Not just the double-standards, but the partisan's inability to compartmentalize their various thoughts and lifestyle facets. A product of art should be including bizarre stuff because it improves the overall objective quality, not because of some post-hipster's basic-bitch level fetish or cringey agenda.
In fairness, I don't want to associate with the type of man who does their political signalling by holding up a cringey sign through a photo-op for social-media validation. Be like Rorschach and reject societal dysfunction.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Destiny/comments/13azurm/seems_kiwifarms_got_dropped_from_their_current/
Despite the community, that comment section is surprisingly tolerable.
It is innate human nature to compare status, so at least observe everyone you know, everyone walking down the street, and consider those where you don't live. When comparing, don't fixate just on the obvious and superficial. Are people aware of their surroundings, do they form meaningful relationships, have they accomplished anything before a mid-life crisis, and so on?
Doing the above has made me realize that the societal structure is fairly immutable, but that there's a whole bunch of luck of who lands where. Now bust your ass for the next decade, and get the hell out of your hometown or country. You might not wind up in a great place, but barring freak circumstances you'll wind up in a better situation than this specific trust-fund dolt.
Not even a man would use a "Heaviest sword" (above 4 kg), which were reserved for ceremonial purposes. The 7.7 lb greatsword shown in the comparison chart isn't like the epic paddles seen in WoW or Skyrim, but not ideal for the average height woman. It will still exhaust anyone not physically fit, or foolish enough to treat it like a katana instead of a polearm.
The post's insistence on twisting and distorting historicity is banal, but what's worrying is trying to attract the type of woman that needs overt validation into geek hobbies.
I have at least 50% of useful comments bookmarked instead of account-saved. I had redditmanager.com attached to my account ages ago for account-saved posts/comments, forgot about it before exporting, then saw it after the blackout. I can't easily verify that one comment I'm looking for (some guy's unique Emacs + Rust setup and workflow) wasn't lost in the blackout.
Edit: Not in r/programming
I still don't get how an independent news reporter chose Ring security cameras, a company which shares footage with law-enforcement.
Always the disproportionately vocal cancerous lesions of online communities. Even before the mod boycott, I've preferred that subreddits go read-only to keep content (when it qualifies as such) easy to find, not risk admin-purging, and sectioning off the late-comer horde from degrading any residual standards.
I've been irritated that the only sizable center-right tech communities I've found are the *chans, which are almost too much chat-room for my forum.
Somehow the active mods of r/programming are keeping it closed despite the top 2 mods being spez and another site admin. Annoying for me, since I'm trying to track down a few comments that might be saved to my Reddit account instead of bookmarks.
Incoherent 'living document' geeseshit. Establishment-left has always been about optics and tacit power, not systemic integrity.
Most lucrative corporations will swallow up any ivy league grad they can get their hands on, which means you should be cautious of any who is job-seeking on the open market. As a competitor, figure out how you can spot talent overlooked by other employers.
Japanese equivalent: scroll down to 'Exploiting Flaws In Salarymandom'
The conventional wisdom that attending a top-50 school makes you smart is not uttered by bright people. What's changed is that you can't even trust the smart, promising graduates if they don't explicitly denounce DEI when prodded.
It would be neat if a competitor just declared IP gay, fake, and void, then proceed to import meaningful Youtube content wholesale.
One thing I've noticed in many political/personality/drama/identity forums is that a village idiot is often tolerated to give the other members a communal punching bag. Impy is more monotonous spam than idiot, but his un-nuanced monocausal obsession crosses the duncehat threshold. I don't pay close attention here 75% of the year, but I haven't noticed any other persistent derailers. Tolerating blatantly IQ-damaging commentators who don't outright break rules will sink any community.
Wikipedia is accurate in this case.
Responding both to you and the preceding comment:
Accounting, econ, and finance are the 2nd-4th most common undergrad diplomas held by MBAs, with marketing in 6th; the T25[1] schools might differ. Culturally, the stereotypical MBA is dissimilar to the CPA listed in the phone-book, usually landing in the sales, marketing, finance, or similar deparment of a medium-to-large enterprise. Those that give MBA a bad rep for arrogance, incompetence, and backstabbing don't develop an intrinsic skill-set or start self-funded companies[2]. Instead, they rely on being recruited by an established corporation or leaning on rich-people family connections.
- Top twenty-five MBA programs, and what "MBA" is derogatorily referring to in everyday conversation.
- April 2000 through March 2001
Maybe it's because I don't roam Twitter and I'm getting a biased sample, but I am presently surprised the tool isn't being subverted by bad actors, ideologues, or blind coomnformists.
The art direction for Lawbreakers seemed uninspired, derived from other post-2009 MOBAs, royales, and avatar shooters instead of '90-'06 Id/Epic/similar. I didn't know CliffyB was intentionally embracing woke weirdness.
Arena shooters have a problem with the core-gamer market of demanding constant alertness and more veterancy than other multiplayers to enjoy. Presumably[1] UT03/04 were able to live past the late 90's by having casual servers and mods to satisfy PC gamers who want to chill after school or work. Starcraft 2 had a similar fun vs. competitive issue where the 1st had player-driven variety. Even if Lawbreakers had better art direction, it would have failed since it didn't find a way to vary its gameplay loop. I'm undecided on whether a multiplayer needs to be freemium (which Lawbreakers wasn't) these days to sell.
- I didn't have a properly setup gaming PC until 2005, and played CS:S, BF2, Guild Wars while UT would have had a population. Not having first-hand experience with the heyday player-base dynamics, I can only extrapolate how much enjoyment casuals got out of the era. Q3 forks were more fun than UT3, but the playerbase was so damn small even 15 years ago.
Edit: I'm getting deja vu of making this comment before. Lawbreakers is shockingly unremarkable.
According the the mod's Reddit comments, he netted a profit of 15k off the 5k spent. Imagine being one of the dupes who bought NFTs on the downswing, or using nu.reddit and being plastered with this dogshit.
In response to ableistsl's removed comment:
Even though it's not its specific intent, my hypothetical web-of-trust (meaningful reputation scoring with simple, sound checks and balances) would downrank uncreative, non self-aware trolls along with those that take them at face value from the default viewing preference. In line with political-realism and lib-right conservatism, any new user would have to go through the automatic gatekeeping process of one the few groups. As for server policy, the main federated instance (presuming the admin shares my goals) would only be concerned with removing CP-level content and coordinated malicious disruption.
Netflix is pretty open that their user-rating system being a placebo, as some viewers love to hate-watch. I'm sure Youtube pulls similar shit, but garbage-metrics specifically refers to ambitious middle-management types manipulating numbers to pull Gervais Principle shenanigans, to the neglect of intrinsic product quality or user preferences.
Once Google established a user-base off their first product, the path towards steady revenue and growth is of a war-like territorial nature. Two of their three or four widely used offerings post-2006, Youtube and Android, were acquisitions. They still had an engineering culture, but the well-connected professional (lawyers, etc) and investor class were now the profit-centers. Early on, they had no lower/middle-management in their org hierarchy, which benefits creative work if done correctly, but becomes a pain in the ass when the corporation is expanding rapidly. Their business needs changed by 2005, and so Goog decided commodified, component labor , treating the software engineers like the socially inept nerds they are, was more appropriate anyways.
By 2010 Google was in bed with government agencies and dominant political parties across the world. That's key to keeping the advertising department profitable, securing market access across the globe which is a pseudo zero-sum game. Probably black-budget sources too.
Like Microsoft and many others, Google's corporate culture suffers from garbage metrics and other corporate careerist dysfunctions. It's amazing how much their product quality has suffered since they discarded open-allocation, a.k.a flat hierarchy, to ingratiate with the post-feudalist side of our economy.
Definitely a better solution for websites that are trying to stick close to Reddit. Combined with admin/mod tools to prevent brigading, another alternative would have a leg-up over the trending alternatives.
Hacker News only gives you the downvote after a reaching a karma threshold, with somewhat enforced netiquette guidelines, and there's more disagreement within a comment section than 95% of subreddits. HN still often suffers from Silicon Valley monoculture. That specific solution would be pointless somewhere else with less focus. Better than no-downvote hugboxes like saidit(least-bad example) where feelings>quality.
My ideal solution is a radical departure from popular offerings, centered around something similar to Freenet-Locutus' web-of-trust.
ESR[1] made the point that lower-IQ societies can function so long as technological progression is slow and steady. Since NPCs imitate instead of thinking critically, they can't adapt quickly enough in the ever-changing environment of advanced civilization. Part of the reason positive rights are evil since they drag down ethical, intelligent individuals (of any skin color) to the superstitions of mode-averaged/lowest-common-denominator (not even the mean/median honest folk) of an extended population, and the ritualism of self-centered douchebags (much of the managerial class found in most HR, Finance, Sales&Marketing departments).
- I think he made this point in an earlier blogpost, but I'm not spending 10 hours wrestling with search engines.
It's depressing how far the state has fallen over the past 18 and 51 years. Most of the pozzing comes from recent transplants, or children of transplants in cities or ski resorts (i.e. both parents moved here from a urban shithole after 1973). Interstate freedom of movement should have been curtailed a century ago.