Southkraut
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"Behind our efforts, let there be found our efforts."
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Southkraut
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8mo ago
Wishful thinkers tend to reinforce each other.
No idea whether it's the case though. I couldn't bring myself to watch that Interview.
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14d ago
That's tautological, surely? I'm asking why is it female gendered.
At some point, no, it just reinforces itself.
If you want the historical root cause: Because women have always been predisposed towards care work on acount of remaining at home with the young, sick and elderly while men went out and abroad.
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1mo ago
I always found it attractive
You found self-pity attractive? Please explain yourself. That sounds about as wrong as it gets.
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2mo ago
Bipedal meatbags driven by complex neural networks in dire need of something to believe in in order for their societies to function.
In some senses, not in all. I meant to paint a picture, not to provide an exacting argument. Equality in general is often taken to mean that all humans are somehow equally valuable/competent/moral, which is laughably untrue even on very casual observation, and equality before the law often comes with a lot of caveats regarding enforcement, court costs, procedural shenanigans. Fiat currency is valuable only because market participants agree to pretend that it is. I'm not saying that those concepts aren't useful and beneficial, or that they're eactly as untrue by some metric as believing some other fiction, but they do require some level of suspension of disbelief or kayfabe to work.
Southkraut
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2mo ago
No worse a lie than equality, representative democracy, trans-anything, blank-slatism, pacifism, deindustrialization, fiat currency...
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3mo ago
Source on the use of prisoners for such tasks?
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4mo ago
Is there any downside to this idea?
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4mo ago
And how, pray tell, will that come about in Europe proper? Will Putin live forever, will Russia suddenly find new strength and if so from where, and then they come to invade the EU?
Southkraut
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4mo ago
I was, and I apologize for it.
Southkraut
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5mo ago
Would-rather-take-car-than-walk-five-minutes fat and overeats-with-every-meal-and-has-dessert-on-top fat, usually resulting in hides-from-public-out-of-shame-then-eats-to-console-themselves fat.
Southkraut
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5mo ago
Well fair enough, I was thinking more of Germany. I should probably preface all my posts with "Meanwhile, in the land of the Germans...". And our best and most beautiful buildings are usually survivors from the late middle ages, or baroque, and you can't exactly build that way anymore. Our immediately-post-war architecture is offensively ugly and our later buildings are so expensive that it makes you wonder how they could achieve such price tags without making the roofs out of solid gold.
Looking at those, they are all somewhat pompous. Maybe that's appropriate though? Not that ours are any better, mind you. The predominant style there just doesn't appeal much to me personally.
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8mo ago
Obviously I don't know a damn thing about you and it may very well be that you are undergoing a spike of depression and presenting yourself in a fashion that highlights you at your worst, rather than at your usual. But with that caveat out of the way, and taking what you write here at absolute face value rather than as an exaggerating vent - have you considered suicide?
Southkraut
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8mo ago
Seems like North Korea is sending soldiers to Russia.
WELT article, German and paywalled: https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/plus254140716/Putins-Nordkoreaner-Erstmals-seit-dem-Mongolensturm-Wenn-der-Ferne-Osten-in-den-Krieg-eintritt.html
Commentary in NZZ, also German and paywalled: https://www.nzz.ch/meinung/nordkoreas-intervention-im-ukraine-krieg-erfordert-eine-harsche-gegenreaktion-ld.1853967
So I don't actually know a damn thing about it all.
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1d ago
Some minor coding, preparations for future "features", but nothing visible.
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7d ago
And there's a very large degree of difference between what seems to have been the historical reality in 19th and early 20th century Germany and what I assume most people would imagine when they hear "a legacy of democratic norms".
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15d ago
No tinkering whatsoever this week. Family maintenance consumes all. Thanks for asking and please keep it up.
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21d ago
Some concept work, some coding. No great accomplishments; just some basic refactoring to make working with Unreal C++ a little less painful. Working my way out of some Unreal problems, while failing to solve others. Not much, but I'm happy just go get anything at all done.
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23d ago
Fair point, good input.
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25d ago
I somewhat doubt Unreal will let me do that, but will look into it. Thanks!
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1mo ago
Been getting a little time in, actually. Not much to show for it; I'm mostly just experimenting with procedurally instantiating objects in Unreal and marvelling at how they don't behave how I expect and at how difficult it is to do anything with the Unreal editor.
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1mo ago
Suppose two men at cards with nothing to wager save their lives. Who has not heard such a tale? A turn of the card. The whole universe for such a player has labored clanking to this moment which will tell if he is to die at that man’s hand or that man at his. What more certain validation of a man’s worth could there be? This enhancement of the game to its ultimate state admits no argument concerning the notion of fate. The selection of one man over another is a preference absolute and irrevocable and it is a dull man indeed who could reckon so profound a decision without agency or significance either one. In such games as have for their stake the annihilation of the defeated the decisions are quite clear. This man holding this particular arrangement of cards in his hand is thereby removed from existence. This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one’s will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence.
Edit: A mis-post.
Southkraut
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1mo ago
Please elaborate.
You're getting downvoted pretty hard, but FWIW I do think you have a point regarding the difference in significance.
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