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

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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...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1dzNuyq6O0

Interesting story about the creation of the iPod. It's interesting to note how much of the story is of Apple taking existing ideas and existing products and putting them together. A lot of the time that's how big revolutions come about, applying existing tools in new ways.

While it's obviously important that programs are well programmed and the like, the most important parts are the things one or two steps away from the code. You could have the best program on the planet for example and if it's impossible to install, or maintain, or use, then it's not the best program on the planet.

A lot of the open source programs I use, whether it's servers or programming languages or operating systems or web apps, won in part because I was able to figure out how to make it work. I'm sure I'm not alone.

tfw some of them aren't even android apps...

I've followed Peterson for a while, and I've seen him break down a number of times.

Of course he would. He's empathetic towards the people he wants to help, because he actually went out to understand people who need help rather than just calling them unfixable and less than human.

I've been married for a long time and my son is laying on the floor next to me, but once I was what you might call an "incel", before that became the insult du jour.

Something a lot of these judgmental pieces of trash don't care to know is that a lot of people who don't have women are like that because they were pursuing something else. A lot of good men with good backgrounds and great jobs spent all their time building that background and getting that job, so of course they don't know how to attract women. It's not a personal failing.

Take 100 people in an engineering classroom or a law classroom or a medical classroom learning to do a really difficult job that takes a lot of work, and take 100 people in a trap house surrounded by druggies. I bet you there's fewer virgins in the trap house by far. I guess by this metric it's better to be a drug addict than anything respectable.

Some men need some help. Some men need help earlier in life because they don't have any ambition to do anything or they don't know how to get started or they need someone to tell them it's ok to want better out of your life, some men need a hand when they're building something and things are hard because you're deferring gratification, some men need a hand after they've built something and they don't know how to get to the next step because they've spent all their lives doing what they were supposed to do!

And when someone is there to give help, they're viciously attacked. Think about it: This guy gives advice like "clean your room, take on responsibility, stand up straight, contribute to society, try to do the right thing" and they treat him like he's teaching men to become serial killers or something!

The "Incel community" in my view came about because every time men tried to better themselves, society slaps them and tells them they're evil for even trying. Eventually, those same men just go "Oh, I guess I'm just broken then" and so they just agree with society.

I've helped out virgins who were actually great guys. Some were artistic, some were athletic, some were massively accomplished professionally. Some were more handsome than average. It might shock you how little help a lot of these supposed incels needed. A few hours changed their lives.

What it takes is just a little bit of a hand up, and we're all elevated. Our entire society is better for it. The men are better, and the women who are now realizing they can't find a good man are better, but it means treating the world like it's not a zero sum game, and it means not trying to knock down anyone who isn't you or part of your tribe.

Imagine having a natural disaster and your first reaction is explicitly racist.

These people need to an hero.

>tfw you start thinking that gas prices are awfully high these days...

There's a show from the 90s called 'first wave' that I always thought was funny that was like this. Everyone is being difficult and he always just goes "you have to belieeeeeeve me! Aaaaaaliens are taking over the planet" and everyone believes him and they foil the aliens plans.

Even as a little kid I thought that was hilarious and pretty unrealistic.

yeah, that's why they're jannies.

yeah, referring to mods or admins who have to sweep up people's messes

Also, he's a janny.

Jannies are never normal people. Can confirm, am technically a janny.

every tiem

Authoritarian whackjobs always find a way.

Whelp, no use worrying too much about it. They were always going to execute me anyway. Might as well take the bullet like a man.

Der fuhrer's pomeranian lapdog might have had some chance of being prime minister, but as a member of the cult he can't possibly step out of line.

Naw, I'll just vote for the people who just lost the territory despite having the financial and material backing of every great power and one superpower.

It'll be fine.

"Hey, people we invaded. Wanna be part of us now?"

I mean, what would you vote?

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