@geotechland @Gargron @pixelfed Lots of people see the "fragmentation" of FOSS software to be a bug, when it's actually a feature. Instead of having a centralized command and control central function where they tell you what you want, each project can produce their vision of what good looks like and individuals can choose what they like.
Now that the fundamentals are shaping up, the question now is where do we all want to go from here?
Personally, I think most big tech sites are set up terribly. As in, they're really difficult to use for fundamental functions. Stepping back from the big tech sites and making the sites we want to make is going to mean having something that works better for users rather than better for companies trying to sell maximum advertising.
Now that the fundamentals are shaping up, the question now is where do we all want to go from here?
Personally, I think most big tech sites are set up terribly. As in, they're really difficult to use for fundamental functions. Stepping back from the big tech sites and making the sites we want to make is going to mean having something that works better for users rather than better for companies trying to sell maximum advertising.
@alex sort of like the Alex Jones of radical feminism. Even if you don't agree with her, it's entertaining watching.
@grey @BigDuck In The Graysonian Ethic, I have a substantial chapter about attraction and meeting people -- ultimately it turned out to be women, since we had a son. The advice I give regarding online dating was fitting here:
"My generation and likely many of the generations after me have made a critical mistake. We gave too much of our lives to the Internet. I would like to propose a theorem: “people online tend to stay online, and people in real life tend to stay in real life”. A lot of people my age have made the mistake of thinking that the Internet is a replacement for real life. The friends you meet online may be fantastic, but they are not your real-life friends. You can have 1200 people on your Facebook, but no one to help you move a couch or to go camping with or to head to the bar. There is a distinct difference between the Internet and the real world, and if you are not careful you will end up deeply depressed because despite all of this social interaction in the virtual realm, you are completely alone at home. Something similar goes for Internet dating. There are definitely stories out there of people who have met their soulmate through Internet dating. There are also people who are in the top 1% of attractiveness who can constantly go out and find people to go on dates with. Particularly if you are a man, however; do not get sucked in by the hype. The juice is not worth the squeeze. You can end up spending hours and hours and hours typing with people, and maybe that person who's made up of words and carefully constructed paragraphs is someone that you think that you would really like, but then you meet and there is just no chemistry. You cannot measure chemistry online, and frankly most people cannot get across why they are amazing to be with in the real world using an online dating profile. There is a massive market out there, but the market is not what it looks like. It is like walking into a luxury store and seeing all the goods and assuming that you can get them, but then you open up your wallet and it is empty, and in spite of all of the amazing things in front of you; they are not really marketed to you and you cannot walk out of that store with anything."
"My generation and likely many of the generations after me have made a critical mistake. We gave too much of our lives to the Internet. I would like to propose a theorem: “people online tend to stay online, and people in real life tend to stay in real life”. A lot of people my age have made the mistake of thinking that the Internet is a replacement for real life. The friends you meet online may be fantastic, but they are not your real-life friends. You can have 1200 people on your Facebook, but no one to help you move a couch or to go camping with or to head to the bar. There is a distinct difference between the Internet and the real world, and if you are not careful you will end up deeply depressed because despite all of this social interaction in the virtual realm, you are completely alone at home. Something similar goes for Internet dating. There are definitely stories out there of people who have met their soulmate through Internet dating. There are also people who are in the top 1% of attractiveness who can constantly go out and find people to go on dates with. Particularly if you are a man, however; do not get sucked in by the hype. The juice is not worth the squeeze. You can end up spending hours and hours and hours typing with people, and maybe that person who's made up of words and carefully constructed paragraphs is someone that you think that you would really like, but then you meet and there is just no chemistry. You cannot measure chemistry online, and frankly most people cannot get across why they are amazing to be with in the real world using an online dating profile. There is a massive market out there, but the market is not what it looks like. It is like walking into a luxury store and seeing all the goods and assuming that you can get them, but then you open up your wallet and it is empty, and in spite of all of the amazing things in front of you; they are not really marketed to you and you cannot walk out of that store with anything."
@grey @sickburnbro @DK_Dharmaraj I admit I turned out to be entirely wrong about Lin Wood. He's the epitome of a grifter.
https://thepurplewave.substack.com/p/the-purple-wave-issue-3
There's a great article in this newsletter for the PPC about science -- what is and is not science, and in particular the fact that true science is self-correcting.
There's a great article in this newsletter for the PPC about science -- what is and is not science, and in particular the fact that true science is self-correcting.
@Bleukitty no, the Liberals were more conservative back then but they aren't now. Back then they were slowly and deliberately making good decisions in my opinion, today Trudeau is off of his rocker.
@Bleukitty The Liberal Party of Canada had a balanced budget from 1998 until they were out of power in 2006. The Conservatives Party of Canada took those surpluses and increased spending and cut taxes and we've never had a balanced budget ever since.
https://nitter.poast.org/Noahpinion/status/1466258004865470464?s=20
Unlike leftists, I'm not actually racist, so the idea of stopping a genocide of babies resulting in more people who don't look like me doesn't bother me that much.
Unlike leftists, I'm not actually racist, so the idea of stopping a genocide of babies resulting in more people who don't look like me doesn't bother me that much.
@graf @goo Producing the next generation is halal and based.
Just make sure you raise them right to be smart, strong, and capable.
This week my son and his mother came home from the hospital, it's a whole new life for us, but thankfully it rhymes with my old life.
To prepare myself to help my son grow up well, I wrote a series of essays and had them put together as a book, The Graysonian Ethic, which I self-published on Amazon because there's no better way to print copies of a book in high quality at a low price.
Just make sure you raise them right to be smart, strong, and capable.
This week my son and his mother came home from the hospital, it's a whole new life for us, but thankfully it rhymes with my old life.
To prepare myself to help my son grow up well, I wrote a series of essays and had them put together as a book, The Graysonian Ethic, which I self-published on Amazon because there's no better way to print copies of a book in high quality at a low price.
@Bleukitty I didn't vote for Trudeau, but if I was available on election day in 2015 I would have.
I figured legalized pot, and the last time the liberals were in power they balanced the federal budget for a decade.
I was proven completely and utterly wrong, and today I'm a card carrying member of the People's Party of Canada, the most libertarian federal party in Canada. https://www.peoplespartyofcanada.ca/platform
I figured legalized pot, and the last time the liberals were in power they balanced the federal budget for a decade.
I was proven completely and utterly wrong, and today I'm a card carrying member of the People's Party of Canada, the most libertarian federal party in Canada. https://www.peoplespartyofcanada.ca/platform
@Zennblack I'm holding my son right now. I saw him in the womb at 13 weeks. We saw his heart beating, and we saw him dancing around in the womb. At that point a boarding that child would have been legal in all 50 states. This isn't a religious thing at this point, it's opposition to murder. If you don't want to have a kid, don't have sex, don't create a life and then murder it because it's inconvenient.
https://invidious.fbxl.net/watch?v=TY6XUcZ8MqQ
It's a slow burn but this needs to be watched by everyone who thinks the government can give them everything
It's a slow burn but this needs to be watched by everyone who thinks the government can give them everything
@Shizu This is great!
I'd prefer to have the people who don't actually believe in freedom of speech to keep the toys they broke, and all the cool smart handsome people can come over here and occasionally see words and ideas they don't like but realize that's the price of freedom.
No, we'll definitely wrongspeak at you so you should stay on twitter.
I'd prefer to have the people who don't actually believe in freedom of speech to keep the toys they broke, and all the cool smart handsome people can come over here and occasionally see words and ideas they don't like but realize that's the price of freedom.
No, we'll definitely wrongspeak at you so you should stay on twitter.
@Dianathy @average_random_joe @ned there is a school of thought that not irrationally considers that people who are mentally ill should not be held criminally responsible for their actions. Short of some sort of actual psychosis, I think we have to be very careful along those lines. If you had a voice in your head telling you to kill your family, would you do it? Or would you have a strong enough moral foundation that just being told to do a thing by a voice in your head isn't enough to make you go off and do that thing?
There's a lot of people who end up getting urges to do things. I don't know about you, but I get urges to do things all the time that I don't do. If I see a really pretty girl walking down the street with big tits, part of me wants to go and just start doing all kinds of unspeakable things, but I don't because I'm not a psychopath. My moral sense is stronger than whatever urge I get. They're more mundane things too. Maybe I see someone walking down the street with an ice cream cone, and I would love an ice cream cone. Do I walk up and steal the ice cream cone? Of course not because I'm not a psychopath. If I'm sitting in front of a big glass window, and I just think that it would be really cool if someone threw a rock through the window and smashed it and you got to see all the glass raining down, I don't grab a rock and throw it at the window because I'm not a psychopath.
Obviously there are people who are psychopaths out there, people who just aren't wired to have any kind of internal moral sense and they don't have the sort of self-control to exist in a society. Maybe for those people you can say they don't need any responsibility for their actions because their brains are literally wired in such a way that they can't take responsibility for their actions. But for the vast majority of people, including the vast majority of people with mental illnesses, that's just not the case.
On a tangent for a minute, there are people who go off their meds, and go off and do something unspeakable. I think that when that happens, they should be held criminally responsible because they made the choice to stop taking their meds while they were still on their meds. If you have something like an Elliot Rodgers who was prescribed antipsychotics and then just refuse to take them, if that person then goes off and does something unspeakable while off their meds, I think you should hold the medicated individual responsible for the actions of the unmedicated individual.
There's a lot of people who end up getting urges to do things. I don't know about you, but I get urges to do things all the time that I don't do. If I see a really pretty girl walking down the street with big tits, part of me wants to go and just start doing all kinds of unspeakable things, but I don't because I'm not a psychopath. My moral sense is stronger than whatever urge I get. They're more mundane things too. Maybe I see someone walking down the street with an ice cream cone, and I would love an ice cream cone. Do I walk up and steal the ice cream cone? Of course not because I'm not a psychopath. If I'm sitting in front of a big glass window, and I just think that it would be really cool if someone threw a rock through the window and smashed it and you got to see all the glass raining down, I don't grab a rock and throw it at the window because I'm not a psychopath.
Obviously there are people who are psychopaths out there, people who just aren't wired to have any kind of internal moral sense and they don't have the sort of self-control to exist in a society. Maybe for those people you can say they don't need any responsibility for their actions because their brains are literally wired in such a way that they can't take responsibility for their actions. But for the vast majority of people, including the vast majority of people with mental illnesses, that's just not the case.
On a tangent for a minute, there are people who go off their meds, and go off and do something unspeakable. I think that when that happens, they should be held criminally responsible because they made the choice to stop taking their meds while they were still on their meds. If you have something like an Elliot Rodgers who was prescribed antipsychotics and then just refuse to take them, if that person then goes off and does something unspeakable while off their meds, I think you should hold the medicated individual responsible for the actions of the unmedicated individual.