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Aapje58 3d ago

But I don't know why the death camps were all on the USSR side.

They weren't. One of the first death camps was in Brandenburg, to the west of Berlin. This was part of Aktion T4, the precursor to the Holocaust, where mental patients were killed (and they later extended Aktion T4 to Jews on a small scale, until they later scaled up massively as part of a new program). At that location, they experimented with carbon monoxide gassings in a gas chamber disguised as a shower room. They closed that facility after complaints by the locals about the smoke.

There is no official document about why they chose Poland for most of the large scale program, but you only have to look at a map to see that Poland is an obvious choice if you want to do it outside of Germany, but within easy reach of Berlin. The Netherlands, Belgium or France are also close to Germany, but on the side of Germany that is far away from the capital.

I suspect that they preferred a foreign country, and especially an Eastern-European country because it is much easier to get things done if you are not beholden to an established bureaucratic system, and a populace that is used to appealing to that system. The idea was to establish a new nation in Eastern Europe, so then there effectively were no existing rules holding them back.

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ChickenOverlord 3d ago

And potentially face prison time for not correctly complying with regulations.

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The_Nybbler If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner. 3d ago

Right. The threat of "advertiser boycotts" was almost certainly dreamed up by people at marketing agencies, and used by their politically-aligned friends at YouTube to get the censorship they wanted. Or possibly they were dreamed up by the YouTube group and the marketing agency people gave the assist.

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Corvos 3d ago

Protestors took over a section of Seattle to create a literal militarised zone in the middle of a major city that seceded from the United States, in which multiple people were murdered. I can't find records of any associated prosecutions.

On the one hand there was no possible way this threatened the US government. CHAZ was dismantled by force after a month, once enough people had tied that police felt okay taking action.

On the other hand I can't see any viable way that Jan 6 threatened the government either. People broke into the government building for a while, milled around and then left. There's no chance they make it past armed security to the VIPs and even if they had, it would have sucked for the VIPs but not affected the US government one iota.

If your argument is that senior officials take threats to themselves from the outgroup much much more seriously than threats to vastly greater numbers of people arising from looting, burning and murder by the ingroup then I agree with you but it doesn't paint a pretty picture.

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ThisIsSin Liberty has an anti-privilege bias 3d ago

Consider any ideological cause leftists and liberals are interested in: creedal citizenship

If leftists and progressives were that interested in that cause they would have ~~freed their slaves~~ legalized their illegals when they had the power to do so. They have had it several times in the past.

They did not, and because of that inaction- that inability to make a deal with the rest of the country and get it Done- now their cause suffers. Perhaps it was because they'd be destroyed as a party for making legible that flagrant and absurd violation of the laws and norms of the country? Perhaps it was because they believed that holding "they'll be deported otherwise" hostage would curry greater electoral success by driving turnout? Perhaps it was because they could do the county-level equivalent of court-packing by counting them in the census and redistricting accordingly? Perhaps it was because they were of a demographic that (socially, politically, economically) profited most from being able to undercut domestic labor, being of the class that most often buys it? It's difficult to say.

Now, we can talk about corruption in the sense that some slaves are getting rounded up faster than others, or who it's being done to first/who's getting exempted. And I have sympathy for your material conditions; economic instability is, naturally, bad for business as finance for it depends in large degree to a now-frustrated economic forecast (and of all the criticisms of Trump this is the greatest and most grounded, and affects both the capital of the Empire and all of its provinces).

But a side doesn't get to claim it's some unique badness because it [mistake theory] never made the sacrifices and compromises necessary to fix the issue and in so doing revealed that side didn't care, or [conflict theory] where it intentionally made the problem worse.

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netstack Texas is freedom land 3d ago

My argument is that Floyd/ICE/etc. riots were obviously more destructive. The FBI responded not to destruction, but to proximity.

Care to give specifics? Because I doubt you’re talking about the summer of ‘67.

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netstack Texas is freedom land 3d ago

What do you think the standard apologetics are?

“That didn’t happen. And if it did, it wasn’t that bad. And if it was, you deserved it.”

In this particular case, I happen to think #2 is correct. This really isn’t that bad. I included it in the list as an early example of the kind of weak evidence that liberals were cataloguing.

But you had to pick it out, since you knew it didn’t apply to you. So he wasn’t trying to mock the guy. And if he was, it was exaggerated by a hostile media. And if it wasn’t, well, the leftists started it.

…therefore you should never trust anything they say about Trump, and you still can’t take any of the examples seriously.

I think this is unreasonable.

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ControlsFreak 3d ago

I would expect that most people who get into the military or intelligence game (or, frankly, politics) have to at some point wrestle significantly with morality/their soul. Taking a brief look at his career on Wikipedia, I wouldn't be surprised if "didn't blow a classified program when a Senator went rogue, but still obviously kept the public representatives informed" didn't rank in the top ten of situations where he might have thought there was moral difficulty in doing what he thought was in the interest of protecting you and yours.

I should at some point note that I'm saying this as someone who detests his politics. Honestly, some of the political stuff he did was significantly worse than "not blowing a classified program when a Senator went rogue, but still obviously kept the public representatives informed".

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problem_redditor 3d ago · Edited 3d ago

If I remember correctly it's never explicitly woke, but it fucking sucks. It actually made me yell at the screen multiple times because of how bad the plotting was. Almost all of the characters are utter morons, and the structure of the narrative is awful.

The arcs of the two main characters (Lucy and Maximus) are structured almost like a game, in that the main characters get involved in a whole lot of irrelevant and often stupid sidequests that contribute nothing to the ending - which doesn't work nearly as well when you're operating in a film medium. In addition the characters are hilariously unagentic. They often don't have any control over where they end up, so it feels like they are all just endlessly reacting to what the wasteland throws at them, instead of forging their own path. As a result there's a real lack of direction within the show, and I would say maybe more than half the episodes are unnecessary filler that doesn't directly affect the ending. A huge amount of your time is also spent going over narrative-interrupting flashbacks into the life of a mysterious character called the Ghoul before the bombs dropped. The big reveal that both plotlines build up to is downright nonsensical.

The only plot thread that actually worked for me was Norm's arc, which on paper sounds the least exciting since it all takes place within the confines of the vault. But that subplot actually had a central mystery which was presented in a gripping way, a story which didn't waste much time on random bullshit, and a PoV character who was by far the most agentic, intelligent and likeable character in the show. It was much less bombastic than the main plot following Lucy and Maximus, but it was far more interesting and felt like a completely different person wrote it.

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fribble 3d ago

I am trying to convince myself that I can recover from a hysterectomy in a week. Two if I am a complete wuss. I need to start doing planks like a crazy person I think. And make sure my surgeon does the surgery in a surgical center because I will lose my mind if I have to spend any time in a hospital. I hate being "sick."

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Throwaway05 3d ago

Second this - I bought a new Herman Miller Embody which cost a pretty penny but was absolutely worth it (and has a killer warranty).

You can find them from an office supply store, corporate office selling or tossing its stuff, etc and get most of the benefits for a fraction of the price.

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SnapDragon 3d ago

You say "tell yourself" as if they're lying about their motivation, but this is a perfectly accurate description of many people's reasoning...? There are only two real choices. They hate Trump, but the Dems put up a candidate that was, in their eyes, even worse. That's basically "Democrats making you".

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Bartender_Venator 3d ago

I would not recommend buying new if possible. Go on Craigslist etc. and find a warehouse with lightly-used office furniture and you can get a high-end Herman Miller or whatever you want well within that budget. Offices offload barely-used expensive chairs all the time, particularly in volatile economic times.

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Fruck Lacks all conviction 3d ago

That's not slightly rude of you, it's unprofessional as fuck. You are leveraging your medical credentials to insult a guy on the internet. What is fucking remiss of you is to diagnose someone based on a collection of posts, and then to broadcast that pseudo-diagnosis in a public forum.

You get to shitpost or enjoy the prestige and respect of a doctor. Pick one.

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Corvos 3d ago

I can't help feeling that once you get to the point where you're telling clear, absolutely 100% barefaced lies to public representatives in public on a question of massive public interest, you're reaching 'Here be Dragons' on the map of morals. "If such programs existed, they would be classified and I would be unable to discuss the subject" is about as far as I think you can go before you're in serious danger of losing your soul.

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GBRK 3d ago

I don't like trump because he's made my situation materially worse and is likely to continue to do so. I don't like trump because he profits the outgroup at the expense of the ingroup. I don't like trump because I'm ideologically and morally opposed to his positions. I don't like trump because I think he is, personally, a very immoral individual.

In principle, you could convince me that any particular complaint is overblown. There are plenty of immoral, harmful, outgroup people I don't feel nearly the vitriol for. But Trump is the perfect storm; He's not just a villain, he's a villain that gratuitously kicks puppies. Sure, the media environment contributes to what you call "terror", but that's strictly adaptive. Everyone on my "side" would agree, sober-minded, that Trump is the single most important political figure to oppose. Adding a component of emotional motivation increases the time and pleasure in doing so. Consider any ideological cause leftists and liberals are interested in: creedal citizenship, wealth redistribution, climate change, alphabet people, etcetera. Assuming conflict theory, it's obvious that "Depose Donald Trump" is the first step in promoting any of them. The only reason to do anything else is if you believe in mistake theory instead-- but Donald Trump is congenitally incapable of admitting mistakes (except in the "fifty stalins" sense) which means any attempt to find common ground just gets ran over by his conflict theory instead.

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lurker 3d ago

This really reminds me of timecube, where someone uses a lot of words and fancy language to say something utterly mundane. I skimmed but this just seems to be B theory of time and it's consequences.

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teatonglu 3d ago

So I replied to self-made-human as his comment is similar to yours - I copy paste it for you my friend

self-made-human

Thank you for your lovely feedback! Psychiatrist is cool - I love watching healthy gamer & Diary of the CEO about self-improvement YT + bunch of other vids

You say I don't try hard, but I'm actually not smart enough to know how to even start to work harder, besides writing 20 pages of it already XD If you want, you can continue it for me? Do the research pHD level with constructive arguments - English essay/research is one of my weakest points - logical rigor, I don't know how to write a compelling argument ----- in fact, I will be content if no one really reads my work, so thank you so much for reading it

I understand all the fallacies you listed are true - but then again, this is the ultimate truth we are talking about here - is there a possible way to prove it or to unprove it? These fallacies hinges on it - it comes hand in hand, frustratingly! What's your take on the ultimate truth, if you have one?

The 9th dimension or infinite dimension above somehow allows contradictions/paradoxes to exist with each other - something we have yet to comprehend

It makes no sense that triangles with two sides & Escher drawings from our 3D epistemic physics standard reality. It exists in a different reality - if you believe in multiverses & infinite dimensions

Yeah, my essay is more for kinda general audience than smart 130+ iq intellectuals because frankly, I usually get 120 on IQ test and I wish I were smarter, so I'm waiting that neuralink (or any brain enhancement) that can increase all our IQ in the future & able to speak all languages & reach more understanding of peace with each other - which is why in the second link - 'Utopain Tech Society' excel sheet - i say increasing our intelligence is one of the first things we should do because I do see us being monkeys being inefficient doing things really lol

david lewis modal realism? nice - how come i never seen his name before? thank you! of course someone definitely thought up what i thought up --- the internet is big yoooo

You write smart & knowledgeable things in a short time - you must have had a good life, and the motte page is one of your sources of intellectual stimulation - keep up the good work!

You bet I have done a lot of psychedelics... of healthy stuff! - 2 x cinnamon chai coffee, creatine, omega-3 + whole foods daily + 4 x resistance training + 2x 4x4 Norwegian cardio protocol + 7.5 hours sleep + gratitude + friends & family connection + always learning - in fact I learn from you too!

when you get into transhumanist stuff, you get into longetivity (dipping in Bryan Johnson vids but I ain't buying his expensive crap) + signed up to be a cryonist for a time-being, until the rich do something to transfer our consciousness to advance nanotech robotic body - hell yeh

I wish I were rich enough to do some psychedelic stuff - they look very fun to do, but I won't get into it cuz I'm worried about the addictiveness of it. For now, I'm planning a healthy, whole food coffee shop - I won't be adding MCT/CBD oil to the menu, surprisingly --- I am really otherwise a normal person that's into utopia stuff, wants to travel around the world doing touristy things, and own a simple coffee shop - not become a reseacher of something that's hinges on fallcies and otherworldy dimensions - metaphysics imma right?

At least I do those things for the time being until post-labour society & UBI get established for everyone - (they are projecting it happens around 2060?)

Thank you, I always love to learn from everyone - I love knowing pitfalls and when to get help (usually yeh from YT vids & LLM) - I am aware that there are cases of using LLM as therapist can lead to LLM psychosis & they just be bias & agreeable to you ---- but they free yooooo - I ain't rich --- but don't worry - I super happy & grateful to even need threapy and sometimes I have to therapy my friends really

When this is fun - nice to meet a fellow tranhumanist too!

I hope it clears something!

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ToaKraka Dislikes you 3d ago

I don't know about "best", but I can say that I (not tall and skinny, but medium-height and fat) have felt very comfortable in the WorkPro 12000 that I bought for 415 $ four years ago. That specific product is no longer sold, but the WorkPro Momentum appears to offer basically the same features for 470 $, except that its seat is cloth rather than mesh. The FlexiSpot C7 (380 $), the RealSpace Radano (300 $), and an Alpha Home chair (normally 330 $, currently on sale for 187 $) also seem similar to the WorkPro 12000.

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netstack Texas is freedom land 3d ago

Don’t have one.

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