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asdasdasdasd
9d ago
Never happen, regardless of the commodity fetishism of it all: the east india company was able to do what it did at the barrel of a cannon and the edge of a bayonet; the US government, despite the best efforts of Theil-et-al i still not cucked enough to let space x have their own army and navy.
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13d ago
I can't imagine this amounts to much. I've done some punching of skinny shitters who think they are big ala dude who gets punched, I've likewise done some punching of dudes who think they are hard and love to ge their shoes stepped on and then start swinging like the other dude.
They are all different flavors of trash, and i don't care what happens to any of them.
I'd wanna hear what they were saying before deciding who deserves to feel the long dick of the law, especially in a country other than the US where there aren't guns everywhere so fist fights are more fun.
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14d ago
Yes; much like I expect people to know that they took mercury out of vaccines before complaining that it is giving their kids the tism.
I don't think it's too much to expect someone to read a bit and engage their faculties slightly before giving their opinion, especially about something this inside baseball; and my heuristic has had a 100% hit rate so far, as far as i can tell.
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14d ago
Both. I quite cold turkey, and now I only drink coffee until 10ish at the latest unless it's an emergency; and it's pharmacological effect is STRONG.
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17d ago
You gotta have a SHARP cuttoff for intake if you want to avoid depndence and keep the benefits of a strong response, I find..
I got super dependant at my first fake computer job; I quit cold turkey and now only have coffee in the morning before 10:30.
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17d ago
The amount of fraud from voters vs. the amount of fraud form the party in office doctoring rolls/removing polling places/judging ballots as invalid vs. people casing false ballots is so fucking huge, I just assume that anyone who cares about one but not the other is either so uninformed I should just ignore them or activally malicious.
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21d ago
The games are too mediocre to get all hett up about; the booba is bland and kind of booring unless you are a fully brain melted gooner, and the gameplay is 6/10 mid "We like Devil May Cry but all the buttons scared us :( so here is a game you can play with one hand."
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21d ago
I'm so glad that I never got into watching sports and did something much less mentally damaging and physically painful; in my case doing trad karate and getting punched in the head all the time.
asdasdasdasd
1mo ago
It's weird that that the people most strongly against anything with a whiff of collectivism (not necessarily you, unfortunately the everyone have kids NOW movement has mainly those types is it's squeaky wheels) suddenly find it in their hearts to "Think of society!"
What society? I was told it it didn't exist; from Thatcher's mouth to God's ears as is proper in these days.
IMO, If you want people to have kids, you gotta recreate the collective structures of the past, and not just the rose tinted 50s nostalgia about gingham dresses and whites only drinking fountains. Back in the old country people had lots of kids at least in part because they could count on the neighbors letting them sleep on the floor if the roof blew off their house, from the richest to the poorest. I spent ate a lot of lunches in random people houses around town, because that where I happened to be around lunch time.
Re relative value of pursuits, maximally cynical mode: The wretches of the earth seem to have no trouble popping out kids, I remember them picking up extra shifts in my tradie days so they wouldn't have to be around them. That being the case, what is the value of adding more dead weight to the biosphere? More people to watch TikTok clips of top ten funny family guy moments funny? Why shouldn't I build my portfolio? What use is all that other bullshit that doesn't trade on the market and is therefore without value ie garbage? Should Newton have stopped playing around with all that calculating bullshit and had 8 kids that statistical would be two-ish standard deviations smarter than the average bear? Off the top of your head: Did Marie Curie have kids, and if she did what did they do, and if she did and they became cobblers or something, who gives a fuck?
Ending maximum Cynicism:
She did, and they were also historically significant people; I think one of them also won a noble prize in physics. And even if they weren't, fuck that guy for bringing it up like it's a problem. When you die, either it's all gonna go away or whatever is after isn't going to be counting medals and comparing stacks. Maybe newton should have taken a moment away form the alembic after all, although that is also a bad example. I think he didn't have kids for other reasons.
asdasdasdasd
1mo ago
Mostly agree with the historical stuff, but re. central planning: My experience is different.
In the US, the government is all carrot, no stick. It will subsidize, it will throw a couple billion dollars in in kind incentives into an industry (Me, in this case) to piss away on stock buybacks or other nonproductive bullshit (This won't even tell you what industry I was in because it has happened multiple times!), and then it will throw up it's hands like "I just have the absolute power over life and death in this nation, nothing I can do", where the dudes I've worked with in China say it is NOT that way.
Yes, it's market based, but if you fuck up you don't get a gentle pat on the back from the state and a managed bankruptcy, you just fucking go out of business; the government might not pick winners but it absolutely picks losers to make an example out of.
Not soviet style central planning, but way more central than your post makes it out to be.
asdasdasdasd
1mo ago
Like I said, options. He moved there because it was an english speaking country in the same enough time zone and he thought it might be fun, which is something you can do when you aren't a brokie (someone that earns money by doing stuff instead of by already having money)
asdasdasdasd
1mo ago
I became a computer toucher so I would never again have to interact with a soft handed motherfucking chud who was convinced in his heart that "No! They're not soft! They're not! I need that king ranch to carry an individual half sheet of osb to my suburban house! You not being sufficiently deferential to my self image has made me scared that my hands might be a little soft, so now I'm going to be a bitch about it and YOU have to manage MY emotional regulation!"
Fuck 'em. No chinaman had the fucking gaul to fuck me on a first delivery and then get mad that I called for a refund, they just brazen it out like REAL men, which is it's own hell to be fair.
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1mo ago
But all the capitalists say farmer brown will simply spin up a multi-billion dollar beef industry; using the power of his mind and his bootstraps to roll back climate change 15 years and materialise another Idaho's worth of grazing land from the ether!
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1mo ago
Names, places, and items changed or obfuscated to protect the guilty.
I have recently been part of a pseudo startup effort to build something entirely out of Made in the USA, no really material. I knew it wasn't going to work because I've actually touched a real machine instead of a computer at least once in my life, but what the hell, I thought. I made sure I wouldn;'t have to do anything email related and we set off into the high You See!'s.
The Final product required several subassemblies, including sand we tortured until it could think, some injection molded fiber reinforced plastic, some Widgets, Some Gizmos, and some fairly precise metal stuff.
We begin! The US pcb supplier cost more than 10 times as much as the equivalent shenzhen house. They took the order (nothing special, an OTS bit you can get by the 40 foot container from china), made promises, delayed for a couple weeks before providing samples which failed to meet requirements, delayed for a couple weeks before providing samples which failed QA, delayed for a couple weeks until providing samples which were great, delayed for a couple months and then shipped the first tranche, which failed QA, then dipped.
We could not find someone who had the capacity to injection mold parts in the size needed, with the reinforcement needed, for love or money. Anyone who could was either locked in to military contracts for 110 years or had retired.
Alright, move on to the next step: We could get the gizmos made in the USA. They were of lower quality than foreign made, cost more, and had more lead time, but they were from a legacy manufacturer (remember this!) and hadn't changed in 500 years, you are paying for support and legacy at that point. Worth.
The gizmos were a problem, they were in the gap between generic and specific that is entirely occupied by eg. Vietnam or Taiwan. We would have had to have them individually C&C'd.
The precision metal likewise. Someone can get it made in the USA, but not us.
Final result? Everyone involved in this project has options. I was basically there for free to help out a friend who already had money, and so was everyone else. After 18 months of someone else dealing with american business, he eventually realized what I had: American industry is straight garbage at the mid level. The top dogs are fine, the small houses are great, but everyone in between is some flavor of hustler, scammer, incompetent, or never was.
You cannot make anything new in this country without starting from the top and building out 70% of your entire production chain that you could not make 1000 times easier somewhere else, period. This is an inarguable fact; dude who had the idea has moved to australia. You WILL be seeing this produce in the next 12-16 years, either his version or someone else who had the idea at the same time, but when you see it it will have been made in china.
To make this culture war-y: This is what comes of believing the bullshit chicago school econo-cultists and capitalists tell you about how the world works instead of trusting your lying eyes. The free market is great for communicating certain information, and historically has been the only way of sending the signals that it does send. Unfortunately, it as a dogshit way to coordinate a complicated series of production and logistics processes, and will always lose out to central planning.
All the suppliers that we worked with that were worth a damn were legacy companies that got their feet under them when the US was basically a war communist state. Everyone else was worthless. When you compare this to chinese/Vietnamese/Taiwanese manufacturers who compete within a limited sphere but are incentivised and coordinated by the state, or Japanese/Korean manufacturers who have a light touch from the state but internally centrally plan their output and relationships inside a larger conglomerate or even between large conglomerates, the output of the US is more expensive, slower, lower quality, and less reliable. This is true across all productive industries.
We have the lead in tech because it is the only remaining industry where everything happens under the same house; where at no step other than the final step do you need to touch the free market; which is the step that the free market is uniquely suited to. There is a reason that firms do not adopt free market principles for internal management, that Amazon is run as a totalitarian state and not an ancap association.
Unfortunately, I don't think we are getting out of the pit the ideological capitalists have dug and the boomers have jumped in to for another election cycle or two. The republicans would rather the country collapse like England than let the state manage anything at all, and the dead hand on the tiller of the Democratic party is pointed in the same direction; about 300 boomers need to retire or die or be convinced (good luck!) before they even have the capacity to think about course correcting.
All this to say: If you have a revolutionary idea for a product and you aren't already Elon Musk, don't fucking try. Do what bro did and move to Australia and work directly with productive systems that aren't ideologically forbidden from doing the thing that works.
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1mo ago
I of course favor One, but it is a hard sell.
Most men are too emotionally weak and bitchmade at the soul level to survive one other dude calling them a fag; imagine the difficulty if all of society is pushing down on you to be more manly.
I think that's the reason the dudes who decide to not lower their heads and take what they are given are so wildly out there as a rule; degenerate coded puppy play kink at pride Fuck You if you don't like it you can eat shit and die types, they are reacting against the immense pressure to do this set of masculine things or you are ...
Effeminate! what could be worse than that, you wouldn't want people to think you weren't a manly manly man, you should think about it all the time, you should neurotically worry about it all the time, you should punish other men for not aligning with the vague societal view of manliness, you should in fact die about it instead of acting one degree off the course society has set for you. Now go back to pretending to work at the mines or yer gay.
It's why I find the alpha male manly man types personally disgusting: Weakness is contemptible, and there is nothing that signals weakness more than letting the idea that people might tut tut at you dictate your entire fucking existence. Ford f250 in the marketing firm parking lot ass
asdasdasdasd
1mo ago
This whole post against fairness as a cardinal virtue is about how it's bad for things to be unfair.
See the bit about nature, red in tooth and claw, the ultimate copout Hobbes introduced into the world for people who enjoy the current structure to use against anyone who tries to change it.
See the bit about Tyrants trying to enforce fairness. This is another appeal to nature, to the idea that the current state of the world is preferable in some way because it is natural, and it would be what, bad? Unfair? To try to change it.
If the world was actually the way it these ideas said it was, nobody would be able to write this post about it. There would be no wringing of hands about tyrants forcing society at gunpoint to allow women the right to vote and own property, as if property and voting sprung for nature. You would instead be living in Rousseau's state of nature, a solitary wanderer in the woods.
All those appeals to the past, or the future, or nature, are also appeals to emotion specifically the feeling you get when someone switches something on you or cuts in line, appeals to the feeling you get when it kinda seems unfair.
You can't avoid it. Much like UNO came with your Xbox, fairness came packaged with your prefrontal cortex.
asdasdasdasd
1mo ago
TDS is made up, the real TDS is the prion conservatives caught when Rush limbaug's earthly remains drifted heavenwards from the incinerator as his soul fell straight to hell, that tells them people not liking someone who goes out of their way to be unlikable, people thinking an open fraudster and convicted felon might do more fraud and more felonies, thinking an open liar might tell lies, is some sort of social contagion that they are above.
You can't separate the fact that people hate the dude from the fact that he deserves to be hated. The due ran a fraudulent charity, and one of the things the fraud money bought was a self portrait! That is hallmark movie villain shit!
asdasdasdasd
1mo ago
It's the opposite for me. I've never heard anything convincing from a right con about anything idological, only "X is terrible!", followed by "X didn't happen, you got mad at a fiction." followed as the moon succeeds the sun by "Well the fact that I was so easily fooled shows that X is terrible, even though it didn't happen"
asdasdasdasd
1mo ago
It kinda hard to take "You are crying wolf!" seriously when said wolf has finished off half of the sheep and is starting to eye the shepard.
I mean, did he not start another retarded middle eastern war, another retarded trade war, put a retard in charge of HHS, blow the deficit into the stratosphere? On top of that, he's doing his level best to raise gas prices past peak biden, and beat bidens record on inflation.
Those are all real, undeniable facts. I don't think the "biased media" is sneaking out at night and changing the price at the gas station or launching bombing raids on Iran.
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2mo ago
It's almost as if we live in a system where the worth of the individual and their ability to support themselves and their family is entirely determined by capital accumulation relative to other people, which society has also decided that there should be as little redistribution of this capital as is politically possible EXCEPT to people that are already well outside child bearing age.
No amount of waving the bible or chastising is going to work when you are chastising fifty times harder for not staking that paper.
asdasdasdasd
2mo ago
Allow my to stake my flag: Any consenting a adult who smokes a cigaret in the privacy of their own home should be drawn, quartered, and displayed outside the public library like its 1300.
asdasdasdasd
2mo ago
Given how reducto-ed this argument is, here I present the opposite direction reducto:
(That whole exchange replicated here):
I agree. That's why every American should be issued a Minuteman III ICBM at birth. With it's reduced capacity magazine of a single 300ish kiloton warhead; it is a reasonable deterrent against someone wandering over your property line or getting too angry on the road.
Do you not like the idea of every US citizen being able to instantly vaporize 1 square kilometer anywhere on earth? They already have access to knives and heavy rocks and such, why should we care about the means of Death? Its the ends that we are passing judgment for, in this case the ends being every small town in america instantly being vitrified the first time some chud gets fighty in the parking lot of the shitiest of it's three bars.
The argument from general effect just doesn't work for arms control, because it comes packaged with the response "So you think I should be able to buy a Mk19 40mm grenade launcher with the 48 grenade belt and mount it on top of my corolla? No? So much for freedom!"
If the argument is "X amount of rando civilians getting ventilated is the cost of freedom, counting or not counting gang violence?", that is a respectable axiomatic stance that I might hold, given how I got that thang not on me but safely stored unloaded in a floor mount safe with a box of desiccant packets I've collected from various food bags over the years.
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2mo ago
The reasons are different though: The people who hate Trump hate Trump for doing the things he promised he would do; the people who hate the Dems hate the Dems for not hating Republicans enough. If gruesome newsome came out on stage shirtless smeared in mud and declared he would bite the pancreases out of every republican in congress before drop kicking a goat into a woodchipper, his approval would go UP.
asdasdasdasd
2mo ago
You right, observe the edit.
That said, I do think Trump and co. would be in prison right now in a functional system that didn't provide infinite deference to people once they accrued a certain amount of popularity or capital. If I took documents without the black band on them out of the building they were in I would not see daylight for a LONG time; if I then refused to cooperate with the feds I would 50/50 be fucking dead.
SpaceX exists at the sufferance of the state, which has to suffer quite a lot from a retard like Musk. They are happy to be in the cuck chair at least a bit for now on account of all that neoliberalism, but that won't last forever, or even that much longer imo. Nobody wants their orbital launch capacity chained to the AI child porn generation bot.
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