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Messages - WealthyRadish

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General Discussion / Re: Railgun and Spirituality Discussion
« on: August 31, 2023, 09:24:32 am »
Their aggressive proselytizing overseas is another particularly horrible aspect, at least in my view.

The usual criticisms of any religion apply as Strongpoint says (and they're on the worse end of religions as a whole). However, in the US most criticism of Mormonism one will encounter in personal life will be from other Christians criticizing it on theological/cultural grounds, and if this is the source of their dislike it can be ignored (and is likely on some level hypocritical).

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General Discussion / Re: Post whatever you want
« on: August 13, 2023, 02:05:37 pm »
while (1) printf("\x07");

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: August 05, 2023, 10:23:15 am »
I didn't know there was a sequel, but my only real memory from the first Wandering Earth (apart from its dubious/striking premise) is one scene that in 100% of similar American films would set up some clearly telegraphed "evil Russians" propaganda moment later, but was instead an unambivalent "good Russians" propaganda moment (it was an amusing source of tension to have been trained to expect the other shoe to drop and it just doesn't). Not that I have any love for the Russian government of course, but these sorts of differences are one way that these films can be interesting from an outside perspective.

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General Discussion / Re: Emotional Responses to War in Ukraine - Trollbait 2.0
« on: July 26, 2023, 10:30:55 am »
Quote from: KittyTac on July 26, 2023, 09:26:40 am
Here's the thing: not-really-coherent reactionary rhetoric is his ideology. And the book is propaganda for it.

I agree on both counts (regardless of which "he" we're talking about), and that does reflect badly on the work itself. I think Dostoevsky sincerely believed in what he outlined in his books, but what he outlined happened to reduce to incoherent reactionary rhetoric that contemporary and future oligarchs would find politically useful to distract from their ongoing crimes.

My main point of disagreement is that Putin himself, his lifestyle, his actions, and the grab-bag of other rhetoric he employs are definitely not compatible in substance with the monastic mysticism Dostoevsky always seemed to be pushing (or at least Dostoevsky himself likely wouldn't think they are compatible if he saw what's happened, even if in practice this ideology just ends up being another misdirection useful to the wealthy and powerful).

Calling it a "one-to-one" ideological mapping thus seems wrong to me in this sense. There's just no way the Yeltsin clique read Dostoevsky and thought "yes, finally, this is the ideological blueprint for our future Russian kleptocracy". It was just pulled out of a cupboard after the fact when it was found useful.

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General Discussion / Re: Emotional Responses to War in Ukraine - Trollbait 2.0
« on: July 26, 2023, 09:06:56 am »
Quote from: KittyTac on July 26, 2023, 08:12:44 am
Brothers Karamazov is Putin's favorite book for a reason, it's basically his ideology 1 for 1.

In concrete terms I can sort of see a connection between "western satanism" and Ivan's Inquisitor poem, but that's about it.

I consider Dostoevsky's spiritualism to be completely invalidated by history and reality, but it isn't the current Russian government's cynical use of religion as political pretext that invalidates it. (Tangentially I think the ideological significance of his work is rescued from irrelevance somewhat by his interesting perspective as a former radical rather than a simple reactionary, even if the ideological content itself is pretty worthless.)

The connection between Dostoevsky's rejection of foreign influence and the modern regime is stronger, but again, it's just the government cynically finding something external to justify their position after the decision has already been made (one particular clique of oligarchs/bureaucrats or another didn't decide that Russia needs to be opposed to American hegemony based on anything Dostoevsky wrote).

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General Discussion / Re: I deleted twitter and you should too
« on: July 24, 2023, 01:38:40 pm »
I typed twitter.com into the browser address bar for the first time in my life, and immediately tried to click the 'x' in the corner to close the login nag screen (it was of course actually the logo and did nothing). My first thought is that picking a name/logo which can't unambiguously appear in any GUI is an obvious mistake that any mediocre executive not surrounded by sycophants should notice immediately, but somehow I think this is the least of their problems.

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General Discussion / Re: The small random questions thread [WAAAAAAAAAAluigi]
« on: July 10, 2023, 08:24:13 am »
Quote from: MCreeper on July 10, 2023, 07:42:09 am
That seems to be for Linux, and i'm on Windows.

There are windows binaries available for wget and curl (they're also included in cygwin), but if you're unfamiliar with using command line programs on windows you might very well find that you prefer rolling the dice on the malware over setting it all up.

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General Discussion / Re: The small random questions thread [WAAAAAAAAAAluigi]
« on: July 10, 2023, 07:20:29 am »
Quote from: MCreeper on July 10, 2023, 05:06:41 am
Does someone know a name of a program that allows you to download files from normal links torrent-like, so you don't have to start over if download is interrupted? I know those exist, since i used one about 10 years ago, but found nothing but viruses now. And downloading large mods from moddb when you are in Ukraine is vicious.

My first thought is to use curl, but wget is probably better.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/287431/continue-interrupted-curl-download

https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: May 26, 2023, 05:28:10 pm »
Of course, it's the oligarchs controlling the politicians who are getting too little credit if we give too much credit to the politicians ignoring the general population by merely saying the general population is being given too much credit.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: May 20, 2023, 11:40:16 pm »
It's curious that the government bans slavery, thereby subsidizing reckless behavior that would otherwise get one enslaved (as if they're entitled to my labor). As a slavery opposer and 31 trillion dollars comprehender, I'd like to remind everyone of the effect this policy has on the deficit and the slavecatcher industry. Now excuse me, I need to go reinvent the labor theory of value and complain about communism.

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General Discussion / Re: Random thoughts - On the Origins of "I Could Eat A Horse"
« on: May 20, 2023, 01:27:23 pm »
Encoding Morse code would be a bit of a nightmare. It's essentially like UTF-8 (each glyph has a variable number of codepoints) but each codepoint is 1-bit rather than a full byte. A compact storage of it (like, not using 8 times as much memory as necessary) would need to be able to split a glyph across multiple bytes, adding really annoying complexity to basically every string operation.

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General Discussion / Re: Mathematics Help Thread
« on: May 16, 2023, 07:17:02 am »
Ignoring the actual math for a bit, this easy online programming language is geared toward those sorts of calculations:

https://anydice.com/program/2f799

Viewing the "at least" view will show that (2d6 - 3d6) >= 0 22.15% of the time.

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General Discussion / Re: Mass psychosis
« on: May 11, 2023, 08:00:52 pm »
I braved the link in a virtualized sandbox (so you don't have to). It's just this:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

"Notable political philosopher" Adolf Hitler agrees: eat your mushrooms.

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Creative Projects / Re: Can delphonso make a commercial game?
« on: May 09, 2023, 07:39:56 am »
Calculating nudge_x and nudge_y with a while-loop may end up being noticably slow. For computing the remainder after division most languages provide a modulus operator 'x % y' for integers (and possibly something like C's fmod function for floating point numbers) which should have the same result.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you laugh today: some people notice when l change the title
« on: May 01, 2023, 10:19:29 am »
Quote from: JoshuaFH on May 01, 2023, 02:44:38 am
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