There's something I've seen a lot of people say: "I want to either save the world or destroy it" -- it's sort of a chuunibyou thing to say when you think about it, but it speaks more to the fact that many people -- both men and women -- don't feel like they are able to cultivate anything.
They've been told they can't do anything and so they dive into fiction where the heroes save the world and the villains destroy the world.
If we told people once again that they can cultivate something real in their lives if they work hard and smart and act with virtue then they might want to instead go on the adventure of their lives.
They've been told they can't do anything and so they dive into fiction where the heroes save the world and the villains destroy the world.
If we told people once again that they can cultivate something real in their lives if they work hard and smart and act with virtue then they might want to instead go on the adventure of their lives.
Under Principal-Agent theory, Musk is the president's agent -- which he is. A bunch of incompetent lawyers who gave it up to argue in the congress should even know that much. Musk only serves at Trump's pleasure, and the moment Trump isn't happy with what he's seeing, Musk will have to pound sand.
Ironically, many of the bureaucrats DOGE is helping to fire are the "unelected president" in their own minds. They think they don't serve at the pleasure of the president, they think their job is to serve... I guess whatever they want?
Ironically, many of the bureaucrats DOGE is helping to fire are the "unelected president" in their own minds. They think they don't serve at the pleasure of the president, they think their job is to serve... I guess whatever they want?
I don't want 25% tariffs any more than the next guy....
But Trudeau's a cuck and he should have realized that "mean girling" President Trump was never going to end well.
This is the bed Toronto and Vancouver made for us, now we have to sleep in it.
But Trudeau's a cuck and he should have realized that "mean girling" President Trump was never going to end well.
This is the bed Toronto and Vancouver made for us, now we have to sleep in it.
"If I can't fire them, then they don't work for me, they work for whoever can fire them."
Nobody can fire them.
"Then they work for Nobody. Get Nobody in here to figure this shit out."
Nobody can fire them.
"Then they work for Nobody. Get Nobody in here to figure this shit out."
Inflation is only 3% just stop buying food and shelter and start buying (checks) clothing, footwear, and home appliances! You're practically making money!
It's like a gas tank slowly filling to full, 30% there.
Then the novel is done and the effortposting shall resume. :P
Then the novel is done and the effortposting shall resume. :P
Well, medicare and medicaid are funded to a level which ought to be able to provide universal healthcare and does in every other country that does it, so I 1000% believe it. In fact, it should be the biggest scandal in America but they don't seem to care all that much.
True story: Back when I was a teenager, there was a program you could download that claimed to upload a new microcode to your CPU and it would let you use new instructions as if your CPU was a newer model.
Now today I'm sure there's a bunch of people who can tell immediately that it was either a scam or a lie, but back in the day everything was so miraculous on the technology front, who's to say what the next thing you could do wasn't downloading a better CPU? I mean, think of how absurd video game emulation was originally, or even MP3, being able to download some magic thing to make your CPU faster doesn't even seem that crazy. (Oh yeah, and minor miracles like ramdoubler, which compressed your memory -- and you might think "That's stupid" -- but Windows integrates that technology today, and we also had stuff like stacker which was stolen and made into doublespace in dos 6.22 which actually did work to make smaller hard drives larger)
Pretty sure though it didn't turn my 286 into a Pentium.
Now today I'm sure there's a bunch of people who can tell immediately that it was either a scam or a lie, but back in the day everything was so miraculous on the technology front, who's to say what the next thing you could do wasn't downloading a better CPU? I mean, think of how absurd video game emulation was originally, or even MP3, being able to download some magic thing to make your CPU faster doesn't even seem that crazy. (Oh yeah, and minor miracles like ramdoubler, which compressed your memory -- and you might think "That's stupid" -- but Windows integrates that technology today, and we also had stuff like stacker which was stolen and made into doublespace in dos 6.22 which actually did work to make smaller hard drives larger)
Pretty sure though it didn't turn my 286 into a Pentium.
IMO the best game of all time, definitely worth it.
But it's a SNES JRPG from 1995 so it might just be nostalgia goggles.
But it's a SNES JRPG from 1995 so it might just be nostalgia goggles.
If you look at most communist regimes, they don't look like what most of these people think they do, at least not after the revolution is over.
I read the entire article, and I saw a lot of fearmongering, but not a lot of substance.
It's fear porn.
The right has their dose of it too, if you read the right wing papers Joe Biden was both the most competent evil chessmaster in history and also basically pudding, a vegetable they had to hold his hand to sign anything. They were making the exact same noises about how Biden was trying to violate the law and court decisions to cancel student debt without an act of congress.
I'm not saying don't keep an eye on things. Just make sure you're actually getting worked up over things that happened and not things that the press is trying to make you think happened. You know, in the end Biden didn't really get to cancel much student debt because he did follow the court orders. 4 years passed and a lot of Republicans weren't happy with what happened, but American is still there.
When these people are saying "this is unprecedented!" they're just lying. Lincoln was a little dictator, and FDR was practically a king until he died. We have precedent for presidents who go way too far and we're not actually anywhere there yet. Trump's just a jerk. If we're being honest, is Trump even as bad at his worst as George W. Bush was on his best day? How much of everyone's freedom was taken out permanently under *that* administration? Do you remember the patriot act? Do you remember "torture is great we should do it every day"? An innocent man from my country was kidnapped on a layover and shipped to Syria where he was tortured for months, and it's just "well sucks to be you". Which guy would you rather have in the oval office right now?
I've had to admit I'm wrong about politicians in the past repeatedly because I'm kinda dumb, so if and when we start seeing Trump the fascist, I'll be right there with you. Last think I want is to see our neighbor actually being the thing the media kept on saying he is.
It's fear porn.
The right has their dose of it too, if you read the right wing papers Joe Biden was both the most competent evil chessmaster in history and also basically pudding, a vegetable they had to hold his hand to sign anything. They were making the exact same noises about how Biden was trying to violate the law and court decisions to cancel student debt without an act of congress.
I'm not saying don't keep an eye on things. Just make sure you're actually getting worked up over things that happened and not things that the press is trying to make you think happened. You know, in the end Biden didn't really get to cancel much student debt because he did follow the court orders. 4 years passed and a lot of Republicans weren't happy with what happened, but American is still there.
When these people are saying "this is unprecedented!" they're just lying. Lincoln was a little dictator, and FDR was practically a king until he died. We have precedent for presidents who go way too far and we're not actually anywhere there yet. Trump's just a jerk. If we're being honest, is Trump even as bad at his worst as George W. Bush was on his best day? How much of everyone's freedom was taken out permanently under *that* administration? Do you remember the patriot act? Do you remember "torture is great we should do it every day"? An innocent man from my country was kidnapped on a layover and shipped to Syria where he was tortured for months, and it's just "well sucks to be you". Which guy would you rather have in the oval office right now?
I've had to admit I'm wrong about politicians in the past repeatedly because I'm kinda dumb, so if and when we start seeing Trump the fascist, I'll be right there with you. Last think I want is to see our neighbor actually being the thing the media kept on saying he is.
I almost feel bad, there's good people out there who have been totally brainwashed into thinking the world is ending because a few Journalists didn't get their way. It's like... look, even if you don't like who's in charge, they won't be there forever. Either elections will happen or the old fart will die of old age.
That's just a fact though.
There are 3 branches of government, and the executive is supposed to execute the laws, and the legislature is supposed to write the laws, and the judiciary is supposed to adjudicate the laws.
It isn't the job of the executive to write laws or adjudicate laws.
It isn't the job of the legislature to execute the laws or adjudicate laws.
It isn't the job of the judiciary to execute or write the laws.
Now, there are places where these three roles do marginally intersect. Fair enough, but if an executive is saying that the executive has certain powers the judiciary has no power over, that's just a statement of fact, notwithstanding any mechanisms that directly slip into those roles for different reasons. If anything, it's a bad thing that we have so much of the government that wasn't elected to execute the laws trying to direct the execution of laws. Now, if the executive actions are unlawful, that's a different thing, but even within oversight the judiciary is only allowed to limit executive actions within the scope of the laws they have to work with.
If the action is legitimate -- meaning it is legal and constitutional -- and people disagree with it, then there are two methods to solve the problem. the first being legislative -- change the law to make it illegal, the second being political -- vote the bum out. In fact, the people did vote Trump out of office once already. He didn't like it, but they did.
If the action is not legitimate -- meaning it is not legal or not constitutional -- then the court has the power to do something about it. Trump already in his first term agreed to concede on issues the courts refused him on, such as his exectuive order on DACA or his executive order on the so-called "muslim ban", so it isn't like it's unprecedented. His executive lost lots of cases, and his executive abided by the decisions. We have examples from history that show the executive doesn't necessarily have to comply with court orders, the best example being FDR who ran roughshod over the supreme court to get his agenda blasted in.
The legal system isn't exactly like a math equation, but it does share some attributes like having rules that generally apply, and you have to keep those in mind when reading statements about the government because people can really make something that's just factually true sound scarier than it is. "In some geometries, the sum of the angles in a triangle is not 180 degrees." sounds pretty scary too until you realize you're just talking about non-Euclidean geometry.
There are 3 branches of government, and the executive is supposed to execute the laws, and the legislature is supposed to write the laws, and the judiciary is supposed to adjudicate the laws.
It isn't the job of the executive to write laws or adjudicate laws.
It isn't the job of the legislature to execute the laws or adjudicate laws.
It isn't the job of the judiciary to execute or write the laws.
Now, there are places where these three roles do marginally intersect. Fair enough, but if an executive is saying that the executive has certain powers the judiciary has no power over, that's just a statement of fact, notwithstanding any mechanisms that directly slip into those roles for different reasons. If anything, it's a bad thing that we have so much of the government that wasn't elected to execute the laws trying to direct the execution of laws. Now, if the executive actions are unlawful, that's a different thing, but even within oversight the judiciary is only allowed to limit executive actions within the scope of the laws they have to work with.
If the action is legitimate -- meaning it is legal and constitutional -- and people disagree with it, then there are two methods to solve the problem. the first being legislative -- change the law to make it illegal, the second being political -- vote the bum out. In fact, the people did vote Trump out of office once already. He didn't like it, but they did.
If the action is not legitimate -- meaning it is not legal or not constitutional -- then the court has the power to do something about it. Trump already in his first term agreed to concede on issues the courts refused him on, such as his exectuive order on DACA or his executive order on the so-called "muslim ban", so it isn't like it's unprecedented. His executive lost lots of cases, and his executive abided by the decisions. We have examples from history that show the executive doesn't necessarily have to comply with court orders, the best example being FDR who ran roughshod over the supreme court to get his agenda blasted in.
The legal system isn't exactly like a math equation, but it does share some attributes like having rules that generally apply, and you have to keep those in mind when reading statements about the government because people can really make something that's just factually true sound scarier than it is. "In some geometries, the sum of the angles in a triangle is not 180 degrees." sounds pretty scary too until you realize you're just talking about non-Euclidean geometry.
I'd say most people figured it out eventually.
You'll note I'm not even remotely defending them as they exist today. The only google product I still use regularly is youtube, since they have a lot of creators who don't post anywhere else. I run my own non-google searx instance with a yacy instance for search. It's been a long time I've been trying to be decentralized off of big tech as much as possible in general, and google specifically.
I'm solely explaining why people might have seen things differently back then. Even by 2013 I suspect a lot of people still didn't realize how bad it was to hitch your wagon with Google.
I really like Nextcloud news as an RSS reader. Lets me read the news online from anywhere, but also has a great app on android that syncs to the nextcloud instance.
You'll note I'm not even remotely defending them as they exist today. The only google product I still use regularly is youtube, since they have a lot of creators who don't post anywhere else. I run my own non-google searx instance with a yacy instance for search. It's been a long time I've been trying to be decentralized off of big tech as much as possible in general, and google specifically.
I'm solely explaining why people might have seen things differently back then. Even by 2013 I suspect a lot of people still didn't realize how bad it was to hitch your wagon with Google.
I really like Nextcloud news as an RSS reader. Lets me read the news online from anywhere, but also has a great app on android that syncs to the nextcloud instance.
"I came to England because I heard you get a free maid. After I called up to get mine, I don't know what I said but I'm pretty sure they're trying to kill me!!!"
A lot of people either weren't there or have been totally overwhelmed by the current view so don't realize things were different once.
Companies like Google were once considered actually good, and with some good reason. They produced software that was useful, but also stable -- people lived with win 9x for half a decade and between the OS crashing, wiping out your FAT, requiring a reinstall, and the reinstall being broken junk, people were used to their software being kind of junk. They provided that product free of charge due to ads which were shockingly reasonable and non intrusive compared to the brutal ads on most of the internet (and this was largely pre-adblock, you couldn't just install an extension and get normal internet yet)
It might look naive now, but it was a more optimistic time. It seemed like we were on the verge of a new era -- and we were, just not in the way any of us envisioned.
Companies like Google were once considered actually good, and with some good reason. They produced software that was useful, but also stable -- people lived with win 9x for half a decade and between the OS crashing, wiping out your FAT, requiring a reinstall, and the reinstall being broken junk, people were used to their software being kind of junk. They provided that product free of charge due to ads which were shockingly reasonable and non intrusive compared to the brutal ads on most of the internet (and this was largely pre-adblock, you couldn't just install an extension and get normal internet yet)
It might look naive now, but it was a more optimistic time. It seemed like we were on the verge of a new era -- and we were, just not in the way any of us envisioned.
"cheap gas and plastic straws" should have been in every ad. Who wouldn't vote for that?