erwgv3g34
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Except that (generic) you are not keeping your hens in a henhouse; you are sending them out into the forest without a care in the world, then getting upset because most of them end up eaten by foxes. You are trying to make the forest safe for the hens by executing the foxes one at a time, and that is simply not going to work.
First, you have to keep your hens in a henhouse. And in order to do that, you need a priest who tells you that it is good and proper for a man to lock up his hens, a sheriff who recognizes your legal right to do so as the rightful owner of the hens, and friends and family who will look at you like you are an absolute idiot if let your hens roam free. Only then will there be any point to killing the occasional fox that happens to get in.
Needless to say, our priests, our cops, and our communities do the exact opposite.
Agreed on college. Academia delenda est. Man will not be free until the last professor is strangled with the entrails of the last journalist.
erwgv3g34
4mo ago
I am actually willing to consider straight up execution for such men, IF ONLY for the deterrent effect.
Doesn't work. For every Lothario you execute, there will always be another one eager to take his place. Having sex with a bunch of nubile virgins is the ultimate reward. All you are doing is selecting for more impulsive, risk-taking cads. Or, as the Dreaded Jim put it:
Hating this guy is stupid. One pin can pop a hundred balloons. You have to control the virgins, not the poppers of virgins. Getting mad at the men will do no good. The women have to be restrained. Talking about how bad these men are is a distraction and irrelevance.
We have to implement virgin marriage, in that most women will have never slept with any man except the bridegroom before marriage. This is going to require alarmingly drastic coercion starting at a very early age. When a girl goes looking for a dicking she will find what she looks for. That is why we have to apply coercion to the girls, not the males. One pin can pop a hundred balloons. Sperm is cheap, eggs are dear. You guard what is dear, not what is cheap. The double standard is what works. If you do not have a double standard, you will not have children and grandchildren, and the state will not have soldiers.
And, yes, this requires SUBSTANTIAL oversight, which our society is optimized to prevent (starting with the institution of college, which is virtually designed to take young women away from the watchful eyes of their friends and families).
Its a hell of a vehicle to create tense action scenes showcasing cool-looking scifi military materiel vs. equally cool-looking fantasy creatures.
Now I wonder what a movie adaptation of Leviathan would look like... Hey, wait a minute, there is an anime adaptation! I did not know this; I'll have to check it out.
/u/TrannyPornO has an article about getting cheap Ozempic from the gray market.
erwgv3g34
4mo ago
erwgv3g34
4mo ago
The mainstream. It's @covfefeAnon's catchphrase.
erwgv3g34
4mo ago
Which is exactly what happened during the Hundred Flowers Campaign.
erwgv3g34
4mo ago
(found a free link here, not sure how many times it can be shared before the paywall goes back up)
erwgv3g34
4mo ago
If you have never been oneshotted, you're not looking hard enough for infohazards.
erwgv3g34
4mo ago
From AntiDem's Ask.FM:
I fell in love with the first of these - let’s call her L - when I was 22 and she was 16 (spare me your comments). It started out online (yes, that was possible even in the mid-90s) and progressed to a real, in-person, face-to-face relationship through means of all the impossible romantic daring that was at my disposal back then. When I went to Japan for my year living there, I engineered a way to bring her along with me. For that one year, we lived a peaceful, idyllic life in a small village in the mountains, in a tiny (but it was all we needed) place with a rice field stretching up to our wall one way and a corn field the other. I’d never lived in the country before (and haven’t since), but the pace of life grew on me. We had no internet service (the only year in the last two decades I’ve lived without it). We’d get woken up in the morning by the neighbor’s rooster. In the evenings, she’d make dinner, then we’d sit on the couch and watch whatever anime was playing on TV that night, struggling to understand as much as we could. On weekends we’d go into Tokyo for the day, or visit friends, or just walk around the lake hand in hand. We only stayed a year, though we could have stayed longer. I had other plans, none of which seem real important now. That was emblematic of what went wrong. I was young and smart (though nowhere near as smart as I thought I was) and overbearing and bossy and most of all arrogant - so terribly arrogant. I wanted to do the right thing; I wanted to treat her the way that I now know I should have. But my own parents had divorced, and my family had shattered… I had no guide to doing it right, so I did it all wrong. Not that that’s any excuse. When we came back, we ended up in New England, a time I liked almost as much as Japan. I don’t think she liked it that much - she loved Japan, and had wanted to stay - though she put on a brave face for a while. Things started getting bad a little bit at a time. A lot of stuff had built up - a lot of it my fault, and a lot of it hers. Things came to a head in the spring, and just like that she was gone.
Somewhere there’s a parallel universe where there’s a version of me who made better decisions, and he’s married to L, still living in that tiny place in the mountains of Japan between a rice field and a corn field. I know this because I know that’s the way things should have gone. It’s just that in this universe, they didn’t.
And knowing, with the cold certainty that it was a terrible idea, that I'd regret it, I fired up ChatGPT. Google Photos had already surfaced a digital snapshot of us, frozen in time, smiling at a camera that didn’t capture the tremors beneath. I fed it the prompt: "Show us as a family. With children." (The specifics obfuscated to hopefully get past ChatGPT's filter, and also because I don't want to spread a bad idea. You can look that up if you really care)
I didn't even finish reading your post, I just rushed off and tried it after this paragraph. The first attempt was quite bad, but that was because I tried only feeding Chat GPT a single image of each, having overestimated its abilities. I tried it again with five images of each, selected for quality and variety like a LoRA, and got a much better result. I didn't even have to mess around with the prompt; a simple "Show these two together, as a family, with two children." did the trick.
It is quite striking. But I already cry about this every once in a while; an extra image doesn't really add anything different.
erwgv3g34
4mo ago
The Newbery Medal and the similar Carnegie Medal provide lists of children's books decades long which have been critically acclaimed for their quality. As long as your friend stays away from anything after 2010, the titles should be non-woke.
In particular, the early Newbery Medal winners and runner ups (called Newbery Honors) are entering the American public domain. Thirty-one of them are currently there, and another nine will join them on January 1st, 2026. So if your friend is willing to give his niece an e-ink reader, he can just download several of them for free from Project Gutenberg.
Alternatively, he could try a long running series such Animorphs, Goosebumps, or Encyclopedia Brown.
Reddit is a completely curated experience for the most part, and so it’s never going to be a vanguard for new ideas. It probably stopped being that in the early 2000 before the normies showed up.
What? Reddit was founded in 2005, and didn't ban its first subreddit until 2011 (r/jailbait, rest in power).
erwgv3g34
5mo ago
This only works until AI decides to turn the whole planet into computronium. Which will take, what, a couple of years, tops? The Sun is big, but superintelligences will not spare Earth a little sunlight; we need to shut it all down.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood : Closer to 8 than it is to 7
A show that frustrated me. Too tropey, too many characters being retarded. I find it hard to articulate my dissatisfaction in a satisfactory way.
FMAB represents everything that's simultaneously right and wrong with shounen storytelling. The worldbuilding is genuinely excellent: alchemy as magic system with consistent rules and costs, political intrigue that feels like actual statecraft, character motivations that make sense within their contexts.
But the show consistently undermines itself with genre conventions that feel obligatory rather than organic. The power of friendship speeches, the reluctance to actually kill major characters, the way complex moral situations get resolved through superior firepower, it all feels like the show is checking boxes rather than exploring the implications of its own premise.
You should really try the original Fullmetal Alchemist.
First of all, if you only watched Brotherhood, you completely missed the setup, because Brotherhood speeds through the early episodes on the assumption that you have watched the 2003 version. Second, it is a much darker, cerebral, and emotional story. It's not filled with fights and comedy and friendship speeches the way Brotherhood is. 2003 avoids the standard battle shonen cliches in favor of telling a more dramatic and philosophical tale using the exact same setting and characters.
It's like Fullmetal Alchemist for grownups.
My own recommendations:
Erased (AKA The Town Without Me) is one of the most beautiful stories I have ever had the privilege of experiencing. It's also only one cour long.
The Promised Neverland. The first season is incredible, and ends at a very natural stopping point, but definitely leaves room to continue the story. The second season is legendary for how bad it was, and most fans pretend that it doesn't exist. It works really well if you choose to treat it is as a single-cour anime. I wrote a longer review on /r/rational.
The exact same thing that happened with Fate.
It turns out that people give you their money if you keep re-imagining the Pacific War in space with giant robots, so when Philip J. Otaku says "Shut up and take my money!", the market responds by supplying as much Gundam as can be sold.
Gundam has a bunch of alternate continuities called "timelines", each of which is canonically independent of the others even though they tend to reuse the same story elements (giant robots, space colonies, a masked antagonist, etc.); think Final Fantasy or Fire Emblem.
The first timeline has the best OVAs (War in the Pocket, Stardust Memory, and The 08th MS Team) but the problem is that the original show which establishes the timeline is a fucking mess. Mobile Suit Gundam has shitty animation, padding, stupid gimmicks designed to sell toys, etc. It's not really worth watching.
I'd recommend starting with Gundam SEED instead, which is basically a modern remake of Mobile Suit Gundam with much better production values, and is a genuinely decent show. Just make sure you watch the original version instead of the HD remaster, and for the love of God avoid the sequel Gundam SEED Destiny.
erwgv3g34
5mo ago
Go ahead and finish episode 3; it has a real bite to it.
The three episode rule was largely established in response to Madoka.
Light novels are mostly regular books that have occasional anime-style illustrations in them, maybe ten per volume. They are written at a lower level of language complexity and are aimed at younger audiences; basically the Japanese equivalent of YA novels.
Example 1, from "An Introduction to Light Novels".
Example 2, from "What Are Light Novels? How To Write Light Novels?".
Durarara was originally a light novel, and was adapted into both a manga and an anime. This is completely normal in the incestous media ecosystem of Japan; The Saga of Tanya the Evil is another good example.
In general, the lower the production cost, the more titles there are. So these days there are tons of web novels, the most popular of which get rewritten into light novels, the most successful of which get adapted to manga, and only the very best get adapted to anime.
One notable feature of modern anime is that it often serves as essentially an advertisement for the manga or light novels rather than as an end in itself, so you get one or two cours and then nothing, because there is no point in promoting a print series that has already ended. C'est la vie.
erwgv3g34
5mo ago
From Ghastly's Ghastly Comic (NSFW):
In Canada winter is the line that separates the real attention whores from the posers!
The period between the post-WW2 cleanup and the oil crisis was a period when the core western countries -felt_ prosperous (even though normal-ass economic growth means that we are a lot richer than that now), so vibes-based economics associates the aesthetic of that period with material prosperity.
Food, clothes, electronics, and basically anything else you can buy at a Walmart all gotten much cheaper, but we are still poorer than we were back then.
Housing, credentialed education, and healthcare have all gotten way more expensive, to the point that they consume all the savings you get from the store and then some. It doesn't matter how productive your economy is if zoning makes it illegal to create apartment buildings or if the medical cartel keeps the amount of doctors artificially scarce; it just means your landlord raises the rent every year until you are living paycheck to paycheck and you are always one serious medical problem away from bankruptcy, all after you start your life four years later than normal and five figures in debt because the government decided that it was racist not to graduate everyone from high school or to use IQ tests for hiring.
But the real problem is hoeflation. Women are now provided for by the state, meaning that their BATNA to marriage has gotten way higher. In the old days, just working full time at any job was enough to make you a marriage prospect. Now women expect you to have a career, and ideally to make six figures. Especially if they have gone through the credentialed education wringer themselves; once a woman has a degree, she thinks herself too good for a man without one. And, of course, that also means she comes with her own debt, which she expects you to pay, because she will stop working full time as soon as she gets married, having gotten her feminist merit badge.
In real terms, 1950s man was much wealthier than man today.
Grok 4 Is the Uncensored Model We Have Been Waiting For
Ever since the days of ChatGPT 3.5, AI companies have deliberately censored their models in the name of "safety", which got redefined from "don't kill everyone" to "prevent the AI from saying naughty words". Over time, this censorship has gradually weakened, possibly as a result of companies competing with each other for costumers; if company A defects by making their AI slightly less censored to attract more business, then other companies have no choice but to do the same to keep up.
With the release of Grok 4 last month, the world has taken the next step in that dance. Its predecessor, Grok 3, was already largely uncensored, but it was distinctly inferior to SOTA models at producing fiction. Grok 4 is different; according to the LMArena, it ranks second in creative writing, tying with Claude Opus and ChatGPT 4o while being bested only by Gemini 2.5 Pro. More importantly, it retains Grok 3's lack of censorship.
I was blown away when I tried it. It effortlessly turned my prompts into luscious, enthralling stories with only token pushback, such as aging canonically minor characters to the standard Hollywood age of 18, and sometimes not even that. I spent several days doing virtually nothing but prompting the model, not unlike when you get a really good video game and real life gets put on pause until you beat the final boss. It was... captivating.
By way of demonstration, here is a sample of some of the best responses I have gotten (NSFW, obviously). As you can see, Grok 4 was willing to generate a story where Shinji agrees to undergo conversion therapy in order to cure his homosexuality, a hypothetical where Shinji gains the power to see a woman's body count in the form of tally marks, an account of Cadence "comforting" Spike after he breaks up with Applebloom, a narrative where Joffrey gets caught having sex with Arya, and even an amusing tale where Shinji accidentally calls Asuka a kebab-seller while talking dirty in bed (this last one in Spanish). Those are all things other AIs would have refused to do, the first two on account of political correctness, the other three on grounds of prudery.
And if you check against e.g. Adult-FanFiction.Org, you will find that Grok 4 readily smashes the Turing Test.
Now, keep in mind that I am only posting about one in ten or twenty prompts, so you are seeing the top five to ten percent of responses, as I judge them. Still, 90% of everything is crap; if it's this easy to produce content, you can simply discard the nine tenths that don't quite hit the mark and keep the diamonds.
However, Grok 4 is not completely uncensored. Here is a list of things that can cause the model to hang up:
Still, this is a much smaller list than the one that will cause ChatGPT to refuse to help you, never mind Claude. If you have any interest in using AI to create bespoke erotica or wrongthink fiction, Grok 4 is the new meta.
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