#multiheaded1793

[centrally-unplanned]

multiheaded1793 replied to your post: argumate: brazenautomaton: argumate: the...

@centrally-unplanned huh, I was certainly convinced that you were some kind of market socialist based on your url!

I appreciate that my title gets me both “wait, aren’t you a socialist” and “wait, aren’t you a libertarian?” in equal measure ^_^ Gotta keep em guessing!

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

At 12:00 AM, on the first day of class for my college's seniors, a group of teenagers, including several male, come into my room.  I think it’s because they’re drunk or high; they wake me up and ask me if I’m “starving” and insist that I am.

“What is starving?” (to which they just say “yes,” but they seem happy)

“You’re not starving, are you?”

“I’m not, I’m just really, really full, really hungry”

“Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

[defectivealtruist]

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new ask game send me a 🌻 and ill just tell you whatever the fuck i want

this morning i woke up and i had this amazing, fully formed idea for a pair of characters for a thing i’m thinking of doing

and by the time i got up to write it down i had forgotten everything except that one girl had muscles and the other one topped

[earlgraytay]

multiheaded1793 replied to your post “God the fucking cyberpunk 2077 screenshot where an in game ad has a...”

I am honestly stunned by the outraged reaction to this. THIS IS, LIKE, THE LEAST LIKELY GENRE TO ENDORSE THE SOCIETY IT DEPICTS.

ordinarily I’d agree with you.

but in the context of CDPR having said nasty transphobic shit in the past it’s coming off as more like “we’re depicting a society where genderfuckery is normal as a sign that people are Trashy In The Future”, ain’t it?

[argumate]

What are you quoting? I've read this Ostfront summary before but can't remember where, is this David Glantz?

When Titans Clashed; it’s a good book, but inherently less interesting than other fronts I think just because it’s so damn big.

There’s only so many times you can read “and then they push forward 400km and captured half a million prisoners” before your eyes start to glaze over.

[jiskblr]

@multiheaded1793 replied to your post “>prevents any company with critical infrastructure from having any...”

except of course it's not *tripling* the number of people, you'd expect each off-shift workers to be covering for several regular ones! obviously less viable for tiny companies but still.

No, it is in fact tripling the number of people, even at big companies. In order to handle an on-call shift, you have to understand the system you’re handling as well as one of the people who do regular work on it. Gaining that understanding is the most time-consuming thing a professional programmer does, and it has to be constantly maintained (with very little substitute for actively developing with the code, which is why I have some doubts that even with triple-staffing you’d get results as effective as just doing normal on-call rotation). Even with nothing to do 90% of the time, it would take an exceptionally good programmer/SRE to be able to keep up their knowledge well enough to handle the on-call problems for multiple projects simultaneously.

I would be fine with a law mandating that there be max(X%, Y€) extra salary for anyone who accepts on-call duties, and that it must be uncoercedly opt-in (though you’d have to allow hiring to take it into account, so the spots could be filled). That’s a fair policy which would cut down on exploitation. But banning it entirely is just keeping software development out of France except for little branches that exist 90% for PR so that the French Government doesn’t throw a hissy-fit and support another goddamn stupid censoring law or more frivolous lawsuits.

[fierceawakening]

I notice that too, in the UK the TERF platform seems kind of mainstream. There's no backlash to the likes of Helen Lewis (editor of a major national paper) expressing TERF views (trans women are too violent to share a space with cis women, etc), much less pro-trans journalism, etc. I would guess it's the combination of old entrenched 2nd wave feminism + few challenges to it + LGBT politics advancing through the legislative rather than judiciary branch, with fewer media spectacle opportunities.

It’s... odd to me. Like when someone starts terfing i start looking for “ou”s

[bambamramfan]

multiheaded1793 replied to your post “marcusseldon: I was kinda excited by Quillette when I first heard...”

how is Jacobite "quasi-libertarian" rather than explicitly neoreactionary?

I’m not even gonna try to find the line between those two things. But I meant “Jacobite models itself as being a response to the Jacobin, rather than a continuance of the tradition established by NRO or Commentary.”