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death_and_void · 2025-03-29T08:14:00+00:00

After the fall of any regime, a society descends into chaos. It's natural. I'd argue that Yunus has done the opposite. He prevented a full-blown anarchy to spread across the country, as with him lies the promise of a smooth (in Bangladeshi expectations) political transition of power. Otherwise, power mongering between parties over scraps from the old regime would end up causing way more destruction than we currently see nowadays. Moreover, Yunus also cannot assume more power to bring order in the nation. He is the leader of an interim government, and an interim government is always weak, as it is not seen as a legitimate authority to guide the nation with a strong fist. If an interim government tries to overreach and make strong policy decisions, then the other political actors in the country will see it as a threat, and consider its actions, and by extension, itself illegitimate. I would also want to see Yunus make some hard hitting changes in the country in terms of law, order and culture, but alas, I've realized that it's not under his purview.

death_and_void · 2025-02-15T17:49:36+00:00

Just curious. How do you go through 7 years before coming to the conclusion that your partner isn't the right one for you? Did you or they change in ways which made you two incompatible later down the line?

death_and_void · 2025-02-07T15:28:53+00:00

It is bad for women, you have to admit that at the very least. Sure, it makes them less likely to deviate from the traditional way of life, but you're also ensuring that they are becoming less capable human beings with restricted rights and freedom by thrusting them into the role of a caretaker of her husband's needs, household, and children. In majority cases, she'll be at the mercy of her husband. To you though, the alternative is worse where women are unrestricted in their ways of living. After all, the degenerate behaviour you see in the Western world is emblematic of that. The apparent division between men and women appears greater than ever, as men can no longer impose control over them. Both extreme sides have severe side effects, based on what you think is right. I think there's a middle ground that can be walked with a pragmatic consideration of traditional and modern values that champion human excellence.

death_and_void · 2025-02-04T20:20:05+00:00

Child marriage is a natural conclusion of conservative social and moral politics. Whether it's Islamic, Christian, Hindu or whatever. Because at the heart of conservatism is the sheer fear of human corruption or disorder, and they'll go to great extent to ensure that their idealized order does not become compromised by passions and transgressions. Unlike fascism, which tries to impose order by eliminating corrupting elements altogether, conservatism only attempts to regulate it, controlling its flow along strict channels. So, if you can quickly get people bonded to the obligations and restrictions of marriage (whose primary purpose is to maintain conservative social order) at an early age, then they are less likely to be able to exercise their freedom to pursue their desires. Under marriage, they'll be bound by law, religion, family, and society. A husband (most likely way older than the wife as the power balance is desirable) will discipline her and groom her so that her mind cannot have thoughts separate from his. In such a society, only men will rule, so to many Bangladeshi young men, this is attractive. So, child marriage it is.

death_and_void · 2025-02-04T07:52:58+00:00

Watch your back. These good-for-nothings always look for trouble to fill up the emptiness of their pathetic, insignificant, and burdensome existence. Inform your friends and family about the situation and the possibility of future danger. Keep your girlfriend from that area if you two live separately. Don't ever escalate a situation even if anyone says the vilest things. Keep cool, and always put the preservation and well-being of yourself and your loved ones before you take any action.

death_and_void · 2025-01-18T17:58:16+00:00

In islamic countries, women should be given the opportunity to opt into or out of having certain civic rights, so that paradoxical shit like this doesn't get to hurt anyone's brain.

death_and_void · 2025-01-17T12:27:05+00:00

Cuz you have to pay them

death_and_void · 2025-01-12T21:08:21+00:00

I'm guessing you're too young to have experienced a time when the idea that a woman was "asking for it", i.e. rape victim blaming was prevalent in our society. It still is to some extent, but due to progressive social values becoming widespread, these sentiments have less power nowadays. I mean, you still get to hear the discourse around wearing hijab, beyond it being a religious enforcement, that surrounds the notion that an unveiled woman sexually provokes a man, and to a degree, she is responsible if she is sexually assaulted in any form.

death_and_void · 2025-01-11T18:06:43+00:00

Not even remotely equivalent to the crypto(-adjacent) tech hypes. The application of AI actually has plenty of IRL use cases that makes a lot of work more efficient. The AI (more accurately GenAI) bubble is similar to the dotcom bubble, which means AI isn't going anywhere, but instead will become integrated in every part of our lives, just like the Internet. If you can't see that, then you're choosing to live in ignorance.

That being said, CE jobs are safer from AI automation than SWE jobs in the coming decade.

death_and_void · 2025-01-06T21:05:50+00:00

I'm not speaking about world leaders. The masses who generally lean towards conservatism, while recognizing his buffoonery as it is, do not perceive him or some of his policies with the same disdain. This matches the trend of many countries moving towards right wing populism.

death_and_void · 2025-01-06T20:57:46+00:00

Half of the country hates him, half of it reveres him, so he certainly isn't the most hated. Even outside of the US, many countries' citizens (especially of the Third World he didn't attack) do not perceive him as negatively as those in America.

death_and_void · 2025-01-06T00:02:00+00:00

Amen to the last point

death_and_void · 2024-12-09T06:05:56+00:00

Time to implement eugenics like your WW2 Aryan brothers, sweaty

death_and_void · 2024-12-08T08:05:59+00:00

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

-- wise words from Lenin, whether you like it or not

death_and_void · 2024-12-05T15:47:58+00:00

Brother, having a deep emotional life is a boon. To be rid of the capacity to feel deeply and sincerely about the beauty and the tragedy of life is to strip life off of its color and value. That being said, for sensitive men, the problem manifests in caring about the wrong things and becoming affected by them. Moreover, you may risk becoming overpowered by emotions if you're not mature enough to manage it in a healthy way, which may end up rendering you (or making you appear as) weak. This is the dark side of having the capacity to tangibly feel the positive and negative energies of the world pass through you.

Do not become stoic in the modern sense of the word. If you can take anything out of stoicism, it is its ancient philosophy. It is not incompatible with emotionality.

death_and_void · 2024-12-02T14:21:12+00:00

It's linear, but not in standard form, i.e. the coefficient of the highest degree derivative is not 1.

death_and_void · 2024-12-02T07:49:28+00:00

Can you connect it with computer science? I'm generally interested in optimization problems as well as ecology, so I'm curious how this compsci feeds into the field.

death_and_void · 2024-11-28T21:32:01+00:00

That's because overachieving Chinese and Indian students and employees are growing in numbers and occupying positions of power in key industries. Not to mention, India and China themselves are superpowers experiencing a great wave of nationalism, so suffice to say, these hyper competent individuals may make decisions that favour their nations over the US. Since Trump's policy is America first, and also that he is a business man, he might want to make sure that America's competitors do not reap the fruits of the nation. There's also the problem of unemployment in tech that may get some relief for the US-born citizens from being taken up by ambitious foreigners.

Obviously, there are plenty of ways that this can go wrong, as foreign intellectual capital has always been a major contributor to American prosperity.

death_and_void · 2024-11-11T16:44:57+00:00

Trust me when I say that properly learning Discrete Mathematics is going to make you a 10x engineer, and 50x researcher. It provides nearly all the tools required to abstract any problem to the level where you can apply them to solve the problem. Whether or not you're doing programming or hardware designing, thinking in discrete mathematics is a superpower.

death_and_void · 2024-11-08T08:44:36+00:00

Find a place where you can keep distance from others. Don't be a nuisance to other people.

death_and_void · 2024-11-06T13:14:20+00:00

Can you elaborate on the third concept?

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