rottingleaf
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- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 1 hour ago:
You can escape inflation by substituting goods, and you only lose from inflation if 1. you have too much cash, or 2. your income rises slower than inflation.
If you have enough cash for it to grow faster than inflation, you win and those who have less lose compared to you. So your relative power grows.
Inflation makes the poor poorer faster than it makes the rich poorer, actually it doesn’t do that.
And by “inflation” specifically people usually mean devaluation of money due to growth of monetary mass, which itself is a result of closing budget holes with emission.
So UBI is a massive economic/prosperity boost above and beyond inflation. Eliminates poverty and crime, reduces the need for savings,
Eliminates small crime. Superprofits from selling cocaine working together with corrupt officials will not really change with UBI.
Politicians can no longer lie their way past even an idiocracy that understands “I like money”.
There’s never enough money.
More program cuts means higher UBI.
Only if politicians act as you want them to.
It would be treason if your AI suggests the empire is not pure good, and Israel has done something wrong, and contradicts the CIA/media disinformation plan.
The problem here is not with what you are describing, but that you are seriously considering treating a computer program as an oracle, that can ask questions about good and evil.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 7 hours ago:
Investing in dead ender climate terrorist energy is a mistake.
I hope that’s not your opinion of nuclear energy. People criticizing it miss the fact that a grid has to support some baseline.
All things are good and needed, which are not about burning fossil fuels (and sometimes even those, if getting “greener” energy somewhere pollutes more than just taking a canister of gasoline or diesel fuel). And the more diverse energy supply is, the smaller is each particular environmental impact, be it from greenhouse gases, lithium, ruining watersheds when building hydroelectric stations, similar impacts of wind farms, oil spills, escaping gases, toxic liquids, plastics, … .
People miss that nuance. You make humanity sustainable again by diversifying as much as possible, so that any particular kind of harm would be minimized, and so that no particular industry would possess strategic power. Not by dividing energy into holy and unholy and burning witches. It’s just math.
Promising reindustrialization is a lie, and tariffs won’t do it. It will bleed Americans dry while letting oligarchs pillage what’s left.
Promising won’t because promising ain’t doing.
But input is leverage, and leverage is power. Look how “free” input from corporations into Linux gave them control over it. So if reindustrialization really-really happens, it will improve politics of your country. It’s the way it works. When you live off cheap Chinese labor, your economy depends less on your own.
Weaponizing AI to control population, and kill people is the new priority. Putting your hopes in DNC so that they can undo project 2025 is controlling you in a way that doesn’t avert the path to collapse in any way.
Agreed.
The only escape is UBI and peace. Not something a Israel supremacist neocon DNC wants, because UBI is power redistribution instead of wealth redistribution. The binary of AI and automation is either cooperation where abundance and the profits from abundance can be shared, or extermination of useless riff raff that dares to whine about oligarchy and empire.
I personally have doubts about UBI. It requires fiscal discipline that no recent US government had. Otherwise it speeds up inflation. Not significantly if we compare it to corporate bailouts, but still.
Peace is always good. But war is a symptom of problems that still would exist if there were no war.
I’ve recently watched an interview by Bill Joy (the Sun founder) where he mentions how clear water access has done much more to reduce mortality in the world than antibiotics. I think it’s the same with accessible good automation vs “AI” and other hype phenomena. I think non-oligopolized tech industry and non-oligopolized Web would do hell of a lot more for all kinds of abundance than any new magic wand like “AI”.
- Comment on Yakuza creator Nagoshi says the era of game size being most important is coming to an end 1 week ago:
They say people had fun in Daggerfall.
- Comment on Dear Americans, be prepare to get screwed! 1 week ago:
His followers know he’ll deliberately cause instability, that’s what they want.
- Comment on "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK." 2 weeks ago:
I understand everything, but not the German “s” instead of usual English one. And that use of “u” is awful. Especially since it’s inconsistent. Why are you doing this?
- Comment on "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK." 2 weeks ago:
Right, for him when Trump or Harris wins, the election is fair and transparent.
I’m sorry for the conspiracy tone, but they do keep playing you for fools.
- Comment on Anon wants a cute girlfriend. 4 weeks ago:
that social skills can be learned, for non-neurotypicals that might require more help.
Mostly unlearning them requires help. It’s called imitation and considered harmful. It takes away a lot of energy with nothing to show for it.
That little that can be learned mostly, too, consists of gaining experience to help unlearn imitation.
That was my point. Experience with people should be gained. Learning to imitate something should not.
Helplessness - yes. I’d tell them, other than therapy, to just keep trying to talk to girls, and stop trying to become “better” inside, because that’s what makes one dull and boring.
- Comment on Anon wants a cute girlfriend. 4 weeks ago:
Learning social skills is equally possible. Many, many books and classes are dedicated on the subject.
Except if you are aspie, those will both take enormous effort and feel so insincere that you will drop them past the initial acquaintance, if you manage that effort. Which is the point where you are most likely done for the same reason - people don’t like insincere romantic partners.
Those non-physical aspects of attractiveness for some of us are not optional.
And mind that I do have good looks and even hobbies that may occasionally seem interesting for others, and cultural context ; all the most beautiful girls I’ve met where I attended social events would try to get romantic by their own initiative when I was someone new for them. Some would even say I have beautiful emotions, and in general characterize me as a good human, even later (when they thought I don’t hear, in person they’d plainly ignore me). You know why every such spontaneous moment failed?
Again, because of simply being aspie - ashamed of being too weak (dropping hobbies, easily getting tired, too emotional, headaches, tired eyes, already feeling dirty in the middle of the day) to be good for a girl, ashamed of being stupid (that’s purely anxiety, one can’t look into her skull and tell if she cares, but it exists), ashamed of being insincere because looking into her eyes is a conscious effort, so I’m pretending I’m someone I’m not, and also petrified, because I don’t know what to say. And previous wounds.
These comments terribly reduce the field of possibilities which would be the reason for such people not having romantic successes, OK?
The only correct answer is therapy. Preferably the therapist should be a woman too.
- Comment on Is American politics really as seemingly satirical of itself as it is portrayed? 4 weeks ago:
Doesn’t have anything to do with what I said.
I said that all propaganda is problematic, not only that of visible political parties, and not only right-wing one.
Furthermore I said that the problem is that humans are, I repeat, fucking apes.
And you writing something irrelevant and some anonymous idiots downvoting me illustrate this very well, because only fucking apes would take this as an attack on their particular crowd of apes, and ignore the actual meaning.
- Comment on Is American politics really as seemingly satirical of itself as it is portrayed? 4 weeks ago:
Oh, only right-wing. When you want to say something cool-looking, but don’t have the courage to be honest.
It’s all of propaganda, but even that’s not completely true.
What’s true is that humans are fucking apes. There’s no victory over that.
There’s no political good.
- Comment on Asian Beauty 5 weeks ago:
I dunno, I have some workout trousers with a Chinese logogram on them. Dunno what it means. Hope I won’t ever
- Comment on Ex developer at Bethesda quit his job after 14 years and made this heavy metal horror game as a solo dev with no publisher 1 month ago:
So it’s not a nasheed
Thx
- Comment on Anon lives in the midwest 1 month ago:
In Russian language the difference between American and actual Indians is one letter in spelling (easily heard in pronunciation, so only small children maybe mix them up), historically it’s a variation of the same word.
For “turkey” the bird the feminine version of the former is used (and not used to refer to an American Indian woman).
The point is, it’s the main word to refer to Native Americans. “Настоящему индейцу завсегда везде ништяк” and all that.
- Comment on There you go little guy 1 month ago:
Another stereotype busted for me. I really thought it’s an ex-Soviet thing. “Скажи-ка, дядя, ведь недаром в кустах ты прячешься с радаром?”
- Comment on We lost Keanu 1 month ago:
Not at all. We are all easy victims to propaganda.
Oh, not about that - that I know well since year 2020 when everybody went with “territorial integrity of Azerbaijan” over every agreement and every other principle and every other circumstance during Artsakh war.
This was equivalent to 1993 in Russia (no, I didn’t see it, I was born in 1996), when it turned out that Yeltsin being the elected president means that what he does is democratic, despite the parliament, the constitution and the supreme court being on the other side.
It actually sucks more with people from the West because they often sincerely believe that “free world” bullshit, while Russians parroting propaganda know that it’s propaganda, they are just cowards or picked a side.
The internet makes for an easy place to search’ facts’ compatible with your gut feeling…
Not limited to that. It’s also that a lot of people in a lot of situations today are spectators, while 30 years ago they would be participants. It’s not only the Web, it’s the whole cultural shift which is catastrophic and if it’s not reverted, we’ll be nostalgic over WWII with the “at least then you could heroically die on the side of the good guys” mood.
- Comment on We lost Keanu 1 month ago:
Except today, in the time where his philosophy is most valuable, his popularity is the lowest on my memory.
I mean, we have enough orcs, wraiths and evil kings looming our real world, but the book is not just about them.
- Comment on We lost Keanu 1 month ago:
I thought, growing in Russia, that such things are not possible in the West. (They were and to some extent still are quite popular here, though, with Fomenko and thousand other freaks.)
Do I look stupid?
- Comment on Climate change 1 month ago:
Armenia will have access to two sea coasts. Again.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 2 months ago:
They’ll just be afraid.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 2 months ago:
That’s not surprising, but if that doesn’t change, things won’t get better.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 2 months ago:
You don’t want oligarchy and she’s on oligarchy’s side. Please remember what made Trump win the first time.
I don’t expect her to improve things at all. Only compared to what would happen if Trump would win.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 2 months ago:
anticommunist propaganda
As if that was needed to show how communists do things.
people feel like they’re getting fucked, and Trump offers a clear, simple narrative of who is fucking them
Correct.
Kamala comes across more as representing the political establishment, and her messaging doesn’t tap into that dissatisfaction or contrarian nature
Not only that’s correct, but she’s still your enemy. It’s just a situation where one has to choose what’s worse. From my point of view far from USA - Trump is immediately worse. But that doesn’t mean Harris is going to radically improve things.
It’s sad you have no third strong grassroots movement, but that seems to be the case in every shitty election.
Russia, when it supposedly had those, first was choosing between Yeltsin and his “kinda democrats, but with that smell” and “red-brown” communists with Stalin pics and swastikas, second between Putin and senile communists, the third one was between thinly masqueraded Putin and rich city kids, and then it kinda lost meaning. Trump is kinda similar to the “red-brown” side in the first example.
One can find many such example.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 2 months ago:
He says that fear is a bigger motivator than love.
He’s correct in a sense you may not notice.
Those voters fear Harris and what she represents, and love some idea of what GOP could in theory represent.
So the fact that Trump is shit means less for them as it’s on the side they love, while Harris being stronger makes them even more afraid.
That is, the best strategy for Dems to insure victory would be to successfully present Trump as having a potential to win to his own voters. Then they would care about him being a felon and such.
- Comment on Black mold growing on the dispensers at my local McDonald's 2 months ago:
I dunno what that was, but I got a cup of something transparent and not tasty once at BK. Don’t think I felt too bad, maybe cause I stopped drinking that immediately.
- Comment on Inaccuracies 2 months ago:
Oh. People from English-speaking countries don’t sink you with downvotes immediately for criticizing that show anymore. Nice.
Even the broad strokes are, eh, how do you say it, eh … worse than Tom Clancy and that’s an achievement I’m not sure everyone is capable of measuring.
It’s funny though how such series about “USSR” talk in fact about something American. Reminiscent of the “17 moments of spring” series which were about a Soviet spy in Berlin in the last months of WWII, but mostly explored Soviet ideology and morality issues.
- Comment on Anon gets diagnosed 2 months ago:
It’s just that some of us are autistic and have had wrong parenting, only due to various kinds of stigma our parents, on the contrary, only looked for confirmation that we (and them) are “normal”. So please consider that.
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 2 months ago:
The whole of USA is something 300+mln people, now do Christianity, then do Islam, then do Hinduism, then do Communism, and then do Fascism.
- Comment on Inflation? 2 months ago:
It is inflation. And “greed” is accounted for in the definition of a market. Oligopolies are not.
- Comment on it's just that simple. Don't forget to exercise out of depression... 2 months ago:
Also take showers when you feel like it, not when it’s appropriate. Well, at least put some water on your face and make your feet wet, if shower is not an option.
(At least that helps me personally.)
The “less sugar” advice is good.
The physical exhaustion advice is good.
But frankly all this seems connected to that cluster of autism\depression\ADHD or something. Getting more dopamine, reducing prolactin, reducing bodily disregulation, something like that.
- Comment on How to treat a man 2 months ago:
You teach your daughter how to spot manipulative behavior
Yeah, only do it right. Because some girls have apparently been taught to classify anything they don’t understand as that. Sucks being autistic and trying to explain some emotion and being accused of manipulation and ghosted, because that’s easier than admitting that sometimes you just don’t understand other people as well as you think.
I also hate that folk psychology with “personal borders” (usually asymmetric, quite normal things said to those people are apparently emotional abuse, and quite heavy things from them are just life) and “red flags” (usually applied to autistic people and not applied to literal creepy\insecure behavior) and a few thumb rules which apparently describe anything in a conversation. People employing that also by default consider that everything is fine with them personally.