Zos_Kia

Zos_Kia , 1 day ago

Bold move to say "I'm starting to think" then parrot the most repeated comment on the subject

Zos_Kia , 1 day ago

Feels like i need to clarify a few things here.

• the anti-american sentiment is not an arab thing. It's as French as frogs legs (doesn't make it ok).
• the arabs who bullied you in grade school are not immigrants. Their grandparents immigrated in the 60s, but those kids were born in a French hospital with a French passport. Same goes with black people 99% of them were born in France or in one of our overseas colonies.
• the people who are mysoginistic and homophobic are generally not the immigrants. Again, it's a marked thing mostly with 2nd/3rd gen. It's a thing in all religions worldwide, they are all veering towards hardcore conservatism especially among young people. I am not qualified to explain why that is but it's shit.

So essentially, i fail to see the point in "locking that shit down". You close the border tomorrow you don't solve any of the issues that are bothering racist people today. They will still have a radical mosque in their neighborhood and Mohammed will continue bullying the little american kid at school (doesn't make it ok).

You want some real talk about immigration ? 1 immigrant out of 3 is European. 1 out of 3 has a university diploma. In fact, migrants on average are slightly more educated, and have slightly higher income than native French. You close the border tomorrow that's who you are barring from the country. As usual with fascist policies - it's all damned lies.

Zos_Kia , 16 hours ago

Oh i didn't mean to correct your experience but rather the political take you extracted from it. Your personal experience in grade school doesn't represent a systemic problem. The population we're talking about here (north african young immigrants fresh off the boat who need remedial linguistic classes) is, what, a few thousand people a year ? You don't close a country's borders just because you can't handle a few thousand unruly adolescents.

My other point is that, while religious conservatism is a real danger to modern society, it is not driven by immigrants who have few resources and are primarily motivated by their own survival. It is driven by well established people who already have the French nationality and are comfortable enough to afford being "rebels" to the system. It's also not specific to islam - have you seen what Christians are up to these days ? Have you seen what Jews are up to ? Current news seem to indicate that the Abrahamic-minded are not taking kindly to the 3rd Millenium.

Also as a side note. 1 in 3 is not good enough. Most people are risk adverse, give them 33% odds of something positive and they’ll tell you to shove it.

That wasn't my point. My point is that the majority of immigrants come for study or work and they integrate with no issues.

The people the RN accuses of not integrating are French people with French passports and it is their fucking god-given right to not "integrate" with the culture around them. I was a nerdy vegan kid in a village of rugby players, hunters and delicatessen producers. I never fit in with that peasant culture - should my nationality be put into question ? No ? Then why is the standard different when it's a kid from arab descent ?

They are French citizens they don't owe any allegiance to any ideology or way of life and that's one of the pillars upon which this country was built. They wake up and go to work like me, they pay taxes like me, when they're caught speeding they get a ticket like me. They bring their kids to the same school where i bring mine. They complain about trains being late and the administration being incompetent. Let's leave them the fuck alone alright ? We're living together just fine.

Zos_Kia , 16 hours ago

I'm curious to know by which metric France has "become a shithole", and how that is related to immigration ?

Zos_Kia , 2 days ago

We have the same issue in France. The problem is there is no more negotiation with the legislative, everything gets voted on party lines, and what little gets done happens via executive orders. How can viable candidates emerge in this climate? It's maddening.

Zos_Kia , 4 days ago

Holy shit it looks like it has dipped to 25. Is that common after market hours?

Zos_Kia , 4 days ago

Yeah this sounds weird I thought Russia was producing ammo at like 10 times the rate of all of NATO combined

Zos_Kia , 4 days ago

Yeah sounds more like an indie cash grab. Although I do like the "no guns" angle

Zos_Kia , 6 days ago

I think the bitter lesson here is that there's a bunch of jobs where quality has zero importance.

If you take for example, content marketing, SEO, and ad copy writing... It's a lot of bullshit, and it's been filling the web with gpt-grade slop for 20 years now. If you can do the same for cheap I don't see a reason not to.

Zos_Kia , 5 days ago

Yeah I'm not bashing anybody, my wife did that for a couple years I know how it is. There was a kind of golden period where it would even pay enough to let you do some quality stuff but when VC money stopped raining the market slumped almost immediately.

Zos_Kia , 5 days ago

But we are talking about freelancers, not about SEO or content marketing, more like content filling

Most SEO is done by freelancers (at least in my industry). When i talk about content marketing i mean anybody who writes blog posts and LinkedIn posts for companies. It was already shit long before AI arrived.

Zos_Kia , 6 days ago

I see the folks organising and the protests, I honestly think we could clutch it. If only for the pleasure of telling Emmanuel to fuck off. The far right has wind in their sails but they are also terribly uncooperative with each other. Not saying it's a done deal but there's definitely some hope.

Zos_Kia , 7 days ago

You're totally right they should just put their hand inside the magical candidate bag where all the charismatic candidates are stored, say the magic formula, and pull one out. How stupid can they be!

Zos_Kia , 7 days ago

Because the base likes centrist wet napkins. I'm not sure who you're picturing as the base democratic voter block but they're not exactly a bunch of radicals.

Zos_Kia , 8 days ago

There's also Polyphia and that whole movement of progressive metal with no distortion. Their technical level is stellar.

Zos_Kia , 8 days ago

I'm not much into it but I think Polyphia is a good example. I once got down a rabbit hole of related bands on YouTube, I don't remember the names but it definitely is a scene. It's hyper technical, definitely progressive, but you'll hear little if any overdrive, kind of like the latest Tool album but taking it even further.

Tim Hansen from Polyphia is like nothing I've ever heard. He even plays on nylon strings most of the time, and he just shreds the fuck out of it. Check him out on YouTube if you haven't already!

Zos_Kia , 13 days ago

Thing is the oil industry is one of Mexico's greatest sources of wealth. In a sense it's part of what keeps them from being a third world country.

Zos_Kia , 17 days ago

Obligatory Premodernist reference : https://youtu.be/-aSdFrPnlRg?si=Tc8hwfEfZZn_HEuJ

Zos_Kia , 19 days ago

This exact joke is used in a Community episode, but I never saw it attributed to a professor

Zos_Kia , 21 days ago

We've got some good ones in french.

For example there's a bridge in Sepultura's Rattamahattah that distinctly sounds like "c'est dans ta chambre, ça pue l'opium" (it's in your room, it stinks of opium").

Also, Metallica's Unforgiven, the first verse sounds like "nous faisons des oeufs, et couic couic ils se tournent" (we are cooking eggs, and squeak squeak they flip).

Zos_Kia , 21 days ago

I worked with a guy who was Happiness Officer and all my friends found it hilarious. He was pretty good at keeping the team happy though so I didn't give him too much shit about it.

Zos_Kia , 20 days ago

Actually i've had the rare privilege of working in companies that really valued their employee's wellbeing. At least for some time. It was a combination of inexperienced founders, really convinced managers, and super enthusiastic investors who didn't really know how to crack the market so they kind of gave us all freedom to do as we pleased. This was all pre-COVID of course but it was a blast to waste millionaire money for a few years.

Zos_Kia , 22 days ago

My favorite is the Beetlejuice bit in Community

Zos_Kia , 22 days ago

Haha what are the odds! On the odd chance that you haven't already, you should definitely watch arrested development it is full of background jokes like that. MDMA optional but probably works too

Zos_Kia , 24 days ago

I don't understand that argument. We invented a term to describe a certain technology. But you're arguing that this term should not be used to describe such technology, as it should be reserved for another mythical tech that may or may not exist some time in the future. What exactly is your point here?

Zos_Kia , 24 days ago

I don't mean to throw shade but that explanation makes me understand even less. Yes, it is a generic term used to describe a whole array of technologies - is that a bad thing now ? I understand that some people might misunderstand if they don't know much about the subject but isn't that true of all technical terms ?

Zos_Kia , 23 days ago

Do you have information that any AI company is currently money ? AFAIK all foundational models are still bleeding money and are subsidized by VC money. There is even the distinct possibility that these companies may never be profitable at the current pricing.

Zos_Kia , 23 days ago

That's even richer. So the term AI should be reserved for the future tech that may or may not come to exist, even though that mythical technology already has a perfectly suitable name (AGI) ? That sounds... useful ! But also very interesting, and intellectually stimulating ! After all, who doesn't love those little semantics games ?

AI is a technical term that has been used by researchers and product developers for 50 years, with a fairly consistent definition. I know it hurts because it contradicts your pedestrian opinion on how Big Words should be used, but that's just the way it is. We're not at a point yet where humanity recognizes your legitimacy to decide how words are used.

Zos_Kia , 1 month ago

Yeah well, except those that don't, I guess