ajuuiomml
6d ago
But I don't know, when I see someone essentially laying out a justification for bringing back slavery, how am I supposed to respond, as a black person?
On this forum, you are supposed to respond to abhorrent claims with dispassion, equanimity, and unearned civility- with reason, insight, and numbers. The sins of another poster are their own. They are not an invitation to join. That is the entire point.
ajuuiomml
15d ago
I imagine Russia could grab the Baltics without much effort, particularly after they are done with Ukraine (one way or another). It’s a roll of the dice if the EU actually wants to go to war or would do anything if Russia went fast enough.
ajuuiomml
15d ago
No, an unconditional surrender would have the US writing a new constitution for Iran and holding elections in 5 years.
ajuuiomml
17d ago
The fact that the majority of all code that has ever been created in history has been created since the start of 2026 is actually an incredibly bad thing. Code itself is a burden, and is only there because of the functionality it enables.
I don’t agree. Software is a depreciating asset, like a house, and AI is tool for building it. Your take reminds me of people lamenting GarageBand or the equivalent because now everyone can make music, and it’s nearly all bad.
ajuuiomml
17d ago
The sin isn’t prayer - it’s vanity. Jesus makes the quip vanity is its own reward. I also suggest if you want to read into Biblical text literally, you should do so in Greek, not English.
ajuuiomml
18d ago
The bomb likely has been weeks away since who knows when. It still could be for all I know. Because they haven’t fully enriched is not evidence they can’t. It’s evidence that they continually chose not to do so. At this point, proceeding to make a few nuclear weapons is their best bet to not be attacked again.
Do you mean to tell me if the woman trains for a couple years, and is healthy / responsive to training, she wouldn't be stronger than the majority of men that don't train, or are just fooling around in the gym / not really progressively overloading?
No. Do the math, and it shakes out that elite women only reach the 50th percentile of men in a bunch of categories. Even if they match strength, they are still smaller at the same height. The average woman at 5’10” (1.5% US population) isn’t the same weight as the average guy at that height. Men also bring anatomical advantages, too, in the form of denser and thicker bones (useful in a fight). Go do BJJ or Judo and the differences will be obvious to you. Or, watch elite women’s Basketball or Soccer. They display less athleticism than just about any non-selective high school varsity team with a class of a couple hundred.
Are dudes supposed to just walk into a gym, being sedentary, and start benching 200?
Nope, but (fit) women walk into a gym and start benching <45 pounds. Seriously!
Don't most women just avoid actual strength training / bulking out of temperament/desire for their body to look a certain way
Yes, but that doesn’t matter when women are much smaller on average, and much much weaker even at the same weight. They can’t make up the difference, and there is no way to literally grow a thicker skull. I would not want to roll the dice in a street fight on those odds.
ajuuiomml
29d ago
I’ve read Catch-22 three times and Slaughterhouse-Five a couple. Both number among the best novels written in the 20th century. They are the seminal anti-war novels. Go read them, you will probably enjoy it! The former has a slow start, but picks up.
- What you described is an ineffective workflow for utilizing AI. AI is stupendous at doing research and writing code - easily at least one order of magnitude better than humans. AI is bad at architecture, easily much worse than humans. It’s like you told an idiot savant junior engineer “fix the code”… or maybe like healthcare, which is full of professionals who know how to fix you and are waaaay better at it than you, but are structurally incapable of doing so unless you continually inject care/agency into the system. Everyone is just working their tickets.
- Changes are coming fast - weekly, really. GPT 5.4 is a much better model. In my direct experience, it crushes Opus 4.6. A team member did a full matrix test on models implementing solutions to multiple problems and then evaluated all implementations with said models. In the experiment, 5.4 was the undefeated and universal victor: 5.4 and 4.6 always preferred 5.4’s solutions.
- Claude is slopware. I’ve stopped using it entirely.
ajuuiomml
1mo ago
You need to listen to more Joe Rogan of course for the pyramids. I’m not sure how to help with makeup and poetry.
ajuuiomml
4mo ago
Peter Thiel of course! There is always some rich white guy with an axe to grind in practice.
ajuuiomml
4mo ago
This is nuts! Law fare is the tried and true way of damaging US institutions to effect change.
ajuuiomml
4mo ago
I disagree on the Chinese model. China wins by not allowing foreign companies to compete in its markets, stealing everything in sight, and subsidizing industry well below cost to purposefully drive under international competition (dumping). The rest of the world could win too, if it did that.
ajuuiomml
4mo ago
they're complaining that the economy is doing poorly and getting worse, that they have no opportunity to advance
Is this not because this is the only source of meaning in their life? By and large, they have abandoned the Church, family (spouse, kids, often their parents), civic society (the mythology of the American Experience) and embraced the material as the principal metric of personal success and some form of nihilism as their guiding philosophy.
How could the framing of life you outlined possibly lead to peace? The Church’s paradigm is martyrdom in everything (serve God, love your neighbor and ignore life). Civil societies answer is to “ask what you can do for your country”. Family life offers “meaning through kids” - consider now, not only the rejection of having kids, but that someone could even be defined as their role as a parent! What did we replace those things with? Tinder, social media, college and a career for everyone…
I do not include manga in the classical tradition of drawing or painting. Digital is a different discipline. I’m not at all concerned with the production of artists, but I’m quite concerned with the loss of the discipline itself. People making digital art by and large can not paint in the western tradition. The same holds for the western tradition of music.
ajuuiomml
5mo ago
How have the martial arts faired over the progressive era in terms of participation and seriousness of effort? I’ve been out of the loop for 15 years. For comparison, we are rapidly losing other skills like painting and drawing.
ajuuiomml
6mo ago
Of course not in the legal sense. In terms of moral culpability, it’s better to plan to lose every argument than to plan to enter gunfights.
ajuuiomml
6mo ago
Concealed carry comes with the burden to lose every argument and to walk away.
ajuuiomml
6mo ago
that a kid loses his father over an argument about a a fence and a property line made me sad.
That is most charitable of you! The dad had a chainsaw, was on meth, and had entered the fenced in yard of his neighbor who told him to leave. Regardless of property lines - claiming a de facto easement through your neighbors fenced in yard while high with a chainsaw in Florida is asking for trouble.
As ever, Scott’s take was fair as far as it goes, but the entire discussion of when is the right time to start murdering your political adversaries in the concrete gives me pause. It’s impossible to broach that topic and not tacitly endorse murder. The conversation is definitely more murdery than the post itself, including his own replies in which he suggests coordinated ???
That was easily the most frustrating non conversation I’ve deigned to listen to conclusion. Is it impossible for a human to be selected into such a position?
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