houseoftolstoy @[email protected]
Looks like this will be my new home. Warning: I (probably) have Asperger's, so my be prepared for my autism to show through.
I don't think I am a right wing extremist, but I am sure anyone with low testosterone might think otherwise.
Joined Sep 2022
Even when you ask parents if they would be proud of their child if he/she grew up to be President, they would say they would. But being adults themselves, the parents should know better about this sort of thing.
So I will say that I would never want a child of mine to become president. I don't need to wonder how many crimes they have committed to keep themselves in power.
So many kids grow saying things like "when I grow up I want to become President." Little do they know how corrupt our political system is, and more likely than not if you have an real chance of becoming president, you are a scumbag. Nobody keeps themselves in power in a corrupt system by having good moral character.
I have heard rumors about the Jan 6th prisoners, and I am inclined to believe these stories to be true. What irks me is not only that these people are being wrongfully imprisoned and are being mistreated, but also that I have no faith in the people responsible for keeping them locked up will never be held responsible.
Sorry that there is a paywall for this story.
@Tfmonkey I get what you are saying about pullups. It can get overhyped. But there is one useful merit to them, that being it proves you are not too fat for your own body to be able to pull its own weight.
The problems arise when guys are either cheating reps with crap like kipping or some other action to pad their numbers, or when some beanpole has barely any weight to pull in the first place. That makes every claim suspect.
@DW2 @WhiteDissidentRadio >small period of time where there is a decrease
>"inflation is easing"
It is not so much that the lie is retarded that pisses me off, but our own media will just happily parrot this shit without any desire to be critical.
@deprecated_ii >knowing how to write a for loop not matter
U wot mate? Every time I feel like I am not that great of a programmer, I see how far into the ground the bar has been driven with things like this. It is bad enough that CS students can't do the 101 rubric, but you have people rationalizing it away by saying it does not matter.
It's like saying that being able to use a power drill is not an important skill in the construction business.
@dave @Humpleupagus You're far less likely to die of Covid at all because Omicron is so mild that it does not kill anyone. Notice how they don't talk about number of deaths "with" covid (which was a bullshit statistical trick as well)? It's all about the CASES! OOOOOOOO! So scary! People popping positive for a test that is questionable for a virus that is now far less dangerous than it initially was.
Not taking any of the shots. No thank you.
@TegraMorgan @Tfmonkey The findings about how women vote are not wrong, but that does not mean that it explains the "results" of the vote. You can still have election shenanigans and have whores voting in favor of abortion.
@StevenBeschloss You and your kind have done more to radicalize people than any other group. Why the hell do journalists hate white people so much? All a white nationalist has to do is pull up some articles by your fellow journalists and they have a far more persuasive argument than anything they could say themselves.
@basedbagel And sometimes a pawn is able to reach a greater potential under the right circumstances.
houseoftolstoy
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the concept that women are fucked up but men have to contort themselves to attract them anyway because men are the ones with more agency is fundamentally flawed, because the reward on offer is not actually a quality woman. it's a fucked up woman
so, the men who are going to play the dancing clown to attract women are the ones who are fine with that reward, because they don't want to keep her around, they just want to fuck her a few times and move on to the next. it's completely predictable with a few moments' thought
the problem at its core *is* a lack of quality women, and individual men have no power at all to change that
and contrary to popular wisdom it was not men who kept women more or less in line historically, but other women. the social structures women built to police themselves were not imposed by men to begin with, and won't be imposed by men again. it's not that men *can't* police women, but that arrangement is an entirely different one
so, the men who are going to play the dancing clown to attract women are the ones who are fine with that reward, because they don't want to keep her around, they just want to fuck her a few times and move on to the next. it's completely predictable with a few moments' thought
the problem at its core *is* a lack of quality women, and individual men have no power at all to change that
and contrary to popular wisdom it was not men who kept women more or less in line historically, but other women. the social structures women built to police themselves were not imposed by men to begin with, and won't be imposed by men again. it's not that men *can't* police women, but that arrangement is an entirely different one
I don't think this necessarily means anything changes, but I have no idea why this is going on:
The two "independent" Senators we already have basically just vote along Democrat lines anyways, so Sinema changing her party affiliation in itself is probably meaningless. But I am wondering if there is some weird behind the scenes action going on, as the political theater itself is never the true story anyways.
@PapaPole @Tfmonkey @furgar One problem with the so called metaverse is the barrier to entry that is buying an expensive VR setup. Who is going to buy a VR headset to do something as cringeworthy as "party in the metaverse?" Nobody. People buy VR headsets to do other things such as video games.
Whoever came up with these plans are really out of touch with what people want.
houseoftolstoy
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One of the keys to building models is coming out with actionable predictions. Human beings are mastery rationalizers, so it's very easy to come up with a model to justify any course of action, but the important question is: when you take that course of action you've justified, did things play out the way that your model predicts?
Of course, there are Black swan events that no one could predict. There is no model that would have predicted that in 2020 the entire world economy would be shut down due to a pandemic. On the other hand, a model should account for some level of unexpected events, because the world isn't static.
It is no great miracle producing a set of predictions that tomorrow will be largely the same as today. Most of the time such a model will be absolutely correct. The value comes in trying to predict what might change, in figuring out what the next Black swan event could be, or in trying to see with unbiased eyes the White swan event that is sitting right in front of you.
Human beings have the tremendously huge brains we do in part so that we can try to predict the future. That is our superpower as a species. That's why our tool use is on a completely different level than any other species, because we can imagine how we might use some incredibly complicated tool that has no present use. It also allows us to behave in ways that are insanely social. For example, one person building a piece of software that allows different social media websites to connect together. They did that imagining a future that could have thousands of different websites existing and communicating. And today we have the fediverse. It also allows us to plan ahead at a level that no other creature even comes close to. How many other species do you think have 5-year plans? How many other species do you think have 10-year plans? How many species do you think have any conception of 15 or 20 years from now? That's incredible, and it's a superpower that we have as humans.
The thing is, we need to use that superpower. Just listening to other people and letting them tell us what to do means that we're going to be doing the exact same thing as everyone else and we're never going to get ahead. Just sitting and dogmatically reciting orthodoxy in the face of new information means we're never going to get ahead. We as individuals needed to take in information as much as we can, try to build models for ourselves, and most importantly take in additional new information from the outside world to test our previous predictions, honestly and lies whether our predictions were correct, and modify our models based on that feedback from The real world so that we can make better decisions based on better predictions tomorrow.
It sure sounds like a lot of work, having to go around and put all this effort into building models, and learning more information, and testing our models, and modifying your models, but the thing is if we don't do that then we're not going to be able to make predictions ahead of the pack, and we're not going to be able to get any sort of comparative advantage. Moreover when everyone else is hurting, you could be ok because you successfully predicted the bad thing others who were relying on others to do it for you.
Once you start putting in the work, many things become much more obvious. Then you start to see the establishment saying "nobody could have predicted this!" And you sort of have to shake your head because once you're out of the echo chamber, it's just not true anymore.
Of course, there are Black swan events that no one could predict. There is no model that would have predicted that in 2020 the entire world economy would be shut down due to a pandemic. On the other hand, a model should account for some level of unexpected events, because the world isn't static.
It is no great miracle producing a set of predictions that tomorrow will be largely the same as today. Most of the time such a model will be absolutely correct. The value comes in trying to predict what might change, in figuring out what the next Black swan event could be, or in trying to see with unbiased eyes the White swan event that is sitting right in front of you.
Human beings have the tremendously huge brains we do in part so that we can try to predict the future. That is our superpower as a species. That's why our tool use is on a completely different level than any other species, because we can imagine how we might use some incredibly complicated tool that has no present use. It also allows us to behave in ways that are insanely social. For example, one person building a piece of software that allows different social media websites to connect together. They did that imagining a future that could have thousands of different websites existing and communicating. And today we have the fediverse. It also allows us to plan ahead at a level that no other creature even comes close to. How many other species do you think have 5-year plans? How many other species do you think have 10-year plans? How many species do you think have any conception of 15 or 20 years from now? That's incredible, and it's a superpower that we have as humans.
The thing is, we need to use that superpower. Just listening to other people and letting them tell us what to do means that we're going to be doing the exact same thing as everyone else and we're never going to get ahead. Just sitting and dogmatically reciting orthodoxy in the face of new information means we're never going to get ahead. We as individuals needed to take in information as much as we can, try to build models for ourselves, and most importantly take in additional new information from the outside world to test our previous predictions, honestly and lies whether our predictions were correct, and modify our models based on that feedback from The real world so that we can make better decisions based on better predictions tomorrow.
It sure sounds like a lot of work, having to go around and put all this effort into building models, and learning more information, and testing our models, and modifying your models, but the thing is if we don't do that then we're not going to be able to make predictions ahead of the pack, and we're not going to be able to get any sort of comparative advantage. Moreover when everyone else is hurting, you could be ok because you successfully predicted the bad thing others who were relying on others to do it for you.
Once you start putting in the work, many things become much more obvious. Then you start to see the establishment saying "nobody could have predicted this!" And you sort of have to shake your head because once you're out of the echo chamber, it's just not true anymore.
houseoftolstoy
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If you want to see why m vax mandates are bullshit, check this out.
History will remember this as the time when MILLIONS were killed for no good reason.
WARNING: This will piss you off and don't watch if you know you have a weak stomach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL8XPZp4-5c
Sometimes one recommendation leads me to another. Much of the video has interesting details about geography, but smack dab in there is some bs propaganda:
"Spain has low birth rate issues because they don't have enough subsidized childcare!"
Yeah, I am sure that all the other European countries that do must have high birthrates, right? Oh wait, they don't? Maybe there is something else that is a factor besides the leftist propaganda of spending more tax dollars.
@37712 Go to electionbettingodds.com. They have links to betting markets, and access may vary from country to country. But you should be able to place bets there.
Just remember, Joe is not a safe bet. Not because a Republican stands a chance with the "election fortifying," but rather that he might not make it that long.
Looks like this will be my new home. Warning: I (probably) have Asperger's, so my be prepared for my autism to show through.
I don't think I am a right wing extremist, but I am sure anyone with low testosterone might think otherwise.
Joined Sep 2022
