YoungAchamian
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YoungAchamian
5hr ago
his son and subordinate Uday
Yeah these I know about, I imagine his son didn't fall far from the tree. I doubt lefties have a monopoly on sexual predation.
YoungAchamian
5hr ago
If 'showing up at orgy island' is your benchmark for rape
Keep in mind its pedo-orgy island. Whether or not Trump really engage in it, he's at a similar level of guilt as the quoted Chomsky. Prince Andrew is definitely guilty and since he's royalty, albeit British, does the left or the right claim him?
Yeah Gadaffi likely got up to some extreme levels of sexual deviancy. You definitely don't have a hot female body squad, just because you are *checks notes * "A strong feminist Dictator"
think I'm gesturing off in the direction of "right wingers tend not to elevate rapists and pedos as leaders,
Feels like a failure of imagination. Monarchists are right wing. Haven't there been a bunch of scandals about kings graping people. Do we need to get into various the various pope scandals, or even priest pedo scandals? We have Trump showing up at Epstein island. I'm sure Saddam, or Gaddafi never ever raped people, and neither have various Saudi monarchs.
I think the much safer claim is that power attracts predators, and the revolutionary leftwing movements are no different.
EDIT: How could I forget about our "allies" in Afghanistan and their practice of Bacha Bazi, due to their strong conservative beliefs in Islam. Definitely not right wingers. /s
YoungAchamian
7hr ago
You've written a lot, and tied much of it to your personal experience, I'm not sure I can match you in length but I will try in depth. I'm not really motivated to litigate point for point with you though.
Cutting a path through life, towards death, dissolution, non-existence, remembrance, the next life, pick your metaphysical ending. Not every journey is about the destination. I exist therefore I am. There is no purpose other than the one you give your own life. You need to forge your own meaning. That meaning is going to be deeply personal and deeply individual. No one can give it to you, or tell you what it is. The biggest crime our society has inflicted on men, is that by trying to control them, force them to fit in the square hole of society, we have created a class of men who need to be told what to do, how to think, how to feel, how to be. Lo for it to be me to fall to the common trap of now prescribing what manhood means, all I can say is that manhood is forge by the individual. You cannot forge something without resistance, without struggle.
It sounds like to you, meaning was found through family, you see your existence as the perpetuation of your familial line. That's an old meaning, common through history. But it has its risks. As stated elsewhere in this thread, it depends on others to engage with you. You have tied your own happiness to others, and are thus at the mercy of the fates, or the health of our society. You can rage against the darkness but accept it is the darkness of your own choosing.
I have never been one to find meaning in my genetic line. Oh I've had the thoughts about my biological purpose, but I'm not a animal. I am not chained to my biology. I find meaning, manhood, masculinity in the depth and breath of my knowledge and skills, my ability to overcome challenges. To me nothing gives me greater satisfaction than thinking about where I came from: an outcast, autistic child, to a pillar of my local community. I'm not going to humble brag about all the skills I've developed or knowledge I have acquired. But I look back on my struggle, and I find meaning in it.
I'm sure there are broad strokes around what meaning a man can find. What it means to "be a man" but its varied, and subscribing to a one-size fits all; these are the boxes you need to check to be "a man" is exactly the opposite of what manhood means.
Our major viewpoint differences is that you have tied yourself to others, to society, to reward you for "being a man". You have an external locus of reward. All your efforts, gaining skills, knowledge, capability, are all in service of peacocking your way into to having other's recognize you and reward you for those skills/knowledge/capabilities. Incentives do exist, they do drive behavior, but the mistake is that thinking life is some sort of video game where the rewards are deterministic: insert resources, tech, behavior, -> get predefined rewards for doing so. It's not and has never been. Yeah the previous generations paired up more, but those weren't all marriages of love, but economic necessity, social necessity, cultural necessity. Times change and people don't want to be shackled to someone who "was there and available and I could stand", they want a fantasy of love and marriage.
Your entire mentality seems to be as though you can engineer society like its some video game, provide the incentives -> get behavior. And then you get mad because society is not encouraging the incentives you think it should, failing to conceive that maybe society is not a video game. It's this weird technocratic thinking that is divorced from reality.
Different time period, Rome existed in a brutal world where most people died often, and to survive it required you to band together, build a community, struggle together, and win at all costs. Modern life is not that world. If you want to go back to subsistence farming and raiding your neighbors for sheep, then move to Afghanistan or Somalia and Iron-Age Max with the bros. You can forge this men-helping-men tribe the same way everyone has already figured out to: Shared Struggle. Modern life is currently too wealthy, safe, secure, comfortable to really give you that struggle. You find that sort of camaraderie in places where those comforts are stripped, or the struggle is emphasized. It probably doesn't scale well.
And lets be clear, your fantasy of Rome being this Men-For-Men paradise was far from the truth. The society was not propelled by the unified purpose, but by individual agents each seeking what was best for themselves with a society that had converged to channeling that towards its own continued existence. It was not engineered. Nobody sat in the game design room and was like "here add a pinch of republicanism, a dash of social approval from public works, and a splash of citizen armies" For every society that has converged to pro-social norms there are hundreds of societies that have converged on anti-social ones and failed. History doesn't remember them.
And when they didn't have enough women to go around, they banded together and guess what they did. And presumably your philosophy would approve of such path-carving. It shows gumption.
I have a fairly Nietzschean disposition, the ancient world was cruel and brutal. I do not judge the men of yesteryear by what was required to exist in such a time.
YoungAchamian
1d ago
Of course, what's the incentive for doing them if the reward isn't there.
Existential self-satisfaction and discovery. Needing to be rewarded for doing/knowing/being good at things is the behavior of a child or a dog. Part of being a man is cutting your own path in the world for yourself, not because other told you to, rewarded you for doing so, told you: "you were are a good little boy", etc.
Yes, collectively society can be at tension with the individual in conferring certification of competence, and even that certification can degrade in actually being a clear signal of competence. Doesn't make that competence any less masculine.
But he will not earn much respect merely for his intelligence and knowledge unless he can convert that into money, which is also made very difficult these days.
For some things sure, but I disagree its difficult. Yes somethings like being handy around the house will not get you money, but being able to do them on your own displays competence, saves you money. People absolutely will respect you for it.
And becoming skilled at 'hard things' ultimately depends on what barriers exist to acquiring the skills. And what, precisely, do we consider 'hard things' in terms of skill?
Idk, figure it out, its a personal journey towards being competent. For some its being handy, woodsy, crafty. For others its great partner dance skills. I don't know of anyone who has ever thought that being a Renaissance man was a negative. Giving people a template to follow destroys the credibility of the signal. You need to figure out what "being skilled or being competent" means to you on your own.
YoungAchamian
1d ago
A man is skilled at hard things. A man is knowledgeable and intelligent.
Neither of these require any external input, western society does not deter or hobble you from doing them. It doesn't promote them, but that's the key underlying point. You need to do them on your own, because "figuring it out" is part of that skill. Competence is sexy.
Not going to weigh in on your other stuff because it's not necessarily wrong, but these two were glossed over and you are wrong about them.
YoungAchamian
2d ago
we read comments on the internet we use limited information to interpret what perspective is being communicated.
This is not the broader internet, it is a niche community, people's affective information appears in a continuous manner. There are iterative engagements, post history, etc that give greater semantic clarity than shallow linguistics reads. Justifications about deploying rough signal filters ring more hollow. Donny is diminutive in the sense that any more casual nickname is diminutive. Would you freak and call someone a lefty for calling Richard Cheney something so diminutive as Dick? Regardless, it's not something I hear left wing folks say either, so as a dog whistle its pretty weak.
And in this case you are in fact critical of Trump so my read seems more than justified.
The fun part about being an independent that voted for Trump in 24, is that I get to critique him. I earned that right. As I have literally demonstrated that I will move across the aisle, and am not a tribal partisan hack. Unlike a lefty who would never vote for him or a righty who would never vote left regardless of candidate. Hell, my vote probably mattered more than yours...
object-level about Trump and Minneapolis, where I think you're wrong.
What you think shock and awe tactics against an outgroup when they hold a veto enabling minority to fund the group you are using to do shock and awe tactics with, whose budget renewal is coming up, is the smart thing to do? You think American citizen's weren't shot in Minneapolis? There is a smart way to enforce border deportations and then there is the dumb way. It would have been much harder for democrats to resist on principle if ICE looked competent and professional (they still would try, but that's politics). Now ICE looks like thugs who "murdered two American citizens exercising their 1st and 2nd amendment rights to protest such obvious authoritarian brutality. The cost to us citizens thus must be borne by any means to curtail that abuse" (not my words, but that's the general normie lefty view/vibe/interpretation). Meaning democrats can afford much more pain for shutting down DHS.
YoungAchamian
2d ago
Ehhh, you're missing the point of the TSA. It's a jobs program for the working class, much the same way the MIC is a jobs program for the middle class. Give them a purpose, some authority, and an income and no one figures it out that THEY have the bullshit email job that exists via government largess.
YoungAchamian
2d ago
I am irreverent in the extreme. I don't subscribe to language being "coded" to signal tribal loyalty.
Idk if democrats are really hitting the defect button here, that would imply this is a prisoner's dilemma-esque game. They are just advocating for what their constituents want(in the ideal aggregate). What's really happening is that DonnyBoy, knowing full well that DHS funding was due for a refresh after the last CR, decided poorly that Jan/Feb was the perfect time to go vindictively goad democratic communities. Then American citizen's got shot by ICE... Dude could have chilled on Minnesota until after the budget was passed, but that's not his style. Poor strategic instincts, lead to poor policy outcomes.
YoungAchamian
2d ago
Actually, I work in applied research that is funded by the government, I have research work that had strong interest from a division of the DHS back in Jan and have been playing whack-a-mole trying to get it funded since. I am just acutely aware of the funding issues and the reasons for. I think attempting to project my motivations onto your simple partisan 1D axis is a fools errand.
YoungAchamian
2d ago
Yes but the core sticking point here is ICE, which is under DHS. DHS isn't getting funded because of ICE. Unless Trump wants to negotiate big on ICE operations, I predict the democrats are unwilling to fund DHS. I don't think Donny wants to make a deal yet.
YoungAchamian
4d ago
Silent in 1 has the most difficult early game of all the characters
I always figured it was the Defect, who if you hit the Gremlin Nob as the first elite would generally wipe your silly robot ass from existence.
YoungAchamian
5d ago
You really need that strength from self damage power if you want to go a blood build in my opinion. I haven't tried a lot of Clad yet.
YoungAchamian
6d ago
modern society, law and regulation is simply too complex for an MP or congressman to learn in the time they have, much less meaningfully edit.
This is increasingly an idea that I am cooking. It used to be that politicians were often well-learned, with a strong elite knowledge, which provided a strong foundation for understanding the world and engaging in governments. But the modern world is just too complicated, politicians are now people-persons, coalition builders, cult of personality enjoyers, peacocks. There was a post a couple months back about how the James Bond archetype of a hyper-competent man is increasingly unrealistic, that I think touches on the same idea.
YoungAchamian
6d ago
and the top builds from back then still work
Sorta, the lack of energy relics is definitely felt, as is the removal of certain cards. I do miss fire-breathing on Clad
YoungAchamian
6d ago
I've done a couple ascension 2 runs with the Regent, and stars is the way to go, but it just feels so restrictive. Like here's the "box that you can play in" it's very small. The one consolation is that the game is still in early access so I imagine there will be buffs to the newly designed character
YoungAchamian
6d ago
I have about 35 hours in STS2, Just finished ascension 10 with the silent and am on ascension 7 with the Necro. I think Silent is really overpowered. The shiv decks are strong, discard is strong, that one poison power that causes poison to trigger twice (3x upgraded) is downright nasty. The discard 2/draw 2 in a deck with sly's is broken. Meanwhile the regent just feels bad.
YoungAchamian
14d ago
Trump is a Gracchi Brother, we are still a bit from the Caesarian Era of American Politics
If you were already reasonably wealthy few million USD at hand or magically given the money, then you absolutely would be bottlenecked by knowledge. You could purchase lab equipment, reagents etc, hire staff without much difficulty
This and the fear that the layman can use a LLM to make bioweapons are in completely different realms of argumentation. Only a tiny fraction of the population makes enough money to have a ~few million usd on hand.
As you pointed out, you can go get the knowledge, the skillset, the knowledge of the process, nothing is stopping you, except you know time to do all of that. The fear is that an LLM can skip a 4 year degree + a 2 year masters in providing you all of that. Idk much about biology, but I am passingly familiar with explosives.
YoungAchamian
19d ago
Yes, let's fuck over everyone who can't read between the lines.
Considering I am autistic as fuck, and I still got the message. I'd advise that just thinking about it is pretty straightforward, blaming others for not telling you to think is literally the point. If you can't think for yourself you are not intelligent, period.
Lmao I'd don't think I've ever been an advocate for the system, so go ahead. I'm sure IT jobs are going to be more needed in the apocalyptic subsistence economy that follows.
YoungAchamian
19d ago
I'm not a biologist either. But I am in defense research, and one of the things parts of the defense/intel establishment intensely want is to be able to create biological compounds and medical supplies in austere forward bases. Think 3d printing drugs, bandages, needles, etc. There is a LOT of money being thrown at that problem. And it hasn't gone anywhere(fast). So if it was just "Well we need to know the formula" then it would be solved. But its not. Skillset != Knowledge. My girlfriend's father is a bit of an anarchist. He gave her several books on the chemical process and formulas for making bombs. And then said never to do them because he has a friend who tried and now no longer has thumbs. Making explosives (knowledge of the formula) and having the skill to keep all of your limbs are two different things and LLMs can't give you the skillset. "Process" is the knowledge in the sense of austere manufacturing is knowledge, its how do you create clean rooms, how do you create biological precursors with everyday chemicals, you do you titrate, filter, mix, combine, to get the right compounds. Chemical Engineering is literally the field of how do we make chemical processes more efficient/practical, and they are paid big bucks to do it. If it was easy why are they getting paid well? The problems with these internet arguments is that they abstract all of the details and the details are fucking hard.
Meanwhile, it's conceivable (if not proven) that a worldwide pandemic spread inadvertently from a small biolab in Wuhan.
Note that it took a bunch of highly skilled chemical biologists to create the virus, the "spread" was what was inadvertent. The effort on the creation vs the effort on safety protocols are two different things. Since we are talking creation, I'll bet you that a jailbroken LLM cannot tell you how to create a novel virus via gain-of-function without you already having a biology background.
YoungAchamian
20d ago
Knowing a single trans person IRL is already an outlier, knowing multiple is an outlier even among outliers that would mostly occur among people who seek it out in some way like going to a LGBT group.
Statistically, yes if you just go by raw numbers. But since Trans people are not uniformly distributed across the country, ones exposure more likely hinges on ones exposure to high concentration of prog politics. I know multiple trans people IRL. I don't seek them out. I just exist in a more progressive area and have hobbies that MTFs and Non-Binary people are biased towards. Which increases my statistical exposure to trans people.
YoungAchamian
20d ago
Is this bait? This was my honest assessment.
YoungAchamian
20d ago
small groups had the ability to make deadly, highly infectious pathogens.
Is not really possible, knowledge isn't the major bottleneck, its process, materials, equipment, and skillset. This is just a confusion that some more knowledge oriented profession have about difficulty in other fields.
This is apocryphal so not sure how true it is, but a friend who does recruitment for a large hospital on North Dakota told me they are trying to pay rare specialists upwards of 900k to move there and stay. Something about how its ND which makes it hard to actually get these people, forcing them to pay them obscene amounts of money. How true is something like that?
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