Meet the founders of tinder:

trident765 · 2023-09-16T04:44:41+00:00

They are Iranian Jews and they could pass for Indians. They would get zero matches on the app they invented.

trident765 · 2023-03-04T04:21:33+00:00

I sometimes fantasize about making my pronouns slight misspellings such as hee/heem/hees. Would people have to respect it? Could I correct people if they refer to me as "him" instead of "heem"?

trident765 · 2022-12-20T23:53:35+00:00

Aspartame is poison. I was drinking it every day and it was giving me memory and concentration problems. When I stopped drinking it the problems went away.

trident765 · 2022-12-11T00:19:08+00:00

Real world programming often involves understanding the natural world, which computers today cannot do. A very small portion of my work resembles the algorithmic programming challenges on those websites. Most of the problems I solve are: Someone wants to control some real-world thing with their computer, and I have to figure out how to write software to enable them to do this. AIs do not understand the real world, so they are not coming close to being able to do this kind of work.

trident765 · 2022-11-09T09:22:15+00:00

When I read the title I thought it was some kind of metaphor for how Zelenskyy is an actor.

trident765 · 2022-10-24T00:03:01+00:00

I got 5812104600.

If the answer is 400001 then how would you find it?

After the 2nd bulk shuffle the deck would be at the 800000th shuffle. If the answer is 400001, then the 800000th shuffle will be identical to the 399999th shuffle, so I will find the 800000th (399999th) shuffle in the precomputed table, and then this would tell me to subtract 800000 - 399999 = 400001.

Here is my code:

https://pastebin.com/YTjL9d1i

trident765 · 2022-10-22T17:36:17+00:00

Ok I solved it by recognizing that the result of shuffling n times is the mapping indices to perform n shuffles. So I precomputed the first n shuffles (I used 400000 for n), and then bulk shuffled the fast way that I just described until I got a result that was in the precomputed shuffles.

trident765 · 2022-10-20T12:08:03+00:00

This problem has no solution. The cards added to the top of the deck makes the shuffling of one size deck too different from the other. So there is no pattern that can be observed and exploited.

Of course, I am sure a Silicon Valley scum will be able to solve this by applying some bizarre mathematical trick. But knowledge of these mathematical tricks has little use in the real world.

I had a friend who was good at solving these types of problems but he a dumbass when it came to common sense. First he lost a bunch of money by investing in obscure cryptocurrencies. And when psychopaths took over my department at work he was completely oblivious to what was happening. He embraced liberalism with all his heart, and believed that those who spread disinfo about the vaccine are a threat to society.

trident765 · 2022-09-28T03:14:18+00:00

Did you report this sub to the admins after I unbanned you?

trident765 · 2022-09-27T06:52:02+00:00

I was the founder of the r/truecels subreddit on reddit which is effectively the community that went on to be r/incels. In the early months there was another sub called r/ForeverUnwanted which was initially more popular, but they kept banning people until it became a boring echo chamber. On r/truecels, however, women and "normies" were allowed to come and debate incels, and the incels would just verbally destroy them, so it was a more interesting sub. In the longer term r/ForeverUnwanted died off due to inactivity but r/truecels thrived.

trident765 · 2022-09-27T06:36:42+00:00

There are no rules for posters at the moment.

The rules for moderators are:

1) No banning users unless they violate a rule, or there is some emergency reason (e.g. there is a spambot or illegal content)

2) A new rule for posters will require my consent. For something like a rule banning women, I would recommend making a post proposing the rule so we can get input from the community.

Would you agree to these?

trident765 · 2022-09-26T22:05:09+00:00

I am open to this. He does not have to apologize. Just agree to not ban users unless they violate established rules (except in extreme cases). I am personally do not see anything wrong with allowing women to post, but I am open to making a rule banning them if a clear majority of posters here support it.

trident765 · 2022-09-26T21:12:06+00:00

I did not know that. But why should women be banned?

trident765 · 2022-09-16T23:41:30+00:00

I would be in jail.

trident765 · 2022-09-07T07:56:20+00:00

AI generates its are by interpolating what other artists have done, so it depends on the creativity of other artists. A good society would reward artists that contribute to society's creativity output, and not reward the artists that just plagiarize other artists. I would argue AI generated art just adds noise to the system, because it plagiarizes in a difficult to detect way. With humans combining multiple pieces is not plagiarism, because when they do this they will inevitably put their own creative spin on it, but AI purely interpolates.

trident765 · 2022-08-28T23:03:20+00:00

Done

trident765 · 2022-08-28T00:39:37+00:00

This is old copypasta but I am the original author of this.

trident765 · 2022-08-21T22:48:14+00:00

In high school I went back and forth between hanging out with the good-grades nerds, and the low IQ losers. I found the low IQ losers to be more tolerable than the nerds, so eventually I abandoned the nerds and hung out with low IQ losers. But then the low IQ losers started bullying me, and after that I started eating lunch alone for the rest of high school, and I graduated high school friendless.

trident765 · 2022-08-21T20:08:37+00:00

Technology used to be a means of sending information. But now you cannot trust what you see on technology, so we are losing this ability. If you wanted to prove something to someone 100 years ago you could show them a photograph. This is no longer the case. We have to start relying on our eyes and ears again, just like the 1700s.

trident765 · 2022-08-19T03:36:44+00:00

What about dysgenics?

trident765 · 2022-08-18T01:45:27+00:00

Violence involves the use of physical force. What was the physical force here?

trident765 · 2022-08-18T00:12:07+00:00

What is the violent thing he was advocating?

trident765 · 2022-08-14T21:13:31+00:00

The walls are so thin here that last night I could hear a young woman next door trying but failing to contain her moans while she was getting fucked by a Chad. This was actually one of the things that pushed me over the edge, because whether the tenant was the slut or the Chad, the fact that the tenant was having sex in modern culture means the tenant must be scum. Then I figured that since the tenant is scum, the reason they are letting their dog bark like this is probably purely because they are extremely inconsiderate. So in an impulsive fit of rage I contacted the apartment complex. I was planning on leaving a note on their door, but these are the thoughts that made me change my mind.

trident765 · 2022-08-14T17:15:12+00:00

I agree.

trident765 · 2022-08-13T21:59:19+00:00

Because it shows that single adults are less educated, less likely to be employed, make less income. If women were attracted to stupid losers, then the charts would show that all the partnered men are on welfare.

trident765 · 2022-08-13T02:55:47+00:00

How can the IQ of 1700 be like that of today? Francis Bacon lived before then, and he is in my opinion the greatest genius to have ever existed in history. Does anyone alive today come close to rivalling Francis Bacon's intelligence? Does anyone come close to rivalling Isaac Newton's intelligence? Does anyone come close to rivalling Bach's intelligence?

trident765 · 2022-08-12T20:43:04+00:00

This gives me some comfort. I hope what you are saying is true.

trident765 · 2022-08-12T19:35:16+00:00

I didn't ask a question because they loved him too much and I didn't want to spoil their fun. It looks like he is going to be offered the job.

Of course all this depends on to what degree your teammates are modern scum.

I think they are non-scum, but they are naive non-scum. They have good values, write good software, but they fell for this guy who I strongly suspect has values that are contrary to theirs, because they fell for his charisma and virtue signaling (for example, he kept mentioning how he was a "proud new dad" and included photos of his infant kids in his presentation and his resume).

In the panel interview someone asked him a question similar to the question about teams, and he responded saying he prefers software development to be "dynamic" (by the way, modern scum love using vaguely defined words) and I think by this he meant that multiple people contribute to a software because afterwards he made a joke about how he gets overwhelmed when he is solely responsible for a software. One of the people on the panel who especially loved this guy said "that's great we do that here too! We each have our own projects we are responsible for, and then every once in a while we work together on the things that overlap". Basically he "corrected" the answer for him, and moved on. He didn't dig deeper, or ask him to clarify what he meant by "dynamic", because he liked his charisma so much that he was almost afraid of prying more, for fear of finding out something that would hurt his candidacy.

When I submitted my review of the candidate, I said that I was impressed by his presentation and experience, but that I felt like I knew very little about his personality, because the panel did not ask him any concrete questions about situations in the workplace, and I recommended for the next panel to ask more personality questions. Even by leaving this I felt like I was being too critical, because of how much everyone else loved him.

I think it is horrible that my teammates allowed themselves to be disarmed by this guy's public speaking skills. Just because someone is good at public speaking doesn't mean he will be a pleasant person to work with. They should have reflected on their values prior to the interview, and then asked questions to make sure the candidate's values were values that they found tolerable. But they liked his public speaking skills so they just assumed his values were good and gave him a "freebie" in that aspect of the interview.

trident765 · 2022-08-12T16:02:48+00:00

I sat through the interview I confirm he is 100% a modern scum. He even had a psychopathic gaze, and he was charming and charismatic. All my teammates loved him. I felt bad about the idea of asking a difficult question because they loved him so much, and I didn't want to be seen as negative by being the only person to ask a negative question. So I remained silent and did not ask my question, even when I was asked. He breezed through the interview and no one asked him any difficult questions, like they asked me when I had my interview. They just assumed he was a good guy because he was charismatic. The team members were so impressed by his charisma that the interview was more about impressing him than about vetting him.

They haven't discussed him yet, but I think it is 100% settled that he will be offered the job. My teammates just loved him too much. I regret so much that I did not ask my question. I want to cry.

trident765 · 2022-08-10T03:02:57+00:00

Why? A hug just leaves you feeling more unsatisfied.

For me, I just started seeing prostitutes when I was 26. My last city had a booming red light district so it was easy to find prostitutes that way. Unfortunately in my current city the police crack down pretty hard on prostitution, so the scene here sucks, so I don't see prostitutes any more.

I highly recommend prostitutes if you have no chance of getting into a relationship. I felt a million times better after losing my virginity. I was becoming extremely depressed and then losing my virginity cured me. There is still something missing, but life after prostitutes is much better than life before. I felt awesome the first time, like I found the cheat code to life.

trident765 · 2022-08-09T23:29:40+00:00

You seem incapable of thinking broadly. You answer the specific comment, but your comments are inconsistent with each other. For example, in one comment you appeal to statistics, and when I doubted the utility of statistics, you say statistics don't matter and start making some tangential argument that has nothing to do with the original point I made. You are a task-oriented thinker.

trident765 · 2022-08-09T20:34:04+00:00

What is your view? Do you even have one? You seem to keep changing direction in order to negate my comments.

trident765 · 2022-08-09T18:16:32+00:00

A few centuries ago marriages between older men and teen girls were common, just browse Wikipedia articles of random famous people born in the Renaissance. Marriages from this time period were stabler than those of today. I am going to trust this over some "statistics" published by some blue haired feminist that purport to show that relationships with large age gaps are doomed.

trident765 · 2022-08-09T16:49:57+00:00

My view is the opposite of yours. I think teenagers should only be allowed to have sex with adults, and be banned from having sex with other teenagers. High schoolers having sex with each other is degenerate. But if a high school girl gets married to a grown man with a stable job, this is likely to result in them starting a stable family.

trident765 · 2022-08-09T15:36:40+00:00

I think even repealing the age of consent altogether would be better than the current system. If she is really young, you could just try to justify in court that she was too young to consent, just by demonstrating her immaturity in front of the court rather than appealing to an age number. No need for a hard one size fits all age. If one exists, it should be an age when they definitely cannot consent - see my 3rd point in the OP.

trident765 · 2022-08-09T12:08:59+00:00

I will speak in a language you can understand: Correlation does not imply causation. Modern technology is not a product of modern Western culture. Modern technology is a product of the deeply religious culture of the West before 1900.

trident765 · 2022-08-09T12:02:56+00:00

Stop gatekeeping you collectivist fag. There are incel wikis with articles people made about me. I created r/truecels in early 2016 which was the original incel sub on reddit. It had 2000 subscribers when it was banned and it was banned at a time when then number of subscribers was skyrocketing. My 2nd mod was keeping r/incels as a backup, which had less then 10 subscribers before r/truecels was banned, and then after the ban the community migrated to the backup sub r/incels, which gained 50,000 subscribers and made "incel" a household term. What did you do to contribute to the incel movement? Absolutely fucking nothing. You are just a wannabe tyrant who is seeking to gain some status in an already existing community by gatekeeping. You are the lowest form of scum.

trident765 · 2022-08-09T11:45:02+00:00

Spain only recently raised their age of consent to 16 and that was because research showed the majority of relationships girls under 16 were having with older men were abusive.

If cultural studies worked, then western countries wouldn't have a culture that was total shit.

trident765 · 2022-08-09T07:03:46+00:00

But either way - sex of kids should be shamed and penalized and all women or rather girls should be shamed for opening legs that early.

Maybe 50 years ago what you say had some validity, but today this point is no longer valid. The fate of a woman is the same whether she loses her virginity at 15 or 18: She will be a slut. Attempting to delay the age she loses her virginity will do absolutely nothing. The only thing that matters is for a woman to remain a virgin until her wedding day, but in today's world there is a 0% chance of that happening. In any case, age of consent is not the right tool for dealing with this issue.

trident765 · 2022-08-09T04:36:40+00:00

What's your policy on women/ gf-havers?

No policy, because policies against these often get ridiculous. Do you ban someone for having a "gf" in kindergarten? Do you ban someone for seeing a prostitute?

But at the same time users should be free to call out fakecels. Precursors to incel websites like SocialAnxietySupport were a cesspool because women would make posts like "my boyfriend helps me through my social anxiety", and when posters would call them out as fakes they would get banned.

trident765 · 2022-08-09T04:25:01+00:00

This is why the age of consent is so high. Because anyone who tries to defend a reasonable age of consent will get called names.

trident765 · 2022-08-09T04:23:02+00:00

Even if this were a bad thing, most 16-19 year olds don't want to have sex with older men anyway, so it is a non-issue.

trident765 · 2022-08-08T08:34:18+00:00

I do not see it. You are purposely being difficult because you do not want to discuss, you want to win, so I am done talking to you.

trident765 · 2022-08-08T08:29:35+00:00

Of course I know, but it is a poorly defined term. In order to discuss you need to be specific.

trident765 · 2022-08-08T02:11:35+00:00

Please speak English. What do you mean by "bluepill"?

trident765 · 2022-08-08T01:17:39+00:00

What will make the way this subreddit is moderated different from the way s/Incels is moderated is that I will not ban people simply because I disagree with their posts. Unlike u/ClownWorld123, I recognize that the "ban user" button is not a downvote button.

trident765 · 2022-08-08T00:15:45+00:00

Why?

trident765 · 2022-08-08T00:12:08+00:00

Please link to your answer.

trident765 · 2022-08-07T17:20:50+00:00

Ok it sounds like you are an idolator who accepts this modern western principle of "pedophiles are bad" as an axiom, without thinking critically about why it is that it is bad. Past cultures married off teen girls to older men all the time, and this never caused any societal problems. But you likely don't care because this goes against your culture's values, and you identify with your culture too strongly to question its values. You accept your culture's values for the sake of them being your culture's values.

I dunno who that eejit is

He is the father of science as we know it.

trident765 · 2022-08-07T16:48:58+00:00

A man (or a woman) who has sex with a teenager is always fucked in the head, no matter what kind of job he has.

Sir Francis Bacon married and had sex with a 14 year old girl when he was in his 40s. Was he fucked in the head?

trident765 · 2022-08-07T16:00:01+00:00

No one is answering my question of why it is better for 12 year olds to have sex with each other instead of adults. If a 12 year old girl has sex with a guy her own age, it will be some early-developing thug. This is even worse than having sex with an adult. Having a stable job should be a prerequisite for a man to have sex, but people like you want only early-maturing r-selected teenage thugs to have sexual access to teenage girls.

trident765 · 2022-08-07T06:38:12+00:00

Ok then just respond to my original comment. I don't care about the categories you learned in your gay high school class:

You stupid idealist, a high age of consent will do nothing to prevent 12 year olds from having sex. It will only lower the age of the people they have sex with. The question you need to answer is: Why is it better for teenagers to have sex with other teenagers instead of adults?

trident765 · 2022-08-07T02:25:34+00:00

Do you believe a high age of consent will prevent teenagers from having sex with each other?

trident765 · 2022-08-07T00:47:49+00:00

12 is too young for any sexual activity, and you should know better.

You stupid idealist, a high age of consent will do nothing to prevent 12 year olds from having sex. It will only lower the age of the people they have sex with. The question you need to answer is: Why is it better for teenagers to have sex with other teenagers instead of adults?

trident765 · 2022-08-06T23:42:15+00:00

The question of age of consent is not about whether it is good for people that age to have sex. It's a question of "If a 12 year old girl has sex with a grown man, is it her fault or was she a victim of child abuse". I think at 12 she knows what she is doing, and if she is going to sleep around at 12 she will sleep around at 18.

Also, if you make it illegal for a 12 year old girl to have sex with grown men, boys her own age can still have sex with her. How is this any better than a grown man having sex with her?

trident765 · 2022-08-05T21:31:43+00:00

I don't have the "Photos" program

trident765 · 2022-08-03T21:32:36+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory

trident765 · 2022-08-02T18:21:22+00:00

This was the comment that got me banned:

https://saidit.net/s/Incels/comments/9kr5/football/ywoo

trident765 · 2022-08-02T17:24:38+00:00

They banned me too:

https://i.imgur.com/ZtZzeBw.png

I thought Saidit was supposed to be against this kind of arbitrary banning.

trident765 · 2022-08-02T17:21:58+00:00

I need to know this too. I got banned from s/Incels for saying "I see short Mexican guys with attractive girlfriends all the time"

trident765 · 2022-08-02T16:46:56+00:00

I see short Mexican guys with attractive girlfriends all the time

trident765 · 2022-08-01T17:46:59+00:00

The moving air dramatically cools the temperature,

Movement of air does not cool. Displacing the surrounding warm air does. But I have never felt that the air surrounding a hot car is especially warmer than the atmosphere.

and even opening the door lets out a lot of heat.

When someone leaves their kid/pet in a hot car, they have to open the door to get out. So it isn't any different.

trident765 · 2022-07-31T20:53:42+00:00

One of the good things about the last place I lived in is that prostitution was relatively easy to come by. This is why I have some hope for the liberal bureaucratic hellholes of the world. They are too inefficient to enforce their complicated laws so we see robust black markets emerge. This is why I think the nonmoronic revolution might start with nonmorons moving to a major liberal city, and living symbiotically with the black market thugs.

trident765 · 2022-07-31T02:07:26+00:00

Tinder didn't work for me when I tried it 4 years ago. The algorithm figured out I wasn't "hot" and stopped showing my profile to women.

trident765 · 2022-07-30T23:47:53+00:00

Part of not being a moron is recognizing the limits of human intellect. It is like a dog with a shock collar. A dog does not understand how a shock collar works, but an intelligent dog can at least understand that if he stops barking he stops getting shocked. The point is that just because you don't understand the mechanism that degeneracy can trigger a volcanic eruption does not mean it doesn't exist. The Bible tells a story of how degenerate cities were destroyed by fire and brimstone. Another example is the degenerate city of Pompeii which was completely destroyed by a volcanic eruption. And today it looks like San Francisco, which is the most degenerate city in the world, has set itself up to be the next city to be destroyed in this way.

trident765 · 2022-07-27T11:41:08+00:00

I could see this really happening at some point. Android phones already removed the "undo" feature. And deleting the backspace key is something that would be easy to justify using the sophistry tactics programmer scum already use. If anything the user did at all contributes to the problem in the smallest way, programmer will jump on it and blame the user.

Imagine you make a ticket on their online system saying there is no backspace key. They ask you what you need the backspace key for. And then after you say it is because you want to correct a typo, they close the ticket because you admitted the problem was due to user error and not due to their software.

trident765 · 2022-07-21T23:45:57+00:00

It is stronger, but it has both a positive and a negative component. Men don't get repulsed by unattractive women the same way that women get repulsed by unattractive women.

You have to remember that women are creatures whose existence revolves around sex and reproduction, so their sensations with respect to sex are going to be stronger and more acute.

trident765 · 2022-07-20T02:42:13+00:00

When the modern scum took over my department at my last workplace, one of the first things the head scum did was he held a meeting where he said that from now on, for any project that anyone wants to work on that has an estimated timeframe of more than a half-day, we need to submit a written request to form a "team" for the project, which needs to be approved by him. In the meeting I asked if some "teams" might consist of only one person. Then one of the head scum's henchmen responded saying that his feeling would be no, because all work is better when done collaboratively. Then the head scum responded saying that he agrees with the henchman scum.

Then a month later, when they shut down my project, the main reason they gave was that my code was bad because it wasn't written collaboratively.

trident765 · 2022-07-19T17:18:29+00:00

I think I thought of a good question.

Most members of my group more or less have a specific domain they are responsible. One person is responsible for software A, another for software B, etc. I think they like this model, because it gives them the opportunity to become subject matter experts in their own domain. But modern scum are absolutely revolted by this idea. They believe that instead everyone should have equal ownership of every software. So I can capitalize on this to get modern scum candidates to give an answer my group members won't like.

My question will be: "Do you prefer a model where each person is responsible for a particular software, or do you prefer a more collaborative model where everyone works together on every software". If he is a modern scum, he will say he likes the collaborative way better, and I think this will make my team mates dislike him.

trident765 · 2022-07-19T02:57:09+00:00

The functions should just be given names and then async.parallel can be called in a single line.

trident765 · 2022-07-18T20:11:32+00:00

In the interview, I suggest asking the applicant to name something he doesn't like about a standard library and how he would change it. This should be a topic that everyone can follow. If he is modern scum then he will come up with something absurd and you should be able to verbally destroy him.

But if he is a modern scum, won't he agree with all the horrible libraries he uses? Modern scum follow trends, so they will appreciate something standard for the sake of being standard. Standard means that everyone uses it.

trident765 · 2022-07-18T16:15:21+00:00

Silicon valley psychopathic programmer scum. They smile, act friendly, say certain phrases like "Hey there stranger", but in reality they are nasty evil assholes, who will stab you in the back, are communist, ban you from forums, force you to do pointless crap, and like to impose complicated unusable software on people. They are truly the most vile people on earth.

trident765 · 2022-07-17T23:33:25+00:00

Modern scum seem to derive extreme pleasure from being presented with features that have a very narrow set of applications. The second way may save a few characters of typing in one of the rare cases where the function only needs to be one line, which I imagine is why modern scum love it. They like the idea that there is a designated feature for writing one-line functions.

trident765 · 2022-07-09T23:32:11+00:00

Markdown can be annoying because often when you enter regular text it interprets it as formatting. For example, when I made this post, where I copy/pasted from a book:

https://old.reddit.com/r/BAYAN/comments/vsku1e/bayani_view_of_12_imams/if9qnp5/

it initially interpreted the carets (^) as superscripts, so I had to go through my post and escape them.

Also, markdown sometimes does this stupid autonumbering thing, where it changes numbers you typed into numbers that it thinks that you should have typed. For example:

I typed 3,4,5, but it renders it as 1,2,3 for some retarded reason.

With BBCode, all the automatic stuff is in tags so you won't get this annoying behavior without asking for it.

trident765 · 2022-07-09T23:22:33+00:00

This is what you have to do to win impulsive people's votes.

trident765 · 2022-07-06T00:10:51+00:00

Ubuntu Linux. Ext4.

trident765 · 2022-07-01T02:46:15+00:00

You can tell from their posts that the mods are tyrants:

https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2608901

By the way, that mod is a transgender.

trident765 · 2022-06-28T00:12:13+00:00

Yeah it is pretty funny

trident765 · 2022-06-25T02:17:35+00:00

I do think there should be some kind of small-scale lottery, in order to promote diversity (not just in the liberal sense).

trident765 · 2022-06-23T10:04:18+00:00

Looks like it is already happening:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/21/january-6-election-workers-real-heroes/

trident765 · 2022-06-21T15:10:23+00:00

It sucks that this happened. There were some good posts I would have like to have kept. Fuck the reddit admins.

trident765 · 2022-06-16T02:52:55+00:00

Here are a couple that transitioned before it was trendy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Conway

I wonder if maybe programmers for whatever reason have an unhealthy obsession with being in control. This would be why they subscribe to ideologies that are controlling, such as liberalism. And why they feel a need to be able to control what gender they are. And why it is that when they appointed a programmer to be the department head at my last workplace, he turned out to be a micromanaging asshole.

trident765 · 2022-06-16T01:40:56+00:00

A lot of people in computer programming seem to be trans. Even from decades ago.

trident765 · 2022-06-14T12:33:29+00:00

I imagine that if this is implemented, it will go somewhat like the vaccine: It turn out to be ineffective, and its side effects will be denied.

trident765 · 2022-06-13T01:41:38+00:00

They turned "jet fuel does not melt steel beams" into a joke, because mockery was their only defense.

trident765 · 2022-06-12T12:16:11+00:00

I belong to a tiny sect of Bahaism called Unitarian Bahaism, founded by Mirza Muhammad Ali in the early 1900s. It is a reaction to mainstream Bahaism becoming too authoritarian, and treating religious leaders like gods, hence the name "Unitarian" (muwahhid in Arabic), to emphasize the oneness of God, and that religious leaders are not gods. The bullet points in this post are some of the religion's principles:

https://old.reddit.com/r/FreeSpeechBahai/comments/v1aq2s/what_are_the_real_bahai_principles/

Why would you build a temple?

Because the Unitarian Baha'is no existing temples, even though the writings command us to build them. Having a temple is nice just because it gives members of the religion a place to gather.

trident765 · 2022-06-12T02:40:21+00:00

Pointless separation is one big source of complexity

I was just thinking about this the other day. It's the thing people say to sound smart. People say to keep X and Y separate because it makes them look like they had the foresight to prevent some bad thing from happening if you mix X and Y. So people are stuck maintaining this pointless separation because if they were to question it they would look like stupid people who didn't have the foresight to understand why you have to keep X and Y separate.

trident765 · 2022-06-12T02:27:57+00:00

Use it to create a temple for the tiny religious sect I belong to.

trident765 · 2022-06-11T18:40:20+00:00

Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect

--Francis Bacon

Does this mean that women are attracted to really knowledgeable guys?

trident765 · 2022-06-10T11:49:54+00:00

Yeah but you can't as easily use deforestation as a pretext to control people. The carbon emissions thing is great because it's tied to things regular people do, and it is hard to measure how one's carbon emissions impact climate. So you can force people to do things, saying that it is to prevent them from destroying the climate with carbon emissions, and it will be extremely difficult to disprove you.

trident765 · 2022-06-10T01:22:20+00:00

Don't worry. When adjusted for inflation the gas prices aren't that bad.

trident765 · 2022-06-07T15:46:21+00:00

Another thing that came to mind is that I have heard of people hiring personal assistants to bear the burden of interacting with scum. For my relocation my workplace did it through a relocation assistance company, whose only job was to talk to the moving company and talk to the apartment for my temporary housing. I thought it was stupid at first that they hired a company to do just this. But after interacting with the rude staff of the apartment myself, I was extremely grateful that my interaction with them was minimized. I wonder if there is a company like this but for life in general, so that you can hire them and never have to interact with scum again.

trident765 · 2022-06-07T03:37:40+00:00

Doesn't this run the risk of running out of filenames if the user specifies too few?

trident765 · 2022-06-05T21:49:52+00:00

They use git but I don't know them well enough yet to know their views on git. At my previous workplace though, they hated git and used mercurial for years, using an internal mercurial server, until finally last year they were forced by upper management to switch to git. This happened after another group of modern scum programmers convinced upper management to turn everything to shit and persecute the good programmers. This is why I left (and it worked out because I got a decent pay increase as well).

trident765 · 2022-06-05T20:47:06+00:00

I had shut down a real estate business and sold the properties. I had a bank account with multiple sub-accounts, one for each property. So I went to the bank to close this. I got one cashier's check for each sub-account. My personal bank (different bank) used to allow deposits by mail but now requires an app. I tried using the app to deposit the checks but got an error that the checks are too large. My bank has no branches where I currently live. My wife called them and they said to go to a branch in some other city which basically requires a flight. So I went back to the bank that issued the cashier's checks and got them to exchange the checks for multiple checks of smaller amounts so that I can deposit them.

Something similar happened with my prescription for my glasses. I moved out of state and the optometrist (which is part of a big corporation) wouldn't mail me or email me my prescription, saying they do fax or in-person only. And since the cost of a plane ticket or a fax machine make obtaining the prescription prohibitively difficult, since they would be more than the cost of getting another eye exam done, I left them a 1-star review saying they are witholding my prescription (which is illegal). After this they called me to apologize, informing me that they would mail me my prescription, so I deleted the review. I hate that this is the world we live in, but market forces seem to no longer work, and businesses aren't willing to lift a finger to make things more convenient for their customers. The only thing anyone seems to respond to is the force of government.

trident765 · 2022-06-05T18:07:31+00:00

I did. I didn't get any messages of support like I got on saidit, but they were only a little hostile and not aggressively hostile like reddit. I also posted to a survivalist forum. I did get a messages of support, but most of the posters seemed authoritarian.

trident765 · 2022-06-05T17:10:01+00:00

Thanks! I might do this.

trident765 · 2022-06-05T01:23:24+00:00

I believe this is probably the verse Pastor Anderson was defending against in the video.

Pastor Anderson believes in a doctrine that says that there is a class of people called "reprobates", that are horrible people, cannot be "saved" (i.e. they will go to hell), and you become one if you hate God, and once you become a reprobate you are a reprobate permanently and there is no going back. He gets this from Romans 1. In the video he distinguishes "enemies" from "reprobates", and says even though you are required to love enemies you are not required to love reprobates. An "enemy" might be a petty criminal or perhaps a Muslim, whereas a "reprobate" would be someone like an LGBT rights activist. Pastor Anderson believes all gays are reprobates, which is his explanation for why gay conversion therapy does not work. He believes hatred of God is what triggers homosexual urges.

trident765 · 2022-06-02T03:02:46+00:00

But no one uses this definition of "Holocaust". The real definition of Holocaust that society accepts is that 6,000,000 or more Jews were killed by Nazis. Those who believe 5,999,999 or less died are holocaust deniers.

But I personally believe that the German government killed Jews in WWII. I have distant relatives who were killed in similar circumstances so I know governments are capable of doing this. But Jews also claim that they were persecuted far worse than any other minority in history, which I am not certain about. From what I read the Armenian genocide was as bad or almost as bad as the Holocaust, but it doesn't seem that way to the average person since Armenians do not complain nearly as much as Jews.

trident765 · 2022-05-27T02:22:42+00:00

American police at work:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=21___s1CJuA&t=480

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