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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
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Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
Republicans want to claim that NYC is being hypocritical for complaining about a stress that only appeared once Abbott got involved.
But that's the point. Why is it a stress? Your whole argument hinges on NY being able to easily absorb the amounts they're receiving. If that's not the case (and it clearly isn't), then there's something different about the cohort of folks illegally crossing the southern border and making an asylum claim compared to the general block of people who are not legal residents of the US.
Put it this way: Is NY getting an amount of the people who crossed last month that is proportional to how much they represent support of the border crisis / open border situation? That 4-6% of the population might be a serious under-proportion if NY Senators and Congresscritters represent 15-20% of the defacto national support for the present shitshow. Similarly, if NY illegal immigrants are mostly people who overstayed visas, or long-time illegal residents who have been in the US for 10 years and have significantly acclimated, that might be trivially easier to deal with than a comparable number of Venezuelan refugees who just finished a 4,000 mile death trek.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
Recently trained a dane/mastiff mix on this. When she got too nippy, I would make an exaggerated show of refusing to give her attention for a minute, but tug ropes are a fine and fun game for us to play. She does still randomly bring other things like toys (or stuffed animals she stole from one of the kids rooms) like she wants to play tug, but I just gently take it from her and get a rope. It's more silly than a problem, similarly with how she occasionally wants to put her mouth on you, or nibble on my beard.
So, I am no expert, but compartmentalizing when and how the tug of war game could be played worked easily for training.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
The original argument was that sanctuary cities didn't have their "fair share" of illegal migrants.
Was it? I think the argument I've heard is more "You want them? You take them." And they clearly treat getting relatively small numbers as a catastrophe that they have little capacity to handle, so I find the "already getting their 'fair share'" stats to be deeply suspicious.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
what's the justification for shipping them more migrants?
Rubbing their noses in NIMBY hypocrisy is quite sufficient.
Imagine an alternate world where Democrats found some clever way to publish the names of the daughters of rich politicians who had abortions. Imagine the Republicans freaking out and sputtering bullshit protests when they are obviously just upset that their constituents are finding out how many of their mistresses are getting abortions. Do you think you would be sympathetic to their plight? Can you muster up a comparable defense of Hershel Walker's abortion scandal?
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
Because in real life situations, race is almost never the relevant inflection point. You almost always have more specific information that swamps out any signal from race.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
Speaking as a working class white, I've never noticed it from blue tribe customers or clients. I can't say there's no chance they aren't picking up that I can follow, but I've seen how they treat black coworkers and the difference is stark. I mean the guy who was a demanding asshole with sky high standards at me yesterday will be patient, soft-spoken and understanding with a black coworker today. It definitely feels like a noticeable pattern.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
I mean, my two cents is that nonviolent drug offenders should have their records wiped clean after they get out of prison.
This actually is doable in a lot of states You do have to clear the additional hurdle of "being able to hire a lawyer and accomplish paperwork", which is a sort of filter for a minimal degree of functionality.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
It has the critical advantage of being very easy to prove (or frame, for that matter).
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
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?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
listening to monologues about gender roles might be a tough tiebreaker.
This is word for word a justification for men to avoid feminists.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
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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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr 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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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr 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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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
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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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
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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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr 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.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
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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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
Iirc, there was a Kav megathread or two.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
The couple on the front right look like they put effort into looking bad.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
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.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
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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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
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.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
the rootless cosmopolitan bankers
I mean, I did literally just parse that as "PMC types" before I caught the point you were making.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
Conversely, if the sign says "dog groomer", you're not going to get too many people looking for haircuts.
As someone on PCM put it...
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