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FtSoA
2hr ago
the vast majority of my model overlaps with what they teach to reasonably smart high schoolers.
And that overlaps very much with classical liberalism?
When did you go to high school?
Do they still commonly teach at least the "Hamilton" version of the US, or are we in full-on "1619" territory these days for say APUSH?
I was in high school in a red state like 20 years ago, but I definitely got taught "center-leftish kinda neoliberal but state intervention in the economy is good by default to undo the [exaggerated, imagined] ills of markets" that I know is still all the rage in college and in the Intellectual Elite. So, leaving aside the woke-era Culture War, it was still very much not "classically liberal" on economics. Barely even neoliberal really.
Civil religion was nice when we had it.
And while my own collection is still amateurish, I'm always happy to talk about firearms as a hobby, too.
Fortunately for my finances, my square footage limits my tendencies here.
Whaddya got going?
My best collection piece is technically a loaner from my father-in-law, an M1917 Enfield. It's sporterized, but otherwise in great condition. My grandfather was a WWI vet, so I really like having it. As a hobby, I got a little too involved in modifying my, uh, three Sig P365s. I'm done now. Definitely don't want a fourth to have suppressed. Luckily, I've been more pragmatic with my AR-15 and AR-10 and not actually got into long-range shooting. I did spend a good chunk of change on a sweet steel target setup my family can use in the desert.
JarJarJedi
2hr ago
The archive guys had some feud with Cloudflare for a while about some arcane details of how DNS resolution should work, which unfortunately resulted in some of their domains not being resolved properly on Cloudflare DNS. Maybe it's what still is happening.
FtSoA
2hr ago
You're confusing "moral regard" and "competency regard."
Even if I accept Mossad is totally evil, I expect them to be good at it. Unlike this.
FtSoA
2hr ago
This is one of those "worst arguments in the world" where "rigged" can now apparently mean "any level whatsoever of voter fraud" instead of what it's commonly expected to mean--major, material effects on or at least attempted changes to an election outcome.
You're just sanewashing Trump's unjustifiable statements for which no actual evidence has ever backed all the myriad theories (and there are accounts where he does admit he actually lost in 2020, by the way.)
Terracotta
2hr ago
Fair, but that delicate interaction happened in a deeply individualistic society where you had the leverage of both parties knowing it was your right to choose. Tilt the conventional balance back toward hierarchy, connection, fixed roles and knowing your place, and now the peremptory or even tyrannical father comes back into the Overton window - the sort of father who is empowered to command rather than negotiate, who can refuse consent to a minor child's marriage or force an apprenticeship and back that up with physical discipline, and who has the right to make those decisions as he pleases without necessarily consulting his son.
Also back in the Overton window would be the full weight of social and political censure against rebellious subjects, disobedient sons, disorderly commoners, runaway 'prentices, religious heretics (I hope you're not Protestant?), innovators and entrepreneurs, misers and profiteers, and various other social groups who our present-day society lauds to the skies precisely for not accepting their customary role and place in the order of things.
FtSoA
2hr ago
Wow, who can we really trust here?
Certainly not, as you say "career politicians" or "confirmed criminals."
And there's just not really any hard evidence.
So why believe any of the rumors if you won't believe people trying to deny the rumors?
FtSoA
2hr ago
I mean the best argument I got is you don't even have an argument.
You have a belief in an absolutely nonsensical theory, that is also pointless.
If the presently available evidence can't disabuse you of this notion, then in all likelihood you're never going to be disabused.
Betting markets have to have time limits or else things would never settle. It's also a tax on BS.
2rafa
3hr ago
As I already said, Hoffenberg was a gullible fool who believed every word that Epstein said and later got got for astounding idiocy in his Ponzi scheme.
Four separate sources told me — on the record — that Epstein’s dealings in the arms world in the 1980s
Yes, exactly. Epstein’s dealings in the arms world of the 1980s, in which nobody in the booming arms industry of the age ever remembered him, no record of him exists, and during which he was living in a 1-bed in Manhattan begging people to give him money to invest after being fired from Bear Stearns. Those dealings.
It is astounding the extent to which claims of Epstein’s work ‘in intelligence’ ultimately trace back to Epstein himself and his own bullshit to make himself seem more interesting, influential and important than he was at that time.
2rafa
3hr ago
If you read the original documents and reporting from the Palm Beach case it was almost all poor, often Hispanic girls from deprived areas of West Palm Beach.
phailyoor
3hr ago
Hm I didn't know what solar fares are either, but the author definitely didn't take the time to learn. Good find, hard science is definitely a weak point of human writers that I underestimated greatly.
ControlsFreak
3hr ago
the core being something like "doing unpleasant or boring yet necessary things, in a timely manner without prompting"
Thanks for the other context above, too. Combined with this, I'm not really sure this is really a matter of willpower/executive function/conscientiousness. It seems a bit more like just the human condition that some things are unpleasant, and different folks make different tradeoffs. I think there are a variety of reasons why folks make different tradeoffs here, too.
Whence your urge to find solutions to problems that actually work? When it comes, how does it manifest? [my question]
I'm not quite sure I've worded this in a way to get at what I'm looking for. The way you made it sound originally, it's like you have some excitement or something for certain types of problems. I was kind of getting Lottery of Fascinations vibes, and wanted to see if it was that sorta thing. I'm not really sure your response gets at that, because I probably didn't word the question well. Things like deferring to guidelines doesn't really seem to fit, unless the idea is that you sometimes rabbit hole down an alternative interpretation that hit the lottery. Or personally, do you just get tweaked by some types of problems or whatever.
I think, big picture, and going back to your earlier comment, you mention that you've lost more weight with diet/exercise in the past. That doesn't really seem to me to be describing someone who just lacks willpower, especially given the assumption (that I am not solidly making) that willpower is the necessary ingredient for such a thing.
Instead, it feels to me to be more of just the typical things of choices and tradeoffs. Like, you said that you'll plan on going hypertrophy über alles post-semaglutide, but hypertrophy sucks, man. I mean, yeah, some people enjoy dreamer bulking (which never really accomplishes the dream) on the diet side, but you still have to lift lots of heavy weights a bunch. Seems a bit weird, since you say that you just don't like the gym. But then, I guess you maybe say you'll do it because you feel like you kind of have to, but that gets back to feeling like a willpower-limited thing again (in the model where willpower is the necessary ingredient). So I don't know. Is there something that makes 'hypertrophy über alles' trip your fascination for finding solutions to problems (because yeah, those exist, and they involve lifting a lot of heavy weights), but that fixing your diet doesn't? Perhaps you could introspect some more on some of the differences and see if you could find relatable components to the problems, see if you could trick your lottery into finding at least something relevant in there to grab your attention.
Maybe I'll start with one little thing. Hypertrophy doesn't work great with a terrible, junky, dreamer bulky diet. I mean, it works okay, but if you're fascinated with the idea of hypertrophy über alles, you might want to consider the problems that it poses... problems which do happen to have solutions which actually work.
Lazuli
3hr ago
Em dashes are only a part of A.I. pattern recognition; sentence structure, vocabulary, and grammar are also considered. Em dashes are still safe to use.
phailyoor
3hr ago
It's an interesting exercise, and also seems to be a blind spot in the capabilities of AI detectors.
I'm not happy with the article itself though:
“Protocol Shas’kaara”: the systematic stripping of every frontier Sept of personnel, matériel and cultural assets
This seems like if it exists, it would be used often enough to be documented in existing lore. It's a hallucination.
relic vaults
Same as above
prototype Earth-caste “terraforming engine” known as the Worldseed.
AI always insists on coming up with some sort of special snowflake greatest weapon in the game to throw into every battle. While part of the atmosphere of 40k is the feeling of mundanity and futility of its battles. Low quality.
consisted of nine merchant-menials and
"merchant-menians" isn't correct terminology.
two Protector-class cruisers escorted by the experimental drone-carrier Or’es El’leath “Silent Moon”.
The cruisers are the escort, not escorted. Also there's no record of drone carriers as capital ships. Again AI insisting on some special snowflake units.
Silent Moon’s port grav-sail was ruptured by Righteous Fury’s lance volley; the carrier began uncontrolled atmospheric entry.
Grav-sail is not real. And if it was it's not something needed to keep the ship in orbit.
This unplanned fortification became the T’au centre of gravity.
AI tell, nonsensical.
fire lanes
Not a real thing.
Recognising that prolonged defence risked total loss, Ethereal Aun’Shi authorized “Shas’Kaara Last-Light”: a staged evacuation using remaining Mantas and the Kroot Warsphere as improvised dropships.
But the entire operation was an evacuation from the start. Nonsensical.
planet was declared Perdita Grade II.
Hallucination
Lazuli
3hr ago
I have discovered, by dint of fucking around, that SwiftKey keyboard for Android allows me to insert em-dashes with relative ease.
How?
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
3hr ago
The richest man in the world posts constantly. He liked it so much he bought the company so he could post more to his liking! Rich people do like posting. I don't think in a world where Elon and Ackman and Kevin Durant exist we can say "why would anyone shitpost if they had an otherwise busy life?"
Moreover, I've gone into this in more detail in the past, but Ghislaine could have used a powerful Reddit account to recruit teenage girls. In this case having her identity tied directly to the account (Maxwellhill) would have helped her credibility when she reached out.
Which would also explain why Reddit wants to bury the story rather than try to keep the account alive.
ToaKraka
Dislikes you
3hr ago
felis-parenthesis
3hr ago
I had to check the page source to see how you did that. So now I can do arithmetic 7−5=2 and number ranges 1914–1918 and — wait for it — felis‐parenthesis :-)
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
3hr ago
They could easily know that MaxwellHill is Ghislaine, associating with her wouldn't be seen as a big deal until the late 2010s.
There would be no reason for Ghislaine to violate opsec like this.
If the account is active then it can make public posts! That's exactly the point, it's a totally active account that just won't post a public comment or thread for unspecified reasons. But rest assured, it's totally still active and doing mod duties.
Regardless of the activity of the account, the other mods can't make it post publicly. That's my point.
ace
3hr ago
I also use the correct punctuation when writing in LaTeX, though not anywhere else. The mental illness label is accurate, though.
Rov_Scam
3hr ago
I worked for an inventory service when I was in college and mall stores did their inventories after close, which any day other than Sunday was 9:00 pm. So a typical inventory would last from 9:00 to 1 or 2 am. Some stores would do there's before open and those would start at six so the sales floor would be done around 10. Take this advice with a grain of salt since it's been 20 years and my memory isn't great, but I don't believe security ever had to let us in for any of the early stores. We were always told to park near the "main entrance" of the mall, which is almost invariably the entrance into the food court if the mall has one. I'm not entirely sure about this, but I think there was always one door that was open near here where you could just walk in; I don't remember having to ever call security or anything like that to be let in, though since I had a legitimate reason to be there it's possible that security just left a door open for us, though that wouldn't make a ton of sense because in that case I'd imagine they'd leave the door close to the store open.
It's also worth keeping in mind that in this situation you'd stick out like a sore thumb. Actual employees have keys to service doors that allow them to access corridors that run along the perimeter of the building so they can get into the back room of the store. I believe this is strictly necessary since the security gates will only unlock from the inside, though I'm not entirely sure about this. I do know that when we left a late store in the middle of the night, the last group to leave would always exit through the outside door. The point is, though, that the risk of detection is pretty high, since the parking lot will be empty and you'll be wandering around aimlessly in an area that is pretty highly surveilled.
While @self_made_human's recommendation of a hard hat and safety vest is generally correct, there are better ways of getting in (not to mention that it's become a bit of a meme at this point). My recommendation would be to dress in business casual and carry a computer bag. Show up around 6:00 am or a little earlier and try the main entrance doors. Your cover story is that you're from Boschini, Miller and Associates accounting firm there to supervise the inventory of a store that's located in the mall. You will only need to use this if you get accosted, though if you're bold you may be able to use this at a security intercom or something if there aren't any open doors. Make sure the store you pick is a national chain with a different location in a nearby mall. If security somehow knows that there's no inventory scheduled for that day, get out some paperwork that has the name of the other mall on it and get flustered and embarrassed that you somehow got it in your head that it was at this mall and you obviously have to go now because you are late.
Ironically, the bigger risk here is that the security guard buys your story, because now you have nowhere to go but you can't really leave. You'd be limited to making a beeline for the store and then a beeline back to the entrance, telling the guard about your mistake if caught again. Other than that, it's a good cover because it admits that you aren't supposed to be there. It also means that the guard will be disinclined to pursue the matter further or make additional inquiries because the apparent situation is now that you're running extremely late, and any nervousness on your part would be expected considering the professional bind you are now in. I can say from my years as an inventory taker that it isn't unheard of to go to the wrong store. Aside from that, I don't know why you'd want to go to a mall in the middle of the night. Whatever vibe you're imagining is so unimpressive that I can't even remember if they kept the music on, or if they turned off any house lights. As far as I can remember it's just a bunch of closed stores and no people. Just go to a dead mall around closing time and the vibe will be the same.
phailyoor
3hr ago
In my imo it matters whether or not people are reading fake slop articles in fake hallucination la-la-land rather than real human slop. If the reader really needs the sensation of reading something with no truth value, there are plenty of mlp fanfics out there to help satisfy the qualia.
Yes every clickbait article about a p-hacked paper about how a glass of wine a day is good/bad is bad. But at least if it goes viral it's a sort of shared experience. Something that can be debunked. And something that can be talked about. If someone tells you he just read that a glass of wine a day is good you can roll your eyes and start talking about p-hacking or experimental methodology.
If AI slop makes it up, it can't be debunked. It's harder to disprove something nakedly asserted than something eventually attributed to an unreliable source. And there's a literal infinite supply of AI slop, so there's no point.
Quantumfreakonomics
3hr ago
It’s easy to forget with how much the revolutionary era has been romanticized, but John Adams (the only Federalist president) was seen as an authoritarian during his presidency. The Sedition Act almost neutered the first amendment in the crib.
But Epstein didn’t target Zionist Jews who contributed large sums of money, right? Leon Black isn’t really a big Zionist contributor, and his moderate donations to Jewish causes occur post-Epstein. Large Zionist donors do not appear to be targeted by Epstein. They were among his social network because Wexner was Epstein’s patron.
Balkany using blackmail to fund Yeshivas isn’t commonplace or mundane. Yeshivas are the heart of Jewish identity and an essential way that Orthodox Jews buffer against the prospect of assimilation. Chabad was very upset when Sweden forbid homeschooling, because in the absence of indoctrination the kids will have a less extreme Jewish identity. This falls under “blackmail for increased jewish power”, not “blackmail for personal gain” (his salary is not a proportion of the total yeshiva endowment).
Sure, and that's why I specified "attempt" in there, but there ought to be evidence of it.
Not mere allegational delusions.
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