ArjinFerman
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User ID: 626
Yup!
Edit: to clarify, I mean all the Tinker threads are.
ArjinFerman
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5hr ago
It's a little strange, then, that in the 2000 years of Christianity we've had no shortage of executing and imprisoning criminals.
ArjinFerman
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5hr ago
I'm not a bot (cry_emoji, cry_emoji)!
I posted it, but the mods need to manually approve it. I think you can get there with a direct link:
https://www.themotte.org/post/1916/tinker-tuesday-for-may-13-2025
Not gonna lie, a bot would make things a lot easier for me.
ArjinFerman
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5hr ago
DOGE would do this by having an AI parse the CFR, and it would work...
...about as well as Full Self Driving - good enough for you to put your guard down, and then drive you right into a truck it misidentified as a bridge.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
Can't decide if you should be banned or AAQC'd for this.
ArjinFerman
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6d ago
Can you dig it out? I can think of several ways both of you can be right.
- Looking at the proportion of women among gay porn consumers instead of the other way around.
- Looking at all women instead of porn consuming women (might actually be right way to do it)
- What do we mean by "straight"? / What is a woman? I heard several female detransitioners saying gay porn / the fantasy of being a gay boy with a gay lover being a gateway to transition.
ArjinFerman
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6d ago
I don't understand why you kept putting classical liberal in quotation marks.
I think he's right to do. This isn't applicable to you, but the overwhelming majority of people using the term act like liberalism was invented in the 90's or, at most, with the election of FDR. "Classical liberalism" is a complete misnomer for them.
ArjinFerman
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6d ago
I was never that good with 3D art, but I dicked around a bit. Don't know what it is about Blender, it's obviously quite powerful, but working with it always made me want claw my eyes out. Seems to basically be the GIMP of 3D modeling.
So, my sympathies, and I hope it goes well.
ArjinFerman
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7d ago
Took a small detour from optimizing the backend, and worked on the UI. I do quite like the result.
How are you doing @Southkraut?
Those vegetable stands that farmers put up at the side of the road, as though they were thinking "Would someone do such a thing? Just take stuff without paying for it?", were one of the most beautiful things I've seen when I was in Bavaria.
ArjinFerman
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7d ago
If democratic principles include sending in the military to crush dissent, no system isn't democratic.
So the Soviet Union was not a laboratory of democracy relative to Czechoslovakia, but was one relative to itself, correct?
Aside from that, your definition of a "labiratory of democracy" sems to have clearly changed. Originally you said one state try one thing and the other can try the opposite. You are now telling me that preventing the opposite from being tried through the use of the military is completely fine. You can hold that view, but your original description of the concept does bot fit your current one.
ArjinFerman
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8d ago
So to be clear, since the deployment of the 101st Airborne wasn't just about a cut in federal funding, it clearly crossed the line into proving that the US is not a laboratory of democracy, right?
ArjinFerman
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8d ago
There was a social program for seniors in the UK to get guys together and give them some free tools and a workshop. Something about combatting male loneliness, IIRC. It was originally conceived of as a male only space, so the wives of some of the attending chaps couldn't stand the thought that something might bot belong to them, and they nagged their husbands until they were allowed in.
ArjinFerman
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8d ago
Personally, I find it hilarious. Something about the lengths people go to, to get past the filters, and the absurdity of the metaphors, just make me chuckle. Like, I remember some guy on /r/stupidpol, who ended up dating a zoomer, tearing his hair out because she wouldn't stop using code even IRL. They were talking about rape, and she would not stop saying "grape" instead.
If it's Orwellian, there's an optimistic twist to it, as it only shows the folly of the newspeak project.
ArjinFerman
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8d ago
...it's always been that way, hasn't it?
I don't think so. My Eastoid mind has been blown several times by how much of the Western system relied / relies on an honor system, and then blown even more by how it was actually working until recently.
The fact that the feds stopped them by force is exactly the point-- it's the tangible proof that those states lost the ability to contest outside control over their cultures
Can you give an example of a system that's not a "laboratory of democracy" then? By that logic Soviet tanks rolling into Prague just shows how the Eastern Block was a "laboratory of democracy".
Seeing the parallels yet?
Not until they send in the 101st Airborne. But even that will only show the same rules are applied equally to both sides, not that the US is a laboratory of democracy. It will clearly disprove the latter point, in fact.
ArjinFerman
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9d ago
Plenty of states tested exactly that until very recently and failed.
What exactly are you referring to? I don't recall any test followed by failure, I only recall a test that was stopped by the federal government through force.
What more do you want out of a laboratory?
I want it to work as advertised. We don't have some states doing one thing, and some doing the opposite. We have some states doing one thing, and the opposite being explicitly illegal.
ArjinFerman
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10d ago
I still want to know which one of you is Vance.
ArjinFerman
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10d ago
It doesn't count as some states doing the opposite of others, when one side is doing something explicitly, and the other subconsciously, imo.
ArjinFerman
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11d ago
Gotta admit, I didn't read much past the first line, just saw that Southkraut responded.
ArjinFerman
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11d ago
Minimum wage and basic income are separate questions, I'm not sure why they need to be mentioned here.
Like tariffs, they belong in the "economic policies that contradict libertarianism" bag, so they seem pretty relevant, and I'd expect the position on them to predict the position on tariffs. At least barring an explicitly stated theory that would justify supporting one, but not the others.
and I'm not sure if there are any points where I would have expected him to support tariffs on the basis of his other ideological positions, is the point.
If the point is "he's not ideological about economics in general", then my point is that he is pretty clearly leans left on economics, and as such he should not be expected to support free trade.
ArjinFerman
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11d ago
I get that sneering at populists is whole reason you made this alt account
It's not an alt, he renamed.
ArjinFerman
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11d ago
I stumbled upon your forum
This is completely off topic, but whenever we get a newcomer I'm always intrigued, since we don't advertise too much (at all). How did you end up finding us?
Is it only Zorba that can set up the bot? I noticed that Transnational Thursday threads are automated.
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