TitaniumButterfly
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TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
I don't realistically have the time to get to it in the foreseeable future anyway but thanks.
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
The series starts very strong but gets worse as it continues, not to mention that it eventually segues into something like superhero fiction. Last one I read was The Labyrinth Index and I will not be proceeding.
I'm actually surprised at how effectively Stross keeps his leftist ideology from ruining the books entirely. It does make it through sometimes but generally can be ignored. There's much handwringing in later books about how 'society' basically renders middle-aged women 'invisible' e.g. Sure I rolled my eyes but no big deal.
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
Sounds more experimental than anything but you've piqued my curiosity.
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
It's also helpful to remember that in the case of actual wartime production happening even the less-competitive producers will likely be going full-tilt.
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
Well, I guess I also would prefer to not live next to a cartoon caricature of a neo-nazi.
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
Redditors were furious.
I sincerely can't imagine why.
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
I think I speak for the vast majority of Whites, HBD-pilled or otherwise, when I say I would much rather have a randomly selected Black person as a neighbor than a Neo-Nazi for purely selfish Bayesian reasons.
Just out of curiosity, how many have you met?
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
Honestly I've just never had that problem at all but I guess that's a function of familiarity with the English of the time? It's unavoidably gained by reading history and especially firsthand accounts.
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
This would make a great drunken assertion but it feels kinda random in context.
This reminds me, I'm finding Dungeon Slayer pretty bad so far. The worldbuilding makes no sense, the main character is pretty dumb, and the secondary characters' behavior is extremely unrealistic. Fights have mostly been interesting and cool though!
(Edited to spoiler on the side of caution and also to add:)
Still enjoying 12 Miles Below but it's slowed down a lot and frankly I don't care about the
Anyhow even though I'm mostly complaining I do appreciate the recs. 12 Miles Below has unquestionably been worth the read overall and will stick with me.
Oh hey I started a new series recently called Iron Tyrant by Seth Ring and it's a lot of fun. First few chapters are extremely unrepresentative of the rest of the series. Overall the author shows a lot of competence in the stuff he's writing about -- brutal military training of enslaved child soldiers, espionage, political intrigue, etc. -- and that makes it good. First book is called Chain of Feathers. Absolutely cannot wait for more of these to come out. Oh, but I'll say that the magic system is... idk, it's not the most interesting, but he does cool stuff with it and for a litrpg it's surprisingly light on stats and stuff. It's much, much more about the character, the setting, politics, and just general coolness than it is about the magic system.
@Muninn extra ping in case you missed the edit.
Last I checked it was still a top ten site, but idk.
The extreme popularity of lgbt (and especially t) content on the front page makes me wonder if it isn't just convergently evolving into another tumblr.
Yeah, I... Yeah.
It's gotten really awful. I still go to /r/all sometimes to get a sense of what normies are seeing on social media and it is so brutal and bleak. Doesn't exactly ruin my day but I always come out of it terribly disheartened. The derangement, the self-righteousness, the absolute inability to imagine any other narrative. Clicking on threads which contain straightforward outrageous lies in the title only to find everyone nodding along, bashing 'MAGAs' for mostly-unrelated reasons, and one brave person pointing out that the whole thing is bogus -- only to be heavily downvoted of course. The speed and volume of the echo chamber are bewildering.
To be sure, though, niche communities are often still great, and that's what reddit's really about imo. It's a shame how much garbage has to be waded through to find them, but once the account is set up correctly it's fairly usable. Even if the toxicity has a way of working itself into everything eventually.
Also, the sheer popularity of trans-oriented comics drawn in hideous art styles is entirely baffling to me.
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
I imagine I will be digitally removed as a background figure from many photos.
Great line. Reminds me of my travels there. Very lonely country.
I have a huge amount of experience working with animals (both wild and domesticated). Slaughtered quite a few head of livestock by hand in my back yard today, as it happens, which I do about once a week. So I have a lot of thoughts here -- but the main thing I want to suggest to you is that cruelty toward animals is irreverent toward the Creator.
Yes, the chain of being is real and man's place is that of dominion over all other animals and more besides. How then shall we conduct ourselves?
FWIW I completely endorse your perspective on the rat and the kitten, though I don't expect most others to get it. Regardless of intentions, learning to kill animals well requires botching the process rather a lot of times.
Even so, not giving a crap is contraindicated. I doubt you've had much occasion for (or inclination toward) abuse but it never hurts to bear in mind that one will someday stand before the dread judgment seat of Christ.
It might be, which has no bearing on its reality.
Lost the source but I recall reading that in fact Irish immigrants were ruthlessly genetically culled for generations in the era before the welfare state. Apparently most of them have few or no surviving descendants. Those who do, have been selected for traits more in line with modern society.
My understanding is that the modern narrative of "See Irish were originally thought of as different but now we know better" is deeply unfounded.
ETA: Quick searching indicates that the majority of Irish immigrants to the US died without forming families. Mainly this seems to have to do with hard working conditions, poor access to nutrition, and disease in overcrowded slums, but if those aren't effective mechanisms of selection I don't know what is. The ones who escaped or overcame those filters reproduced and here we are today.
So yeah, take the top couple deciles of Irish immigrants and fast forward to the present and I'm not surprised that they're about average. Especially given the inevitable admixture over that time frame.
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
FWIW I don't have a position on European genetic tendencies to hygiene, though I'd guess orderliness does come in when the subject expands to such things as keeping one's house clean. Who can say?
Don't recall where but I remember being flabbergasted by descriptions of pre-industrial European cities where all the roads, yards, etc. were just constantly covered in human and animal dung. Sometimes even indoors! The French in particular were noted for their penchant for pissing on staircases, also even indoors. Germans meanwhile were noted for fastidiously keeping interiors spotless. How much selection has taken place in the last couple hundred years, I cannot guess.
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
As I suggested elsewhere in the thread, I think the burden of proof should be on the person who would argue that it works this way for every single animal except humans.
The real question is how strong the proclivities are and how effectively culture can enhance or curb them. That's a great question and I wish anyone were looking into it.
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
Did I argue otherwise?
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
This whole post relies upon an extremely facile (and uncharitable) conception of HBD. I find myself entirely uninterested in the points being made here.
"White people" is a bad category when discussing HBD. I'm not sure if it's quite as bad as 'Hispanic' but it's gotta be close. Skin color matters much less than ancestry even if they usually correlate. Consider Obama, or almost any other high-achieving 'black person' who happens to be heavily or even mostly Hajnali genetically.
Is that really what you want your political ideology to be?
I expect non-Hajnali 'whites' to basically end up as an underclass, so it is what it is I guess.
The solution here is more and better HBD, not less.
The American conflation of race with class is bizarre.
Yes. The 'white' people of appalachia are not the same race as the 'white' people of New England, c.f. Albion's Seed or for that matter the Hajnal Line. Or for blacks we could easily distinguish between, say, Bantu and Igbo.
And even after distinguishing race at a more granular level, yes, there are classes within races.
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
As I said, it doesn't make sense.
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
Well, I think the burden of proof is much higher for the person who wants to argue that it works this way for every single animal except humans.
To your actual point though adoption studies seem useful.
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
Well, that perspective makes no sense and I've never seen it advocated; only implied by those who don't seem to know what they're talking about.
Really just said ~ "Only white people have a high enough IQ to form democracies".
This is somewhat tangential but it really bugs me that people seem to have decided that HBD is primarily about IQ. It's not. That just happens to be one of the easiest differences to measure.
HBD is also about:
- Hygiene
- Aggression
- Sexual fidelity
- Industriousness
- Impulse control
- Courtship behavior
- Parental investment
- Aesthetic perception
- Tendency to addiction
And pretty much everything else. Personality, instincts, and so on are rooted in the genes. Consider tribalism/clannishness, propensity to corruption, likelihood of ignoring traffic regulations... it just goes on and on.
While I'm at it, I'll note that the founding fathers never intended a universal franchise like we have today. They understood that democracy can only function with a good electorate, which is why they restricted the franchise not just by ethnicity and sex, but also class. This too is HBD.
Goodness gracious, is that how that's spelled? I'd been thinking Turrath. Yikes. Now I'm afraid to ask about Toakar.
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