No_one
Underemployed Slav. Likes playing Factorio.
User ID: 1042
No_one
6mo ago
This is a perfect example of how to fill a fucking A4 small type and say nothing.
LLMs are great at this, and so are some people, and I hate it because it's all spam. The information content is minimal, it is a pure time sink.
No_one
1yr ago
The 'Yoruba' gives it away as being a fake.
No european racist would care about that guy being a particular African tribe. Especially not someone writes at that level.
Meanwhile, in Africa, what tribe you are still matters a lot.
No_one
1yr ago
entirely defensive from the left.
It is not.
It is not defensive to tell confused teenagers that they might be trans, hide any concerns from their parents and then push them into the pipeline, where they're quickly given hormones, hormone blockers without any serious evaluation.
It is not defensive to redefine asking confused people whether they're sure they want to undergo irreversible medical procedures as 'conversion therapy', which, in case you don't remember was trying to condition homosexuals with aversive stimuli so they'd stop being same-sex attracted.
The clockwork orange treatment. Didn't really work to no one's surprise.
All without proper psychiatric evaluations or any sensible measures that are standard in somewhat well-run countries such as Finland or Sweden.
It does seem all the PR efforts have paid off. I'd feel pity about all the female to 'male' types who get into this.
No_one
1yr ago
a lot of gays would be happier be heterosexually married with the occasional gay experience.
You're not talking about gays there, but bisexuals. And yes, they'd probably be happier if involved in a stable relationship instead of an endless series of bouts of anonymous casual sex.
I'm not sure actual gays, that is men who are homoromantic and homosexual would be happier if they kept pretending they aren't.
And what about the spouses?
I guess one can have a genuine fondness and friendship for someone of the sex you aren't attracted to, and even e.g. taking care of a children together is imaginable, but it's very wrong to do under false pretenses. He's never going to be really passionate about her, and can only satisfy her on a romantic level through heroic, sustained effort.
In this mostly ex-catholic country I've heard from family many stories of medical professionals of some sort discovering their spouse with whom they have children is gay. They were in love with the guy, he was in denial. These arent't happy stories.
No_one
5mo ago
He led in penalty minutes last year.
No_one
1yr ago
Russian performance in the war doesn't exactly scream competence, so it would be surprising, if they pulled something like this off, so deep in NATOs turf.
Why'd they be sabotaging their own pipeline ?
Biden himself hinted USA is going to do "bring about an end to Nord Stream 2" and declined to elaborate.. A submersible drone bomb was found on site couple of years back.
Interesting development concerning ChatGPT related to CW.
People observed that ChatGPT talks like a midwit liberal after all the 'fixes' it's been subjected to.
So, it speaks in the jargon of the ingroup.
So, someone figured out you can 'weaponize' ChatGPT to engage in 'debates' with midwit liberals without actually having to learn to ape their slang and thought patterns.
Apparently, this is quite effective as a debating tactic.
This is going to end badly- I can feel it, and if this takes off, I feel that within a few weeks a number of very smart people will be trying their damnedest to figure out how to prevent doing something like this.
However, I feel that various spook contractors outfits are almost certainly going to use the AI to control discourse by literally moving into 'creating a guy' type of activity in the next years. Any and every place where you'll want to debate anything online that will allow free entry will be swamped by very good bots intended to get people chasing their tails and believing the right things.
That's an obvious brute force fix for the problem of social media fracturing the consent manufacturing machine.
They'll probably settle for making a ML model spot this sort of activity and then ban people who're doing it, that's my guess.
No_one
1yr ago
What I absolutely find grating is that this person takes the existence of community for granted when it's for most people no more real than bigfoot.
It's perfectly sensible, when you think a little and remember the politics of people known as 'community organizers'.
That there's no community doesn't mean you can't appoint yourself to be a spokesman for a community.
It's not like they're organised enough to prevent you from speaking in their name, besides, the media knows what message it wants to hear so they'll know who to ask.
No_one
1yr ago
No, he wasn't. He was grabbed by some retired major. A drag queen stomped on him, however, the bigger factors was the 300 shooter was dragged to the ground by another 300 lbs American. A very modern situation.
No_one
1yr ago
utterly smashed them on the rhetoric and the facts when it comes to racial IQ gaps
Uh, what ? Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence, please link at least one such 'smashing' that isn't the blank-slater just declaring IQ is fake and refusing to address the gap merely waving around vaguely.
No_one
14d ago
It's a scam because you don't have magic energy storage.
Sufficient Battery storage - and you can verify this yourself - would require metropolitan area sized battery arrays. (I did some basic calcs for flow batteries)
So you either have to be content for closing down the country for a few random weeks in a year, or maintain an entire parallel mostly idle power system to pick up the slack.
That's what the Germans did. That's why after spending enough to fully decarbonize their grid via nuclear, they have the world's highest energy price and carbon intensity way worse than France.
No_one
3mo ago
Biden will federalise the National Guard if it comes down to it.
Abbott ordered NG to disregard that during the crisis says feds failed to protect the border. _Read the damn letter, it's all over the place.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEoj3cMXQAA27_8?format=jpg&name=large
No_one
1yr ago
Well, only connoiseurs remember the "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day."" teenage girl shooter.
Was a long time ago. She's in her fifties now.
Project Veritas published another video that has gone on to have millions of views, but no media is willing to touch it - even Daily Mail deleted its article about it within hours.
I thought there'd be some coverage here, but apparently... ? It's a very CW event I believe.
Gist of it is, some affirmative action double minority hire (both gay and black) MD working for Pfizer under the lofty sounding but probably not that important position of "Pfizer Director, Research & Development Strategic Operations for mRNA scientific planning"
got slightlyy drunk with his Grindr date and said a good bunch of plausible seeming stuff, ranging from gosh, the revolving door between regulators and Pfizer is kinda unethical, but good for us to saying Pfizer is considering doing its own gain-of-function research to come up with better vaccines via either serial passage or something else. Give it a watch if you're interested, I think he wasn't making it up.
Then PV met up with him again, and showed him a tablet with the captured video. He said he had made all of that up to impress his date. (doubtful).
The second video is probably more interested for people who like "public freakouts" as the guy first acts like a bad gay stereotype, and later as a black one, at one point trying to destroy PV's tablet.
Interesting is that people like Majid Nawaaz were seen coming up with 12d chess theories about how this is an op to discredit Veritas and that the guy was a plant.
People have saved his Linked in before it got deleted and videos of him from schools he had attended according to his linked in, so if it's an op, it's an improbably good one.
EDIT: youtube took down the videos, still up on twitter.
1st vid: https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas/status/1618420826986123265 (the date one)
2nd vid: https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas/status/1618748408982040576 (confrontation in someone's restaurant and the freakout)
EDIT:
pfizer responds: https://www.pfizer.com/news/announcements/pfizer-responds-research-claims
They say they aren't doing serial passage / gain of function but are merely putting new spikes on the original virus in vitro, in an effort to see whether the vaccine still does something against new variants. I feel normies won't like this one bit.
They also say that they're doing "in vitro resistance selection experiments are undertaken in cells incubated with SARS-CoV-2 and nirmatrelvir in our secure Biosafety level 3 (BSL3) laboratory".
So, it does seem like the guy is an idiot who talked about stuff they admit they were doing, of which he doesn't know enough about and which seems mostly reasonable, and then completely fucked up by adding in his own speculation about what they could do.
I'd say the video is most notable for seeing how absolutely blasé insiders can be about corruption and conflicts of interest. I guess if you have med school debts to pay off, chortling about how 'covid and covid vaccines are going to be great for the company' comes naturally ?
No_one
1yr ago
**A quick poll.. do we have a poll mechanism ? ** We should.
**Were you aware **that Woodward of Watergate fame was, before his journalistic career an officer in the Navy, one trusted enough to handle nuclear codes?
After Yale, Woodward began a five-year tour of duty in the United States Navy.[8] During his service in the Navy, Woodward served aboard the USS Wright, and was one of two officers assigned to move or handle nuclear launch codes the Wright carried in its capacity as a National Emergency Command Post Afloat (NECPA).[9] At one time, he was close to Admiral Robert O. Welander, being communications officer on the USS Fox under Welander's command.[
Were you aware 'Deep Throat' of Watergate was deputy director of FBI, someone who had many reasons to hate Nixon ?
I was aware of the latter, but not of the former. I thought he was just a young journalist, not a young journalist fresh off from fed-land with a top secret clearance.
There's this incredible segment by Tucker Carlson that basically lays out a theory Nixon was not as big a crook as we think, and that he was set up because he tried to keep the government subordinate to its notional head.
To sum it up, the claim is that Watergate was a palace coup, where the secret services overthrew the US government, and have kept it under control ever since through influence operations.
It does look persuasive to me. Too persuasive, if you were pulling a coup of this sort, would you make one of the protagonists a retired naval officer with that kind of background ? Ok, I'm done expressing my confusion and astonishment with what I've learned today. If this isn't content fit for themotte, please let me know!
Supplementary viewing: Interview with 'Kay Griggs' , talking about deep state influence ops and what the military gets up to in secret. Was allegedly filmed during her divorce as a 'dead man' measure. Her husband was involved with it and drank / talked too much to her.
It's eight hours, I mean, anyone wants a rabbit hole to fall down through. I feel like I should watch it at some point, though there's probably an analysis somewhere.
It seems to be fairly tame conspiracy stuff: some classic secret societies, homosexuals, political murder, drug running, saudis, etc. However, the nice lady talking about is, if she says who she is, in a position where she may have actually learned something. If she made it up, it's a great performance, if she hasn't, it's not very surprising.
No_one
1yr ago
List of alleged ex-FBI people working for Twitter.
Quite a lot of names. 16 directors or managers. All hired since the '16 debacle.
Reminds one of the Chinese demand for CPC members being in company management.
Is it random ? Or does this support the claim Twitter is uniquely important in the information landscape as a place where journalists get their stories and hang out.
No_one
3mo ago
Complete and utter nonsense about EROEI.
A gigawatt plant operating 70-80% of the time for decades puts out unimaginably large amounts of power.
Uranium is less than 1% of plant operating costs.
Reactor is the only unique part, steam turbines/electric machinery used are identical to those in other plants and are you really in camp of "couple of thousand tons of reinforced concrete' require gigawatt years worth of power?
Nuclear power isn't competitive because laws were made - e.g Alara so it couldn't be.
Ignoring the race issue, I was very impressed overall.
Was it just that ?
Goldberry in the books:
"slender as a willow-wand"
"while Goldberry busied herself about the table; and their eyes followed her, for the slender grace of her movement filled them with quiet delight."
"‘He is,’ said Goldberry, staying her swift movements and smiling."
Meanwhile, the included image shows her card from the new set.
No_one
1yr ago
Anyways, I would be curious on others thoughts here (assuming anyone is willing to watch a nearly two hour video by someone most would consider an ideological opponent.
My 2 cents are - if she wants me to engage with her arguments, better start a substack or something. Or not put 'herself' in videos.
I've had her videos bludgeoned into my youtube feed, and .. there's something about elaborate theatrics and 'her' entire 'performance' that repulsed me. Watched maybe 4 minutes and then told youtube to give me a break.
My takeaway from this whole 'trans and gay' craze of the last decade is I'm very sympathetic to the way the old communists treated the topic.
They tolerated it, as in, the more thoughtful places did not jail them, but it was given absolutely zero media visibility.
And were they wrong? Anorexia and bulimia are (see SA's "Crazy Like Us") are self-inflicted problems.
I maintain that to a large degree, the trans issue is the same thing. Even if you look at google trends, ftm and trans are slowly replacing bulimia /anorexia in search interests.
As a society, we'd be better off if these concepts were taboo, unspeakable. Same as you don't tell kids "do not lick frozen metal" because of course they'll give it a try, you shouldn't tell kids "if you feel like you don't belong with your sex, maybe you are trans".
No, maybe you're just weird. Plenty of people are weird and don't find it easy to belong. Either get used to it, but trying to use the uncanny-valley to get somewhere where you belong never ends well.
The benefit to teenagers who'd avoid getting into deep trouble would outweight the discomfort of genuine cases.
No_one
1yr ago
annihilate the world multiple times over anyways
No, they don't. You need orders and orders of magnitude stronger weapons to destroy the world.
That's bullshit fearmongering courtesy of .. probably Soviet disinfo aimed at disarmament.
US with their nukes could crash the world economy but they'd be unable to kill more than say, 30% of world population even if they tried their hardest with proper targetting. (and every nuke was deployed, not just the ones presently mounted in delivery systems)
No_one
3mo ago
Ofc it's fake.
You have democrats- some black congresswoman on video saying this migration is good for redistricting purposes and that ofc they're going to later vote for them.
No_one
8mo ago
GDP is higher if free time of people is spent staring into magic soul stealing mirrors.
Maybe. Anyway, not that our society is able to regulate predatory business practices.
Am writing this squatting in the downstairs bathroom in the family dacha. It's 0130. I should have already showered. Got an urge to check Twitter.
A bad habit, costs me 10 hours a week, at least. Payoff ..well, I can usually tell you tomorrow's headlines. Useless, really.
Another ten minutes of my life gone.
No_one
9mo ago
navigable waters.
Rio Grande isn't 'navigable' there. It stopped being maintained as a navigable river a century ago.
No_one
1yr ago
I don't know why so many right-wing Zoomers are obsessed with the evils of porn. I don't think porn is necessarily a great thing, in the same way that watching loads of TV isn't ideal for you, but I've yet to see anyone blow up their life with (legal) porn,
Because people 'blowing up their life with porn' doesn't look like what you think it looks like.
It's not telegenic, interesting, doesn't get into the crime blotter, it's just sad and boring. Quite often they don't have a life to blow up in the first place. You think you have any reason to know or be friends with guys who apart from work spend 2-3 hours daily on porn? You think you can tell which guy at work has little drive because his reward system is completely screwed from superstimuli ?
For some unclear reason, serious porn use makes men even less sociable than can be ascribed to their solitary 'hobby'.
Have you counted the amount of men you encounter who fit that pattern, and compared it to how it was before mass internet ?
You do know people are more solitary and friendless today than ever before, right ?
I feel like this pattern is borne out among my friends and acquaintances too. I'm in my 30s, and I know quite a few women who have had serious mental health crises (usually associated with high stress jobs, especially in combination with parenting), whereas my male friends have mostly thrived, and now are happily ensconced in their careers and having kids.
You are aware of 'survivorship bias' right ?
psychodrama-seeking wife who is treating her husband's porn use as an existential threat to the relationship
Are we really supposed to think you'd be perfectly okay with your wife neglecting ..everything else and locking herself away for 60-90 minutes daily to masturbate over things that you are scared to contemplate as 'no biggie', right ?
Are you really saying FDR, the New Deal, the Civil Rights Revolution and the rise of the US managerialism is mostly due to.. the confederacy having been imperfectly dealt with?
It's not a rhetorical question, I'm genuinely puzzled.
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