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16d ago
It's when men ascribe all kinds of motives to women
I didn't ascribe motives to anyone, btw.
aaa
18d ago
Because they're the target. This stuff is supposed to work on young women, if it didn't there would be no point in doing it.
aaa
18d ago
what explains infertile old hags urging
Because they are their children?
I really love reading you guys (and boy do I mean guys)
You can take your feminism to bluesky, thank you.
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18d ago
Women spend a significant chunk of their life in infertility. Once their fertile days are over their best reproductive strategy is to limit reproductivity of the still fertile members of the population so that their children will be a larger percentage of the next generation.
Menopause is old enough that this trait is probably selected for, women probably have some innate instinct to see sex of younger women as bad once they are above a certain age. I think many of our norms around sex and marriage are downstream of this (marriage, vows of chastity, transgender fads, aversion to 'sexualized' portrayals of women, etc). The justifications for this stuff (consent, power imbalances, serving the church, etc) are just an irrelevant detail, you know something is bad inside your soul and then you search for an explanation to explain why you felt the wrongness to others. Morality is just what it feels like to be a member of a social species from the inside.
Our society is increasingly controlled by women and their infertile period has been lengthening as percentage of their total lifespan. Age gap is just one of the sticks that was nearby.
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19d ago
Xbox has historically been a money-printer
When? The original Xbox was meant to realize Bill Gates dream of putting a computer in every livingroom, a general purpose computer for the livingroom, the games were supposed to be just the beachhead.
The original xbox did not sell well. The Xbox 360 did sell very well, especially in the US, but it was also marred by hardware problems, the servicing of which put the xbox division in the negative for years. I don't know if they ever came out of it, if they did it must have been between 2010 and the launch of the xbox one.
The xbox one was of course supposed to be the coronation of the old livingroom computer dream, its launch was all about watching TV and controlling all of your other entertainment devices. Nobody liked that and it didn't sell well, less than the original NES. And the opaquely named Seris X/S sold even less (of course the current generation of consoles is more of a competition over who can suck the most, so whatever).
Which is probably why since 2021 they've been talking about turning xbox into a platform. I wouldn't be surprised if that's the direction they will keep going in: divesting from hardware and become more of a publisher of sorts.Going with a woman on that role might not even be a bad thing, I think at this point the only people who can tell people to cut the woke bullshit are going to be women, developers aren't going to take it from a man. The worst that can happen is if things keep going like they've been going in the past 10 years and western devs keep putting out woke flops and the money keeps getting tight and gaming keeps moving east and to the PC.
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22d ago
Recent loanwords typically don't get adapted ortographically. Even an older one like hacker is only rarely written in the RAE prescribed way (jáquer).
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22d ago
This doesn't pass the ahem sniff test. The word "therian" isn't pronounceable in Spanish
They typically pronounce it with an hard /t/.
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22d ago
OTHERKINS ARE BACK! This time in pog form Spanish!
In case you don't know/remember what an otherkin is, it's a person who self-identifies as an animal (other than homo sapiens, that is) or a mythical creature (dragons, angels, etc). The centroid example of an otherkin would have been Shiro Ulv, the "on all levels except physical, I am a wolf" guy.
Once, around 12 years ago, they were central to the tumblr ecosystem to the culture war and to discussions around neo-pronouns. Then around 2018, possibly connected with the porn ban on tumblr, the identity sort of died off. Most of them reabsorbed into some kind of trans or agender identity (Shiro Ulv himself is now a trans woman) and the only surviving neopronoun is "they".
But now they are back, except this time it's in latam. The phenomenon seems to have started as a viral trend on spanish-speaking TikTok and then spread to the real world, all over latin america, enough that people are again talking about them. The name they are now known by in spanish is therians, not otherkins, which is a name that existed even back then but was less used. For example here they are being talked about in Argentina, Mexico and Peru. Argentinians therians seem to be particularly out of control, one supposedly bit a man and a girl was rape-sniffed by a pack of feral therians, both could be fake, I don't know, but they were funny anyway.
If it spreads back to the anglophone world, remember that you read it here first.
aaa
23d ago
If this person is also using Latino/Hispanic surnames
Esposito is an italian surname, although some americans might have been persuaded by Giancarlo Esposito's role in Breaking Bad into thinking otherwise.
aaa
1mo ago
GPT-4. I found reasoning models to be a big flop. Not zero improvement but fairly small.
aaa
1mo ago
In a way, AI is harder on nerds than it is on anyone else.
I'd say it's actually harder on artists more than everyone else (assuming you aren't counting artists as a subset of nerds). 90% is not 100%. At least for programmers reviewing code and structuring the solution were always part of the job, people who were fond of codegolfing crud in rust (look how much more elegant I can make this by using a right fold) are going to suffer, but only a little bit.
I imagine the same is true for physicists, maybe not, but the fact that they are willingly implementing it motu propriu suggests it is.
Maybe in a few years things will change, AI will be able to do everything fully autonomously, and we'll all end up at the bottom of the totem pole (or "the balls on the dick" as some will say). But so far that's not the case and, to be honest, the last big improvement to text generation models I've seen happened in early 2024.
Meanwhile I see artists collectively having a full blown psychotic break about AI, hence indie gaming dev awards banning any and all uses of AI etc. I think this is because it changes their job substantially, on top of slashing most of them, and also because it came completely out of left field, nobody expected one of the main things that AI would be good at would be art, quite the opposite, people expected art to be impossible to AI because it doesn't have imagination or soul or whatever. In fact, the problem with AI is actually that it has too much imagination. And revealed preference strikes here too, you don't see many artists talking about how they are integrating AI into their workflow.
aaa
1mo ago
for no legible reason
The reason is that their leaders which enjoy overwhelming popular support started a war. You might not like it but it is a very legible reason. I'm personally on the fence whether anyone in the middle east should receive western support, but if it's going to be anyone it's going to be israel over palestinians every day.
But really, middle east is gonna middle east, no point discussing it too much.
aaa
2mo ago
What do we make of the fact that this guy has a Filipina wife?
Asian Aryanism, clearly. He must be a fan of Safe Sleazy.
aaa
2mo ago
IMO he shouldn't intervene. Unlike Venezuela, Iran is a middle east shithole and intervening in the middle east has never worked well because there is no history of democracy and widespread support of theocracy. I'm sympathetic to the protestors but I wouldn't help them.
aaa
2mo ago
If you don't care about dysgenic solutions then the easiest one is to import as many third worlders as possible, eventually you'll stumble on some ethnicity with low enough impulse control. It might sound like it sucks but really banning contraception does the same thing on a slightly longer timescale. The challenge is finding a non-dysgeinc solution in an environment where having children is an objectively stupid decision on an individual level.
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2mo ago
Giving money to people who have children and taking money away from people who don't is just a difference in framing, in practice it's the same thing. Any money you give to people who have children is going to come from people who don't: either in the form of missing tax breaks, unaccessible benefits or extra taxes.
It seems better to you because you prefer framing it as punishing people who don't behave the way you like (right wing) rather than framing it as rewarding those who do (left wing). But it really is just a framing. The only real variable is the size of the money transfer.
aaa
2mo ago
It is by no means the path of least resistance to unwrap errors. It's just as easy to write if let Ok(foo) = bar and handle the error in a non-panic way
Which is? You were supposed to get a list of features, it's always supposed to be there, what do you do? The person writing that code is thinking corrupted file or broken hard drive, panic is the correct thing to do. People are pointing fingers at that piece of code but to be honest I would point fingers upstream, to either the optimization that introduced the fixed size memory area or to the pipeline producing the features file who didn't check that the size of the file was under the limit.
Speaking of the optimization, the right thing to do there would have been to reallocate the struct to a bigger size if the preallocated one is insufficient. But I bet that would have introduced a bunch of ownership problems, hence we can circle back to this being a rust problem.
This is a terrible argument. First of all, surrounding things in unsafe blocks doesn't do a damn thing to get rid of errors with the borrow checker. The borrow checker still applies inside unsafe blocks!
This is a problem caused by updating a linked list, a data structure that rust has historically struggled to implement without using unsafe.
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2mo ago
I am referring to postmodernity as basically, the falling away of beliefs and overarching, meta narratives and more broadly the idea that there is any sort of objective truth
I think this never existed. There was an academic project for this in the 60s but practically nobody bought in and its immediate successors constructed their own overarching metanarratives (identity politics, gender, decolonization, etc). People sometimes call this postmodernism, because it refuses to give itself a name, and I'm fine with doing that as long as one doesn't also bring up the core tenets of "real" postmodernism, as you do here.
My opinion is that postmodernism instantly died because it's an unserious intellectual exercise. It's woke descendent isn't postmodern, it's pre-modern, specifically it's christianity without the bible, it's "we can be more pious without the bible".
aaa
3mo ago
Or possibly the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, depending on which one you were thinking of.
aaa
3mo ago
There's even video of him performing fellatio, isn't there?
No, that's fake and wrong. First of all the video you are thinking about would be of Destiny sucking dick and the theory that would be that the dick belonged to Fuentes, i.e. a video of him receiving fellation (from a man). But even so, it's all made up.
However.
There's the date with catboy kamikaze. There's that one time in 2024 when he was flirting with some zoomer kick livestreamers outside an in-n-out late at night in early 2024. Or that his favorite evangelion character is Kaworu Nagisa and his favorite show is Euphoria. Or how two prominent members of AF were homosexuals named Ali (Jamal and Alexander). Or that one time he accidentally tweeted a video that showed he was watching tranny porno. Or how AF members look like a "type". Or when Jaden (ex treasurer) left and he was heartbroken. And the Jaden said about living in Nick's basement. Or that time he said he thinks sex is disgusting (the other time, not the famous one when he said sex with women is gay).
But it's all gossip, the proof is all buried in kino casino and metokur streams, all stuff without any credibility, from years ago and it's all plausibly deniable anyway. So he isn't officially gay until he goes on the coming out podcast tour. For all we know he might have an harem. A super secret harem of women who don't mind being in a harem, don't regret it afterwards and don't use the fact of having been in one to cloutchase.
I'm somewhat sympathetic to the "billionaires bad" cause but the people making it always use really poor examples and lines of argumentation. Using Musk or Bezos (like many of the "billionaires bad" crowd do, including you) makes for really bad examples because those two, and other people like them, really did build impressive things that are useful to people, they are not what one would think a "parasitic capitalist tick" is.
The china worship also, especially from the Hasan Dogshocker Piker camp, is a bit baffling. I don't know if you consider yourself communist, but the dogshockers do and China isn't really communist for the man on the street. When they say they like China because of billionaires it makes me think that their preferred economic system isn't communism but fascism.
Another thing that bothers me is the focus on "net worth". That's also in your post. Net worth isn't the same thing as liquid money, they just happen to be measured with the same unit of measure. People sometimes say "just imagine how much good we could do if Musk didn't hoard all that money for himself" but that's not how anything works.
I think you would have a better time advancing your theory if you used better arguments.
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