Well, the first of Vox Day’s “Voxiversity” videos is out, on immigration and war. Predictably, within 25 minutes of being posted, the video was marked down. It apparently hadn’t actually violated standards, because despite already supposedly being “reviewed” it was allowed to stay up, but it was in twitter jail. Demonetized is the least of it. You can’t search for it. You can’t comment on it. You can’t share it via the usual share link. You can’t even save it to a playlist or “watch later”…
As always, take care, enjoy the weekend.…
Eric Raymond had posted a link to an article on how the Israelis had stopped school shootings – arming teachers. What was interesting was one of the first responses to that: > RP Maybe Israel has better qualified teachers then? In the US public school system, where teachers can’t even do anything about bullying among students (instead they do their own part of bullying causing the high uprise of mental health issues that no other country has), arming the teachers is likely gonna make it even wo…
Not sure if it will end up postable. Hard to top what Larry and Mike Z put out. Or Eric [http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7866], for that matter. Go read it, especially the commentary. The anti-gun types are oddly more restrained there than usual. I know, I agree with Vox that the current bowtie “conservative” set will fold like cooked spaghetti. Ditto the AR15.com crowd that got its panties in a bunch over the 16 points because they didn’t understand universal omni nationalism includes saying, yes,…
Over the last few days there’s been an interesting set of posts over at Brad Wardell’s blog and forums for Stardock related to their space 4x game, Galactic Civilizations III. The first that caught my eye was a discussion on why performance sucked on certain map sizes [https://forums.littletinyfrogs.com/487528/Galactic-Civilizations-III-Map-Sizes-and-Memory] . > One of the biggest challenges we have faced in developing Galactic Civilizations III has been map sizes and the memory they require.…