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asdasdasdasd
6d ago
I would disagree. That reads as soulless undergrad/ai slop to me, there is no character or rhythm to the writing.
When you are at the top of your game you choose your words on account of the syllable sounds and count and plosive arrangements in addition to their semantic content, as it were. The writing ai produces is good in one sense, but completely artless.
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7d ago
I got 5/5 on the quizz you linked. For the quizz specifically, The human writing was chosen poorly IMO. It was too obviously good to compare against AI slop; especially the poem.
I'm much, much more anti-ai from a functionalist pov than most; and I think it might be because my standards are higher.
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7d ago
As an eco-whatever-ist first and foremost; my main take as soon as I heard was "Wow, Trump just beat Putin in the fighting climate change power rankings. He totally crushes 12 years of studies and no action Obama and Green new Deal: Drill Baby Drill biden in the charts".
Dude is the first president in any country since yeltsin to take degrowth serioursly.
asdasdasdasd
7d ago
That shit was so cinematic I am in the pre-I Want To Believe phase, I am ready to alienate all my friends and family by making this one conspiracy my whole identity.
I joke of course, but there is for sure a market position waiting for whoever initiates the zapruder film industrial complex about this one.
asdasdasdasd
7d ago
Hey, it's me!
It's Char Aznable "I come here to laugh at you" tier shit for me; I need to come to a site where I think everyone is wrong/degenerate and engage honestly once or twice a week to get my mind right; too many people agreeing with you is bad for the soul, which is unfortunate for everyone who does feel comfortable here. There used to be a couple high profile dudes taking all comers, now it's just people doing mid effort drive bys at most.
I think it's a shame what happened after the end of the reddit incarnation; the standard ideological boiling has even driven off most of the traditional anti-semites. It's like seeing the last mammoth sinking into a tar pit.
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7d ago
I mean, I knew for previous protests; I just figured it was a numbers game. I'm more likely to get mulched during a march by some chudmobile 5 foot lifted dodge ram doing 60 in a 45 zone as the dude driving throws his third empty buzzball out the window than get got by the feds, so the math works out in favor of the protestors when the government is even a bit accountable to the populace/not completely psychotic.
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12d ago
I think of them as a big blob with that 1800's political cartoon of the fat rich guy, to be honest.
I don't really care about the raw numbers, and in the context of this complaint not even the percentage very much. It's the immunity from consequence that gets me.
I lived in an aggressively poor country during my early life; the richest guy around was much richer relative to everyone else than anybody but elon theses days, but he was still tied in to the society. He experienced the friction of living in a place, with certain values and expectations, and he reaped the rewards by displaying noblesse oblige to us peasants, but he also risked the punishment of social approbation all the way down to a group of dudes showing up outside if his compound with the knowledge that they were the final arbiter of proper behavior.
A business I make use of in my business was acquired by private capital, saddled with a load of debt, gutted, had it's property sold out from under it and then leased back, and finally went out of business this year.
In a well functioning society, the people that do that shit would not be rewarded with power and money. They would be poor, possibly in prison, maybe tarred and feathered and run out of town, perchance fucking dead.
That's what I mean about consequences I guess; in china it's at least theoretically possible that if you damage production or distribution in a way that pisses lots of people off and materialy damages the economy but isn't illegal, the big hand of the state might come down out of the sky and slap your wrist, instead of what happens in the US which is a big shrug and a 'well, we only have absolute power over life and death and a popular mandate and all three branches of government, there's nothing we can do'
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16d ago
I've been having some thoughts recently about the billionaires among us, some opinions, some takes even. My politics on this has evolved over time; at one point they were admirable titans of industry, then they were capitalist parasitic ticks, then they were a necessary part of the incentive structure that drives to economy, and now they are a bloated level of inefficiency preventing the market from functioning efficiently.
But over all this time, I've kinda synthesized a superstructure that I don't think is gonna change, that I think is not on the left right axis, but on another mysterious plane: I'm jealous of china. I think we're gonna have to steven universe meme one of these guys. I don't even really care who, and I don't care who does it. It could be Il Duce Trump, it could be General Secretary Mamdani, it could be some boring centrist whose name we don't know.
Anyone who imposes consequences on or limits the behaviors of the managing class would win my instant approval. This could just be because of my space autism getting triggered unimaginably by space-x getting fucking shackled to a corpse right before IPO/ Artemis being a big fucking waste of time and money* / Boeing doing boeing stuff, it could be the long 2008 hangover, it could be a thousand things.
I guess I'm just kinda over us deciding that once you reach a certain net worth, you are some sort of luminous being. You can go to pedo island and it's fine, you can do drugs that normies go to prison for an it's fine, you can fuck up critical national infrastructure and it's fine, you have infinite money when it's time to do what you want but somehow you have no money (or negative money!) when it's time to contribute to the public good.
I recall Luigi, and I recall the polling: people old enough to have been adults when a the post FDR wealth redistribution program was still around were very unfavorable; people who came into consciousness as the program was being fully unwound in the late 80s and 90s were split 50/50, and people who never experienced that social milieu were yelling "BASED BASED BASED!"
I really think that unless the uniparty plays it's cards right, the next realignment is not gonna be pretty for anyone. We need another FDR type to head that shit off like it's vanguardist communism in the 1930s, and at this point I don't think I care if they are left or right, they just need to be for the bottom and middle and even most of the top, and against the peak.
*Yes I know about pork. Pork can at least do something! highways can get build, parks are nice, and if we need to build bombs somewhere to it might as well be in bumfuck nowhere to give the nowhereians something to do other than meth.
asdasdasdasd
16d ago
Re. Iron dome:
It is not a technology that could intercept any serious missile; it is designed to shoot down cheap drones and back yard specials with cheap(ish) interceptors.
The current state of the art for intercepting an ICBM from any of the major missile powers is: Every target that is assigned a nuke gets at least one.
asdasdasdasd
17d ago
We need central planning because it works better for things that might never make money. Our current technological edge is a direct result of mixed market state capitalism that started under FDR and continued throughout the cold war until it seemed like we had that bitch in the bad and Regan et all started rolling it up.
To pick an important example out of a hat: The Mcdonnell douglas corporation has done more damage to US security apparatus than any enemy we have ever had, other than perhaps the IJN (and of course the US security apparatus itself).
We need at least a bit of central planning so we don't end up in our current situation, where we can't cost effectively build ships and one of our major aerospace suppliers eats shit because the capitalists started turning dials while looking over their shoulder to see if the stock price likes it.
That was the only good thing about the Biden presidency: he started doing some big state capacity projects in chip production and making gestures at disincentivizing pure financialized bullshit, before he got revealed his cuck nature as it were.
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18d ago
Tragedy is when I stub my toe, comedy is when you fall through an open manhole and die, situation?
He's their problem, Trump is ours kinda thing probably, combined with Iraq/Afghanistan forever war flashbacks, maybe.
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18d ago
No, on account of the nature of such things.
We have the biggest, heaviest, fastest, longest hammer in the world, which is very good at hammering things that can be hammered.
It doesn't help us if we need to fight an insurgent war, or a nuclear war (small is big enough, in this case), or a trade war.
In that regard it's just us and china with the eurozone in third; and probably it's actually just china 30 years out unless we do some serious communist/state capitalist central planning fucking QUICK.
Doesn't matter how good our army is if there is no civil society to hold that bitch up.
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19d ago
Being anti regulation, pro corporate power over labor, pro lower taxes, anti lowering spending does though, is the thing.
Eg, DEMs have Lina Khan, REPs have one of those bobbing bird toys with a rubber stamp that says "Go Nuts" on it.
It doesn't matter how woke you are if on one side the government says "You can't fucking do that, also say these woke shiboleths" and on the other the government says "Say these chud shiboleths and in exchange do whatever the fuck you want"
asdasdasdasd
19d ago
That is correct!
The democrats are left social corporatists slowly unrolling state capacity to manage, the republicans used to be right social corporatists slowly unrolling state capacity to manage, and are now right social corporatists quickly unrolling state capacity to manage.
It's why even though democratic policy goals are massively popular, the democratic party is completely despised: they say some FDR shit and then follow the regan program.
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19d ago
Tech LABOR is woke, tech OWNERSHIP is chud.
The people who use their big brains to do stuff are disproportionately woke across the population; the people that use their big bank accounts to run shit are disproportionately chud across the population.
You are observing the interpersonal relations of the prole class, not the economic motivations of the owning class.
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19d ago
The traditional rule is you had until the siege engines were complete (which was enormously expensive and time consuming) to surrender with terms and avoid a sack (The army is allowed to do whatever they want, up to and including killing literally every person in the city they didn't enslave then burning it down on the way out.)
This was to encourage people to not force you to spend the money on the siege, you were incentivized to not break terms on a surrender because then nobody would trust you enough to surrender and many sieges ended with the besieging army half starved/half dead from various illneses.
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19d ago
I don't think it's really that risky, given that tech has been against them no matter how hard the D's bounce on it; and people are really starting to HATE hate tech companies.
Despite the feelings about it people have, business in general and tech specifically is pro republican as a rule.
They have DEI programs and pride socks and what have you because +-70% of anyone who is worth anything as an employee has libertarian views on social issues; as someone in such a field one autistic trans hypergeniuse who can't make a phone call but can recite every instruction ever processed by a RISC chip is worth any amount of chud bonafides, and most of the human capital pilled conservatives either grit their teeth or don't actually give enough of a shit to not work at eg lockheed. The people that have explicitly anti-libertarian views and mean it are disproportionately dysgenic low IQ types who are worth pissing off to secure talent.
So, you have your pride socks and DEI program and stump for Republicans because despite all the bloviating and selffelation, RFK is never actually going to cut into Nestle's bottom line and they (R's) will crush unions, allow you to employ illegal labor, de-regulate, lower taxes, and also increase government spending on contractors and lower interest rates and fuck a debt ceiling if the numbers don't look good.
They know which side the bread is buttered by, if you will.
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20d ago
Yup. A way to downsize aggressively ahead of the possible next recession/ possible attempted realignment away from the USD before it hits, in a way that increases hype valuation.
Maybe AI happens and they fire everyone, maybe it doesn't and they are better positioned to ride out the next catastrophe, maybe everything stays the same and they take a 3% haircut rehiring everyone. Win/Win/Eh its fine form their postion.
"Oh? What's that? You Work For Wages Producing Goods Or Providing Services, And You Need Money To Live? Have you considered either owning assets or fucking dying instead, you broke ass bitch?"
asdasdasdasd
21d ago
It's a problem.
On account of the aforementioned autism, I had similar issues where it was like "I don't like this but upon the first splitting of the check we entered into a sacred contract to just shovel a mile of shit every day" and I had to train myself into "No actually, the sacred contract comes later, dip out now before it's too late!"
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22d ago
My religious and cultural background, mainly.
Nobody in my neck of the woods got divorced for anything less than domestic violence, and only after the traditional intervention had been tried: a fairly strong beating by the victims relatives. Not gender segregated either, an aunt of mine showed up to the woman in questions house with a padlock attached to a bike chain and threatened to change her whole life right now if she felt like it.
The thought was, if you wanted a divorce you shouldn't have gotten married in the first place, dumbass. Be a real adult and just have business partnership while sleeping in separate beds.
asdasdasdasd
22d ago
Doesn't help that of you make a diagram of the carve outs vs the actual events the average evangelical person makes for divorce, cheating, etc etc;
what you end up with is a circle. All divorce is wrong and bad, except for my divorce which was justified. And his divorce, he was in a different place in life than she was! And her divorce, she fell out of love with him!
It's like, Bitch! It said till death do us part, not till mild inconvenience do we cling together! There are +/- 30% divorces in my church, much higher than in my hobby wargame group of mainly autistic mainly communists. Probably the autism doing the heavy lifting there, though.
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22d ago
I don't see that in the music. Most of it is a retreat into a false past, or brainless bravado about drinkin' and fukin'.
Eg, The most recommended conservative anthems from the past X years recommended by the AI slop bot and the people were all whiny country songs, Try that in a small town, Rich Men, Am I the only one. Boring songs that are designed to slot right into your brain without lighting up anything but your dopamine receptors.
The Liberal songs were This Is America, Born This Way, and Alright; all of which are Certified Bangers, two of which are triumphant "I will stand in the hurricane and spit into neptunes face because he is a bitch" energy songs, the first of which is less triumphant but doesn't read as self pitying at all; shit is spooky.
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24d ago
The recent Superbowl halftime kerfuffle exposed me to some of the culture I usually don't pay much attention to; that being Country, reggaeton ,hiphop, and popular music in general. I don't really pay much attention to that side of the culture war, I'm too busy being an elitist piece of shit about music.
I saw the halftime show of course; the music was kinda boring and derivative IMO but you could dance to it, I've heard worse. The show itself was spectacular, a celebration of people doing people shit, dancing and working and getting married and having kids and living in the house you grew up in, all that good good shit I like.
Due to my circle, I also watched the TPUSA half time show. I'll discount the production because they didn't have infinity million dollars to do it and just consider the theming: Half hearted nostalgia for a past with no character and no value (infinite jihad on kid rock), shitty white versions of black music with no soul and no heart, country music whining about how hard it is, it's so sad you guys.
Upon survey of the major hits of the two most popular opposing genres (Hiphop and country, not to say there aren't communist folk singers or MAGA rappers), this kinda repeats: there are the brainless two chord songs about how much the lead singer is fukin and how good he is at it but also he is sad and relatable because he just wants to find love, maaaaaaaan (eg. 20 cigarettes); we will set those aside for the more political - aspirational - gesturing at a revolutionish songs.
I got some recs. from people who partake and I had AI slop me out a list of such songs for the right and the left over the past couple years, and the trend seems to hold: The right-pol songs are reactive, kinda dour, "I don't like how things are going, it's hard, we need to defend XYZ, try that in a small town", etc.
The left-pol songs are also "shits fucked up, but black this time" but the prominent themes are "Those rat bastards are going to get what they deserve, We are the inevitable victors of history and every setback is temporary, We're gonna be alright".
I wonder where the Bush era triumphal conservative art movement has gotten off to, Am I Berenstein Bears-ing myself into believing that there was a big swell of positive conservative leaning pop art in the post 9/11 pre-2008 crash days?
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25d ago
From my perspective, any man that divorces his wife of simillar age to fuck a just about teenager is morally a piece of shit for deontological reasons.
Secondly: If the only thing you care about is youth and beauty, you are a shallow piece of shit.
Thirdly: Some part of the reason women don't want to have kids or get married is cultural memory of men saying they are down for a life long commitment to this family, then dipping as soon as their dicks could get wet easier elsewhere. We don't want the same group of people berating them thusly: "Settle down! Have kids! Sacrifice your freedom for family and the state! If your partner fucks off for some young pussy, don't get in your feels about it!"
You misinterpret what the democrat politicians are about. Openly centrist Dems + moderate dems (about 65% of the party) would happily endorse 80% of MAGA's policy goals, including deportation and certain tarifs, if they were carried out competently with a less jackbooted aesthetic.
Remember: if they had to choose between Bernie and Trump, the congress criters would rather have Trump.
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