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Magusoflight
11m ago
Interestingly this is at least partly because Australian Aboriginal genes are even more recessive than white genetics. I often found that strange, since it’s not typically the case with cross breeds of any other sort - any geneticists amateur or otherwise on themotte care to enlighten me why this is?
fmaa
22m ago
See the first part of https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/02/21/current-affairs-some-puzzles-for-libertarians-treated-as-writing-prompts-for-short-stories/
I don't even necessarily disagree that this might be a good use of government, but this is essentially not an argument for democracy, but an argument for imperialism. Backwards communities need better morals enforced on them by guys with guns from more enlightened ones.
4bpp
Now I am become a Helpful, Honest and Harmless Assistant, the destroyer of jobs
23m ago
Given the ongoing genocide of nearly 80 years, it seems pretty reasonable that the Palestinians would not want (...), too...?
You are trying to frame the two situations as fundamentally different, but it seems that your view of the difference boils down to whether you think the respective death-wishers are the "good guys". It's convenient for you that your current opinion of good and evil aligns with that of the US government, but the whole point of my hypothetical was, what if the US government's position changes?
functor
30m ago
Not unlikely. People are going to be more focused on looks if they are choosing a partner for themselves rather than trying to find a partner for someone else.
bonsaii
36m ago
It's just yet another step in the direction of forcing American society to restructure for the benefit of dog owners. I've posted before about my utter disdain for modern dog culture and the strong correlation between selfishness/narcissism with dog ownership. They have already turned my city into their personal open-air toilet and have made nearly every space "dog-friendly" despite signs politely requesting otherwise. The difference here is that this isn't just some rule or norm they can repeatedly violate without asking until society throws its hands up at the futility of enforcement. For once, they are on the side opposed to the social norm defectors and need top-down enforcement, but have their heads too far up their dogs' asses to see the irony.
I can agree that the continued fireworks past midnight does get mildly annoying, but it is absolutely nothing compared to the year-round barking these dog owners inflict.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
52m ago
Contrary to what @George_E_Hale said, this isn't an odd moment of bluntness for you, it's something you've been warned about before.
Drop this "this is just the way I talk" gimmick. You can say "Blacks aren't smart, but Jews and Chinese are," but phrasing it the way you did just reeks of "I'm an edgy ironic racist, hee hee hee." We've told you this already: being racist isn't prohibited, but you have to figure out how to spray your spittle in a polite manner, and if you find that difficult, that's intentional.
hydroacetylene
57m ago
Is there anything to thé theory that the relatively early shift to love matches over arranged marriages has selected Western Europeans for greater phenotypic attractiveness?
ABigGuy4U
1hr ago
aqouta
1hr ago
'm a little unclear on how a libertarian watchman state where all of the government enforcers are racist/sectarian/whatever, ever stops being bigoted.
How is this problem solved through democracy?
Turniper
1hr ago
So, they could do virtually zero damage, mortally offend most of the entire western world by deliberately targetting a religious site, and get properly nuked in return? The offense to deterrence ratio on that plan does not pencil.
I originally bought a pressure washer to blast crud off the side of my house but now I primarily use it to wash my vehicles. It's oddly satisfying and the kids like it too. I added a foam cannon attachment so I can cover them in a sheet of soap suds, let that sit for 5-10 minutes, and then do a rinse.
Works reasonably well but some spots still need a scrubbing. I probably do this every other month, though it's required more in spring because of the sheer mass of pollen that collects.
I talked about detailing last week so won't rehash that part.
ABigGuy4U
1hr ago
Why has there been a coordinated push over the last few years to get people to stop using fireworks because it’s supposedly bad for veterans and dogs? I smell a psy-op.
Tanista
1hr ago
don’t have or bring over children
I don't see how this is possible when you can't even stop birth tourism from people flying in. Are they only going to work for four months or so?
functor
2hr ago
Pope Leo XIV has been pope for two months now. How has his first two months been and has your view of him shifted since he became pope?
Blueberry
2hr ago
I copied your post into o4-mini ChatGPT, without the last two paragraphs and the PSC idea, and this was spit out after a minute:
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Here’s a proven, zero-Downtime–capable way to copy your Cloud SQL for MySQL database from Project A into Project B without dumping to GCS or exposing it publicly: use Database Migration Service (DMS) in the destination project, treating the source instance as a “self-managed” MySQL endpoint. This leverages private connectivity (VPC peering) so data never traverses the public Internet.
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Prepare your source Cloud SQL instance • Enable binary logging & GTID, and use row-based replication on your source: set log_bin, binlog_format=ROW, gtid_mode=ON, and retain logs (expire_logs_days or binlog_expire_logs_seconds) for at least a week. • Create a replication user with REPLICATION SLAVE, REPLICATION CLIENT, SELECT, SHOW VIEW, EXECUTE, TRIGGER, etc., per your migration type .
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Enable DMS in the destination project • In Project B, enable the Database Migration Service API and grant yourself the Database Migration Admin role.  • Ensure the DMS service account has compute.networkAdmin so it can set up peering. 
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Set up private connectivity (VPC peering) • In Project B, create a Private Connectivity Configuration under DMS → Private connectivity. Select the VPC from Project A that holds your source instance’s private IP; DMS will automatically peer its service-network VPC into that network. 
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Create your Source Connection Profile • Still in Project B’s DMS UI, go to Connection Profiles → Create Profile → Source. • Engine: MySQL • Classification: “Self-managed MySQL” (even though it’s Cloud SQL)—this bypasses the same-project restriction . • Host: the private IP (or public IP + authorized network) of your Cloud SQL source. • Credentials: use the replication user you created. 
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Create & run the Migration Job • Go to Migration Jobs → Create Migration Job in Project B.
- Name your job.
- Source: select the connection profile from step 4.
- Destination: choose an existing or let DMS create a new Cloud SQL instance in Project B.
- Connectivity: pick Private IP and select the private connectivity config you made in step 3.
- Type: choose One-time (initial load only) or Continuous (CDC + initial load).
- Test, then Start the job. 
DMS will do an initial data copy over the peered VPC, then (if you chose Continuous) apply changes in near real-time.
- Cut over to the new instance • Once the initial load is complete and lag is minimal, stop writes on the source, then in the DMS job click Promote. This switches your application to the target instance in Project B. 
Why this works
• No GCS buckets or manual dumps needed.
• Data never leaves Google’s private network—no public IP exposure.
• Cross-project works seamlessly by treating the source as self-managed and running DMS in the target project.
• Scales to multi-TB databases with minimal downtime (CDC mode)
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Is it wrong?
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
3hr ago
Paralleling @JarJarJedi's story, I tried to outsource some annoying research to Gemini and it just gave me the run around. [TW: Boring ops work] I was trying to find a way to copy a large-ish Cloud SQL MySQL DB from one GCP project to another. Solutions I was given:
- Just make a clone in another project (not allowed)
- Dump the data to a GCS bucket (I said I didn't want to do that in the original prompt)
- Use DMS to transfer the data to an empty Cloud SQL instance in another project (sounded promising, was my original thought... but you can't select a DMS instance in another project from the drop-down)
- Just use the public IP address of the other Cloud SQL instance as the target (and send my prod DB data over the internet? pretty sure the security team would kill me)
- Just use the private IP address of the other Cloud SQL instance (...what? it's in another VPC in another project)
- Just peer the VPCs (hmmm.... but no, Cloud SQL instance interfaces actually exist in a "private services subnet" which is part of a hidden Google-controlled VPC which gets automatically peered to the customer's VPC in the same project (A <-> B), and GCP does not support transitive VPC peering (A <-> B <-> C))
- Just peer the hidden VPCs in each project directly (they're Google-controlled so we can't create peerings)
- Peer the customer's VPC in the source project with the Cloud SQL VPC in the target project (that doesn't make sense)
- Just dump the database into a bucket (sigh)
In the end I probably could have just spent 30-45 minutes reading the docs and figured out what my real options were rather than spending severally hours trying half-baked solutions. I just use Gemini for short scripts, text editing operations, and boilerplate now.
[PS. I think we can use PSC to solve the problem above]
aldomilyar
3hr ago
Yeah but the point of 'sovereignty wasn't ceded' arguments is essentially that the lack of any sort of a coherent political union or body of Aborigines with which to negotiate a surrender means that they didn't surrender meaning that they still own the territory of Australia under illegitimate occupation. Galaxybrain shit.
It also contributes to an active resistance towards archeological or other historical investigation of Australian history in order to reduce the chances of anything that might contradict the official narrative. There was a semi-recent case in which Mungo Man, the oldest Homo Sapiens discovered in Australia, was reburied in accordance with Indigenous wishes to prevent further scientific inquiry.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
5hr ago
Yeah, the Aztecs did have something substantial. Pretty sure the Indigenous know they lost a war (they want recognition of massacres on the frontier after all) but want to relitigate it. There's a website that shows you what was happening (or at least what they managed/chose to record) and it was totally one-sided: https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/map.php
With the Native Americans in the US, they managed to somehow eke out 2:1 or 3:1 native deaths for each white death. In Australia it was 20:1, maybe as high as 60:1.
aldomilyar
6hr ago
In my experience it's Indians who do far the most racial aggrandizing of the Asians about 'India would be hovercars and perfect development without the Raj' topics and the everpopular riffs on 'descendant of top caste complains about anglo oppression whilst having to leave India for better opportunities due to intense affirmative action for the people they've historically oppressed' though I've generally found Indian Idpol actively contradictory and absolutely insane.
aldomilyar
6hr ago
Complete sidenote but I read Alison Overeem as Alistair Overeem and was overcome for a moment with confusion about ethnicity.
aldomilyar
6hr ago
Still you can't deny the Aztecs had a political assemblage which could be meaningfully bargained with about concepts like land ownership and fealty. The Indigenous take in Australia is essentially they were too primitive to 'lose a war' and therefore couldn't have lost a war.
2rafa
6hr ago
And that’s most of what’s necessary. Some kind of soft-kefala where the migrants don’t stay, don’t have or bring over children, and go home at the end of the season.
cjet79
7hr ago
Calling for collective action seems to have an abandonment of responsibility that I dislike.
I love the phrasing of your second paragraph because it illustrates the problem.
It's not "I want to throw you in a wood chipper for your annoying pedantry" it's 'someone should throw people like you into a wood chipper for their annoying pedantry '. The functional result on my end is the same, but you've dodged responsibility for directly calling for me to be killed.
2D3D
7hr ago
They can TRY to fuck you back, but they usually lack competence organically, which is why they failed in the first place. They only succeed because their nominal allies of convenience prefer wielding them as cudgels against their proximate enemy. White liberals play the oppression meta to discredit enemies, not to materially advance the cause of their pet projects. Without external support these low performers default to the limit of their capability.
Confident that they could, and so never having asked if they should, Australian eugenics scientists continue to pursue their mad goal of creating the whitest oppressed black person to ever live.
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