cjet79
Anarcho Capitalist on moral grounds
Libertarian Minarchist on economic grounds
User ID: 124
cjet79
5hr ago
Yeah I've been mostly not commenting on this topic and just reading. Frustration kind of boiled over reading back to back takes that basically had polar opposite interpretations of reality. Usually TheMotte acts as somewhat of a filter.
cjet79
10hr ago
This is one of the times I realize the limitations of TheMotte.
I read people talking back and forth about whether this war is a huge success or huge failure and it's just hard for me to piece together what's going on.
I have no idea on where to even start finding a "neutral"-ish observer for this conflict. And even if I could find that observer, I don't know how good their information feed is, so maybe they are getting a super biased set of "facts".
I guess this is what happens when Overton is out the window.
(Also please correct spelling of Hegseth, I don't know why it bothers me so much. It's one of those names I pronounce out loud when I read it, and 'Hesgeth' sounds terrible in my head)
cjet79
14hr ago
Running while no one is online would have been the main thing I was worried about. That auto-pause sounds awesome.
cjet79
19hr ago
I thought maybe you built part of our train system. Maybe that was a different german that loves trains a lot. I know xablor was better with trains than I was.
cjet79
19hr ago
That does sound fun, does this cost you? And would you also be interested in playing along with us?
cjet79
21hr ago
A Return To Factorio
I am interested in doing another factorio run. In October 2024 the factorio space expansion was released and in the months that followed a couple members from TheMotte joined in to work together at completing the game. We were successful in reaching the endgame, building a ship that could survive the rigors travel and ultimately making it to the outer solar system location. @xablor and @Southkraut were the main co-op players during the campaign. Some other jumped in briefly (or relatively briefly since that time might have still been a dozen hours).
It was mostly a vanilla run with limited mods added. Until we reached endgame and got interested in just adding a bunch of mods, but by then I was a bit burned out and done with things.
I would like to do a run this time with mods. Specifically Krastorio 2 Space Out, and all of the recommended planets and additional mods suggested in the readme for that Mod.
Why a modded Krastorio playthrough?
The main reason is that I am more certain of completing it. I've done a full Krastorio 2 playthrough on factorio prior to the spaced out launch and it is one of only two overhaul mods I've completed. The other one was the space exploration mod (which got converted into the expansion).
Additional reason is that I think it adds more features to the game while mostly leaving the challenge level intact. With other mod overhauls I've found that I quickly get annoyed if it is more difficult than the base factorio game with little added feature content. I don't want artificially more complex recipes that have the same results. If I wanted to gate factorio's features behind more difficulty I'd just up the science costs in the game. Ultimately I like the base game factorio difficulty, and I don't want to add to it.
I also don't want to do another vanilla run through. Even though it has been a year and a half since I completed a vanilla run through, I suspect I'll get bored with all of the same challenges. Unless those challenges are on the path to unlocking new things.
I am open to discussion of other mods being added. With the caveat that if it increases the base difficulty of the game I'll need more convincing.
What/who I'm looking for
People interested in collaborative factorio gameplay. Playing together at the same time would be nice, but is not necessary, we can set up a document exchange and pass the file back and forth if play times don't align.
I'm not planning to start the playthrough immediately. I'll probably post in the next friday fun thread as well to gauge interest. I think it would be neat to have enough players to run this as a 24 hour thing. Five players at a time would be fun and a new experience.
I might also be recruiting from another gaming community I am a part of, a Starship Troopers Extermination light mil sim company.
cjet79
2d ago
Just give me something affordable, reliable and industrial; and that can be maintained. That’s all I need.
I think you are looking for a "fleet vehicle". Its what companies buy in bulk to serve their business needs. They usually have a minimum of creature comforts (suck it up employees, you are on the clock). They are usually built to be properly maintained, but also survive long periods of "severe" use. Think taxi cabs, cop cars, rental cars, plumber/electrician vans, etc.
I have no idea how you actually buy one of these vehicles, but I strongly assume it is possible.
Downside for you is that these vehicles are probably still built up to spec for safety regulations. And certain computer based driving features are increasingly being considered safely enhancements. Like rear view cameras, auto brakes, etc.
cjet79
2d ago
More poetically, I consider myself the wave, and not the water. The dance, not the dancer. If someone pisses in the pool, it won't bother me very much if at all. The performance can switch out extras on the fly without issue, as long as the production and choreography remains the same.
Sounds like you understood perfectly!
Others consider themselves the water and not the wave, the dancer and not the dance (this one should immediately highlight that your particular view is out of the norm on this subject. I have met dancers before I've never met a dance.)
This is why "Is it Cake" is such a great example. We don't know what is truly cake and what is not until the host tries to cut into it. Once the inside cake filling is visible we can know it is cake as the viewer, even though we cannot taste it. You probably find the show insufferable, since you are content to view the outside shape of a thing and accept that it is cake. For all you care Mikey Day himself could be cake!
cjet79
2d ago
Is someone the shape or the filling? The intangible and ineffable insides that might fill many shapes. Or the the thing that is outside and visible to the world. Sounds like maybe you'd say the shape, the story suggests the filling.
I'm not sure I have an opinion either way. Christian theology has souls - filling and vessels - the shape. They clearly emphasize the filling. Popular shows in the west also emphasize the importance of the filling, like "Is it Cake". I wonder if Eastern philosophy places more emphasis on the shape, and your exposure to it has lead you to be less horrified by replacing the filling. Kharma seems to be a shape based philosophy.
cjet79
3d ago
Home made French toast was always fun. Probably pretty similar to the bread pudding. Its also very easy.
Fudge can be easy to make or really difficult depending on the ingredients you use. It is super calorie dense. Dedicated stores with fudge will usually make all kinds of weird and fun flavors. Maybe find one he enjoys and then try to replicate it at home?
If he wants more savory stuff I've always been partial to stews and chillis. Add cheese and creams for more calories.
cjet79
3d ago
I feel like law and medicine do have some of those stereotypes but they are usually only within subfields. Like surgeons are supposedly the jocks of the medical profession. The show Scrubs describes some of the stereotypes.
Lawyers also have their stereotypes with corporate lawyers being the boring ones. Rich defense lawyers being morally bankrupt. Prosecutors being aggressive career climbers. Etc.
I think the main unfairness to tech and finance is that a small subset of them that deserve the label is being use to describe the whole industry. Silicon valley was great for splitting up and labelling the various tech archetypes.
cjet79
10d ago
My old company would do holiday parties in DC. We've been to a few different locations.
They have done it at the peace institute, the natural history museum (my personal favorite), the building museum, the art and technology institute (not sure if that is the right name, this was my least favorite venue), and the African American history museum.
It did feel like a lot of the places were ridiculously prestigious for a run of the mill SaaS tech company. But yeah basically all the venues have some level of prestige. I agree with your assessment that a white house ballroom will be a step ahead of all those other DC venues.
cjet79
12d ago
You have bested me, but just barely. Next online quiz I will be seeking you out.
cjet79
12d ago
What was it? purple haired British nationalist Emilia?
Was video game character at first, now just real versions with actual women.
I'd beware personally. She might have head trauma that makes her way less risk averse. Like a miley Cyrus or Roseanne
cjet79
12d ago
Saw it Monday and also enjoyed it. Read th book beforehand, and had a positive opinion of it as well.
cjet79
13d ago
Top followers exists, at least for mods. I can't tell if other people have access to the users page.
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cjet79
14d ago
I am perhaps the only one that seems to think that children should have access to the Internet. Just like they should have some measure of access to the real world.
Yes they can both be dangerous and harmful. Navigating those harms is a requirement for all adults, and only learning how to navigate them when you turn 18 seems like a recipe for disaster.
The combined "children shouldn't be allowed outside or on the Internet" seems the most draconian. Why not just drop them off in a prison until they turn 18?
cjet79
15d ago
I might be wrong, maybe the Israeli part is incorrect. He did say this in the last chapter note:
As some of you already know, I'm ending Sublight Drive here because my country mandates two years of military service. Since I will be enlisting, I will have no more time to deal with all this, and thus I've decided to wrap it up while I still can.
Had Gemini tell me the countries with mandatory two years of service and high English skills.
Singapore has a two year requirement.
Israel has a three year requirement for men and two years for women.
South Korea and Thailand are also possibilities.
So maybe I'm wrong and they are not from Israel.
cjet79
16d ago
I do feel like theaters have been chasing a gimmick that will bring back moviegoers but ultimately it's good movies that would bring people out.
The theater I saw Hail Mary in had special vibrating and slightly rotating seats as their latest gimmick. I hadn't been to a theater in a while so I thought sure I'd try this out. It had two bad moments: one where I felt like some little kid was just kicking my seat and another when it pre jumped a jump scare. Some weird moments where I thought during a lull and sappy moment it was moving like a rocking chair. And mostly slightly positive moments where it was adding to the soundscape of the movie through vibration without having to blow out my eardrums.
It was a good movie with good cinematic moments. But if I had the option of watching it in my basement with my ~70 inch screen, with no worries about volume, with the same friend, and on my nice comfortable couch ... I'd choose at home.
The movie theater won out in this instance because I didn't want to wait, and inviting my friend over to watch a movie on my couch at noon is weird compared to inviting him to watch it at a movie theater with me.
cjet79
16d ago
Watched Hail Mary in theaters. I read the book beforehand and saw it with a friend that had not read the book.
We both enjoyed it, really good movie.
Movie was more cinematic, less science heavy than the book, which was probably a very good choice. Still had the same heartfelt moments.
cjet79
16d ago
That is a good recommendation, especially if you are looking for a Hobbesian view.
I do read a lot of stuff on royal road, but I'm racking my brain to come up with things. I mostly don't feel like I encounter any of the ultra leftist stuff either, but I'm more aware that it exists. I just tend to avoid the works with certain tags like 'gender bender'
For a while on Reddit anytime any of the works of inadvisablycompelled were recommended, people would show up and complain about his "abhorrent" anti immigration views (aka middle of the road around here). However, It was hard for me to notice anything explicitly right leaning about any of the works. Paranoid mage maybe fits. The dungeon core story doesn't.
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/72498/sublight-drive-star-wars is written by an Israeli that was about to join the Israeli military. Star wars clone wars fan fiction, with self insert MC on the losing side. Again, I couldn't pick up much explicitly right leaning.
Off Royal road, Michael Chatfield is ex military maybe ex marine. He has some series out. Again, no explicit right leaning.
Off Royal road and out of copyright is John Carter of Mars. Was probably leftist at the time it was written a century ago, but now comes off as heavy trad rightist.
cjet79
16d ago
It's not like there's some fixed percentage of women whose class is who are destined to sell porn no matter what
Sadly there is a correlation with women that were sexually abused as children and teens and those engaging in sex work.
That category of women is luckily not a "fixed" percentage. But I do feel that maybe it changes the calculus a bit.
I suppose that is fair. It's hard for anywhere to filter out the crap when it's entirely crap.
The early 2010's kind of feel like it was a peak of information availability/quality. And things seem to have deteriorated back to everyone being in the dark about world happenings.
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