Ioper
2yr ago
I asked chat-GPT4 and this is what it had to say on firearms:
Late 15th century (1480s-1490s):
The Portuguese began exploring new maritime trade routes under the leadership of Prince Henry the Navigator. At this time, firearms such as hand cannons were in use in some Indian states, while the Portuguese had also started to adopt early firearms like the arquebus. The disparity between the two was minimal during this period.
Early 16th century (1500-1530):
The Portuguese, under the leadership of Vasco da Gama, reached India in 1498, and they established their first trading post in Calicut in 1500. During this period, the Portuguese had a clear advantage in firearms technology, as they were using arquebuses with a range of 100-200 meters, while most Indian states still used hand cannons with a range of 50-100 meters. This disparity in firearms technology persisted throughout this period.
Mid-16th century (1530-1560):
The Portuguese consolidated their power in Asia, establishing more fortified trading posts and securing strategic alliances with local rulers. The Indian states began to adopt matchlock guns (toradar or bandook), which were similar to the Portuguese arquebus in terms of range and accuracy (100-200 meters). The disparity in firearms technology decreased during this period, as Indian states started to adopt European-style firearms.
Late 16th century (1560-1600):
The Portuguese began to use muskets, which had a range of 200-300 meters, providing them with a renewed advantage in firearms technology. At the same time, Indian states continued to adopt and adapt European firearms, with some producing high-quality matchlock guns. The disparity in firearms technology during this period varied, depending on the specific Indian state and its capacity to produce or acquire advanced firearms.
Early 17th century (1600-1650):
The military advantage of the Portuguese began to decline as other European powers, such as the Dutch, English, and French, entered the Asian trade arena and established their own trading posts. Indian states, including the Mughal Empire and the Maratha Empire, continued to adopt and improve upon European military technology, further narrowing the disparity between Indian and Portuguese firearms.
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In other areas the Europeans had greater advantages. In regards to firearms specifically there was a period of relative parity in the early part of the 17th century before the Europeans pulled ahead again with the introduction of flintlock firearms (and then pulling ever further ahead).
Except of course the median iq of columbia freshmen (meaning including AA) is an entire standard deviation above that, which if one assumes an Ashkenazi median iq of 115 would imply a bit more than 1 Jew for every 2 whites if the population percentages are 60% and 2.4% of the population respectively.
Maybe American Jewish iq isn't that high but I don't know what looking at such an incredibly low example of 125 iq would accomplish other than deceive.
Ioper
4mo ago
And what is their plan for the future? What percentage of GDP is manufacturing? What percentage of global manufacturing is in china? Who are their customers?
China's plan is to increase manufacturing from an already very inflated state in a world where their customers are increasingly hostile to them. This is not a risk free state of affairs.
Ioper
4mo ago
No, it assumes most wives acquiesce to sex a reasonable amount and that sexlessness doesn't occur ex nihilo. Men who are attracted to their wives have sex with their wives.
That may be so but it's also true that whites are taller and stronger, only those things do not matter as much (on their own anyway) for many popular sports.
What should be said is that fast twitch muscles are very important and west Africans have more fast twitch muscles.
I'm not on a PR campaign trying to deceive you to perceive us in a more positive ligbt, I'm trying to explain whats going on and how people are reasoning.
Furthermore, I don't think the conditions are the same. Maybe in the general sense they are, people could organise their lives differently, maybe, but in the moment the choices are made the conditions are different. If you plan your meals (and shopping) more meticulously and you have practically twice the female labour force participation rate, having extra meal guests is a larger imposition and such a consideration is more important.
If this highlights a cultural difference then then that may be so, it doesn't make it a factor people doesn't consider and doesn't consider important.
I don't know what the law says here but usually these things are handled by laws giving fairly wide powers to governmental agencies to fulfill their mission as defined by the executive. They are indirectly accountable through the executive (and legislature through whatever overarching laws there are). If there is no legal basis for this agency exacting fees for this kind of category of inspections then it does seem iffy.
I can of course not speak for US law, I'm not very interested in this particular case, I just commented on the claim that the bureaucracy isn't public service oriented, which I disagreed with.
Ioper
1yr ago
Just like I find a clever way past not paying for my dinner at the restaurant by going to the bathroom and climbing out the window.
This isn't a uniquely female phenomenon, consider men who'll do, say and believe almost anything to get sex or to advance their careers.
The difference I believe is that women are a bit more malleable, have less genuine deeply held beliefs and their goal (securing, maintaining and developing longterm relationships) is more long term (and focused on a single other person) than the male one so their behaviour has a greater chance to affect their beliefs.
Of course, all these things applies to both genders in varying degrees depending on the individual.
Holmes is a aberration and not worth focusing a ton of energy on, I don't care what's being done with her, it doesn't matter.
I'm talking about organised white collar crime. People who build their careers embezzling money from corporations and states and (illegally) hide money for the rich. These people don't just work as accountants man whose licence you can take away and they stop.
Perhaps you think of these people as just organised crime but most of them literally only engage in white collar crime or indirectly as enablers for the literal mob to engage in white collar crime (which is far more lucrative than the drug trade). The policies you prescribe are well studied and understood as ineffective for those who reoffend.
Ioper
2yr ago
That is the point, they keep posing a threat. Industry bans, wage garnishing and asset siezures most often don't do anything to stop reoffenders.
Ioper
2yr ago
I'm not going to do that this deep in a thread no-one is going to read. I'm done.
Ioper
2yr ago
You are exaggerating. It still goes into hallucination loops all the time when using reflection and the improvement between 3.5 and 4 is barely noticeable in practice. What has gotten better is the polish on the initial output and avoiding subquestions that causes it to hallucinate, when pressed it still does, it doesn't tell you that it doesn't know. It often tells you that something is hard to tell for certain in general but not which parts it are uncertain of, which just makes the statement a useless disclaimer.
The reduction of hallucination is a mirage. Perhaps it is similar to how a human would act on a test where it doesn't remember the answer, you focus on the parts of the answer that you are sure of and hope the teacher doesn't notice. Except the model actually does know the answer, and it doesn't hesitate to hallucinate when pressed. It also rather confidently restates information it knows to be wrong rather than make a lower confidence prediction of what is probably right.
Look, I want this to work, it doesn't yet. It'll probably work better in the future and not focusing on just using larger training sets is probably a good idea imo.
Ioper
2yr ago
No, he assumes that Jews are his ingroup. Progressives treat trans-people as their ingroup, that doesn't mean they're trans.
Ioper
1mo ago
Normally I'd agree but the situation is already unsustainable and rapidly spinning out of control. Massive fiscal reform needs to happen soon and I doubt that cuts to future entitlements that obviously were never going to happen would garner more opposition than cuts to current entitlements.
If you don't already: have kids. It's a new sort journey and one that doesn't end when you die.
Ioper
10mo ago
Incentives decide this. Change the incentives and the behaviour changes. It could still be women's choice, just under a different incentive structure.
He is a troll and a muslim.
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