Templexious
Stuck in time
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Templexious
14d 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
28d 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
6mo 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
2mo ago
Johnny Bravo has done a number on the psyche of a huge subset of men and kids from the 90s-00s.
Templexious
6mo 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
2mo ago
The hate fuentes gets on this forum glows brighter than the existing discussion around fuentes himself.
Sick of the bots and echo chamber that X has become, I decided to visit Bluesky. Nothing serious- just a hope that the algorithm would be more curated toward centrism in a way that would prove refreshing compared to the assault on reality that X has become.
Agree with Hanania on the topic of not giving up on existing institutions, and that it is increasingly impossible to deny that X is deleterious to being anchored to earth, and wondering if perhaps Bluesky would be better?
Think again, motherfucker! For, immediately, on the front page (no account) you are assaulted with the culture war and the assumption that you've not just picked a side, but you've picked the woke side. Instead of re-anchoring and toning it down, the social media justice warriors are still out in force.
Within 10 posts, I counted 3 about trans issues, 2 about billionaires, one about gaetz, and another about hegseth. (Gabbard remains unimpeachable, it seems)
It took a bit of scrolling before actual breaks, like discussion of Disney soundtracks, or nasa space pictures, started to appear. If bluesky is to be the twitter alternative, then retreating entirely from internet social spaces is the likely path forward for those that don't wish to be swept up in the torrent.
In conclusion, for the moderates and centrists: Your signal is jammed, and only extremism will be boosted on either twitter or bluesky.
Templexious
3mo 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
7mo ago
I've been reading up more on Tulsi Gabbard. Honestly, she has an incredible and distinguished track record- from being a medic in Iraq, to her Hawaiian heritage.
If she really does get the DNI position in the Trump cabinet, there is strong chance that she will attempt a bid for President immediately after.
This could cause competition for the Thelians hoping for more JD Vance after Trump leaves office. But I'm not here to wargame 2028 campaign hypotheticals when Trump isn't even sworn in yet.
It seems she and her husband converted to hinduism.
My immediate take is that her presence and native pacific islander background means you know she ascended, and worked for the positions she had. Her brief stint as a Democrat is a bit odd, but otherwise she looks like she has a pretty pristine track record that's really hard to shit on.
Her being anti-lgbt, with a track record of policies that would otherwise be fairly progressive, she seems like a standard, good pick for almost any position in ... any president's cabinet?
From reading the wiki page, I'm having a hard time figuring out why anyone would mouth-froth over the idea of her having any position of power.
Dear Mottizens, what is your view on her? Any information I've missed?
Templexious
5mo ago
If it rids companies of hour long lectures on microaggressions, at least that's a step.
"Anti-woke" as criteria is the trouble.
The main game series we can consider "explicitly" anti-woke is the Postal series, and that devolved into cynical, low-complexity slop immediately. If the criteria of "anti-woke" was clearer, it would be easier to find a game that fits.
2016 Doom's main antagonist is a lesbianesque woman, and only the Doomguy can stop her, and Eternal even makes a few digs at hr wokeness with lines akin to "we like to think of the demons destroying earth as mortally challenged".
Relaxing it to 'games conservative white males can enjoy without feeling attacked for existing' widens those horizons dramatically.
Templexious
6mo 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
2mo ago
Phrasing it like that makes it sound like moldbug imagines himself as a faang middle manager.
Templexious
7mo ago
4B going viral on tiktok, with long-term staying power, would put the nail in the coffin for me that the app is actively designed to destabilize and undermine the United States and its culture.
Templexious
7mo ago
In this case, being anti-vaccine and alt-health should be considered actively malicious.
The problem of the US are the high prices of finding and getting good care, and the byzantine system. The frustration of that has been successfully redirected into whole-system skepticism.
Which, fair enough. But outbreaks of preventable disease are bad. In the end, it will be interesting to see if RFK and the gribblers end up biting off more than they can chew by going after the immovable corn lobby.
Templexious
6mo ago
Please, do do a full write-up on why they are not, in fact, intelligence ops, and try and change my mind.
I'd much rather be reading about the netanyahu trials and discussing israeli due process, however.
Templexious
6mo 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
6mo ago
Without waxing at length: Mario 64 (n64 and DS), Sunshine, the original NES and gameboy games, Super Mario World, A smidgen of the Paper Mario series (they didn't really catch my attention so never bothered completing them) and parts of the first Mario Galaxy, again not to completion. It's difficult to analyze exactly what was wrong with the Mario Galaxy games, but I suspect it had to do with the controls not being up to par for my tastes.
(Admittedly, the true fair comparison is Odyssey vs 64 vs Sunshine) Nintendo perfected the art of the dynamic difficulty curve without any actual dynamic difficulty. The difficulty is entirely driven by the player's desire for completion and challenge. They litter vastly more moons onto the levels than needed to progress, and the number is so high that 100% completion is an actual badge of honor and difficulty, but even just getting to the dark side of the moon is still an accomplishment. The difficulty curve has entirely to do with "I think I could get there..." and not arbitrary spikes midway through story progression.
Sunshine and Mario 64 both struggled not just with arbitrary and surprising difficulty spikes, but also slow gameplay and slow progression in comparison. That is to say nothing of the better precision of the pro and gamecube controller over either the n64 or the DS mario 64. The amazing thing about the mario games is in my more advanced age, I find myself unwilling to do collectathons and annoying puzzles- For example, dropping out of both breath of the wild and tears of the kingdom because they were tedious, but somehow, 3D Mario games have always managed to keep me playing longer.
No game isn't without its flaws, however: some things that are tedious about the moons are finding where some of them are, or the conditions for getting them to show. Luckily, obtuse moons can safely be ignored in favor of the more fun ones, and often while completing the others, the solution for a previous puzzle will reveal itself.
Templexious
7mo ago
Sorry, that was a joke!
I phrased it in such a way that I expected most to recognize.
Templexious
7mo ago
How many headlines showed up, pointing to random studies, calling right wingers dumb or conspiracy-prone?
How many left figures show up now and imply that the left rejects grifters and grift in a way that the right does not? Perhaps this point is worth its own high-level post.
Templexious
7mo ago
Of all of Trump's cabinet picks, RFK Jr is the most unserious.
The credentials of the others at least seem fit for the positions.
While I see and understand the throughline of her appeal to the Gribbler faction, I don't see or understand what earns her crank-hood.
Templexious
8mo ago
If it came with a total nuke of common core, most americans would consider the swap of the guard a success.
Templexious
7mo ago
Do you consider Slay the Spire to be woke? Elden Ring? Bloodborne? Mario? Pokemon? The Persona series?
Where is the line drawn?
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?
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