gunfighthacksaw

You don’t need an app, just

- be attractive

- be good at talking

- be respectful to women

- have a manic episode

- tell her how you feel, to her face

- tell her she’s attractive

Then once your mood stabilizes, if she didn’t report you to HR, you can probably escalate to cocktails.

Hyperpop remix! Hyperpop remix!!!

When I used to mod morrowind and oblivion, there was another big site which I forget the name of.

I think nexus bought them in the end which I did not enjoy because I always thought nexus was annoying wrt making an account etc.

Some amazing mods out there though. DarkNuts greater dwemer ruins was one of the greatest experiences I’ve had in a video game and should ideally have been incorporated as an extended TES 3 goty, licensing etc aside. Tamriel rebuilt was mind blowing too.

My cockerel was not amused. Nor was my pussy-cat.

The repeal of Roe v Wade was a gut punch for me, but I’ve known it was entirely possible for quite a long time. Plus some states have had trigger laws forever so that’s hardly surprising.

Yes, there will be instability, but it’s not the chaotic out-of-the-blue kind, unless you’re wilfully ignorant of the anti abortion movement, or extremely naive to the motivations of that bloc.

Exercise and microdosing together, it’s pretty good but moods are intense. Do feel more positive about the future on the day to day (current geopolitical situation notwithstanding)

Alt country is a thing. Cannot wait to hate on the inevitable mashup of country and hyperpop.

If you know the future, play the lottery, or even better, form a startup :)

Otherwise, it’s a similar problem to being on eg the cutting edge of music. You either consume everything you can until you can make judgements on what will stick or not, or you create things yourself and try your hardest to make them the next thing.

Luckily, in our industry, you can also:

- know the fundamentals of math/science/technology: there is never truly anything new, there are always rehashes of something else

- be smart enough to absorb radical new theories: self explanatory, better learners can get a grasp of the content more effectively

- socially positioned enough to delegate what you don’t understand: if formally verified quantum blockchain on tensor cores (or whatever) doesn’t resonate with you, but you think it could be useful later, get a younger/brighter person to do what you won’t or can’t. You might reap major rewards from having a protege in the space, and if you don’t, then you helped the next gen learn something new, so feel good about that.

> A religious person who opposes abortion is not a fascist.

I’d call them a theocrat, but lets not forget the close ties between fascism and the church/new political-religious movements in Germany and Italy.

> An athlete who opposes trans womens' rights to compete in womens' competitions is not a fascist.

This one is nuanced because transgender folks being allowed to exist openly is still fairly recent, and openly in sports is more novel still. There are fascists in that camp for sure, but also a lot of reasoned debate needed to work out the cultural niche for trans people in this area. Unfortunately the left will seek to stop any debate, and fascists will poison the debate until trans people are bludgeoned into silence once more.

> They don't call themselves that, they don't organise under that label

Why would they? Much of our current mythology is based around slaughtering fascists in WW2. Why would anyone identify with that?

> their views aren't particularly similar to historical fascism

Hence the appellation of neofascism. There is a direct thread of political genealogy from the alt-right to the OG fascists, through the European Nouvelle Droite (inspired by Mussolini) and including figures like Steve Bannon who used to push the British BNP: a legitimately neofascist party. He also was buddy with Dugin for a while: a confirmed neofascist.

Read some fucking history and get stuck into the thought and theories of the far right if you want to play this game son.

> it's a serious threat!

Finally, we can agree! Look at the escalating far right violence in the US and Canada, and the erosion of the open society in Europe, and the current actions of Russia and China.

I’m not talking about silencing people I disagree with in terms of opinion. I’m talking about fascists disagreeing that certain ethnic/sexual/gender groups should be alive or allowed to thrive, or have certain rights.

If you think holding views like that is OK, you walk, talk and quack like a fascist.

It would be extremely naive to think that fascism only happened in the 1920s-1940s.

Obviously, todays fascism looks nothing like that of the modern era, just as todays leftists are different.

But it’s back, poisoning our democracies and pushing the world into a new hell. Putin is a neofascist. I could tell you which Americans are fascists, but you all get touchy when anyone brings it up.

I like the concept of the chemical potential from statistical mechanics.

The thermal potential (also due to entropy) causes temperature to spread outwards, hot to cold. This can be seen by solving the heat equation.

The chemical potential is that if you have a bunch of “stuff” (particles molecules etc) in one place, they will tend to spread out in space to maximize the entropy.

There’s no force or impulse making it happen, it’s just that you are far more likely to observe a system with “stuff” spread out than concentrated.

That’s why I love entropy. It’s not a force or even something super tangible. It’s more like the interface between the physical world and the abstract world of probabilities. The realest abstraction of them all.

I imagine my last day is going to be spent hooked up to a life support machine in a climate controlled environment as various close people trickle in to say farewell.

I’d prefer to spend the close of my 20s doing something else like raving on a warm beach with a bunch of people who don’t know me and won’t miss me tomorrow, and hopefully finding one or two fellow travellers who I can keep in touch with until my dying days :)

exploration vs exploitation