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Texas is freedom land
3d ago
I think there are women saying something exactly symmetrical. What, men only have to get tall and hairy?
I think you’re both wrong; the struggles that are easily visible to you are not obvious to outsiders, and vice versa.
orthoxerox
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3d ago
There isn't one. The main special lights I am aware of are direct loans and payments for services to less established companies.
Totalitarianit
3d ago
It will be undeniably used in the "Why we hate blacks." camp. I understand why, but some of my still-surviving liberal sensibilities can't help but examine another layer to this situation. This layer is touched on in nearly every single anti-Rampage/Raja rant out there, but nobody really delves into the father-son dynamic past Rampage being a shit father.
What Raja Jackson did to that guy cannot be denied. It was a shockingly violent attack that warrants a lengthy prison sentence. With that said, when I listened Raja's tough guy rant after he pummeled that defenseless man and was walking down the street, I just kept thinking his use of "everybody" in "I'm tired of everybody fuckin' playing with me 'n shit" was really just about his dad relentlessly jabbing at him throughout his entire life. I have serious doubts that any other people really fuckin' play with him 'n shit outside of his father, who he simply cannot fuck with on a physical level. I think there's a lot to this.
Rampage even told a story about Raja sucker punching him. Rampage's response was that he "sent him to the hospital." You read that right. He beat the shit out of his own son. What we don't really know for sure is what happened before that sucker punch, but seeing how Rampage constantly jabs at people on camera, I think it's a fairly safe assumption that Rampage was, to some extent, antagonizing Raja and probably has antagonized Raja for most of his life. I know Rampage isn't all bad. He can be funny, but he doesn't ever really seem like he's serious when he needs to be. On some level that has to be psychologically torturous to have a father who "won't stop playin'" when you need him to be a dad.
I'm not excusing Raja's actions. I think he needs to go to prison. What I'm trying to do is see if anyone on the internet who isn't a self-hating leftist that might be considering another reasonable explanation outside of it just being the warrior gene assumptions that a lot of people on the right like to grab onto.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
3d ago
The more management work I do the more I realize that it is one of the hardest skills, mostly orthogonal to other skills, not something we bother to train...and almost everyone sucks at it.
I am acceptable at management, but it's leadership where I'm adrift (and so much information/training acts like the former is the latter). Part of that is the nature of the job (public defender office)--I've never worked where the office seemed to have anything close to leadership, and it doesn't seem to be unique to places I've worked since the outside appearance of other offices is just as chaotic.
Pynewacket
3d ago
ok, I thought I deleted it almost inmediately but apparently it wasn't the case.
JTarrou
3d ago
I'm saying if you want to use civilian definitions that every single platoon that has ever deployed to a hot zone commits "war crimes". Fuck me, even pictures are "war crimes". People have cell phones. Even soldiers. It's a meme in the vet community for a reason. There's war misdemeanors and war felonies. Even a few war capital crimes, but if you don't have a single technical "war crime" to your name, you've never seen combat. Bet.
Also, the laws of war are a bit like the laws of politics. It matters who wins.
Throwaway05
3d ago
"Anti-capitalism" + lots of LGBTQ* themes and relationships + girl bossing + "diverse casting" up the wazoo.
Also, how many white men can you name in the cast who aren't villains or being set up to be villains?
sohois
3d ago
It is (or was, before the "safety act") trivial to arrange over the internet, so not sure theres any barrier to scale
erwgv3g34
3d ago
And don’t get me started about Nazifurs and the 4chan creation Aryanne the white supremacist My Little Pony.
Christian/Neoreactionary Sunset Shimmer was better.
orthoxerox
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3d ago
Arcane (season 1 only for both, haven't seen the rest yet) as cases of very progressive seeming stuff that comes across as both true art and not annoying
Arcane didn't seem obviously progressive to me. The unrepentant revolutionary willing to stop at nothing was the villain of the first season, and his main redeeming quality was his paternal instinct. The roster of heroes includes an acceptably nerdy Chad Beefcake and a heiress of a 1% family who rebels against her privilege by... becoming a cop.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
3d ago
It might be a bit more fair to include minor league and semi-pro teams, but the number is probably still small unless you somehow counted college (and maybe high school) athletes. That would also bump the revenue to compare with somewhat.
Pro sports salaries are, like OF revenue, very unevenly distributed.
5434a
3d ago
the number one thing that drives me up the wall about the trans activism online is the retreat to rigid, and rigidly enforced, gender roles
Because it serves their ends. They deny a binary exists as a means to exit, and then depend on the same binary as a means to gain entry. The fact it's inconsistent is by necessity entirely uninteresting to them.
"Heads I'm X, tails I'm not Y" is all that matters. Engaging in a spirit of anything less than full credulity (or flat denial) is like getting lured into a three card monte game and getting vexed that the money card isn't where they showed you it was.
birb_cromble
3d ago
I don't know. I wish I didn't even know as much as I do.
ToaKraka
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3d ago
Some users primarily browse this website, not by clicking on posts and reading the comments below those posts, but by reading the page that lists all comments in chronological order regardless of post, sometimes called the "firehose" view.
Oh, no, they're definitely trying to go to orbit. Basically every use case they have requires it. Starlink satellites use low-acceleration argon ion thrusters to change their orbit after a launch, but they have to start from a low parking orbit that won't decay for weeks or months. (One time a series of solar storms reduced that to "days" and actually brought down a batch of satellites.) Starting from an orbit that reenters within 45 minutes is out of the question. Artemis missions and Mars missions have to refuel in Low Earth Orbit, and that again requires weeks or months of orbital stability, at a minimum, for the propellant depot Starship. These barely-suborbital flights are the best way to test everything, but even barely-suborbital is not suitable for an operational launch.
Their problem is that they're trying to get to orbit with a ridiculously huge payload (which is requiring redesign after redesign to make things more powerful and/or lighter) and then get back from orbit in good enough shape to reuse (which will require redesigns to make things more robust and thus potentially heavier), and so even when they have successful tests (the last version-1 flights, 4 through 6, were awesome) that doesn't guarantee that a major redesign will still be successful (the first version-2 flights, 7 through 9, were awful, and they had one v2 that didn't even make it to flight).
[Edit, to sum up the problem in one sentence: They can't safely go to orbit until they can safely go to orbit, and it's hard to both achieve and verify "safely" with a design that's still a rapidly moving target.]
My guess is that they'll go for a full orbit in the same flight that they attempt their first ship catch, which Musk claims will be 13 if everything goes right with 12 (the first v3 launch). They've got one last v2 launch for flight 11, and if they had a NASA milestone for orbit then I think they'd try to check that box then, but they don't (the next milestone is for ship-to-ship docking and propellant transfer, requiring two launches to orbit) so 11 will probably be another "fix stuff that broke or wore too badly on the previous flight and pick new spots to weaken to see what else they can push to the breaking point" suborbital like 10 was.
If everything goes right with flights 11 and 12 then 13 would probably be around December. I wouldn't bet on that, since even Elon is suggesting that they might end up waiting until 14 or 15 for a catch. And if the first v3 flights are as much of a regression as the first v2 flights were then the catch+orbit attempt would be flight 16 and wouldn't be until next summer. Even that would still win you your bet with months to spare, but the implications for the already-implausible Artemis 3 timeline would be awful.
As for transgenderism being biologically innate, the shooter admitted that he was tired of being trans, but felt that if he cut his hair short and detransitioned, he'd lose face in front of the (presumably numerous) people who'd earlier advised him that coming out as trans was probably a bad idea. This whole pointless massacre came about because of a misguided sunk-cost fallacy, an arrogant nutcase who was too proud to publicly admit he'd made an error as an adolescent (also known as "the period of your life when making mistakes is most understandable and forgivable").
I suppose next you'll tell me that the shooter's transgenderism really was biologically innate, but years of exposure to toxic Catholic propaganda left him confused and suffering from internalised transphobia. It's so easy to claim that trans is something fixed and unchangeable as long as you dismiss all the counter-examples that suggest it might not be.
orthoxerox
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3d ago
Tim Roth was the bantering hitman in Tarantino's best movie, Pulp Fiction
Wasn't he one of the dumbass cafe robbers? Pumpkin and Honeybunny?
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
3d ago
I feel like I'd be really good at money laundering. The part that seems hard is the millions of ill gotten gains that I need to wash in the first place.
Am I doing something wrong that I don't have access to millions in ill gotten gains??
ToaKraka
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3d ago
Are there any rationalist discords/meetups etc in NYC?
The semiannual Astral Codex Ten meetup list has just been posted. It indicates that there are meetups in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Long Island, and Newark.
@Southkraut: Are there any in southern Germany?
There are meetups in Erlangen, Freiburg, Mannheim, München, and Stuttgart.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
3d ago
Yeah I may have been confused in making the bet, as @roystgnr mentioned above it seems they may never go “to orbit” and instead do suborbital velocities.
No.... Roystgnr was making a rather nuanced point, I assure you SpaceX is planning to send Starship to a proper orbit. They literally say this during the stream from the last test flight, when they were testing the engine relight (around T:+37 minutes, I think). It's just that they're not confident it's safe to do so yet.
Starship was stable enough to release a dummy payload so I’m assuming that’s as far as they’ll go!
That makes no sense. They want to use it to launch satellites. To do so, they need it to go to orbit. The dummy payload was there to test if their deployment mechanism works, and to see how well the ship performs under actual load, but on the current trajectory, it either burned up in the atmosphere, or crashed into the ocean right after the Starship.
Not trying to weasel out of the bet here just genuinely above my pay grade, hah.
I am kinda starting to feel bad for getting you sucked into this. We can downgrade it to a gentlemen's bet, if you want. Honestly, all I wanted was for Elon stans to plant some flags, and tell me what future achievement I should exoect from him, if he's such a genius.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
3d ago
According to the Peter principle people in a hierarchy tend to rise to the level of respective incompetence. Since it is apparently so important to have competent sergeants, I'd guess the command would prefer them remain sergeants rather than be promoted to officers.
That's wokeness, not liberalism. Wokeness is highly illiberal.
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