Nazified

It really is the case these days if you are to the right of Hasan Piker, you’re a “Nazi.” In the 1990s, the German AfD as it is now would’ve been just a fairly standard center-liberal party, going by their positions. Now according the press they are evil incarnate and Mega-MechaHitler.

So odd to see. I’m about the same politically as I was in the 1990s: a fairly standard liberal. Now that makes me a Nazi, too.

Alrighty then.

Nuke Flags

What are some red flag questions in an interview?

“Do you like to go out, drink and party?”

Was asked that about a role I really wanted at the time, handling networking for nuclear power plants. Since I already knew the instant that question was asked I was not going to get the job, I replied, “What does that have to do with the role exactly?”

“Oh, we like to have fun after work. Just want to make sure you’re on board with all that. We’re a tight-knit team here.”

After a bit more back and forth, I said something like, “I don’t think this role is for me as my actual qualifications seem not to matter. Selecting people based on their capability of ‘partying’ for something with the importance of the monitoring network at nuclear power plants seems like a terrible idea.”

Then I got up and left.

Failing Acad

It’s an extremely bad path that academia is following of evaluating the validity of truth claims based solely on who makes the claim.

If they think that’s going to go well for them…well, I guess delusions are all many of us have left these days. The whole edifice probably needs to be brought down and replaced with something less insular and better-prepared to deal with the world as is.

Fit Cheat

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So-called pickup artists were hated because their techniques and training worked, not because they were misogynists. Women viewed the movement as unauthorized and undesirable men getting an unfair advantage, similar to how many liberals see working out and staying fit as cheating. It’s the same mindset. Idiotic, yes, but I’m just describing, not condoning.

Shot Shot

1) Women in this sport and most sports can wear whatever they want already. There are literally no restrictions. Clownishly wrong fucking take. Women wear those outfits because they want to.

2) And my problem isn’t that you cannot see her butt, it’s that it’s a worse shot! It’s zoomed in too tightly to get any context. Just objectively it’s an inferior shot for the purpose of ridiculous prudishness. I hate this timeline.

3) If women are not allowed to be shown in their actual athletic clothes while doing their actual sport, they should not be permitted to wear that attire at all. Simple as that.

Aud

Nearly all the people I’ve seen dragging Audrey for how “hideous” she is have been women — it’s actually women who have higher standards than men, even for other women.

As for me, I’ve liked Audrey for a while. I had no idea she was supposed to be some super hideous freak to many people. I cannot understand why. It looks like she’s having fun and she has some good pop songs. Women, leave her alone.

Too Much Clownery

Tech Tangents: “@thomasfuchs My biggest frustโ€ฆ”.

So much clownery from all sides regarding AI. None of these people understand it, have any kind of valid thoughts about it, or really have any basis for even pondering it. And they are worthless losers.

Also, I don’t care about copyright at all, in any context. Destroy it forever. I’m glad the AI companies trained on all that copyrighted material. I hope they do much more. Ingest it all; create the world mind.