ArjinFerman
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ArjinFerman
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2hr ago
Maybe his petty squabbles were with a different ideological subset of posters
As someone who caught a few bans from him, I'd say in that sense he was very fair.
ArjinFerman
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5d ago
There is something hellishly dystopian about fleeing to another country, possibly even across the ocean, and your country of birth is still trying to pull you back. Particularly because women are given a free pass.
No there isn't. The idea that people have duties and obligations to their nation was considered so normal you could mistake it for the air we breathe until, like, yesterday. That women get a "free pass" from violent conflict is basic common sense, a conclusion reached by any society that isn't actively suicidal.
What there is something hellishly dystopian about, is that the very same people who demand you fulfill your duties to the nation, are working tirelessly to abolish the very idea of there being a nation to start with. That they're demanding you fight and die for the privilege of having your replacement shipped in in an Amazon package, from the country of the lowest bidders, and for your children - if you have any, and they make it through the war - to be raised with the values of Californian progressives.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
Bro, just listen to your aunt, and take the arranged marriage.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
your next thought might be "Is there a hamster on a wheel in my head too?!"
Yes, but I find the thought quite comforting. Looking at it this way keeps me from huffing my own farts, and in the end snaps me back from changing my perception of others. I know for a fact that I do actually think about all the crap going on around us, and I know for a fact that I'm also an NPC repeating other people's talking points most of the time, so, I assume, my thoughts about my interlocutor are just an expression of frustration, rather than saying anything deeper.
Maybe an elite, which really is better than us, and which really is necessary to keep us from all choking on our food because we forgot to chew (metaphorically) is real and required.
After a fashion. They're needed to coordinate society at such a wide scale, but going by the ideas they're implementing they're either not that bright, or comically evil, and in either case, I don't think we need them that much.
I use it for Twitter, Youtube, and Substack. It might be applicable to more, but since these are the only SocMeds I use, I wouldn't be able to tell you.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
That non-Ukrainians are cheering them on makes perfect sense because of "enemy of my enemy...", if nothing else, but acting like this is supporting "self-determination" is indeed incoherent, when you're working day and night to abolish the "self" of Ukraine. This applies to the Ukrainian elites as much es the broader West, by they way.
The Ukrainians on the ground can fight for some specific, blood-and-soil concept of Ukraine if they want.
Letting them believe that this is what they're dying for, and standing by as they're being conscripted, when you know you won't let them keep it when the fighting is over, is precisely the part that's hellishly dystopian.
ArjinFerman
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11d ago
OTOH, this makes a mockery of conservative opposition to cancel culture.
How long do you have to warn people "don't do this or the same tactics will be used against you when the tide turns" before it's ok to make good on the warning?
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
Yeah right around the time that countries decided that they no longer had duties and obligations to their own citizens. The sword cuts both ways here.
Well, that's what I'm driving at. The issue isn't as narrow as women not being drafted, as some people say, it's that people are being asked to take one for the team, when the same people who are asking, are deconstructing the team.
ArjinFerman
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5d ago
Who the hell wants to ban porn?
Me.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
Then we're right back to conscription, and why do some people have to fight and die, while others get to enjoy a carefree life in the West.
This is so bizarre to me. Ukrainian women are... people? They are not the property of Ukrainian men. They are not obliged to restrain from forming relationships or otherwise trying to live their lives because they happen to be refugees.
Are the men the property of the Ukrainian government? Dase recently got in trouble for lashing out against this kind of "innocent" "shucks! I don't know what you could possibly mean" debate tactics, and while I don't want to be as aggressive as he was, I do share his frustration. This kind of clap-on / clap-off - we're just individuals pursuing happiness / we're part of a larger whole and you have to fulfill your duty to society, is somewhat maddening.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
If this is how things are supposed to go, on what grounds are you demanding that anyone fights and dies for your vote to say "fuck that guy, he's already dead"? Go and fight yourself, if you think it's such a great idea.
ArjinFerman
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5d ago
There's a pretty common issue in the tech community where someone writes a blog post about their experience, and after a long game of telephone a caricatured version of it becomes The Truth. It's been a while since I heard that one, but every once in a while someone still repeats the "98% of programmers can't code FizzBuzz" thing, for example.
I dunno, I played around with self-hosted email, the only time anything landed in spam was when I setup some cronjob that regularly sent mails. Never saw problems with manually sent stuff, and since I almost never send emails as it is, I cannot imagine tripping any spam filters in the course of normal usage.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
I never suspected you to be one of the Western (or Ukrainian, for that matter) elites, so this doesn't come as a surprise.
I don't think that was the pitch, because like every change, there was no single one movement responsible for it
You say "because" and proceed with an argument that does nothing to support the thesis. Just because there are multiple movements responsible for a change, doesn't mean the discourse doesn't settle on a main pitch.
Every kid who felt guilty about masturbation. Every husband who felt shame at cheating, or even having thoughts of cheating. Every woman who felt shame at sex outside of wedlock, or who had a sex drive society felt was too much. Every gay person who felt shame at being attracted to their own sex. All of those groups constitute probably a majority of people. That's what I mean by a tipping point.
It's also strange to throw the pitch directly after saying that wasn't the pitch.
Aside of that you're grossly exaggerating the extent to which people were shamed or felt shame for any of these things.
ArjinFerman
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13d ago
CRITICAL RACE THEORY!!!
(horror movie thunder sound cue)
Cute, but it would be easier to believe that attempt at mockery isn't posturing, if everyone in the mainstream didn't flip out when alt-righters apply the exact same theory.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
E-mail can be done fine for a toy project, or where you're measuring reliability by licking your finger and sticking it in the air rather than by count of nines. If you're going to move the system you use to handle your bank account's verification to it, or how you send bills to customers, you gotta be willing to put a lot of effort in and realize it may not work.
Ok, thank you! That's exactly what I suspected, and not what I'd characterize as "basically impossible".
ArjinFerman
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12d ago
It's not a question of it being good or bad, it's a question of not being able to understand the outrage at being forced to fight and die as others are out having fun.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
In case it isn't obvious, I did literally just say that both men and women should have obligations to the larger group they belong to, and only imposing obligations on one side is, indeed, a raw deal. I'm not seeing how that implies men's ownership of women, though.
ArjinFerman
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5d ago
I prefer moderate indulgence to sanctimony.
I might take that, if the offer was credible, but I hope you understand why I soured on the promises of only moderate indulgence.
ArjinFerman
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5d ago
Practically hosting your own email is basically impossible, from what I can tell, due to spam blocking mechanisms.
I keep hearing that, and I keep not knowing what on Earth are people talking about. Are you planning on running a newsletter? Because if not, it's perfectly doable. I wouldn't recommend it because of it's low bang / buck ratio, but it's nowhere near "basically impossible".
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
I run them both on a VPS I use for various side projects. Like you said this let's me browse from other devices, and have a consistent feed state across all of them.
Like I said I was planning to set up a demo for you guys, but I want to do it on a separate server.
ArjinFerman
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6d ago
Hasn’t climate protest worked because the earth has actually gotten warmer the last 20 years so it feels true?
Something being true doesn't explain the dynamic he's describing. On one hand there's plenty of things that are true and feel true, and are opposed by the elites, rather than having their full backing. On the other hand the climate protest movement offers no solutions, and as he said are only used as a way to consolidate power, and to show what the elites are willing to destroy.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
If you can get something with around 1GB of RAM for free, it should pan out. If you can only get half of that, it might work, but I feel like you'd be pushing your luck. Although for personal use, the performance hit of using swap shouldn't be too annoying.
What makes you think Hlynka wouldn't ban her even sooner? He had an extremely short fuse as a moderator, and his decisions always struck me as arbitrary.
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