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doantkq
3hr ago
Interestingly, I got a very similar description of the castle when I asked ChatGPT to describe it.
Lewyn
I am at the center of everything that happens to me
3hr ago
I don’t believe it’s been covered here, at least not recently. I’d certainly be interested in hearing about it.
non_radical_centrist
3hr ago
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.
I think he is somewhat sincere. I think he looks at all Jews have contributed to civilization, e.g vastly disproportionate numbers of Nobel winners and establishing a democracy in the middle east as two examples, and considers them a culture worth supporting. Meanwhile he looks at the Palestinian culture and Hamas, and sees them as a blight on civilization worth bombing into obliteration.
He apparently hates leftist protestors too and I think a substantial portion of his support is just to "trigger" them. I don't really get that part of his motivation, I don't have any particular fondness of leftist protestors but I don't have any visceral hatred of them, I just consider them a bit dumb.
So the "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 a little bit out of loving Jews, but I think it's mostly out of hatred of leftist protestors. I don't really agree with that myself, but I don't really particularly care either way.
SecureSignals
Civilization is simply a geno-memetic-techno-capital machine
4hr ago
That's a cool castle, the crenellations echo the traditional design elements of medieval European castles, yet the building's relatively small scale and the integration of modern features such as large windows betray it's a modern reinterpretation rather than a historical fortification.
SteveKirkland
4hr ago
Good lads, and the viciousness with which the New York Democrat machine is attacking them is evidence that they're registering as a threat. That legal saga is worth a post in itself if nobody's covered it yet.
Temperature monitoring on devices has saved me more heartache than any other project. The latest one was getting an alert my fridge-freezer was failing in time to shut it down and fix before the compressor exploded (fridge overheating, freezer over-cooling, stupid stupid active vent systems)
On the plus side now we know my freezer can get itself to -40F if it wants.
DradisPing
4hr ago
This is the platonic form of the argument: https://imgur.com/a/QPHPxrJ
There were some great twitter threads on the subject that I'm currently unable to find.
But essentially, women view the question as an opportunity to shame & put down men. Men take the question literally.
So when women state their answer men assume that they are lacking in bear facts and try to explain them.
NelsonRushton
4hr ago
We can say this with confidence, because this law is a consequence of what mass is, mathematically
This is simply not correct to say about the Law of Gravity. It is almost correct to say about the second law of motion:
F = MA
with one caveat. Newton implicitly assumes that each particle has a property, called its mass, which is constant over time. It turns out this not true: the mass of a particle can vary over time as a function of the object's velocity, according to the special theory of relativity. If you alter Newton's theory to make mass, force, and acceleration functions of time, then I think you are correct and the second law of motion is just the definition of mass. But then, by itself, it does not predict anything (since you could measure the mass of a particle, then perform an experiment, and anything could happen since the mass might have changed between weighing the particle and doing the experiment).
SteveKirkland
4hr ago
Yeah, I'm not so sure he's wrong about that one.
SecureSignals
Civilization is simply a geno-memetic-techno-capital machine
4hr ago
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 sensational statements. He uses comedy to provide cover for his radical viewpoints. 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.
stav
4hr 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
4hr 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
5hr 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
5hr 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
5hr 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
5hr 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
5hr ago
Slip her some real red pills like I'm Bill Cosby.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
6hr 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 sell it to buy US treasuries for 5%, and if the bank of japan wants to keep rates low they just have to suck it up and subsidize it by burning through their reserves (I think? It's been a long time since int finance)
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 absolutely crippling at 150 yen to the dollar.
HighResolutionSleep
6hr 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
6hr 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.
6hr 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.
6hr ago
I love it!
That’s a good one, especially since a lot of mainstream gear in that space depends on annoying IoT stuff.
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