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2yr ago
listening to monologues about gender roles might be a tough tiebreaker.
This is word for word a justification for men to avoid feminists.
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I am not a weeb expert, but AIUI Japanese religion had a strong element of ancestor worship. This might be better understood as an adaptation for memetic rather than mere biological immortality. Even if you didn't have children, you could potentially adopt someone who would honor you and your ancestors after you passed, and raise their own children/protégés to do the same.
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2yr ago
When I work the polls for primary elections, there are two visible personality traits that have a roughly 100% predictive rate for party affiliation. If you are clearly, visibly neurotic and nervous about interacting with the world, you want a Democrat primary ballot. If you have a casual, easy confidence in yourself and the world around you, you want a Republican primary ballot. As a disclaimer, this only applies to people for whom those traits are so exaggerated that it seems obvious in the first 5 seconds of interaction.
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2yr ago
That's just libertarianism, and describes almost no one in contemporary politics. FWIW, I kept hearing it used as a pejorative at people like Hilary Clinton and did a giant double-take when I looked up the wiki definition. I think this one is a victim of the linguistic clusterfuck around the word "liberal".
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The example follow-ups were "write a function to verify that an array satisfies this constraint; "invert" an array that initially satisfies this constraint such that it decreases and then increases; or sort an array that initially satisfies this constraint.". It might not have been the most elegant solutions, but that's the kind of stuff I was expected to accomplish in C++ in 1-2 45 minutes classes in 2002.
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Yeah, they're not particularly hard and not intended to be; the goal is to just see if someone is a competent coder, not a genius. I still only ended up giving a LH or higher recommendation to ~20% of people.
Are the people applying and getting hired at major tech companies really that bad at basic algorithmic thinking? Conceptually, that stuff was at the level of a quiz in AP CS in junior year in high school.
Maybe I should crank out an online course or something...
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2yr ago
It's less of a steelman, and more actually sexist than that. Imagine some bit of boomer humor, the sort where the punch line is "Women! Can't live with 'em." And the joke is that you stopped before adding "can't live without 'em". "Meme sex" and "woman moment" are the Zoomer version of the same thing, eyerolling or sneering (depending on how mean-spirited the speaker is being) at an instance of a woman acting in a stereotypical way.
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Adding on to the history a couple other people have laid out, first let me set the stage. Obama was elected in 2008 on a platform of Hope and Change. By 2016, Occupy had come and died, healthcare reform was a disaster, the banks had been bailed out, infrastructure investment was a failure, and we capped things off by bombing a Doctors Without Borders hospital. On the culture war front during those eight years, we had Atheism+, the gender wars, Gamergate, and the start of BLM.
Imagine you're a younger guy, late teens to twenties, in late 2015. You don't really care about gay marriage, or abortion. You're not religious. But at the same time, you're a veteran of the gender culture wars and Gamergate and you think wokeness and feminism are retarded and dishonest. You've been blackpilled on mainstream media and large parts of academia. You think socialism is fucking stupid.
Where is your political home? The answer, from maybe mid 2016 to early 2017, was an "alternative right". "Not yer granddaddy's rightwinger." This was the alt-right of The_Donald and "God Emperor Trump gonna make anime real". The media was in the early, heady stages of Trump Derangement Syndrome and in full war footing. As a counter-offensive against the nascent alt-right, they drug Richard Spencer's loser ass out of obscurity and put him on TV at every opportunity, culminating in this scene.
And that was the end of the alt-right as a name with any power. There was just no saving it against the kind of full court media campaign being waged. Anyone who wasn't a white nationalist started to abandon the term, with Charlotteville as the final nail in the coffin.
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2yr ago
Iirc, there was a Kav megathread or two.
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The couple on the front right look like they put effort into looking bad.
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This is why it is relevant that so many of our would-be thought leaders are childless 30-somethings. It takes a gargantuan effort at doublethink to raise a few kids and see them interact with other kids, and not have your ape brain sort them into the glaring binary categories that apply 95% of the time.
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I think this is a case where the phrase just has too much obvious use even with absolutely no knowledge of that history. John Fetterman [D] is literally running his campaign almost entirely by accusing Mehmet Oz [R] of being the sort of person to whom "rootless cosmopolitan" would apply. Insisting it's a dogwhistle in all cases comes off like the people who get mad when "literally" is used figuratively, except the literally person is a Nazi.
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The Vitiology guy's manifesto was amazing. Like a BDSM-world themed erotica worldbuilding document that turned into an SCP and infected him. I legitimately hurt myself with how hard I laughed.
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2yr ago
the rootless cosmopolitan bankers
I mean, I did literally just parse that as "PMC types" before I caught the point you were making.
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Conversely, if the sign says "dog groomer", you're not going to get too many people looking for haircuts.
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Order a long string of fairy lights and swallow them to put the light inside you.
More seriously, just eat like you just had a devastating romantic breakup for a week and you'll be fine.
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2yr ago
Just Bader Meinhoff.
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And specific products you'd recommend?
But one is viewed as a threat to society, whereas the other is a victim. The crack-dealing superpredator was born wicked, while the opiate-addicted had wickedness thrust upon them by their opiate-happy doctors and the globalists.
There is a story that white families tell themselves about how their loved one was tricked into getting addicted by unscrupulous doctors, and that's why they went into a destructive spiral. Fetterman actually is running an ad implicitly accusing Oz of doing that in the PA Senate race. And that story seems to be mostly false. As you say, it's not an explosion of prescriptions causing the crisis. And there is a story that black families tell themselves, about how their family members were tricked into getting hooked on crack by the CIA or the government or the media or music, and that's why they went on their destructive spiral.
There is another point often raised, about how we assign harsher punishments for crack than for cocaine, and this has classist and racist implications. But there is a meaningful difference there that comes from the actual class difference. A trust fund brat who develops a coke habit might take five years to snort their inheritance up their nose. A lower-working class guy who starts doing crack might be missing rent next month. Middle and upper classes have more slack to endure the externalities of a severe drug addiction. They have a longer lead time and more offramps before they get to the point of committing property crimes against strangers.
And more importantly for this comparison, they have stronger, richer personal networks to prey on. From what I've seen in person, a heavy pill addiction can easily run $100 a day, at roughly a dollar per mg. That rate of capital outflow will ruin a family. It's a cliche. "They both have good jobs, how are they having money problems?" The answer is that one of them has a drug problem. And when they run out of personal slack, they take advantage of family members, lie and steal and cheat and defraud. The lower-class crackhead turning predator looks like a string of robberies and break-ins and muggings. The pillhead looks like "Aunt Debbie says to watch out for cousin Phil. Apparently he stole a ton of money from Uncle Sheldon, yeah, drugs."
No one really wants to tell Aunt Debbie and Uncle Sheldon that their son Phil is a miserable piece of shit. It's easier, kinder, less awkward, to blame the big evil pharma companies.
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2yr ago
My theory is pretty rusty, but I’d think you could have a space where two sets of parallel lines don’t have symmetrical angles. Maybe one pair right angles, one pair not?
What do you mean by "a space"? I'm in an ambivalent state where I can't tell if you're missing an obvious point, or talking theory at a level I'm entirely missing. Leaning towards the latter.
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I am pleased to hear you're doing well.
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Very interesting essay.
If I can put on my Objectivist hat for a moment, I think the "leveling" effect he discusses is a major part of the trap. An exemplary hunter will probably accrue social power just by the obvious fact of providing more meat. In a zero-sum social game, this is a threat to the less successful hunters. Gossip, mockery, and reputational attacks are much easier than becoming an exemplary hunter, but they'll reduce the rewards and power of the exemplary, which helps keep society trapped in stagnation.
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How does civil fraud work in a case like this? Is there a bank or insurance company filing the case? Is the AG alleging that Trump defrauded her, or the NY government? My limited experience with fraud involved either the government pressing charges over fraud to themselves, or me having to do an annoying amount of work and court appearances to follow-up. I'm assuming things change drastically when the stakes get this big, but how?
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So if you're saying the opposite came to pass, clearly there are two different worlds happening,
AIUI, the migrants were given cots in meeting room in a church for 1-2 evenings, then escorted off the island by the national guard to a military dormitory. At no point did any one of the compassionate, rich progressives offer to put someone up in a hotel room, much less let a family use an empty beach house for the weekend.
But what exact actions are you referring to when you say this:
The aid given and compassion shown was more or less the absolute bare minimum needed to calmly make the poor brown people go away ASAP. Conversely, we've seen much more effort put into flattering themselves in the media, and launching furious legal and PR attacks back at DeSantis for making them look bad. When, remember, there are probably 5 figures worth of residents who could have each put the entire group up in a resort hotel for a week for pocket change.
Inspired by the CW talk about Rings of Power and Wheel of Time. Imagine you were an executive at Amazon Studios. Bezos just handed you two sets of One Billion Dollars, and the mission to make him two flagship, media empire founding fantasy shows. One is to be sexy and adult, the other is to be fun for the whole family.
Which two IPs would you want to go with?
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