ThisIsSin
Tomboys: transgender or transcendental?
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ThisIsSin
Tomboys: transgender or transcendental?
1d ago
I tried to go for "pistols that are still relatively unique in the grand scheme of things"; the Steyr-Hahn is clip-fed (and the "ejects all the rounds into your face if you press the 'slide release'" one), M1935s (well, one of them, can't remember which) are stupidly-accurate proto-P210s in a caliber that you can actually get/make now, the Webleys are top-break revolvers, the M1917s shoot .45ACP from moon clips, the Tokarev is a Colt 1903 firing lighter projectiles at ~1500 FPS, and Nambus are... uh, pretty weird. It's unfortunate that the weird German designs are as expensive as they are, because the P38 is pedestrian by comparison even though it is the successor to the C96 with that locking block design.
Come to think of it, does the No. 4 still do the thing the No. 1s do where you can slingshot the safety off when the rifle's cocked? I've never seen anyone ever talk about either rifle having that function (which to my knowledge no other rifle does).
ThisIsSin
Tomboys: transgender or transcendental?
1d ago
If you don't already have one, CMP Garand, yesterday. Sometimes they have carbines, and you need one of those too.
Other than that, if you're into turn of the century bolt-actions, I'd suggest a P17 Enfield (so you can still get ammunition for it), a Lebel/Berthier (if you feel like hunting down 8 Lebel) or MAS-36 (components for 7.5 French are a lot more available), a K31, a Carcano (they go on sale every President's Day but you need the right .268 projectiles or you'll need a second shooter- get one of the 17.7" barrel ones or even one in 7.35 though ammunition for that is even rarer), a Type 38 Arisaka (but if you get a long Carcano get a Type 44 instead), a K98, and a Mosin. That should cover all of the great powers (cheating a bit with England, but the P17 is just a P14 in a better cartridge anyway; if you need to fill that niche and already have a P17, get a No. 1, as the No. 4 is just a P17 with a 10 round mag and in a worse caliber- conversely, if you already have an '03 Springfield, then you'll want a P14 or No. 4) and also give you some variety in the collection.
For non-US semi-autos, I'd suggest a PPS-43 (or an SKS), an AG-42, and a MAS-49 (yeah, I know, but they would have fielded it if MAS wasn't busy- if that doesn't count, then SVT-40).
After that, as far as I know you're into the 2000+ dollar range with everything else that's interesting (i.e. the German semi-autos, RSC1917, etc.) so at that point it's just going to come down to what you like shooting more at the time. But 2000 dollars could buy a lot of great power pistols, and the order you should collect those is Steyr-Hahn 1912 (or Frommer-Stop), M1935 (A or S), Webley, M1917 (S&W or Colt, pick the one you don't already own), TT-33, Nambu, P38 (mainly because the Beretta 92 is the exact same gun). C96es fetch a really high price so they also don't make this list and you probably have a 1911 already anyway.
If the economy doesn't get it's Dalits through Dalit reproduction, it'll get 'em through cramming Brahmins into jobs that they feel are beneath them, which is WORSE for stability and prosperity
"Homemaker" being a central example of such a job (even among the Dalits, humorously). Which is why the Western way to deal with this is through massive amounts of immigration (doesn't hurt that it's also intended to solidify political control in the countries that participate in this, of course, but because the party that doesn't benefit from being the "gibs" party never stops immigration when they are in power, it's obvious there's something else going on).
Of course, for the Brahmins that don't believe that occupation to be beneath them, is that because most of the divide between Dalit and Brahmin is fake (education is a bar so low anyone can pass provided they show up), today's Dalits can reasonably be tomorrow's Brahmins, which will compete with the children of today's Brahmins if nothing else changes. And even for the Brahmins that are smart enough to pass the merit-based education (which cannot be passed simply by showing up), there's no guarantee their children will be similarly inclined/talented, thus making them less likely to pick up the homemaking occupation (parents that care tend to want their kids to have better lives, and they have fewer guarantees than they used to).
And the problem is that, really, there are no good solutions to this problem at present (nor in the past; recall this was Plato's big deal). And even if you do come up with one, any one of the Four Horsemen (or a bad reaction to their shadows) can and will send it spiraling out of control.
You could farm that job out; doing this in a lab intentionally can give you exact control over who ends up in what caste- as a bonus, you can damage the lower castes in such a way that they never figure out that they've been damaged, perhaps through intentionally causing fetal alcohol syndrome as in Brave New World.
Making caste genetic (like India functionally did) solves that problem but creates some others (specifically, moral hazard in the Brahmins; negative effects from X-ism/X-supremacy are mostly caused by that lack of accountability/responsibility) that we don't want to go back to.
Making caste class-based (like Britain has) solves that problem but creates similar moral hazard if not managed properly (it never is, that's a law of nature).
Making caste sex-based (like in Afghanistan) is stable but suboptimal in terms of economic productivity (to the point where having any natural resources around that isn't goats and opium makes this untenable). This is also only stable when women are on the bottom, because (like in Afghanistan pre-US-withdrawl) the enemy can just promise the men better terms and conquer the society without a single shot fired.
Making caste age-based (like in the Western world) only works on the ages that aren't yet capable of realizing it's happening or organizing against it; that usually happens around 18-20, but can vary based on economic opportunity and other factors.
You could manage your economy well by using manufacturing jobs- not as unpleasant and a better utilization of people who are detail-oriented enough, just not driven to actually do something more useful- as a brake on social mobility. But if you do that, you have to be very careful about external factors; if you all of a sudden have a massive wave of migration (horseman: war) you're too incompetent to control (which... is also kind of inherent to being middle class) this finely tuned system will get thrown out of whack, as it has been in Germany (and other European countries, to a point).
Real Communism(tm) was promised as a panacea, but unless you have a leader that's literally goodness itself it's impossible to sustain it [not helped by the means in which it is achieved] (which, interestingly, is exactly what the Christian afterlife promises).
And so on and so forth. Some of this stuff you can fix through Tower of Babel high enough technology, but I have it on good word that the poor we will always have with us.
ThisIsSin
Tomboys: transgender or transcendental?
8d ago
Scientific papers already do this; the abstract is almost always first and it does exactly what you want.
Yes, some ideas do need to be slow-rolled (or the audience has to be primed), but that’s also so exceptional a case that it might as well not exist and even that doesn’t need to blow the twist if you do it correctly.
ThisIsSin
Tomboys: transgender or transcendental?
8d ago
2x, because that's the fastest it goes without other extensions (I go to 2.5-3x when a platform supports it). A lot of what I watch could honestly just be blog post + picture, and a lot of people talk very slowly (I'm not convinced that's intentional, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was).
I can't really do that for music channels for obvious reasons, but for anything else, the information density of video is far too low normally.
(I also read extremely quickly by most standards, too, so that might explain some of it. Now if only I could use that power when reading technical documentation...)
ThisIsSin
Tomboys: transgender or transcendental?
9d ago
It's just that their vision is different from the vision of leftist social engineers.
Or in other words, they're temporally-embarrassed progressives (in the "Americans all believe themselves temporarily-embarrassed millionaires" sense.)
This is why I think a better name for this group is "traditionalist", to separate them from the classical liberals, since liberalism happens to find itself a conservative position but has different motivations for being that way.
ThisIsSin
Tomboys: transgender or transcendental?
9d ago
The people will seek an emperor when they figure out that the oligarchy bureaucracy is uncontrollable otherwise.
Authoritarian dictators
Spoken like a true Roman. They don’t have monarchs dictators-for-life, they have Caesars, which is totally different.
ThisIsSin
Tomboys: transgender or transcendental?
11d ago
Ever been to 4chan?
(And yes, I know a few people in that demographic that do this constantly for that reason.)
ThisIsSin
Tomboys: transgender or transcendental?
11d ago
their homebrew processors are supposed to be pretty good although I haven't tried them.
They're 4-5 years ahead of their closest competitor, Qualcomm (even with the Nuvia acquisition). They're not actually any faster than normal PCs, but they're excellent when it comes to idle power consumption (which is what the computer is doing most of the time).
ThisIsSin
Tomboys: transgender or transcendental?
12d ago
I am not now, nor have I ever been, a furry.
ThisIsSin
Tomboys: transgender or transcendental?
12d ago
Sun the vast majority of days (if it's going to rain, it should rain all day), high-80s to low-100s year-round, low humidity. Rain (especially that which is more than just drizzle) isn't a problem so long as it's sufficiently warm. Daylight should persist for no less than 10 hours a day in the winter.
I require the sun to be present in the sky to function correctly, and simply don't hold heat very well and need the environment to do it for me.
American newspaper headlines tend to provide both the city and the country, whereas their British counterparts only provide the city.
To be fair, though, North America has lots and lots of duplicate names, or duplicate-sounding names, for places (the majority of the states in the Union have a "Springfield"). No mandate for uniqueness between ~60 distinct polities and importing a bunch of people who decided to name things after the places they came from for some reason (when they weren't just calling them "New Whatever" in whatever their native language was; sometimes that got translated [New Mexico], sometimes it didn't [Nova Scotia], and rather humorously the former refers to a New World nation itself).
The same thing is true for London, to a degree; there are more than 5 cities and towns named that on the continent (and for bonus points, one of them is a relatively major city). Or Exeter: do you mean the one in NH, RI, Ontario, or the original one in the UK?
And the copying isn't even limited to Old World nations; does "Ontario, CA" refer to the province of Ontario, Canada? Or does it refer to the city of Ontario, in California? Did that event happen in Vancouver, BC; or was it Vancouver, WA? (Bonus points for being only a few hours away from other.) Which Grand Forks do you mean? And so on.
[Come to think of it, if Mexico was still called New Spain, would New Mexico have been called New New Spain? Newer Spain? If after that, an Iberian colony ship lands on a habitable planet would they call it Newest Spain? If they launched two would it be New Newest Spain?]
Sure, but unless the counterculture is classically liberal/in the middle of a genuinely prosperous age (which is generally the cure to "social pressure from one's peers) it just turns into "boldly advocating for 50 Stalins". One of the more visible new youth styles of clothing, "men in ill-fitting dresses", is ultimately (and perhaps ironically) more conformant to social pressure than not doing that.
ThisIsSin
Tomboys: transgender or transcendental?
14d ago
and their anti-nuclear power campaigns are evidence of Just Not Being Willing To Be Happy With Anything, Ever
To channel Hlynka again, then, Greenpeace is on the extreme end of traditionalism/conservatism and their attitude towards the industrial revolution and its consequences oil pipelines is (predictably) the exact same as a certain other US group's attitude towards abortion clinics.
I don't think it's a surprise that countries defined by liberalism, specifically France, treats Greenpeace the way they do.
ThisIsSin
Tomboys: transgender or transcendental?
15d ago
They don’t judge you or your life, they don’t complain, they don’t make demands, they don’t do things to annoy you or anything like that.
That hasn’t been my experience: they require attention at the exact times they can’t have it (and that needs to be regularly provided), they need to be trained just the same as any neural network does, they scream at you when they don’t get their way, they have regular maintenance bills, and the like. Oh, and they’ll be like that forever and you’re committing 1/8th of your life to it.
I really don’t see why people bother. If I’m going to go through all that hassle anyway why should I do it for anything less than a human being? Sure, it’s a little more hassle, but it’s far more rewarding in the long run because I can do more things with it (2 legs, opposable thumbs, language ability beyond a couple of words, smarter than the average crow), and because most of the hassle is the interruption to whatever it is I’m doing, I want it to at least be important.
It’s not like I don’t get along with pets; but I’ve honestly never found a 4-legged animal I liked simply because their presence demands too much attention relative to their benefits. Or maybe I just find constant barking uniquely unpleasant because everyone seems to tolerate it just fine.
ThisIsSin
Tomboys: transgender or transcendental?
16d ago
So basically, those who supported the practice of associating his name with the bad part of town might as well have been the, er, MLKKK.
Activist goals (the stated ones, anyway) would have been better served by just trying to get more high-human-capital into medicine. But that’s a bridge too far.
ThisIsSin
Tomboys: transgender or transcendental?
18d ago
I think most only have any success in their country of manufacture
Yeah, because they're hilariously overpriced. When you can buy 6 ARs for the cost of one (in the VHS-2's case) and it's only marginally better it's not a surprise they aren't flying off the shelves.
People give HK shit all the time for this but all the European manufacturers do it with their military rifles (Beretta and CZ are better than average, or at least Beretta would be if they actually still sold the ARX-160). Sure, that strategy works in Europe where AR-15s cost just as much or more than the indigenous options, but expecting that to apply everywhere?
ThisIsSin
Tomboys: transgender or transcendental?
18d ago
At this point, it's hard to imagine it ever going away, or why there would even be competing designs in another few decades.
The only real thing wrong with the AR is that it doesn't lend itself as well to mass production (read: aluminum/plastic extruded upper, polymer lower) as the AR-18-based designs, and that if you're on a rifle replacement schedule that exceeds 50 years, you want a gun with slightly-beefed-up parts whose wear surfaces you can change out so that you don't have to do what the US does and replace bolts every 10,000 rounds because getting any kind of military spending in most Western countries is like pulling teeth.
Which is why all the modern rifles that kind-of-but-not-really compete with the AR all do the things that you'd do to an AR if you weren't constrained by its existing design, like:
- Replaceable cam tracks (that part held in by external screws on the top left side of the Spear; that's internal on the SCAR and Brens) and stopping the cam pin from being driven into the receiver (which happens on the AR)
- Bigger bolt, which means it stops being as much of a wear part like it is on US Military ARs; also allows for a better extractor and a more long-lasting spring within
- Making the upper an aluminum extrusion, and attaching the stock to the upper rather than the lower so it can't break off (which lets you make the lower a polymer extrusion); ARs can crack their upper receivers at the threads holding the barrel nut on at high round counts and these guns won't do that (traditional-style AKs eventually develop similar cracking problems at the front trunnion, as it bends there every time you fire)
And then the tactical considerations, which is that because these guns are a bit heavier up front, they can stand up to more use as ersatz automatic rifles; as far as I'm aware, you can dump your entire combat load in one sitting without destroying the gun or making it catch on fire (it'll sure cook your hands, though; hope you brought gloves!). If your nation is small, why not just give everyone slightly heavier RPK-equivalents so they're still perfectly serviceable in 50 years?
The HK416 is notable in that it does literally none of these things. Granted, it was the first real attempt to make the AR-15 a serious automatic rifle, but it fails to improve in any way on the original design and even makes some problems worse (it's heavier and the carrier tilts; contrast the MCX, which is a significantly better design).
Oh yeah: foreign manufacturers could always get development on their rifle platforms too, if they felt like passing the savings onto the customer (and actually commit- Beretta actually sold the ARX-160 at a very reasonable price, and that was even before hyper-light rifles were made cool again, but none of the other promised features materialized). But they won't.
ThisIsSin
Tomboys: transgender or transcendental?
18d ago
so you can expect them to turn against casual sex when they have an opinion on it
They have already turned, Dear Colleague. Their position and emphasis on the righteousness of becoming a eunuch was the logical next step in being anti-sex for juniors.
Because said surrounding countries are majority Muslim, majority Catholic, far less tolerant of individual differences in general (usually called "poor and Communist"), or a combination of all 3.
I don't think it's more complicated than that- the only outlier in that case is Japan and... they pretend to have Christian values mostly because of inertia from having lost the war in '45.
there's no backlash to transgenderism
Their men and women are world-famous for looking the same and... have been for some time now. That's why their capital city is named the way that it is.
ThisIsSin
Tomboys: transgender or transcendental?
18d ago
No one thing Sam Altman has done sticks out as evil.
His advocacy for regulatory capture in his company’s favor is a pretty clear cut example of it.
ThisIsSin
Tomboys: transgender or transcendental?
19d ago
It flows out of getting to know somebody.
Well, yeah. You pick the most attractive somebody you can find, go on a couple dates, fuck, get tired of their shit/discover they actually weren't that great in the first place/discover someone even better, and move on. Rinse, repeat.
Some of us just appear to have a much tighter loop for that for whatever reason, operating in days or weeks rather than months or years. (And to be fair, I don't necessarily blame them; some people just don't have the personality traits to even entertain the possibility of a short-term relationship.)
As an aside, she (like most people TBF) seems pretty oblivious to evolutionary psychology, and what sex and virginity meant to illiterate goat herders with no access to antibiotics or pregnancy tests or STD tests [edit: or economic niches for women outside of
dowryprostitution, which is how marriage worked back then] and how that shaped sexual strategies and the evolution of our emotions and culture.
Which creates problems when the people who do understand it (and can put that understanding into practice) feel the need to redesign social systems for those who can't. I think the people that can internalize this might as well be a different gender (for better or worse), and that problems of the type common to gay-X-married-to-straight-Y occur when only one party is like that.
Were no men trying for long term relationships with her?
She's straight. As such, she wants to be the only woman in the relationship; dealing with womanlier men is not what she wants. (Of course, the cost of that is dealing with a straight man, and straight men are making the calculation that they can do better than her.)
Translation: they will eject the bolt into your face if you're stupid like Bubba.
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