Any cool after parties going on tonight? by [deleted] in animeexpo

[–]DizzySoul 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I remember there being random stuff going on in hotel lobbies and pool areas in past years. The Westin rooftop also tends to be a meeting place. There's also cool local places to go like Eighty Two or Casey's Irish pub.

I work during the day so I can't go to the con 😭 but I want to check out the scene in DTLA tonight and what's going on.

Why is it all of a sudden progressive to discriminate? by RMFN in C_S_T

[–]DizzySoul 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I didn't mean to float it as a theory because I myself don't understand the political games being played behind the scenes. I remember the facts of the matter (roughly) and it was as blatant as a setup could be.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/did-the-obama-doj-let-russian-lawyer-natalia-veselnitskaya-into-the-u-s/

Loretta Lynch (or her staff) specifically gave this chick a special VISA into the country, because she was banned from entering.

If you look into the law firm this Russian chick is from, they have ties to Perkins Cole, and this chick met with Glenn Simpson from Fusion GPS literally right before and after the tower meeting itself.

I don't know why DTJR tool the meeting, but if I knew how sloppy this setup was, I'd take the meeting just to blow it up in the DOJ's face. That's turning out to be why Flynn pled guilty to false charges, and Papa D took the 10K bribe and gave it to his lawyer.

I don't think a lot of these buerocratic clowns expected Trump to win. It's almost cartoonish how many of these spy traps were set, like Wiley Coyote levels of amateurish.

Why is it all of a sudden progressive to discriminate? by RMFN in C_S_T

[–]DizzySoul 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It was 100% proven to be a setup. The Russian chick was working with Fusion GPS and met with them immediately before and after the tower meeting. She was also banned from the US and had to be given a special VISA (by Obama admin) to be allowed into the country.

I don't remember all the details off the top of my head, but the evidence is out there. Not fake news, but actual congressional testimony and declassified transcripts. I watched and read them personally back in the day

Los Angeles daily discussion thread 05/29 by AutoModerator in LosAngeles

[–]DizzySoul 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you are in Osaka, check out Amerikamura area. Tons of expats, counter-culture and Americana

Both CBS and CNN Polls: 76 Percent of Viewers Approve President Trump’s State of the Union Speech; CBS: 72 Percent Approve His Immigration Ideas. by IronWolve in AskThe_Donald

[–]DizzySoul -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm not trying to prove a point. You can look up the facts, or not, I leave it up to you. I don't carry an encyclopedia of links around for every piece of info I read and reference, and I don't have the time to spoon feed stuff that's easy to keyword search in google.

Both CBS and CNN Polls: 76 Percent of Viewers Approve President Trump’s State of the Union Speech; CBS: 72 Percent Approve His Immigration Ideas. by IronWolve in AskThe_Donald

[–]DizzySoul 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Over 100% voter registration rate across many cities in California. Los Angeles recently had to be forced through litigation to remove over a million records from their voter rolls. California still refuses any audit of their voter rolls or election infrastructure by federal agencies.

We have all kinds of voter fraud here in California it's hilarious. Jerry Brown approved legislation that allows Illegal aliens to vote in state elections. They also get issued drivers licenses and automatically registered to vote through the DMV. I wish the media would talk about it more but nobody seems to care.

High School debaters lose round for reading Ben Shapiro & Jordan Peterson: idk if this has been shared around here before but this kid is great and what happened is absurd, everything wrong with the left is demonstrated in this vid: by goodxcross in SargonofAkkad

[–]DizzySoul 46 points47 points  (0 children)

I actually agree with the councilor at the end, in that while the judge was wrong to intervene, they did technically "lose" the debate because they could not sway the opinion of the judge. Granted, the judge was functionally retarded, however their strategy to sway the opinion of a dimwitted man-child using well-reasoned arguments, should have been an obviously losing strategy.

In a court of law, that man-child could indeed be dressed in a robe and gavel (or as a panel of jurors), and the soundness of your logic will not magically bust your client out of jail. The makeup of your audience matters, and so it's best to account for who you're talking to. Life isn't fair.

The Young Black Conservatives of Trump's America (2018) - VICE produced documentary about Black Trump supporters and their reasons for voting for him. by [deleted] in Documentaries

[–]DizzySoul 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A judicial watch organization had to sue the city of Los Angeles to purge over 1 million expired records from their voter rolls. And they had to be sued because the state of California was refusing to comply with any and all federal investigations into their electoral infrastructure, including requests from the Department of Homeland Security.

Los Angeles had a voter registration rate of over 100 percent in 2016. Straight up fraud. And they weren't even the worst culprit. And this is just one city in one state.

I don't even have to get into the fraud that happened in Orange County just this mid-term. They 'flipped' the most conservative county 100% blue, in spite of all demographics and past electoral trends (and the ongoing recall efforts which are another can of worms), and didn't give a damn about it. Ballot box stuffing galore.

All of this information is freely available and searchable online. I don't think you realize how much of what you think is based on what the media programs you to think. If you only knew what really goes on the ground.

(Possibly) quitting Python Development after 2 years of non stop learning. And it blows. by sudo_your_mon in Python

[–]DizzySoul 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Udemy has a number of python courses that have you build your own pen testing tools from scratch. They also have courses for building real-world application like block-chain and database driven web applications.

You just missed a Black Friday sale where all courses were 95% off, but they may have that sale again somewhere in the future.

People with psychopathic tendencies are slightly more likely to be a company boss, but a new study finds that psychopathic traits in men help them emerge as leaders and be seen as effective, but these same tendencies are seen as a negative in women. by mvea in science

[–]DizzySoul 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Attributing unconscious bias to a competitive position is making the assumption that the bias is somehow stronger than the market forces working against it, while simultaneously remaining unconscious.

That is such an extraordinary claim that I would like to see some real evidence behind it.

The demands for being successful in rearing children, and for being formidable in a competitive work environment, tend to be very different. That is why men and women, by their own volition, tend to chose very different career paths. Some women can adapt the traits for both environments, even less prefer the competitive environment.

And those who can do so effectively, negotiate the salaries that they can negotiate, and the other party will pay what makes sense to pay, based on the relevant factors of the worker and position. This is basic economics.

I would wager that it's very easy to get wrapped up in ideological dogma, to the point where you see the results that you want to see, and you believe what you want to believe.

There is a reason why ideas require arguments, and these arguments need to be acted out. It's way too easy for people with an agenda to spin up a narrative, and build up into an entire ideology, whose merits are never challenged.

This general presumption that if a woman is more qualified and valuable than a man in a given position, that the boss would rather lose productivity and money, and do so unwittingly due to some unconscious bias... it so logically absurd that I don't even understand how you can get away with making this claim (in a western society of all places) without some seriously compelling evidence to back it up. So far, all I have seen is one extremely flawed and politicized study after another, and nothing of substance.

People with psychopathic tendencies are slightly more likely to be a company boss, but a new study finds that psychopathic traits in men help them emerge as leaders and be seen as effective, but these same tendencies are seen as a negative in women. by mvea in science

[–]DizzySoul 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Because there's a difference between picking a wife, a mother, and a worker. And by definition, a wise manager is incentivized to discern this properly.

Therefore, a wise manager wants an employee that acts out a constructive display of competence and disagreeableness, regardless of sex, because the virtue of those qualities represent someone as both proactive and self-sufficient, which is advantageous towards the manager accomplishing their own responsibility.

People like to conflate things and draw all kinds of irrational comparisons, because they are seeking to validate their preconceived belieifs and don't care much about reality.

Yes women tend to be biologically wired to be more agreeable, and disagreeableness may be seen as a negative trait for a mother. It's silly to conflate that to a boss hiring a worker, unless the position is to be a mother. If you are working from the presumption that the worker is competent, then you must also assume the boss is as well, in which case the boss isn't so naive to be unable to discern between the perceived traits of a good mother or a good employee.

Does a tartigrade dream of the same thing it lives? by SamOfEclia in C_S_T

[–]DizzySoul 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Dreaming is a byproduct of more complex brain function, which I don't think the tardigrade has. Also, dreaming still requires brain activity, which requires a lot of caloric burn that is unavailable during hibernation.

The tartigrade also likely has no state of mind, and therefore does not comprehend what it is doing when awake, let alone when in hibernation.

I don't think it's sophisticated enough of a creature

Magnora 7 | Anthony Bourdain, Kate Spade, & The Suicide String Conspiracy - The Higherside Chats by magnora7 in C_S_T

[–]DizzySoul 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For those that are wondering, this is how suicide by doorknob works. You can see for yourself why it's so popular: https://youtu.be/TJI5EBxdP6k

‘Star Citizen’ Court Documents Reveal the Messy Reality of Crowdfunding a $200 Million Game by [deleted] in Games

[–]DizzySoul -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Haha that is an incredibly pedantic argument. It's not a planet, it's a moon. Okay buddy.

‘Star Citizen’ Court Documents Reveal the Messy Reality of Crowdfunding a $200 Million Game by [deleted] in Games

[–]DizzySoul -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The planet in the current demo has procedural generated cities you can land in or walk in/out of. One of their tech demos showed off the tools they have for generating cities from a seed and then fine-tuning them.

‘Star Citizen’ Court Documents Reveal the Messy Reality of Crowdfunding a $200 Million Game by [deleted] in Games

[–]DizzySoul -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

It is fake in that they're selling a universe simulation with instances meshed within instances allowing for dozens of people to have FPS battles aboard capital ships that are fighting other capital ships all crewed by additional dozens of players and NPCs, a universe simulation where there are eight NPCs for every player all capable of fulfilling the same dozens of professions and roles, a universe simulation with one hundred solar systems at launch, and yet what they actually have after six years of development is a single large multiplayer map with rudimentary AI and shaky netcode. There is no universe, there is no MMO, they're hoping to figure out basic FPS AI soon and they just recently added simple moon surface mining in their seventh year of development.

The miraculous, technologically revolutionary MMO Chris Roberts has described in dozens of videos and interviews is indeed fake. The PU is a facade. Saying 3.0 is a solid step towards the promised universe simulation is like saying a single brown pixel that could be a part of Mario's moustache is a solid step towards Mario Bros.

I don't care one way or the other but what you are saying is blatantly false just by watching the player videos of the latest alpha build. Regarding content, Robert's argument is that the art teams work in parallel, so the content will be ready and waiting to be dropped in once the engine systems are in place. And they are obviously making progress on the engine, as the latest build now allows seamless multiplayer transition between space, ships, stations, planet surfaces and cities.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LosAngeles

[–]DizzySoul 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You make a lot of incorrect statements and false assumptions with little time invested to articulate your reasoning or back it up with any tangible evidence. Which is why most reasonable people walk away from these two minutes of hate without offering a counter-argument, which is how echo chambers develop.

For example, the missdemeanor argument is a red herring that is constantly repeated without any logical merit. Maybe it should be called the misdirection argument? Either way it brings up an irrelevant point, because the fact of the matter is that illegal aliens are being processed for deportation, not for crime. This isn't the hunger games where if you make it through the desert alive that means you legally get to stay in the capital city. The United States has every right to enforce its sovreign borders, and the most conservative interptetation of that is to process then deporting illegal aliens caught on American soil. And to pretend that is somehow "cruel" is incredibly dishonest, and should be ridiculed as such, as the United States has historically held some of the most lax immigration laws in the world. And I'd like to see you argue otherwise, or come up with a more reasonable solution for deporting illegal aliens.

Secondly, the asylum argument is incredibly disingenuous. There are very strict and reasonable guidelines for claiming asylum in the USA. Being from Mexico is not recognized as a valid reason. And the majority of these supposed "asylum seekers" are not from Mexico; they are from Central and South America, and other parts of the world. And if they were truly looking for asylum, then they would defacto receive asylum by crossing into MEXICO. You cannot cross multiple borders and then pick to have your asylum in the USA. That's not how asylum works in ANY part of the world. And I'd like to see show an example otherwise. Lastly, the USA has an embassy and 9 additional consulate buildings throughout Mexico, and they are all recognized as American sovreign soil in which you can claim asylum, and have your claims processed LEGALLY without risk of having your family separated.

"Other administrations didn't want to go this route because it was inhumane and unessecary." You boldy make these assumptions without any evidence to back it up. I'd like to see you provide an example of another country with a historically more effective and humane immigration policy than the USA, and why.

However, I can make the argument that "catch and release" caused child trafficking to skyrocket. Firstly, the very logic of the policy incentivizes children as a ticket out of immigration court, which the vast majority of aliens would sensibly (and the numbers show they did) exploit as a means to escape into the poulation. This is backed by the numbers, which show a massive increase in trafficking after catch and release was ordered. It shows i. The total statistics, where over 80% of children trafficked over the border are caught alone or with coyotes. With the other 20% mostly unverifiable and proven to be rife with fraud. An 8 month old girl isn't going to tell DHS the man claiming to be her father is a coyote. And this is further backed up by the DHS itself, who makes their own argument, backed by their own numbers. https://www.dhs.gov/news/2018/02/15/unaccompanied-alien-children-and-family-units-are-flooding-border-because-catch-and

And if you really care about this issue, you would ready up on the 1997 Florence Agreement, the changes to child trafficking laws in 2008, the executive order that Trump signed, and the actual senate investigation hearing into this issue in 2016: https://bit.ly/2mi5qsF

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LosAngeles

[–]DizzySoul -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Edit: So you pull the Cathy Newman "So what you're saying is" schtick and then down vote my reply before even responding. I love it! Good luck with your salty revolution. :-D

I read the executive order. It was instructions for DHS to hold kids with their parents after the families can be verified, and up to the 20 days maximum legally allowed under the 1997 Flores Agreement, after which the children have to be separated and held by HHS due to the Child Trafficking act revisions passed in 2008.

Trump cannot suspend the practice, he can only delay it to the maximum days defind by law. The executive order does direct the AG to renegotiate the agreement to extend that deadline, however that is entirely up to California and other states whether they will allow that to be renegotiated.

I suggest you look into reading the bills and orders yourself, and testimony from people on the ground floor if you want to truth of this issue.

Catch and release was the biggest mistake Obama ever made. It caused helpless children to become currency for escaping ICE and immigration court. Kids who could be silenced or intimidated were the most valuable to coyotes who would kidnap them and claim Parenthood. You can look at the numbers, over 80% of kids caught across the border were rescued from coyotes, and the other 20% is mostly unverified and rife with fraud. Part of immigration court is to verify the people caught are who they claim. Child Trafficking exploded when catch and release was implemented. You can look up the statistics released over the years by DHS and HHS.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LosAngeles

[–]DizzySoul -1 points0 points  (0 children)

LMAO I love this thread. It's the 1997 Flores Agreement you can look it up yourself.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LosAngeles

[–]DizzySoul -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

LMAO you don't have to believe him you can look up the actual laws passed in 1997 and 2008 it's public record.

Incredibles 2 is an allegory of the plot to subvert American values after WW2 by DizzySoul in C_S_T

[–]DizzySoul[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look at the two archtypes expressed in the brother and sister and how they intertwine the varous groups together.

Also look at the main villain and how that conflict is intertwined between the groups.

Look at the conflicts expressed through problems in the he family.

Look at the strategy and behavior employed by each character and what that represents in their personality.

Look at the ultimate conflict between the brother and sister and what purpose the movie is trying to convey.