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@Gravantus 😮‍💨yeah

White people will randomly remember a time they were rude or unkind to someone 12 years ago and then feel bad about it all day.

@HomericFuturist A natural-law morality with distributed sovereignty.

Which is preferable

@hyperliberalism Schism it, yep. Good strategy, then rebrand.

@ArcologyTech I think what Auron gets right is that you should do so by taking over the GOP, thereby causing existing members to flee to the Democrats.

The way to do this is to force a split that moves the enemy part of the GOP over to the Democrats. The only fault-line capable of doing that is to put foreigners and the people what want foreigners in the US, ruling over American-Americans on one team—and American-Americans who want to rule themselves on the other team. "America is for American-Americans only" is a Schelling Point that would split the GOP and give us a true, Right-wing party in the United States.

@ThomBrady5 Good perspective. I already see people pushing their religions and ideologies in that direction. A degree of self-restraint is important (classist, I know...)

The ideal world would be where Americans see Japanese posts without interacting with them. We don't want to pollute what makes Japan special, a sort of childlike optimism, sincerity, innocence, and enthusiasm. Americans are a battle-hardened people, unfit for Garden of Eden.

@treblewoe Touching $6.50 in rural PNW...farmers are squeezed hard.

$109 for 18 gallons of diesel thanks captive dreamer, keep it up

@MillennialWoes Two power styles. The techniques of power of the Left are inherently distasteful to us and vice-versa. Bureaucracy vs Nobility. Partly technology-driven shift (Quigley's "Weapon Systems & Political Stability", etc) For our power style to reassert requires deep change.

What is depressingly obvious from the replies to my tweet about funding the arts is that a lot of right-wingers have naive, utopian ideas about how culture and power operate, and have never thought about how they would use power. Their only thought is to destroy it so that it (hopefully) can't be used against them - but all this achieves is to leave their enemies the only ones getting funding (privately). It's tragic. They're like children. No wonder the Left have run rings around them and won every cultural battle. Libertarianism, and the broader right-wing allergy to using power, is our Achilles' heel.

@EagleZeroX "Behavioral Zoning" yep. 💯 It would get a lot of work done. Figuring this out is a potential game-changer for the neo-village movement in these spheres.

Yes certainly. You're describing a lot of the things that I had presumed needed to be considered. Dedicated private spaces, mitigation of audible disruptions etc. I think a practical solution would be some ability to facilitate finding similarly classed individuals who are interested in cohabitation, and then having documented and detailed examples of social contracts that maintained a high level of construction so people could copy and adhere to those contracts. If we had a detailed contract to review that has been proven in the real world to facilitate construction between individuals and families sharing resources peacefully it would be easier to replicate. I don't know of any intentional communities who have drafted and published such a thing. Combine that with an app or something to filter for class preference and contract details and some great things might be built.

It's been talked about before, but I think people still underestimate how the divorce rate among the Boomers and Xers and the non marriage rate among the Millennials and Zoomers are a massive contributor to the housing issue. Meanwhile there is huge social pressure against singles cohabitating (with thier own gender). Our lack of social convention is big here, we can't seem to negotiate terms of living. The last two points also affect couples who want to do communal living. Obviously the lack of real estate that supports such living circumstances is a problem, couples absolutely need some private living space, but even with the right real estate (duplexes etc) it's a huge percived risk and people don't want to compromise. It's crazy when you see Latino and Asians living communally. It's a massive boon for them financially. If white people could start living this way both singles in gendered groups and multi families, they would leave the third worlders in the dust. We need a way to find each other, and successful matured examples of communal contracts.

It's tough cohabitating, too many people are retards that can't/won't self regulate. Disruptive. Class divides are along real genetic-behavioral lines. My work requires peace and quiet, and most people....aren't. There's also an observation that we need space around us or our women won't nest properly, certainly Germanics and Celts are predisposed... Intentional communities/ecovillages have done a LOT of work on how to design healthy habitat and maintain some psychological 'space' even if houses share walls/utility systems. Heavy sound muffling is a must, private entrances that aren't visible from each other, semi-private outdoor areas, wider pathways. Workshop areas to keep DIY sounds and materials out of living spaces.... Lots of work to tap into.

@SpaceAgeHerr Orvis is still my go-to. orvis.com/product/quest-…

Looking through the catalog of clothes they’ve made, the sin here was not being foreign-made, but an incredible lack of taste. If these items cater to the demographic, it says more about them than the tailor. AFAICT serious people don’t want VC Daddy quotes on their clothes like football players with ads, Mafiosi, or Chinese nu-money with Italian brand names plastered on everything. These clothes were made for the self-referential commentariat, not the builders. A more serious and tasteful fashion trend for Sensitive Young Engineers would be something like normalizing stylish but practical workwear, or cargo khaki shirts, or something dignifying - even a lazy retvrn to the Apollo NASA look would be an improvement on default styles today, and orders of magnitude better than the Silicon Valley norm of hoodies or Patagonia vests. Of course, I am excluding “software engineers” from this discussion - they can continue to dress like adolescents if they so choose.

@heisei_ramen @FromKulak The 'faith as foundation' model is trying to carve out a small slice of the reality co-creation whole, and present it as complete. Deliberatly limiting, clipping bird-wings to prevent flight.

@FromKulak Interestingly, this is one difference between Norse paganism and Shinto. In ⛩️, the gods would very much like you to believe in them because many literally draw their strength from the prayers and efforts of the faithful. I've heard something similar about Hellenism.

"Christian faith is the basis of objective reality" If it's objective reality, then "Faith" would be irrelevant. Read the Havamal... Odin does not care if you "believe in him" he's too busy giving you solid advice on dealing with war, women, drinking buddies, and frost trolls

@jxmnop Ehhh, that's parity for much of it.

imagine reading this and still thinking we’re months away from automating all white collar work

We saw a wave of posts bashing Europe, and now it's non-stop Japanese wholesome-aesthetic-racism poasting. I like Japan, but I'm not seeing as much news from Restore, Eurobros and Aussies now. Bringing the focus back.

@Will_Tanner_1 All the right-wing hippies are in their gardens, bees are out, who's got time to mill about?

I just stumbled across a no kings protest in the town in which I live About 80% of the crowd was composed of aged hippies who look a few years away from death. So that might rectify itself quite soon The remainder were primarily very dysgenic-looking third worlders and a few transgenders

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@treblewoe Heavy resistance to AI-at-the-edge for some reason... 🤔

The fundamental error every commercial frontier model makes today is so simple, it's almost absurd: they pretend we don't have computers. Codex & Claude act like the keyboards we're sitting at are just thin clients to their ten billion dollar datacenters. They have a hard enough time with model size and live, running context. So what do they sacrifice? Durable knowledge. This means that a one-hour coding session has already compacted several times, losing key details. And forget about the work from two weeks when we last touched that project. Know who has more memory and storage? The computer that's talking to their cloud. Even when they generate 100% of the code in our projects, all that code is stored locally. They're not Github, and they never will nor should be. That means the current Codex thread has zero concept of what's in a project without grepping all the source code. I solved this locally with the very handy tools from j.gravelle.us/jCodeMunch/ind… tools which index all my code and files, and surface it to Codex via MCP. I was happy to pay him for it last night. And because every conversation vanishes outside of the context window, I incorporated a Codex MCP wrapper for github.com/tobi/qmd backed USER & ASSISTANT chat memory. That's how Codex found the needle in the haystack from two weks ago below. It would be utterly insane for OpenAI to waste their own storage or memory on these things even though they are /fundamental/ to the use of the product itself. So to restate the fundamental problem: commercial frontier models pretend they can do everything, even when the vast majority of their output ends up in project-based filesystem storage. That's why MCP popularity exploded lately. That's why harnesses like hermes-agent.nousresearch.com are so exciting. All those tools are adding more computers to the mix beyond the one running the sometimes-expensive commercial model. And all those additions are to paper over the weaknesses that not only can't the cloud models solve, but they flatly should not. Codex isn't a chat client like ChatGPT. It doesn't get to run as a first class citizen on your phone. As soon as these guys get past that conceit, they will be able to start putting the local storage, local processing, local recall needs that are entirely project-specific in the right place. I've solved all of this today for my own Codex config, but it took weeks of pain, and it will remain fragile because it's doing in a second-class way what they could do natively, if they would show just a little humility to ask our laptops and Mac minis to join in the fun alongside.

@41KOOR The cancer of Sabbateanism has tendrils all the way to the laity.

Today’s pastors want a deranged culture, deranged marriages, and deranged households because they think they will produce a genuine expression of Christian faith. They believe that an orderly, Christian home and a culture that requires its citizens to discipline themselves in their outward lives is a HINDRANCE to faith. The opposite is true. The child with the deranged father and mother is worse off than the child with righteous parents. The state and culture that praises and rewards evil will produce evil. God teaches that the soil of a well-ordered home, state, and culture is the nutrient rich soil where faith is nurtured and in which humans grow in a healthy manner.

Lots of talking, lots of writing, lots of networking and organizing. Mostly slop. At best setting the stage. But then? Barely anyone taking concrete steps in the physical world. Engineer > Build > Produce > Flourish.

@EagleZeroX I put as much stock (which isn't much) in the theories coming from the alt-energy guys... "Lockheed will drop that compact fusion reactor into normieworld and save the day". Or...they're having us take hits for their benefit. Good old Anglo distain for the lower classes.

So I'm trying to wrap my head around the more advanced plan trusters claims of Trump playing 5D chess with the Strait of Hormuz. So if the USG guarantees insurance through the strait, it allegedly gives the USG the leverage to impose his will upon Europe. Since Europe needs that petro. But this hinges on Lloyds refusing to insure at economic rates. Which hinges on Iran being a threat to vessels. So Trump would have to somehow maintain Iran being a threat to vessels, while simultaneously successfully transiting vessels through the straight. Captains of vessels are not only allowed to refuse transit to protect the lives of them and thier crew, even if commanded by owners, they are expected to refuse said orders. In what world does the US successfully secure the Strait so captains willingly transit, without Lloyds just stepping back in and providing regular insurance rates again? I've so far seen this theory posited from a metals trader and a Maritime specialist. Short of the US turning the strait into dejure US territory I can't see how the Trump can use Strait transit authority as leverage.