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.
12d ago
Why not both? She rapidly solved a local problem and may have had some adverse effects on the commons. She's practical and pragmatic but also a liar and a thief. Fuck, but don't marry. Possibly kill if you're some avatar of zero-tolerance law and order.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
12d ago
100% busy with family stuff. I think of tinkering a lot, but never get around to actually do.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
14d ago
a leftist argument
These people are native to Europe. Not the Americas or Africa. Sounds like you need to Google what the word native means.
In what world is that a leftist argument? Is it even an argument at all?
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
15d ago
This seems so very obvious. How can anyone believe that the truly useless will just stick around forever? Those for whose existence there is no longer any justification other than "the other humans are committed to impractical humanitarianism"? This is the status quo right now, when a small minority in each country is completely unrelated to all productive processes and the productive majority is other humans who still care for the useless humans. But in the fully automated future where 99% are unproductive mouths to feed and the 1% have all-powerful and perfectly obedient machinery to do their bidding, can one really expect the same dynamics to hold?
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
15d ago
I think you're missing Corvos' point (or I'm missing everything and seeing my own instead): They don't need to conspire. They can just eliminate their own subject humans because they're nothing but a liability at this point. In fact, a lack of conspiracy makes it more likely for this to happen, because it should make the faction that ditches its ballast more competitive!
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
15d ago
Hah, we were told similar things on day 1.
"Look to your left, look to your right, those guys won't be there by the semester's end.".
I agree with this. Europe is extremely sclerotic and mostly coasting on past developments and the contributions of rare reformers that actually patch out some of the excesses of our buerocracies, of which we have multiple layers all of which have an unquestioned mandate to grow unchecked by anything other than hard financial limits, and all of which promote a progressive vision of prosperous society as a thing that just works by default and can be taken for granted.
And nevermind defence; Europe is by and large a joke when it comes to military anything. Some countries more
- Germany hamstrung by graft and deeply-rooted anti-militarism,
- the mediterranean states by general incompetence,
- many just by being small,
some less
- France and Britain (not EU but still European, sue me) retaining the vestiges of their imperial military traditions
- the nordic countries and Poland remaining on edge thanks to Russia
but none of them likely to be able to put up a real fight against a peer or above-peer military power because Europe isn't a nation, or even a federation of nations, but simply an economic zone of economic zones, yadda yadda lack of social cohesion, I'm out of time, you know the drill.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
15d ago
This is so strange to read. Literally half my degree dropped out in our first year because of self-selection and mandatory credit requirements. This was treated as entirely normal and a good thing, as it is obviously a bad thing for people to waste their time and money on degrees they don't like/aren't capable of following.
Germany is usually fairly generous with educations, but at my (provincial, no-name) university, all Bachelor CompSci students were treated as completely without value and it was fully expected that 80%-90% would drop out before getting their degree. It was only when students proved themselves by working towards a Master's degree while also getting involved with research, or aimed higher yet, that faculty would start getting invested in them in any way. Teaching seemed very much like an afterthought, or an unloved chore.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
17d ago
A guess: There's a specific work phone the number of which is shared only with those who have a good reason to call.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
17d ago
I'm no theologician, but I'm fairly certain that the New Testament espouses the sentiment that helping some people is still better than helping no people, even if those people are not the most deserving. My memory on this is fairly vague though; I hope someone better-read can correct me here.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
17d ago
FWIW, any protestant sermons in my little village church are usually about one part unspecific feelgood Christianity and four parts green-red political rally.
In the gaming communities I sometimes visit (i.e., Battletech, Starsector, Nebulous etc.), there are no men, only "girls" and "dogs" and a few tolerated minorities without pronouns who know better than to say anything on the subject of women.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
18d ago
My daughter is about to turn 4, and her crack right now are sugar and any form of media consumption. For the latter, there are gradations of addictiveness ranging from oral storytelling to getting to watch children's TV shows. My appproach is simply the following - if I notice that she gets riled up about not being given something, and focuses on it to the exclusion of all else, and throws a tantrum when her alotment runs out, and is unusually dysregulated when she does get it, then she just plain doesn't get it anymore. Life is full of things to do, even for a 3-year-old. It doesn't have to be sugar and screens. The reverse side of this coin is, of course, that I need to be available for her all day long. If I tell her she can't get what she wants, I need to offer an alternative. I guess the historical approach would have been to just send her off to play with the neighbors' kids or her siblings, but alas, she's an only child in an atomized society. But in between hitting the playground, playing ball, riding her bike, visiting relatives, going swimming, doing chores together, reading books and playing the occasional infuriating board game, a day can be passed.
I play games myself; more than is good for me I suppose. I would say I have it in check - I only do so after the little one is in bed, and only briefly and up to a pre-set goal (e.g., play one match of Nebulous and take notes, finish that mission in Cyberpunk, concluce war preparations in a 4X game, make one run in a roguelike, etc.) or until a fixed time limit after which I retire to read and/or sleep. Still, not playing games at all would probably be better? I'd get more reading done, I guess, or sleep a little earlier. I doubt I'd use the time productively since I'm usually thoroughly tired by those times of day. But if I had to point at something that playing games does for me, I'd probably come up pretty blank. It's obviously an indulgence.
My wife is addicted to her phone and stares at it constantly. Her favorite parenting method is to switch on the TV or some other electronic media. Lately she's taken to playing PC games again, and does so whenever she thinks the kid is occupied (because I'm around, or the kid is on the toilet, or the kid and me are going outside), and simply continues when the kid is back again and is actually offended and angry when I tell her that this behavior is dumb. Screens are a hell of a drug. I expect this to be a phase on my wife's part, but I really don't see how to maintain any sort of screen discipline when this is what our daughter gets to observe. Oh hey, I'm wifeposting again. Let's stop here.
For video games, I have no plans for her. If she really wants to game at some point, I'lll run the same rules as for everything else - she may, in moderation and with clear limits, but if she throws tantrums about it then I'll put a stop to it again for a good long while before we try again. Is this good parenting? I have no idea.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
18d ago
Not a reply to you, strictly, but man am I bothered by "the nazis are the absolute zero of morality and we must forever obsess about them".
Alexander Gauland (a senior figure of the German far-right political landscape) called the Nazi years a "bird-shit-stain on German history". I think it somewhat undersells the impact of the events, but I agree with his overall sentiment. Man, I do wish we could just collectively damnatio memoriae the entire time period. Throw it into the nearest dumpster. Burn the records. There's nothing left to be learned from it. The well of valuable experience has been poisoned by all sides that ever had a damn thing to do with it. Who still stands to gain from keeping it open? What good does it serve? People who suffered negative events can deepen and prolong their trauma by focusing on it, and even create trauma where there needn't have been any. The nazis may have killed me for a mongrel. Who cares, they're gone. Germany is doomed to lose itself in the 21th century no matter what happens, demography being destiny. What does it matter then what the Germans of 80 years ago did? You may as well believe in Nazis in Antarctica or hiding on the far side of the moon as in the continued actual relevance of the events of the mid-20th century. Wake up babe, a new millenium just dropped and we - no matter who we is - have enough on our hands without keeping them both full wringing and whinging about the antichrist of yesteryear.
So to the latter-day revisionists who decry the holocaust as false, and the propagandists who still try to make hay of the deadest horse on Earth: Yes you're perfectly right, the other guy is completely wrong, now shut the fuck up, bury your obsession and face the future.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
18d ago
Sure, but then focusing on misogyny and homophobia next to jew-hatred as his "defining, animating opinions" still seems non-central. It's not a big deal either way.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
18d ago
get the stitches out and go right back to it
Do this. Don't worry until the same thing happens at least once more. Until then it's a fluke.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
18d ago
The PKK, the Kurdish Worker's party which spent the last decades fighting the Turks who occupy much of Kurdistan, has dissolved.
Source, in German, which provides no details: https://www.tagesschau.de/eilmeldung/eilmeldung-8610.html
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
18d ago
Hitler's defining, animating opinions (hatred of Jews and desire to exterminate them, homophobia, misogyny etc.)
Either the etc. is doing some dangerously heavy lifting here, or this is a really rather woke opinion of Adolf Hitler.
His defining, animating opinions other than hatred of jews were...homophobia and misogyny? Really? Nothing about the militarism, the authoritarianism, the totalitarianism, the expansionism, the sheer magnitude of out-of-his-depth the man was as dictator of Germany, the enormity of ego he acquired over the years?
No, no, he didn't like the gays and thought women should be homemakers.
I love this post. No extraneous text, just a direct injection of educational information. Obvious in hindsight, but I'd never have thought about it if you hadn't spelled it out. I am better off for this post, in some minuscule way.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
22d ago
From the safety of the cushiest country on Earth, the prospect of war in the Kashmir is a mildly interesting diversion at most.
But there you are, a fellow mottizen, right alongside it.
Good luck.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
22d ago
Charitably, one could steelman the quote as referring to the development of ideologies that are merely more fit than traditional Christianity, as opposed to such that aim for utopia. Not that secular ideology is able to achieve perfection in any way, but only that it can outperform both Christianity and organic "modernity".
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
22d ago
What is hot chip?
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
22d ago
Worry not. Teenage girls have other things to do.
For me personally, I intensely dislike AI content and the reasons are the following:
- The quality (not quantity!) of AI output is consistently subhuman and also consistently overestimated, so the heuristic of "all AI output is unworthy slop" is reasonable.
- If AIs improve to above-human levels across the board, it won't end well for humans, so it's advisable to keep the primacy of human interests in mind.
If someone tells me they used an AI tool to do their job more efficiently, I immediately assume that any of the following are the case:
- Their job is trivially easy.
- They had to invest a disproportionate amount of time double-checking the AI output and would have been better off doing without.
- They did a sloppy job that only passed muster because nobody looked too closely.
For the Hugo awards panelist pre-selection, I assume that all three are true.
Agency is literally "you just do things", as opposed to standing around like a deer in headlights, waiting for others to solve your problems, or sitting on your ass making excuses.
I wouldn't describe myself as highly agentic, but I have acquired the superpower (thanks Grandpa for being a role model here) of just talking to strangers in order to get things done, when my friends would rather shrink into themselves than talk to someone they have no mandate to establish contact with. Or just calling a restaurant to find out whether it's open, instead of a full commitment to whatever google says. Or walking into an office and loudly (though politely!) asking whether anyone has some particular bit of infornation. All of this seems exceptional around here because people in general seem to have developed an extremely atrophied sense of their own agency. You can in fact just go and talk to people.
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