@gear Imagine for a second, you had two criminals.
One criminal, you had a picture of his hand. On the other criminal, you had the criminal's full 3d body scan, his DNA, his blood type, recordings of his voice.
Which criminal are you more likely to catch?
This is the absurdity of people who claim an mRNA vaccine that produces exactly one part of a virus is going to provide better protection than actually getting the virus.
One criminal, you had a picture of his hand. On the other criminal, you had the criminal's full 3d body scan, his DNA, his blood type, recordings of his voice.
Which criminal are you more likely to catch?
This is the absurdity of people who claim an mRNA vaccine that produces exactly one part of a virus is going to provide better protection than actually getting the virus.
@TechNews Show me anyone who cares about 5g support.
"This is great! Now instead of burning through my entire monthly data package in 2 minutes, I can burn through it in 14 seconds!"
"This is great! Now instead of burning through my entire monthly data package in 2 minutes, I can burn through it in 14 seconds!"
@TheFreeThoughtProject I generally agree with you. Kids are kids, and we have some pathology where we insist on pretending kids are actually adult prisoners when they're in schools and treating them as such. If cops show up at a school, some serious shit better have gone down.
I will say, the past 2 years have proven to me I don't want to prejudge any situation, because I don't know what happened, and lots of people are going to lie to win your support in every direction you can imagine.
I will say, the past 2 years have proven to me I don't want to prejudge any situation, because I don't know what happened, and lots of people are going to lie to win your support in every direction you can imagine.
@FreyjaFrija obviously these people don't actually care or else they would get on to free platforms.
@xue @realcaseyrollins @whiteline the reality is liability exists everywhere. The bigger you are, the more open you are to being a target for a lawsuit. If you intentionally spill coffee that is served way too hot on yourself and you get horribly burned by it, there's a good chance you'll be able to get your medical bills paid. I don't really think that that's a good idea, I don't recommend you go off and damage your body to prove a point. I'm guessing it would be pretty unlikely the little tiny cafe would go out of their way to try to make the lawsuit go away through unethical means like McDonald's did, so they wouldn't end up with the massive punitive damages that McDonald's did.
This can hit a regular homeowner. Let's say you were over at my house visiting, and you went to go wash your hands after going to the bathroom. You expect the hot water to be at a safe temperature, but I have my hot water tank set to 205 Fahrenheit and just putting your finger under the water to test the temperature you have severe burns to the tip of your finger and have to go to the hospital.
As the owner of the property, actions or inactions that I've taken have harmed you, of course you can go off and sue me. That's one of the reasons why as a homeowner you're going to want to carry insurance.
This isn't criminal stuff, it's civil. You can sue anyone for damn near anything, and if you can prove the elements of the tort then you can probably win the case.
This can hit a regular homeowner. Let's say you were over at my house visiting, and you went to go wash your hands after going to the bathroom. You expect the hot water to be at a safe temperature, but I have my hot water tank set to 205 Fahrenheit and just putting your finger under the water to test the temperature you have severe burns to the tip of your finger and have to go to the hospital.
As the owner of the property, actions or inactions that I've taken have harmed you, of course you can go off and sue me. That's one of the reasons why as a homeowner you're going to want to carry insurance.
This isn't criminal stuff, it's civil. You can sue anyone for damn near anything, and if you can prove the elements of the tort then you can probably win the case.
@xue @realcaseyrollins @whiteline did the kettle manufacturer specifically choose to serve you coffee that was dangerously hot specifically because it was dangerously hot for the purposes of making a few more dollars?
If they sat down and said "we really need to sell a dangerous thing to Xue", then yeah, you probably have a case there. It's a really stupid idea to go around deciding to sell specifically dangerous food products that you have specifically chosen for their dangerous attributes. It's a great way to get sued.
If they sat down and said "we really need to sell a dangerous thing to Xue", then yeah, you probably have a case there. It's a really stupid idea to go around deciding to sell specifically dangerous food products that you have specifically chosen for their dangerous attributes. It's a great way to get sued.
@xue @whiteline @realcaseyrollins OTOH maybe don't intentionally keep your coffee dangerously hot as a cold calculation that it will make you slightly more money because it is too hot to safely drink.
@Otter Imagine pretending to be an anti-racism activist and this is your legacy.
I'd an hero myself if I was this much of a failure.
I'd an hero myself if I was this much of a failure.
By my count, refugees to the UK would come from France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, or Norway. Anyone who isn't a refugee from those countries presumably should have stopped before they end up in some island nation in the Atlantic ocean?
Remember that the unimaginably racist neo-Marxists have defined "whiteness" as "not being a total loser", or basically being someone of merit. With such an unimaginably racist viewpoint, everyone who isn't a total loser regardless of skin color, everyone of merit is "white". Because that's how they defined it, when they oppose "White supremacy", they're opposing the people of merit being supreme over those who lack merit.
Essentially, what they're calling for is a demeritocracy. They want people who are not of merit, people without self-control, people who don't work hard, people who don't have aptitude or skills or natural gifts to be in charge. This psychotic way of looking at the world fits with Communism, and you need to ask yourself if that's really acceptable to you. Why would we possibly want to be ruled by the worst of us when we can be ruled by the best of us?
A second question is: If you have a competition between a society that puts its best in charge, and another society that puts its worst in charge, which one do you think will be the better one to live in? Which would you rather live in?
Essentially, what they're calling for is a demeritocracy. They want people who are not of merit, people without self-control, people who don't work hard, people who don't have aptitude or skills or natural gifts to be in charge. This psychotic way of looking at the world fits with Communism, and you need to ask yourself if that's really acceptable to you. Why would we possibly want to be ruled by the worst of us when we can be ruled by the best of us?
A second question is: If you have a competition between a society that puts its best in charge, and another society that puts its worst in charge, which one do you think will be the better one to live in? Which would you rather live in?
@grey A searx instance is relatively light and gives you the possibility of seeing a bunch of results from search engines around the world. No ads, no special promoted links, just a bunch of search results from a dozen different search engines. I've been really happy using searx exclusively at home and at work.
There are some other cool things about using freedom respecting services based on FOSS. For example, I'm a black theme extremist. FBXL Social is black and red theme. FBXL Video is black and red theme. FBXL Search(the searx instance) is black and red theme. FBXL Lotide is black and red theme. FBXL Invidious is black and red theme. And my searx instance does youtube searches using invidious, so a huge chunk of my world is running the correct skin, as opposed to the sometimes white sometimes grey sometimes black of various services.
There's a plugin for chrome based browsers called Privacy Redirect that can take links to different big tech services and redirect to freedom respecting services. For example, I redirect twitter to poast's nitter instance, youtube to my lotide, reddit to libreddit, search engines to my searx instance, google translate to simplytranslate, and even wikipedia to wikiless.
There are some other cool things about using freedom respecting services based on FOSS. For example, I'm a black theme extremist. FBXL Social is black and red theme. FBXL Video is black and red theme. FBXL Search(the searx instance) is black and red theme. FBXL Lotide is black and red theme. FBXL Invidious is black and red theme. And my searx instance does youtube searches using invidious, so a huge chunk of my world is running the correct skin, as opposed to the sometimes white sometimes grey sometimes black of various services.
There's a plugin for chrome based browsers called Privacy Redirect that can take links to different big tech services and redirect to freedom respecting services. For example, I redirect twitter to poast's nitter instance, youtube to my lotide, reddit to libreddit, search engines to my searx instance, google translate to simplytranslate, and even wikipedia to wikiless.
@graf @SecularBlasphemy I think it's important to remember that whenever Gab talks about how free speech they are. They're so free speech that they had to silence the rest of the fediverse.
Tesla isn't anything to be that impressed by. They have revenue that's trivial compared to any other auto company. They can't build enough cars to keep up on orders. They sell a vehicle and you might not have it in your hands 3,4,5 years later, and despite having a decade to figure it out and virtually unlimited capital they've never scaled production.
The reason they've got a market cap greater than the rest of the auto industry combined is simply the everything bubble. Money is easily available, interest rates are low for bonds, inflation is fairly high, so there's a lot of money chasing returns so the rich don't get poorer, so anything that's gone up continues to go up as the money finds places to grow. In the case of tesla, you've got a company whose PE ratio is 10 times a typical tech company which is already overvalued, but the price keeps rising so people keep investing.
There is no competitive advantage for Tesla. Other companies are making electric cars of comparable quality. Other companies are making self-driving cars of comparable quality.
None of this is because I hate Tesla or Musk. He's taking advantage of the opportunity provided to him, because he's the right person at the right time to take advantage of a certain way of looking and a certain way of operating to attract capital. If I lucked out and became a billionaire early in my life, I'd probably do the same sort of stuff he does -- playing around with cool stuff I like because it's fun. We just need to recognize that a high stock price isn't an indication of a successful company.
A lot of companies are going to be going down the drain once the everything bubble pops, and Tesla is at the top of the list. They're barely profitable and not capable of scale, the work they do is no longer unique and the field they're in is becoming crowded with more mature players.
The reason they've got a market cap greater than the rest of the auto industry combined is simply the everything bubble. Money is easily available, interest rates are low for bonds, inflation is fairly high, so there's a lot of money chasing returns so the rich don't get poorer, so anything that's gone up continues to go up as the money finds places to grow. In the case of tesla, you've got a company whose PE ratio is 10 times a typical tech company which is already overvalued, but the price keeps rising so people keep investing.
There is no competitive advantage for Tesla. Other companies are making electric cars of comparable quality. Other companies are making self-driving cars of comparable quality.
None of this is because I hate Tesla or Musk. He's taking advantage of the opportunity provided to him, because he's the right person at the right time to take advantage of a certain way of looking and a certain way of operating to attract capital. If I lucked out and became a billionaire early in my life, I'd probably do the same sort of stuff he does -- playing around with cool stuff I like because it's fun. We just need to recognize that a high stock price isn't an indication of a successful company.
A lot of companies are going to be going down the drain once the everything bubble pops, and Tesla is at the top of the list. They're barely profitable and not capable of scale, the work they do is no longer unique and the field they're in is becoming crowded with more mature players.
@realcaseyrollins I agree with you to an extent, but I think there's some strategy that you need to employ.
When I was writing my book The Greysonian Ethic, I didn't really talk much about it because of the things you're talking about. Thing is, I didn't need any help or support to do that since I could do it all myself. Keeping quiet about it meant I could focus on putting my nose to the grindstone and doing the work instead of bragging about the thing I hadn't completed yet. I only started telling people about it when it was already complete and I was about to have it up on Amazon.
By contrast, there's been a lot of strategic decisions at work (completely unrelated to writing a book) that required ongoing support from my bosses, and so learning how to explain your vision, the purpose of your vision, the consequences of following and not following through, and the resources you need is key to getting a long term strategy implemented.
When I was writing my book The Greysonian Ethic, I didn't really talk much about it because of the things you're talking about. Thing is, I didn't need any help or support to do that since I could do it all myself. Keeping quiet about it meant I could focus on putting my nose to the grindstone and doing the work instead of bragging about the thing I hadn't completed yet. I only started telling people about it when it was already complete and I was about to have it up on Amazon.
By contrast, there's been a lot of strategic decisions at work (completely unrelated to writing a book) that required ongoing support from my bosses, and so learning how to explain your vision, the purpose of your vision, the consequences of following and not following through, and the resources you need is key to getting a long term strategy implemented.
@hn100 Fucking morons.
It's incredible, I never thought I'd see people get something so categorically backwards.
"allowing misinformation" isn't a problem. Using their massive platform to enforce government propaganda is a problem. That's actual authoritarianism, it's actual fascism, and it's an actual problem.
The free expression of ideas someone in power does not like is not a problem, it's the way the world ought to be. If they want to live in a world where the state uses its tendrils to "end disinformation", they should all move to China.
It's incredible, I never thought I'd see people get something so categorically backwards.
"allowing misinformation" isn't a problem. Using their massive platform to enforce government propaganda is a problem. That's actual authoritarianism, it's actual fascism, and it's an actual problem.
The free expression of ideas someone in power does not like is not a problem, it's the way the world ought to be. If they want to live in a world where the state uses its tendrils to "end disinformation", they should all move to China.
@SneedsterSpeedster @noyoushutthefuckupdad There were some good episodes of TOS and TNG about that sort of thing, where they were faced with the reality that you could present a truth that could kill or a fiction that would keep the peace, and often it wasn't so cut and dry that they'd just kill a society every single time.
@noyoushutthefuckupdad My mom wanted to watch some of the new Star Trek, so we watched these "short treks". One of them was about how religion is bad. I'm like "Wow, this would have been so cutting edge 70 years ago! Definitely good writing and not hackneyed and cliché at all in current year.