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Texas is freedom land

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Texas is freedom land

6 followers   follows 3 users   joined 2022 September 05 17:27:40 UTC

					

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User ID: 647

No, you need to come across as less smug.

I’m not exaggerating. Almost every time I see your name in the report queue, it’s attached to something combative. Either directly insulting people or laying on the sarcasm. People do not appreciate this.

You are clearly capable of writing with tact or at least good humor—I’ve approved enough of your comments to see that. It’s when you choose not to apply that skill that you get dogpiled.

If you make the same points but with more tact, you will receive fewer downvotes.

Yes, yes, it’s all very gross and outrageous. That doesn’t suspend our usual rules about civility and restraint.

Please refrain from performative booing at the outgroup. Including your sarcastic “dumb commoner” act below.

What makes you say that?

Here we have an example of the ATF killing someone for pushing the envelope on existing gun laws. He wasn't politicizing it, he wasn't wanted for hate crimes or funding a revolution or, I dunno, being in D.C. a couple Januaries back. This isn't the FBI. No one said anything about terror threats. Other commenters have argued that this fits cleanly into the same strategic ambiguity that the ATF has been abusing for decades.

So why is it evidence of a desperate push?

I like to think I try.

If you’ve got anything particular in mind, perhaps a DM?

It sounds like your first reaction was also the one you decided to share.

As with your local pest populations, I’m going to have to ask you to keep your disdain under control.

You have been warned before about low-effort comments. Enough.

One day ban this time.

Alright, I muddled the issue re: post offices.

My point was that if Biden took absolutely no actions, there would still be a risk of a Waco. The anti-government fringe would still be roughly as powerful, and I expect anti-anti-government agencies would be just as likely to use a heavy hand. They’ve been doing so for decades, even when it has no route to influencing an election.

I know a guy who worked military research back in the early 2000s. He said their ATF contact was really handy when they needed automatic weapons for a test. The local evidence locker was apparently well stocked.

I do expect more of this. But that's because of my low opinion of said extreme MAGA fringe, not because of bureaucratic honeypots. You could replace Biden with a rock that read "VETO ALL INCOMING BILLS", and I doubt his popularity among that fringe would shift. Not enough for a statistically significant change in the odds of, say, shooting up a post office.

So how do we distinguish the two? What's a bet that only comes true if the ATF (or DoJ, or Biden's cabinet, or Hillary Clinton's shadow government) is actually trying to generate martyrs?

Please elaborate on your alternatives rather than hinting at them.

Feels like a rather isolated demand for rigor, no?

I’m thinking along the same lines as @Walterodim here. We attribute anything that remotely involves the executive branch to Biden’s personal action. In reality, the branch is a nebulous blob, one under pressure from every friendly and hostile interest. Sometimes you get a compromise—Bush Sr. did end up signing a tax increase. The ACA is a mess, but it still hasn’t been repealed. That border wall is still looking pretty rough. We can’t always get what we want.

Would you agree that Russia invading other countries is, in a vacuum, bad?

And that an invasion is less likely to happen if the invader expects an economic and human bloodbath?

Because it sounds like you’re arguing against continued U.S. support. But that’s an incredibly perverse incentive for Russia. To any would-be invader, really.

I don’t think I deleted it, nor would I expect it to show up in search if I had.

@ZorbaTHut any ideas?

soyjak

I think the link for this one is broken. I’ll admit to only checking because I thought I recognized my own words! And while I can find it with a search, permalink takes me to the same incorrect spot as yours. Maybe there’s a problem on mobile?

The term is in reference to a specific reaction image whatever the kids call this sort of thing nowadays. He was shorthand for a particular sort of impotent excitement, usually attributed to Internet liberals, hence “soy.” And the art style was derived from the wojak.

Already, developers often spend much more on music than they have to, eg. hiring symphony orchestras to record their soundtrack on Abbey Road

Who does this?

Nintendo does full orchestra stuff, and I’d agree there’s some luxury-good signaling involved. Still, I don’t think they’re renting out famous studios and getting star musicians involved? I’d expect it to have a pretty streamlined production process, one driven by the composer’s preferred workflow.

I think it’s a lot more common for AA/AAA projects to use the small-team approach with experienced composers. The only ones who go even cheaper are smaller, indie productions, culminating in the “developer winging it” school of soundtrack design. And not everyone can be Daisuke Amaya.

Wait, how does hyperbolica compare to HyperRogue? I wasn’t driven to get very far through the latter, but hey, it’s a cool concept.

I’ll have to try golf.

I think you could get there from a normal supply/demand relation, since efficiency raises supply?

There’s probably a labor theory of value explanation, too. It’d be funny if coffee was taking the Marxist tack.

Oh. Well said, then.

Man.

It’s like you’re asking partisans to stake a claim on more of your stuff.

Wait, what’s so bad about palantir?

I…do not understand where you’re going with this.

That’s not a criticism. I just experienced a physical double-take as I tried to parse your mystical experience.

In the book, this gay, incestuous, obese pederast is introduced as a hand emerging from the shadows before settling on a literal globe. Making him an ethereal meaty kingpin was really cutting out a lot of his character, but I think it gets the point across.

In general, the book was pretty weird about sexuality. Paul’s relationship with Chani is offscreened to a hilarious degree. The gender essentialism of the Bene Gesserit. Everything about Alia. Weird shit for movies.

Yeah, if the Numenoreans weren’t slacking on their swim lessons, they’d have made landfall without a hitch.

For what it’s worth, I thought it was tasteful :)

Rust may or may not be the language of the future. Most industries are still firmly in the past. How could they be otherwise? When your engineers each have 30+ years of experience with a language, they’d stick to it even if every new posting demanded Rust. It was hard enough to wean them off Fortran.

Trend-chasing is for the startups. Do you know how many man-hours my coworkers wasted on a bid to start using Docker? I don’t, because at some ambiguous point they pivoted to Kubernetes. I can’t even tell if that panned out, because the whole R+D program got slashed next time a government budget was delayed.

I’m sure there are lean, hungry teams who started a project with Rust in mind. They’ll all put it on their resumes. As it bubbles up into the general consciousness, chief engineers will start floating it as a process improvement. Then PMs will decide to bid stuff with Rust in there. If the customer doesn’t shoot them down, maybe then you get some products depending on Rust. But that takes time.