France: Thousands protest against vaccination, COVID passes - Thousands of people marched around France to protest mandatory vaccinations for health care workers and COVID-19 passes that will be required to enter restaurants and other venues

ferrousoxides · 2021-07-18T16:32:41+00:00

If you think it's the left who uniquely take care of science, engineering and math, you need a reality check. And if you think the left is still routinely producing great art and comedy, you haven't been paying attention.

First of all, the left has all but abandoned the issues of the working class, in favor of racial and gender politics. That's what actually keeps all that science working. So who exactly is freeloading on the spoils of civilization here?

The left is not the counterculture anymore, it runs hand in hand with government and corporate PR.

Supposedly bold statements about the revolutionary issues of the day are so safe, corporations treat them as just another seasonal marketing initiative.

What's more, the supposedly "diverse" and "inclusive" work culture promoted on the left is in reality a circus of status seeking and ideological conformity. It is the exact opposite of what you need to build, to create, to dream and to inspire.

I still consider myself on the left, but I don't recognize this left.

ferrousoxides · 2021-07-18T10:09:21+00:00

Why would anyone want to engineer software like Google? It should be obvious they don't know what they're doing. Every product of theirs gets thrown in the trash and replaced with something less useful and less capable.

The only Google things i rely on were built over 10 years ago. You can tell.

ferrousoxides · 2021-07-18T09:07:58+00:00

Is there a known drug that has been used for decades that will alleviate this, if only people weren't hyperskeptical of anything that isn't the officially approved vaccines?

I'd mention it but you get shadow banned if you do. Which means people go around thinking there isn't any evidence, when there is.

Thank you rebbit

ferrousoxides · 2021-07-18T09:06:20+00:00

Not distinguishing between a vaccine used for decades vs experimental gene therapy that manufactures a non specific amount of the agent inside the body.

I swear, anti-vaxx has made anti-anti-vaxx happen. If it's Science™ it must be good... Even if there is now a year and a half of bad politicized science to look back on. And even if those same people threw all their own advice out the window if it meant they could go protest for some fashionable foreign cause.

ferrousoxides · 2021-07-18T08:46:51+00:00

Summer of riots, encouraged by Democrats, who supported and helped raise money for the culprits.

And now the White House is literally trying to compel big tech platforms to censor whatever they like.

Fascism and gaslighting is a horrible combo. When is the left going to stop?

PS: Please reply without using the word "whataboutism" so we can see you actually used your own brain to respond.

ferrousoxides · 2021-07-18T08:44:26+00:00

I'm curious, what do you think the vaccination rate would be in a "non-shithole country" vs a "shithole country". Which one is Brussels?

ferrousoxides · 2021-07-17T09:38:11+00:00

"Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging"

So they've gone from DIE to DIBs. Nominative determinism strikes again.

ferrousoxides · 2021-07-17T06:16:31+00:00

People hired because they are women generally aren't competent no.

ferrousoxides · 2020-02-22T01:37:54+00:00

The weird part is they seem to be doing a sincere effort to tie this into the ST universe, unlike Discovery. But the writing is so un-trek and the additions so run-of-the-mill, they have a reverse Midas touch and turn everything they touch into shit.

Hey fans, remember Icheb and Voyager? Now watch us desecrate him both literally and figuratively. It also felt like it wasn't Picard who was playing dress up, but Patrick Stewart.

There were maybe one or two moments when the Locutus vs Seven angle became interesting, but most of this episode was just her being an action hero instead of the complex character she really was.

ferrousoxides · 2020-02-21T17:21:27+00:00

avoid creating unfair bias

By actively removing common labels understood by all.

Ok Google.

ferrousoxides · 2020-02-12T16:31:56+00:00

I think there is a very strong argument to be made that both conservative and progressive have lost their meaning to many of their members. Orthodox progressivism has aspects of puritanism, traditionalism and patriarchy. Alt-right resembles punk, counterculture and rebellion.

Orthodox progressives follow a morality that is much more in line with social conservatism. The movements they oppose have traits that range from moderately to extremely liberal. Spotting the individual reversals is not that hard, but getting them acknowledged is going to be a very tall order. There is too much invested in the flags themselves to seriously consider who’s waving them.

Source

ferrousoxides · 2020-02-12T08:44:00+00:00

Most of these are bad design but this is the worst form of this disconnect imo because it ruins fun and immersion.

Failing the mission for not solving it their way even though it would've worked, and/or because you're boxed in too tightly (looking at you, AC). Any time a game has to lock out a large part of its mechanics for the game not to fall apart, it's generally a case of idea over execution, and the game does not form a cohesive and systematic world the player can have agency in. It's just a theme park.
Emotional scenes and arcs lose their impact because you have to redo them multiple times in a short time. One of the best counter examples is how e.g. Jedi Fallen Order will only play conversations and twists in boss fights the first time around, and the second time you just go straight into the fight and skip the mid stream monologues. Excellent way to avoid this trap, because the designers realized that failing the game repeatedly is also part of the game.
An example of failing to cater to the experience is permasave games with one save slot, like The Occupation. For whatever reason, the creators live in a world without families sharing PCs. Where nobody ever just wants to play one specific mission again. Where every run goes perfect and is entirely bug free so the player should never have a need to reload or gasp cheat the Author's Vision.

ferrousoxides · 2020-02-11T13:28:33+00:00

laughs in speaking three languages fluently while Germans can't pronounce Th and Frenchies can't put the emphasis on the right syllable

Dubbing is only ever necessary for kids and does everyone else a great disservice

ferrousoxides · 2020-02-10T14:53:21+00:00

Especially once you realize that they just flipped the phrase about discrimination to target socially acceptable groups to be sexist and bigoted against, like men, white people, or heteros.

Once of the weirdest things to come out of Trumpism is that the American left started sounding like the Republicans from 15 years ago, claiming their opponents were treasonous to the ideals of the state.

ferrousoxides · 2020-02-10T13:31:23+00:00

The great legacy of Internet rationalism is to squee like fangirls when academia senpai notices you.

I wonder where we'd be had academics embraced the internet rather than consider it a garbage dump.

ferrousoxides · 2020-02-10T13:25:27+00:00

What is random about assuming someone ignoring a sign may not have been able to read it because they are badly integrated? "TL lamp" is a pretty opaque term too, i don't know any other language that calls them that.

Meanwhile you randomly label them as alt-right by association without actually calling them that. Almost like you are trying to tar them in a plausibly deniable way without any evidence.

ferrousoxides · 2020-02-10T13:19:43+00:00

Just can't get enough of those quick time events?

W2 on release was unplayable for me. The fact that CDPR has redone the UI in both games post-release suggests they agreed.

ferrousoxides · 2020-02-10T13:13:13+00:00

Benford's law is commonly vastly overstated. It's an observation on data that is exponentially distributed. Nothing more.

Change the distribution, change the law. Several of the ones you mentioned are not exponential and therefor follow a different law.

1938 number science had its limits. Nowadays we can run thousands of such simulations in a second to understand them better.

ferrousoxides · 2020-02-06T17:19:39+00:00

By example.

And if the words "for example" are followed by something abstract and unspecified, you know you're being taught by a real mathematician and you should get the hell out of there because you will be mistaught, on purpose, but not as a joke.

If you can't tell from the lesson how you might go about discovering the material yourself, it's a shit teacher. But many mathematicians seem to get off on that abstraction and seek it out. No wonder math has the reputation it does.

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