I just had a couple of chestnuts. I've never had chestnuts before in my life.
I can see why. They're edible, but they're not very good.
I can see why. They're edible, but they're not very good.
More like boot the arrogant attitude from the perspective.
I can see a case for something called humanism. We have the set of morals we do because we are human. It's built right into the structure of any morality created. We're going to have morals determined by the fact that we eat food that's either plant based or animal based, that we reproduce sexually, that we are social, intelligent, and rather weak on our own.
If we were a species that fed ourselves with photosynthesis, reproduced asexually, were anti-social, unintelligent, and overwhelmingly strong on our own we'd be a completely different thing and a human set of morals would be completely incomprehensible to them, just as the set of morals for such a hypothetical creature would be completely incomprehensible to us.
The issue is that there isn't a straight line from our current morality to our humanity. It's a winding path that involved may different humanistic ideas that were decided in one way or another over millennia. It's equally human to say "slavery is wrong because those are humans too and we're social animals" as it is to say "Slavery is ok because humans are tribal creatures and those humans are not part of our tribe", or to say "Slavery is ok because we decided the people who are slaves did something to deserve slavery", such as the slavery that was outlawed in Ghana in 1998 (and whose justification looks chillingly like woke ideology).
So why would we choose one direction over the other? The answer lies in our culture, and it's inarguable that in the west, Christianity dominated our culture for over 1000 years.
If we ditch our culture, and ditch the driving force our that culture, then we will inevitably have to come up with answers from scratch, and as we're seeing now those answers might not be so nice. They might be reprehensible.
So for that reason, humanism is fine as a concept, but too arrogant as a fully baked ideology.
I can see a case for something called humanism. We have the set of morals we do because we are human. It's built right into the structure of any morality created. We're going to have morals determined by the fact that we eat food that's either plant based or animal based, that we reproduce sexually, that we are social, intelligent, and rather weak on our own.
If we were a species that fed ourselves with photosynthesis, reproduced asexually, were anti-social, unintelligent, and overwhelmingly strong on our own we'd be a completely different thing and a human set of morals would be completely incomprehensible to them, just as the set of morals for such a hypothetical creature would be completely incomprehensible to us.
The issue is that there isn't a straight line from our current morality to our humanity. It's a winding path that involved may different humanistic ideas that were decided in one way or another over millennia. It's equally human to say "slavery is wrong because those are humans too and we're social animals" as it is to say "Slavery is ok because humans are tribal creatures and those humans are not part of our tribe", or to say "Slavery is ok because we decided the people who are slaves did something to deserve slavery", such as the slavery that was outlawed in Ghana in 1998 (and whose justification looks chillingly like woke ideology).
So why would we choose one direction over the other? The answer lies in our culture, and it's inarguable that in the west, Christianity dominated our culture for over 1000 years.
If we ditch our culture, and ditch the driving force our that culture, then we will inevitably have to come up with answers from scratch, and as we're seeing now those answers might not be so nice. They might be reprehensible.
So for that reason, humanism is fine as a concept, but too arrogant as a fully baked ideology.
Aren't you guys glad there's literally nothing going on in the world, so the powers that be can focus on drinking straws?
It sure would be annoying if we were in the middle of stagflation and had worldwide famines coming, wouldn't it? We couldn't focus on important stuff like drinking straws.
It sure would be annoying if we were in the middle of stagflation and had worldwide famines coming, wouldn't it? We couldn't focus on important stuff like drinking straws.
If you think about it, it's an ideology with very little intellectual rigor.
They're saying that words can have whatever definitions they want, but not whatever definitions we want.
It's postmodernism if you got a D in philosophy. Fitting, since their philosophies also consistently get a D in history.
They're saying that words can have whatever definitions they want, but not whatever definitions we want.
It's postmodernism if you got a D in philosophy. Fitting, since their philosophies also consistently get a D in history.
Everyone knows inflation isn't just 8%.
One of the ways that they've gained the system with respect to inflation is something called hedonic adjustment. Basically, if this month you can afford to eat steak and next month you can afford to eat chicken but the chicken is the same as the steak was in terms of price then prices haven't risen. If the month after that you move from chicken to bologna, prices haven't risen. If the month after that you move from bologna to organ meats, prices haven't risen. That's despite the fact that steak meanwhile has gone up a thousand percent.
Another thing that they do is they will arbitrarily claim that something whose prices have gone up actually hasn't had the prices go up because the quality is better than it was. For example, if computers go up they can just say well computers are faster than they were they're a better thing so even though computers went up they actually didn't.
For homes, rather than going out and finding the average rents in different cities, they use this completely fake number called owner's adjusted rent where they ask a bunch of people who don't pay rent what their rent would be if they paid rent. You can imagine that this insane false number doesn't actually contribute to anything.
According to a lot of people, if we still measured inflation the way they did in the 1980s, inflation would be at least double what it is now.
One of the ways that they've gained the system with respect to inflation is something called hedonic adjustment. Basically, if this month you can afford to eat steak and next month you can afford to eat chicken but the chicken is the same as the steak was in terms of price then prices haven't risen. If the month after that you move from chicken to bologna, prices haven't risen. If the month after that you move from bologna to organ meats, prices haven't risen. That's despite the fact that steak meanwhile has gone up a thousand percent.
Another thing that they do is they will arbitrarily claim that something whose prices have gone up actually hasn't had the prices go up because the quality is better than it was. For example, if computers go up they can just say well computers are faster than they were they're a better thing so even though computers went up they actually didn't.
For homes, rather than going out and finding the average rents in different cities, they use this completely fake number called owner's adjusted rent where they ask a bunch of people who don't pay rent what their rent would be if they paid rent. You can imagine that this insane false number doesn't actually contribute to anything.
According to a lot of people, if we still measured inflation the way they did in the 1980s, inflation would be at least double what it is now.
Here's something I've been trying to wrap my head around: isn't what we call "left wing" really "right wing" by that measure?
These people are pushing what has been established order for longer than most of us have been alive. Of course they are making changes, but those changes are in line with that long running dominant ideology.
Most people I see who are pigeonholed into "right wing" are strongly skeptical of the establishment and established order. If most people got what they wanted the world would work fundamentally differently than it does today, so how are they protecting the old order?
These people are pushing what has been established order for longer than most of us have been alive. Of course they are making changes, but those changes are in line with that long running dominant ideology.
Most people I see who are pigeonholed into "right wing" are strongly skeptical of the establishment and established order. If most people got what they wanted the world would work fundamentally differently than it does today, so how are they protecting the old order?
I don't like war...
But if I were Putin I'd keep the war going until q2 2023 to remind Europe you can't eat money or heat your home with money.
But if I were Putin I'd keep the war going until q2 2023 to remind Europe you can't eat money or heat your home with money.
I doubt there's even anything out there anymore, but I think my first linux was called something like minilinux, I think this is it: https://mvalente.eu/1995/03/13/mini-linux-is-official-and-yes-there-will-be-a-new-version-someday/
I didn't get a full cd version of linux until much later, and on dial-up you weren't gonna download a CD of anything.
When people talk about how linux's ux sucks, they don't know how far it's come.
I didn't get a full cd version of linux until much later, and on dial-up you weren't gonna download a CD of anything.
When people talk about how linux's ux sucks, they don't know how far it's come.
https://video.fbxl.net/w/c4VCPW1VQiTAhU59o4cqnX
The host is annoying, but this is a really interesting video about massive viruses that are as large as other microbes.
The host is annoying, but this is a really interesting video about massive viruses that are as large as other microbes.
Not in eu, but last November for the first time ever I grabbed a generator and a bunch of fuel and some heaters just in case we ever need to keep the house warm in winter and all other options are out of reach. It was looking scary then, long before Ukraine looked like a problem.
Really cool #nextcloud feature I just discovered. If you have geotagged photos uploaded to your nextcloud and then add the maps addon (which uses #openstreetmap), your photos will be shown on the map by where they were taken.
Really cool, and as far as I know unique as well.
Really cool, and as far as I know unique as well.