I agree that the olmecs are one of the world civilizations worth paying close attention to.
The Spanish really did humanity an injustice burning all the books, it would have been nice to have archeologists have access to all the Aztec writings too.
A non-tourist look at American pre-columbian civilizations is very interesting in part because it shows parallel diverging development, but one that still had constraints and often butted up against them.
The constraints that ended the olmecs are warnings to us today not just because we do follow them but because we could follow them and so the experiment has already been run, but most people won't listen.
Tourists of course will invoke debunked noble savage models that justify revolutionary erasure of our own traditions, but have little resemblance to the real history.
The Spanish really did humanity an injustice burning all the books, it would have been nice to have archeologists have access to all the Aztec writings too.
A non-tourist look at American pre-columbian civilizations is very interesting in part because it shows parallel diverging development, but one that still had constraints and often butted up against them.
The constraints that ended the olmecs are warnings to us today not just because we do follow them but because we could follow them and so the experiment has already been run, but most people won't listen.
Tourists of course will invoke debunked noble savage models that justify revolutionary erasure of our own traditions, but have little resemblance to the real history.
I feel like YouTube gave them a lot of good boy points recently because I don't watch rlm other than plinkett reviews but since January it's just ended up auto playing for hours.
"you're right! Looking at the news it is false that ice is only deporting American citizens!
What I meant to say is that ice is only deporting American citizens!"
Those who know, know.
What I meant to say is that ice is only deporting American citizens!"
Those who know, know.
https://thecritic.co.uk/must-we-cancel-plato/
This is secretly a news story about an incompetent philosophy professor who decided to publicly show their incompetence.
A philosophy professor ought to know how to make arguments that follow from the facts.
In this case, a specific module in a specific course was revoked from a (presumably federally funded) university because of a ban on advocating for race or gender ideology.
The professor is quoted as saying "to bar a philosophy professor from teaching Plato is unprecedented."
If a philosophy professor made such an argument, they should probably be fired, because it's a poor argument and someone trained in philosophy should simply know better.
By the way, some ancient Greeks might have been gay, and that's ok. You'll see why I mention this later.
There's lots of things you're not allowed to teach in universities. Good luck teaching hardcore white supremacist racism in a university. Try to teach 4 elements theory as fact and see how far that gets you in a university classroom. Critically analyze the darker parts of the Talmud or Quran, find out how long you're a professor there for.
Many of these things could involve reading ancient greeks, but to be stopped from teaching them does not follow as not being allowed to teach plato, it's not being allowed to teach these things.
If one is asking about proportionality, the problem isn't that the professor was wrong. People are wrong all the time. It's that he was wrong, loudly wrong, and then made it an international spectacle of being wrong. Sorry, that's not a good career move. Don't go to the press with your petty grievances unless you're actually in the right, because if you're embarrassingly wrong then you're probably going to have to find a new job.
And if you're progressive and disagree strongly with my post, well I CANNOT BELIEVE that a progressive would NOT ALLOW ME TO SAY IT'S OK TO BE GAY!
See? Looks stupid, doesn't it?
I hope you understand, the point is that I'm implying that by disagreeing with my post you disagree specifically with the one thing in it and therefore I can act outraged that you don't agree with that little thing. Obviously a prog who doesn't like my post is going to be disagreeing because I'm defending a policy about not having racial or gender politics in class, not specifically arguing against the idea that it's ok to be gay.
A is included in B, B isn't good, therefore A isn't good, but that's not necessarily true. Maybe A was the only good part of B which overall wasn't good. Again, anyone with a high school level understanding of logic should understand that.
I could have a module on "Hitler was right" and then have Plato show up in it (and you could, there's stuff in The Republic that could suggest Hitler was correct in certain ways), and guess what? The administrator would go "Get that module about Hitler out of there".
Even worse, I'm just a dumbass on the Internet. If it's this clear to my 79 IQ ass, it should have been crystal clear to a philosophy professor.
This is secretly a news story about an incompetent philosophy professor who decided to publicly show their incompetence.
A philosophy professor ought to know how to make arguments that follow from the facts.
In this case, a specific module in a specific course was revoked from a (presumably federally funded) university because of a ban on advocating for race or gender ideology.
The professor is quoted as saying "to bar a philosophy professor from teaching Plato is unprecedented."
If a philosophy professor made such an argument, they should probably be fired, because it's a poor argument and someone trained in philosophy should simply know better.
By the way, some ancient Greeks might have been gay, and that's ok. You'll see why I mention this later.
There's lots of things you're not allowed to teach in universities. Good luck teaching hardcore white supremacist racism in a university. Try to teach 4 elements theory as fact and see how far that gets you in a university classroom. Critically analyze the darker parts of the Talmud or Quran, find out how long you're a professor there for.
Many of these things could involve reading ancient greeks, but to be stopped from teaching them does not follow as not being allowed to teach plato, it's not being allowed to teach these things.
If one is asking about proportionality, the problem isn't that the professor was wrong. People are wrong all the time. It's that he was wrong, loudly wrong, and then made it an international spectacle of being wrong. Sorry, that's not a good career move. Don't go to the press with your petty grievances unless you're actually in the right, because if you're embarrassingly wrong then you're probably going to have to find a new job.
And if you're progressive and disagree strongly with my post, well I CANNOT BELIEVE that a progressive would NOT ALLOW ME TO SAY IT'S OK TO BE GAY!
See? Looks stupid, doesn't it?
I hope you understand, the point is that I'm implying that by disagreeing with my post you disagree specifically with the one thing in it and therefore I can act outraged that you don't agree with that little thing. Obviously a prog who doesn't like my post is going to be disagreeing because I'm defending a policy about not having racial or gender politics in class, not specifically arguing against the idea that it's ok to be gay.
A is included in B, B isn't good, therefore A isn't good, but that's not necessarily true. Maybe A was the only good part of B which overall wasn't good. Again, anyone with a high school level understanding of logic should understand that.
I could have a module on "Hitler was right" and then have Plato show up in it (and you could, there's stuff in The Republic that could suggest Hitler was correct in certain ways), and guess what? The administrator would go "Get that module about Hitler out of there".
Even worse, I'm just a dumbass on the Internet. If it's this clear to my 79 IQ ass, it should have been crystal clear to a philosophy professor.
Necessity is the mother of invention, and opportunity is the father. Not everyone is going to get the same opportunities. Equality of opportunity can’t truly exist, because sometimes an opportunity is simply being in the right room at the right time. Therefore, when opportunity knocks, if it’s something you want to do, open the door.
This weekend was the time, it was time to have a difficult conversation with my son about pronouns.
See, "you" and "me" switch places depending on who is saying it. That's really hard to explain! "To you, me is me and I am you, but to me, me is me and you are you"... I realized I could directly use our names, but it took some time to figure out how to explain!
See, "you" and "me" switch places depending on who is saying it. That's really hard to explain! "To you, me is me and I am you, but to me, me is me and you are you"... I realized I could directly use our names, but it took some time to figure out how to explain!
Oh... "Isekai Office Worker: The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter" appears to be very very gay.
I'm sure someone likes that, but I guess I'll drop this one.
I'm sure someone likes that, but I guess I'll drop this one.
Canada will deploy both submarines in West Edmonton Mall (even though I'm pretty sure Alberta might invite the West Point boys in)
https://futurism.com/future-society/meta-reality-vr-layoffs
I've still got an early oculus rift. Not the earliest dev kit, but an early rift.
The same year, I bought a crappy 3d printer.
Since then, I haven't bought many vr games, and my VR goggles are in a tote in the garage. It's cool tech, but it's anti-addictive tech. It makes you sick to your stomach. It blocks out everything you see. It blocks out everything you hear. It makes you look silly and you know it.
It was never going to be a common technology. Not like a smart phone.
Even as an industrial technology, nobody will be living in VR. "I'm an architect!" Great, you can walk around in your design for 15 minutes after spending hours doing other work to get there. "I can have a meeting in the metaverse!" You're going to spend thousands of dollars to have a virtual reality meeting that could be a real life meeting that could be a zoom meeting that could be a phone call that could be an email?
Future iterations could work. A very limited augmented reality, or an extremely flexible transparent augmented reality such as what I describe in Future Sepsis. In that book, neural integration technology would take augmented reality objects and seamlessly place them in the real world, so a trivial amount of energy could replace manufactured trinkets or other wasteful uses of matter, but that's a much different thing, and metaverse is more or less orthoganal to that idea. A future generative AI model running on efficient future hardware could basically create unlimited virtual stuff to the extent that some people never turn off their AI and never think about what is physical vs. what is virtual. That's going to need orders of magnitude of growth in every tech required, we won't see it in my lifetime.
The 3d printer is still useful -- I finished off a roll of plastic yesterday, over a decade after I built my first 3d printer. My sons crib had design flaws and needed some little plastic supports I designed and printed, and it'll just be part of our lives now. The thing is, the printer isn't something I need to use every day. I just go to it when I need it, and sometimes it's just the right tool for the job, a I don't need to keep my printer running every moment I use a print. My kid sleeps in his modified bed for 8 hours every night. My laptop desk has a printed flange that holds the power bar, and a printed clip to hold the rotating desk parallel, and it's been like that for years. My water bottle has a printed handle, and it's just part of my daily life. Nothing similar came out of VR.
I've still got an early oculus rift. Not the earliest dev kit, but an early rift.
The same year, I bought a crappy 3d printer.
Since then, I haven't bought many vr games, and my VR goggles are in a tote in the garage. It's cool tech, but it's anti-addictive tech. It makes you sick to your stomach. It blocks out everything you see. It blocks out everything you hear. It makes you look silly and you know it.
It was never going to be a common technology. Not like a smart phone.
Even as an industrial technology, nobody will be living in VR. "I'm an architect!" Great, you can walk around in your design for 15 minutes after spending hours doing other work to get there. "I can have a meeting in the metaverse!" You're going to spend thousands of dollars to have a virtual reality meeting that could be a real life meeting that could be a zoom meeting that could be a phone call that could be an email?
Future iterations could work. A very limited augmented reality, or an extremely flexible transparent augmented reality such as what I describe in Future Sepsis. In that book, neural integration technology would take augmented reality objects and seamlessly place them in the real world, so a trivial amount of energy could replace manufactured trinkets or other wasteful uses of matter, but that's a much different thing, and metaverse is more or less orthoganal to that idea. A future generative AI model running on efficient future hardware could basically create unlimited virtual stuff to the extent that some people never turn off their AI and never think about what is physical vs. what is virtual. That's going to need orders of magnitude of growth in every tech required, we won't see it in my lifetime.
The 3d printer is still useful -- I finished off a roll of plastic yesterday, over a decade after I built my first 3d printer. My sons crib had design flaws and needed some little plastic supports I designed and printed, and it'll just be part of our lives now. The thing is, the printer isn't something I need to use every day. I just go to it when I need it, and sometimes it's just the right tool for the job, a I don't need to keep my printer running every moment I use a print. My kid sleeps in his modified bed for 8 hours every night. My laptop desk has a printed flange that holds the power bar, and a printed clip to hold the rotating desk parallel, and it's been like that for years. My water bottle has a printed handle, and it's just part of my daily life. Nothing similar came out of VR.
[admin mode] power failure due to electrical repairs. Back up now. One huge win that came out of this is I created a script to handle changes to ip, and script immediately operated as designed, so DNS came up a lot faster.
Since it's Beverly hills, I'd want all the high technology security gear, because if just one of those kids has anything happened to them the state of California is going to get sued so hard it'll revert back to Mexico.
The bottom of the list.... Talking her attractive female friends into threesomes. That tracks. Good hobby.
I actually read about this yesterday, good science is a son of a bitch. It takes idea that you hold dear, and puts it in a blender and it turns out most things don't survive.
Quantum physics takes Newtonian physics and proves it completely wrong, to the extent that it basically breaks modernist epistemology. It proves we don't live in A clockwork universe.
If something that fundamental can be broken by good science, whatever you hold dear will be under threat as well. That's how you know it's working.
Quantum physics takes Newtonian physics and proves it completely wrong, to the extent that it basically breaks modernist epistemology. It proves we don't live in A clockwork universe.
If something that fundamental can be broken by good science, whatever you hold dear will be under threat as well. That's how you know it's working.
China Birth Rate Falls To Lowest Since 1949 https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/19/144215/china-birth-rate-falls-to-lowest-since-1949?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon