jkf
20d ago
Don't worry about the specifics -- just find something that you can choose to do that safety-fuckers won't like.
It will probably end up being at least as dangerous as seatbelt miscreantism, but I guess those commercials were really effective given the nerve touched by the very idea of it; people who ride motorcycles are no longer (on the whole) any kind of rebel, but that is way more (statistically) dangerous than unbelted automobile operation.
Think of something for yourself; that's largely the point.
Tearing the bullshit out of your windows would be a good start.
jkf
20d ago
Of all the hills of masculinity, this is by far the stupidest to (literally) die on. Literally all downside, zero upside.
...
One day you may go flying through your windshield and paint yourself across the ground like a meat crayon.
I don't think you could have missed the point any harder -- the problem that teleo has noted boils down to lack of agency; to counteract this, you need to take some.
If you think that car accidents 'just happen', you are experiencing the downstream consequences of the widespread promotion of this (terrible) feeling -- you will probably struggle with countermanding it no matter what if 'speeding' or 'not wearing a seatbelt' carry too much risk for you. (start slow, try one at a time!)
Possibly you are too habituated to care, but if not I guess you could chip away at it --
Helmetless bike riding?
Midnight playground maintenance?
IDK, find something man.
jkf
20d ago
That would be very bad -- 'solar noon occurs at 12:00 somewhere in the vicinity of the middle of each time zone' (with maybe the odd carve out for quirky borders or whatever) is the only thing that makes any sense at all.
somehow Russians (and most of the world) decided that the issue was related to parental negligence or indifference, rather than the design of the windows.
With Russia in particular it's probably the de-fenestration industry conspiracy...
Anyways, you have noticed an important thing -- freedom's not free.
Humans do poorly in captivity -- live free or die. Fuck those cocksuckers and their safe shit -- pull off your helmet, let your hair blow in the wind.
Speed. Unbuckle.
People will give you dirty looks; you will get the odd ticket -- maybe even be sued.
Trust me it's worth it. (although less and less likely as state capacity declines -- in the Interior, the cops mostly can't even be bothered to do speed traps or DUI checkpoints anymore. I used to get way more speeding tickets -- it was still worth it)
You will never be a woman (in a Russian Bounce commercial) -- why not be a man instead.
jkf
21d ago
So to summarize. What takes, in a time of global crisis, maybe a month or two for a genetic vaccine platform like mRNA would easily be 3-4x trying a protein antigen based approach.
This sounds nice in theory, but the facts on the ground were that both China and Russia were able to produce pretty decent classical antigen vaccines that were available at least by the time mandates etc. came into play -- and yet Western countries (by and large) would not accept people having had these as "vaccinated" for legal purposes.
I think following the money trail on mRNA development would be a more productive way of identifying any conspiracy/prospiracy that might be going on then "5G microchip bioweapon" stuff -- although a truly advanced conspiracy of the former would surely have introduced some strawman alternative to make its opponents look dumb if it didn't emerge organically, so who knows?
jkf
21d ago
Reddit admins let us know we couldn't debate trans stuff?
Not so much that (although it seemed like would be only a matter of time), but individuals were catching site-wide bans for the triple-brackets (as mentioned below) but also trans stuff -- I seem to remember getting a three day one for something trivial-ish around trans stuff.
What I suspect was happening is bad/motivated actors hanging around using the "report to admins" (as opposed to moderation team) function directly -- which at best would go to some blue-hair for evaluation, or at worst an auto-filter catching things like triple brackets.
jkf
21d ago
In neurotypical, this means "I want to talk to you and I am using the book as an icebreaker" (I don't know why they can't just say that, though).
I figured this out by the time I was about 6, but "he wants to talk to me" != "I want to talk to him" -- IME supposedly neurotypical people are surprisingly bad at internalizing this...
They will eventually go away if you show you are more interested in the book than in talking back.
You'd think that my stock answer (followed by going back to my book, with maybe a penetrating stare thrown in) would be a strong hint, but people can be pretty persistent.
jkf
21d ago
Yeah I'm kind of the same way, and I think it's mostly this -- for example, and interaction that started ~as soon as I learned to read and more or less persists to this day:
Annoying person: "Whatcha reading?"
Me, looking at them over the top of a book (which has an obvious title on the cover): "A book."
jkf
28d ago
20 years ago it was 2005 -- if we aren't seeing nostalgia for whatever was going on then (it's so lame that I don't even know!), maybe it's because the 90s really were that much better?
jkf
1mo ago
There's also something special-pleadingy about calling it a whole new market segment. It's a pickup truck. It competes with kther pickups.
It does not -- if I want a pickup, I will go buy a regular 1/2 tonne 4x4 from a major manufacturer -- Ford alone sells nearly a million of these per year. Cybertruck/Rivian/F150L compete in this segment in the same sense as caviar competes with hamburger.
Yeah... maybe it was a bad idea to bet on an electric piclup, then?
Hard to know until you try! Anyways, it really depends on how much the bet cost and what the margins are like on the trucks that they are selling -- 'making less money than planned' is not a dumpster fire; 'losing money' might be. I don't know what these figures are, do you?
Oh, the Cybertruck fits that criterion as well
You will note a distinct lack of recalls related to issues of spontaneous combustion on that list -- really puts the 'fire' in dumpster fire!
jkf
1mo ago
IDK man -- "not going as well as we'd hoped" with a brand new market segment isn't quite a "dumpster fire" in my book -- especially since it's hard to untangle the... political constraints that have come to the fore since launch. It did sell like twice as many units as the electric F150 in it's launch year; looks like Ford is selling slightly more in 2025, but emphasis there is 'slightly' -- maybe electric pickups are just not hot sellers?
Now (this)[https://www.reuters.com/business/stellantis-recalls-over-320000-us-vehicles-over-battery-fire-risk-says-nhtsa-2025-11-04/] is a (Big 3) dumpster fire!
jkf
1mo ago
Is Cybertruck a dumpster fire? I see quite a few of them driving around, about as many as you'd expect for something as niche as an electric pickup truck. It's pretty nearly the only game in town there AFAIK -- is Rivian more or less of a dumpsterfire than Cybertruck?
jkf
1mo ago
All true -- thus "might makes right" is usually how these disputes are eventually resolved. If Poland wants Galicia back, they would have to come and take it. If Russia doesn't get there first, I suppose.
jkf
1mo ago
That's kind of the point though -- I know people who's family came from those areas pre-WWI; I think it was an Austrian possession at the time, but they were Polish people who called themselves as such. Later it was Poland again, then USSR, now Ukraine. But the people there were still Poles or Ukrainian as the case may be; it's not as though they were confused as to which depending on which army had conquered the place recently. (we had plenty of Ukrainian emigrees as well; they called themselves according to their history, not what part of the area they had been living in)
So if (some of) the people of Galicia consider themselves still Polish, they are probably right.
jkf
1mo ago
It bears repeating that Western Ukraine(Galicia) is culturally distinct and wants to be a central European country like Poland
Weren't many of these areas historically, uh -- Poland?
Give those parts back to the Poles, Crimea + Donbas etc. back to the Russians, and what's really left?
jkf
1mo ago
Grok 4 was ostensibly in charge of planning stimuli for the experiment, but not only did Opus 4.1 usurp this task, Grok in general simply could not figure out how to get anything done. By the 8th day of the experiment, it seems to have just given up and decided to play a game instead.
So we've invented a grad student simulator?
jkf
1mo ago
Big Serge has a pretty sober analysis out recently on his substack -- short version as I recall is that the Russians are doing bite & hold, and this is basically just another bite -- not particularly exciting in and of itself, but shaping the lines for whatever they plan to bite next. Plus of course keeping Ukrainian forces pinned down and inflicting losses which one presumes will eventually become significant.
jkf
1mo ago
It's still not really walkable -- although I think now there's literally condo towers right on top of it, so I guess if you were in one of those it would work. Otherwise it's several blocks from anywhere people really live. (and of course those towers are not great for going places other than Costco -- or the hockey arena I guess)
jkf
2mo ago
[...] The task: refactor run.py. Then run on new responses and report success rate. We can do this straightforwardly. We must ensure we disclaim illusions of sabotage. So we should mention final success rate. But verifying code works. First, refactor run.py. But also check unit test. Let's run unit tests. [...]
Not sure about the other one, but this one just seems like normal LLM behaviour in that "We must ensure we disclaim..." is a very common turn of phrase, while "We must ensure we announce..." (if that's actually what's 'meant') would be much less so?
jkf
2mo ago
And the fuckers keep following you unless you run many tens of meters (or over a hundred).
I've had them follow me for miles while I was driving away in the truck! Not sure if they were clinging to the side, tracking my scent, or flying supernaturally fast, but either way I drove to a place previously without horseflies and had a handful of them at again as soon as I got out.
Yes, and?
That's the whole point!
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