KingOfTheBailey
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KingOfTheBailey
11d ago
Currently I'm reading an excellent memoir by a bisexual, Jewish, female software engineer, and you get none of the drivel that would be put to the page today.
Can you name it? This sounds interesting.
KingOfTheBailey
13d ago
The popularity of Replika et al makes me worry your final claim is less secure than you might think.
KingOfTheBailey
15d ago
I think being mentally off is the cause of both the systems engineering skill and the trans.
KingOfTheBailey
15d ago
If most women out-earn men, and women have a well-documented desire to only date men who earn more than them, how do we expect anyone to form relationships and start families?
KingOfTheBailey
15d ago
Are they, though? It seems like Rust has more of 'em than many other languages and they're at every level from solo projects to people involved with the foundation.
KingOfTheBailey
19d ago
Yeah as MUD users go I'm pretty normie. Played the Iron Realms MUDs on and off over the years. Building zones and implementing servers were more interesting than playing, for a while, but eventually I stopped tinkering too.
Much as I hate the endless wave of AI slop, it's almost a shame the text-only LLM era didn't stretch for longer than it did. If we hadn't got image generation as soon as we did, we might have seen a mini-renaissance of LLM-boosted MUDding.
KingOfTheBailey
24d ago
An Old Town stabbing case ended in defeat for Multnomah County prosecutors once jurors learned the wounded man had been videoed uttering a racist slur in the struggle’s aftermath.
So the jury accepted that saying a slur can justifiably provoke aggression backwards in time? Incredible.
I believe that the ugliness forced on us everywhere we turn (architecture, modern "art", etc.) is deliberately done in an attempt to break us, using the method C.S. Lewis wrote about in That Hideous Strength. The extreme version in the Cheka Vallmajor cannot yet be fully replicated in public, but already we have seats that we can't sit on, public spaces that intentionally play unappealing music to get people to move along, and the various other elements of "hostile architecture" made by people who hate us and try to break us. (As always, the sensible solution — imprison/institutionalize/rehouse the people that make "hostile architecture" "necessary" — remains steadfastly untried.)
KingOfTheBailey
28d ago
Probably because the "E-Meter" (aka "electropsychometer", "Hubbard Electrometer") is used in Scientology's "auditing" process.
C.S. Lewis addresses a similar dilemma in The Necessity of Chivalry:
What, then, is the ideal that can bring both types of incomplete men together?
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