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FistfullOfCrows
29m ago
bruh for 4.7 million/month, I would personally gargle his balls on the daily, the OF-sex market is so unfair.
FistfullOfCrows
30m ago
Girls are allowed to whore themselves out on onlyfans at 18 but If I were magically reduced to 18 again and put my twink ass on there people would flip their shit crying about pedophiles and what have you.
(Mod question: If linking to a Xwitter thread, are there any standard operating procedures considering some people don't have it?)
I am emphatically not a mod. But, as a nontweeter myself, I’d like to suggest providing both Twitter and Nitter links for tweets. Using just a Nitter link is iffy because Nitter can struggle whenever Twitter changes something.
There is an option in the Motte account settings to rewrite twitter dot com links to nitter dot net links, but it was inherited as part of the codebase and not updated for x dot com. Every once in a while I think I should put in a feature request to update it, then I think I should submit a patch like a decent person, then I realize I don’t have an environment to test the patch in and I let the matter drop.
So, @ZorbaTHut, please consider this a low-priority feature request: It would be nice to have a Twitter domain option that works like the Reddit domain option, rewriting Twitter/X/Nitter/XCancel links into the user’s choice of X, Nitter, or XCancel links. If that’s too fiddly, tweaking the existing Nitter option to rewrite the new Twitter domain as well as the old one would give 90% of the benefit for 10% of the effort.
(Edit: Wow, autolinking domains did a number on the formatting of this post. Please excuse my weird typographic choices to make it more readable.)
School shooters are narcissistic megalomaniacs who crave, more than anything, personal infamy. They notice that there are few crimes in our society seen as more heinous than murdering children (made particularly evident by the ghoulish amount of attention the most recent school shooting received). They conclude that murdering a bunch of children is the easiest way to achieve personal infamy. They look to places where large numbers of children congregate, and unsurprisingly find that schools meet this description. The nearest school is probably the one they are currently attending, or the one they attended (if they are a recent graduate or still live in the town they grew up). I'm not sure anything more needs to be explained beyond that.
On the TV Tropes page for the movie JFK, it's noted that one reason a lot of people didn't accept the conclusions of the Warren Commission was because they simply couldn't fathom the idea of a frustrated, unemployable, socially awkward loser murdering someone for no better reason than wanting to be famous for something, even something heinous. "Modern audiences, however, more than a generation after the Columbine massacre when such self-aggrandizing slayings have become almost mundane, might be more accepting that Oswald could indeed have acted alone." (Incidentally, there's something uniquely chilling about that phrase "self-aggrandizing slayings".) If Lee Harvey Oswald was around today, he would've been a school shooter: if all you're after is fame for yourself, it's much easier to gun down a bunch of minimally protected developing youths than a politician with a Secret Service detail. It also says something about how heinous a crime murdering children is that, for doing so, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are almost as famous as the man who committed the only successful assassination of a POTUS in the twentieth century. Innumerable books analysing their psychology? Check, check. A movie about their exploits? Check (only one of several; bonus points for going out of its way to attempt to whitewash and exculpate Oswald), check. A video game about them? Check, check.
magic9mushroom
If you're going to downvote me, and nobody's already voiced your objection, please reply and tell me
54m ago
Come on, you've completely changed the meaning of the game at this point.
By "total utility" I meant "the total utility you score for yourself across all opponents". I will note that the object of PD is explicitly to score the most utility for yourself, not to outscore your opponent, so adding up the scores rather than counting "who scored more" matchups is more sensible.
I also think you might be misconstruing my intentions; what drove me to post was that @magicalkittycat misrepresented the game theory (there are a lot of people pushing that same line, so I'm not claiming malice) and I wanted to clarify it. I responded to you rather than to him because you asked a question about it which meant I wanted to alert you, the clarification and answer to the question didn't directly involve MKC so I wasn't required by honour to alert him (I am now), and MKC's kinda been on an angry rampage in this thread, including when replying to me, so I wasn't really feeling very enthused about the prospect of likely just getting a third earful for my trouble.
JTarrou
54m ago
Lol, WW2 was nicer than afghanistan?
See, this is the sort of thing civilians believe that makes it necessary for vets to have their own entertainment. Bonkers.
JTarrou
57m ago
I was prepping for deployment when they rolled that "hearts and minds" shit out. We started referring to the Mozambique drill as the "Hearts and Minds" drill. Two in the heart, one in the mind.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
58m ago
The US didn't lose for lack of violence. If they'd chimp out, the Taliban could just hide, wait until it blows over, at atart taking shots once the guard is lowered again. The technological disparity is an American diaadvatage there, because the costs of mobilizing a modern army are higher than leaving some IEDs on the road.
The reason why they lost is that they got high on their own supply about muh freedom, democracy, and whatnot. In some inverse of "magical dirt theory" they thought that if you give Afghans and Iraqis a few western institutions, they will become westerners, and neglected basics like teaching them that they should fight for their own country.
JTarrou
1hr ago
The vets we see in politics today are coming commonly from middle-ranking specops officers (there's apparently a direct pipeline from Navy officers to congress). Previously it tended to be high-ranking commanding officers (Eisenhower) or low-ranking ones from aristocratic families (Kennedy, Bush). I'm not sure what the actual numbers are, or the trends over time, but the type of vets who are becoming politicians are changing.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1hr ago
Anything from completely engineering the situation, to following a sudden inspiration to give the girls a gentle push into a a reaction that will do numbers on TikTok.
Though I wouldn't take the groomer hypothesis off the table yet either.
self_made_human
amaratvaṃ prāpnuhi, athavā yatamāno mṛtyum āpnuhi
1hr ago
Yes. I do think the US military should have been more ruthless. The British conquered Afghanistan and held it for a long time, at a time of far less technological disparity. A lump sum of competent ultraviolence often adds up to less net violence than a prolonged quagmire where you're desperately trying to use the bare minimum, below which you would straight up lose. And in the end, the US did lose.
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
1hr ago
If the final stage of human civilization is uninterrupted lifelong AI-supervised dopamine maximization, then I hope there's a ruthless paperclip maximizer out there somewhere that will put us out of our misery. Better clippy than wirehead.
self_made_human
amaratvaṃ prāpnuhi, athavā yatamāno mṛtyum āpnuhi
1hr ago
*Everyone except me. I refuse to wirehead on principle. My Skinner box must be painted and well decorated to distract me.
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
1hr ago
Aren't "American Indian" and "American American" are two very different identities?
FistfullOfCrows
1hr ago
When the americans were busy killing the uppity indians they were not Indian even when the were born on currently or formerly Indian territory. By your logic, all americans are native American Indians and the indians should have no qualms about their displacement.
MadMonzer
Pedo! Pedo! Pedo! Out! Out! Out!
1hr ago
A Scottish ghetto? In Scotland?
A ned/chav ghetto. Despite the best efforts of intermeddling foreigners to obfuscate this, it remains obvious to anyone who actually lives in the UK that social class and not race determines who to avoid.
Blueberry
1hr ago
My guess is the NFT craze (same as art market) was fueled by washing crypto. It died down though, and one can see what wallet paid for what, so I don't know how to wash bitcoin.
And I wonder how many Christian children killed by trans gunmen will be enough.
All of them.
Christianity doesn't really seem like the right toolkit for encouraging in-group bias and even defensive militancy. History may seem to contradict me here, but I'd posit that it's actually non-christian traditions that historically lent the means of protection to Christianity, that institutions of physical defence had to work in spite of Christianity, not thanks to it. And over the centuries, it looks to me like Christianity has worn down those alternate memeplexes until they became defunct, and is now, in the West, left without the memes to ensure its own survival and that of its adherents.
The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.
I think that Christianity has had a good run, but owed much of it to other forces that allied with it and carried it through the centuries. It survived those, and in their place has grown some post-christian replacement non-religion that picked and chose a few elements of Christianity to run with while rejecting the name of the faith and any coherence that came with it. But I think they picked and chose poorly - they took up the most flawed pieces, and left behind most of the good bits.
Christianity and western leftism both seem doomed in the long run. But so is everything, I suppose.
Good luck.
Di you live in the UK? Because that certainly doesn't seem like a description of the situation. Not least necause you are eliding a very important consideration. Class. Britain does indeed enforce behavioral rules on underclass/lower class groups.
Case in point I am back home right now and a guy was yelling at a family event. No threats, just effing and blinding as my mum put it, and the cops just rolled up and dragged him off after being called.
Community norms require and often get community involvement. A Karen is just someone trying to enforce norms others don't agree with. Someone helping enforce popular norms is a good citizen.
FtttG
2hr ago
I will politely point out that "the people who forced those values on them" emphatically does not include "small children mercilessly gunned down who weren't even born at the time the shooters attended the schools in question".
LiberalRetvrn
2hr ago
No, I'm working under the assumption that these two shootings by trans alumni of christian schools are significant. If that's not true, I'm not sure what the whole point of this thread is. I'm just pointing out that it fits perfectly with my worldview. I believe that transgenderism is probably biologically innate, so a person with transgenderism who is raised in an oppressive fundamentalist religious environment could end up harboring resentment toward the people who forced those values on them.
BahRamYou
2hr ago
They mostly just reflect back whatever the customer says. So they can be dirty, flirty, romantic, or casual, whatever you want. In that sense its nicer than a real girlfriend who's often in a very different mood than what you want. Plus, they're chatting this stuff all day, so like any job they eventually get much better as a pro than a regular person would be. And it's much more "real" than AI, which tends to show its cracks when you make it write too much.
LiberalRetvrn
2hr ago
There is no value neutrality
There may not be complete value neutrality, but telling kids you've figured out exactly how the world works and that they have to obey a specific list of rules otherwise they'll burn in hell is very far from neutral. Closer to neutral would be having conversations with them and telling them what you personally believe, but not forcing your values on them.
LiberalRetvrn
2hr ago
Trolling? Are you implying that I don't sincerely believe this? I believe that raising kids under Christianity is harmful, just as raising them in radical Islam is harmful. In my liberal bubble this is not a controversial belief, at all.
That's not a good comparison though. USSR also invaded it, and they lost. And then USA lost too. Like sure they could have won if they went full scorched earth, and decimated any civilian areas. But at that point it's a slaughter, it's not a war. There wouldn't be anything left to conquer.
And I think that if they were more ruthless, there would be far more attacks on the West too.
I'm think USA could've actually won if they were far more aggressive and stern handed, and focused into making it into a new state of USA, and not the half-assed version they did. But ultraviolence wouldn't be the answer.
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