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ABigGuy4U
21hr ago
Look, I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with Anya Taylor Joy, I’m just saying it’s tacky and historically inaccurate to have an... “Extraterrestrial-American” actress in a movie about Vikings. It’s probably for propaganda purposes, even if she is a good actress.
EverythingIsFine
Well, is eventually fine
21hr ago
Yes and no, actually a bit of hard question. Let me say this. Factually, world-building-wise, the world absolutely is not in medieval stasis.
In practice, the theme you allude to is not emphasized, with maybe one major exception. Most of the story and its themes are focused on Frieren's own characterization and experience and thus most of the world-building is more subtle and done in the background (exposition is rare). Frieren has only about three major formative periods of her 1000+ year life that we've seen details for. 1000 years ago we see some more rare flashbacks and people are dressed in Greek/Roman style clothing, so that has an implication there. However, we spend most of the time in the present with some semi-frequent flashbacks all within the last 70 years or so. We also see in the anime's current plot (28 22-minute episodes) mostly rural countryside, too, so it's hard to get a precise bead on tech development, though the source material not yet adapted eventually will show a more advanced nation. The visual vibe is maybe 1400s, we do see some pretty clean and well built out cities.
The one massive exception: tech advancement is not the focus because the show's 'tech' is magic, and magic advancement IS definitely a major theme, dealt with directly. Magic goes from restricted to humans (hoarded by elves and natural to demons, thus a major taboo) to humans leading major advances (even somewhat threatening the elves with their thousands of years of practice), and that comes up and will come up again.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
22hr ago
Yeah, on the margins technology (or at least something) is clearly having an effect. Maybe it's some chemical in food or water. Or one of those classic social science multifactorial explanations with 50 different causes.
The 'true human love will always prevail' rhetoric is just a story trope. Those bars, nightclubs and third spaces are still shutting down, are they not? We can see the statistics.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Infographics/comments/1c742ed/percentage_of_americans_married_by_birth_decade/ We can see the statistics on marriage like you say.
AI pornography is the worst it'll ever be.
GBRK
22hr ago
ast Twitter! How often did it turn a profit? Why did these companies keep on getting funding at ridiculous valuations? Maybe it is a way of doing sentiment engineering at scale through various behavior modification tricks with Likes, upvotes, retweets.
TBH I'm kind of inclined to dout that the reddit board as an organism is "smart" enough to do that, except in the broadest sense. Like, with as much data and control as a social media site has, I'm pretty sure I could be way more effective at pushing my own ideosyncratic policies than any existing social media site actually does. Reddit at it's most ruthless just sort of vaguely boosts leftism in the exact same way that tumblr and pre-elon twitter did. Probably because if anyone in particular starts trying to press a view hard, there's too much disagreement on the specifics to get very far. Just imagine a world where, for example, the entire board of higher-ups at facebook were monarchists, including Zuck. They definitely have the power to make monarchism a credible political subcurrent in america... but I think they would sincerely fail to advance the cause of a particular monarch. Zuck would want himself, of course, but members of his board might be crypto-orleanists, or avowed bonapartists. In the process of promoting monarchism more generally, they'd have plenty of latitude to advance their own causes, in the end causing self-interference and averaging out.
urquan
Hold! What you are doing to us is wrong! Why do you do this thing?
22hr ago
royal
America
Wait, why do I hear musket fire in the distance?
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
22hr ago
Dangit I wish we had royal clubs in America.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
22hr ago
Wait I'm confused what's wrong with Anya Taylor-Joy?
GBRK
22hr ago
So a between-sibling GWAS of persons born in WEIRD society and one or both parents are mixed-races would find answer.
It would find a very limited version of the answer. Again, even if you find that the measured relative average IQ difference between groups A and B is caused by genetics, it doesn't necessarily prove that the measured relative average IQ difference between group C versus A and B is due to genetics. Even if you find a result that applies to "nigerian immigrants in america" the selection effects of immigration would invalidate extending the result to "nigerians in nigeria."
Why? Selection eliminates deleterious alleles from population. What constitutes deleterious depends on current environment. So you may find some population where selection for IQ-lowering alleles intensified but selection for bad running (or immune systems) relaxed.
If there's still a single target "golden brain" it doesn't matter how weak or strong IQ selection effects are for it-- every group will aproach it asymptotically over time, though some groups will take longer than other. For IQ to be traded off versus, say, faster running, you need to start thinking in terms of the actual tradeoffs for having big brains-- mainly metabolic, but also head size, injury likelyhood, pregnancy difficulty, etcetera. And when you start thinking about the biological tradeoffs, it becomes obvious that,
- The very recent past has had extremely different selection pressures than the agricultural and hunter-gatherer past
- There is massive intra-race variation between subpopulation lifestyles and when they entered, as a cohort, the agricultural and modern eras
Therefore, at least naively, any aggregate difference between races due to a hypothesized selective effect should be present itself even more sharply within a race. If you want to explain IQ differences between whites and blacks as being caused by earlier or later starts to settled agriculture, feudal societies, democracy, modern medicine, etcenera-- then those same differences should be that much more visible between, say, Italians and Poles, or Madagascarans and Kenyans.
I can't wholly rule out places where this dynamic actually seems to appear-- as in the sharp difference between Azkenazi jews and everyone elser. But at least so far, we've explained only a tiny part of sub-racial and inter-racial IQ differences this way.
Why? I'd agree that non-equal allocation of IQ points can be better, but the premise was to test different IQs.
If we want to test whether IQ is a good measure of individual intelligence, we want to hold as much as possible as a control versus either modern society or some primitive state of man so we can be sure that it's IQ specifically that's making the difference. Putting people with similar test-taking performance may or may not be a confounder. Probably random group allocation (and group sizes) would be ideal for eventually extracting the most interesting observations. Of course doing that on large enough scale to get good data for every possible combination of IQs is combinatorially impossible, but this whole thought experiment is impossible anyway.
faceh
22hr ago
I really, REAAALLLY despise that for any given popular female internet figure, there's at least even odds that their 'main' account, where-ever that may be, is the top of a sales funnel that leads to some kind of sex work at the bottom.
I also despise that the 'meta' for such accounts is almost always to pretend not to have a boyfriend even if they are fucking married, and to deflect but not reject the misguided romantic ambitions of their followers.
And the "joyous" thing about people streaming the entirety of their lives all the time is that when they end up having a meltdown, its aired publicly for drama points too.
Its about the most toxic cycle of drama begetting drama for a hapless but raptly attentive audience while producing nothing of value in the process I could imagine.
Of course, that's humans for you, the evolutionary pressures of tracking social drama for surviving the ancestral environment makes it so we fucking LOVE following popular train wrecks.
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
23hr ago
This is a funny question, are you trying to figure out how many people are rural/in flyover states?
- 1km
- presumably within 2km
- ~40km and it's almost certainly corn
- Canadian so I'm going to use Via, 2km
- funnily enough, 4km, it's kind of annoying how far it is/how few Walmarts Toronto has
- 25km, depending on traffic this is infinity far away, thankfully there's a train to there
faceh
23hr ago
Well, Amouranth specifically moved to competing site Kick in exchange for a bunch of money. Looks like she only recently returned.
And not for nothing, Kick's whole value proposition vs. Twitch is that its more lenient with the content it allows, since they are trying to drive traffic to gambling sites.
Forty-Bot
23hr ago
clo
23hr ago
It's just a superficial fashion choice that doesn't mean anything so it's wrong to judge people for it
What? This is a non-argument. People judge each other all the time on everything that exists.
One line disproof of your friend's argument: go to an away sports game wearing the opposing team's shirt in the bleachers. Depending on the sport and country, that can get you mauled. You, as an individual, don't get to assign meaning for the larger population - only to yourself.
faceh
23hr ago
Yeahhh...
I think there's a lot of work being done by cultural norms of "we are recording you for safety and security purposes, and we will never publish footage except to advance those goals." Hell, nobody is even going to look at that footage except to detect the criminal activity.
And we've been acclimatized out of those norms as high quality digital cameras are now everywhere.
And the understanding of 'privacy' is a bit ambiguous.
For me, I would agree that "I have the right to stop anyone from recording me while I'm out in public" is stupid. But, "I have a reasonable expectation that my face/identity won't be published on the internet if I'm not doing anything dangerous or illegal" is a decent standard, I think.
Otherwise, we kind of move towards a world where everyone dons a disguise out in public just to maintain some semblance of anonymity.
Oh, I know for a fact that it was an AI. What's interesting to me is the exact nature of the AI. I can trivially imagine designing an AI moderator to actually promote community health; using strictly existing techniques, for example, you could prompt the moderator to consider previous user posts, and also to make public verdicts that can be upvoted/downvoted to influence future behavior on that user. (Like, if the moderator comments are broadly disagreed with, it self-deletes, but if the moderator "notices" it has a history of commenting specific types of well-regarded warnings to a specific user it's more likely to take action.)
But as I explained, reddit clearly isn't trying to improve community health.
4doorsmorewhores
23hr ago
If that's true then what's your explanation for the drop in sex, number of sex partners, marriage, dating etc since the advent of highly engaging and digital entertainment and social media?
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
23hr ago
OK, sure. But if I go here (The Highest Peak Viewership Twitch Streamers for this month), it still looks like a total gamer sausage-fest. https://www.twitchmetrics.net/channels/peak
Or here, I see Emiru. She's got 25th most views this month. There's another woman at number 43, extraEmily that you mention and eyeballing it, that's it for women. The rest are all men. https://www.twitchmetrics.net/channels/viewership
There are some huge female youtubers few adults have ever heard of: Anastasia Radzinskaya and Kids Diana Show. They're children and do songs for kids, hit em with the autoplay algoroithm, get hundreds of millions of views. Besides them and some musicians youtube is pretty barren of women.
Twitch is like youtube, chess, sport, business, science, maths, war, standup comedy and much else besides, top talent is male.
WestphalianPeace
23hr ago
i can see some cashiers wearing these to protect themselves from accusations of rudeness/racism.
"gimme cigarettes."
- "of course, what type"
"newps"
- "grabs Newports"
"no the tall pack"
- "*grabs the tall pack"
"no the tall soft pack man. what the fuck"
- "of course sir. one moment. *grabs newport softpack 100's". I just need to scan your ID"
"man what the fuck. fuck you. you saying I look like a kid"
- "I'm sorry sir. I just have to scan the ID of anyone who looks under 30" (guy looks 17)
"this is bullshit. you racist man. fuck you. i wanna see your manager man. what the fuck"
- "grabs manager"
"hey i just wanted to get cigarettes and he's acting all racist. calling me a kid. and rude too. you know how he does this?"
it's a nationwide scourge. and, wanting to avoid an escalation scene, a company is absolutely inclined to throw a peon under the bus if it means avoiding a nationwide scandal.
at some point people in low status positions whose jobs are under daily threat will start to look to technology like this to protect themselves.
Forty-Bot
23hr ago
MBTI is binary big5 (ocean) without neuroticism and with German pseudo-science for spice.
Iconochasm
2. Bootstrap the rest of the fucking omnipotence.
23hr ago
Not exactly a book club, but as a former precocious and voracious reader, the Great Illustrated Classics served me well at that age. It's classic literature like Jane Eyre or The Red Badge of Courage rewritten to almost exactly that level, but the maturity of the underlying subject matter makes them hit much better than other books for middle schoolers. Excellent mix of volumes for boys or girls, and more than enough to keep the kid busy until she's ready to try (and fail) to read OG Dickens.
And I'm very happy to note that the prices are very reasonable for books these days.
Primaprimaprima
...something all admit only "TRUMP", and the Trump Administration, can do.
1d ago
Indie meaning non-hololive yeah. Just random women with their own channels.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
1d ago
Lmao so cutting! And so ironic. The product is called waves, your name is Wave_Existence. Ease your mind, that was the extent of the mental bandwidth I expended on you.
Was it the nanny state when the government updated its laws about child pornography distribution in response to the development of p2p technology? When is it sane to invoke the constitution in your eyes, if not when there is a question about the potential legality of an action or technology?
I was using it colloquially to refer to the right to privacy, sorry for confusing you. But do you have any reason - at all - to assume the government won't use privately made recordings like they have tried to with ring cameras and bodycam footage?
It doesn't make me feel a little uncomfortable, it infringes upon a principle I grew up with and will fight for no matter how sisyphean the task. You might live such a tame and banal life you have no need for a general expectation of privacy in your private life, but I do not.
OracleOutlook
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
1d ago
- 20 minutes
- 2 hours
- 5 minutes, corn.
- 20 minutes
- 15 minutes
- Local airport has "international" in the name but doesn't go to any other countries. Doesn't even go to a majority of US states. So I guess 40 minutes, but really 2.5 hours.
NYTReader
1d ago
Comparing streamer popularity by follower count is a misleading metric. Several of these accounts amassed millions of followers because they were already popular on another platform, like YouTube, and the people who watched them there would create Twitch accounts just to "follow" them. This explains how someone like Myth, the twentieth most followed account, has only a fraction of viewers on his livestream compared to streamers with far less followers. Others accumulated a large amount of followers when they very popular for a relatively brief amount of time and now have fallen off, so to speak.
I'll give a concrete example. Ninja is #2 on that list, with 19 million followers. The streamer I'll compare him to, Emiru, has 1.8 million. However, when you look at how many views their recent broadcasts have received (Emiru, Ninja), you'll see that Emiru far outpaces him:
Emiru (excluding today's and the two broadcasts that were under 10 minutes): 683K, 218K, 318K, 402K, 426K.
Ninja (excluding the non-gaming stream: 121K, 93.1K, 154K, 88.7K, 117K.
Same with the streamer I linked to in my original comment, ExtraEmily. She routinely pulls 15,000 to 20,000 concurrent viewers, which I'd estimate puts her near the very top of streamers in North America, despite having less than a million followers.
You're not wrong. I want to argue that viewership by hour is not a good metric because because men usually, from my experience, stream about 1.5 as often as women do in a similar period. Or peak viewership is kinda just decided by twitch itself based on who they put on the front page (and people covering e-sports are going to get that over women who just simply don't cover e-sports). And who knows what the real numbers of any of this are because of how botted everything probably is.
But then there's the twitch payout leaks and they're pretty much the same thing as those lists. 99% men. But "top talent" is pretty reaching, it's just internet ratings, or are we prepared to say that television's top talent is Shonda Rhimes?
I suspect its similar to the amount of people that want to play a male vs female character in a videogame when they have the choice, apparently the vast majority pick male every time. Men are probably the largest demo here and prefer to play as a man and watch men. I remember hearing Northernlion say a few months back that 3% of his viewing audience is female on Youtube.
Though, I don't think it's that hard to have a good number of women to follow on either platform though like I said before they put out less content and also drop out way more often whether retiring, maternity leave, or simply stopping streams apropos of nothing. It's kinda like how women have three set matches and men have five in tennis. If women's matches were five sets then there'd be like five women in the world who would be capable of competing. I have exactly two women I follow who consistently put out content and aren't going offline for weeks or months at a time for maternity, vacations, or mental/physical health breaks or just in general being flaky. And I'm not saying that it'd be better if they did because women are generally better at communicating with the audience and you don't get the summit1g playing a game for 20 minutes of complete silence then dying and saying "aw damn" and going back into the queue in complete silence but maybe you would if they tried as hard as guys do.
EDIT: To give a more concrete example of why I think numbers are botted look at Rifftrax and MST3K in the leaked numbers. For as long as I can remember MST3K had at least 100 more viewers than Rifftrax averaging around 600-700 whereas Rifftrax had 400-500. When the latest MST3K kickstarter happened the numbers went up to 1000 and stayed that way for like six months before dropping back to 600 until this year when they finally dropped below Rifftrax and now the numbers are about the same for Rifftrax and MST3K has about half that. The payout numbers make it seem like Rifftrax is 5x more popular than MST3K and as someone that switches between the channels it's easy to notice that Rifftrax's chat is about 5x faster/more populated than MST3K's and has been even when it had double the amount of viewers.
I don't even think it was nefarious on the channel's part I think someone just wanted to support MST3K by paying for bot viewers. I also wouldn't be surprised if people were paying for bot viewers on Rifftrax as well but it's just been more consistently the same. It's hard to find an apples to apples comparison for what viewers are willing to pay so it'd be hard to make a similar comparison to other types of channels but this is probably as close as you'd get.
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