dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
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dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
6mo ago
You may find from time to time a simple majority that says we should stop illegal immigration but you won't find a majority that believes that means we should pull people out of homes they've made in the US to deport them.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
6mo ago
Congress and the President are as "we" as it gets when it comes to law. Unless you want to bring guns into a discussion about SCOTUS rulings.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
6mo ago
I'm not defending it as an inalienable right.
We did seem to feel a little differently about it decades ago, though, when we had labor shortages, low public entitlements, and loved rubbing it in the faces of communists that people were desperate to leave their nations for ours.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
6mo ago
Amnesty was an act of Congress signed by the President. The country was also a bit different then. We wanted the labor and felt compassion for people fleeing communist hell holes.
I'm not really arguing against ending birthright citizenship going forward given how much different the circumstances are now.
This is the "birthright citizenship" case: does the Court agree with the Trump administration that some people born on U.S. soil are nevertheless not American citizens? IDK! Because the Court doesn't answer that question.
I'm honestly a bit frightened by this one. I don't find most of Trump's stuff all that worrisome but this seems potentially pretty society altering.
My parents were illegal immigrants. They had me here in the late 70s so I had citizenship by birth. My parents have since received amnesty and even applied for citizenship and received it as well. But I think if the EO holds I don't see why they could not apply this retroactively. If it makes sense to do it for the future it makes sense to do it for the past too.
My parents would have more standing to stay in the US than I would.
Would be kind of funny to have to pack up and start a new life in the old country though in middle age.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
6mo ago
Just saying, "this person is too crazy to have a gun" overlaps with "the police are unfairly ignoring threats to this person's life"
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
6mo ago
Ok in my story above after the second time she bought a gun in less than a day and pulled it out on him the third time and there hasn't been an incident since.
Here in America we have FREEDOM (in some states)
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
6mo ago
What if you're a single woman living alone going to college and some guy keeps breaking into your house while you're asleep and he keeps trying to throw acid on your face? And you report it to the police and they think you're crazy and don't investigate?
Can you have a gun in less than 3 months in that case?
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
6mo ago
I'm getting pretty okay results for a noob.
I bought one of these cleaning goo/gel ball things and it's been great for pulling cruft out of crevices.
Today I wondered why I don't try Windex with some microfiber cloths for the windows (inside and outside) and that went reasonably well. It streaks a bit but I think I can figure it out.
I have vacuum attachments in the mail that should help me clean the last 1% of little bits of schmutz from the interior I couldn't get out otherwise.
I haven't tried doing the wheels or wheel wells yet but I'm close.
I think I enjoy it. Might freak out the next time the kids track sand or leaves in the car. But maybe not because I'll have the kit standing by at home to clean it out in 15 seconds? We'll see!
What is a pizza delivery certified parking lot mechanic?
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
6mo ago
I made the mistake of getting my car detailed once and I had no idea it could ever look so clean again so now I feel like a piece of shit if my cars don't always look sparkling factory new.
Been going down a rabbit hole of building a kit to do it myself which is fairly inexpensive and I'm getting decent results but I'm wondering if I'm becoming puritan housewife crazy and I should instead get a mobile detailer on a subscription basis or something.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
6mo ago
Supermarkets are on thin margins and yet you have manyfold increase in the price from farm to table.
They have thin margins but they make it up by turning over inventory quickly. This doesn't mean supermarkets aren't profitable, just that taking radical steps to lower prices won't really work because they don't have much room to cut.
People are mad that prices went up 40%
Cutting the supermarket's 4% margin to 3.7% (or whatever) isn't going to matter.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
6mo ago
Presumably also women don't become autistic when they go through menopause?
Homies Ride or Die update
Been consumed by that rendering bug where the lighting seemed all wrong on the tires and I began to suspect my model data was fucked up.
I was using this ancient format for loading 3d models (".obj") that I downloaded from sketchfab.com but it turns out when it says this format is the native format uploaded by the artist and the other formats are derivative, it's kind of lying. A few 3d people have told me you want to get the ones in .glb or .gltf format, even if sketchfab says these were auto-converted . (I do not know how to make sense of what sketchfab says)
Anyway I thought maybe the .glb models would have more reliable model data and they do seem to. So then I got the .glb model loading mostly working (using tinygltf) but I was getting this random error where the car would render fine for the first frame and then vanish. I spent about 4 days trying to debug the bgfx state machine until I realized I was creating vertex and index buffers in the GPU and sticking handles to them in a class, and then I created a destructor for each class that would free those handles up. Fine, except I was not realizing I was copying the class around and the old class, a transient object, was getting destroyed which was deleting the memory held by the handles.
Since the handles are like, integers into a GPU resource table and not pointers, I wasn't getting any kind of pointer derefence error. It was just accidentally working for one frame and then failing to work after that.
I had to spend a long, long time staring at this stuff and remembering C++ copy/move semantics before I was able to track this down. Lesson (re)learned: don't put things like file/resource handles in object destructors unless you're extremely careful.
Finally making progress again. I'm getting a lot more texture data and the tires look a lot more realistic now, matching what's on sketchfab. Maybe I'll get spinning tires and stuff working again by next update!
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
6mo ago
You know. The deep state. Them. The powers that be.
More seriously, if Trump convenes the extremely serious military people and they present him a limited menu of military actions he can do that is basically the same set of plans they've had for 20 years, that's the MIC at work. The names and faces can change but the dusty binder from the drawer stays the same.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
6mo ago
In doing so, their retaliation against Gaza will knowingly provoke a retaliation from Iranian-backed militias against Israel.
Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed militia, began attacking Israel on 10/8 though, before Israel did anything.
Nasrallah characterized it as follows:
“Some say I’m going to announce that we have entered the battle,” Nasrallah said Friday. “We already entered the battle on Oct. 8.” He argued that Hezbollah’s cross-border strikes have pulled away Israeli forces that would otherwise be focused on Hamas in Gaza.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
6mo ago
My problem with Iran is that I do not have a good model of just how nutty they are, really. I would model their close ally Hamas as being willing to sacrifice every soul in Gaza to kill a few 10k or 100k Jews. Presumably they are less crazy than that.
What do you think of the use of child soldiers and also child martyrs?
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
6mo ago
It is important when discussing Israel vs Palestine with someone to figure out if they're an underdog fetishist.
https://www.themotte.org/post/737/israelgaza-megathread-3/155650?context=8#context
Actually, not just Israel/Palestine. It matters for a lot of issues around crime and geopolitics.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
6mo ago
Counterpoint: two really huge bombs on Japan made them surrender unconditionally
I am not convinced that US/Israel can even indefinitely prevent Iran from acquiring the bomb through targeted bombardment only.
The best thing about this question is there's no need to speculate, we seem on track to run the experiment and find out. !remindme 48 months
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
6mo ago
I'm hoping what appears to me to be fairly intense pressure to avoid an actual invasion keeps American boots of Iranian soil. As with zorching an Iranian general in Iraq during Trump's first term, this seems like a fairly reasonable gamble, but if we get another forever war out of this, that would be unmitigated disaster.
I'm guessing Trump only did this because the MIC assured him we could keep Iran under our figurative boot simply by pushing buttons from afar, doing strikes from the air and continuing to sell weapons to Israel.
That could obviously be false but it's quite pathetic for Iran that Israel and the US can attack them from the air with impunity. Their threat to blockade the Strait of Hormuz was dubious already, and after the events of the last week it seems laughable.
There's simply no reason to do a ground invasion.
Will we get regime change this way? Yeah I dunno. Can we keep wrecking their shit and reduce their threat level to near zero? I would bet on that sure.
Think campaign to collapse Syria and not war to oust Saddam Hussein.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
6mo ago
I suppose we'll see how long until they exhaust their missile supply on Israel. Two more weeks of this, or will they be in for it for years?
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
6mo ago
Except "winning" the war with Iran in this case means simply preventing them from projecting force into the rest of the Middle East. If Iran can't stop Israel from blowing up their military assets or nuclear developments or their leaders they aren't much of a threat anymore.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
6mo ago
Didn't North Korea have a stupidly large battery of artillery lined up ready to shell Seoul as deterrent?
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
6mo ago
It's not hard to imagine a world in which Israel's air campaign culminates eventually as they run low on munitions and a deal of some flavor is worked out.
I do not know why we wouldn't continue funding Israel to keep doing decapitation strikes on Iran leadership and maintain air superiority. This is incredible edge at incredible ROI.
Requires no ground invasion and civilian deaths are minimized. I would contribute to this GoFundMe.
Eventually, either Iran ruling committee #133 decides to surrender or the central government looks like a pathetic clown show and the nation disintegrates.
I wonder what kind of pitch deck the Kurds are circulating right now.
IMO it sounds like you only like law when it supports your POV.
EDIT: I also find the nExT admiNiStrAtIoN / white genocide argument a bit funny because it was Reagan that granted my extended family amnesty and they're all white and hardcore Trump voters.
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