ArjinFerman
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ArjinFerman
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31m ago
So is it freedom of movement that's demanded, or deeper labour market integration? IIRC, even between EU countries, freedom of movement does not imply you get to stay anywhere you want long term, unconditionally.
ArjinFerman
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49m ago
The road to hell is paved with agitators certain their one weird trick would bring about the revolution clean energy a balanced budget ethnonationalism.
Worked for El Salvador.
In the case of Sweden, it was literally regularly cited as an example of progressive utopia back in the 00's, until they became a meme after a different type of one weird trick.
ArjinFerman
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1hr ago
And the EU has repeatedly been very clear on the matter: if Switzerland wants to keep its current level of economic integration into the EU, freedom of movement is not optional. All bilateral agreements will be dissolved if freedom of movement goes.
I'm not following. Why couldn't they leave the borders open for EU citizens, and close them for anyone else? Or even if absolute freedom of movement is non-negotiable, there's all sorts of stuff you can control, like work permits, residence permits, and welfare.
ArjinFerman
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1hr ago
- Step 1: conscript Somalians
- Step 2: invade Somalia with your conscripts
Problem solved.
ArjinFerman
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1hr ago
Now ingenuity can make it work but the empty space is unused for a reason.
"Make this place liveable, and you can stay" doesn't sound like bad criterion for a residence permit.
ArjinFerman
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10hr ago
The headline pic fell victim to abbreviation. The full text probably would be too clunky to fit, so the cut it up without realizing it makes no sense anymore. The tweet they reference in the headline is a bit lower on the page.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
Call me a Western supremacist and racist but on Feb 27th I did not expect Iranians to come out looking more decent.
Maybe you haven't been paying too much attention to them - I've been mildly impressed with Iran since the Global War on Terror days under Dubya - or maybe it's my own bias - I have nothing but contempt for western elites. Perhaps a bit of both.
It's not like Hegseth has bad facial features or that I get the ick. It's that his entire shtick is shit. His… ah, I've already covered that, didn't I. Aesthetics is correlated with holistic value.
My personal opinion on the matter is that paying too much attention to aesthetics got us Ursula von der Leyen, and the entire European establishment.
I see where you're coming from, and there's something to be said for the argument. I'll even add that I hope we end up with someone better after Trump leaves office. President Hand Grenade was fun as a protest against the treasonous ruling class, but someone like him is not viable when you want to actually wield power, rather than permanently play the plucky underdog.
I concede I should have added the third line, for example: "and then Trumpists fucking lose, having debased and betrayed themselves for nothing".
No argument there. I've been calling this whole affair a disaster since day one.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
Throwaway, upon everything we've seen while I was out – do you think calling Trump and Hegseth, these two powerful men in particular, swine and worse – was undeserved?
Compared to who? As long as it's the Iranians I can agree, but none of this is new for Western, or any other sort of leadership. There's another post of yours that has not only aged well, it reached out back in time and is perfectly applicable retroactively:
Well yeah, this is about culture. I am not appalled by the civilian death toll, 170 is rather low for a major operation as far as these things go. Pete offends me aesthetically.
It's all there is to it, and all there ever was.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
A filter doesn't change shoulder or jaw width or whatever
Aee you sure? I think I've seen examples of land whales trying to pretend they're slim hotties via filters. Aren't there literal sex change filters?
Have you had a look at her Instagram? Or her photos on Google?
Yeah, they look mostly passable, with a few being a bit uncanny valley, though maybe it's because I was primed.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
Or look at her Instagram (apparently she's in Paris, which is good to hear).
The website famous for people posting their unfiltered photos?
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
I genuinely don't know what to believe anymore.
It's simple, the thing to believe is: we don't know. I think the only issue with the report is that they sensationalized the number in the executive summary, and the way they phrased it later on was fine.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
Much like with woke, I'd be careful about declaring an end of world-dominant ideologies the first moment they stumble after an uninterrupted winning streak. I can grant that the ruling elites seem to be nervously coughing about the slogans they were pretty enthusiastic about a mere few years ago, but they set into motion some rather large trends, and I'd say they are likely to continue on the strength of inertia alone. See, for example, the screeching about NY congressional elections, things like this are only likely to keep happening more, not less. Same applies to talk of "muh chips" reindustrialization, be it in Europe, or the United States for that matter - hopefully I'll be proven wrong, but so far it's all just a meme.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
But also:
"Taken" doesn't code 'the outsiders are harming us' i.e. whites, but this movie does.
You can have two very similar stories going over the same beats, but having two different messages.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
I haven't seen Citizen Vigilante but in regards to Taken I would say that this attitude says more about you than it does the movie.
I thought he's saying there is no race angle in Taken, but there is in Citizen Vigilante?
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
You, me and everyone else who is a net positive tax payer.
While your contributions are undeniably positive, if you work for the NHS, you can't be a net positive tax payer.
I managed to get to the bottom of the performance issue from last week. As suspected it turned out to be the clean-up code, where the dead bugs never actually get cleaned up, and instead get rendered to the background texture forever. As more of them die, the more of them get rendered each frame, so performance drops. After fixing it, the basic game loop is playable sustainably at 100K+ monsters, so all is well.
I managed to figure out how to beat AI into submission. It turns out that providing a reference image solves the perspective issue. When I just uploaded the old retro sprite, said "this is a sprite I'm using, can you make a similar one, but better" it does the job pretty well (1, 2, 3). It doesn't stray from the form of the reference very far, even if I tell it to go wild, but that makes sense, since this is probably the same thing that is keeping the perspective in place.
I even got it to do decent animations! This was a bit of a trip, though. I'm not very good at describing what I want, so I first got an AI to write a prompt for the video-gen AI to make a natural looking "walking animation" and to explain that this is for a sprite, so the creature shouldn't actually move. I supplied the latter AI with a sprite from the previous step, and the generated prompt, and the result looks decent. The death animation was trickier, as I wanted something "splatty", but it kept making the splatter fly off screen. "Keep everything in frame" didn't work, so I figured maybe I should provide it with a final frame as another reference. I took the final frame of the animation where it flew too far, and went to an image-gen to clean it up. Took a few tries as it also didn't understand "keep the splatter within frame", but it did grok "make it as though the splatter exploded at lower velocity, and stayed close to the body". Don't know if it's "low velocity" or "close to the body", but it worked. So now back to the video-gen I provided it with the cleaned up final frame, and... while it did use it correctly, it still made the bug projectile-vomit blood off-frame. Thankfully modifying the video prompt to also include "low velocity" / "close to the body" splatter, actually got me what I wanted. I got the best results with Seedance, other models tended to do weird morphing effects I that had nothing to do with the prompt. Anyway, now I have to rescale, and cut up the animations to make them usable, but that should be pretty easy.
Finally, I started adding new weapons. Hans, get ze flammenwerfer!
How have you been doing @Southkraut?
ArjinFerman
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5d ago
Here I said trans people are happier if they are allowed to transition and get treated as their preferred gender, and that therefore they should be allowed to transition and get treated as their preferred gender, and someone pointed to the study to rebut my claim.
You made a general empirical (which you emphasized yourself) claim, and the study was used to refute it. It was not used to make a normative claim applicable to everyone, including the most exceptional cases.
Yes, the terminology would have to be adjusted. Other than that, do you agree that that view of gender is reasonable?
Reasonable in what sense? In a descriptive one, in that there indeed are people who have such a preference? Sure. Or reasonable in a prescriptive sense, in that adopting such view of gender, and doing everything in your power to fulfill such desires would somehow be good for society? No, I disagree with that.
ArjinFerman
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5d ago
That's the certainly the impression I got from people citing the study, even if none of them said a@so explicitly.
You might be picking up correctly what their opinion is, but not their justification for it. It's particularly strange you claim that it has something to do with the study, when they don't say anything of that sort explicitly.
Do you agree some people should transition?
Depends what exactly you mean. There are scenarios where I believe people should be allowed to transition if they want to, but I don't think they should. But either way my opinion is not based on that study, nor am I using it the study to back that particular opinion.
I am not the pro-trans side;
I think that if you're going criticize the arguments people are making, you should take the context in which they are made, and what they're responding to, into account.
A simple concept of "gender" that avoids any metaphysical or spiritual claims is that "my gender is 'woman'" means "I want to be treated, in most social situations, as you would treat the average person with XX chromosomes (however you refer to such a person)". I realize this is not the version typically advocated, but I am not the typical pro-trans advocate.
If "gender" is just a desire for being treated that way, than clearly that desire exists, but then people who say "no one should transition" aren't saying "X isn't their stated gender", which would have to mean "they don't actually have that desire", they're saying they're refusing to fulfill it.
ArjinFerman
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5d ago
It's there, I guess it just wasn't approved yet.
These "we have to do the bad thing to them or else they will do the bad thing to us" statements are facile.
Then why did they, in fact, immediately do bad things to us right after pressure on them was relieved, when they loudly and repeatedly promised that all they want is tolerance?
ArjinFerman
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6d ago
The 250,000 has been the standard estimate on the British right, but it comes from a Reform peer making a guess in order to ask a Parliamentary question - basically "I think there were 250,000 - if you have a lower estimate please share it"
Weren't there more thorough reports from Rotheram, Telford, and Oxford, with actual numbers, that got extrapolated nationally to reach 250K? It's still flawed methodology, but it's not "basically I think there were 250,000".
ArjinFerman
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6d ago
This is false.
That's right. While it is true that that there are significant number of your Pakistani neighbors who could call up some friends to gang rape someone's daughter and their extended clan network will overlook it while the police ignore it to preserve "community cohesion", your daughter would be safe. Mostly.
ArjinFerman
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6d ago
Regardless of how many people actually believe this, it's obvious that politically this is the line mainstream trans activism has to take, because otherwise to exclude trans people from spaces, all their opponents have to do is relabel them from, say, "women's sports" to "female sports", and that would defeat the entire purpose of trans activism.
I saw an "ethically sourced" version of the "understanding per capita" meme too, as I was scrolling by, but I sadly didn't save it.
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The whole point is it gets you fewer immigrants at worst, and people who cracked terraforming at best.
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