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nuclearspaceheater

The security situation with existing bio-phylacteries is so bad that all of the worst malware deployed against them are actually believed to have been naturally occurring.

andhishorse

The backup procedure is, quite frankly, an embarrassment; all data transfer protocols are truly hopeless at capturing internal experiences without a massive loss rate. And despite widespread consumer opinion to the contrary, hybrid units aren’t even half of a proper backup, and even if they were, the hassle in producing and formatting them is astronomical.

Source: nuclearspaceheater mitigated future
slartibartfastibast
slartibartfastibast: “ mitigatedchaos: “ slartibartfastibast: “ mitigatedchaos: “ diarrheaworldstarhiphop: “ It’s 2017 and Balkan style ethnic revenge killings are ramping up in Western yurop and everyone is too busy either holding out for the rare...
diarrheaworldstarhiphop

It’s 2017 and Balkan style ethnic revenge killings are ramping up in Western yurop and everyone is too busy either holding out for the rare white attack to be indignant on the internet over or for more islamic terrorism to shill for nationalism.

Curious that no one seems to care about the exponential rate of escalating violence?

mitigatedchaos

We’d have to stop Saudi Arabia (not happening).  Or get them to convert to less jihad-prone sects of Islam (which definitely exist! but not happening).

I don’t see a lot of ways out of this except to stop bringing in more Muslims.

…and that means shilling for Nationalism.  Not Racial Nationalism, but something more Nationalist than watered-down global liberal capitalism.

slartibartfastibast

Sustainable nuclear fusion would end this very quickly.

mitigatedchaos

> tfw there’s a big ball of sustainable nuclear fusion just sitting there but it’s stuck in a gravity well about a million miles away

More seriously this country is not [MY IDEOLOGY] and no country on Earth is, so “implode Saudi influence by inventing commercial fusion power” is not on the list of politically viable options. Can you imagine trying to win over normie voters on that? At least the solar panels seem to be coming along.

slartibartfastibast

http://slartibartfastibast.com/post/149790240874/the-reality-is-that-the-science-and-technology

http://slartibartfastibast.com/post/149534719379/argumate-slartibartfastibast-argumate

mitigatedchaos

Tell you what Slart, get me a million dollars and I’ll defictionalize the National Technocratic party and run for President in 2020 on a platform of commercial fusion power, in-vitro meat, and requiring politicians to bet on the outcomes of their laws.

Naturally I won’t actually get elected, but I’ll walk around wearing a Union Army uniform, stage paid protests of countries that don’t exist, and generally cause so much racket that the media finds themselves compelled to enter some of these ideas into the public discourse.

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slartibartfastibast
slartibartfastibast: “ mitigatedchaos: “ diarrheaworldstarhiphop: “ It’s 2017 and Balkan style ethnic revenge killings are ramping up in Western yurop and everyone is too busy either holding out for the rare white attack to be indignant on the...
diarrheaworldstarhiphop

It’s 2017 and Balkan style ethnic revenge killings are ramping up in Western yurop and everyone is too busy either holding out for the rare white attack to be indignant on the internet over or for more islamic terrorism to shill for nationalism.

Curious that no one seems to care about the exponential rate of escalating violence?

mitigatedchaos

We’d have to stop Saudi Arabia (not happening).  Or get them to convert to less jihad-prone sects of Islam (which definitely exist! but not happening).

I don’t see a lot of ways out of this except to stop bringing in more Muslims.

…and that means shilling for Nationalism.  Not Racial Nationalism, but something more Nationalist than watered-down global liberal capitalism.

slartibartfastibast

Sustainable nuclear fusion would end this very quickly.

mitigatedchaos

> tfw there’s a big ball of sustainable nuclear fusion just sitting there but it’s stuck in a gravity well about a million miles away

More seriously this country is not [MY IDEOLOGY] and no country on Earth is, so “implode Saudi influence by inventing commercial fusion power” is not on the list of politically viable options. Can you imagine trying to win over normie voters on that? At least the solar panels seem to be coming along.

Source: diarrheaworldstarhiphop politics
anosognosic
anosognosic: “ eyesocketsandsuits: “ ascaloner: “ micdotcom: “ Male and female brains aren’t wired differently New research, published in October in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, concluded that despite size discrepancy, there’s...
micdotcom

Male and female brains aren’t wired differently

New research, published in October in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, concluded that despite size discrepancy, there’s no functional difference between men’s and women’s brains. “Male” brains and “female” brains simply don’t exist. In fact, there’s significant overlap.

ascaloner

This study had 1400 people in it… Remember that sample size matters. remember this when someone tries to rebuke this with a study that has 80 participants. Be as scientifically literate as possible so that we can debunk this nonsense one step at a time.

Here’s an article that talks about a paper which examined 6000 individuals and came up with similar findings.

eyesocketsandsuits

ALSO FOLLOW-UP.

anosognosic

I’m just gonna post the abstract of the paper (link) because there is no way in hell anyone should trust mic.com to get this right:

Whereas a categorical difference in the genitals has always been acknowledged, the question of how far these categories extend into human biology is still not resolved. Documented sex/gender differences in the brain are often taken as support of a sexually dimorphic view of human brains (“female brain” or “male brain”). However, such a distinction would be possible only if sex/gender differences in brain features were highly dimorphic (i.e., little overlap between the forms of these features in males and females) and internally consistent (i.e., a brain has only “male” or only “female” features). Here, analysis of MRIs of more than 1,400 human brains from four datasets reveals extensive overlap between the distributions of females and males for all gray matter, white matter, and connections assessed. Moreover, analyses of internal consistency reveal that brains with features that are consistently at one end of the “maleness-femaleness” continuum are rare. Rather, most brains are comprised of unique “mosaics” of features, some more common in females compared with males, some more common in males compared with females, and some common in both females and males. Our findings are robust across sample, age, type of MRI, and method of analysis. These findings are corroborated by a similar analysis of personality traits, attitudes, interests, and behaviors of more than 5,500 individuals, which reveals that internal consistency is extremely rare. Our study demonstrates that, although there are sex/gender differences in the brain, human brains do not belong to one of two distinct categories: male brain/female brain.

mitigatedchaos

Rather, most brains are comprised of unique “mosaics” of features, some more common in females compared with males, some more common in males compared with females, and some common in both females and males.

Statistical distributions, neither neurological uniformity nor essentialism.

Source: mic.com gender politics

Your fave is problematic: Mitigated Chaos

  • Arrested on July 4, 2109 and May 2, 2112 at WW3 Reenactment protest rallies for Anti-Diverse Behavior
  • Known ties to American National Separationist Front, Free New England, Chinese-backed New Hampshire Peoples’ Liberation Army, pro-Kansas terrorists
  • K-band neurotype known for oppressive tendencies, support for imperialism, lacks tolerance stabilizer
  • Refuses to acknowledge own Cyborg Privilege
  • Supports reformation of the oppressive and bigoted North American Union, termination of the Human Dignity Act, reinstatement of the National Technocratic Pan-Asian Development Cooperative
  • Diagnosed untreated Neurocognitive Threat Disorder
  • Type-19 paramilitary cyborg body commercial spin-off of Boston Dynamics M455 combat body developed for the US Marines, purchase supported pre-unification NAU military-industrial complex
  • Skintone appropriates greyskin culture, but has no greyskin ancestry
  • Contrary to claims, has no genetic relation to snakes
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diarrheaworldstarhiphop
diarrheaworldstarhiphop: “ It’s 2017 and Balkan style ethnic revenge killings are ramping up in Western yurop and everyone is too busy either holding out for the rare white attack to be indignant on the internet over or for more islamic terrorism to...
diarrheaworldstarhiphop

It’s 2017 and Balkan style ethnic revenge killings are ramping up in Western yurop and everyone is too busy either holding out for the rare white attack to be indignant on the internet over or for more islamic terrorism to shill for nationalism.

Curious that no one seems to care about the exponential rate of escalating violence?

mitigatedchaos

We’d have to stop Saudi Arabia (not happening).  Or get them to convert to less jihad-prone sects of Islam (which definitely exist! but not happening).

I don’t see a lot of ways out of this except to stop bringing in more Muslims.

…and that means shilling for Nationalism.  Not Racial Nationalism, but something more Nationalist than watered-down global liberal capitalism.

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marcusseldon

On an episode of one of Vox’s podcasts, Ezra Klein said something that I can’t get out of  my head, and that bothers me on a deep level. He said that in the present age, with the internet, myriads of think tanks, public intellectuals, universities, and ideological outlets, that any intelligent well-educated person can come up with a strong and hard-to-conclusively-refute argument, with copious citations, expert opinions, interpretation, and analysis, and supportive anecdotes, for almost any position they like in politics. 

It really is bothering me because at some level I suspect it is true. I think of how often I see thousands of words used in internet arguments, with copious quotation and citation of experts, for many different sides of an issue, and they all seem pretty convincing if I took them on their face, and it would probably take me dozens of hours of research to be able to engage with them.

You could spend years just reading the output from libertarian intellectuals and outlets and experts, or liberal ones, or socially conservative ones, or anarchist ones, or marxist ones, etc. and still have more to consume without ever challenging your ideological preferences. If you encounter an expert or opinion that is disagreeable to your worldview, you can use Google to pretty quickly find a very articulate and well-cited counterargument to, if not that particular argument, at least that worldview and that position.

You can spend years becoming an expert on a particular issue, and read every expert and source from all sides, and still you’ll probably find people as well-informed as you with the opposite view.

I wouldn’t say this is the fault of, as many people in the rationalist community put it, the mindkilling ability of politics (I think there is truth to that, but I don’t think it’s strong enough to explain this). Rather, I believe it’s because understanding politics involves the intersection of two notoriously difficult areas of study, the social sciences of large groups/societies on the one hand, and ethical and political philosophy on the other. They’re hard because they’re subject matter is so vastly complicated, in a way that is extremely difficult to comprehend and think about.

But, we’re still political animals, and we have to do politics, so we have to keep thinking about this stuff (or, at least, some subset of intelligent people do) to keep society functioning and (hopefully) improving.

mitigatedchaos

It becomes necessary to use intuition and other means of attempting to infer the truth.

I did not return to Nationalism because of overwhelming statistical evidence, but from a set of broader observations about the conditions of terrorism, the social fabric, incentives on actors, and so on.  

The number of political operators using statistics badly is high, and they often either fabricate statistics using bad methodology (occurs in Feminism with things like the formation of the Duluth Model), or just exclude any statistics that don’t agree with them.  Sometimes they don’t even realize they’re doing it.

Other times they just don’t even think of things that are against the argument.  To take a recent example that many of you will disagree with me on, “but we gained so much economic value from immigrants from the middle east!” in response to wanting to limit travel and immigration.  It doesn’t account for the estimated $2 trillion cost of 9/11, which then created the “justification” for the Iraq War (also very expensive) and further erosions of civil liberties and the advancement of the surveillance state.  It also doesn’t account for the fact that the US’s immigration demand exceeds immigration quotas, and therefore every one of those slots could have been filled from another country instead.

Source: marcusseldon politics
mutant-aesthetic

gun-toting-greyshades-deactivat asked:

Eh, wouldn't the borg comparison be the opposite ? While all borg change others to be like them, McDonald's and similar corporations change themselves to best suit the area and predominant culture of residence. Maybe Similar to the evolution by environment of doomsday from superman.

mutant-aesthetic answered:

I dunno I’m only 5 episodes into voyager lol

mitigatedchaos

TL;DR Ronald McDonald is also a supervillain, just like me.

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