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sj_zero | @sj_zero@social.fbxl.net

Author of The Graysonian Ethic (Available on Amazon, pick up a dead tree copy today)

Also Author of Future Sepsis (Also available on Amazon!)

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Advocate for freedom and tolerance even if you say things I do not like

Adversary of Fediblock

Accept that I'll probably say something you don't like and I'll give you the same benefit, and maybe we can find some truth about the world.

Ah... Is the Alliteration clever or stupid? Don't answer that, I sort of know the answer already...

My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero's was sort of a fun comic, but nothing to write home about, but holy shit the animation budget on this thing. It looks like it belongs on a movie screen in the 1990s.

Ruling class sure is getting uppity lately. If they're not careful they're gonna start seeing the 1800s happening again.

Whether you're in the US, Canada, Europe, or anywhere with a functioning government at the moment, I cannot stress this enough:

Do not use bitcoin or other cryptos to avoid paying taxes.

You might have very nice computers, but the government has guns and angry smelly men who like making examples of people who try to avoid paying taxes, and they're like vampires in that you very much do not want to invite them into your homes.

Yes, of course.

He had a rich looking smile.

Seems really simple to me: eliminate both. No corporate bailouts, no snap. Eliminate the federal income tax.

"This is the story of the 1000 year old Japanese demon akamaru and his lover, the current reincarnaton of the Goddess Amaterasu."

"WOW IM A FEMINIST OK? AND IN THIS HOUSE WE BELIEVE IN HECKIN SCIENCE AND WE LIKE TO BE GAY DO CRIMES!"

No idea why so many are looking forward to eliminating western localizers.

Yeah, but you were gonna be stuck either way. A few months straight overtime would at least soften the blow.

Worst part for stranded astronauts is they typically don't get overtime pay so they're up there on their normal wage.

What a load of crap.

Anyone who thinks a hunter gathererer society doesn't stigmatize drug use (or at least unmanaged drug use with negative externalities) is an idiot.

A member of a small society like that would be given a few chances to reform, but eventually they would be kicked out, and they'd die as an outcast, lacking the support of their tribe. That's because there isn't that much to go around, and someone who isn't carrying their weight will eventually need to go because everyone else was fighting to survive. That's written into our DNA, in our extreme, today irrational fear of social rejection. In our shared past, it wasn't just uncomfortable, it was life or death.

Anthropologically, you can even see this in agrarian societies, where individuals live only a few miles from where their ancestors lived a millennium ago. In non western societies, getting kicked out of your village was a similar sort of death sentence, and only very recently has high technology made such events less fatal. Before you hit banishment, you'd better believe milder social stigmas kick in.

What's colonialist is the Rousseauian noble savage archetype that assumes the people in the lands not yet tamed by Europeans were living like advanced space aliens with no want nor judgement of any kind.

Many successful native tribes in North America heavily stigmatize drug and alcohol use, because of course they do. Also, many non western countries heavily stigmatize drug and alcohol use because the colonial history of the west is feeding drugs to them to get them addicted to take all their stuff. Far from demanding a stigma around these things, colonialism took advantage of the lack of stigma around drugs and alcohol to take advantage of communities. In that way, stigmatizing drug and alcohol use isn't colonialist, it's anti-colonialist.

Maybe these idiots should read about the history of colonialism instead of just saying whatever they dont like is colonialism? This argument borders on offensively historically illiterate.

Thank goodness for that. It's the only way the internet is actually robust in its original concept.

I've got one machine where I do a lot of my routine stuff in a VM running Linux on top of windows 11. Media can be a little dodgy since it needs to pass sound through but besides that it's perfect.

With some of the huge outages lately I have to laugh.

Think about it! The thing that's supposed to keep your site from going down went down! So our sites didn't go down because we're not using the service that keeps your site from going down!

Big problem is, what do you even do with that much power?

Considering how few good games have been released in the past 5 years, I'm still rocking a 2060 mobile and most games play perfectly.

A bear with a bluetooth speaker I'm ok with, but I agree with you that an AI toy for a little child is really concerning. In fact, most technology given to young children without parental guidance is really concerning.

I've heard reports of kids who go to kindergarten not knowing their own name. That seems stupid until you remember there's kids who are on tablets for hours and hours a day -- they're never referred to by their own name!

Manmade horrors beyond our comprehension? ✅

German word for the day:

Bandwurmwort

Literally "tapeworm word", a word for those huge german compound words.

In college, I used yahoo translate to give me "deuschegagenstandstarkaussprechen" as "long hard to say german word" with no spaces, but apparently it's just gibberish. So Bandwurmwort it is!

My mom got an "AI teddy bear", but it turns out it's just a Bluetooth speaker that uses a shitty app to produce shitty ai stories.

So you can just use other apps using Bluetooth!

I feel like this is a move straight out of professional wrestling.

"Oh, you don't wanna see it, there's nothing in there, nobody cares"

Crowd screams

"Oh? I mean, I could but it really doesn't matter

Crowd howls

"Well, I guess I'll just have to do it."

There are these driver packs you can get. You don't need to download the whole thing, it can just download the drivers you need, but you can also get the whole thing and just have all of the drivers. One of those life changing pieces of software tbh

https://sdi-tool.org/download/

I think the bigger question for him is: "how much higher can it go?"

Early on there's an asymmetric reward: lose a small investment or make huge gains. But Nvidia is already the largest company in history by market cap. Is it realistically going to double? Probably not, but it could half easily. So pull the plug and try to find something that's going to grow and isn't likely to drop.

Kind of really weird that people are calling trump a Nazi for eliminating state funded media.

The Nazis loved that shit.

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