Lizzardspawn
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Lizzardspawn
1d ago
Trans people existing does not
From my point of view the majority of new trans since the great awokening are - FtM - mental illness and social contagion in young women. MtF - sexual fetish.
Lizzardspawn
1d ago
Until the people that were woke paid their price we have not won.
Lizzardspawn
1d ago
He had this creepy field around him that would allow him to play Lavrentiy Beria in a biopic without much effort. I think that Lennon was in this weird spot where people loved him, but nobody really liked him.
Lizzardspawn
1d ago
She is white - what are you talking about?
Lizzardspawn
1d ago
Game of Drones - so I was thinking whether the war in Ukraine will lead to China catching up in one of the two areas that they are behind so far from the west - jet engines. Russia started moving from piston to jet for their drones, their appetite is voracious and it plays right where China historically has started their conquest of the supply chain - the bottom. So this is a perfect storm for knowledge gathering - ability for rapid iteration, great demand for performance and customer that has high failure tolerance.
Lizzardspawn
1d ago
Short of remigration, can it be fixed?
Xinjiang style will fix it quite fast.
Lizzardspawn
2d ago
Schekley is timeless, so is Zelazny, as is Heinlein. The golden age of american Sci Fi is the same as the golden age of american animation. If you are only confined to it - it should actually be enough for a lifetime (I never tire of merrie melodies and the others).
Almost any hugo and nebula shortlist before the great awokening is worth checking out. You want romance for men - Vorkosigan Saga is there waiting for you. Thrillers are also published and we have Dresden files. You have many space operas.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
If the travelling merchant doesn't make anything but sells cloth for two ducats a yard while buying it for one ducat a yard, he's a greedy middle-man who doesn't do anything of value (although I'll still sell him my cloth because nobody else will buy it...).
No one else will buy it because the merchant has patent from the king to only serve this area.
Modern businesses excel at creating environments where they need not compete. Regulations, vertical integrations, captive customers, licensing, cartels, centralization, credentialism - businesses love them. They hate the free and efficient market with a passion. Anything that raises the barriers of entry - they approve.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
It is cartels all the way down. Whenever you look for explanations about abnormally high prices - just look for cartels. Any market where there are less than 5 sellers/buyers you have automatic cartel behavior even if not explicit.
The markets in the west have been trough so much mergers, acquisitions, agglomerations that usually in whatever chain of commerce you think of there is usually a choke point in which there are few players.
Governments have kinda maybe somewhat alleviated the problem when there is a single seller for something. But they have not even tried to solve what happens when there are 2-3 buyers only (or 2-3 sellers) that just don't feel to compete with each other. Or the case of a single buyer. For example the meat packers right now are fucking both the beef producers and consumers.
Airline, travel, communications, internet providers, car rental, healthcare, groceries - if it is not produced in China - you have a cartel or something similar. This is how private equity operates too - they buy all the small businesses in an area and just jack up the prices - because instead of 20 plumbers, you suddenly have 20 "independents" bought by 2-3 PE funds.
Lizzardspawn
6d ago
We love the idea of exploring what orcs were before they became soulless, mindless slaves to Sauron’s will
THEY WERE ELVES!!!!! Literally. There were never free orcs.
It descends into levels of cringe, once deemed impossible.
And a tourist visa isn’t a residency visa.
It kinda is... I was shocked how much stay it allowed. IIRC if you spend less than 50% of your time in USA and don't work you could stay effectively forever jumping between mexico and usa.
Lizzardspawn
11d ago
The problem with food staples is that demand is extremely inelastic and poor people are extremely sensitive to and hurt by price increases. Even small increases in the inputs or decrease in outputs could lead to great social troubles.
Lizzardspawn
17d ago
As I said envy and pity.
Lizzardspawn
17d ago
If she can shoot My Third Gandband Orgy (anal edition) legally, she can totally hang out with you if she feels comfortable. If she was 50 years old cougar will you kick her out? It is still 20 years age gap.
This is not tea. This is progressive Kool Aid. If someone hits on her too hard - tell him to cool it off. If she hits on someone - ah whatever - envy and pity the poor bastard.
Lizzardspawn
19d ago
Anti ICE people are a lot quieter after the Pretty Good affair... so I guess your answer is yes.
Lizzardspawn
19d ago
Ahh yes - the consensual sex with foster care escapee, before she is fed and hydrated. Because that is how women work.
Lizzardspawn
21d ago
What we need is some transparency about how these things work and how they’re trained so we
I am not sure we really grok how the insides of LLM work when they are past certain scale.
Lizzardspawn
23d ago
Do you think that the 3d place match should be abolished? We got a farce this year and it is additional humiliation ritual for teams that are already pissed off at the universe.
Lizzardspawn
23d ago
Seems that pre revolution it had 1/3 of USA gdp per capita. That is quite nice starting point and Cuba was destined to be rich. It had all the potential of Mexico without any of the problems.
Lizzardspawn
24d ago
What I meant is that when llama dropped people went crazy with it. It spawned a whole ecosystem. Now china releases amazing open source models and it is like shouting in the void.
Lizzardspawn
25d ago
Can anyone explain the whole KDS - Kimi Derangement Syndrome that is going on? I kinda got the hype around deepseek - something that cheap to be that good. But Kimi i don't understand. It is quite expensive and it seems that no one is doing something interesting with open weights models once they are released from the labs. So what gives?
Lizzardspawn
25d ago
The essential element is that the West Bank and Gaza are under effectively under Israeli sovereignty yet their people have no citizenship, the textbook example of apartheid.
They are not under Israeli sovereignty. Israel doesn't claim to own them or rule them. Both are orphaned ex Egypt and Jordanian territories. And if tomorrow Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan or the Alpha centauries offer to conquer the west bank and gaza, Israel will welcome them and unroll the red carpet.
Also we have no idea how many Palestinians there are since they refuse to allow any kind of unbiased outside monitors in to actually figure out how many Palestinians there are.
I think we can guestimate by how many hospitals Gaza ministry of health has claimed to have been destroyed.
Lizzardspawn
25d ago
That being said, Israel is an apartheid state engaged in terrorism against civilians in large areas that it wants to ethnically cleanse and settle with the genetically correct people.
Israel is not apartheid state. There doesn't seems to be segregation inside Israel. People in the west bank and gaza are not israeli citizens so how can Israel apply apartheid to them?
For the ethical cleansing - Israel seems to be pretty bad at it. We have more Palestinians than ever.
Lizzardspawn
25d ago
but I recall telling people I liked Oppenheimer
At the time I said this for Oppenheimer - It becomes one of all time best movies if you remove everything but the Manhattan project.
Ahem ... she needs no fixing.
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