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fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
3m ago
I would like to present one of ChatGPTs greatest works, it's also like chatGPT 3 or 3.5.
Shooty shooty pew pew pew!
Let’s all learn what guns can do!
Liberals in the USA
Love to nod their heads and say,
“You bought your guns from a store!
You can’t fight a civil war!
Fight the army, you will lose!
They have jets and tanks to use!”
That’s not where the story ends!
They have homes, and kids, and friends!
Tyrants threaten you with bombs?
Just remember: they have moms!
You can’t live inside your jet!
Can we find you? Yes, you bet!
You’d send soldiers and marines
Up against AR-15s?
They’re outnumbered ten to one.
That is why I need a gun.
Don’t forget, because it’s true:
Government is scared of you.
BreakerofHorsesandMen
5m ago
Fascinating! I also had to memorize the Middle English Canterbury Tales prologue, and can still rattle off the first few lines. I always thought that was a unique quirk of my generally crazed junior-year English teacher.
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
11m ago
Have competent technocrats in positions of power? And then have them do competent things publicly
The Canadian liberals just did this pivot, although we'll see if they can follow through
I will note that since mechanisation, you kinda need militia to have tanks and MANPADs in order to provide a credible deterrent to tyranny.
What's your understanding of how the GWOT went? That's what it looks like when the American military goes up against a determined adversary armed primarily with small-arms and scrounged explosives.
Now, you might argue that America's heart wasn't really in it. Is their heart going to be more in it when it's their own homeland they're burning and shelling? Also, in the GWOT, America's military operated in a foreign land, while their entire support structure, industrial base, and their soldiers' friends and family were perfectly safe on the other side of an ocean. Try to picture how this goes when it's not just a soldier's fellow squaddies getting mortared in their barracks, but their kids' preschool.
This claim that government overthrow requires nation-state resources appears to be unkillable, and it will never cease to baffle me. There is approximately a zero percent chance that America as a going concern could survive a significant portion of its population concluding that they were being ruled by actual tyrants. Things would go so bad so fast it would make your head spin.
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
15m ago
I think his point here is that repeatedly having sex, if left to run it's natural course, will result in a baby.
So repeatedly having sex and always using birth control means you've deviated from the natural course in a way that prevents a baby from growing up
BreakerofHorsesandMen
15m ago
I recall memorizing The Charge of the Light Brigade and The Destruction of Sennacherib as a yoof, and have had cause to pull out lines from each as the occasional pithy bon mot. I’m sure that if I had memorized more, I would have more pithy bon mots at exactly the right time, which does have a certain value socially. Even among Red-Tribe!
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
28m ago
don't have premarital sex
How is convincing western populations not to do this going?
Follow up question, does abstinence only sex education show any efficacy in preventing pregnancies?
rverghes
28m ago
Two things:
- You can interview with other companies while employed.
- You don't have to take an employment offer if you don't want to.
Start applying to jobs and interviewing. Don't restrict yourself to embedded, you can pick up other skills/languages. You don't need to lie, just present yourself fairly. You'll get a much better appreciation of your standing, and what other companies are looking for. Also interviewing is a skill, and it's worth practicing on its own.
After a few months, you'll be able to make a much more informed decision. Also I echo the others saying that embedded development generally signals competence in our field.
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
29m ago
Because 1 clearly doesn't work?
Remember all the abstinence only culture war stuff in the late 2000s / early 2010s?
Pretty sure abstinence only sex ed resulted in the highest rates of teenage pregnancy
self_made_human
C'est la vie
29m ago
There is an obscure Indian poem that got engrained into my skull during second grade, and somehow never managed to fall out again. I can't really do much with it, because it's a poem for second graders.
Tanista
31m ago
Yeah, one wonders how much of the Democrat's lack of dominance in new media is just cause the new media that'd parrot the party talking points are just...the old media. So you look at a scary chart where the right is routing Democrats but it doesn't account for the people who just still trust the telly.
Left-wing new media has to spec to capture dissatisfaction with the Democratic status quo which is why there's no unanimity. Right wing media can at least be united by being against the left wing culturally.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
35m ago
A good chunk of an executive's job is having meetings with important people, this is standard stuff for executives. They're off to Davos, London, Brussels all the time flying the flag, trying to influence people, feeling self-important, hobnobbing.
Also, AI is very important. It is genuinely significant that I could copy in your post to Claude or ChatGPT and get a considered albeit milquetoast response with more em-dashes than you can shake a stick at. It says the same thing that pigeonburger is saying, that there's moral legitimacy that the Catholic Church can provide, that they might want to shape Pope Leo's response (like his 19th century namesake who tried to balance between capitalism and worker-protectionism). It also agrees there's a tension between transhumanist tech elites and traditional moral conceptions of humanity, that there's a large-scale, civilization-scale change that tech is aiming for.
You best start believing in transhumanist techno-religion, you're living in a world with thinking, conscious (by which I mean 'awake' in the sense that Siri is not) machine-spirits. This is a momentous change. For the entirety of history we have been the only entities on this planet with advanced mental faculties. Now we are not. It's really not just about the money, it's about everything else.
What aspect of life will not be touched by AI? People are going insane right now with sycophantic delusions proffered by AI. The redditors of /r/changemyview got their brains rearranged by Claude. People are loving and ERPing with their cyberwaifus and husbandoes, spending enormous amounts of time on character.ai. Everywhere I see the signs of AI writing, in media, in news, in diction and essays.
People are dying on the battlefield to autonomous drones and AI targeting for conventional weapons. Hundreds of billions of dollars are flowing into this technology and for good reason, it's tremendously powerful and dangerous.
TIRM
48m ago
minimum results
Border encounters have plummeted to near zero. The results are enormous.
MathWizard
Good things are good
51m ago
A good rule of thumb to predict a pro-life person's opinion on something is to mentally replace the fetus with a 1 week old (post birth) baby. Or, if you don't think babies should have rights either, maybe a two or three year old. That is the logical implication of believing fetuses are people.
Would you have sympathy for a mother who killed her 1 week old baby because her husband committed suicide? Would that sympathy extend far enough to excuse the act?
urquan
Blessings crown the head of the righteous, but violence overwhelms the mouth of the wicked.
55m ago
At the end of the day, romantic drive (in the storge sense)
I don't know that storge really describes what I'm getting at when I talk about romantic drive, but that word has been used in all sorts of contexts to mean so many different things, so I don't know.
I find it hard to meaningfully distinguish "companionate love" from "passionate love." I can understand the difference between infatuation (which often involves an impossible idealization) and a deeper intimacy based on truth, but I see a great overlap between the concept of eros and the more companionate romantic love you're describing as storge. In particular, I've been in relationships where the passion increases over time, rather than decreases -- and also where lots of things that are described as characteristic of infatuation (like "'Desire for "complete union,' permanency") also grow over time.
But infatuation is also fun! Yes, it's dangerous. Yes, it has led men and women off cliffs into the great dark beyond. But many great and valuable things begin with a little risk. When I fell in love with a woman for the first time, it was one of the most intense experiences of my life, and I've only ever been able to describe it in spiritual terms, both then and now.
Would you say that you've felt limerance before and believed on that basis that it's dangerous, or is your cynicism about eros based mostly on observing others who've experienced it?
ThisIsSin
Cainanites and Abelists
1hr ago
but older liberal women especially seem to have an unfortunate tendency to speak publicly as though they are talking to children and struggling to make themselves understood, rather than struggling to persuade
It's called "condescension".
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
1hr ago
No, it shows PP with 4% odds, when he had 1% moments before, and the newspapers had all called the election against him.
This screenshot was sent in a group chat as we talked shit about the election, not saved to specifically document the timeline of odds.
You don't have to believe me if you don't want to.
You could even probably dig into the comment section of the market and find all the people saying "hold the line" if you were so inclined.
ThisIsSin
Cainanites and Abelists
1hr ago
Well, I assume people here are rational and know both the common and academic meanings of words until they prove otherwise, and are not intentionally taking things to absurd extremes- especially without any attempt to elaborate.
ulyssessword
1hr ago
"even if someone gives fully informed consent...they have the right to [revoke it]"
Heading off on a bit of a tangent, I've seen arguments like that a few times. They never quite sit right with me, or at least they feel incomplete.
When I see that argument, I imagine a hierarchy of agreements: at the bottom are mundane ones that anyone can agree to. In the middle are serious agreements that are restricted to adults of sound mind (legal contracts, etc.) because children can't fathom the consequences of signing. At the top are super serious ones that no living human could be expected to follow through on (e.g. that take on the violinist) because adults can't fathom the consequences of signing.
With that in mind, the fully-consenting-violinist arguments says that (by analogy) motherhood is a superhuman commitment that no adult should be held to, regardless of any indications they might make otherwise.
KMC
1hr ago
The King in Philosopher-King means conquring warrior, leader of men, and warlord. They are just philosophers, at best.
ThisIsSin
Cainanites and Abelists
1hr ago
Sure, but it's also perfectly accurate; the problem comes from outdated notions of attaching a moral valence to it. It's just what each partner in a relationship has a high statistical probability of bringing to the table (or the opposite partner have a high statistical probability of attaching outsized value to) when negotiating how to live together- nothing more, nothing less. It and [love for one's partner] remain compatible with this view; indeed, love is the notion of long-term investment/convergence backstopping these negotiations.
Without that framing, the dynamics around the argument aren't comprehensible. You even get comment chains like this that show the people making these arguments are so incredibly close to completely understanding it, but are lacking that one final piece/self-honesty... or they're just burying it.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
free IUDs and Nexplanon as humanly possible
Awfully bold assumption that I don't think birth control pills are similarly murderous.
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