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Pasha
Defend Kebab
11mo ago
Lol same. Watched Turkey won as a kid. And then every single year ever since. I feel like it keeps getting shittier and more formulaic every year but maybe I am just grumpy. Also jury voting sucks ass. Who cares about the opinions of some third-rate music "journalists" from Albania? Give me some juicy politics and neighbor voting.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
11mo ago
I suppose a lot of mediocre people entered the software field with expectations of easy work cheap money and now they are pissed and have way too much free time.
Also it is terrifying for any FAANG employee to watch Elon take over Twitter, fire 90% of the work force and keep the site functioning just fine.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
11mo ago
Well, I'm not necessarily questioning the numbers, just their interpretation. You can observe that the fire ratio in battle doesn't match the fire ratio in training, but to jump from there to "they must be subconsciously avoiding killing their opponents, even though they themselves in mortal danger" seems like a stretch. My first guess would be "it's one thing to hit a target when you know you're safe, it's another when someone is actually firing at you".
Primaprimaprima
Bigfoot is an interdimensional being
11mo ago
Which mainstream mental attractors would those be?
Southkraut
Rise, ramble, rest, repeat.
11mo ago
What is "the orange site", if not reddit? I'm having trouble understanding the first sentence here.
FWIW, I stopped using reddit when the Motte migrated.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 For more information please reread this post
11mo ago
"Just don't be a cunt and you'll be fine"
First they came for the Communists; but I was not a Communist, so I stayed silent....
orthoxerox
I realized I can change my flair color to Barbie pink
11mo ago
Is there any gender-inverted noir fiction other than that chapter in Hyperion?
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
11mo ago
Hacker News / Y Combinator. I heard people say it's a bit less insufferable than reddit, but I never noticed.
Azth
Enoch Powells Friday night masseuse
11mo ago
I don't know, I suspect based on inference. The Great War On Terror and all the fabrications by various intelligence agencies to shift public opinion (The UKs involvement with the Iraq war famously being due to a fake intelligence dossier and the astroturfed media coverage to pump public opinion away from the popular anti war sentiment of the time), Snowdon leaks, twitter leaks, plus various bits of covid narrative direction mediated by intelligence agencies, such as the FBI in the US or the role of E.g., the 77th brigade in the UK, paint a picture of a dispersed intelligence apparatus that does shift narratives and have a dominant, final, say in the anglospheres mood and man on the street opinion.
With that basis influencing me to assume it's more likely than not to be intelligence agencies manipulating opinion. When I see a sudden massive set of Anglo country wide social and cultural changes being implimented and enforced from the top down with manufactured media driven consensus, my default assumption isn't that it's a bottom up phenonomenon driven by academic marxists, economic conditions, racism, people struggling for equality out of true belief in it or whatever, but that the well funded groups of people across the world hegemonic powerstructure who have a track record of doing things like this, and have plausible reasons for doing it, very wwrll might be doing it and I will need very solid evidence to update away from that. When it comes to the culture war, my null hypothesis is the 5 eyes intelligence community probably did it or influenced the start of whatever it is.
ace
11mo ago
I own 1 suit I've worn twice in ten years (weddings). And I feel a sense of mistrust for people who spend more than a de minimus amount of time thinking about their clothing.
p3rls
11mo ago
I haven't really been much of a Mottizen since you guys were taken over by witches and other various crazies (no offense) but I founded kpopping.com and have been pushing this sorta korean content westwards for the better part of a decade.
This was a complete waste of an article. If you are cosplaying as an investigative journalist please try to interview people actually familiar with the topic.
p3rls
11mo ago
SC2
It's true. This is how I got into K-pop. You know, besides destroying the west and all that it was mainly SC2.
SomethingMusic
11mo ago
It's not really a laziness thing for me, it's more of a time thing. I have a lot I'm doing right now so it's hard to find the time to really organize thoughts into anything substantial.
IGI-111
God was a dream of good government.
11mo ago
I definitely agree that some of it probably has to do with the chaotic nature of modern combat. Certainly tracks with other surprising figures like the hit probability studies that gave rise to SPIW.
But how come they did manage to raise the ratio with those alterations to training? What would be the confounding factor? Technology? Some of it might be cooking numbers but other armies (like the Canadians) got similar results by implementing similar training techniques.
Psychology is unfortunately a very methodologically challenged discipline, but for all of my personal disdain for some of the extrapolations of Grossman groupies, there has to be something here.
p3rls
11mo ago
I think you are just describing very online teenage girls. Keep in mind some of the most-viewed discussions on kpop on the internet are actually more like places like 4chan and /r/kpopfap once you see the numbers.
I know many of the media owners of this kpop push, and they are not woke at all. They're 100% pragmatic American Psycho types or at least like to think of themselves as such.
wraelk
11mo ago
Have you tried just blocking everything you don't like with uBlock Origin? There are probably prettier filters out there somewhere, but i got it down to what felt like a reasonable website experience by just cutting out everything I even slightly disliked using "block element" on right-click.
Ioper
11mo ago
Is there any indication that the opposition is any more competent and less corrupt?
Gdanning
11mo ago
This sounds more like the prime directive of a fascist empire, but at least you're trying
Yeah, as the old joke goes, you are trying as well: Very trying. I didn't say that preserving order is the prime directive of society. I said it is the purpose of criminal law. Do you seriously not know that all states preserve order? Isn't that a primary public service that all states provide? And that there is a reason that states that are unable to preserve order are called "failed states" and whose citizens tend to transfer allegiance to local warlords who are able to provide order? What distinguishes an authoritarian state from all the others is not that it seeks to preserve order, but that it does not recognize civil liberties.
state murder is orderly, ordinary murder is messy.
I take it back; now you aren't trying at all. No one said anything about anything being "orderly." If you don't know the difference between "acting in a way conducive to public order" and "acting in an orderly fashion," well, you mentioned being from Germany so I guess English is not your first language.
I contend that the real distinction between the murderer and the executioner
This seems to be a claim about the morality of capital punishment. I have not said that is is moral, and in fact implied the exact opposite: "And if you are asking why capital punishment is morally permissible, you are asking the wrong person."
And the moral status of the defendant is central :
Yes, the moral status of the defendant's acts (not of the defendant, see below) are central. That is why mens rea requires. But that is irrelevant to the issue we are discussing, which is not the relevance of the moral status of the defendant, but rather the relevance of the moral status of the victim.
“Criminal law proceeds upon the principle that it is morally right to hate criminals”
And yet, when I search Google Scholar for American cases that include that quote, I get zero hits. Ditto re searches for "morally right to hate criminals" and "right to hate criminals." "Hate criminals" turns up one hit, form 140 years ago. In contrast, there are few principles better established in American law than that a defendant's prior criminal acts are generally inadmissible to show guilt. "Courts that follow the common-law tradition almost unanimously have come to disallow resort by the prosecution to any kind of evidence of a defendant's evil character to establish a probability of his guilt." Michelson v. United States, 335 US 469, 475 (1948). Why? Because it relates to the moral status of the defendant: "Courts generally prohibit the admission of this evidence to protect against the jury convicting a defendant because he or she is a bad person deserving punishment." People v. Donoho, 788 NE 2d 707, 714 (Ill: Supreme Court 2003).
So, I think you are misinformed about the concepts underpinning criminal justice in common law countries. Perhaps it is different in Germany.
Jiro
11mo ago
The difference between now and those is they resulted from massive social upheaval, massive amounts of physical force, or both. The modern woke advance was done with no Great Depression, no world war, no dictatorship.
naraburns
nihil supernum
11mo ago
the results do show that most Thais are fed up with the status quo
Is it the "status quo" they don't like, or is it the king, personally? I don't know very much about Thailand, but my understanding circa 2010 was that the (then) king was overwhelmingly beloved, an important figure in culture as well as politics. He died in 2016, and his successor was apparently already unpopular at that point. In principle, opposition to having a monarchy is different from opposition to having this guy as the monarch. I recognize that in practice, the difference is largely academic--I just wonder how many other changes (perhaps including the LGB stuff?) are essentially riding the coat-tails of what is actually public distaste for a specific individual.
HaroldWilson
11mo ago
It is signalling, but it's relatively low cost. The point is that I doubt Biden spends much of his time thinking about it, democratic legislators are mostly not going to give it much floor time etc. etc.
fartVader
11mo ago
One nice suit. Wore it once for a wedding 2 years ago. Where do you guys find the occasion to wear a suit ?
I do care about fashion, but all my clothes are casuals. To the first approximation, I look like someone who purchased the basicBastard and then stepped into a Uniqlo for the rest.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '21
11mo ago
One dark pinstripe suit. I wear it to solemn Masses and big social events (funerals, ceremonies). So at least once a quarter.
Glancing in my closet I also have a tweed blazer and a thin white summer blazer that sadly no longer fits since I've started lifting. : (
I've been meaning to buy a casual suit to wear for fun. Probably a navy one.
While the threat of getting any physical harassment is quite low, you definitely did the right thing by just walking away. Scammy oriental bazaar carpet seller and "tour guide" is a stereotype that existed as long as Westerners became rich and started visiting the East. IMO the best Turkish comedy movie of all times literally has "scammy carpet seller gets abducted by aliens" as its plot. The opening scene where he is scamming Japanese tourists with fake wares is considered pretty hilarious by most people.
I have had similar interactions in Israel and multiple Arab countries. Unfortunately it seems almost inevitable when modern industry and commerce makes the institution of bazaars obsolete and a corrupted version of it survives solely due to tourist inflows. These people develop a good eye for the most gullible and loaded foreigners and spend their entire working life making good money from it.
The worst offenders tend to make the national news and the police usually does something about it if you were truly coerced. But this is definitely not a boundary you want to test as a foreigner and even if you can get restitution you still ruined your holiday.
Istanbul is typically right on the edge of modernized decent mega-city and third world shit-hole. If you intend to visit more third world destinations in the future it is a good training ground for not looking and acting too much like a credulous cash-cow tourist.
P.S. Also please don't eat any processed meat from any tourist street restaurant. Just check for very good google reviews online or walk a bit further to the side streets and find a place that doesn't have an English menu if you want an "authentic experience". I can't fathom how people still fall for this.
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