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Jiro
19m ago
If he loses, it's rigged against him. If he wins, it's rigged against him
If you're considering the possibility of rigged elections at all, therer's nothing inherently goofy about this. "Rigged" doesn't mean "they can fake absolutely any outcopme they want"--if they could fake X opercent of votes and he wins by more than X percent, it might be rigged against him and he could win anyway.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
39m ago
I feel like this is a far too strict definition of "authentic". Most popular art is commercial to some degree or another, artists gotta eat, even if they accrue other less tangible benefits like street cred or pussy.
What does that leave? Mostly amateur art. I don't see how why it's not possible for something to simultaneously be both a work of passion and yet selected to make at least some money.
That isn't to say that the concept of authenticity is an entirely useless concept! I think Nickelback is far less authentic than say, Tame Impala or the Arctic Monkeys. The latter, even after finding a hit formula, ended up making multiple albums that are better suited to jazz lounges and only really loved by the most diehard fans.
And then you have people who make mixtapes and distribute them for free, play in a garage band or upload to SoundCloud. Maximally authentic, most of it trash. Authenticity isn't a reliable proxy for quality, and probably anti-correlates once you account for confounders.
I don't get your point about "the establishment" in this particular context. Why does it matter if they have power (real or perceived) in regards to whether it's a specific or general group.
It doesn't, I was just saying what a defining characteristic of a group called "the establishment" is. Who identifies as, and who doesn't, who exactly that group includes, etc., doesn't really matter, the point is that anti-establishmentarians don't get to come here, pick the most ridiculous thing said or done by the powers that be, and demand that posters roughly identifying as centrists or "anti populists" defend it as though they have a personal stake in it.
And I'm not defending his post wholesale -- I agree the last bit is presumptuous
I also have some reservations with how it seems like a final warning from stuff like his previous post which didn't deserve a mod action at all.
If you think that's the main problem with that specific post is presumptuousness, or if you think the final warning is result of his previous post only, you're not approaching this in an objective manner. The issue is his constant antagonism.
Under the other post you claim you don't want moderation to aggregate transgressions by ideology, and adjust for that, but rather that you want the same enforcement no matter who the transgression is coming from. I believe this is mostly (adjusted for the mods being only human) what you're getting. You're not going to find another poster exhibiting the same pattern of constant antagonism, which I think you were aware of when you pushed back against my request for examples.
Also, if you think Turok is no worse than the average posters here, and is only getting modded because of rightwing bias, why do you think he got banned from ACX and DSL?
I think personal attacks are far worse for productive conversations, which happen regularly and don't get punished (or even become AAQCs!)
Specifically, which AAQC had a personal attack? Gattsuru's? Can you quote the part that contains the personal attack?
I have several pots of basil growing right now, so I'm not clueless on the matter.
I'm not nitpicking excessively, the explanation for the soil is plain and straight up wrong. After autistically going down a soil rabbit hole for days oncr in my life, I can say this with confidence.
Regarding the grow lights, I could be convinced that ot's mot provably false, but of your plants aren't getting enough light, the absolute cheapest shittiest chinesium grow light off of amazon is not going to solve your problem.
It prefers nutrient-rich and well-drained soils. Before planting, amend the soil with compost and fertilizer and plant after the last frost.
Relevant for in ground growing not pots or containers.
I put in the eggs article from that guy, the first one I saw, and it gave me '57% GPT': https://www.greenmatters.com/p/eat-boiled-eggs-every-day
Zerogpt is dogshit. Barely better than a coinflip. Use gpt zero or some other detector that actually works.
I should've had it write a wiki article about 40K lore or something, then I could confidently assess whether it fits.
LOL I had a phase of watching hours of 40k lore videos, so it would be fun to see this.
StJohnOfPatmos
1hr ago
He didn't miss the shot though - Trump moved his head by happenstance at the exact same microsecond that the trigger was pulled, which I doubt even a veteran marksman can account for. But the shot itself very much did not miss its target - hence the blood on his face and all that.
StJohnOfPatmos
1hr ago
Mozart’s a great example of this. I can’t get into that conversation because I don’t actually know that much, but my dad — he knows all the classical music and has all those books and reads all the things, but he was largely motivated by money. Yes, that was a big part of his motivation.
This is an absolutely idiotic example - Mozart constantly needed money because he lived lavishly beyond his means and spent so much time in aristocratic circles as a commoner that he was desperate to emulate them and would bankrupt himself for expensive clothes and horse carriages. His type of financial troubles are a well documented trope of the era, induced partly by more permissive social climbing between gentry and aristocracy. Since he was undoubtedly a musical genius, obviously he used his talents to make good money fast - it doesn't mean he put no artistic or musical considerations into what he composed!
Any Austin (or rather, his father) doesn't seem to understand that a court musician in the 18th Century was not receiving a pop-star salary, but would need other sources to income his expand his fortune to the point where it could even somewhat compete with an average city-dwelling aristocrat. Mozart wanted this badly - perhaps also because he saw how financially dependent his father had been on his patron, the Archbishop of Salzburg, to the point where his freedom of movement was strictly dictated to him, and wanted to avoid the same fate. The best, fastest, most respectable and well paying manner for someone with Mozarts caché and skills to make money was to take musical commissions.
And guess what? Those "non-money motivated" symphonies and operas we love and cherish Mozart for - those were commissions too! Il Seraglio, the Magic Flute, Don Giovanni were all commissions, since that was how large-scale musical arrangements were made and paid for before the rise of radio and television. The musician didn't just sit around strumming his harpsichord waiting for a hit to happen - they were subjects of courtly and church patronage and composed music in return for goods and services.
So I disagree that "Mozart was largely motivated by money" - Mozart was using his incredible talents and social reputation to leverage the best possible sources of income to finance his extravagant lifestyle. It doesn't make his melodies any less charming, nor does it dilute any kind of authentic artistic process if he received payment for having written them.
ulyssessword
1hr ago
I have a few friends that use https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3146835 with good results.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
1hr ago
I'm used to using the en-dash in the manner you've described, I just find em-dashes somewhat more aesthetically appealing. If em-dashes aren't supposed to directly connect with both words/collide with them, then I wasn't aware before you mentioned it and don't mind the look!
orthoxerox
If you can read this, you're using a custom theme
1hr ago
You criticism is quite valid. I rewatched the Bebop movie during the Lent because I found Black Lagoon to be a pale imitation, and I agree that it's style, not substance, that CB relies on.
Also seriously, does anyone actually like Faye Valentine? She's superficially charming but is often shown to be a selfish, arrogant, lazy individual who leeches off the rest of the Bebop without so much as a show of gratitude, with a bad habit of gambling all her money away.
First of all, tits. Secondly, this character archetype is relatively uncommon in anime.
Hieronymus
1hr ago
In running text, it's reasonable to use an em dash without spaces and an en dash surrounded by spaces the same way. The latter may get you your typographic fix. Em dashes on screen often collide with the adjacent words anyway.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
1hr ago
A faith truly worse than death. I'd rather be a j*urnalist.
FistfullOfCrows
1hr ago
Frankly I hold Mossad in too high of regard
I don't, using children as sexual blackmail to squeeze the balls of the west is exactly what I expect them to do. The mfs even managed to get English royalty by the balls. And the media tried its hardest to keep Prince Andrew's involvement out of the news cycle.
orthoxerox
If you can read this, you're using a custom theme
1hr ago
You have to become a pretentious literary type, then.
2rafa
2hr ago
It’s not necessarily smart to do that even if you have evidence of internal plots, because the same usual external plots / random crazies also still exist and people outside the secret service have much less experience identifying or defending against them.
EverythingIsFine
Well, is eventually fine
2hr ago
I think maybe a good smell test would be: am I discussing the culture war, or waging it? No one is ever not guilty of breaking this from time to time but the ratio of “waging” posts to “discussing” posts is outta whack
JarJarJedi
2hr ago
The link above works for me... I think it's the same site?
Well-connected Jews have attempted to blackmail Jewish billionaires before. Rabbi Balkany tried to blackmail Steve Cohen into funding yeshivas.
Er, the only blackmail case I see from this link and a cursory google involving both Balkany and Steve Cohen is this, which doesn't involve blackmailing Cohen into supporting Israel more generally, or even specific yeshivot in Israel. Balkany apparently tried to shake down Cohen for donations to Balkany's own girl's school, which Balkany previously admitted to have been misappropriating money from. Doesn't seem to be at all useful as a counterexample to /u/2rafa's assessment.
EverythingIsFine
Well, is eventually fine
2hr ago
The fact this doesn’t strongly happen is more to with how social conservatism in the US picked up an emphasis on the nuclear family, which sort of intrinsically shuts out grandparents in a way other conservatives don’t.
Thanks for being lenient.
I checked a couple more of his hard science articles, and they have a similar level of rigor. Solar Flares confuses cause and effect with mere association, and has a couple other oddities:
According to NASA, solar flares are defined as intense bursts of radiation that occur as a result of the magnetic energy found in sunspots. Solar flares can also happen when particles like electrons and protons unexpectedly accelerate.
The electrons and protons accelerate because of the magnetic field. That causes a release of radiation, which is the solar flare.
No matter what the composition, solar flares release large amounts of solar, gamma, and electromagnetic radiation into space. They can last anywhere from several minutes to several hours.
Very strange phrasing. Rephrasing it, it is: electromagnetic or particle radiation from the sun, electromagnetic radiation below 10 picometers, and electromagnetic radiation in general.
They can last anywhere from several minutes to several hours.
What do solar flares look like?
Despite the fact that some of them can last for a rather long time, solar flares generally happen too quickly to be seen by the naked eye.
It's not the speed that's the problem ("several minutes to several hours", from the previous paragraph, or minimum four minutes due to the measurement criteria here), but the brightness in the visible spectrum. This might actually be a hallucination, and could've come from the mismatch between human and astronomical time (where a million years can be "fast" and ten minutes can be described as "a flash").
Those circumstances emit X-rays and magnetic fields that travel across the cosmos, bombarding the Earth with geomagnetic storms that can interrupt long-range communication and the like.
The field itself isn't reaching the Earth (any more than normal, at least), but charged particles are, and they can affect us.
Solar flares do ramp up into something called a solar maximum every 11-year solar cycle, but even at their maximum strength, no recorded flares have ever been large enough to reach the planet.
A bit of a nitpick, but the solar flares are the light. All(?) recorded solar flares have reached the Earth, because that's how we recorded them. Solar prominences and flare sprays have never been large enough to reach Earth.
According to NASA, CMEs are similar to solar flares in that they are bursts of solar material that result in the release of particles and radiation.
CMEs and solar flares are somewhat like thunder and lightning. They happen at the same time from the same event, but they are distinct phenomena.
This was a good challenge, and kudos for putting your money where your mouth is. I saw the generation attempt upthread, but I'm still wondering if o3, Opus 4, or another model could outperform him, if given a good bit of scaffolding. The bar is higher than I thought.
OliveTapenade
2hr ago
Wait, doesn't everyone know that Who Wants To Live Forever was written specifically for Highlander? It and Princes of the Universe are movie themes.
It's like hearing that somebody thought that Flash was written independently of Flash Gordon - of course it wasn't! Queen just scored some films, for commercial reasons! The songs became popular because Queen were/are damn good musicians, and sometimes that's enough. Good art doesn't need a sob story.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
2hr ago
I guess I have to agree. How could I not, when just a few weeks back I correctly called out our friendly neighborhood Count for using it? The normies have a point there, few people who aren't journalists or pretentious literary types use them by default.
(I wonder if I could get away with large disclaimers left, right and center saying that these are artisanal em-dashes, produced only by my hands with the assistance of Markov chains at most)
FtSoA
2hr ago
If it is Ghislaine, she was really committed to the bit by making constant small Bri'ish Engrish grammatical errors.
GBRK
3hr ago
For me to believe the hypothesis that "intra-racial IQ differences are primarily mediated by genetic differences" I would need to see the following data:
- genes causative of IQ differences (this data exists. It's fuzzier than I want, but I'm willing to accept it.)
- iq-modifying gene frequency by race (this data doesn't.)
Without both those data points, all you can do is try and prove "intra-racial IQ differences look like this" and "IQ differences are primarily mediated by genetic differences" separately. But while that's necessary, it's not sufficient-- to prove the full hypothesis. At least, not without larger effect sizes and better mathematical techniques. Especially because even if you prove that, say, the IQ differences between whites and amerindians and asians is due to genes, that's dramatically insufficient to prove that the IQ differences between those groups and subsaharan africans are due to genes. Nutrition, parasite load, education infrastructure, epigenetics. Look upon my works ye mighty, and despair.
The vast timespan that selection effects have had to act are exactly why I'm so suspicious of modern data. Every human born in the last two hundred years lives a live completely unlike the lives we lived in the last five thousand. And the majority of humans born in the last five thousand years have lived lives completely unlike the lives lived in the last five hundred thousand. And yet, any attempt to argue for the impact of selection pressures on intelligence must explain all three of those periods simultaneously. It has to be true across every subpopulation, and every chronopopulation. It has to explain the differences between the dutch and italians, and the italians and the romans, as well as it explains the differences between the hausa and yoruba.
And also...
Look, I have a bit of a pet theory. A literal pet theory. Because: we know that wolves are smarter than dogs. They do better on problem solving tasks, and of course they're superior at surviving in the wild. But a dog will sit when you tell it to sit, and fetch when you tell it to fetch. And the vast majority of tests we put canids up to aren't "surviving in the wild," they're "doing what we tell you to." So if racial IQ differences are provably genetic... even then, I'll be a little suspicious about the true allocation of racial intelligence. It's worth remembering that while IQ tests try to be as unbiased as they can along as many metrics as possible... they can unbias themselves along the axis of being a test. And tests favor trainability. I'm not going to say that obviously dumb people are just actually "street smart", but I do wonder if IQ tests at the population level are really just measuring which cultural-genetic backgrounds can sit still the longest while wagging their tails. This theory is unfalsifiable, of course, so I won't ask you to falsify it... but it would be fascinating to see what would happen if we rounded up people at random, gave them IQ tests, dropped them off somewhere remote, and then watched to see how long they survived.
TowardsPanna
3hr ago
I wouldn't use em. It's the main thing in the normie pattern recognizer for calling out AI texts now.
The idea of “authentic art isn’t made for money” comes from the early days of art when the artist had patrons. If you made art for money, you either didn’t appeal to elites enough to have a patron, or worse, were a dirty poor person. Only aristocrats and people they hired could afford to not think about money, ergo, thinking about money was a mark of poverty and poor quality.
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