ArjinFerman
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Ferrying 60 thousand people would take a while I imagine?
Sure.
Do they have any checkpoints at the entrance/exit?
Once in Ceuta, you're already on the territory of Spain, unless this is some weird special case, there are no checkpoints while travelling inside the country, or even to anywhere within the EU.
Do they even have money to pay for the tickets
Ferry tickets aren't that expensive, and even Syrian refugees from 2015 had significant amounts (to the tune of $10K) that they'd pay to human smugglers.
Also, doesn't seem to be happening
Sure, it might not pan out this way, but the plan is far from crazy.
I also just thought of another obvious play - cross the border, and cry "asylum". It will take years before they kick you out, and they might even relocate you to the mainland on their own dime.
What on earth are you talking about? "The local government?" The "local" government" is the sovereign government of Spai
Yes, as opposed to larger political entities like the European Union.
currently managed by left-wing politicians who deliberately supported what is happening. "Bumbling around randomly"? Doesn't have the characteristics of a "single ideology"? What on earth are you talking about?
Does have all the overarching characteristics of a single ideology (I may have accidently a word). You know how Spain "is managed by left-wing politicians who deliberately supported what is happening"? Turns out it's not just Spain, but every single western country. Even ones putting on a show of being "right wing". That's why it's "overarching". I don't think that's a difficult concept to understand.
Good grief. Why do you need a conspiracy at all to explain anything at all?
Because everyone is calling me a conspiracy theorist when I complain about it?
Having written all that, I can kind of squint and imagine that what you're saying is that the center of this Open Borders cult is not in Spain. So it's much more than just a Spanish problem. But that still doesn't really address my point: It is also a Spanish problem!
Sure, I don't disagree with that at all.
The Spanish people actually have significant power to stop this. And they will squander that power if they chase conspiracy theories about the Americans and the Jews. You can fire the Prime Minister and you can impeach the Judges but you can't just sit around waiting for the fall of Rome.
Look, I agree that trying to do something is better than whinging about the powers that be, but I think it's dishonest to deny that there are, in fact powers that be, that will put significant resources into preventing any of this happening. If the Spanish people organize, the entire media apparatus will immediately call them Nazis, dig for any and all dirt that can be dug out, and promote anyone who opposes you. The EU will compel social media companies to throttle your, especially leading up to elections. If by any chance you do win, and start implementing stricter immigration policy, and especially if you start impeaching judges, you will get the Poland-Hungary treatment, and your country can kiss all that sweet EU cash goodbye, and will be fined on top of that.
Again, I don't like whinging any more than you do, but we should not pretend that the challenge is limited to local national politics.
ArjinFerman
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5hr ago
ok, they took over Ceuta, then what? Are they going to settle there? I don't think local economy is able to accommodate doubling the population - so what's next?
Literally just take a ferry to the mainland?
ArjinFerman
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5hr ago
What I'm starting to see however is a troubling tendency for the European Right to blame America for all its problems. It's America's fault. There's nothing we can do, we're just a small vassal state of the Great American Satan. I think it's a cry of impotence.
Yeah, no. You can make reasonable argument for the conspiracy being located in Brussels, instead of Washington or Tel Aviv, but an argument that there is no conspiracy, and this is just an issue with the local government is more insane then the conspiracy theories you were sneering at. None of what's happening in Europe has the characteristics of local governments bumbling around randomly, and all the characteristics of a single ideology spreading throughout the elites of the entire European continent, or even the West writ large.
I don't believe that there is a secret government document titled, "Our Plan to Overwhelm Spain with Jew Power".
Yeah, instead there's probably a public non-government book (or several) that was written and read by people at the tops of government and corporate power, which may not involve "Jew Power" but definitely has something to say about replacing the native European population, and was never declared official (or even secret) policy, because these people aren't retarded.
ArjinFerman
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5hr ago
Ceuta is typically left off of lists of extant colonial holdings
On this they're kinda right. Ceuta is not a colonial holding under any reasonable definition.
ArjinFerman
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6hr ago
the gates were still not opened by residents
They were. It's just that they weren't Jewish this time around...
ArjinFerman
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6hr ago
And what I mean is that if it was not for the left's domestic policy, none of this would be happening to begin with, or at worst it would have been trivially repelled. Russia and Belarus tried the same thing with Poland and the Baltics, and didn't get far.
It is not the usual target for mass Islamic immigration
What? They're full of Muslims.
That could easily be the kind of Balkans gloating thé Israeli right loves these days.
They can gloat, or they can whinge about rising antisemitism, but I'm not dealing with both.
ArjinFerman
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6hr ago
I actually agree with you that Israel and the US is likely involved in this one, but portraying this as "out of nowhere", and the Spanish left as hapless victims of foreign schemes does not help the impression that you're singularly obsessed with Israel / the Jews, to the detriment of literally everything else.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
Tyler gambled and lost.
With that you essentially concede the argument. If he just gambled and lost, you can't blame kids these days for running the numbers and deciding the game isn't worth playing.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
Everyone will be driving electric smart cars because the experience is better. No one is going to want to drive themselves.
Yeah, you just made this a whole lot easier. Paint a tunnel on a wall, Road Runner style, and scratch your target off a list.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
This makes me happy. I always get antsy when variables are interdependent
The worst part was that Go/Redot made particle size dependent on their sprite size. I thought there'd be no practical way out of that one, because even if I wanted to fix it in the shader code, I'd have to figure out the sprite size first to normalize the particle. Then I had an epiphany, and figured I can just clamp the local vertex coordinates to (-1;-1), and (1;1), and then scale it to the desired size.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
I finished the changes in the bullet-monster, and monster-monster collisions. The latter isn't particularly visible, but it could occasionally happen that a bullet could travel deep into a group of monsters, bypassing the first few lines, and this has been somewhat mitigated now. The latter can be seen by collisions becoming more "fluid". I uploaded a new video, it should be higher quality than the last one (though you might need to manually change the settings on Rumble). I also refactored the way the monster size is handled. It used to be split across several variables, and at the end of the day it was impossible to tell what the final size will end up being. I'm now able to determine both the sprite size, and collision size, in absolute units, so that makes things a whole lot easier.
The original Alien Phobia game had two more weapons types, a grenade launcher, and explosive bullets, which I want to implement now. I'm not sure if the latter one will work out, but it's essentially the same mechanic for both, so I'll give a go.
How have you been doing @Southkraut?
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
This is not a capability I'm familiar with. Are we talking gait analysis, or is this a physiognomy thing?
The latter. Apparently there are some tells in the facial expressions, and they're somehow associated with depression, or at least the false positives they get tend to be cases of benign depression. They were boasting of accuracy to the tune of 80% iirc.
It all sounded very experimental, but it's an actual no-shit program, than an actual European country is working on, as told by one of the top dogs of [insert country] Psychological Association.
Are the foot-solder drone operators high-value?
Don't they live on military bases? That strikes me as a difficult target. I suppose you could get them when they're on leave.
Are their families and friends?
Yeah, but that sort of thing tends to make your cause unpopular.
Do you think we are 10-15 years away from solving crime?
Honestly, I think we could cut it down significantly even now, without any AI, just by applying knowledge from basic police statistics, it's just that the powers that be don't want to do that.
That said, I'm far from 100% convinced the AI thing would work out, or that it has no counter measures. Just thought I'd throw a curve ball at you.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
Here is a scenario a single small step outside that frame. Leave aside the tribal shibboleths and focus on the material specifics: how would 300,000 autistic trannies and their drones under the Biden clone presidency effectively forestall this scenario?
High-value targets will have much better security (CCTV, gated communities, armored cars, armed security, etc), especially if that sort of thing takes off. For this scenario, I'd deploy the 300,000 autistic trannies as a pre-crime unit. Even European governments will semi-openly tell you they're working on AI that can clock terrorists from a picture of their face (as in: predicatively, not just matching them to a known terrorist), and apparently they got pretty good results.
Hard to tell how the game would play out after that, I could imagine the insurgents still pulling it off, if there's enough of them, they're organized well enough, and have impeccable op-sec, but it's a tall order, and the regime doesn't look all that defenseless to me.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
They can try so intensely hard to force you to give a yes or no answer that you have to either counter-bully or play slippery, and either way, you've lost just as hard.
No, normally they can't, it would make them look unhinged.
Here's a recent example of what you're talking about. The only reason it worked is because the target of the tactic is responsible for an unhinged statement she's not willing to defend, but can't back down from for political reasons. If she was actually explaining what the statement means, or distancing herself from it, the tactic would look deranged.
Adding qualifiers makes your answer weaker. Doubly so if your every word is being mined for sound bites. The most charismatic and agile speakers can still manage it, making a “gotcha” look like a normal question.
It's not about sounding weak or soundbites, it's not about looking good in clips, and it's not about charisma. This happens all the same in autistic wordcell forums, where people write page-long arguments, and getting clipped is simply not a relevant dynamic. We still either have claims that the question itself is somehow unfair, with no explanation what is unfair about it, or Celestial-body-NOS's heroic attempts to come up with something, and quickly running into one of the contradictions with an important part of the progressive ideology.
I can walk you through all the options and point out how they run afoul of progressivism. I can explain why "anyone who identifies as a woman" really is the only option for them.
I can understand that you want to be fair to all sides here, but ideologies do sometimes paint themselves into corners, and there's nothing wrong or tribal about that out. Do you think creationists or flat earthers are being unfairly gotcha'd, or is it that they just don't have good answers to many questions, and have to resort to mental gymnastics? I know, the question might seem provocative in itself, how can I compare reasonable people like liberals, progressives, and academics to religious and conspiracist weirdos. If this thought went through your head, consider that you're the tribalist one that wants your tribe to control the narrative. I'm just saying there are weirdos with goofy ideas on either side.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
Have you stopped beating your wife?
- If you answer “yes,” you’re either a liar or an (reformed?) abuser.
- If you answer “no”, you’re either an abuser or a pedant.
- If you refuse to answer, or give a waffly non answer, what does it mean?
You can also answer "I've never started", no one can actually force you to give a yes / no answer.
The reason progressives refuse to answer "what is a woman" isn't because it's some sort of trick question, it's because any possible answer is offensive to some part of their ideology. That's the only reason they settled on "anyone who identifies as a woman" even though it doesn't actually answer the question, and makes them look deranged - it beats the alternative of straying in to heresy.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
I understand why large LLM developers are against distillation. It is essentially patent infringement
Honestly, given how much FOSS code they ate to train these models, they should be compelled by law to release everything about them.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
"Female" being associated with misogyny has nothing to do trans and is more related to normie feminism.
They're kinda the same picture. Simone de Beauvoir came up with the whole "woman is a social construct" idea, and a whole lot of feminism was built on top of that. Later it was obviously also used by trans activists as well.
Part of the reason 'adult human female' rubs me the wrong way is that using 'female' as a noun in reference to humans is associated with misogyny.
That's incorrect. Many documents put male/female as sex marker, and there's nothing misogynistic about them. Cases where it might come off this way are fairly limited.
What's more, literally the only reason why people started using "female" was to disambiguate after the trans movement changed the definition of "woman". This was done on the assumption that the trans movement is acting in good faith, and it's all just misunderstanding that can be cleared up by using terms that both sides will understand. Your claim clearly shows that none of this is not happening in good faith, as even official pro-trans materials use the words "male" and "female", so your goal can only be to silence opposition.
Finally, it's extremely hypocritical to demand that your opponents entertain your outlandish definitions of words, while reserving the right to unilaterally declare the other side's words "misogynistic".
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
Isn't that catholic progressives, rather than catholic conservatives?
ArjinFerman
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5d ago
Then that can be said instead of making unproven allegations.
I think it's fine to make allegations, as long as it's clear that they are allegations, and you're not misleading people by implying you have hard evidence.
We know the Algerian government viewed her as a woman, because despite being intersex they had her competing in women's sports.
Which says precisely nothing about whether or not Khelif is, in fact, a man or a woman, particularly in the presence of a Y chromosome and testicles.
Shifting from bailey to motte here. The allegation isn't "they could have incentive to manipulate the coverage" but specifically that the 2019 change by Rotten Tomatoes is active manipulation to hide how unpopular The Oddysey "truly" is.
The issue is that this actual allegation is objectively stupid,
No, you're just misrepresenting the original argument. Unless I got lost in the conversation, I didn't see anyone say this was made for the Odyssey specifically. The claim is it was made for shitty movies in general, and The Odyssey is a specific instance to which the claim applies.
ArjinFerman
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5d ago
Dunno, never heard of him.
If you want to have some fun at his expense for being monothematic, fine.
If you want to act like "tee hee, this is all purely organic, no further explanation necessary", that's deranged. Take Israel out of the picture for a moment, do you think when thousands of Iraqis were trying to cross to the EU by way of Belarus, that was also completely organic, no further explanation necessary, or does the sudden appearance of multitudes of migrants from the middle east in one of the most authoritarian countries in the world imply that there was a certain amount of dark scheming (on the part of Belarus and Russia) to screw over Europe? Similarly, do you think that people being shipped by literal truckloads might imply some amount of dark scheming on the part of Morocco?
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