ThomasdelVasto
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Blogger, Christian convert, general strange one. https://shapesinthefog.substack.com/
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ThomasdelVasto
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1d ago
I'll pray for you my friend, I'm sorry this has happened.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
1d ago
Check out Fractal tech.
ThomasdelVasto
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2d ago
Just no one has even tried to explain how exactly government buying up and owning private enterprise is a smart idea (something that we've been saying isn't good for decades) and why it's a solid goal towards improving the nation's economy and wealth.
Plenty of people have explained it. The race for AI is seen as existential between the U.S. and China. If Intel is owned and operated by a Chinese CEO, that's a major security risk. Therefore Trump and his team took extreme measures to make sure Intel was loyal to the U.S.
I'm not saying it will work or won't have other knock-on effects, but that was the straightforward justification.
ThomasdelVasto
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3d ago
ThomasdelVasto
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4d ago
You don’t think Islam is riven with a ton of internal ethnic division? Huh that was my impression.
ThomasdelVasto
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4d ago
Her two friends called me a pervert and accused me of groping her, then left, abandoning her to her fate.
Wow. This is one of those stories you don't believe if you read it on facebook, but I trust you. Terrible behavior.
ThomasdelVasto
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4d ago
Yeah I just played recently on a private server. Was fun, accelerated xp so you don’t waste your entire life leveling hah.
A new one is coming out for cataclysm soon and I want to try that.
ThomasdelVasto
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4d ago
Yeah a shared group identity is pretty crucial. Which do you think are still the most potent in the current era?
ThomasdelVasto
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4d ago
Hopefully it's more coherent than that! Though healthcare does seem to make people go crazy for one reason or other.
ThomasdelVasto
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4d ago
Reading an article on why Britain should settle Antarctica from Palladium got me thinking: are there any major, visionary projects happening at the moment that have a plausible chance of success?
I'm still hopeful for SpaceX to at least make operations on the moon more feasible, though I'm skeptical of making a real go at Mars colonization, especially as Elon's star has fallen so far recently.
China seems a likely contender, but I don't know what they have going on. I know that AGI is the thing on everyone's mind, but I'm thinking more about a physical, non-software based major visionary project that's happening in the physical world.
To quote some from the article:
These apparently radical measures will look less radical by the year, but would nevertheless represent a dramatic break from the Westminster status quo. Declining nations can resort to many sensible technocratic reforms that are easy to explain, but they find it hard to come up with compelling political or bureaucratic motives for those reforms. That can only be done with national visions—visions that are not only suited to the capabilities a country could realistically develop, but also a congruent continuation of its history, or at least the best of its history. We can see that these two conditions have been fulfilled with nearly every successful national founding or refounding. Britain’s overlooked Antarctic legacy, and the vast frozen territory it still retains, then, offer us the opportunity for such a vision.
If such a project is pursued with enough vigor, it will make Britain’s claim to Antarctica inarguable. It is easy to draw peremptory lines on an empty map, but it is much harder and more admirable to people that map and to rescue its land from barrenness. For a stagnant or declining nation, it is easy to find this or that technocratic intervention that can solve this or that economic, social, or political issue. What is more difficult is finding a vision that gives the nation reason to carry out such reforms. These visions must be inspiring, but they must also be within reach. Most importantly, they must match the legacy and history of the country.
This is culture war because, well, the decline of nations is extremely political, and from my view the Trumpian Right, for all it's many and varied flaws, is the only party at least nominally pursuing a future vision of greatness, instead of simply ignoring or managing a decline.
Also, this is a very sassy quote from the article I loved:
This unworldly modern Britain is hardly the “perfidious Albion” depicted in the propaganda of its 19th century geopolitical rivals. Not wholly unflatteringly, contemporary Russian state media still portrays the country as the shadowy orchestrator of coups and death squads. A truer depiction, though, is that of the “cash-poor, asset-rich elderly woman who has somehow inherited a portfolio of scattered, high-value properties she doesn’t know what to do with.”
ThomasdelVasto
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4d ago
When have people argued that customers don't want to see price in healthcare? Seems insane to me. I also have no clue why you wouldn't want to price things out up front. Does it benefit the medical industry?
ThomasdelVasto
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8d ago
Meditation, prayer, et cetera. The standard religious and spiritual practices.
ThomasdelVasto
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8d ago
I don't know how to dance with other people, especially how to dance up to a girl to get her attention. Any advice here? I often find myself dancing faster than everyone else.
Take partner dance lessons! Just do a 101, probably some type of swing. I prefer West Coast but it's a bit more complex than east coast. You could also try salsa but imo it's much harder than swing especially to start.
I'd say at an event like that deeper conversations aren't that appropriate, especially for folks you just met. Ideally you get to know them and then have a more intimate hangout/date/whatever and talk more deeply there.
Also, good on you for doing this stuff.
ThomasdelVasto
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8d ago
I get a big improvement in mental state after lifting, but it's after work 3 times a week. I used to improve my mental state by running, but my legs can't handle that and squats at the same time. What could I do on off days/daily?
Have you tried some sort of meditation? Metta especially can help with mental state, loving kindness meditation.
Also if you're in the rave scene it would probably be popular there.
ThomasdelVasto
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8d ago
I'd say the best thing to do is get him into a physical activity where he can release the anger. Martial arts, some sort of weightlifting, even boxing or chopping wood or just a punching bag or something. Some physical release where he can productively channel the anger.
ThomasdelVasto
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8d ago
Yep, agreed. It's so fucking dumb and idiotic because it's sacrificing the ability to actually take a scientific approach towards solving problems in the future. Every time I hear this kind of shit from my colleagues I want to shake them: you are burning political capital for short-term gain.
The problem is that science itself does not have a metaphysical system. Scientism, the sort of religion that has grown up around science, has a particular moral outlook. Science as a praxis, a way of discovering empirical truths, does not and cannot have much to say on moral questions, as morality and metaphysics are definitionally outside of the domain of science.
ThomasdelVasto
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10d ago
Ok fair. I'm just a big softie and I get sad when people get banned. But I appreciate the job you do.
ThomasdelVasto
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10d ago
I don't know, I think if he argues and provides receipts that the attorney general is a Zionist, it's fair to say "we all know" in that he's referencing that people will protect their own. I've seen many folks on here do similar things with regards to 'woke' and progressive groups.
That being said the bias in the post is obvious, but it sounds like you have experience with that. I appreciate that even the most heretodox voices are heard here.
ThomasdelVasto
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11d ago
Aren't you a doctor? How do you do manual labor?
ThomasdelVasto
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11d ago
Tried to read The Deepgate Codex and had to quit halfway through, way to gruesome for no reason.
Just finished The Rot which was great.
ThomasdelVasto
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11d ago
I think it's the nervous system flexibility / relaxation.
ThomasdelVasto
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12d ago
Yeah, David Chapman writes a lot about how value has collapsed all into one set of 'good' versus 'bad' where it used to be a lot more distinctive. https://meaningness.com/systems-crisis-breakdown
ThomasdelVasto
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19d ago
You weren't kidding about that subreddit. Just browsed a thread where they were complaining about having to hand the ten commandments in the classroom, and a commenter literally recommended hanging the 7 tenets of the Satanic 'faith'. You can't make this stuff up. https://old.reddit.com/r/Teachers/comments/1miopbb/its_over/n76x3d5/
ThomasdelVasto
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20d ago
what's there?
Yep open coworking space. Just cool people, a nice vibe, good place to chill.
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