Templexious
Stuck in time
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Templexious
6d ago
I dropped the story at that chapter because it was such a lazy approach to trying to get readers on board with the idea. If the author was being that lazy with the pitch, what else were they being lazy about?
Just went back to reading Most Evil Trainer, which was actually good.
Templexious
6d ago
I read the other comments so I'm responding to the whole chain rather than just this one comment.
You have a really twitchy mod finger for SS, and anyone talking about the actions of the state of Israel and its proponents.
The wiki article notes this, on her article:
Reporting on the controversy noted Chattah's history of negative remarks regarding Palestinians, including calling them "animals", calling for "wiping Gaza off the map", and calling 2 million Gazans, "even the children", "terrorists"; she deleted her personal X account shortly thereafter.[22]
Including a couple of other notes of her calling people she is against out of pocket, denigrating, terms. I'd daresay there is enough information on her loyalties from those proclamations. It's fair to call anyone who is Israeli born, who wants to kill gazan children, Zionist.
I'm confused why you choose to go after him so frequently.
Templexious
1mo ago
Cheap labor doesn't entirely explain it. There are thousands of Mexican, brazillian, eastern european, africans, and phillippine developers they could hire. And they could keep them in India and build offices for them there.
I still notice my confusion at the endless push toward the indiaification of the USA by these groups. Do we really want to bring over all of these people who will effectively never integrate because they won't have to?
Templexious
2mo ago
Musk's revealed preferences (ie, actions) strongly indicate otherwise.
Don't get me wrong, if i had a few billion dollars, I would also maximize my number of offspring, but the ideal of the involved father in a typical happy 90s marriage is not something I would suggest musk actually, demonstrably wants for himself.
Templexious
2mo ago
Then don't argue with people here? Engage the way you want to be engaged with. I disagree with Nara's "why are you here", because telling people that don't like an area's culture to leave just makes for an echo chamber.
Personally, I would rather more discussion of process and fun pontificating, including more levity, but have been hard-pressed to, be the so-named change I want to see.
But I stay and lurk anyway, because maybe I'll find something entertaining and insightful to say. Unfortunately, the law of the internet is here to stay. 90% of everything is shit.
Templexious
3mo ago
The hate fuentes gets on this forum glows brighter than the existing discussion around fuentes himself.
Templexious
3mo ago
Johnny Bravo has done a number on the psyche of a huge subset of men and kids from the 90s-00s.
Templexious
4mo ago
Phrasing it like that makes it sound like moldbug imagines himself as a faang middle manager.
Templexious
4mo ago
I am amenable to Scott's implied "the system isn't entirely evil" argument.
That said, I'm not willing to get into arguments over whether something was a side effect or the intent of a policy. Godspeed to any with enough gumption to try their hand in that so-called discourse.
But between him and moldbug putting out "okay, newage rightwing, sometimes the system is actually pretty good, we just need to change who the system caters to" posts, I've noticed my growing confusion on what they actually wanted with the change of the guard.
You can't just say "yeah, put these ideas into power" and then fail to notice that was part of the plan from the beginning.
Templexious
6mo ago
The informed ones in my circle were mostly happy with his first term.
Templexious
6mo ago
There are a few neocons in my circle, they're not terribly enthused with trump and putin's growing relationship.
Templexious
6mo ago
I haven't paid attention to your spectrum alignment, but regardless, your additions to conversation are always enjoyable and interesting to read.
Templexious
6mo ago
Income: 250-300k for an individual
To make sure I understand this, you're saying if you make less (say, 100k/year), in the US, you should be putting your income into health insurance?
Templexious
7mo ago
Hillary and Jeb were both pretty universally hated by the normie class. The reasons likely to do with decades of the priestly class hating on them, sure, but it's the truth.
Templexious
7mo ago
I've done it. At first started with semaglutide. Semaglutide is good, but has more side effects than others.
I lost about 30 pounds on semaglutide, but needed to lose another 20 to be healthy. After a year of semaglutide, I swapped to tirzepatide, and finally broke through the weight barrier and am now approaching the weight I was a decade ago.
Go for it. I buy from grey market because it's so expensive in the United States, though sites come and go and it can be difficult to find a new one when the old one shuts down.
Templexious
7mo ago
If it rids companies of hour long lectures on microaggressions, at least that's a step.
Templexious
7mo ago
Consider any other altcoin, however- bitcoin, litecoin, ethereum, monero.
By the time you've heard of a memecoin, when you buy, you've probably already lost.
Templexious
7mo ago
The more I read of Hanania over time, the more respect I lose.
His opinions are all over the map and impossible to pin down. He's right about the gribblers and maga conservatives being and embracing stupidity, of course. But pinning himself in the neoliberal camp as a kind of anti-maga race realist zionist(?) is getting old fast.
More specifically, it's the smug eternal dunking that's been getting insufferable
Templexious
7mo ago
My translation:
"We were just offered amazing tax incentives in Texas, and the fact checkers were really expensive. We really didn't want to decrease profit margins as user interaction on our website declines, and also please do not notice how we attempted to fill the userbase with fake ai users just a week ago. We think conservative users are particularly gullible to this scam"
You are not sufficiently blackpilled if you go to bat for Zuckerberg, of all people.
Templexious
7mo ago
It's unfortunate that it doesn't. With the vast number of smaller tech companies, one would think a few would hit "defect" and do it, and gain even more long term employees.
Templexious
7mo ago
The even crazier thing here is you often don't need huge wage bumps. In my experience, even a 10-15% raise is enough to keep people and keep them happy.
Job hopping brings with it a lot of unknowns, and most people would rather stay where they are comfortable, it's surprising companies don't take advantage of this. Give these persons a gesture of a wage increase and they will stay longer and be more picky in their hops.
Templexious
8mo ago
I struggle to believe that bringing those into America is necessary to moving humanity forward, but I am an American who still believes in nativist superiority.
Templexious
8mo ago
I am confused about the entire H1B debate.
Are there reasons Musk cannot just pursue cheap Indian labor on Indian soil? Software can be sent from India to USA without restriction, so what is the benefit of increasing H1B for him or any other tech company located in the US?
Templexious
8mo ago
Under the assumption the h1b visa program actually does that, go for it.
Not sure, I don't browse space battles much, people were just talking about pokemom fics and most evil crops up as one of the must-reads.
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