you may be getting lost in the weeds if you're thinking about the fichtean 'thesis antithesis' thing. for an easy understanding it's basically just the idea that nothing exists in a vacuum - things are always affected by something else. this just means looking at contradictions and context first, so the example you used of capitalist to feudal lord is an example of dialectics but its not necessarily limited to that sort of thing, more the understanding that things tend not to happen 'just because'.

tensegrity is a pretty useful irl example imo of the role of contradiction in a lot of systems if you're confused about that too.

iirc a lot of the board were ea people. anthropic is a good example of what oai would look like if they sutskever/board faction had won.

'the ick' seems to just mean 'neurodivergent person did something neurodivergent' when i see it used colloquially tbh

the US MIC has been jerking itself raw to ODS for 30 years now and they still think that high tech wunderwaffen are how peer wars are won because (?)

i literally never took notes throughout the entirety of my formal education process so whilst you probably shouldn't do what i did it's pretty possible to have postgrad qualifications without being a 'good' student. idk, i just couldn't be bothered to write shit that seemed pretty self-evident from inference personally.

this is fucking hilarious, do people really not see how vapid and meaningless most of the slop generated by language models is? especially regarding any 'advice' applications XD

uh sweaty no minority could ever be against biden, only online white teenager tankies are against him.

im as cishet as they come, but does anyone else feel like we're too sexualised? how are the gays ever going to accept us if we're so hypersexualised? you know i just really feel like it's pushing our movement backwards being so open about it

fwiw i agree with this, viewing great power competition as the default of inter-state relations is basically the closest to 'imperialist realism' if what 'imperialist realism' means is the assumption that states always do antagonistic/competitive actions to further hegemonic aims, which is more or less what people mean when they say 'imperialism has always been a thing'.

GGST

the worst part is they could easily have just said it's been a while since we last operated a battleship and the people who knew are gone so there's a learning curve, and that would have been a plenty acceptable excuse.

telling a naval officer from the 30s we have 100000 ton nuclear powered capital ships and turning away blinking the tears off when they ask how big the main guns are

i feel like tensions about dating and romance have really begun boiling up the past few years in general. there was a short period a few years ago where i thought incel-ism was dying out as an identity, but these days it seems bigger than its ever been

i honestly dont know how men are getting so mad about the bear thing tbh. like how is your first thought when confronted with women expressing how unsafe rape culture makes them feel 'but what about men's feelings though'?/??

zuckerberg is desperate to be the machine learning leader, facebook has like the most or second most A100s purchased from NVIDIA and he seems really obsessed with the idea of LlaMa being a GPT competitor.

(i would wager oai's huge first mover advantage is too big to surpass for the time being, 'chatGPT' is synonymous with LLMs for laymen even though the model running it is practically obsolete at this point)

saying the US 'barely participated' in WW2 is pretty egregious, just because the USSR did the majority of heavy lifting and very much could have won by itself doesn't mean that's what happened.

the majority of post-normandy heer formations deployed in the western front were the best equipped ones, the western front was denser than the eastern front and lend lease was large enough in scale to certainly have made a material difference. that doesn't mean that the US won the war by itself, or that the american sacrifice was anything comparable, but this sort of revisionism comes off as pretty crankish tbh.

ck3 still feels really boring and underdeveloped however many years into its lifespan now, it's so cooked

out of the big streamers of that tier im pretty sure asmon was the one that parked his bus or w/e the phrase is with the gamergate chuds, every time i see a screenshot of an 'asmongold clips' upload it looks like some bullshit about video game waifu booba not being big enough.

compared to like xqc debating andrew tate or smth lol

tribalism

the problem with humans is that we view everything as us vs them sports teams, everything would be better if we could just compromise

lmao i think i had the exact same guesses as you