ArjinFerman
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ArjinFerman
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5hr ago
That's a rather lax definition, it lets off the hook every utopian mass-murdering sociopath.
ArjinFerman
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5hr ago
Young productive men are functionally slaves in modern western societies. They work for a pittance while the vast majority of their economic output goes to their betters through many mechanisms of taxation and redistribution,
Young productive men are substantially better off now then they have been for practically all of history. Despite taxation, the amount of wealth even the poorer man in the first world can access is still greater than many kings of the past.
The same would be true, if you literally reintroduced African slavery in the US today, and It was probably even true back when slavery was still legal in the US, so I don't see how this argument is valid.
ArjinFerman
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8hr ago
Yes, but how is that surprising? Look at the drama over trans issues, or mass migration, or MAID, or models of criminal justice... people end up with polar opposite values all the time, and it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with how smart, brave, or loyal they are.
ArjinFerman
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9hr ago
I can see the outline for a counterargument that goes, "race is causative of ethnicity (meaning: race linked culture), which is causative of marital status of parents, immigrant status, etcetera, which are causative of violence." Again, though... You can just filter on the direct causes instead. Fatherless behavior looks similar regardless of race
Sure, I'm quite inclined to see fatherlessness as causative, but doesn't it give you pause that we were just talking about SES, sex, and age as causative, and we're moving on to fatherlessness without skipping a beat?
and regardless of race I would discriminate against young men engaged in it.
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Your goal is to minimize the average likelyhood of the people returned by that query committing a crime against you. In which order would you prioritize removing adjectives from the following list?
[Black fatherless poor druggie young male]
I would go for either "druggie" or "male" first, then after those two are gone "poor", then either "young" or "fatherless".
Look at the numbers from zeke. I don't see how you can put either sex or age before race. You can find similar results for SES.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
It literally isn't though. If you keep everything constant except sex, male vs female is still HUGELY predictive of criminality. If you keep everything constant except race, the relationship is much, much weaker.
Are you sure? I don't have a link, but I remember saying breakdowns by sex, age, and race, where the criminality statistics for blacks looked pretty dismal (black women coming out worse than white men).
but that's still not a convincing reason to look at mostly proxy factors for criminality (like race) rather than much more causitice factors like SES.
Again, I'm pretty sure SES is also just a proxy, and actually a poorer one than race.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
Ok, in that case they're co-owning to strait being closed for two more years, but without Iran being bombed.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
Looks like you are right. The US is truly the vampire of the world.
In the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2002, the U.S. Congress mandated the use of biometrics in U.S. visas
Shout out to the nice customs people who, the one and only time I went to the US, thought it would be fun to play ping-pong with me:
- [After waiting in line] you're at the wrong window, you have to go to that one over there
- [After waiting in another line] No, you have to go to that window over there
- [One more time..., and this may or may not have been the first window I came to...] Man..., you gotta speak up for yourself, you can't let people treat you like that....
I suppose I should be grateful for the free lesson.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
Mark Levin may be a shill, but he's more of a Trump shill at this point than an Israel shill. I flipped over to Hannity late last night and all he (Levin) could talk about was what a great deal this was
So... I originally replied (without reading more than one sentence) asking if the guy isn't having a meltdown, because I saw second-hand reports about it. Then I read the second sentence and deleted my comment, and now I ran into a tweet of his, where seems to, indeed be taking it badly... is he doing ok?
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
I think of surrogacy as probably involving the implantation of a fertilized egg that does not originate with the surrogate. This way, a mother without a functional womb would still get to pass on her genetic material, and it would also make it so that surrogate-purchasers would not be forced to use the surrogate's genetics
I'm well aware, and I suppose I have to go back on what I said about gay surrogacy, as this clearly shows it is actually worse than the heterosexual version. If we just take the moral dilemma from the end of your comment
My view is that the child clearly belongs to the woman who provided the egg.
We can see that this is not what's happening in case of gay surrogacy, where neither woman gets any claim on the child. It is therefore not a result of a good faith attempt at attributing motherhood, but a deliberate attempt to weaken the legal position of anyone on the seller side of surrogacy, and just adds to the moral horror of the situation. And no matter how you do attribution in this case, be it surrogate, egg donor, or mixed, someone is definitely selling a child there.
Now, back to the heterosexual / general case of the scenario, I'm much more inclined to side with the woman actually giving birth. Exceptions make bad law, and your "ovary heist" scenario is implausible and would extremely rare relative to a much more common one: IVF with an ovary donation. Your approach would presumably hand over the rights to over the child to the donor, if she changes her mind? Or do we go "contracts ueber alles", and the donor has no rights because she signed them away, but the ovary heist victim does, because she did not? Is this a general framework, and people can sign away any right in your opinion, or does it only apply to motherhood?
which is potentially very desirable for both sides of the transaction.
"Potentially" doing a lot of work here. I see only one side clearly benefiting from this. If, at any point, the surrogate has a change of heart, this arrangement only disadvantages her.
The financial transaction here is selling the use of the womb, which seems sufficiently icky for someone to reasonably find it unacceptably unaesthetic, but it does not really seem like selling a child unless the birthmother's egg is being used.
A womb is not a disembodied part that can be rented out while you're not using it, and the experience of childbearing can't be sequestered to just it. It's something a woman goes through with her entire body, and which has a significant impact on her mind as well. This is seen in the surrogacy contract itself, which often includes dietary and health clauses.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
Still not much progress on the background generation. Mostly I've been goofing around with benchmarks, trying to see if the previous changes did actually boost performance. Indeed I'm now able to run the simulation with +/- 640K monsters at reasonable framerates (for as long as the laptop doesn't get hot), whereas previously I could only reach +/- 250K. However, this only works when I turn off the bullet simulation. It's not surprising it turned out to be a bottleneck - I basically copy pasted the monster simulation code, just to have something working for now, and I had the thought I'm doing the collision detection the wrong way around:
- Currently for each bullet, I check if it hits any monster. There already is a spatial sorting mechanism for the monsters, so it's relatively easy to look up the ones in the neighborhood of a projectile. However, due to the nature of how they move (in a straight line, and separated from each other), each projectile is likely to have a different neighborhood, and this will cause thread divergence
- Instead, I think I should add a similar sorting mechanism for the bullets, and check collisions from each monster to each bullet in the neighborhood. Monsters are more likely to be clumped together, so their neighborhood will be the same, and they will be doing the same lookups, and not cause any divergence. Hopefully... in theory...
That said, I'll leave that alone for now, and get back to the background generation thing.
How have you been doing @Southkraut?
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
I'm surprised that no one brings up the option "MAGA are Trump supporters by definition, so you're more likely to see the group itself shrink, than to see the percentage of positive responses drop".
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
How do we know he actually wanted to win, rather than make compelling drama?
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
The Iranians know the Democrats actually stand by their word, so when we come back to power, we’ll negotiate a better deal ourselves
Even if people bought the argument, they'd also have to explain how two more years of being bombed would make them more likely to negotiate. It looks like co-owning the war either way.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
The blame is getting shoved off onto Trump and Netanyahu, who surely deserve it... I can't help but think that others were in favour and have since jumped ship though.
Subordinates are always in a tricky position when they disagree with their boss, because any administration, be it government, military, corporate, or anything else, should present a unified front. If things get bad enough, you can always resign, but that's the nuclear option.
If he chose to come to work in blackface, would I have to answer the question of whether he's black or white, and whether it is appropriate to consider biological factors correlated with that question?
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
Because if they vote against it, they co-own the war, nullifying the gains from Trump's unpopular decision to start it. The Reps probably would vote against it either way.
That's assuming Trump won't just do it via an EO, and dare anyone to push back.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
If that's what it takes to stop this madness, then yes, this was a great victory, woo hoo, go you. Just please don't start any more of these deranged wars.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
Depends on the reasons for it. Sometimes a mother can't produce milk, so if it's either wet nursing or the baby starves, it seems fine. If it's because of some aristocratic lady's notions that breastfeeding is beneath her, someone should slap her around and tell her that maybe motherhood is beneath her (though the issue with that is she'd have your hands chopped off for it).
or at least it seems aesthetically displeasing on the same grounds as surrogacy.
Yeah, sounds about right, though it feels less severe to me, as it doesn't involve literally selling a child. From the child's perspective, it's pretty messed up, though.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
Two movies, one screen
Indeed. They were hyping up the rebellion leading up to the war. If it didn't happen after all these decapitation strikes, it's not going to happen now. It's hard to imagine the regime not gaining legitimacy from all this.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
One possible negative consequence of the Iran war that I haven't seen talked about much is that it might encourage both the American establishment and the American public to think too lightly of war with China.
I think this is what happened with Venezuela and Iran, but I don't think the results of the Iran war are all that encouraging to take on someone even bigger.
ArjinFerman
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5d ago
Yeah, but how is that relevant to what we're discussing?
ArjinFerman
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5d ago
It doesn't make sense to me. If people were leaving cities for small towns and villages, that should cause the price in cities to drop, or at least stabilize. Ditto, if they were leaving some country for another, but everywhere seems to be affected.
Since the mother has signed up to be paid for surrogacy, I am not particularly inclined to view the child as being torn away from the mother's possession. Possibly, I am not open enough to the infant's perspective
Yeah, there's that, but also, it's rather naive to think that it's all fine because the mother signed on the dotted line, before a major transformative experience. And that's without looking into the gory details, like how a lot of them do it out of desperation, how the contracts penalize them for backing out, etc.
but divorce, mothers dying, infant adoption, etc., seem to me like they are common enough that this is not a huge problem
All of these things are massive tragedies, and we don't go out of our way to deliberately create them. Divorce, given it's scale, is a huge problem.
If surrogacy exists at all, it seems like it has to be an option for gay males.
Correct. Surrogacy should not exist at all, it is a moral horror. I don't understand how the thought that this is about gay men, enters into people's heads.
ArjinFerman
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5d ago
...or because they don't want to be regime changed.
Hard to say without being able to read someone's mind, and you might as well ask the same question about mass migration supporters.
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