Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
"Behind our efforts, let there be found our efforts."
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Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
2d ago
I always found it attractive
You found self-pity attractive? Please explain yourself. That sounds about as wrong as it gets.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
2d ago
Please elaborate.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
2d ago
"we're cooked, gooners."
You're cooked, gooners. We're at the decline into decadence stage of the cycle of civilization, the polar opposite of the whole "when old men plant trees in the shade of which they shall never sit" stage. This is probably terminal, and no, a carpet of maggots eating a soon-to-be-corpse do not constitute a healthy living body. This civilization, which fails to achieve a remotely reasonable TFR, is absolutely fucking doomed. It will die and something new will take its place that does not suffer from the same affliction. Probably said maggots.
Go down with the ship or find some Amish to link up with.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
2d ago
Ah fair enough; on a strict reading you did say as much.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
2d ago
Respectfully, this seems slightly off the mark. There's plenty of RETVRN-posting on the Motte, sometimes quite overtly. Just look at all the people who indeed advocate for Christianity as the only path to running a functioning civiilization.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
2d ago
LLMs can collect answers from StackOverflow and sometimes get the right one. How nice.
Meanwhile, I'm switching off CoPilot because it keeps suggesting that I use classes and methods that plainly don't exist.
Things that happened to me this week.
Confirmation bias in rural Germany.
Incident 1: The pharmacy.
Following some advice from my physician, I went to the pharmacy to discuss allergy medication and possibly buy some. The clerk was a muslim woman, and spoke bad enough German that I ended up backing out of the store rather than risk relying on her contradictory information. The whole conversation would have been better off conducted in Italian or Latin or some other language I simply do not speak, using hand and feet, rather than under the pretense that broken half-German does anyone any good.
Incident 2: The gas station.
At the local gas station, I parked at the pump, exited the car, and was immediatelly welcomed by an overgregarious foreigner (though his German beat that of the pharmacist!) who addressed me as his brother and wished my family good health. I gave him a polite enough "Hello" and went on to pump gas. He pivoted to begging for two liters of Diesel. I gave him a "No." with baseline politeness and no room for argument. He went on to accost positively every customer at the place, variably commenting on their families or the beauty of their cars. Normally I just leave beggars alone, the same way I leave alone cats and pigeons, but in this case I went to the cashier, paid, and notified them of the goings on, following which they sent out the manager to shoo the beggar away.
Incident 3: The national public radio station.
Tuning in to one of our national public broadcasting stations on the car radio, and expecting yet another sermon on carbon emissions, I was greeted by yet another sermon on carbon emissions.
Incident 4: The regional public radio station.
Tuning instead to a local (Well, not really. Actually a Bavarian from a few miles further east) station, and expecting news on soccer and local politics, I received a sermon about insufficient representation of women in local politics.
Incident 5: Unknown street.
Arriving in an unknown larger town on an errand, I failed to find my destination on a first attempt. I spotted an elderly man with a toothbrush moustache, and thinking him either a neo-nazi, an autist or a joker, and in any case someone who would respond favorably to attention, I greeted him to ask for directions. He gave me a "not understand" in reply. When in Atomized Globalized Urban Place, do as Atomized Globalized Urban People do, and so I just got out my phone and checked google maps instead.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
2d ago
FWIW OP used the LLM to do his math for him, but still - I don't want to be double-checking a chatbot's napkin arithmetic.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
3d ago
You really like rubbing it in.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
3d ago
How much are you willing to bet on this timeline?
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
3d ago
I checked out the prologue, didn't proceed any further yet. That far in, it seemed fairly strong except for the combat. I doubt there's any way to make JRPG combat worth the time.
Maybe I'll give it a go if and when I have more time.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
3d ago
No offense, but can the mods please just blanket ban any post that builds an argument based on LLM output?
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
3d ago
Thanks for the input. I'll try to stick with it a little longer then.
Newspapers don't say, or epxlicitly claim it was random.
Though the Tageszeitung (https://taz.de/Herkunftsdebatte-nach-Attentaten/!6087003/) deplores the obvious racism in the discourse surrounding this event.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
4d ago
And wars in the past between states have absolutely had civlians die by the millions because they happened to be in the vicinity of military materiel or personnel.
If anything, the difference between such wars and this might be that there was no formal declaration of war by Israel on the countries in which they thus operated. Make that point if you see fit.
an experienced street fighter could stand a chance.
Almost definitionally, of course. Blacks aren't gorillas; their advantage is perhaps statistically significant but hardly insurmountable. We don't live in some parallel universe in which the bell curves of black and white fighting abilities don't or barely overlap; they're just slightly shifted relative to each other.
I find myself re-reading The Worm Ourobouros immediately after finishing it. I suppose it wasn't long enough. Or I suppose it's just thematically fitting to go in cycles here.
I also stuck my nose into Ninti's Gate, which turned out to be...a drag, so far. Being a well-read and well-spoken youtuber does not on its own make one a good writer, it seems. Feels somewhat like mid-20th-century sci-fi fanfiction.
Also got a good way into Les Trois Mousquetaires, properly in French, in audiobook format. A lot goes right over my head, and listening to it in the car means I can't just look things up as I go, but I get the gist of it. Not ideal, but works to knock some of the rust off of my French.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
4d ago
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Thermobarics have a generous area of effect, that much is true, and the explosive yield of the largest may overlap with that of the smallest fission bombs, but their actual destructive potential, especially near the hypocenter, is nowhere near the same.
Of course, if you assume that the Houthis are all placed in flammable non-hardened structures on the surface, then I suppose it makes no great difference.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
4d ago
The average white man is less used to violence and probably less aggressive, too.
I wouldn't claim to know whether that evens the odds in the average or in the mean or otherwise.
I directionally agree. Some people have very destructive impulses and should absolutely deny and ignore them. But other subconscious signals are perhaps at least partially useful. One needs to learn to take a measured approach and correctly evaluate one's own inner workings, and those inner workings will not be the same for everyone. Strongly normative statements on psychology won't do much good, I think. At least in my personal experience with other people, I see a lot of variance.
An aside: Some people are probably best off not questioning themselves at all and just running with what the imps in their head tell them to, and let's see where that leads. Not everyone is a candle that burns so or so brightly for so or so long. Some people are fireworks. Best let thems et themselves off where nobody other than themselves gets any fingers blown off. Metaphor gone awry? I mean this - some people build Killdozers, some build TempleOS, some build the Third Reich, and it's not on those utter madmen to police themselves or on us reasonable bystanders to expect them to. Best to let them go their crazy ways and just try to gain some distance from ground zero and protect ourselves from the fallout; else history will be sorely lacking in tales to tell.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
4d ago
I for one expected a post about the social integration and cultural assimilation of immigrants.
Recently, a young 39yo German woman was thrown to the ground by a Chechen, and subsequently a Syrian boy (19yo) called Muhammed Al Muhammed threw himself on top of her and held her to the ground, pinning her arms. "You get up, I beat", he repeatedly told her.
This happened in a crowded train station.
18 17 random people with a knife.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
5d ago
It's all degenerate and disgusting. Especially the tattoos, since you can't just go and remove them when you come to your senses. Plus, the massive proliferation of tattoos to the point where many people are just inked up with doodles for the hell of it is...WTF. In any case, no.
That kind of body modification is transhumanism for dumpsters. Any stupid bullshit goes in there so long as it's fashionable.
Also in Old Man Yelling At Clouds today: Stop dying your hair and grow out your eyebrows; those ridiculous marker lines above the eyes make you look like a caricature of a woman.
You're the transhumanist; off you go to self-modify at once!
I mean, my advice would be to just live with your face, which probably isn't that bad to begin with, but I don't suppose you're the target audience for that.
Them's fightin' words.
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