2D3D
2d ago
Meanwhile Pixiv embraced AI and is basically a unifans export vehicle. The nobility of the author is secondary to being able to spam endless niche content users actually care for. Unless you're the top tier of artists whose work itself is stylistically unique enough to be differentiatable but not legacy enough to be prompted in, AI will generate whatever the fuck you want. Deviantart Literotica AO3 Wattpad etc survive on fulfilling authorial actualization and paid commissions, both of which were focused on restricted fetishistic content and not creator skill. AI is killing off the lower tier skill tree of this band of creators, and I'm not sure its a bad thing.
2D3D
5d ago
These shitholes surrender to USA/Israel because USA actually makes demands, and China never did any Ask. China is in reality a shitty exim bank who absorbs capital shredding in exchange for EPC absorption, not geopolitical leverage. China "lends" money as a headline numbers but the drawdown is never loans to prop a regime, just project finance for builds or bridge finance for commodity offsets. That Iran snapped to Chinese supplication is itself a misread because China does not display any action that gives enough of a shit about the regime. Chinese failure to prop up their pets is a categorical misread because China does not view its debtor regimes as pets, but as fungible relationships: Gonzales or Maduro, Khan or Munir, Khamanei or Palevi, China does not care for the regime. Just keep the phone line open for discussions if anything changes.
2D3D
5d ago
Even if Trump does nothing and the Ayatollah crushes the riots, then what? Irans currency is still getting annihilated, their water situation is not unfucked, their "allies" are both faraway and incapable, their neighbourhood actively hostile. The Regimes only friend that can offer a real lifeline is MAYBE India, and thats a huge gamble to count on India. The alternative is to surrender wholly to China, which if China does will simply add another failed overseas shithole to Chinas collection of worthless foreign investments.
2D3D
5d ago
I think trading desks develop an instinct for aggressive first mover advantage, and they get almost immediate feedback. Makes their radars very sensitive, and they get very good at filtering for what is bullshit, but they also pick up bullshit really easily. The bullshit doesn't really matter because it doesn't need to be acted upon, but it still gets thrown into the wild in case some smartdick senses gold inside. Its not like WSB where its retards pretending they know whats up.
2D3D
5d ago
Zerohedge posts conspiracy slop on the free page to attract the crazies and keeps the good shit hidden behind the paywall. Analyst reports out of Seekingalpha or Morningstar were obligate maximizers of whatever slop pushed by the funds, so there was too much noise within the signal. Zerohedge econs stuff is still crazy doomer but itll reveal good underlying points. Stuff like "the lizard globohomo are unwinding all their longs! watch for the metal inflection!"
2D3D
6d ago
That, or a dude had a panic attack from the bombs and lack of comms and the physical intensity of the situation. Then he shit himself, and wondered what the fuck happened.
If the dude even existed.
Zerohedge is best characterized as a one-mind kiwifarms operation with less discipline. Its great fun, but the world it presents is a bit too lizard-pilled for my liking. This particular 'sonic weapon' thing sounds like Havana syndrome again, a malattribution to genericized discomforts that acutely present in stressful circumstances. LRAD is mitigated really easily because it suffers the standard problem of any beam weapon: it gets blocked by everything including atmospheric pressure, and just falling out of the cone makes the effect stop immediately. We aren't getting Atreides sonic tanks anytime soon guys, life just isnt that cool.
2D3D
7d ago
Thats why progressives love islamic fundamentalism, it keeps the real competition away from the true power base of progressivism, white women with nothing better to offer. Thats why the ICE agent shot the woman, his filipina wife was whispering "destroy my competition!" into his ears!
Vae victus, git gud if you wanna play the game. Third world shithole conquering of first world gibs is done only by exploiting the naive goodwill of first world idiots, not by being competent at anything except being dark and useless. It is true that the game is really fucking stupid and self defeating but I can hate the player as well as the game both.
EDIT I now realize the above comment was not a "waaa first worlders did meanie bad things to poor third world" but the new faction in the first world emerging to fight the same game of flag planting as conquest. In which case, again, git gud. They allied with the browns and got merked, perhaps they should re-evaluate their situationship with their pets.
2D3D
9d ago
Its only residents of third world shitholes who insist on flying their flag as a mark of conquest on territories they conquer. No fucking Taiwanese or Korean or Japanese flag gets flown in Orange County, its only these muslim countries. The obvious hostile conquering attitude on display is a celebration that should be interpreted as the threat it is, yet the invasion is allowed to continue unmolested. The blind love of multiculturalism will end with Zimbabwe style disenfranchisement of whites followed by annihilation of anything of value as the scavengers pick off anything that made the communities viable to begin with.
2D3D
9d ago
US executions are held up because there is a surprisingly unlimited appetite for judicial reviews and appeals to hold up the process with dubious procedural minutae introduced years after the fact being the reason for blocking. The threshold for evidence getting higher and higher even after sentencing is cause for lawyers to launch appeals nonstop, since there is free money for everyone involved to get in on the grift. Defense, state, judge, prisons, all get to feed at the trough for every death row inmate cycled through appeals. I think this raises the cost of legal+housing for lice without parole vs death row from 2m to 4m or something stupid like that for a 25 year period, and then costs spike if they hit old age.
2D3D
9d ago
The US is a low punishment society because crimes are underinvestigated and criminals are underprosecuted relative to the incidence rate of criminal activity. This is due to both capacity issues but also judicial and societal fiat putting the finger on every side of the scale as much as possible to keep black incarceration as low as possible. That blacks are still overrepresented is a function of how widespread minor criminality is within US society, not some grand conspiracy about blacks being unfairly victimized. FBI crime statistics regarding victim perpetrator filings show that black victimization actually is from black communities who are the first victims of criminal activity, and the clear majority of crime is intraracial. Punishment being proportional within a capacity strained carceral system means a higher absolute number of criminals, especially blacks, roaming free where they should be curtailed.
As for the Pakistani gangs it is for the UK to decide whether its still ok to keep uncovering new rape gangs and expose the sheer scale of predation that was ongoing. Europe and especially the UK are peak embodiment of institutional capture by the narratively invested, with zero appetite to acknowledge the uncomfortable facts of predatory behavioral origination.
Whether UK or US, its the same pathology: institutional narrative capture perpetuating for decades and zero pivot capability. Somalians, like Pakistanis, just learned to play the game on the path trodden by their black forebears. Ok Uk is a bit of a weird one where the predecessor is black caribbean and not African but the end result is the same: a race card played to the hilt.
2D3D
9d ago
It grows because it uses coercion without facing any external censure. Converting to Islam is celebrated as diversity, apostates are killed and then "culture" is blamed while ignoring Islams culpability.
You can only gain converts to your cause when the prize makes it worth it and the liberals are handing out their seedcorn to tourists stopping by. The TQ+ of the rainbow coalition is uninvestigated and allowed in, just like every Nigerian or Caribbean warlords offspring gets to claim black solidarity to get a seat at the trough. White liberals at the roost want to destroy their own societies because they make the category error that impoverishing white institutions only harms the uneducated white hicks. That the white hicks are a bulwark against a Hamtrack style takeover by even worse conservatives just doesnt register.
White liberals may continue to get converts for a while, but whether that sustains is questionable. Their time at the top has been pretty bad and when the pie starts shrinking theres a free for all where everyone tries to get as much as they can before escaping. Rate of growth slowing is the first canary in the coal mine, once it flips it will be an exercise in statistical fudgery (we are likely here now) before raiding the pot for scraps.
2D3D
12d ago
Staffing requirements usually put 4 infants to 1 caretaker. At a legit facility rent admin and janitorial staff wipe out even a fully subsidized package, without accounting for incidentals and capex. Probably need to hit at least 12 infants to start breaking even, and then your capex soars too. Daycares are not automatic money printers because kids are delicate and staffing is difficult.
So the easy scam is to just put pretend kids in and unqualified staff in place with fake credentials if ever interrogated. No auditor will investigate on their own and the local vote boss just says ' I will take care of it'
When the govt was not a fat cow worth milking taking care of it meant having to offer a sacrificial scalp to the other local bosses. Now the govt is this depersonalized money printer far away, and its also run by whites who are not only the enemy but also one that are self declaring the nobility of self impoverishment. Why would you deny them the opportunity to feel good.
2D3D
12d ago
The consequences for the pakistanis are miniscule compared to the personal satisfaction they enjoyed ruining the children of the enemy and getting paid to do so. So too will be the censure for the Somalians since the US is already a low punishment society that can barely punish the most easy criminals to indict, let alone anyone with a racism shield to deploy. The only way out is unspoken societal segregation, a hope that islands of sanity will be unmolested by the courts for the crime of being too prosperous and capable. As an overall polity there is no appetite to recognize the beast of racialized hate coming from foreign ethnics and less to address it.
Actually wait no there is one way out. Elect a capable non-scammy minority ethnic that is free to name the beast and act upon it. They will have a short but actionable runway to try and right the ship. A decisive window to act can arrest the decline. If the opportunity is squandered or fumbled (Obama capitulating to progressives after the 2nd midterms) then things get permanently worse. So, good luck with that.
2D3D
13d ago
You're right, but by preliminary I am referring to the months long campaigns in Iraq that suppressed and destroyed pretty much everything large enough to fit a box and the boxes themselves. A tactical DEAD on short window still lets a rapid evacuation occur so the combination of cyber warfare to paralyze all comms and cnc definitely expanded the window of opportunity from minutes to maybe half an hour. Still a lightning raid by any account, though I do take back the strength of the word "preliminary".
Regarding air defense, I mainly attribute the lack of response to the fact that low alert troops on midnight duty are always going to be sleepy shits and likely not on post. If they were on post they weren't hauling the MANPADs everywhere and if they had the MANPADs available they might have preferred to wait for command authority: what if the flying helo was Maduro making his escape? Mass defections are not likely but lazy troops as tripwires rarely succeed in defending an asset, a QRF tasking typically gets the actual job done if the tripwire does its job of slowing the advance.
Whatever the case is, the military comes off looking horrible. Now the Generals have to figure out who is to blame, and the ghost soldier paradox will bite them in their ass: is Pfc Gonzales a real guy on duty or is he someone I invented to fund the downpayment for my yacht?
2D3D
14d ago
its a good play. China can make a big show of its buildup and they are a serious threat, but a reminder that the USAs military stumbles in the 2010s was due to political constraints and not inbuilt capability is always good to hang over upstarts.
2D3D
14d ago
100% agree, no notes.
This is as close to a total regional fait accompli as you can get. More than that, the ecstasy from the Venezuelan and most of the South Americans is palpable. If it results in Venezuelans queueing up to self deport, even if its just a registration of intent, it secures Trumps decisiveness as the key unlocking US regional primacy. The US always COULD do it, it just never chose to, and it resulted in ill for itself as well as the region.
USA being a massive rich country that refused to crack down on its own people that partook of narcotics freely flowing across the border is what crippled South America (ok fine one of many things). If US could just LOOK decisive occasionally it changes the calculus for any actors that wish to exploit.
2D3D
14d ago
At this point I'm convinced whoever was on air defense duty was told to go for a midnight taco raid and the presidential guards rushed maduro out made a wrong turn straight into a delta team and oh no the clumsy americans dropped a usb with 10 bitcoin on it what clumsy fumblefingers they are.
2D3D
15d ago
Honestly, pretty based if USA immediately smacks Maduro immediately after Maduro gets assurances of Chinese support. Really fucking funny anime style twist you could have seen coming a mile away yet still lands because the execution is chefs kiss.
If this fails its just a comedy, so win win for me either way.
2D3D
15d ago
Yea its already over; either the HVT objective has been met or a new narrative spin will be executed to justify why the shock and awe is a sufficient first demonstration. Either way, bringing in rotary assets unmolested into Caracas is fucking ballsy and signals total degradation of any Venezuelan air control, especially given the lack of even preliminary SEAD/DEAD.
It might be a fait accompli if Maduro stayed put because he believed his own copium regarding air defense or bigbrains asserting that USA doing this was retarded. For all the degradation of the US military as a strategically independent thinker they do at least maintain kinetic capability and wont put boots on the ground without a decisive vetted go signal. At least for their sake I hope so.
2D3D
21d ago
Unless NSA overpays relative to FAANG and keeps everyone on an ideological leash the talent simply wont flow to the US state. The smartdicks with some vague natsec aspirations might go join Anduril to pretend at building Cyberdyne systems skynet. And thats only if Anduril stays off the DOD security asset whatever list so the staff dont get flagged at every port of exit.
2D3D
21d ago
The left absolutely subscribes to America being number one, its just their version of America instead of what America actually is or what the right and normies say they want. What the left wants is hard to pin down, but I'll stake it on some form of vague internationalist semisocialism that serves primarily to keep their own enemy, the right (kings, kulaks, landlords, their dad) in the ground and they themselves on top - with a similarly vague hope that everyone else who helped the leftist get on top of the pecking order will accept that leftists ascension as a fait accompli.
2D3D
1mo ago
While I'm sure most work being bullshit was the cause of capability requirements withering, I also think that our favourite bugbear here of DEI or rather its predecessor of Affirmative Action plays a role. Reducing the need for someone to actually know the broad based technicals of their job in exchange for being capable of doing something specific makes jobs lottery tickets for the incapable. As long as someone is not an active fuckup or active liability they can be held on payroll forever since their actual outcomes are materially unimportant. Annual KPI exercises are so easily gamed that you have to be an actual retard to fail in a firm that is able to plod along, and so if KPI isn't a way to get rid of someone then its just Team Spirit. And on soft metrics like that then theres no way they're getting rid of someone in the Protected Classes.
Isnt the whole genesis of this thread the converse whereby authors conceal their AI generated content?
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