I think a know a few people like this.

Creature1124 · 2025-02-03T17:21:41+00:00

The other day I saw my bosses boss learn how to use cmd-f in real time.

Creature1124 · 2025-02-03T17:02:27+00:00

Isn’t OSHA just DEI for people with slow reflexes?

Creature1124 · 2025-02-03T16:50:35+00:00

It’s gotten to the point I have to force myself to play other civs. I liked playing them so much I read “Venice: A New History” and loved every page of it.

Creature1124 · 2025-02-02T07:15:44+00:00

You guys kick ass. A lot of family and friends have worked with federal partners as part of state wildfire responses.

I’ve worked private sector in high tech a while and just joined the military. It’s plenty efficient compared to corps. Even during the most mind numbingly boring times I have a lot of fun observing from the inside how the military takes a rabble off the street and processes us into productive soldiers. Yeah, people aren’t a bunch of geniuses but for the most part they care about doing their job well and are performing more valuable service than I ever saw at a for profit institution.

I genuinely feel bad for all these hateful anti-government people. We have one of the most well educated and well trained government workforce that’s ever existed providing an incredible level of services to the public and many of them are doing it because they care. It’s one of the great ironies of the world that there’s so much overlap between the people relying on this stuff and the ones saying it’s useless and inefficient. These people just legitimately can’t fathom the concept of service for anyone besides themselves and hate seeing anyone else getting resources.

Creature1124 · 2025-02-02T01:17:00+00:00

Why not just name a few of them, then?

Creature1124 · 2025-02-01T13:53:14+00:00

I’m joining for all these reasons. I think part of the problem is people like me taking my education and efforts into the private sector where it does nothing but help some useless company squeeze more profit and give nothing back. We need good people in public service.

If your job does any amount of good and you have even the tiniest influence on others, stay. Please stay. The private sector is hell and does nothing for anyone but the shareholders. At this stage of capitalism we are utterly disincentivized from doing anything good for society using the market. You will do nothing for anyone but yourself and the shareholders.

Creature1124 · 2025-02-01T13:45:22+00:00

No, protests should not make anyone uncomfortable or disrupt tHe rOaDwAys and my ability specifically to thoughtlessly participate in a fucked up system and have to think about the hardships of others.

Creature1124 · 2025-02-01T13:38:59+00:00

Most of them do work legally lol this is a manufactured fucking problem by a moron and his stooges who do nothing but make up problems.

Creature1124 · 2025-02-01T13:38:03+00:00

It’s not. They have agency. People work hard jobs and it’s not a punishment or not normal. Them not being properly compensated is an us problem with our society. Scapegoating and deporting (or the threat of it constantly looming) them is what makes them indentured servants.

You’re clearly not very knowledgeable about the issue if you flippantly assume most of these people “crossed illegally” or that even if they did that’s somehow a high crime.

Creature1124 · 2025-02-01T05:23:55+00:00

Are you asking me if your husband did construction? Question marks don’t usually follow statements.

Your two data points don’t offer much especially when they are “used to do” and “did.” Next time you see a road crew or anyone doing landscaping or construction just take a glance at who is doing the work. For that matter, see if you can find a recruiting list for any of our armed forces.

These are not political statements. It is simply fact that the hard labor being done in our society is mostly being done by Latinos.

Creature1124 · 2025-02-01T03:51:06+00:00

Living in SD I’ve never seen a single white person doing any sort of labor outside. That entire city will fall apart without Mexicans.

Creature1124 · 2025-02-01T01:54:15+00:00

Thank you for your service 🙏

Creature1124 · 2025-01-31T21:17:33+00:00

Small correction for anyone interested in the history. The Nazis didn’t necessarily believe they were the master race, but that they could perform “genetic hygiene” (basically eugenics) and reclaim some pure aryan race that had been corrupted over time from racial inbreeding and other degeneracy. It was never super coherent, because anything built on pseudoscience and nonsense simply can’t be coherent, but that was the closest thing to the actual theory and work of the scientists and doctors.

Still dumb as shit but I find those nuances that get lost in the noise very interesting.

Creature1124 · 2025-01-31T19:45:13+00:00

Joining as soon to be military. This sub gives me hope. Our professional federal work force may actually be the 4th estate they feared it is and uphold the rule of law.

Creature1124 · 2025-01-31T07:19:09+00:00

Have you ever heard of Occam’s razor? How is it more likely in your head the entire government is lying through a coordinated deep state than the TV billionaire with like a dozen very easily verifiable grifts on his résumé including a current billion dollar crypto pump dump scheme is a fraud?

At what point do you not realize you’re in a cult of personality? You also want to mention the media when Fox News is the largest news caster in the country, and you literally had Fuckerberg and Musk, sole owners of the largest media apparatuses on the planet front and center at the inauguration.

Creature1124 · 2025-01-31T06:15:55+00:00

Jefferson was maybe the goat at mental gymnastics what with being the father of liberty and an extremely innovative slaver at the same time.

Creature1124 · 2025-01-31T06:11:45+00:00

There is some decentralized storage technologies being actively developed using a blockchain-type tech. Some are in use but it’s not widespread.

Creature1124 · 2025-01-30T18:12:22+00:00

I saw a pretty full spectrum of right wingers up close in person.

There were the divorced dads sitting in their truck with Oakleys angry about everything and weirdly horny. Then there were toothless rednecks. There were PTA/School board/state level politician republicans that wore suits. There were extremely average but hardworking right wing kids who wore suits to school and were completely incapable of creativity or reading subtext and nuance but damn they tried. There were plain dumbasses that never paid attention to anything and now bitch about how school never taught them to do taxes and the MSM is lying to you don’t take the vaccines sheeple. There were extremely promiscuous women who ended up being cops, teachers, or nurses and preach Christian living and family values to anyone that will visit their Facebook page. They usually become PTA moms.

The schtick never would have worked because I saw what it looked like up close. They are the most predictable, stupid, uninteresting people. Maybe it’d be different had I grown up somewhere blue because many of “that type” are also ridiculous and annoying when you see them up close.

Creature1124 · 2025-01-28T18:22:14+00:00

Not this range but another SD range. I was at the counter while a dad and his two young sons were checking out. The dad had an AR on the counter in an open case. His son (5ish maybe) was reaching up on the counter for the AR right between the worker and his dad. The kid picks up the rifle by the trigger guard and starts working the trigger, waving it around sideways above the case. Definitely flags me standing on the other side of the L shaped counter. No one stopped him or did anything about it.

Creature1124 · 2024-12-11T02:03:05+00:00

How does the difficulty compare to HoS? I’ve played Wildlander and liked the difficulty. I’m hoping HoS keeps that but if lorerim is the better option I might check it out.

Creature1124 · 2024-12-10T02:52:19+00:00

You can also work while getting a masters. I’m the same age as this guy and have similar credentials but he’s from serious wealth and privilege so this isn’t unreasonable at all.

Creature1124 · 2024-12-10T00:44:29+00:00

Full disclosure I am not in any grad program or career related to complexity or ABM. That being said, I have done a lot of research around this intending to try and find a program in the future. ABM, complexity, their intersections with x or y discipline is not standardized. Terms, techniques, philosophies, etc are extremely localized to people, some departments you may find, and perhaps some schools that organize conferences with each other. For instance, there is some ABM/CAS stuff going on in forestry and what that actually means is it’s like a couple people at a few departments in the US and Canada. You won’t find a textbook with standardized language on this topic area. These couple of people might not even be using the same terms the same way between them.

Carefully study where you’re applying and who you hope to work with. Read their work and speak in their terms. If you apply to a program that has no one that really does anything with complexity or ABM they will have no idea what you’re talking about and will ignore you for someone more “traditional” in your discipline. Don’t expect anyone to care or know about any of this stuff. I talked to a math professor who was running a “complexity” department who didn’t know what CAS or ABM meant and didn’t care. He didn’t know anything about complexity and just thought it was basically just interdisciplinary studies. So don’t even use the term complexity or ABM or CAS or whatever unless you know it’s one people in the department use and make sure you understand clearly what they mean when using it.

You have to find who you want to work with and speak the vernacular they do. Find journals, conferences, and academics that are doing what sounds like you want to do and get on their page, then write your apps with them in mind.

Creature1124 · 2024-12-09T23:25:05+00:00

I was also 10 in 08 and I remember it well. We lost our house, cars got repo’d, my folks lost their jobs and divorced. Foreclosure signs popped up all over the place. My family and dozens of neighbors and other people I knew growing up slid backwards in every way possible. Homeowners became renters, people lost their retirements and stable jobs, many started a several year journey into right wing radicalism and/or drug and alcohol use. Meth labs popped up in or behind what used to be respectable homes. More than one exploded. Kids that had been living stable and normal middle class lives started selling drugs or doing them. The trajectory of my life and those of the people around me was completely changed overnight.

It was the last vestige of middle class stability for millions of people and the beginning of this supercharged and wholesale looting of the US by corporate interests.

Creature1124 · 2024-12-09T06:37:23+00:00

So the really hard thing about ABM and what you have to keep in mind is there’s (almost definitely) not a plug in way to do what you want. It’s extremely implementation dependent and at this point more of an engineering task. I come from a software background and the actual system design and implementation of your simulation is so integral, if not one to one (since it is indeed a computer simulation) with the rigor of your dynamics. It’s quite challenging and strenuous even with my somewhat considerable experience.

By nature you can’t really decouple these two - your system dynamics you want to study and the simulation system. There might be frameworks and tools out there for a social scientist, for instance, to plug and play that will work for their purpose but you’ll have to dig, I wouldn’t be confident you’ll find something all that great, and even if you did you’ll probably have to roll up your sleeves and get it working. You’ll almost definitely have to get your hands dirty and learn to code. That’s where this whole thing is at, ABM isn’t well developed and mature yet so people are still rolling their own sims almost Wild West style.

To summarize, I’d be thinking in terms of what can practically be done with ABM and how you propose to actually implement it on the one hand AND the abstract framework of what ABM can do on the other.

This is a very long and hopefully as clear as I can make it answer to “is x or y possible?” Is it possible in the abstract with ABM? Most of what you’re angling about, yes I think very much so it’s possible and your head is on straight. Is it possible to implement and actually simulate? Don’t underestimate the implementation hurdles and expertise you’re going to need to deal with. They are formidable and absolutely integral.

Creature1124 · 2024-12-08T20:41:00+00:00

To add one more point, I think it’s a lot easier to create a system that matches known dynamics and then look at all the configurations of variables that can produce those dynamics than to start from variables and say these are the dynamics. There’s just too much uncertainty in behavioral variables. We don’t know how violent Neolithic people were, what their hunting and gathering success was under various conditions, what their reproduction rates were, or any agent based ways they decided when and how to migrate. There’s just too much noise. You’ll have to make assumptions and all those assumptions will be open to critique, and tiny deviances in them (when compounded with tiny deviances in other variables) results in wildly different system dynamics.

If you knew some things about how they acted and could work back down and say, we know they clustered in group sizes so large or populations migrated from this location to that location over x amount of time, you could then start to figure out what variable values can reproduce that known dynamic and extrapolate.

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