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sj_zero | @sj_zero@social.fbxl.net

Author of The Graysonian Ethic (Available on Amazon, pick up a dead tree copy today)

Also Author of Future Sepsis (Also available on Amazon!)

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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...

You don't need a lack of ec to become filthy rich, just corruption. When the state is so big I need to earn three or four dollars to earn a dollar for myself (the balance being paid for by loans we don't intend to pay back) the easiest route to becoming filthy rich isn't serving customers, but sucking up to the mega state.

I remember reading a long time ago that a disgust over disease or uncleanliness was a Hallmark of fascist/natsoc ideology. Ironic that then people call others Nazis for not caring so much about a virus.

If I'm paying to have one for a certain period of time they are.

Different if you get paid piecemeal or work different shifts different times of the day, but double dipping is grossly unethical.

There's an old saying: "you can make a million dollars honestly and fairly. But you can't make a billion."

I guess you'll be ok if your landlord rents your apartment to different people when you're not in it without telling you?

I mean, you're not using it when you're out.

YouTuber law was pretty interesting but got thanos snapped by YouTube.

Best buy might have stuff to buy, but every time I've walked in looking for a thing and using their sales people it's been a fail.

Around 2011 I was looking for a gaming laptop. They found me a laptop that was great....that had Intel graphics. Great. I went to a different store that hooked me up with a great laptop with a GeForce 745M that I used for like 5 years.

Our brains are wired for what allows us to survive and replicate, not for what is true. It's a difficult thing for human beings to engage in the truth. We have to fight for it and once we've achieved it's not what we wanted it to be because the world outside of us doesn't give a rats ass what we want to be true.

I'd say it's less sad and more a requirement. You can't have a species committing suicide en masse once it reaches a point it can realize the horror of reality.

A lot of the ships burn stuff way worse than diesel, as well.

I worked with bunker oil before, it's the nastiest shit you can imagine. You need to heat it up just to get it to start flowing, and you can burn it all you want in international waters. I was working with it in a jurisdiction with few environmental restrictions, it wasn't acceptable most places...

Not to mention whatever generating station produced the electricity.

I think there's inarguably value in having sustainable power generation, we have to be very careful because it's very easy to leave out a step and think that you have something that is much better than it really is. A lot of our so called Green solutions simply involve move pollution to somewhere they don't care about pollution. We end up looking fantastic and meanwhile we make countries like Russia, china, and Saudi Arabia rich.

If I can afford a $60,000 electric vehicle, I'm probably not in that much trouble when my hydro bill goes way up.

I used the calendar watch face, and I really liked it.

I see the word "neoliberalism" thrown around a lot, but I had to look up what it meant.

It appears that neoliberalism is the idea of less centralized economic control in governments, and a move away from welfare states.

Seems like neoliberalism is a coat of paint slapped over centralized economic control, but the overwhelming government control of the economy has gotten worse, not better over the past 100 years.

Right now, to earn a dollar I need to earn two dollars: One for me, one for the state (and two more for my son who will have to pay for the debt we racked up his entire life and will never pay down ourselves). That being the case, I can't agree that we're living under anything like less centralized economic control than 100 years ago. Both establishment political ideologies seem to occasionally talk about ideas like this, but then grow government. One side grows it by increasing debt, the other by increasing taxes.

The pebble was a much more flexible device. There were a lot of different watch faces, and when you received a message you could use the buttons on the side to send a canned response. Watchfaces could be downloaded on pebble as I recall, but you're stuck with a fixed set of faces on the bip.

Good news, everyone! Inflation is over forever!

Loved my pebble, but the screen would always fail, and then they went out if business.

Nowadays I've got an Amazfit BIP, which isn't as good but does have a way better battery life.

Corporations infiltrating schools to an extent isn't a conspiracy or even controversial. Many schools are proud of its connections to the industries it will be sending students into.

I know in our local course for my field, there's a class that sticks out like a sore thumb, because it's not even part of the core competencies, but it's 10 times harder than anything around it, and it creates lots of students who can't proceed because they can't get that course.

"Internet's down." NOT TO ME IT ISN'T

It becomes a really odd sensation when you look up at your tabs and realize most of what you're looking at is your own websites.

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