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Regarding Rwanda, I think we're forgetting that a large part of their success comes from their plundering of the Congo's resources, mineral and otherwise.

There have been two gigantic continent-wide wars over the Congo, for fuck's sake.


Is it really scamming if it was all theirs from the start? We're all their property, you know.

G-d said so.


>You’re paying to be surrounded by smart kids that will ensmarten you too and for access to the school’s career networks.

If you're paying and it isn't for a new campus building with your family's name on it, then you're not going to have access to those things at all.

Suuuuure, you're going to be able to access some sort of 'career' network. You'll be able to find amazing and high-paying jobs such as... um... uh...


>is American EVs are all giant bloated vehicles (SUV brained)

I don't exactly disagree with that assertion, but foreign EVs aren't really any better. Chinese EVs aren't meaningfully smaller, as a general rule. It's crossover hell all the time.

For whatever it's worth, the US has a better selection of non-SUV EVs than most other countries in the world.


Here's the question I want to posit and nobody who's against AI has managed to answer satisfactorily: what is it in for me if I were to acquire all those skills?

I don't give a shit about this career. I don't give a shit about engineering. I despise every second of it. There's nothing to aim for other than being a drone that does whatever is asked of it.

If AI can reduce my mental workload, why wouldn't I want to delegate everything over to it so I can save my faculties for what I truly enjoy? For the art of a worthless craft?


Some people enjoy working with computers. :) It is not always about the money. It is also about having fun and learning new things.

For you, it seems that you are not cut for it judging from what you say.

So yes, use LLMs.


Why are you employable if the AI does everything for you?


Mostly to do the work that AI can't do just yet. I've got the feeling that, by the time AI can do those jobs, we'll be mired in bigger issues.


I mean… there's other jobs in the world. If you chose to do something you hate, that's maybe a bit your fault too?


Tell me where these mythical jobs that won't leave me broke as shit and that I'll enjoy are. I'm very much a humanities person, and it was already a sad tragicomedy of a sphere before AI hit the ground. It's probably even more dire now, let's be real.

And I don't have the personality for running a start-up or any company, unfortunately. I'm extremely risk-averse and withdrawn. If I really had no other choice, I'd probably have to budget in a ton of... chemical helpers (stimulants).


I think you hate life in general more than just your job.

Anyway statistician, accountant, teacher, are indeed jobs, and I assure you they aren't found living on the streets.


>I think you hate life in general more than just your job.

Well, yeah, I do. I don't even have a good reason to, I'm just fundamentally incomplete and wrong.

>Anyway statistician, accountant, teacher, are indeed jobs, and I assure you they aren't found living on the streets.

That's true, I suppose. It's too late now, though. I'd have to start from scratch and probably go to college again, which I fucking despised and I wanted everyone around me dead.

I like to whine, but this career was the least bad choice. I just wish there were good ones.


It's all of those, yet none are the real root reason.

For that, you must look at the main beneficiary. Which country stands to gain the most from a completely dilapidated Iran? Which country stands to gain more when all the regional powers that could stand up to it have been destroyed?

I think the answer should be blindingly obvious.


It shouldn't take a genius to figure out that Christians and Jews don't like Muslims and Muslims don't like Christians or Jews.

Just look at the Sudanese conflict.


It is not. Precocious sexual drive is possibly amongst the worst things there is for gaining sexual maturity. Also known as 'thinking with your dick'. CSA aside, you can do a ton of damage to your life by just going along with your sexual drive.

I am a virgin at 27 years old. What am I missing about the sexual experience? Is it somehow locked out to me? Or… can I access it intellectually, and reason about it with its ups and downs?

There's a reason the consent age does not start at puberty.


I’m really scratching my head at the response to this one. Do people around here really believe consent should start at puberty?

I’m aware that’s kind of a meme in certain highly religious and/or conservative communities but it’d be shocking if it were a mainstream position.


> I am a virgin at 27 years old. What am I missing about the sexual experience?

Sex.


> What am I missing

Sexual identity is an important component of gender identity. Encouraging people to make conclusions about their gender identity before they understand their sexual identity seems risky to me, especially when a child is being asked to make decisions with potentially life-altering medical consequences.

To be clear, a person does not need to have had sex to understand their sexual identity. They need to know what they find attractive and how their sexual identity relates to their own body. Even if someone feels like the opposite gender, that does not necessarily mean their sexual identity will automatically align with that.

It may be true that the transgender experience is something more fundamental to the self than “mere” sex. But when the choice is between one set of trade-offs and another, such as intervention versus non-intervention, I would contend that understanding one’s sexual identity is a critical piece of information.


Hey, you aren't supposed to question our glorious metzitzah b'peh!


It doesn't seem very hard to implement in your own site, so it might gain some traction? It's not super-complex, I understand it is some sort of interconnected spin on webrings, which are still somewhat popular among small websites.

If anybody wants to find truly random small websites, I recommend using Wiby (search engine). It has some neat stuff.


There is also https://marginalia-search.com/

It has indexed lots of different websites categories


> It doesn't seem very hard to implement in your own site

Depends on how technically sophisticated the author is. Many of the blogs I was thinking about were not written by people familiar with web stuffs. They are hosted on managed hosting services like wordpress.com and blogspot, or on hosting providers with streamlined services that require no technical skills to use. Setting up this tool may very well be beyond what the authors are comfortable with or capable of.


Assuming you consider services like Wordpress and blogspot outside of the small web, people advocating that domain refuse to acknowledge why those services are successful to begin with.

If being part of the small web requires technical expertise, it will always be limited to tech minded people who also happen to cook and play guitar.


> Wow so you guys don't have ideological brain worms at all.

You have to remember that the supermajority of this site are ultra AnCaps who believe that anything which infringes upon the right of companies to kill people is Communist satanism and a significant minority agrees wholeheartedly with Peter Thiel's weird brand of techno-accelerationism and actively participates in NRx movements.

Like, I understand what you want to get at and I wholeheartedly agree! Just don't be too surprised at the pushback.


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