Southkraut
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Southkraut
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7hr ago
Good roads that are perpetually down for maintenance, hot women that are as rare as in any country and aging out of the demographic vase anyways, and cheap booze that we can't afford for all the taxes and have no time to drink because we prefer packing our free time with as much responsibility as possible.
Yeah we're the best country in the world and the greatest nation to ever grace the face of the Earth, but man does it feel godforsaken when you've lived here all your life and seen it decline. We're too good for this shit. And what, why - just because we lost two world wars, wasted our wealth, became world champions in bureaucracy, stopped breeding and all the while imported half our biomass in foreigners? History isn't fair!
And then there's the places that do Germany even better than Germany. I should've never visited Switzerland or Japan; just makes me feel bad when I see absolute shitholes like Stuttgart or Berlin. I suspect that if I were ever to visit Singapore, you'd have to force me bodily back onto the plane.
The Germany I love and the Germany that will make it to the end of the 21st century (or just the middle) are not the same country.
Southkraut
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10hr ago
Maybe we ought to have a Blogpost...there's no weekday for B. Diary D....Dienstag? Donnerstag?
Southkraut
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10hr ago
Southern Germany here. If anyone ever passes by the crossing of the Autobahnen A6 and A7, be sure to drop by for a drink. I'm a lousy conversationalist, but I promise to pay for the first round.
Southkraut
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10hr ago
a fairly god-forsaken corner of Germany
Alright, out of with it. Which one?
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1d ago
I remember that post! And damn, it's already been a year.
As back then, I still have no actual advice to give. My personal inclination would be to tough it out - according to your version, you haven't done any wrong, so unless you suddenly realize that you did indeed "sexually assault" her, it wouldn't do to grovel just to appease a crazy woman. If this ruins your social life, then...yeah, I get it, that sucks, but better have it ruined that way than by making yourself become an absolute doormat.
Southkraut
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2d ago
Or are full-on wars these days so rare
You can probably answer that question yourself.
Who am I kidding, you're blocking me.
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2d ago
It's not something I can recognize as happiness. Maximum dopamine at all times is like a black and white photograph that's all white - useless.
Aesthetic preference. I find the idea of a wirehead more disgusting than the idea of human extinction (which seems inevitable anyways, given a long enough time frame.).
I didn't posit an alternate setting to align with my goals. I posited a setting where you could plausibly trip on a rock as you go towards this assailant to dearm them. I just don't know what to say if you think this is a totally contrived, imaginary scenario that I made up to align with my goals. People trip on rocks or stumble or something equivalent all the time, especially in surprising, violent situations.
Yes you could trip on a rock. So could your assailant. It doesn't disadvantage you any more than your opponent. This sub-scenario that might make it easier for a little girl to kill you doesn't seem any more likely than the sub-scenario in which the little girl trips and you can disarm her with even greater ease.
(which means what, death, being irreversibly injured, the kid escapes, what?)
Any of those, yes.
The understanding of potential damage which I have already set out should be clear. I of course do not mean that every swing is equivalent in direct strength. That would be absurd.
As I understand it, what you meant is, roughly, "the ability to kill with an axe". Which, yes, alright, a little girl has and an adult man has - but only if reduced to a binary without quantification. The little girl's ability to kill with an axe is far inferior to that of an adult man to do the same, and I would argue (as we have been going back and forth on for a while now) that an adult man even has a greater ability to kill without an axe than a little girl has with one.
yet they should be completely confident and have little qualms about this confrontation because the potential damage is negligible.
They should be able to. Certainly they have the physical means for it. The "potential" damage as in worst-case is certainly severe and fatal, but the "expected" damage is far lower than that.
Do you routinely take approximate 10% chances on your life or well-being?
No. But neither am I routinely threatened by little girls with axes. I take great pains not to live in that kind of place, after all.
I do absolutely insist that an adult man should consider himself equipped and able to take that risk when it is called for. Especially when the alternative is, say, leaving his smaller kids to fend for themselves while he legs it.
Southkraut
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2d ago
FTGE
FTGE?
Southkraut
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2d ago
Yes, I suppose if you ignore all of the complexity and randomness that arises in a real confrontation, then I guess the risk is basically zero. Strong beats weak 100% of the time apparently.
With a size and strength differential as large as between the average 12-year-old girl and the average adult man, I'd say >90% is a safe bet for success, and a coin toss for success without injury? The numbers are made-up nonsense of course, but that's my extremely rough guess.
Are you intentionally being hyperbolic or do you really not see any spectrum at all between being "a passive slab of meat" and strolling up and disarming the child with strong adult hands with absolutely zero fear or injury like a badass?
The question was about whether there was a significant difference in the potential damage caused by children VS adults using axes, to which I strictly answer "Yes, in the situation the topic revolves around". If you posit some alternate setting, then feel free to adjust the parameters until they align with your goals.
If you would like to assign numbers to your unearned confidence, what rate of adult deaths or serious injury in these confrontations would you accept as presenting a credible risk?
As alluded to above, I'm not fond of these numbers games. Combining them with the vagueness of "presenting credible risk" doesn't help. And as far as the confidence goes...sure, it's unearned. I've never been in a life-or-death struggle against a 12-year-old girl armed with an axe.
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2d ago
If the final stage of human civilization is uninterrupted lifelong AI-supervised dopamine maximization, then I hope there's a ruthless paperclip maximizer out there somewhere that will put us out of our misery. Better clippy than wirehead.
Southkraut
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2d ago
Aren't "American Indian" and "American American" are two very different identities?
And I wonder how many Christian children killed by trans gunmen will be enough.
All of them.
Christianity doesn't really seem like the right toolkit for encouraging in-group bias and even defensive militancy. History may seem to contradict me here, but I'd posit that it's actually non-christian traditions that historically lent the means of protection to Christianity, that institutions of physical defence had to work in spite of Christianity, not thanks to it. And over the centuries, it looks to me like Christianity has worn down those alternate memeplexes until they became defunct, and is now, in the West, left without the memes to ensure its own survival and that of its adherents.
The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.
I think that Christianity has had a good run, but owed much of it to other forces that allied with it and carried it through the centuries. It survived those, and in their place has grown some post-christian replacement non-religion that picked and chose a few elements of Christianity to run with while rejecting the name of the faith and any coherence that came with it. But I think they picked and chose poorly - they took up the most flawed pieces, and left behind most of the good bits.
Christianity and western leftism both seem doomed in the long run. But so is everything, I suppose.
Good luck.
Been refactoring my entire Unreal codebase in order to apply Composition-over-Inheritance, only to run into issues because apparently Unreal really likes Inheritance. Right now I still think I can wrangle it into shape, but it'll take some extra work and I am of course somewhat held back by my own lack of practical experience with Unreal.
Towards the end of last week and on the weekend I actually had a few chunks of free time (a rare occurrence!), but instead of continuing my hacksawing with Unreal, I instead pivoted and checked out Godot's new features (yes I know Redot exists), which included a live editor just like Unity has, and just like the lack of which I bemoaned from the first. So, thinks I, I'm still not enjoying C++ and Unreal isn't making things easy, and there's an engine with C# scripting and the option to use double-precision transforms and it's even patching out its major weak points. Maybe I can check it out again, do my damndest to ignore the politics? Off go I to compile Godot for C# and double-precision, according to instructions. It does not work. I go to the Discord and ask questions as to why. I receive some help, the compilation and subsequent steps work out. I open up my Godot project with this newly built double-precision C# editor, and lo and behold, it indeed gives me errors because I treat vectors and transforms as single-precision. Those are the errors I expected and desired. So I crack open an IDE and...find out that while the single-precision classes no longer work, neither do the double-precision ones. Apparently extra steps will be necessary. I go back to the Discord and ask my questions, and in response I am asked to justify why I want double-precision at all, don't I know it occupies more memory? I explain myself, but the rainbows are silent. I decide that such difficulties in getting to start working combined with doubts about the degree to which this particular engine configuration will even be supported are a little more uncertainty than I like, and give up on Godot. Again.
Back to Unreal, because even if it is a 200-GB-monstrosity that requires a forklift just to get started and three separate bags of power tools to compile - as Zorba said (paraphrased): It works.
And it has double-precision built in, no extra steps required.
Southkraut
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2d ago
Badass: Can beat a little girl, even if she holds a knife.
Southkraut
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3d ago
Yes, if the adult behaves like a passive slab of meat, then I suppose the potential damage is similar.
A win for semantics.
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3d ago
Thanks. Fire away! But there's what's probably a <1% chance of me actually going to any of them. I'm not much of a social animal.
Southkraut
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3d ago
Fascinating. Thanks for pointing that one out.
Southkraut
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3d ago
Do you think the difference in the damage a 12 year old and an adult could potentially do with an axe is really so significant?
Absolutely so. Have you ever done any fighting, for play or for sport or for real? Have you ever, as an adult, tussled with a kid? Have you ever used a knife or an axe, in any capacity, against anything other than foodstuffs?
I dunno, if my interactions with police are anything to go by: You call them, they come by, you explain the situation and show them your footage, and then they nod gravely and tell you that unfortunately nothing can be done but hopefully you're insured, have a nice day.
Edit: And to clarify, I meant "stop this bullshit" as in "prevent them from repeating it".
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3d ago
You will be surprised to learn that chaos did not reign in the years prior to widespread filming of public activities -- I guess if the guy wanted to take her toys away himself I'd be OK with that, but would recommend just ignoring her.
You will be unsurprised to be reminded of the fact that the years prior to ubiquitous handheld cameras were also the years of greater ethnic homogeneity and stronger Leitkultur.
Going to the cops is just weak -- do you record speeders with a dashcam and call them in?
Would if I could! This is a law and order country, and everyone needs to do their part.
Southkraut
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3d ago
I can't even imagine how I would explain having a video of little girls on my phone, let alone recording it, not even to the police, not even if they mugged me, so maybe I'm typical minding my misogyny.
"Officer, these kids were waving around what looked like sharp weapons, and threatening me directly. I don't want to have to kick them in the face, so can you please make them stop this bullshit?"
I should have gone with my real objection, which was something like "how do you define statism if modern Britain doesn't count? Do they have to go full on nineteen eighty-four?"
Who ever said Britain was not statist?
Hell, which state on Earth isn't statist?
Southkraut
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3d ago
Minus the extreme browning, that seems to be the current beauty standard among young German women.
Are they all fake blondes with fake eyebrows, too?
Well fair, that we have.
Though then again, sitting in between France and Czechia, we had both the worst and the best brewers in the world right next to us, and every opportunity to learn what to do and what not to do.
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