dinklesplein

a lot of libs who are ideologically committed to being libs were affluent and got good grades in school. being a liberal isn't a reflection of your intelligence it's about socioeconomic status, there are plenty of 'smart' liberals.

it's slightly cope to say that the iraqi army was incompetent imo

like it was probably about as good as the nva, coalition just had an enormous advantage in sensors tech. proto-digital army vs analog army

is this new jocat discourse leaking onto chapo.chat

classic crusher collins lol this coalition is such a meme

i fucking hated law school despite having a lot of formal education in history and philosophy and i barely passed it. anecdotally having an interest in humanities made me dislike studying law.

never bet against icefrog

i don't know how best to describe it but valve's balancing and design philosophy is just fun, it doesn't have this sort of sanitised feel to it that say riot or blizzard have with their games where things have to be 'fair'

'mogging' and 'mog' are just inherently funny words in a phonetic sense tbh, like i get that its incel lingo but its really fucking funny.

I mean i cant deny that theres probably sexist devs working on that game i mean they're game devs lol

no disagreement here fwiw. im getting increasingly tired however of hearing narratives about how much more extreme and 'exotic' east asian misogyny is however.

black myth wukong discourse is tiring.

'work culture' and misogyny in east asian societies is usually just an acceptable way for liberal mayos to be orientalist by pretending that chuds are a uniquely korean/chinese phenomenon. not like the manosphere doesn't exist.

"Liberal regimes fighting with the odds so heavily in their favour in material terms and the sense of 'history being on their side' have an impatient expectation of victory - call this the pressure of the philosophy of history. If you are truly convinced your victory is inevitable, resistance is, as the saying goes, futile. Opponents that engage in futile resistance, exacting a price from you, long after their defeat is inevitable, are treated as 'mad dogs' that demand their own destruction. Not just their defeat but their erasure and total destruction. Rather than encouraging liberal agents of history to raise themselves to great personal efforts and sacrifice, this philosophy of history, this sense of historic inevitability counsels the opposite. If your barbaric, cruel enemy does not understand that they must lose, if they want to go down in a meaningless suicidal blaze, there is no reason anyone on your side should needlessly expose themselves to risk. After all, that would deprive those citizen soldiers of the victorious future that is rightfully theirs. Instead, minimise your own losses and let massive firepower do the work. Collateral damage, especially if it occurs on the enemy side, is barely worth a mention."

Adam Tooze

OAI staggering releases to make GPT-4 look like it was faster than it actually was was a genius marketing move but they haven't done anything interesting for near two years now.

yeah, iirc the first step to singularity or at least what causes it is an ASI so we have this community of dweebs thinking that that'll solve everything and not, like, communism, which probably won't solve everything but certainly more than whatever the fuck llms are doing.