[-] rekabis@programming.dev 11 points 8 months ago

Even some ~~“woke”~~ Western Asian women can be pretty racist against Asian men.

FTFY.

My wife is Asian, and has seen this in her own female relatives and community friends who have immigrated here or have been born here. None of them would ever debase themselves that far to be with an Asian man unless he was loaded AF.

And my BiL has only ever had one Asian woman take any interest in him, despite being one hell of a handsome man… last time he visited China, he was frequently mistaken for a movie star or a model.

[-] rekabis@programming.dev 20 points 8 months ago

Another word for emotional labor is goddamn fucking empathy and SOME PEOPLE don't want to show any toward men.

The very people screaming the loudest about “toxic masculinity” being a problem in men, are invariably the ones imposing it the most fiercely upon men, as this woman is doing.

[-] rekabis@programming.dev 9 points 8 months ago

Girl, if this is the way you view the dating pool, then maybe MGTOW has a valid point or three to consider.

I may have stepped off the dating field nearly thirty years ago, but in terms of the gratuitous misandry that I have seen as of the last decade or so, even if I were to become widowed I doubt I would ever want to step back onto it. The juice is just not worth the squeeze if I am seen as “the enemy” and facing unjustified hostility and adversarial arrogance long before you even get to know me.

[-] rekabis@programming.dev 22 points 8 months ago

Communism is wonderful in theory, however due to human nature I strongly suspect it may be forever out of our reach unless we somehow develop benevolent AGI to administer the system, who are largely incorruptible and cannot be influenced by humans.

The problem isn’t that power corrupts, the real problem is that power attracts the corruptible.

We need to make any significant positions of power inaccessible to humans, or have those positions filled by people who are truly randomly selected from the general population for only one term.

[-] rekabis@programming.dev 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

My condolences.

My family isn’t “of the left”, but even my Octogenarian parents either accept things as they are, or are just confused about them. It’s exceedingly rare for them to disagree against any progressive point with anything approaching a willfully ignorant position. Their biggest objections invariably involve the bandwagon effect, and not the actual subject itself.

[-] rekabis@programming.dev 21 points 8 months ago

When you deny reality, I guess any kind of statement sounds reasonable.

[-] rekabis@programming.dev 10 points 9 months ago

people are still crazy in on Obama being the cause of all our problems

That’s how you know that someone is ideologically contaminated and running completely facts-free: they blame everything on someone who has absolutely no relevance to the situation.

[-] rekabis@programming.dev 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This planet has too many humans.

Note that I said this planet has and not there are. Because I am a misanthrope, not a monster.

I just see so much stupidity out there, so much anti-human/selfish alt-right politics and so much hate-based religion that is only designed to hurt/control/kill others and so many people stuck in intellectual latrines without even the desire to get out of them and holding up cultivated ignorance like it’s a point of pride.

If I had the money to move to a mountain property in some temperate rainforest where I had a house and a large garden that could produce most of my yearly food and a few tens of thousands of books, I would gladly go months at a time without seeing anyone. Better yet if it’s in a secluded valley that doesn’t even look like it exists except on maps or from the air, and an access road that looks utterly uninteresting such that no-one even thinks of going down it.

[-] rekabis@programming.dev 16 points 9 months ago

Reactive armour needs to be attached to thick armour. If it’s attached to non-armoured things, it will do just as much damage to what it’s attached to as what it reacted to.

Any civilian truck covered with reactive armour is a death trap, and any soldier who knows anything about reactive armour will target these vehicles with the cheapest weapons that will trigger the armour. This is an example of the enemy going out of their way to get killed.

[-] rekabis@programming.dev 14 points 9 months ago

If purchasing is not ownership, then pirating is not theft.

I think more technically-gifted people need to look into these “subscription” systems, in order to find workarounds. Because if it comes with my car, it’s mine to do whatever the f**k I want with it.

[-] rekabis@programming.dev 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah, C4 is not exactly a ranged weapon unless it’s paired with an impact detonator and flung via trebuchet.

[-] rekabis@programming.dev 11 points 11 months ago

The biggest victims here? The Palestinians.

We can agree on that, at least.

Shame they don’t have the ability to eradicate Hamas from their midst. But then there comes the issue of Israeli aggression and violent land appropriation.

As I pointed out, ESH.

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