Leftists seem to just believe they're correct by default as a virtue of their leftism. That makes sense in sense of the evidence, and also why there's this steering towards absolutism. If you're always in the right, then of course people should always follow your rules and any violation of those rules is evil.
Guys like me didn't like it when George W. Bush painted the entire world as feedom vs. terror because that was overly simplistic and lacked nuance. It's internally consistent to then oppose painting the world as racist vs. non racist because it too is overly simplistic and lacks nuance, particularly when the definition of "racist" and "non-racist" are completely arbitrary.
Problem is that if you view things through the lens of race by default (and the point of critical race theory is to view everything through the lens of race) then of course you're going to come up with bad data, because most things aren't related to race.
In buddhism, there is a parable where someone asks a monk if a dog has a buddhist nature. The monk replies "Mu". This is interpreted a saying "the question is wrong". In the book Zen and the book of motorcycle repair, this is mentioned because in digital logic there are two states that are commonly known, high or low, but there is in fact a third state as indeterminate or high Z. In this case the answer is that there is no answer because the device isn't sending a meaningful signal.
In digital logic design this comes up as well. "What do you do if the value of an integer is 1 and the third bit of the integer is 1?" the answer is "don't worry about it, that's axiomatically impossible". Any hypothetical behavior under such a condition is irrelevant and a waste of thought considering.
This last point is important to consider because of another thing that happened to me. When I worked in retail, you were always supposed to ask about a bunch of the deals of the week or buying lottery tickets or a bunch of other things when someone was checking out. None of them were things anyone needed, but they were all things that benefitted the company. The reason we ask is because if you ask a bunch of people about something, some people will choose wrong. In considering the wrong questions, you could sometimes get bad answers, and from those bad answers you might get further bad questions that lead to further bad questions, and eventually you get an entire body of knowledge based on bad questions leading to bad answers.
Phlogestin theory, or the theory of 4-elements. These things were once considered to be correct, and people put a lot of thought into them, but the data they supplied was often garbage. If you ask "What is the buddhist nature of a dog?" or "What is the digital nature of a dog?" or "What is the racist nature of a dog?" you won't get meaningful data out of the question, but if you take that answer as true then you could be lead down an absurd path.
Guys like me didn't like it when George W. Bush painted the entire world as feedom vs. terror because that was overly simplistic and lacked nuance. It's internally consistent to then oppose painting the world as racist vs. non racist because it too is overly simplistic and lacks nuance, particularly when the definition of "racist" and "non-racist" are completely arbitrary.
Problem is that if you view things through the lens of race by default (and the point of critical race theory is to view everything through the lens of race) then of course you're going to come up with bad data, because most things aren't related to race.
In buddhism, there is a parable where someone asks a monk if a dog has a buddhist nature. The monk replies "Mu". This is interpreted a saying "the question is wrong". In the book Zen and the book of motorcycle repair, this is mentioned because in digital logic there are two states that are commonly known, high or low, but there is in fact a third state as indeterminate or high Z. In this case the answer is that there is no answer because the device isn't sending a meaningful signal.
In digital logic design this comes up as well. "What do you do if the value of an integer is 1 and the third bit of the integer is 1?" the answer is "don't worry about it, that's axiomatically impossible". Any hypothetical behavior under such a condition is irrelevant and a waste of thought considering.
This last point is important to consider because of another thing that happened to me. When I worked in retail, you were always supposed to ask about a bunch of the deals of the week or buying lottery tickets or a bunch of other things when someone was checking out. None of them were things anyone needed, but they were all things that benefitted the company. The reason we ask is because if you ask a bunch of people about something, some people will choose wrong. In considering the wrong questions, you could sometimes get bad answers, and from those bad answers you might get further bad questions that lead to further bad questions, and eventually you get an entire body of knowledge based on bad questions leading to bad answers.
Phlogestin theory, or the theory of 4-elements. These things were once considered to be correct, and people put a lot of thought into them, but the data they supplied was often garbage. If you ask "What is the buddhist nature of a dog?" or "What is the digital nature of a dog?" or "What is the racist nature of a dog?" you won't get meaningful data out of the question, but if you take that answer as true then you could be lead down an absurd path.
@jeffcliff personally, I'd like to see every one of them resign, especially federally, for not locking down the border and letting the disease into the country in the first place. We had a massive head start and yes we did quarantine truckers, but there were a ton of exceptions and that's where we got the real problems from.
There were no cases in Canada last Feburary when we knew there was a pandemic.
Weve only known how to prevent infectious diseases for hundreds of years, but we had to lock down 35 million people for over a year instead of inconveniencing a few rich twats who think they deserve special treatment.
There were no cases in Canada last Feburary when we knew there was a pandemic.
Weve only known how to prevent infectious diseases for hundreds of years, but we had to lock down 35 million people for over a year instead of inconveniencing a few rich twats who think they deserve special treatment.
@jeffcliff Problem is, for which side?
I'm disappointed that Ford went so authoritarian, others will be disappointed that he didn't. Fact is that to lead and to make decisions is to piss someone off. If you spend all your time trying not to piss anyone off, you'll piss someone off more.
I'm disappointed that Ford went so authoritarian, others will be disappointed that he didn't. Fact is that to lead and to make decisions is to piss someone off. If you spend all your time trying not to piss anyone off, you'll piss someone off more.
@eff big tech should have realized that this outcome was inevitable once they started using their platforms to advance a certain political agenda.
Censorship begets censorship.
Censorship begets censorship.
@shpuld I have written at length about the environmental industrial complex, which rather than helping the environment just packages up the idea of environmentalism into a package you’ll be willing to pay extra for. This is a prime example of that at work.
@DeveloperMemes
It's a bug but it's probably fixed in the latest version. Wait, you upgraded to the latest version? Oh.....
It's a bug but it's probably fixed in the latest version. Wait, you upgraded to the latest version? Oh.....
Don't do meth and fentanyl. If you're gong to do meth and fentanyl, stay home. If you're going to do meth and fentanyl and go out driving don't spend counterfeit money, and if you're going to do meth and fentanyl and go out for a drive and spend counterfeit money then just get in the damn cop car.
This take is very controversial.
This take is very controversial.
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@joerebelloharley https://search.fbxl.net is one I run on parts scavenged from a roadside sign. Has most search engines except the biggest one.
@alex hypothetically speaking, what if you use electrical tape and unbleached tissue paper?
On a lark I started watching Spoony's old review of Nightmare. It's sort of scary how prophetic it became.
Now he's stuck in the blaghole...
Now he's stuck in the blaghole...
@ohellno Don't know for sure, but I was able to use mailjet for registrations before I switched to mxrouting for all my email.
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/05/983855753/group-chat-app-discord-says-it-banned-more-than-2-000-extremist-communities
We need to keep in mind it's always one move from "banning bad guys" to "banning good guys". Just one syllable.
We need to keep in mind it's always one move from "banning bad guys" to "banning good guys". Just one syllable.
Letter co-signed by Ottawa's top doc calls on province to issue stay-at-home order | CTV News
https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/mobile/letter-co-signed-by-ottawa-s-top-doc-calls-on-province-to-issue-stay-at-home-order-1.5375181
This just in: retards who don't realize we are in a lockdown that followed the lockdown preceding the lockdown are calling for a lockdown!
I know! How about another lockdown! It's helped so much until now!
This just in: retards who don't realize we are in a lockdown that followed the lockdown preceding the lockdown are calling for a lockdown!
I know! How about another lockdown! It's helped so much until now!
@Atlas though I should mention it's not really "over", it's "in addition to" for now.
@Atlas Matrix in general, particularly using the element client on the web, on desktop, or on mobile, is a much more polished experience. XMPPs user experience is all over the place. Some clients support OMEMO, some don't. Some support images, some don't. Most of the clients are vintage 2003 and show it. You feel like you're basically using a glorified irc client and you don't know what the other folks are or aren't seeing.
Playing with Matrix. I was pretty disappointed with synapse (100% CPU utilization at idle!), but switched to conduit and it behaves just like my xmpp server does.
@Breaking911 200 companies still silent about actual honest to god ethnic concentration camps