mcDouble

@eps_leon @AcademicAgent_X It's most extreme in chicago but a pretty common idea across the whole US that you're not supposed to put ketchup on hot dogs

@mcdouble_b @AcademicAgent_X You don't put ketchup on hotdogs?

Honestly that's enough internet today. Bye everyone. Bloody hell.

@Laewis_Muun @AcademicAgent_X yeah, makes a lot of sense

@mcdouble_b @AcademicAgent_X The peak is built upon past achievements, it's a lag spike, you see the same thing with studies/ research done on Wolf and Rabbit Population increase ect.

Nothing can save the British Empire from Shipwreck. - Lord Shaftsbury, 1848 In industry, commerce and agriculture there is no hope. - Disraeli, 1849 I thank God that I shall be spared from seeing the consummation of ruin that is gathering around us. - Duke of Wellington, 1852

@sterlingsvodka Tbf the rocket name itself is pretty lame (Space Launch System... wow) OG Nasa rocket names were so much more kino.. Atlas, Thor, Titan, Saturn 🥲

Elon’s space program is far superior but you have to hand it to NASA for coming up with amazing names like Apollo and Artemis vs Falcon lol

@AcademicAgent_X The internet made April fools day insufferable. It used to be a prank or two and ended at 12pm, now it's just complete saturation of retarded jokes for like two days as it passes through every time zone

I hate all forced fun but especially April Fool's Day and New Year's Eve.

My assumption is that in the coming decades AI or some technology derived from it will essentially make whoever controls it all-powerful, as it will render traditional military power obsolete and also placate the masses by providing services, luxuries etc far better than governments can. It's probably a mistake to think the new Caesar will be a military man in the traditional sense, as the "legions" simply represent the mode by which society can be controlled (in Rome, by the army). For us, it's more likely to be a techbro wielding some kind of technology that we haven't really conceived of yet.

@mcdouble_b I also had the technocrats in mind as possible Caesars, though our emerge of this notion is quite narrow and restricted to the actual Caesar. Hence why we forget that such types are potential candidates today.

Though I agree with the Spenglerian analysis used here, I disagree with the timeline. Trump, or many others in the establishment, is the Western Caesar, though full Caesarism cannot be expressed yet because the veil of democracies and money-power still exist. Iran=Gaul?

@Naifalbidh I would actually deem Elon to be closer to our version of Caesar as someone who is trying to control key technologies (social media, internet access, spaceflight) as an equivalent of Rome's legions, but his autism seems to prevent him from actually understanding what's going on.

I think as we live in a hyperreal age, we are only currently seeing an "image" of Caesarism rather than the real thing. It was the image of Trump on television telling people "you're fired" that brought him to power rather than his overwhelming force of will or anything of that sort. Trump is still selling watches on Fox News, he does not embody the "blood instinct" that Spengler speaks of, the one to do that is still to come...

@AcademicAgent_X 75 year old aircraft has a technical issue, stop the presses

??

@curtis_yarvin To be fair to Douhet his ideas were never really tested since the great powers didn't have the stomach to actually enact the strategy of an HG Wells novel and obliterate cities on day 1 of a conflict

The Giulio Douhet theory that foreign airstrikes can trigger popular revolts has a century-long history of success, including both the “color revolution” that brought Mosley to power in 1940, and Stauffenberg’s successful 1944 coup. Waiter could I get some more of that DMT

@PoFPodcast @Solidarity_Star The group of Germans led by Grottrup who ended up in the Soviet Union were kinda sequestered and didn't really end up contributing anything. Korolev and Glushko pretty much did everything. It's true that it was all based on reverse engineering German hardware though

@Solidarity_Star With German rocket scientists.

The Soviet Union literally went from a feudal backwater to the first spacefaring civilization in human history. This story is bullshit lmao.

Ah yeah I see what you're saying now. I just assume POV in this context is shorthand for 1P POV, so he's saying "this video is the 1P perspective of a person who is in the scene, watching what is happening". Even though this is basically redundant as it doesn't seem to add anything, it's still technically distinct from a 3P perspective.

See I think that's where people get confused. A "point of view" is a perspective. 1P is shot from the point of view of the subject. 2P is shot from the point of view of someone the subject is engaging with. 3P is shot from the point of view of a detached observer. But cinematographers often use "POV" as a shorthand for 1P perspective shots, and then that also became porn category, which is a lot of people's only exposure to the term, so it's often unclear how people are using it because we don't know what their background is. Generally speaking though, there's no reason to specify "POV" for third person perspective shots because it's usually obvious. In the case of the video in the OP, we know we're not the subject, and the subject isn't engaging us, so it could only be third person. "POV" only introduces confusion here. If he'd just captioned the video "Me counting sheep to fall asleep", we'd all understand what's happening in the shot and we wouldn't be having this argument.

Hey look it’s someone misusing POV, but it’s a man so no one will say it’s because his spatial IQ is too low to comprehend perspectives

@dlwiest @atlanticesque I don't really get what you're saying. POV means 1P perspective, how can that also be the traditional 3P perspective?

That *is* the traditional third person perspective. 1P: footage is shot as if you are literally seeing what the subject is seeing, e.g. GoPro footage, common in horror and somewhat in action sequences 2P: the subject is engaging with the viewer directly. Very rare, but think Ferris Bueller or Deadpool 3P: The viewer is watching the subject from a detached position. Almost everything is shot this way, including the video in the OP. The reason you might specify PoV for 1P is because it's the only perspective where the subject isn't visible in the shot, because it's shot through their eyes, so it can help the viewer understand who this shot is about. You don't need to specify PoV for 3P shots because the viewer can discern that from the fact that they're looking at the subject.

@dlwiest @atlanticesque Surely that is what makes it not redundant? It's telling us that the video is meant to represent the viewpoint of an observer who is present in the scene, watching what is happening, rather than a traditional third person perspective

@mcdouble_b @atlanticesque "Here's your PoV of me doing something" is redundant, which makes it confusing when somebody says it. Nearly everything is shot from third person perspective, where the viewer is observing the action.

@dlwiest @atlanticesque Good point but I think it still makes sense to say "here's your POV of me doing something". The stereotypical misuse here would have been if he said "POV: you're counting sheep" or whatever

@mcdouble_b @atlanticesque POV means it’s from the point of view of the subject, not “an observer”. All videos are from the point of “an observer” so that term would be meaningless if that’s what it meant

@realityspammer @eugenicskun Jung was basically right about it

@eugenicskun What do you think UFO phenomenon is?

I try to forget that they literally tried to convince liberal political society that aliens were real and that has entered the official annals of American history, and everyone is obligated to believe that aliens are real. That is what they believe "up there". It's crazy.

@MorgothsReview Interesting, I remember the opposite. It was hugely hyped with the "what is the matrix" ad campaign which teased some kind of mind-blowing truth to be revealed yet somehow the twist didn't get spoiled until you actually saw it. Wouldn't be possible today

I did. There wasn't much hype around it as I remember, and Keanu Reeves was widely viewed as a wooden plank in acting terms. People expected another Johnny Mnemonic or Time Cop. I think the Trinity-on-the-rooftops scene opener was meant to quell those fears and signal that this would be different.

@SperglerAcolyte Herder said it was because the Greek language originated from music

I don't know exactly what that difference is though...

I think the Grek mind was wired differently because of their language... to an English speaker, their sentences can feel completely scrambled b/c it's highly inflected & b/c of the prevalence of long participial constructions. It made them think... differently.