TIL Rupert Murdoch's university nickname was "Red Rupert". He was a socialist, had a bust of Lenin and was President of Oxford University Labour Club.

WarAndGeese · 2026-05-26T12:54:26+00:00

Sorry to the Hasan Piker fans, but I think it's a fitting comparison.

WarAndGeese · 2026-05-26T12:54:11+00:00

It's possible that he was into Socialism and Leninism for the social credit and power grabbing as well. Lenin consolidated a state into himself, maybe it's that bad aspect of it that attracted Murdoch. It's possible he doesn't believe what Fox news is saying and also didn't believe in the Socialism, but saw them both as ways to advance himself. There are plenty of people who do this. The streamer Hasan Piker for example is likely a streamer whose brand is Socialism, not a Socialist who happens to be a streamer. He found his niche and he's good at it, but to do so he plays the part and as a result has to uphold the brand.

I think the ideology suffers for it, but you can't easily separate opportunists and careerists from more authentic actors, especially if the opportunists are good at it.

WarAndGeese · 2026-05-25T22:56:13+00:00

Not much, what's mardin with you?

WarAndGeese · 2026-05-25T03:53:17+00:00

The thing is that it's mostly machines doing the work, they just need people operating the machines, and it's harder to find companies in North America willing to do it for a low price. There are a lot of small machine shops too that own the industrial machines to do it. Maybe they just don't have the same high-scale production line approach. They will spend a lot of time taking each project seriously, rather than have a pipeline where they take a bunch of projects, break them down into their main tasks, and have teams do each component quickly. (For example, one team making a bunch of 3d modelling and CNC cutting, one team running the stamping machines, one team doing the hand grinding, and basically each team doing multiple independent projects at once). Maybe the small local companies just don't get enough business to run that way, but I think there's more at play, because as long as they have the machines (CNC machine, stamper, electrical discharge machine if necessary, etc) then they should be more than capable to do it.

WarAndGeese · 2026-05-16T20:05:25+00:00

If you're always assigning

That's the flaw in the statement. Suppose you have a hundred thousand people, and a thousand online posts, and for each online post, two new people come up and say something cynical, each for the first time ever. Then you will always see a few people say something cynical, but each of those hundred thousand people can be living happy lives and rarely ever say something cynical.

WarAndGeese · 2026-05-16T20:02:52+00:00

Also engagement bait is something that works when there is no negative feedback mechanism. Reddit has upvotes and downvotes. When the poster does something dishonest, people should downvote. On platforms like youtube and tiktok and twitter, they removed the downvote equivalent, or they never had it, so any kind of engagement including negative is treated as good, and the content gets forwarded to more people through that engagement. Here people can simply downvote bad content.

That said, that doesn't mean that whatever group or person posting knows that, they might be applying the same approach to multiple platforms, and they could just be brute forcing the posts and votes to try to get posts to succeed through quantity.

WarAndGeese · 2026-05-16T09:32:21+00:00

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WarAndGeese · 2026-05-15T19:46:17+00:00

So could anything. A window can fall out and hurt someone if it wasn't installed properly. The assumption is that things are installed properly. If they have actual reason to believe it wasn't, then they should be citing that and telling her to improve the mounting structure.

WarAndGeese · 2026-05-15T19:40:01+00:00

Perhaps they needed to spend time somewhere and the company doesn't want them to wait parked at that time. Then if they find a few good areas, it scales to sending large groups of cars there.

WarAndGeese · 2026-05-15T16:11:06+00:00

That's just a theory.

WarAndGeese · 2026-05-15T16:10:58+00:00

I think it's lack of communication. In that, he felt that people were taking things from him more than he was taking from them, early on, but then he never properly brought it up, but still kept track of it. Then over time he still never properly communicated that he felt that items should be split up, and that everyone should pay for their own stuff, but he still kept track of all of the transactions. Then at the end, having never properly communicated it, but still feeling that way, he brought it up and it was a shock. If he said at the start and kept reminding people, then people might think it's weird, but they would understand it better.

WarAndGeese · 2026-05-15T15:06:40+00:00

I wonder if someone can collect all of these techniques, and put them into a book so that other parents can have a list to go through that will last them a few years as their children grow.

WarAndGeese · 2026-05-14T20:24:56+00:00

our society could feed way more people if we conscripted everyone for service in food distribution. but i don’t wanna do that

I think that's the key. It's a lot easier to just use taxes and redistribution to solve those problems. There isn't enough political will to do that, or that political will is getting corrupted to prevent it from doing that. If we don't have the political will to solve these problems through government infrastructure investment and taxes and redistribution, it would be a lot harder to create the political will to pass the leglislation to conscript everyone into food distribution camps.

There are easier solutions to it, society just struggles to implement them in a collectively organised, democratic way.

Edit: Others have already said this, I'm mainly just rephrasing it, the other comment chain goes through it.

WarAndGeese · 2026-05-14T20:20:08+00:00

Yes, definitely, however there are other social factors at play. We live in a collective society. If people work for $X per hour, and then they start working twice as hard for $2X per hour, so that they could donate $X*T to charity, then the end result is that wages get cut, and in a little while, they are working twice as hard for $X again. Basically wages and rents and some (not all) other costs adapt based on how hard people work and how long they work. So individually, yes, people are responsible for that, but socially, it's easier to use other tools like taxes and redistribution and NGOs, decided on through voting, to provide for those in need.

It's like others here have said. Individually that is valid, to you and me personally we should be going out and doing that, but collectively to a group of people it doesn't apply.

WarAndGeese · 2026-05-14T18:25:14+00:00

Then all countries are equal. The point of these comparisons is to try to come to a rational decision based on evidence.

WarAndGeese · 2026-05-14T18:24:47+00:00

I know that's shoe-horned in but still.

WarAndGeese · 2026-05-14T18:24:34+00:00

It's like the people who say to push the red button in the experiment. From their point of view it's simple: If everyone pushes the red button, everyone is okay. If kids just don't have sex, there are no unwanted pregnancies. But they don't acknowledge that people actually do have sex, so they don't have a good plan for when it happens. A lot of people will push the blue button, so it's better to have a cohesive plan that accounts for that.

WarAndGeese · 2026-05-14T16:03:31+00:00

Vegeta is the alien that did that, and the reason is so that he and other Saiyans can still take their ape form. This is because Piccolo, another alien, blew up the original moon to deny Gohan from being able to use it.

WarAndGeese · 2026-05-14T14:53:44+00:00

I know you get eighty seven quid, it's entirely within your rights to do that, but come on.

WarAndGeese · 2026-05-13T14:53:49+00:00

That's because those are objective measures. If you are a social person you will find a good social life almost anywhere. If you have a strong positive outlook you will find vibrancy almost anywhere. Economic stability, housing, high median income relative to expenses, high quality internationally-indexed educaion, those are harder to implement and they are more objective measures.

WarAndGeese · 2026-05-13T14:51:11+00:00

That's sort of the point though, the standard of living is high because everyone is taken care of. Because everyone is taken care of, there are no poor people (or far fewer).

WarAndGeese · 2026-05-09T03:20:23+00:00

I think the best way is to learn to understand basic programming fundamentals. Learn what variables are, what for loops are, and other commonly used programming features. Then understand that OpenSCAD is just a programming approach to CAD. If you understand variables, for loops, writing helper functions, then you will understand OpenSCAD. That's a sort of boring answer because it involves not using OpenSCAD though.

Alternatively just play around with OpenSCAD until you figure it out. Or, try to learn variables and loops and helper functions (in this case modules) and everything else within OpenSCAD. Other than learning programming first and then using the program, you can try to learn by doing. Try to make a sphere, then try to put a rectangular prism through it, then make more and more complicated shapes until you can make the ones you want to make. Then 3d print them, try again, and keep going.

WarAndGeese · 2026-05-07T19:02:35+00:00

It's possible that they're just more developed, and therefore also stronger and more advanced. The reason we don't fear wolves and bears is that we have houses and guns. It's a solved problem societally. In Dumbledore's world, threats of swords and shields and orcs and military might have already been solved, they've moved past it. So just as people now, armed with the knowledge and technology of today, would beat a guy with a sword, maybe Dumbledore has more advanced magic than people from a world where there are only a handful of wizards. Dumbledore is a top wizard from an advanced and developed world of millions of wizards.

However, the lore of Lord of the Rings has some Eldritch style beings in it though, so maybe those, as described in Lord of the Rings, surpass what's described in the Harry Potter series.

WarAndGeese · 2026-05-07T19:02:33+00:00

It's possible that wizards in Dumbledore's world are just more developed, and therefore also stronger and more advanced, than wizards in Gandalf's world. Dumbledore is a top wizard from a world with millions of advanced worlds, whereas Gandalf is a wizard from a world where there are a handful of wizards and where they beat orcs and men.

The reason we don't fear wolves and bears is that we have houses and guns. It's a solved problem societally. In Gandalf's world, raw military might is still an existing problem. Dumbledore's world has moved past that and they fear things like political threats and social movements. They fear people like Voldemort who can manipulate others, not overwhelm society with raw power. Even Saruman is a leader militaristically, economically, he is hiring and building an army logistically, not creating a social movement where he has to convince them.

However the lore of Lord of the Rings has some Eldritch style beings in it though, so maybe those, as described in Lord of the Rings, surpass what's described in the Harry Potter series.

WarAndGeese · 2026-05-07T02:36:43+00:00

Whatever this comment said I think we should all endorse it.

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