, Miller Lite is undoing all that! They're putting women back in charge (where they belong) and erasing and defacing the artifacts of the previous perverted period. Girl power!

So the reason why general-you is being asked to care about this is because bad things have been done, and now Miller Lite is undoing the badness and restoring the industry to its natural state, and they want you to help. They're not just making the point that "women have long been involved in the beer industries", they're advocating for rolling back the clock on the misdeeds of the recent past and retvrning to the alleged tradition of having women in charge. In that regard, it's quite a reactionary ad.

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