ArjinFerman
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ArjinFerman
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2hr ago
I don't know if it's just "nothing ever happens", I'm that guy by temperament, and I can't see Epstein denialism as anything other then pissing on me and telling me it must be raining.
I'm leaning more towards status anxiety as the explanation, as I've never seen the same kind of skepticism from them about establishment approved conspiracy theories.
ArjinFerman
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3hr ago
I think this is hyperbole
It's not written into law, if that's what you mean, but both the actions and public statements by European governments are not consistent with equal protections under the law.
and to the degree that it's true, is it less true of European Jews?
Sort of, in that you could get away with saying things about Europeans that you would not get away with saying about Jewish people... but it's also true there's been a spooky shift in public sentiment lately.
But either way, by your logic, all this should mean is that Europeans should also be collecting passports.
As for other Jews, well, they know people like our resident Jew-haters are around, loudly proclaiming what they think of Jews and less loudly implying what they'd like to happen to them. Are you paranoid if there really are people out to get you?
Not sure if that's worse than all the talk of dismantling white supermarket cisheteronormative capitalist patriarchies, especially that anti-Jewish sentiment is still yet to reach the heights of power that the anti-cis-het-white-men sentiment is spoken from.
Is that because they hate white people, or because their religion tends to be a liberal-leaning religion?
If that was the reason, I'd expect them to be at their mist liberal where they are most religious, and I'm seeing the opposite.
The "impression" that Jews are all disloyal parasites because of the ADL is
...not what I said.
First of all I literally finished off with saying that judging Jewish people by orgs like the ADL will leave you with a skewed view of them, but more importantly: where did I say anything about disloyal parasites? I gave the ADL as an example of Jewish paranoia, and no amount of "people out to get them" justifies the levels of finding Nazism in ham sandwiches that they engage in.
ArjinFerman
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13hr ago
One of the milestones I set for myself is to have a replacement for my Nitter instance, which has been acting up lately. The road was quite bumpy, between the retarded SQL performance, and my brilliant idea to first import the Twitter data over the API, and then present it in chronological order. I thought I was saving myself duplicated code by fetching and rendering data the same way, whether I'm browsing the Twitter API, or the more generic entries of my application, but I recently realized this was doomed to failure, as Twitter does not return data chronologically. So I opted for rendering the API data directly, while importing it in the background. It went faster than expected, and things have never ran smoother. A few more tweaks and I might reach my milestone.
How have you been doing @Southkraut?
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
I would absolutely support blowing the shit out of them until every native was dead or captured and every hostage was returned. If every Canadian starves to death as a result, well that sucks but they should consider revolting against their own government if they have a problem with that.
We're not going to get to verify this, but I'd be willing to bet this is absolutely not how it would play out. The response would be police, not military, and you'd be called racist for saying that the larger group is responsible for the actions of their people.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
That's because they have a country that isn't going to suddenly decide they don't belong there.
For one, citation needed. Eastern Europe might be behind the current trend, but the current trend definitely is that Europeans have no particular claim to Europe and deserve less rights than immigrants.
For another, this reminds me of the claim that gay men are so prone to promiscuity because they've been denied marriage, and that giving it to them will moderate their behavior. Hasn't worked out for gay men, and the results for Jewish people are kinda mixed. I don't think Israel as a country or Israelis as a group, on average, can reasonably be described as "not paranoid".
NGOs like ADL are also not helping the perception about Jewish people living in other parts of the world. Admittedly this skews results quite a bit, since normal Jewish people aren't going to open an NGO devoted to showing how normal they are, and how they just want to get in with their life. Either way I don't see it as straightforward as you're describing it.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
I know there's selection effects and all, but doesn't it say something about the base rates of partaking when importing 2K ultra-rich men causes an immediate increase of the hooker population by 100? Best case scenario that implies a 5% rate the ultra-rich demanding hookers, no? (Oh shit, I think I misplaced a decimal point when conceding, and was right all along!)
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
I mean, now you're just increasing the denominator and making him even more right.
Who cares about Klaus Schwab's personal butler sniffing coke off a hooker's ass?
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
After reading the whole article:
In 2020, an investigation by The Times found at least 100 prostitutes travel to Davos for the summit according to a Swiss police officer.
Well, I guess this makes you right about both the rate, and the correlation with income. Though I suppose we'd need to know the native population of Davos prostitutes to know for sure...
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
It's also negatively correlated with income in general.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
I'm getting a 403 from the website, can we get a check on Coulter's law? The quoted parts seem a bit cagey about the identity of "the assailant".
A few weeks ago, my dad quoted some Israeli politician (whose name escapes me) at me who supposedly claimed that his proudest achievement was drawing an equivocation between anti-Zionism and antisemitism in the public consciousness. I accept that the two are not strictly equivalent, but I don't think anyone can dispute anymore that the former can often serve as a cover for the latter,
Another way to look at is: if you can't be anti-zionist without being antisemitic, because someone decided to draw an equivocation in the public consciousness that they're extremely proud of, there might come a point when they say "well, I guess that means I'm anti-semitic now".
That said, yeah, I feel the vibes have shifted on this, and it does feel kind of spooky.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
The correct question is 'What rate of pay would Jeff Bezos and his wife have agreed to in return for her assistance?'
No thanks, Software As A Servuce is bad enough, I'm not entertaining Marriage As A Service.
but that's not actually relevant so long as the court would have forced him to pay her for her labor regardless of the success it engendered -- her compensation was guaranteed, so there should be no risk premium.
It's not about compensation and premiums, it's about ownership.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
It was different times when Reddit was founded. Back then the left was confident in it's ideas, so they craved free speech as they saw it as the key to winning. It's only when they realized they can also lose on the marketplace of ideas that they turned sour on it.
Ok so you're an employer and you see an employee of yours on the internet in front of millions saying things that you view as disgusting and horrible and that you don't want in your business. Are you only allowed to fire them if they mention your company during it?
That's how it currently works. If I find homosexuality, transgenderism or Islam disgusting or horrible, I still can't fire a worker for that. I don't know if I could even fire them for activism in favor of surrogacy, even though that's not a protected class.
I never said that, but yes from the perspective of the business owner they do lose some rights from anti discrimination laws. That is just a fact.
Ok, so I'm saying we already live in an authoritarian society, and that it's odd to criticize someone as "authoritarian", when they claim authority should be wielded in a different way.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
I want worker's revolution that provides me with enlightened socialist superiors
...said no communist ever.
"Superiors"? What is this reactionary talk, comrade? This is an egalitarian, classless society! Get with the program, or get your ass to Syberia.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
I was under the impression that it was never part of psychology, but was developed by two housewives for some popular magazine or something. Like 4bpp the claims of it being like a horoscope feel like cope. If psychology has a better test, fair enough, but I'm gonna need an RCT betwwen M&B and Big Five or whatever, before I actually believe it.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
I hate you guys so much
Love you too
From falling for bipolar gf's to becoming one... I guess they really were right about staring into the abyss, huh?
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
Does anyone here know their Myers-Briggs type or ever tried to figure it out?
Ok yes I know it's pseudoscience, I know it's not much better than a horoscope
Is it actually any worse than mainstream psychology?
ArjinFerman
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5d ago
Could anyone tell who he was working for from the video, and did he said anything at all relating to their business?
If you want to say "a company should be able to fire and hire whoever they want, for any reason" there's entire books of labour law that would need to be abolished to stop the government from being "authoritarian".
ArjinFerman
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5d ago
Didn't get a chance to do a lot this week. Any better luck @Southkraut?
ArjinFerman
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6d ago
isn't that quite nuts as a standard?
How? It only would be if Stalin played in a completely different league then Hitler, and the whole argument is that they're going head to head, so they should evoke a reaction that is also on a similar level.
ArjinFerman
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6d ago
However at the behest of users such as @ArjinFerman
Oh sweet! Thanks for putting the time and effort into writing this.
I can't participate in the technical conversation, but your impression of the Rat community matches mine. On AI I'm like 90% sure that the AI doom they predict won't materialize, and the AI doom that will materialize, they won't predict.
ArjinFerman
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7d ago
I am not exactly sure how Stalin "gets a pass".
Wear a t-shirt gloryfying Stalin for a day, and then one glorifying Hitler on another, and compare the results.
He has this weird one-two "pouncing panther - wounded gazelle" gimmick, that I personally got rather fed up with. Maybe he got better after moving on from here, but that would go against my priors of how becoming an influencer affects people.
ArjinFerman
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8d ago
Sorry, I misunderstood the contents of these warnings, but can you blame me for liking my version better?
Either he was directly assassinated by the intelligence agencies he was working for, so he won't expose the extent of his operation to the public, or was assisted with his suicide for the same reason.
When you see someone destroying evidence, you should assume that said evidence was important by default. But if you want a theory, it's that his clients likely included many powerful and influential people, who need to be punished.
No shit? What else do you expect when authorities refuse to follow up on leads?
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