Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
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Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
29d ago
Most aren't quite that big, and only one that I would walk to instead of taking a 5-15 minute drive. But they all easily exceed the "many nice, varied trails that you can wander in deep enough to smoke a joint in total seclusion" standard that I have in mind for Central Park. The biggest is twice the size of Central Park, and it's extra nice because I can walk all the way from the museum at the front and end up in my best friend's backyard 4 miles away.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
29d ago
Sunlight was worse.
This seems crazy to me. Maybe in a choice Manhattan skyrise. Most of my experience was Brooklyn on the 14th floor and sunlight was about as rare as integrity in a congressman. Being high up isn't a boon when all the surrounding buildings are even higher! Most people don't get to live on the top floors.
There was nothing to do. I hated it.
This I'll give you. For certain categories of "to do", NYC can't be beat.
But, Brooklyn and Queens have a ton of green spaces.
This I disagree with. I'm a walker; I feel claustrophobic if I can't go for a walk for a few hours every few days. The weeks I spent in Brooklyn felt cramped and dismal, cloying and choking.
Manhattan is marginally nicer. Central Park is fine. But my small town has multiple comparable parks in easy distance, and just walking down the street feels closer to a "green space" than a city. Admittedly, it helps that I'm in what is basically an old colonial suburb, not some Arizona step-and-repeat.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
29d ago
Apartments have better sunlight and ventilation than SFHs because they sit higher up.
This is emphatically not the case for every NYC apartment I've ever been in. The dismal, exclusively artificial lighting and contant stench of foul, artificial scents are the two biggest reasons I would cite for never wanting to live there. I married a NYer, and the time I spent either visiting her or with her visiting family were just horrid on that regard.
Have you ever actually spent time in a decent house on a decent lot with actual trees? This might be a "fish doesn't know what water is" situation. I've literally come home from day trips to NYC blowing black snot.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
30d ago
This was exactly how I did it. The easiest part was the way 0mg juice gurgled all wrong.
But there have been crackdowns of all stupid kinds, and AIUI, the community of home-brew stores that would make you custom blend juices are not so much a thing anymore, so it may be harder to manage a gentle decline.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
The NPD version is more manipulative.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
I would suggest for, um, reasons, that Narcissistic Personality Disorder is a bigger risk. That thing where they decide that you are The Good Person and then chameleon-cloak themselves to appeal to you is super effective against quokkas.
This is why gatekeeping is super important. "Oh, you're telling me you're really into Curtis Yarvin after I mentioned him? Name 5 kings you'd grant absolute sovereignty."
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
A willingness to debate requires a degree of disagreeableness. The same brain chemicals that make a man more eager to get into an argument also tend to make him more right-wing.
There's a notion on the right that leftism is a biological phenomenon, and I do think there's abit of truth to that idea.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
How are you doing that if you don't consult Google or your Shakespeare box set?
I would have similar examples in my memory. What does that memory look like for an LLM if not reference to a database? I just asked the Edge default copilot for "the 3rd line from Shakespeare's 31st sonnet", and for "without searching the web, the 5th line from Shakespeare's 41st sonnet" and it produced both without any trouble.
Are you suggesting that Copilot is re-deriving particular lines from the sonnets from first principles?
This is a sincere question, I honestly don't know how the nuts and bolts of these things work.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
Then, if it doesn't have access to internet search, how is it looking things up?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
Do you see the average human seeing a random reddit comment from 5 years ago and then pinning it on the right person, and associating it with their other work?
If that person had a searchable database? Sure.
It's possible I'm just entirely misunderstanding how they work down in the guts, but I interpreted the task as something like "I searched my database of training data, found the exact post, and replied with the linked username", which is powerful and "superhuman" in an objective sense, but the sort of thing I would have expected from Google search 15 years ago, pre-enshittification.
Identifying you by new writing would be much more impressive and alarming, and it sounds like they can actually do that for people like Scott, from some of the other posts people have made.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
I believe my son knows that he can tell me, and that I'll focus on doing my best to help him navigate the full breadth of social elements, including both "bro talk on xbox" and also "not catching a video that will make you unemployable". So I believe that he himself did not know the meaning, and judging by the group calls I overhear, I'm pretty sure his friends don't either beyond "insulting bad word".
Take that for what it's worth, meaning "I say that I believe that I think that he doesn't understand."
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
That would probably be ideal, and he does adhere to that standard regarding certain other common terms after I explained the socio-political dynamics. But those words do serve a role in ingroup-bonding-via-shared-transgression-of-social-norms, so if he was going to use one, it probably ought to be the one he can claim as "our word".
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
Sorry! It just seemed like a succinct way to describe to the regular Mottizan the social class of the mom from the story. No stray or slight was intended, and it was only after someone reached out to ask if I was an alt of yours that I realized that might have been overly familiar - at which point it had already been quote replied.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
Is that recognizing you by style? Or is it just that the current training sets are so exhaustively scraped that even AAQC motte posts are included? I'm pretty sure they scraped reddit to the bone, right? Failing to connect the author of a unique reddit post literally in the training data 40% of the time actually sounds kind of horribly bad.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
Early 40's. My drinking is social/event and sporadic. The thing is, I like drinking, but only to get drunk. I rather dislike the feeling of having 1-3 drinks. I like the taste, but I feel like I get little of the upside effects while still feeling enervated for the rest of the night. My idea amount would be a pint of whiskey over the course of an evening, culminating in a tall glass of water and then passing out.
The problem is that doing this basically ruins me for the next day. It's just not worth it any more.
The big exception is concerts of a certain exuberant, energetic variety. I get drunk enough to lose the perfect amount of inhibitions, but a few hours later I feel fantastic. I have absolutely no scientific basis for the claim whatsoever, but I feel like I sweat the alcohol out, or maybe it's just getting buried and swept away by other happy brain chemicals.
Most of my friends have quit or severely cut back, some for the post-40 hangover reasons, some for more serious medical concerns that justified cutting all things bad for them, and some in preference for legal THC.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
I've discovered that my son's friend group, a wide assortment of several dozen boys aged 13-15 across a few towns, have been liberally using the words chud, cuck, and kike. Importantly, and concerningly, none of them know what those words mean. When I overheard the lingo, I sat the boy down and explained cuck and kike, and particularly how he should never let a teacher or other authority figure hear him using kike, and avoid being recorded doing so if reasonably possible (not the end of the world, his mother is Jewish).
But I was at a bit of a loss to explain "chud" without tediously lecturing about the last decade of deep-in-the-weeds political fights on twitter. They call each other "big, stinky chud", which seems to roughly cash out as "sweaty lacrosse player". He relayed a story to me where one close friend's older brother was caught using the term by his mother, an educated woman in her own right who is married to a very successful lawyer. He told her it meant "cool guy", and now she's using it with that intended meaning.
Imagine Mrs. FiveHourMarathon calling all her nephews "chuds" because she thinks that it's a cute kid phrase like 6-7 or aura.
Any advice for how to concisely explain the concept?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
Can you link one of those studies that isn't hopelessly confounded, such as by taking massive losses to follow-ups?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
If you think the US is currently treating Europe with more respect than China does and THAT explains the decline of loyalty to Atlanticist project, this speaks to your enormous, delusional entitlement.
No, you're just completely failing to get the point. That line was in reference to the pre-Trump treatment of Europe, where we paid for their safety and shipping lanes and rebuilt their nations after they destroyed themselves and their "gratitude" amounted to hateful sneering about their shitty healthcare and otherwise acting out their inferiority complex (see, for example, the recent dissonance coming from people in the UK learning that they would be the poorest state in the union - behind even Mississippi).
Post-Trump, they're being treated as closer to what they are - increasingly marginal nations mostly run by unreliable, suicidal idiots that hate their own people. And if the "kingly" reception from Xi is enough to make them swoon, then that just hammers home the "idiots" part.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
On the contrary, there seems to be little to no evidence for this claim. Even Chase Strangio had to admit at the Supreme Court that there was no evidence that transitioning improved mental health outcomes.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
I don't buy it, and I wouldn't expect Trump, Rubio, Vance, Et Al. to either.
I'd go a step further. They shouldn't buy it, and being indifferent to exactly that sort of bad faith manipulation is Trump's entire brand and greatest selling point. Which in turn is exactly why so many people find him aesthetically horrifying.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
This is the part that kills me about this.
Iran purposely slaughters 30k protestors: I sleep.
America has outdated targeting data on one bomb out of 30k: Real shit.
It just seems fundamentally unserious. It's impossible for me to take criticism from someone espousing this position as anything other than bad faith. You would need a thousand words of throat-clearing denunciations of the Iranian regime to counter the obvious who/whom.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
My first thought is to place them somewhere they are visible and available for perusal by guests, but not the primary focus of a decorative arrangement. Near or on a book shelf, maybe, or among a handful of comparable items on a mantle. Somewhere that says "These are noteworthy family memorabilia, but not something I am specifically trying to show off."
Do you know the story behind the purple heart?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
It's amazing to keep seeing this from people who hear Trump's bombastic bullshit and turn into Amelia Bedelia.
You make some good points, but I don't think it quite addresses the, as you say, unseriousness of the anti-gun left. They used to lean much more deeply on the crime angle, but there are too many fatal weaknesses to that take for it to be effective in a less controlled/favorable media environment. The normies get upset about spree-killings, but not in a way that obviously and naturally leads to blaming the tool. One can easily imagine a slightly different world where the mass media blame was displaced onto, say, SSRIs, possibly with a "greedy, overprescribing pharma companies" angle. But the pattern for sprees is something hitting the news bigly once every 2-3 years, with maybe a few copycats in the following weeks, and then most everyone goes back to not caring. That doesn't translate into political will.
The reason there are safety people at all seems much more driven by outgroup dynamics. Gun are red tribe totems, and attacking enemy totems is always a fun time.
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