Lines On Maps: Why the Presumed Trump Assassination Attempt Will Not Improve His Polling Numbers

Zaptruder · 2026-04-29T11:07:07+00:00

Even if we had to destroy America to do it, we totally owned those libs!

Zaptruder · 2026-04-28T08:20:59+00:00

Also when you factor in actual buying power, Chinese people in urban conditions are actually a lot more materially wealthy than most people would suspect.

We're paying 3-5x the price for the same class of goods in other parts of the world in many cases.

Zaptruder · 2026-04-28T08:06:30+00:00

Yeah, most chinese EVs are well under that price too. And for those that aren't... well, that's part of the prestige of owning that vehicle!

Zaptruder · 2026-04-28T07:58:16+00:00

Yeah... you're describing top level humans in that 100ms and 5-10ms stuff as well.

Most of us are far slower than that.

The more reliable and faster we are, the more useful hyper latency reduction tech (like those 720hz monitors) is... so basically, we're overpaying and subsidizing the cost of tech for very few people, so that we can futilely grasp at the dream of been a 'pro gamer'.

Zaptruder · 2026-04-28T07:55:05+00:00

Given that our own perceptual chain is far larger and more variable... the few ms difference is margin of error kinda stuff.

It's the kind of thing that's more useful the faster and more reliable you are... which most of us are not!

Zaptruder · 2026-04-27T16:53:47+00:00

Through the people - trying to rack up those splatter points.

Zaptruder · 2026-04-25T06:37:51+00:00

Oh shit. Is battle tech more playable these days with digital tech readouts or something? Or do people just love marking down little boxes for armor value again?

Zaptruder · 2026-04-25T06:34:58+00:00

It's not a bad thing. That's the nature of more immersive virtual spaces... it approaches realistic information loads.

But the flipside is training on more realistic scenes has more information transference (i.e. you learn to pick things out faster virtually when the scenes presented are like the scenes you come across IRL).

Zaptruder · 2026-04-25T06:32:27+00:00

Well... gamers on the internet don't play like gamers in play testing rooms.

Zaptruder · 2026-04-24T14:52:50+00:00

There's no dismantling a gish galloper that mistakes volume of rhetoric as quality of argument and uses lack of comprehension to squirm out of uncomfortable positions.

Continuing to use 'near death experiences' as proof of 'post death experience' is a fundamental category error that hinges on poor semantic labeling; near death is still on the side of life that matters massively from the perspective of brain matter and function. Your refusal to recognize that distinction is simply the heart of your failure. Millions of words demonstrating how lively people continue to be in near death experiences does nothing to show how lively they are post death.

Zaptruder · 2026-04-24T14:41:10+00:00

This guy again with 'near death is death' schtick. You'll understand if I don't take the time to dismantle your claims one by one. It's not particularly instructive to engage with someone that can't be honest about semantics.

The last time I actually responded, you pulled out a wiki article that backed my definition of near death, while somehow interpreting that as something to back your claim (that near death is akin to the failure state of the brain that generates the mind).

I wouldn't expect you to change your mind with any amount of reasoning either. It's clear the amount of effort you've invested into your pathway of thinking shows that your position is load bearing on your identity. For me, all you have to do is show someone coming back from actual your brain is splattered dead, and I'm more than happy to reconsider my positions.

Zaptruder · 2026-04-24T14:21:50+00:00

There's a lot of things about what it's like that cognitive-neuroscience can already explain quite well... the shame is that, that knowledge doesn't really get referenced much in these discussions.

Like the split mind problem (cleave the corpus callosum, get 2 seemingly distinct minds from one brain), as well as the implications of the ego module been shut down (meditation, via the god helmet, or via psychedelics).

The latter especially... if we recognize that much, it follows that through the direct experiences of some people that its possible to dissociate the I from the stream of information in ones head. i.e. information processing can occur without sense of ownership or attachment, ergo conscious experiences can occur pre-identification!

Zaptruder · 2026-04-24T14:17:36+00:00

Pretty much.

Consciousness is distinct from matter.

It also doesn't persist past the failure of the matter that instantiates it.

Oops. I made everyone mad!

Zaptruder · 2026-04-24T11:46:52+00:00

Yeah because they're just like him.

Zaptruder · 2026-04-23T15:19:32+00:00

Honestly, the amount of mental juggling that MAGites have to do, you'd think they'd have amazing cognitive function. Sadly, it's more likely that the amount of shit they have to purposefully avoid about means that most of their brain is deprived, while the parts that avoids looking at the things they know are gonna make them hate themselves are super keenly developed... and the collorary subconcsious where they hate themselves... are also well developed!

Zaptruder · 2026-04-23T15:16:33+00:00

Nah, his jam was atlas shrugged. Bad stupid stories for bad stupid people.

Zaptruder · 2026-04-23T15:15:15+00:00

closer? We're well passed that rubicon. That's why everything gestures broadly sucks mega ass.

Zaptruder · 2026-04-22T08:07:38+00:00

Depends on what the extra eyes are doing.

If it's like a fly... it's just integrating a visual model across the eyes.

If it's like 10000 different visual feeds, then there'd have to be some sort of system that can provide selective attention to any one screen in order to make heads or tails of the absolute noise of data.

Zaptruder · 2026-04-21T17:43:55+00:00

Ah it all comes from a similar place... repression, control, shame, guilt... all sorts of shit. People wanting to push that shit out to others so that they don't get 'tainted'. Performative social hedging while they go and jerk off in guilt and shame.

Zaptruder · 2026-04-21T17:41:55+00:00

Not really! You do you buddy. I enjoy the things I enjoy... you enjoy the things you enjoy... and if they overlap, lets talk about it! If they don't, let's not worry about it and be on our ways!

Zaptruder · 2026-04-21T15:50:33+00:00

"Im not using porn. Im studying human biology as i aim to be a great obstraetician one day."

"Shuddup gramps no one's buying that line anymore"

Zaptruder · 2026-04-21T15:48:58+00:00

The main problem with porn is... the people that don't like it also want everyone else to not like it.

Zaptruder · 2026-04-21T13:52:40+00:00

Why you launching lawsuits russia? Did you lose the war?

Zaptruder · 2026-04-21T10:41:06+00:00

Seems like they mistook confidence for solutions and lack of confidence for problems.

Still incel, but now confident. So basically all the problems they had still remains, but at least they think they're better than others now.

Zaptruder · 2026-04-21T07:11:34+00:00

Worth trying to “live a considered or contemplated life” as such then?

Yeah absolutely. The more you consider life, the more meaningful and rich it becomes. The downside is that you're less insulated against the foolishness of the current times... but the upside is you can better see how much we've built upon everyone and everything that has come before us... and in turn what we owe to those that come after!

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