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Advocate for freedom and tolerance even if you say things I do not like

Adversary of Fediblock

Accept that I'll probably say something you don't like and I'll give you the same benefit, and maybe we can find some truth about the world.

Ah... Is the Alliteration clever or stupid? Don't answer that, I sort of know the answer already...

No, that's true. There's nothing to be done about it.

The only reason I've been forcing myself to remember the second part is that it's really easy to forget yourself when facing an unambiguously evil foe. You can fall into the "Hitler drank water! Ban water!" trap.

At that point it isn't about the movement, it's just about keeping my own feet nailed to the floor, not losing myself to the moment and giving up my own principles.

tbf, he was awarded it for being anyone but bush. Adolf Hitler could have been elected on a blue ticket and he probably would have gotten the nobel peace prize

It's funny because 10 years ago this wouldn't have been a remotely controversial viewpoint, but the morons have allowed themselves to build an echo chamber so pure they don't realize they're completely insufferable to the vast vast majority.

It's sad because the backlash isn't going to be fair to groups of people who were part of the affected minority groups who didn't care about SJW bullshit and just wanted to be left alone.

These people imagine themselves the new aristocracy, and so they think they're fit to judge others like they do.

The only shame is that people who don't know are denied exposure to some of the most interesting, fun, insightful people on the fediverse because a bunch of witch hunters made up some charges.

(That said, I'm glad I was able to bully myself onto the list, those nazi gestapo piece of garbage deserve the police state they're creating for themselves)

I'd say it's a natural result of massive oligopolies, combined with the retarded labor policies we've implemented through covid.

There are very few cell networks in Canada. Rogers, Fido, Bell, and Shaw, providing coverage over an area larger than the US. If there's a problem with one of them, that's a huge percentage of the population unable to communicate, because there's no other options. The same companies have internet oligopolies. If a piece of key infrastructure at Rogers goes down, there's a huge chunk of the country without Internet.

Second, I strongly believe that WFH is going to ultimately be career suicide for 98% of people who get into the habit. Lots of people are working from home, and they don't have access to their coworkers, and they don't have access to the equipment, and they aren't in the office, and maybe they're being distracted by other stuff.

It drives productivity down, and I suspect that WFH is one of the reasons why all these big tech sites and big infrastructure has gone down in the past 2 years.

I don't think it would happen. The market is too integrated with other stuff around the world.

The stock market would basically have been one room back then, today you've got pension funds, ETFs, retirement savings plans, and all sorts of stuff constantly buying in.

Ok, I was gonna say "Guess I'm gay then"

The academic process is not the scientific process. There's a great video floating around fediverse with an old scientist talking about his experience deprogramming postgrads.

Could be espionage, could be that the powers that be are pushing companies to operate without proper maintenance, increasing the risk of catastrophic failures.

Satoshi Haidou of Hokkaido.

In the art of war, it is essential that you be the one to pick the battlefield. Say what you will about the Democrats, they're experts at choosing the battlefield.

I could be convinced that dysphoria is a thing at that age, but how can you even do research on such a thing in such a political environment?

It would be like being in Germany in 1938 and trying to do research about the jews. What exactly do you think the outcome of any such research is going to be?

Dug my oculus rift out of the closet. It's a tech that sounds amazing on paper, but once you put the unit on you find it's a really exhausting thing. Besides the fact that you're using your entire body to play these games or even to just do basic navigation, I find that it's just taxing being in the virtual world.

That isn't to say that it's going to go away or anything, but meta really made a mistake thinking that this is going to be something everybody does.

#feditips some platforms let you create timed posts so you can line up all kinds of posts to occur in the future to make it look like you never leave your desk.

It's likely totally false, or a gross exaggeration.

I've found a lot of articles in sources I have no real reason to trust, but you'd think this would be on the front page of every newspaper if it was true, since it'd be a world paradigm shift.

They're claiming they've found almost twice as much gold as the human race has ever mined through history, in one shot.

World class gold mines can get 15 tons per year of gold at great effort and expense, and such huge reserves at one mine would imply that this one mine would effectively shut down all of them by putting out an order of magnitude more gold than the entire gold industry.

It's possible, but it's an extraordinary claim.

This bowl of dicks is going to change how humans eat forever. It's going to solve world hunger

I don't hate Musk, but he's a shyster. While charging people to watch him eating a bowl of dicks, he'll tell everyone how it's going to transform humanity and bring them to new horizons.

Science is my jam.

But science isn't politics, and the moment they intermingle, politics will overpower science every single time.

Japan is a couple decades ahead in many ways. I suspect that when their boomers fade away, they'll be one of the first to get the next boom caused by falling house prices and rising incomes.

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