It's sort of insane when you think about it, everyone works super hard, 2 income households, just so they can pay someone else to raise their kids with support of the state.
With insane policies like that, no wonder mental health problems are rampant! Raising your kids is one of the fundamental things that gives life meaning.
With insane policies like that, no wonder mental health problems are rampant! Raising your kids is one of the fundamental things that gives life meaning.
Should be careful of a slope of hope, common in big slides.
That being said, there's plenty of blame to go around, including Trump. Looking at the person in charge when the giant powderkeg finally blows misses the forest for the trees.
That being said, there's plenty of blame to go around, including Trump. Looking at the person in charge when the giant powderkeg finally blows misses the forest for the trees.
When you have something a lot of people want, you have to be very careful or you're going to get used. Anyone who had some success in their career quickly learns this. Suddenly you've got a few people who want to be your "best friend", and they all have some sob story about how the world is against them and woe be unto them.
That's pretty impressive they got him so fast. Too bad they can't convict a bunch of billionaire pedophiles they have a literal list of from a guy who ran something called pedophile island. That would be really impressive.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/electric-vehicle-battery-replacement-cost-more-than-car
Beware the environmental industrial complex. They are not selling you a green car, they are selling you the idea of saving the environment, and it doesn't matter what the actual environmental cost is.
Beware the environmental industrial complex. They are not selling you a green car, they are selling you the idea of saving the environment, and it doesn't matter what the actual environmental cost is.
I've been generally careful regardless, not planning to stop now.
Being against abuse of government power doesn't mean an elimination of personal responsibility, it means the opposite.
Being against abuse of government power doesn't mean an elimination of personal responsibility, it means the opposite.
If I had to guess, looks like a prettied up version of the wolf3d style raycaster. Different height ceilings and floors, 3d objects can exist in the map space, but only orthogonal walls.
https://timcast.com/news/gop-bill-would-allow-women-to-collect-child-support-from-moment-of-conception/
Well, it's internally consistent. Plus, it isn't like kids don't cost money in the womb!
Well, it's internally consistent. Plus, it isn't like kids don't cost money in the womb!
Finally happened, finally got covid.
It sucks, I slept all day yesterday, but I'm fine. I checked and it turns out that I still don't think that we should implement a fascist dictatorship to do anything about it. It's just a particularly bad cold. I'll survive guys.
It sucks, I slept all day yesterday, but I'm fine. I checked and it turns out that I still don't think that we should implement a fascist dictatorship to do anything about it. It's just a particularly bad cold. I'll survive guys.
These people didn't eliminate religion, they simply replaced one for another. The problem is that they moved from a religion with millennia of intellectual rigor to one lacking any such rigor. That's why such a wide variety of people can look at their new religion and attack it.
It's pretty funny, these people all think that they're on the right side of history. Despite that, history tells us a story where every time you mindlessly hate someone based on a characteristic they have absolutely no control over, you end up as the bad guys.
They either don't realize this, or they just don't care...
They either don't realize this, or they just don't care...
Exactly.
The greatest hypocrisy is that the same people who want to lecture us all on climate change using the exact same logic, except that running up debt at the rate we're doing it will inevitably lead to doom within a generation.
The greatest hypocrisy is that the same people who want to lecture us all on climate change using the exact same logic, except that running up debt at the rate we're doing it will inevitably lead to doom within a generation.
Unrelated to Berserk, Phantom of Paradise is a sort of wierd movie with really decent 70s music.
I found one open source deepfake thing, but there was absolutely no way I was going to take all the steps it was going to in order to make it work.
I'm always disappointed when I have to rely on closed software.
I'm always disappointed when I have to rely on closed software.
I found one called descript. It does two things, first it will split up a recording of speech into the individual words and allow you to edit as if you're just editing a text file. The other thing that includes is a deep fake text to speech. Now for ethical reasons, it forces anyone who's speech is being synthesized to say a whole thing that they're okay with their speech being synthesized, but the results were shockingly good. I uploaded a bunch of myself reading and a bunch of myself narrating the videos that I've done for work, and it was able to train the model using that, and I had to tell the people listening to the resulting recording that it wasn't me, because you really couldn't tell.
I'm beginning to finish up the next step of the journey for my book The Graysonian Ethic: Lessons for my unborn son. Realistically, it turns out that Amazon is not like Wrigley field. If you build it, they will not necessarily come. Therefore, I will be creating an audio book version and releasing it chapter by chapter on several video platforms. The idea being that for some number of interested people, they'd find the audio book interesting and want to have a paper or electronic copy of the text.
Unfortunately, it's like if you're in a race including 100 people, and you get dead last. By the time you see that checkered flag, it's far too late. The things that you needed to do in order to win this race cannot be done in the 15 ft before you hit the finish line.
A lot of people are really confused seeing all the stuff that I do for my son. They don't understand why I would spend so much effort when he's less than a year old. Before he was even born I spent a significant amount of time figuring out the lessons that I wanted him to learn early on, and coming up with a general strategy to raise him with a specific focus on early life.
The reason is that everything that I read suggests that the most important stuff happens the earliest on. Essentially, by the time your kid hits puberty, your volume is about to get turned way down, and the only thing that that kid is going to have is what you have already taught him. You are not just teaching him by the things you say, but by the way you act and the way that you interact with the world.
Unfortunately, it is also true that all you can do is your best. Even people raised with the best of actions in the best of intentions will occasionally spit out somebody who despite having all the tools of their disposal will decide to do the wrong thing. But the chances are a hell of a lot lower.
The most terrifying thing to me is the fact that one dominant political movement is specifically advocating for the exact circumstances that create violent criminals. They are advocating for fatherlessness, they are advocating for the elimination of the nuclear family, they are advocating for absolute permissiveness and degeneracy.
A lot of people are really confused seeing all the stuff that I do for my son. They don't understand why I would spend so much effort when he's less than a year old. Before he was even born I spent a significant amount of time figuring out the lessons that I wanted him to learn early on, and coming up with a general strategy to raise him with a specific focus on early life.
The reason is that everything that I read suggests that the most important stuff happens the earliest on. Essentially, by the time your kid hits puberty, your volume is about to get turned way down, and the only thing that that kid is going to have is what you have already taught him. You are not just teaching him by the things you say, but by the way you act and the way that you interact with the world.
Unfortunately, it is also true that all you can do is your best. Even people raised with the best of actions in the best of intentions will occasionally spit out somebody who despite having all the tools of their disposal will decide to do the wrong thing. But the chances are a hell of a lot lower.
The most terrifying thing to me is the fact that one dominant political movement is specifically advocating for the exact circumstances that create violent criminals. They are advocating for fatherlessness, they are advocating for the elimination of the nuclear family, they are advocating for absolute permissiveness and degeneracy.
I really see a lot of parallels between the people and especially the editorials that seek to blame millennials for every single thing that happens, and the exact same types of editorials that seek to blame baby boomers for every single thing that happens.
I mean absolutely, there are individual baby boomers and individual millennials who are responsible for things that go on. But these articles never seem to be focusing on individuals and positions of power to make decisions that cause bad things to happen. Instead, they focus on the fact that an aggregate of people doing completely normal things is somehow even because a lot of people doing completely normal things happens to have an impact.
Think about it: people get mad at baby boomers for buying things and then later on those things that they bought got more expensive. What exactly are they supposed to do about that? They existed prior to the prices going up, they acted the way that they wanted to before the prices went up, then the prices went up. No individual person who is just trying to buy a house has any control over what the Federal reserve is going to do or what the government is doing.
Seems like the exact same thing with respect to the millennials. They get blamed because they don't like to eat spam, or use fabric softener, or buy as much mayonnaise. I just don't see the moral component to these actions.
If you walked up to me and said "hey, you aren't buying enough mayonnaise, that makes you a bad person" I would just gawk at you. Look at the crazy person. I think that any one person saying this to any other one person would have the exact same reaction. And yet, because it's big media organizations saying it about a generational cohort, somehow people don't just look at the same thing and behave the same. "Wow... So you're saying because I saved for retirement, that makes me fundamentally morally evil? Well I guess people are allowed to be wrong, it's a free country..."
I mean absolutely, there are individual baby boomers and individual millennials who are responsible for things that go on. But these articles never seem to be focusing on individuals and positions of power to make decisions that cause bad things to happen. Instead, they focus on the fact that an aggregate of people doing completely normal things is somehow even because a lot of people doing completely normal things happens to have an impact.
Think about it: people get mad at baby boomers for buying things and then later on those things that they bought got more expensive. What exactly are they supposed to do about that? They existed prior to the prices going up, they acted the way that they wanted to before the prices went up, then the prices went up. No individual person who is just trying to buy a house has any control over what the Federal reserve is going to do or what the government is doing.
Seems like the exact same thing with respect to the millennials. They get blamed because they don't like to eat spam, or use fabric softener, or buy as much mayonnaise. I just don't see the moral component to these actions.
If you walked up to me and said "hey, you aren't buying enough mayonnaise, that makes you a bad person" I would just gawk at you. Look at the crazy person. I think that any one person saying this to any other one person would have the exact same reaction. And yet, because it's big media organizations saying it about a generational cohort, somehow people don't just look at the same thing and behave the same. "Wow... So you're saying because I saved for retirement, that makes me fundamentally morally evil? Well I guess people are allowed to be wrong, it's a free country..."