alexandertheokay
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alexandertheokay
1yr ago
I don't think it actually matters if it's a good movie or not. What matters is how effective the marketing team is and whether the material is acceptable in multiple major consumer markets.
It's clear that this movie has the favor of every major media outlet and social media site, so it will get "the shine" for a few months at least.
alexandertheokay
1yr ago
You have generalized one conservative's point of view to "enough conservatives that it would drive their policy if they had political dominance."
I don't think this was true in 2016. I think it is probably true today.
The gentleman's agreements that allow us to have freedom of thought have expired. We're in the hardball stage, and the degree of censorship is likely to only get worse as time wears on.
alexandertheokay
1yr ago
I am white and I do not value my race. I value my culture, my morals, and my beliefs. You could say I've abandoned my genes and declared my loyalty to my memes.
Of the available ethnic groups in the US, the ones I most align with are East Asians (particularly Korean and Vietnamese) and Latin Americans. White people seem to either reject the culture I love or embrace a hollow parody of it.
If someone told me whiteness would die out tomorrow but my core values would resurge, I'd go to sleep a very happy man.
alexandertheokay
1yr ago
I don't think breeding and genetics are the future of human intelligence.
Bioengineering and AI will be the future of human intelligence, and the breeding idiots will be unable to comprehend the transition.
So... don't worry about it 😁
alexandertheokay
1yr ago
I think we found a few 😅
alexandertheokay
1yr ago
it does seem like the results I wind up with if I force out the text in unproductive state really are that bad.
This is to be expected. There is a reason I called it "word vomit." Once its all down, you can come back and re-arrange the pieces the next day and it may be a lot easier to get somewhere with it. I've had middling luck with this approach.
alexandertheokay
1yr ago
Some of those comments definitely sell this board. I'll apply.
I really liked this one:
Red cons blue cons, red roads blue roads, red stores blue stores. Red jobs, blue jobs.
The new Dr. Seuss book
alexandertheokay
1yr ago
The other users have some great advice.
If you struggle to get into the sports, find an angle that better aligns with your interest. For example, you might find the sports boring, but the after-action statistics can be very interesting.
alexandertheokay
1yr ago
I have a nit to pick:
Blue tribe needs outgroups. If they wiped out red tribe they would turn inward to continue the conflict.
One of liberalism's great strengths is its relative comfort with endless conflict. The meme of tolerance and metaphorical warfare through the voting system allows that conflict to continue endlessly while allowing the conflicting factions to form a united front against outside threats.
Other systems built around ideological purity require an honest attempt to actually destroy the enemy, and when this is successful a new enemy needs to be found or created.
I think unending conflict may simply be human nature, and stability is learning to manage that conflict in a productive manner.
alexandertheokay
1yr ago
Hacker News (specifically news.ycombinator.com, there are multiple "hacker news" sites.)
The overlap with the SSC/Motte community is higher than you'd expect. The community has a higher-than-elementary level understanding of AI, the tech sector, and business, and leans politically center or slightly left for US politics.
alexandertheokay
10mo ago
That worked, thanks!
alexandertheokay
10mo ago
How do I figure out the email address attached to my account? I forgot which email address I used when I signed up.
alexandertheokay
1yr ago
I'm continuing to read one chapter of deathworlders every evening. I feel like it is worthy of more discussion, but when I try to find depth I come up empty. I'm starting to think it's just a fun power fantasy.
alexandertheokay
1yr ago
Lemon Demon - The Ultimate Showdown
alexandertheokay
1yr ago
I've been moving in this direction myself and I think its effective. I put deathworlders and some ttrpgs on my phone.
alexandertheokay
1yr ago
Mainly that it's fun and easy. I'm reading a chapter before bed every night. I'm currently in a place where I have extremely limited mental energy and time, so I'm not tackling anything demanding at the moment.
alexandertheokay
1yr ago
Is it worth applying to get an account?
alexandertheokay
1yr ago
PayPal has "demonetized" the daily sceptic, both the business's account and the founders personal accounts he uses to receive money for his other work.
Another point for red tribe needs its own payment processors (and banks, and infrastructure, and DNS servers, and domain registration...)
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/09/21/paypal-demonetises-the-daily-sceptic/
alexandertheokay
1yr ago
Emotions should reveal your preferences, they shouldn't guide your decision making.
I want to stop feeling angry. Anger would drive me to violence, which is usually irrational. The rational part of me controls my mind and tells me to separate myself from the situation.
what if the entire 'provoking emotion' thing is sort of a misleading way to try to prevent people from 'having conflicts' or caring too much so everyone can be nice and go about their day? And what do we lose by forgetting what causes those 'emotions'?
If you think someone is arguing in bad faith, walk away. There is no point in continuing that conversation.
alexandertheokay
1yr ago
I just started deathworlders. It's fun, easy, and the right amount of thought provoking for my current situation in life.
alexandertheokay
1yr ago
This is just a guess, but I think it sounds like you are struggling with perfectionism. Words enter your brain, and if they aren't "perfect" (or nearly so) on the first pass, you feel stress and discard them, which results in a feedback loop that leads to writer's block.
Conventional advice I've heard to address this is to just "word vomit" garbage onto the page. Once enough material flows through you, you'll be able to piece it back together into something that's okay.
In my personal experience, alcohol has helped, but I would recommend against that being a long term solution. In addition to being unhealthy, drugs can change the way you think enough to break feedback loops and mental traps.
alexandertheokay
10mo ago
I also give up my seat for elderly men, so ending that phrase with women would have been incorrect.
alexandertheokay
10mo ago
What's the problem here?
alexandertheokay
1yr ago
Heat is a general pattern of provoking people. It tries to inflame people so they instinctively fall into old patterns or arrange themselves along tribal lines. It is invariably, deeply emotional.
Decisions and behavior driven by emotions are inherently irrational. There may be a rational argument to support the decision or behavior, but that is an after-the-fact rationalization.
Reason is cold because emotion is hot. They are opposite ends of a spectrum, and that carries through into the culturally accepted metaphor.
To pile on: the sin here is deceiving the people being moved. If DeSantis' agents had said "we want to send you to an upscale New York neighborhood as a political stunt, there is probably good work up there" I wouldn't object.
Personally I love the idea of shipping illegal immigrants to blue tribe strongholds, but it has to be done ethically.
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