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stav
9m ago
I disagree and I don't have the time now to write up a good response but this is a post I was thinking of making for a Substack I imagine myself creating and when I do I will tag you. But I will add the quick aside that Obama was associated with the Weathermen. As an 80's kid, Im sure you can remember that.
magic9mushroom
If you're going to downvote me, and nobody's already voiced your objection, please reply and tell me
17m ago
Because the marketplace of ideas doesn't select for truth, but for virulence.
I believe you mean infectivity, not virulence. Infectivity is how easily something's spread; virulence is its tendency to kill its host.
doantkq
42m ago
Last month, VDARE held its annual conference at the Samuel Taylor Suit Cottage, a beautiful castle constructed after the Civil War and recently purchased by the organization. VDARE is currently the subject of a lawsuit over its purchase of said castle.
For those unfamiliar, VDARE has been the leading anti-immigration outlet for the far right for roughly two decades. Historically, the website focused almost exclusively on immigration and "demographic replacement", with "race realism" and related topics (i.e., crime by African Americans) serving an ancillary function. This can be contrasted with Jared Taylor's American Renaissance, a publication more focused on American race issues. Unlike much of the far right, neither group takes an explicitly anti-Jewish stance, though VDARE has occasionally reposted or hosted antisemitic writers from Unz.
Given the growing influence of the alt-right/dissident right/whatever you want to call them into the conservative mainstream, I thought it might be helpful to summarise some of the speeches from the conference. This is taken from this article, which you can just read yourself.
An ever present personality at white nationalist adjacent events, Jared Taylor lamented the abolishment of confederate monuments:
our black secretary of defense ordered every trace of the Confederacy eradicated from federal land. We now know that President William McKinley and others of his generation who honored the valor and the sacrifice of Confederate soldiers were morally stunted. They didn’t have the exquisite ethical sensibilities of Lloyd Austin and Charles Schumer. . . . In our era there are many things that infuriate me, but of the most infuriating is the worms who don’t deserve to black the boots of a Confederate general prancing and howling and posing as their moral superiors.
Harrison Smith of Infowars, in appropriately conspiratorial fashion, said that policies of “infinite immigration forever” are meant to make opposition to technocratic power impossible. He suggested, for example, that one reason no one tries to impose “refugees” or antipollution measures on China — the world’s biggest polluter — is that the Chinese are already under effective control and threaten neither their own regime nor the ambitions of the World Economic Forum. The white population of the West, on the other hand, has “a heritage of resistance to tyranny,” which makes us the greatest threat to globalists’ plans. This is why they want “the destruction of whiteness,” where “whiteness” is defined as the European virtues of self-sufficiency, hard work, the nuclear family, and free expression.
Keith Woods, an antisemitic personality who has gained a large following on Twitter, also talked about the importance of immigration, pointing out that
immigration is “the queen of the battlefield,” meaning that if we lose on it, we lose on all other issues. There are people who disagree with us on immigration but who care about free speech and European traditions; they fail to understand that these things cannot be preserved unless we stop mass immigration.
James Kirkpatrick summarised the tenor of the conference best in his remarks:
One of the reasons we are so angry at what is being done to our country is that we see our patriotism — a kind of faith in our nation as something greater than the sum of its parts — being squandered and exploited. Cynics and sociopaths are rewarded, while those who have kept the faith are the first to be betrayed. If this keeps up, faith dies. Enormous sacrifices have been made for America and the other nations of the West, and people are now forced to ask what it was all for. The soldiers of World War II would never have laid down their lives for multiculturalism, but that is what they got.
A common enemy, however, may be an even stronger political advantage than a common faith. Democrats have a useful common enemy: white people. Republicans lose because they pretend not to have any enemies.
The current split on the Left about Israel is over the question of whether Israelis are white: both sides are our opponents. Republicans hoping to make political hay by denouncing anti-Semitism are wasting their time. We don’t need to take sides in this internal leftist fight, but to take our side, something no Republican seems able to understand.
Immigration is the issue that can unite us. Claims that immigration is good for us or for the economy quickly collapse, and yield to admissions that, yes, it is bad for us, but that is good because we deserve to be punished. Meanwhile, 45 percent of Hispanics and 42 percent of Democrats support mass deportation. It takes tremendous Republican stupidity to fail to take advantage of this changing mood.
Mr. Hood asked: What matters more than nationality and citizenship — what matters when you are trying to get into a school, get a job, when you are confronted on the street? Race. This is certainly what our rulers believe. Politics is largely biological, and biology is our human hardware; religion and ideology are software. Law and institutions are passed down as the patrimony of a specific people, and work only for that people.
When Americans see Mexican demonstrators cursing them, waving Mexican flags, and celebrating the end of white America, it no longer matters what Republicans wants them to think. They see that the real issue is us vs. them. The visceral sense of identity they are forced to feel will rally our people for the struggle.
Glad how you ignore my Milei comment who is a conservative icon. Who is a much bigger deal than the “Goldman Sachs analyst”. Whose accomplished more than that now.
https://m.jpost.com/diaspora/article-790350
I guess I did not give supporting evidence but here it is.
He says he’s planning on converting.
gattsuru
1hr ago
Any ideas for small electrical things that you use regularly that would make a good Project?
I've been running some students through designing a macropad variant, and someone in the tumblr rat-adj-adj sphere is building a small timer. But a lot of the field, including things I've run as student projects before, tend to be toys.
I like your basic two-wheel robot as much as the next person, but it's something that at best you make, put on the shelf, and never touch again. Same for infinity mirrors, and the best that can be said for epaper weather stations is that at least they'll change on the shelf. Or, alternatively, there's a ton of projects to build something that's really useful for somebody who wants to be an electrical engineer and needs something that'll work until they can buy a Real Tool.
Ideally, I'd have students long enough to see what they'd want, but I've gotten a lot of shrugs, or worse questions for stuff that seems deceptively easy (forget the ethics of DIY AppleTags, the TI MSP430 library for LoRA suuuuuuucks). And in more cases, I don't really have the timelines for it, as hilariously enough even if we're getting circuit boards done as students finish the CAD, I need to have the non-jellybean parts ordered months in advance or they'll get in slower than OSHPark or JLCPCB can turn something around.
stav
1hr ago
I’m on my phone so I can’t give you a full response but look at FOX or the WSJ or other right leaning outlets. Centrist and center left outlets are also pro Israel they may just want them to show slightly more restraint or have a new government but are essentially on board as well.
sliders1234
1hr ago
I an am an ‘80’s kid. We had Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George Bush. Bill Clinton had to brand himself as a neoliberal because the GOP was crushing it.
For all George Bush faults we still worked off the old American deal of a meritocracy. I don’t know the exact date things changed but everything was normal then.
I think the Weatherman sort of prove my point. A few got academic posts but were no threat to me.
SteveKirkland
1hr ago
Slip her some real red pills like I'm Bill Cosby.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
1hr ago
meat substitute that is likely to be much healthier
How would anyone know? We'd be relying on nutritionists. They've succeeded in confusing and/or deceiving the public for decades. Do eggs cause cancer? Reduce cancer? What fats are good or bad? Fat or sugar? The nutritionist consensus keeps changing, they're not doing real science.
I don't usually make traditionalist arguments but we should return to time-tested, traditional diets. Bread, cheese, milk, olive oil, fruit, fish, vegetables, meat, eggs... If it's been around for centuries, that in itself is a good argument for it. The meat/milk loving Mongols demolished grain-fed Chinese armies, meat and animal products have been historically valued despite their expense. Alas, we probably can't ban alcohol and tobacco. Alas, importing Japanese style intensive fat-shaming is unlikely.
But it is possible to prevent the development of synthetic meat. We can rely on industrial agriculture to cut corners and manipulate research to support their profits. That's how we got the food pyramid and a mountain of HFCS, breakfast cereals and so on. We should assume that they'll use this technology in an antisocial way. Drug dealers do the same thing - make the most addictive products at the lowest prices, they prioritize short-term profits over the long-term health of their customers and society. We should strictly regulate drugs and food for that reason. Synthetic meat should only be developed carefully, after we have a really sound understanding of how the body works, after biological immortality IMO.
Japan's interest rates sticking in the negatives while everyone else's are soaring seems like the biggest factor there. You can just borrow yen and buy US treasuries for 5%, and if the bank of japan wants to keep rates low they just have to deal with it.
Whoever in the LDP kept up the pressure to get the reactors back online deserves a medal. They're still importing 10bcf of LNG per day last I checked, but thats 30% less than a decade ago. Plus coal imports are down from the quarter billion ton peak. That'd be bsolutely crippling at 150 yen to the dollar.
HighResolutionSleep
1hr ago
She's a 10, there's absolutely nothing wrong with her, you managed to bring her home with you, and she's a little tipsy. But you just noticed that on your bookshelf behind her there's an exposed and visible hardcover copy of Ted Cruz's Unwoke. What do you do?
HalloweenSnarry
2hr ago
Botond mentioned in the thread about the Korean gender war that he is not American.
FlyingLionWithABook
Has a C. S. Lewis quote for that.
2hr ago
Being out of order is what makes it funny. If the punchline was "the gas light gate keep girl boss" then it would be mildly funny, but rotating the word pairs so that they're exactly one off, and all in the same direction, makes it hilarious. Like "man door hand hook car door"
FlyingLionWithABook
Has a C. S. Lewis quote for that.
2hr ago
I love it!
Wavesacross
2hr ago
All in all, I don't really see what you are driving at with this:
Because it allows to speak in universally. To go back to your newton's law example:
Every object in the universe attracts every other object toward it with a force proportional to the product of their masses, divided by the square of the distance between their centers of mass.
We can say this with confidence, because this law is a consequence of what mass is, mathematically. The law was determined empirically, and you are correct that if it was a purely empirical conclusion, we could never truly speak confidently about everything in the universe. But we've since discovered that this law is consequence of the mathematical definition of mass. If something has "mass" as defined by certain mathematics, then it must attract every object as you quote.
What would it mean for an object not too? Well I can imagine two possibilities.
- Either something else is at play, aside from mass. For example two protons will not appear to attract each other as such, because the also have an electric charge which will repel them, but that attraction is still there, its just countered by the electromagnetic force.
or
- We are wrong about the mathematical structure of mass. This has happened, and the classic example the precession of mercury. But if we can be confidant about what the math, of mass is, then we can be confidant about the behavior of mass universally, and unless you embrace philosophical skepticism, which you claim not too, I don't see why we can be confidant in the math.
Quantumfreakonomics
2hr ago
EA had 46 billion dollars in committed funding in 2021, and was growing at 37% per year, according to 80000hrs.
Look at the date. How much of this "commitment" was from SBF?
titivate
2hr ago
My pitch for a matrix 2 rewrite, with some (a lot of) help from chatgpt:
Neo has stepped into the role of the One, but doubt starts gnawing at him, even in the real world. Suddenly, the machines attack Zion. Neo saves the day, but something (deja vu?) causes his doubt to grow despite the success. Zion society reacts to the attack, and Morpheus doubles down on Neo as the messiah, but Neo shows some hesitancy, which Morpheus notices.
In the matrix, Neo meets a rogue program who sheds light, revealing a new conspiracy Neo was suspecting. This sends him on a new mission to find out the real truth. Trinity joins him. As they get closer to the source, they have to go thru various obsolete programs to get the next piece of information, and so on, and each encounter serves as foils/arguments to develop Neo's reaction to the conspiracy, namely the false binary choice he fell for last time.
Meanwhile, a rogue Smith is seen gaining in power, creating chaos in both the matrix and in Zion thru a clone.
Back in the "real world" a new attack by the machines is impending. With Neo unreachable, it's panic and chaos.
Back to Neo, he finally reaches the architect who reveals the true history of the matrix project, and confirms the "real" world is simply a parallel matrix. People who died in either matrix are still unrecoverable in the sense that they're exiled to some third matrix. Since Neo is the One, he gets to decide how to proceed. He can destroy and recreate both matrixes, or create some new set up that suits him. After some hesitating, Smith suddenly appears, wanting revenge and to test his new powers against Neo.
Simultaneously, the attack on Zion begins, and they're losing badly. Morpheus is mortally wounded and dies but not before giving some touching last words about faith in Neo as the true messiah. Switch back to the matrix and Neo is also losing. Trinity tries to help but is also mortally wounded. Her efforts do give Neo an opening. Neo, pushed to his limits, runs away carrying Trinity. He also learns of Morpheus' passing and the ongoing attack. As Trinity dies Neo has a revelation about the false dichotomy. Realizing there's always the invisible "fuck you" option, he rushes back to the source while avoiding the fight, and with great exertion, creates/hits the timestop button.
The exertion drains him greatly and he only barely manages to stumble into the next matrix, going into yet another rabbit hole. His new mission: find the real and total truth, and recover Morpheus, to save his comrades once in for all. Smith, after a period, manages to unfreeze himself, and realizing the new paradigm, jumps into the wormhole too.
HalloweenSnarry
2hr ago
Basically "what is not mandatory is forbidden," I take it?
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
2hr ago
There are distinctions between selective breeding/advanced animal husbandry and synthetic meat.
It's easier to mod a game than to make a new game from scratch.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
2hr ago
This is like the unscissor statement. Whether you're unvaccinated or still masking, you can agree on the above.
ResoluteRaven
2hr ago
Japan
It appears as though the value of the Yen is currently in free fall. I can't say I know enough economics to explain the causes or potential implications of this, but it seems concerning nonetheless.
Saudi Arabia
Apparently the Saudis have secured funding for their rather adventurous future city concept, or at least a toned down version of it. While I'm all for innovation in the field of architecture, I certainly hope for things that are a bit more practical.
Armenia
The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan are scheduled to meet in Kazakhstan to presumably formalize the Armenian loss of Nagorno-Karabakh and probably handover of some additional territory in return for economic concessions. Or maybe the talks will break down and we'll have another genocidal war on our hands. Hard to tell.
Canada
The Canadian police have arrested three Indian nationals over the killing of Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, continuing the Canada-India dispute that has bemused and disinterested onlookers around the world going "...huh?" and "what the fuck is Khalistan?"
SteveKirkland
3hr ago
EA had 46 billion dollars in committed funding in 2021, and was growing at 37% per year, according to 80000hrs. If you could find white nationalists with that kind of clout, quoting them would be quite reasonable. And even I would be worried enough by that point to avoid getting a tan in case they won.
No_one
3hr ago
I remember a teacher from grade school who was very passionate about it, and dismayed by the ongoing process of 'less singing, more listening to music' and then, radios. She said it is a special sort of experience, that people should learn it. I hated singing then, only did it a little in the Scouts. Now I wish I'd tried giving it a go.
She was also extremely against street food and eating on the move, calling it uncultured. "If you're going to eat, you should sit down, take your time. It's a special occassion. Don't rush it, enjoy it." If only she knew...
With hindsight, I understand her attitudes and her exasperation much more. All she feared came to pass, and more. I think it's fortunate that people die, because were some of early 20th century guys around and hale, we'd probably have art/culture related terrorism.
Also hated most of rock music, calling it primitive and just bad. She was very fond of Queen and held them as an example of actually good popular music.
Not urgent. We want to find the right person.
With 2 founders moonlighting (I + friend) and 1 free full-stack intern, we are covered on the essentials.
We have 2 distinct dates - July or October.
- October to join the W25 YC application and be paid a human wage from Day 1.
- July if you want to start moonlighting with us.
On stacks:
Prefer stable+popular+easy (React, JS/TS, Python) if no strong opinions.
Very open to other frontend frameworks (Svelte?, this is your domain, you pick your poison)
Early on, simple is better, so pick what gets you off the ground fastest.
No premature backend optimization. So avoid C++/Java/Rust early. Special exceptions if you are uniquely productive in a specific language.
What we've used before: Containerized ( GPU -> Torch -> Python -> FastAPI ) -> TS -> React
Uh huh, "we should roll back Civil Rights law, but in the meantime let's massively expand the ability of Jews to use Civil Rights law to wage lawfare against their political opposition" is peak Hanania.
He's a "political guy" in the worst way. He threw his lot behind the Alt-Right when it was at its worst, obviously never going anywhere, and then turned coat to become cartoonishly pro-Israel and pro-Jewish at the precise moment their political and moral credibility has begun to collapse with every passing day.
He's a "political guy" in that he can apparently be trusted to grift onto whatever political movement is about to suffer a catastrophic loss of credibility. He's a loser, he's going nowhere. He wrote the book on how Civil Rights law has destroyed the West or whatever, and in his next breath he is supporting the massive expansion of those regulations on behalf of Jewish interests.
Nick Fuentes does this thing that many find irritating where he says something outlandish, follows it by "haha just kidding, but not really", in order to provide plausible deniability for sensationally positions. But at least when Nick does it you can read between the lines and see where he's coming from. Hanania says things like "nobody is more pro-Israel than me" and I genuinely do not know if he is being sincere or intentionally outlandish. The dude is a joke, his political instincts are terrible.
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