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fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
40m ago
I wanted to challenge you on the spanking opinion thing but holy shit, North Americans have 50%-60% approval towards statements like "parents should be allowed to physically discipline children" or "it's sometimes necessary to spank your child"
Western Europe is more like 20-30% acceptance.
I had no idea it was that high.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
44m ago
I will say all the Mormons I know are very pleasant people and if I were to consider a church and could overlook not having a speck of faith in me, I'd consider the LDS strongly. (Honestly the greatest trial for me in terms of adhering to their rules would be giving up coffee.)
A paragraph I could've written myself. Never been a smoker and giving up alcohol wasn't too bad, but my morning coffee is often the best part of the day.
This raises so many questions. Does Bluesky have a communications team (apparently not)? Why do so many of the Bluesky staff treat their (very queer, very trans, very liberal) userbase with open contempt? Why are they so attached to having bigots on their platform? And does this perhaps indicate that a fair part of the Bluesky staff have fascist sympathies (unclear, but we would do well to assume the worst)?
Gee, I wonder why they don't want their current userbase?
More broadly, I think that there was a time when a) the grey tribe thought that they had more in common with the liberals than they did, and b) thought that queer liberalism was the future and opposing it was just asking for damnatio memoriae. They were therefore inclined to allow/enforce progressive political orthodoxy.
As this arrangement broke down, tech leaders have become increasingly aware that a) they don't have much in common with this faction and b) having a solid bloc of very queer very trans very liberal users makes your userbase incredibly volatile, aggressive and hard to please. See for example:
Furthermore, while I don't believe that most of the tech industry or most "tech people" are outright fascists, reactionary centrism of the debate-bro flavour, or what noted race scientist Scott Siskind calls the "grey tribe", is distressingly common.
The fundamental problem with having a heterodox social media platform is that humans are very tribal and are not psychologically capable of being in genuinely heterodox environments. Even what we have here is, largely, a political monoculture with a strict set of rules and a culture that is (somewhat) orthogonal to red/blue but still very clear. You can talk to someone and think 'yeah, they would make a good Mottizen' and look at a 4channer or blueskydiver and think that they wouldn't. Observations to this effect have been made by many posters here right before they flame out.
EDIT:
I didn't know we had any channies here
Look, some 4channers are all right
I didn't mean that literally no 4channers could be good Mottizens, only that AFAIK the speech norms are often pretty different and a lot of people who enjoy spending time on 4chan kind of enjoy being deliberately provocative, which is banned here.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
50m ago
As I understand it, the prohibition comes from Words of Wisdom from Joseph Smith, not the Book of Mormon. It wasn't until 1921 that following it because a prerequisite for temple admission, so the history of following it is different than the history of following the Book of Mormon, hence some divergence on the issue.
DelendaEst
53m ago
This is why the ideological capture of places like Reddit and old Twitter was such a problem, as long as it is viewed as the "neutral" option network effects make it hard to leave and make any alternative which is founded explicitly as a refuge from the bias fated to become the opposite bias but 10 times worse. The right failed to do this several times with truth social and parlor and gab, and its why the left hated Elon buying Twitter so much as this gave the right one of the neutral spaces and the left's attempt to make a new site has gone little better than the right's attempts.
Walterodim
Only equals speak the truth, that’s my thought on’t
56m ago
I personally have contempt for people that are too lazy or incompetent to train their dogs and just engage in pointless acts of cruelty directed at an animal that clearly has no idea why they're being hurt. This isn't some Piker-specific position.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
59m ago
I'll certainly take the compliment, but sadly my writing skills are limited to the occasional high-quality sentence.
Walterodim
Only equals speak the truth, that’s my thought on’t
1hr ago
I think most dogs that are bred to run believe that their role is to run and basically enjoy the activity. I'm sure many dogs were subject to abject cruelty in prior eras for reasons that I would personally find abhorrent and I don't think this is much of a defense of Piker. If the absolute best someone can say is that people were also cruel to dogs in the past, this does not move me one iota from the position that this is degenerate, third-world behavior unbecoming of a decent modern dog owner.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
1hr ago
Ha, you must have missed my first and only post to the main site.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1hr ago
How does Amazon get away with charging like 1200x the commodity price of bandwidth of a data center provider like hurricane electric?
That's how:
I could just do it how I'd do at work and have something in like an hour
There was a point where I was questioning my own sanity about AWS / GCP / etc. prices because my calculations were showing similar price differences, but any time I take a look it does seem like they charge literal orders of magnitude more, and not just for bandwidth.
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
1hr ago
When we got a dog, and had it professionally trained, they used a shock collar. They also gave use the shock collar, and instructed us on it's use.
This is when shock collars are good. Professional people who actually knew what the fuck they were doing trained your dog, and then further trained you on how to be a good trainer to your dog.
Hassan seems like... 0 of those things are true?
Walterodim
Only equals speak the truth, that’s my thought on’t
1hr ago
every border collie I see in Toronto is autistically fixated on fetch as a replacement for herding, it's sad
This is also my Labrador retriever, but, well, she's literally a retriever so I don't think it's such a bad life for her. For a 7-year old lab, mostly laying around all day, punctuated by sprinting around fetching and indoor games of "find the stuffed animal" seems pretty good.
More broadly, I completely agree with your core point and think the contrary position seems so ridiculous to me that it's hard to see it as anything other than vice signaling. Taking animals that have these deeply engrained personality traits that they're literally bred to perform and forcing them to sit still for the sake of the aesthetic on stream is just obviously the behavior of a cruel moron.
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
1hr ago
I am confident most invisible fences have an allowable area greater than 3 feet by 2 feet.
theincompetencetheorist
1hr ago
So I've done my best recently to avoid being subjected to personalized social media feed. So my lurking on mastodon without account saw that something happened over at Bluesky and people were leaving to go to the fediverse instead. It turns out it is classical Culture War stuff. Bluesky is apparently imploding because of "Waffles".
So this is not a "boo outgroup" post, my observation is that bluesky is resisting its best of becoming an "ideological monoculture", failing at that though. It is as uninteresting because of the monoculture for me as getting an actual account mastodon instance or truth.social and gab due to the ideological alignment of majority of their users.
It seems that it is hard to make large scale "microblogging" platform that caters to heterodox political culture and I'm a little curious if there is any insight for why it is hard to make one?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1hr ago
If you're planning on dying, and hate the world and want to extract revenge on it. Why not go to your nearest sporting event/concert and wait for it to let out? Or rent a car, drive to New York, and unload in a PACKED subway station at 8:30am on a Tuesday.
Who says they hate the world equally? Maybe they hate the people nearer to them more? Also, as a more practical matter, shooting up a local Walmart is easy to plan; you've probably been there a bunch of times. And there's no waiting where someone can notice you standing around and possibly question you.
Hitting the NYC subway is even less likely; even if they only care about body count, what do they know about the subway? I mean, I know two stations where that would work well (if you didn't mind getting killed or caught), but I use the subway regularly. Somebody from suburbia or flyoverville has no idea what the subway is like. As with "write what you know", "kill where you know" is probably "good" advice.
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
1hr ago
Humans have much more meta-cognition to be able to learn independent from their initial nurturing. They can also think about the cause and effect of their actions, which dogs cannot. They can also learn much more easily, and generalize that learning (dogs are so so so bad at generalizing).
But I personally am actually somewhat a fan of that argument when applied to humans who came from anti-social or otherwise extremely sub-optimal backgrounds.
The other side of that though is much like a shitty dog, I think shitty humans should be shipped off to a farm (compassionate gulag?) to be re-trained, and if they are incapable of this, be removed from regular society so they don't bite anyone.
HermeneuticsOfVibes
1hr ago
Been meaning to build my own VPN again for a while, had one many moons ago but it died with the ancient blade server a got for free a decade ago.
Trying to think through how to architect it, since I want something off-prem, preferably in a different country. I could just do it how I'd do at work and have something in like an hour, but then Amazon would rob me to the tune of $.09 per gigabyte. Digital Ocean would instead want $.01 per gigabyte, plus a flat $5 or whatever, but it still feels like I'm paying through the nose for bandwidth, and the markup is still crazy.
How does Amazon get away with charging like 1200x the commodity price of bandwidth of a data center provider like hurricane electric?
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
1hr ago
If you're not a good trainer you shouldn't use a shock collar because you're inflicting pain without the corresponding training utility.
And you could be a good dog trainer if you just googled it, so you're essentially inflicting pain on something you have a duty of care to because you are lazy or stupid, which is why everyone is mad.
I use "you" to refer to Hassan/a hypothetical dog owner, not you personally.
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
1hr ago
Yeah the brief rash of van/car attacks into city crowds concerned me a lot. I usually have a pretty rational assessment of gun crime/terrorism (I'm not involved in the drug trade, so my likelihood of being shot is very low, and terrorism is in general so rare it's not worth stressing over especially as I'm not American).
But the van attacks were genuinely scary to me. Canada may not have much gun violence, but we have a LOT of cars. And random acts of sidewalk violence with a car was all of a sudden a quite plausible threat in my life. I stopped wearing headphones when walking around as a result of this, which while I am no longer worried about getting van'd, I still do as the additional situational awareness is never a bad thing.
That's also what got me thinking about terrorism optimization, even the van attack guy in Toronto could have probably increased his kill count by a factor of 10x if he did it down Bay Street at 8:45am, versus somewhere way out of the core of Toronto where he actually did it.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
1hr ago
I wish we put this much effort into teaching everyone other equally important lessons.
Just curious, do you have any specific lessons in mind here? The idea is at least intriguing.
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
1hr ago
Or sitting in a single location with 0 latitude to move a foot in either direction
Dogs are famously not creatures that love to sit still
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
1hr ago
which are often chained for the purpose
I actually think this is significantly more humane. I am not very bothered by dogs being confined to a given area, but not even being able to shift around if sore, bored, or simply wanting a change is fucked up.
We turn hospital patients who can't move because they get bed sores, etc. A chained up dog can still get up, stretch its legs and move a bit, and settle into a new, more comfortable posture or location.
cjet79
1hr ago
This is what was so concerning about Islamic terror attacks in the early 2000's. It was a group of people willing to think rationally about killing and causing a bunch of damage. They used box cutters and a few flying lessons to kill thousands of people in a day and cause massive damage in New York City.
I do remember people trying to war game potential avenues for future terrorist attacks where there might be low hanging fruit. It quickly got depressing. The Western world mostly functions and operates on the assumption that everyone is not trying to cause massive damage and death to those around them. The water supply, electric grids, transportation infrastructure, etc are all vulnerable to determined saboteurs. Massive crowds of people in unsecured areas are common in every city every day. Explosives materials are monitored, but anyone can walk up to a gas station and buy a fire accelerant with cash.
There are a decent amount of anons here, actually. /pol/ is where I go for a fun roll in the mud (and to add to my edgy meme collection), this place is where I go when I want some actual substance and intellectual stimulation.
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