as alive as you need me to be
I would also add that they tend correlate wealth as a sign of intelligence and hold wealthy people in the highest esteem.
This is the particularly infuriating/hilarious part.
Here's a graph from a 2016 meta-analysis of what contributes more to your mid/late life overall socioeconomic status, the general wealth of your society (shared environment, C), your particular wealth and social status at birth/childhood (nonshared environment, E) or, your assessed IQ (genes, A).
This is for the US, and measures variance, the variability of how important those factors are.
As you can clearly see, red line go up.
What this means is that the wealthier you are, the more of a total crapshoot it is whether you are a genius or a moron.
Reality is the exact opposite of how idiot rightoids believe it to be, and how the smarter ones project onto everyone else as a means of social control / gaslighting / propagandizing:
The correlation between wealth and intelligence gets markedly worse, the wealthier a person you are looking at.
(I can find the link for the paper again if you wanna read through it, be warned though it is pretty stats heavy)
This is extremely common rightoid behavior, even at a personal level.
Make a big outward show of being independent, self-made, wholly responsible for your own success...
... and the reality almost always is that this person is in fact getting subsidies or assistance or help from a wealthy friend or family member, but, they're lying about this, and very often mismanaging the money, which is 'ok' in their minds, because 'nobody knows' that money even exists.
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Every Republican voter who is on welfare, but hates everyone else on welfare.
Every Republican business owner who gloats about being successful all thanks to themselves publically, but privately, amongst close friends, laughs about how good they are at manipulating their taxes or legal business structure so that they can get as many tax breaks and subsidies as possible.
Or, the 'dumbass' variant of that:
I'm a big tough hard blue collar worker who works real hard and real tough, and thats the right way to have a life and make a living... wait, what? That only even kind of works if the corporation I work for gets massive tax breaks and subsidies, or my own company gets tons of Federal grants and subsidies and tax breaks directly? I thought that was the free market?!
Also every 'entrepreneur wunderkid' story that ultimately boils down to: daddy gave me a whole lot of money and also knew a whole bunch of key figures in relevant industries.
... every mega church pastor that is very obviously fleecing their impoverished flock, but claims that they are so wealthy because god loves them so much.
... every rightwing raido talkshow host / podcaster who gloats about how successful their business is, but never mentions that they get a massive, stupidly large amount of money from wealthy right wing individuals and/or lobbying groups/think tanks... or by selling scam health products, scam financial products, etc... or, more recently, just literally gets directly funded by Russia's FSB.
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It is literally a core tenet of being a Republican that you lie and gaslight about where your money comes from, or at bare minimum be just actually so stupid that you don't even realize where your money comes from, so I guess those ones arguably not intentionally lying... they're just actually too stupid to be trusted with any kind of non rote task.
Like it is essentially impossible to be a Republican and not do this. Its a fundamental aspect to their personalities.
Hence why it is just a social faux pas to even have a frank and transparent discussion about finances with them, and why they get so blustered snd indignant when the idea of 'fiscal responsibility' is applied onto them, instead of just projected outward as a demeaning attack on everyone else.
Thats my 2 cents anyway, from having grown up in a rightoid, fundamentalist family. Of course this behavior is not unique to Republicans, but it is essentially a mandatory requirement of being a Republican.
It all began on Twitter. On March 12, 2017, Jafari posted an update defending the comments of incendiary Republican Iowa Representative Steve King. King, who has a long history of controversial statements, made a comment arguing against immigration, saying "[we] can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies." The comment was widely criticized for being jingoistic and inflammatory, but found a defender in Jafari.
"Wow, how scandalous," said Jafari on Twitter. "Steve King doesn't want his country invaded by people who have contempt for his culture and people! NAZI!!!" The comment from Jafari surprised a lot of his followers, as Jafari rarely spoke about his political beliefs, and even rarer still with such vehemence.
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In particular, Jafari stated his belief that the United States of America does not "need immigrants from incompatible places," and voicing his concern about a "demographic displacement" of white people which he compared to the South African apartheid.
https://gamerant.com/jontron-racism-controversy-breakdown/
Maybe now, almost 10 years later, now that Nazism and Facism just are commonplace ideologies, these are 'pretty generic right wing opinions'.
But uh, no, this is JonTron defending White Replacement Theory, ie, explicitly endorsing a racist ethnostate.
Its about as plainly and directly racist as you can be without just repeatedly shouting 'the gamer word'.
Thats a bit more than just having a poorly informed take on crime statistics.
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It is also insanely hypocritical as he is a 2nd Gen immigrant of Hungarian and Iranian (1st Gen Immigrant) parents.
He of course identifies as white the same way that Ted Cruz does:
He is white-passing, but he knows he wouldn't actually pass any white racist's 'one drop' rule if they knew anything about his actual lineage, so he massively overcompensates by hating non white-passing people.
Fatwa/Jihad, bad.
Crusade, good.
Right, right, now I remember, how silly of me.
Jesus Fucking Christ.
I've done a lot of SQL/Database type work as well, and yep, I've been the person learning their insane spider web of db structures, and then either trying to enforce some kind of actual defined standards going forward, or in some instances, succeeding at restrucuring the dbs, transitioning them, and convincing corporate that this actually needed to be done.
It's insane to think what the civil engineering world would be like if it had the career structure of the software world.
Points at understaffed ATC tower, collapsing bridge that hasn't been even evaluated in a decade, general state of roadway disrepair and constant re-repair, also the new highway/overpass/lane expansion being built to 'solve traffic' despite doing that literally never working
The US has been regularly helping to assasinate Iranian foreigner dignitaries for years now, literally assasinsting many high ranking members of their government/military for years as well.
Exploding golf ball.
Please.
He let Epstein use Mar a Lago as a 'recruiting ground' for a fucking decade.
Not only did Trump very obviously partake in this evil business, he was a fucking integral part to facilitating it.
Every time you hear any Trumpoid cabinet member mention that Trump kicked Epstein out of Mar a Lago... yeah, yeah that's after a fucking decade of him disappearing women and girls from there, there's no fucking way he didn't know what was going on, he just kicked him out when he got too sloppy and tried to fuck the daughter of someone Trump was trying to impress.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/09/epstein-mar-a-lago-trump-1456221
https://www.newsweek.com/jeffrey-epsteins-visits-mar-lago-detailed-1857636
Not it isn't.
A command line literally is a UI.
You seem to be confusing GUI and UI?
I have definitely gone into a rageful fugue state and woken up a week later after reworking an entire code base from being an inconsistent mess of slop...
...into actually having a common library of functions instead of just rewriting slightly different versions of them 8 times, having those functions only actually instantiated for necesarry classes...
...rewriting every variable name and function name to an actually consistent and intelligible naming scheme...
... and finally, moving a whole bunch of shit out of some kind of global 'think' type loop that doesn't actually need to be called or checked every goddamned micro second.
Done that more than once actually.
Never look inside 'baby's first video game mod' code, unless you have healthy blood pressure.
But uh yeah, spite, hatred, and anger are indeed powerful motivators for making good code, lol.
... so many idiots just jam everything into a global, called every tick loop, and then claim that it just can't be optimized, because "the game engine just can't handle it"...
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Derp.
Looks like I need to complexify the manifolds of my own brain, haha!
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Bro why you trippin'?
All my homies be constantly morphin' into better, more flexible and robust versions of themselves.
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Generally, biologically speaking:
Men have a urethra and an anus.
Women have a urethra, and anus, and a vagina.
Presumably, discounting mutations, birth defects, serious injuries, etc, most people have the same number of uh... head/face holes.
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Allowing for rarer cases:
Also... intersex people exist... there have been at least a few recorded instances of duplicate and/or forking dongs...
And I guess we could also consider varying kinds of conjoined twins.
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Also also, we could argue about whether milk producing mammaries constitute a topological 'hole'.
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Different numbers of holes though, gotta take homeomorphism into account.
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Are you just gonna sit there like an undergrad and clumsily perform a naive mapping of my topological space, or are you gonna use your brain a bit, and exhaustively define a continuous homeomorphic equation to radically transform me into whatever shape you want?
If you can make the key, you can unlock me, and then I can map to whatever you want me to be >:D
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I love the combo of raspberry and chocolate.
And you can also make the sex jokes about uh, shall we say, using the rear entrance a bit too vigorously.
Could be raspberry.
Anybody else remember the Pequod's vs QueeQueg's coffee plotline in Deus Ex Invisible War, the sort of bastard step child sequel?
I remember originally thinking it was way, way too on the nose, so as to be just actually goofy writing.
Welp, I used to think the same about Idiocracy, and reality seems hell bent on lowering its writing standards.
Christ.
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Seattle's Best Coffee, Seattle Strong Coffee, Seattle's Most Social Isolated Coffee...
All Goddamned Nestle!
To the tone, cadence, and intensity of:
Ah yes, lets listen to Bill O'Reily's concerns about people being deemed guilty by mere association.
Yes, Bill "My Entire Career Is A Series Of Sexual Harassmnent Lawsuits" O'Reily, that's the unbiased, no spin zone, voice of objective reason on this issue.
Mrm.
Yep.
Certainly an unbiased opinion haver on this topic.