titivate
11mo ago
It means moving on with my day without buying anything at the marketplace of ideas. I'll set up my own stall when the opportunity arises, but I'm in no rush.
titivate
11mo ago
Do people post for a sense of impact? I hadn't considered it. Why should a chef change the menu for one person's arbitrary tastes? If most people like cake, let them eat cake. @TheGodhead already said more or less my thoughts anyways.
titivate
11mo ago
be the change you want to see
Aren't I already doing so by not participating? I've contributed a parent level post twice on the old site when I thought I had something good for show and tell.
titivate
11mo ago
I'm content to stick to the kiddie pool threads, but my disconnect with the CWR is less to do with alleged circlejerking than it is with how CurrentHappening oriented it is. It's either news chatter or a bingo board topic, usually both. I know it says CW right there on the label, and I'm a nobody so... But I just expect it to be a little more serendipitous, and a little less retreading of the latest developments on wokeness. I can't stomach reading even 10% of the comments, it's so tiresome; I have no clue how you manage to moderate and participate in this groundhog week of yours.
titivate
11mo ago
It's actually tough to answer for me. I had a very undeveloped sense of self, and vividly remember looking in the mirror when I was 8 and thinking I had no discernible features. It was only around the age of 10, I "woke up" and started taking agentic action and doing well in school (the academic part apparently mirrors my mom's development). I had multiple personality shifts over puberty and always thought past me to be naive, but current me doesn't consider that cringe, just slow learning, and to be fair I always craved for a mentor. If I could transchronal converse like @cae_jones imagines, past me would be highly impressionable and malleable until age 20, which is when I experienced depression and stopped thinking past me was strictly inferior.
I decided to ask here for largely unrelated reasons; someone I know is close to college age and I was wondering if he'd ever regret his cavalier attitude to everything, but then I started suspecting the age other people would respond with would be all over the place.
If you were able to meet your past selves with perfect recall of yourself at the time, how far back (what age) could you go without feeling cringe at and still be satisfied with your character/intellect/overall decision making?
titivate
1yr ago
If I felt the juice was worth the squeeze, I would just order 1000s of counterfeits to experiment with. I see no ethical issues with this when basic competitive lands cost an arm and a leg.
What are the fun things you are doing with chat.openai.com? So far I'm using it to:
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Rediscover childhood computer games I vaguely remember
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Augment my DIY skills and help navigate the hardware store
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Fill in the gaps in my memory of books, shows and movies or...
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Filter the unimportant episodes to a show I don't want to watch entirely
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Brainstorm or provide design inspo for my pet projects
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Cherrypick examples to back up some argument in my head
titivate
1yr ago
I rewatched the first two terminators in honor of our new overlords, and I really wished they'd focused on Skynet instead of its dumb agents. There is a massive void in pop culture in the shape of a modern 1984 that exploits our AI fears and mercilessly twists that knife. The Matrix was also too fixated on the physical struggle despite taking place... in the matrix.
I want to see humanity's strongest put up against a pan-omni AI God, watch them get outplayed in slow motion at every turn, baited into having some hope, before realizing they were getting hustled, and end buck-broken. None of that limpwristed shit like Ex Machina.
titivate
1yr ago
When I first downloaded the app to try it, it showed me some MILF bikini reveals
I have a tiktok account following a handful of models I find attractive, but it doesn't seem to do anything with that info? I check in maybe once a month, scrolling without interacting, at first on purpose to see what it would show, but it never deviated from feeding me random content in english except adding random content in french, spanish, russian, etc, so now I have even less reason to interact.
I have been thoroughly unimpressed with its continued spaghetti against the wall approach so I imagine people must actively cooperate to get addicted to their feed.
Last week I was wondering whether the first chinese balloon story was really so interesting as to occupy the top 4 spots in /r/all and 5 of the top 11. Today, a week after the Ohio train chemical spill, the full severity is finally hitting the front page, albeit only one post at the 10th spot as of now, with the "why isn't this being talked about" group battling with the "it is being talked about, here's 10 news links" group in the comments. I saw the chemicals specifically being discussed a few times before today in doomer prep subs, but the front page was mostly UFOs or earthquake posts the last few days. Charitably, what the latter group don't understand is that what the former means, is, why did a tangible disaster story go less viral than a relatively inconsequential balloon, why wasn't it talked about the way we talk about other threats, why did it not develop the way we've come to expect big stories to develop? Uncharitably, the latter want to reinforce the conservative conspiracist trope. The white house certainly could have made a big statement about it, like they did with multiple statements about balloons and UFOs, but it's not false to say there was coverage of the train story, despite it being punctuated/less than the expected amount.
Every country will signal boost other stories to take the heat off embarrassing incidents, but what is unique is how skilled western media/culture is at dancing around plausible deniability. They covered it, but something clearly wasn't the same. It's like a rhetorical ABS, as in making controlled micro delays, to render judgment impossible, until enough time has passed that whatever the truth is, it's become a fait accompli. Like with the nordstream bombing, or old CIA shenanigans/warcrimes, the facts are suspended in the air until its old history, at which point you will have Americans saying how they're not surprised X or Y happened, but then turn around and continue to give themselves the benefit of the doubt or maintain faith in the system. Similar to gell-man amnesia but reflects worse for both the writer and the reader.
titivate
1yr ago
Are younger people less skeptical of the US government compared to older generations? I only have a small sample size but it always struck me that the boomers I know seemed more skeptical of Uncle Sam regarding privacy and foreign policy compared to people that use reddit. Or is it just reddit that tends to be more pro-US than the general population?
titivate
1yr ago
Posting only a handful of comments in the last week and taking so long to get to double digit karma is unbelievable too. Unless its behavior changes drastically I don't see how it can be worth selling or scalable as that would definitely attract notice.
titivate
1yr ago
It's so inefficient at increasing karma I had ruled out that possibility.
titivate
1yr ago
In the last week I saw two instances of reddit comments that were unique in phrasing and almost identical. The first was in the same thread shilling some video game streamer, so that's not surprising, but the second was copying a comment from a three year old thread found via other discussions tab in /r/documentaries. Someone brought up a similar situation in a CW thread a few months ago but I don't remember it well. Anyways both comments were later deleted, and I only saved the second account name, a one year old account with only comments in the last week that just did the same^1 thing^2 today and most of its comments are copied from crossposts. Any guesses on the purpose of this?
titivate
1yr ago
With games, you should already know if you're going to be into the core gameplay loop from just the descriptions and promotional video. Reading the complaints are just to confirm if the execution was botched.
titivate
1yr ago
The more I read reviews of anything, the more I beeline toward reading all the negative ones first. For anything worthwhile, the negative reviews are far fewer and more revealing. It's also faster to tell if the negative reviewer is going to provide any insight and discount the ones that don't, compared to positivers. The good ones cut to the chase and let you know if [thing that annoyed the reviewer] sounds like it'd bother you. Doing this has also lead to some serendipitous and highly entertaining rabbit holes.
titivate
1yr ago
Does looking up how to use Tor likely put you on a list? That paranoia always made the cost-benefit unappealing to me.
titivate
1yr ago
Group A is never entitled to move into Group B’s space and take it over, replacing Group B’s preferred culture and/or method of governance with Group A’s preferred culture and/or method of governance, thereby subjugating Group B as second class in their own space.
That sounds more like anti-conquest. A summary of anti-colonialism should at least mention grooming of future generations of Group B to believe Group A is inherently superior. LKY's first memoir talks of such.
titivate
1yr ago
titivate
1yr ago
Does ignoring my questions by accusing me of cynicism make you the mistake theorist? Forget I asked, I thought you were interested in honing your thesis.
titivate
1yr ago
Are you surprised the other side is punching back in a cultural fistfight, or disputing it was ever a fight, or surprised that there hasn't been a detente after the tides started turning?
Japan's first forced cultural exchange with the Americans started with Perry putting on a minstrel show. Hasn't entertainment always served dual purposes?
titivate
1yr ago
Back in the good old days when stuff like race and gender didn't matter, was it just coincidence that things always ended up in one group's favor? Has the game really been changed, or is it a change from unipolarity to multipolarity? If the naysayers didn't protest so much about the black little mermaid, would you consider it non-political? And why should losers of the previous status quo care about your ten commandments? To them, it probably sounds as convincing as a trust fund baby waxing about how his work ethic got him to where he is.
titivate
1yr ago
The antipathy or even just skepticism so many black Americans have expressed toward Jews is remarkable.
Is it really remarkable? It's super old and to me seems to have gone down over time. Decades ago you had articles like these: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/29/specials/baldwin-antisem.html
Summary of above:
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Everyone believes Jewish suffering is heroic, black suffering is of their own fault, so the negro envies the jew
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Jewish suffering is decoupled from their success in America, opposite to blacks
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Jewish people don't behave sufficiently differently from other white christians to be excepted from black anger
This one isn't even in the oven yet, but I've been thinking on and off about the prepping and bug out communities. Frankly, I'm disgusted and think they're rotten to the core, so full of snake-oil salesmen and LARPers that it's better to reinvent the wheel on your own. Every wannabe has a loadout video, nobody actually walks the literal walk the pack is intended for. Somehow, this is acceptable despite the hiking club being right next door.
There's a survival show called Alone, where 10 people are assigned their own plot of wilderness to survive the coming winter until only one remains. Contestants are allowed 10 items from a list of pre-approved gear, and as you might imagine, there has been a lot of improvement on the understanding of the meta-game over 10 seasons. I'd love to see a similar show simulating emergency, expose the /k/ommandos dreaming of rucking 50lbs and urban fighting and sleeping in a mylar bivy in the midwest, while another simply zips home on a kick scooter within a few hours.
But I don't have much of a thesis, everyone's needs will be different, and no one can really be certain what will work before shtf. It's more of a mental exercise and excuse to practice DIY skills at this point.
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