Tinidril
@Tinidril@midwest.social
- Comment on High IQ men tend to be less conservative than their average peers, study finds 1 week ago:
It would seem that my historical take on it is pretty relevant since it is still what conservatism is doing to this day. What is Trump if not royalty? I would be happy to go back to calling them royalists or autocrats, but I don’t see that catching on.
There is a huge problem in this country with people who embrace progressive policy positions self-identifying as conservatives. It’s used disingenuously by both parties to justify oligarchy.
- Comment on High IQ men tend to be less conservative than their average peers, study finds 1 week ago:
Conservatism can be traced back to royalists in both pre-revolutionary America and France. It is as it always was. It has never been about conserving anything but privilege and has always sought control over everyone else.
What you call conservativism was a rather unconvincing PR campaign. It was never about personal liberty or freedom. It was definitely never about conservation.
- Comment on When DinoCon is doing more than the US Gov 1 week ago:
Secondary sanctions from a dino convention. Based.
- Comment on Jikipedia turns Epstein’s emails into an encyclopedia of the his powerful friends 2 weeks ago:
I bet some Chinese manufacturers wouldn’t object.
- Comment on Jikipedia turns Epstein’s emails into an encyclopedia of the his powerful friends 2 weeks ago:
Someone should put together a deck of cards and sell them. Kinda like what they had in Iraq.
- Comment on Can we have a boring and uneventful week for a change? 4 weeks ago:
Is that supposed to be a positive? What’s going on now with the ACA was written into it’s DNA from day one. I don’t think there is a single government program that has transferred more wealth to Wall Street than the ACA. Not even defense contracts can compete.
- Comment on Can we have a boring and uneventful week for a change? 4 weeks ago:
Pretty much everything wrong with Democrats is as bad or worse with Republicans. On the other hand, the Republican establishment did not want Trump to be nominated in 2016 any more than the Democrats wanted Sanders. It’s up for debate if they were less heavy handed in manipulating the process, or if they were just more incompetent.
- Comment on Can we have a boring and uneventful week for a change? 4 weeks ago:
What? Bill Clinton is more responsible than anyone but maybe Reagan for the gutting of the middle class. The Clinton’s set is on this path. Hillary’s only real track record is on foreign policy, and her positions there reflect the absolute worst aspects of American arrogance and interventionism.
The Clinton’s and the rest of the Democratic establishment are responsible for destroying the underlying social fabric that would have made any of what you want possible. They are also diametrically opposed to a “fair” primary. Democrats have near 100% control over their own primary process, and the whole thing is rigged to maximize their ability to manipulate voters through their domination of media.
- Comment on Can we have a boring and uneventful week for a change? 4 weeks ago:
What? How the hell did you get murder and terrorism out of that?
What I want is is social libertarianism. What I’d settle for is an FDR progressive. My bare acceptable minimum is liberal democracy. What the Democrats are is ineffective illiberal elitist technocrats.
- Comment on Can we have a boring and uneventful week for a change? 4 weeks ago:
It was not Biden’s job to prosecute his political opponent,
Bull fucking shit it wasn’t. The President is the chief law enforcement officer in the Federal government, and his “political opponent” was the most dangerous criminal we’ve seen in decades. Yes, it was his fucking job to make damn sure the DOJ did theirs.
- Give it up. We know what he did and what he tried to do. You assume we don’t, but we just have higher standards than you.
- Comment on Can we have a boring and uneventful week for a change? 4 weeks ago:
If Democrats had absolute control, we’d still be on a slow boat to oblivion. That is no doubt an improvement over the express train we are on, but let’s not pretend the Democratic establishment has anything in mind for the future of the middle class but utter destruction.
Oh, and Congress didn’t exactly need to put a gun to Biden’s head on Palestine.
- Comment on Can we have a boring and uneventful week for a change? 4 weeks ago:
It’s been like that a lot longer than that. It’s just that most of the damage leading up to 2016 was under the surface and most people didn’t read their damage reports.
- Comment on Science Is Drowning in AI Slop 4 weeks ago:
I really can’t imagine a world where I would care how many seams my beanie has. If anything, seams make them easier to fold. Also, modern 3D knitting machines can make beanies without seams, as well as more complicated seamless garments that a human would really struggle to make.
- Comment on Trump threatens tariffs on nations that don’t back US takeover of Greenland 1 month ago:
I live in the US and I’m divesting from the US.
- Comment on Danish Forces Are Mandated to Fire Back if U.S. Attacks Greenland 1 month ago:
I think you are mistaken. The rest of NATO arguably outmatches the US in arctic combat capabilities by a pretty big margin. Most US war equipment would fail almost immediately. The Nordics have more arctic trained soldiers than the US and equipment that’s been designed and tested in that environment.
- Comment on Danish Forces Are Mandated to Fire Back if U.S. Attacks Greenland 1 month ago:
The US is also totally unprepared to deal with the kind of cold it would encounter in Greenland. Nordic military forces have way more experience, and they are far better equipped. Most US tanks and artillery would not operate reliably in Greenland.
Trump made a joke about Greenland defense forces having two dogsleds. That would be two more than the US has, and the dogs would actually function, unlike US troop transports.
- Comment on Russian bombers fly near Britain, NATO scrambles fighter jets 2 months ago:
We’re seeing already.
- Comment on Russian bombers fly near Britain, NATO scrambles fighter jets 2 months ago:
If NATO wanted a war with Russia then there would be war with Russia. Russia has made it easy enough with hybrid war actions against Europe. Of course such a war would be something like a three day operation since Russia has proven it’s military to be even more pathetic than everyone suspected.
- Comment on How AI broke the smart home in 2025 2 months ago:
The smart home has been broken for over a decade. From day one the goal was always to lock in users to an ecosystem and invade their privacy. Actually providing useful and reliable products didn’t even register as a goal.
The one way to do decent home automation is with locally run He Assistant and Zigbee or Z-Wave. It should only rely on the Internet for resources that are truly non-local like weather reports.
Thread/Matter might also be becoming an option. At this point I’m still watching to see what they do with it.
- Comment on Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again? 2 months ago:
I completely agree that LLMs aren’t intelligent. On the other hand, I’m not sure most of what we call intelligence in human behavior is any more intelligent than what LLMs do.
We are certainly capable of a class of intelligence that LLMs can’t even approach, but most of us aren’t using it most of the time. Even much (not all) of our boundary pushing science is just iterating algorithms that made the last discoveries.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 3 months ago:
I solved that for most of them by going AMD with my last upgrade. No more binary drivers solved most of my issues. Al that’s left is really the anti-cheat kernel garbage. For that I just decided fuck it. I found it easier to stomach changing some gaming preferences than the Microsoft ecosystem.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 3 months ago:
I finally went 100% Linux and I’m never going back.
- Comment on ‘It’s only gotten worse’: As ACA premiums are set to climb, some Americans opt to go uninsured 4 months ago:
I already started. What the fuck are you all waiting for?
- Comment on TRUMP 4 months ago:
So, getting groped by a Republican is meth and getting groped by a Democrat is weed is this analogy? Please.
- Comment on TRUMP 4 months ago:
Absolutely true. However, it hardly looks any better for Democrats. Bill Clinton is barely any better than Trump, and yet he is still revered in party circles.
Also, Democratic party elites have yet to back Mamdani in NY which is defacto support for Cuomo who has the same kind of track record.
This isn’t a Republican problem, it’s a wealthy elites problem.
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 4 months ago:
Let’s not forget that prior to Jesus any punishments were over when you died. Permanent Hell was a new testament thing.
- Comment on Too soon? 5 months ago:
“Charlie Kirk proven wrong.”
- Comment on Age check 5 months ago:
Consensual means we have no basis for demanding he stand trial for rape. Squeaking past that bar doesn’t say anything good about his moral character. He should not have been impeached, but he should have been run out of the Democratic party on a rail.
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 5 months ago:
Carbon is an amazingly flexible element that gets bound up with lots of other elements. Oxygen is also incredibly reactive and makes up almost half the mass of the Earth’s crust. Add in all the heat down there for activation energy, and it starts to make sense. I’m no expert though.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 6 months ago:
I may let him.