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TequilaMockingbird
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Our data is stored in UTC. Still fucks up time series analysis
I dont see how this happens in a competently run organization. Normalizing your inputs is like basic sanitation, if you can't manage that, how do you manage anything else?
Had it ever occured to you that you can just do all the math/analysis in UTC and then adjust the display output to local time?
8 minutes in for anyone watching.
Sorry i thought i had put the timestamp in the link but yes.
Should be fixed now.
I agree with your thesis but i think there is a secondary reason that has been largley ignored.
Another reason that i think Musk backed Trump is that senior DNC officials were on the record saying that there would "be a reckoning" for his anti-censorship (read pro 1st Ammendment) and anti-dei (read pro-meritocractic) policies after the election, and that the incoming Harris Administration would be doing everything in thier power "to make his life as difficult as possible" and wrest control of SpaceX, Tesla, Twitter, Et Al. away from Musk.
When someone tells you that they are your enemy, believe them.
TequilaMockingbird
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8mo ago
DST is idiotic because it absolutely fucks up any historical time series analysis.
What sort of half-baked script-kiddey nonsense are you using to do your analysis?
I don't think I've ever seen a professionally developed program (or competent open source project) that didn't store time data in UTC, Zulu, or some other standardized epoch, unless it was an embedded application running off a hardware tickcount.
TequilaMockingbird
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8mo ago
As a US-born spanish speaker "Latines" is obviously the correct term, but is also rarely used outside formal/academic settings. Colloquially everyone just uses "Latino" or "Hispanic"
In the meantime nothing screams "I am an illiterate gringo with a room tempreature IQ" like "Latinx".
TequilaMockingbird
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8mo ago
If the woke were intellectually honest/consistant perhaps this would be the case, but this has not been the case historically.
TequilaMockingbird
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8mo ago
The scary thing is that you might not be wrong.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
8mo ago
Yes, but that's not who I see the "woke right"/"woke fascist" label being aimed at.
Fair, but again, I don't see how one man's sloppy definitions/thinking should invalidate the concept of a "woke right" because it very clearly exists regardless of whether it likes being labeled as such.
A slight tangent, but the discussion on art and taste has reminded me of an observation that has stuck with me for years.
I dont recall the exact source but it was a podcast or video essay discussing the decline of the Oscars and "the Telos" of going to the movies. The observation was that the current critical and academic consensus is that in order to be a "good" movie it must challenge its audience and deconstruct its subject/genre and that by extension that the "best" movies are ones that are difficult for the lay-person to enjoy/appreciate. It was then pointed out that this consensus is a historical aberration as from Ancient Greece up through the mid 20th century it was widely understood that the whole purpose of art and the mark of a truly "great" artist was to construct a complex idea or emotion and be able to communicate it to as wide an audience as possible.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
8mo ago
Because in truth the means are a justificatication for the end.
TequilaMockingbird
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8mo ago
This echoes my own experience.
Again, one of those places where I think the stupidity of identity-politics is on full display is that i don't think a lot of the Blue and Grey tribe understand how much legal immigrants resent "queue jumpers"
They're all Hispanic aren't they?
Sure, but they've been at least "purple" for a while now, breaking for Bush, and against Clinton prior to 2016.
The point I was to making is that any Democrat who thought they could take the Tejano vote for granted, has not only not been paying attention, but not been paying attention for a while.
TequilaMockingbird
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8mo ago
Speaking as a Republican living in the southwestern US, legal immigration and the requirements thereof are broadly seen as things reasonable people can disagree on.
It's illegal immigration and specifically the sort of immigration where some douche-canoe from NYC says "they're just doing the jobs real Americans wont" (tacitly admitting that they are trying to undermine the wages of people who are here legally) that is hated witn the fire of a thousand suns.
TequilaMockingbird
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8mo ago
How much of the GOP is actually white nationalist.
In my experience, almost none. In fact in my experience, the vast majority of white nationalists (or at least the most vocal ones) tend to vote Democrat either for accelerationist reasons or out of enimity towards the wider GOP coalition.
TequilaMockingbird
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8mo ago
This is one of those places where the stupidity of identity-politics is on full display.
Not only are Tejanos "not a blue constituency" they haven't been been for something like 30 years now. Ie since they famously helped carry Bush the Younger to his gubernatorial victory in 1994.
Because democrats are the real racists, democrats just assume that all Hispanics are illegal immigrants and thus because Tejanos are Hispanic they must be terrified of ICE when the truth is more often along the lines of "Bitch please, my family's been in this country longer than yours has and my brother in law is on the border patrol."
I don't think that one man's sloppy definitions/thinking invalidates "woke right" as a concept.
Fact remains that there exists a coherent group of the online right that is more "woke" than it is "right" . As @Ben___Garrison observes downthread, the whole "the 'woke right' classification is too vague/doesn't exist" is the exact same bullshit the woke left keeps trying to pull.
So you think the Jews invented identity politics but not nationalism?
To the degree that modern identity politics is just warmed-over marxist bullshit with "class" scribbled out and "race" written in, yes.
It doesn't seem vague to me at all, there is a distinct cohort of the extremely-online "right" that is predominantly queer, atheist, and obsessed with identity-politics and oppression dynamics.
To the degree that they are all these things they are marking themselves out as natural enemies of both the traditional/conservative right and the populist right for much the same reasons as the woke.
"Woke Right" seems like as good a descriptor as any and better than most.
TequilaMockingbird
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8mo ago
How do you separate it from a genetic influence?
Why do you want to?
Its readily apparent that the absense of engaged parents/caregivers has a deleterious effect on a child's development, that in itself should be sufficient to declare that "parenting matters".
Imagine the conterfactual where your parents and entire extended family were simultaneously struck dead on your 8th birthday, how would your life today be different?
TequilaMockingbird
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8mo ago
Again I'm not talking about civic nationalism, that's something that predates Christ (see SPQR) I'm talking about modern notions of collective (ie national, ethnic, racial) consciousness.
TequilaMockingbird
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8mo ago
You'll note that i didnt say "nationalism" i said the modern concept of national, ethnic, (and racial) consciousness.
The "nationalism" that that motivated enlightenment thinkers like Adam Smith and Thomas Jefferson was much more focused on the individual and thier agency. Something the left has always had a problem with.
What is the steelman for his argument?
Explain why they shouldn't and that might be a clue.
TequilaMockingbird
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8mo ago
I'm Jewish, so I naturally don't like Europeans who are nationally or ethnically conscious.
The grand irony of this is that Jews are the worst offenders in this regard.
The entire Jewish faith is premised on the idea that being amongst the chosen of god is predicated on who your mother was, rather than whether you actually believe in god and do his will.
The modern concept of national and ethinic consciousness was invented by Jewish intellectuals like Marx as a weapon to be weilded against the dominant Christian worldview of the late 18 and early 1900s that they sought to undermine.
I don't know about "based" in the sense users here use the term, but there are some notoriously conservative/un-woke schools out there. UNC, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Mississippi State, Texas A&M, Stanford, St Johns, Claremont McKenna, all come to mind.
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