"So good news, we're all going to a sex party! Bad news, World War 3 has started and because we were busy trying to get laid instead of doing anything productive, we've all got acute nuclear poisoning and we're all dead.
But not virgins!"
But not virgins!"
https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-admits-we-may-have-a-very-slight-nuclear-war/
Experts agree that nuclear war will be transitory!
Experts agree that nuclear war will be transitory!
Nextcloud's music app lets you store all your music on your nextcloud and stream it using an ampache or subsonic compatible android or ios app.
Lately on android I've been using the Ultrasonic app because it looks reasonably modern and it supports the podcasts feature of nextcloud music as well so it can pull double duty.
Lately on android I've been using the Ultrasonic app because it looks reasonably modern and it supports the podcasts feature of nextcloud music as well so it can pull double duty.
In my view, there was a period around 2006 where "pick up artists" were sort of becoming a thing, and by about 2008 every piece of establishment media smashed that idea down as bad and evil and skeezy. It was shortly after that when "incels" started to really start to pick up.
I know the pick-up artists aren't the most popular folks around, but their whole core conceit is that you can be a better man, you can change yourself to become more attractive, you can carry yourself different, and you can speak different, and you can think about the world different and eventually you'll be the sort of man who can attract the sort of woman you want to be with long-term. For most men, that's when their pick-up artist story ends, because you don't need it anymore. That even happened to the author of the infamous book "The Game".
If you crush that idea, then what's left? Well, if it isn't just a skill set, if you can't become better then it's just fate for you to be worse. You're not alone because you're not doing the right things, you're alone because God created you in the image of inferiority and your inherent inferiority is a cross for you to bear alone until death, then of course those people are going to be bitter and resentful towards the chads who were granted the gift of superiority by God, and the Stacies who were granted the gift of discernment between the inferior and the superior by God.
There's a pathology, but it isn't necessarily in disaffected young men. It's a societal pathology where they've told a group of people they're worthless and that it's morally evil to try to become less worthless, and anyone who tries to help you become less worthless is morally evil themselves.
Then we have all these women who would be perfectly happy with these men who are often just missing one or two ideas towards becoming really good men, and they can't find any men at all because we've ground the men down into paste so they won't even try a little anymore. So now you have unhappy lonely men and unhappy lonely women and somehow this is supposed to be a good thing.
A lot of people talk about dating websites and how 1% of the men get 90% of the female attention. This is often mentioned as a talking point about how terrible dating sites are for the 99% of men, but really it should be about how it's terrible for everyone. That top 1% of men with unlimited choice aren't as happy as you'd think, the 90% of women chasing the 1% of men who get unlimited choice aren't happy, and of course the 99% of men who don't get any attention aren't happy.
tl;dr: The world would be better off if we stopped telling men they can't and shouldn't try being better than they are. It's false, it leads to harmful outcomes, it isn't better for women, it isn't even good for the gigachads.
I know the pick-up artists aren't the most popular folks around, but their whole core conceit is that you can be a better man, you can change yourself to become more attractive, you can carry yourself different, and you can speak different, and you can think about the world different and eventually you'll be the sort of man who can attract the sort of woman you want to be with long-term. For most men, that's when their pick-up artist story ends, because you don't need it anymore. That even happened to the author of the infamous book "The Game".
If you crush that idea, then what's left? Well, if it isn't just a skill set, if you can't become better then it's just fate for you to be worse. You're not alone because you're not doing the right things, you're alone because God created you in the image of inferiority and your inherent inferiority is a cross for you to bear alone until death, then of course those people are going to be bitter and resentful towards the chads who were granted the gift of superiority by God, and the Stacies who were granted the gift of discernment between the inferior and the superior by God.
There's a pathology, but it isn't necessarily in disaffected young men. It's a societal pathology where they've told a group of people they're worthless and that it's morally evil to try to become less worthless, and anyone who tries to help you become less worthless is morally evil themselves.
Then we have all these women who would be perfectly happy with these men who are often just missing one or two ideas towards becoming really good men, and they can't find any men at all because we've ground the men down into paste so they won't even try a little anymore. So now you have unhappy lonely men and unhappy lonely women and somehow this is supposed to be a good thing.
A lot of people talk about dating websites and how 1% of the men get 90% of the female attention. This is often mentioned as a talking point about how terrible dating sites are for the 99% of men, but really it should be about how it's terrible for everyone. That top 1% of men with unlimited choice aren't as happy as you'd think, the 90% of women chasing the 1% of men who get unlimited choice aren't happy, and of course the 99% of men who don't get any attention aren't happy.
tl;dr: The world would be better off if we stopped telling men they can't and shouldn't try being better than they are. It's false, it leads to harmful outcomes, it isn't better for women, it isn't even good for the gigachads.
How about pipelines from Canada? We knew for 10 years that the pipelines from the oilsands were insufficient, and everyone nimby'd out. One of the first actions by the Biden administration was to cancel one of the very few pipelines that wasn't NIMBY'd into non existence.
That's just one example of policies that were widespread and intended to naively end fossil fuels by letting a bunch of dictators have the lions share of oil production, as if that was ever going to work.
Not producing oil and gas is the easy part. the default is not producing oil and gas, you have to go out of your way to produce oil and gas. The hard part is making sure poor people aren't dying of starvation, aren't freezing to death, because that's the default too. You have to go out of your way to prevent poor people from starving or freezing.
That's just one example of policies that were widespread and intended to naively end fossil fuels by letting a bunch of dictators have the lions share of oil production, as if that was ever going to work.
Not producing oil and gas is the easy part. the default is not producing oil and gas, you have to go out of your way to produce oil and gas. The hard part is making sure poor people aren't dying of starvation, aren't freezing to death, because that's the default too. You have to go out of your way to prevent poor people from starving or freezing.
Democracies have environmental regulations, dictatorships do not. Democracies have worker's rights and health and safety regimes, dictatorships do not. Democracies have (for now at least) basic human rights, dictatorships do not. Democracies have a way for bad stuff to come to light and be rectified, dictatorships do not. But we're going to just close our ears, pretend that because we managed to push all this stuff outside of our borders that it doesn't happen.
"Not in my back yard" is all this is. Flimsy Rationalizations.
It's an accounting trick to make us feel better about ourselves, and it's a bad one. We are one human race living on one planet Earth. Just because you rationalize taking it off our books doesn't mean it's not actually there. That dotted line on a map is imaginary.
We pretend that because the externalities of our lifestyle aren't immediately taking place within our borders that they no longer happen and so we can pretend everything is ok, when in reality it means that those externalities are worse because the people we're outsourcing it to don't care about what we care about.
"Not in my back yard" is all this is. Flimsy Rationalizations.
It's an accounting trick to make us feel better about ourselves, and it's a bad one. We are one human race living on one planet Earth. Just because you rationalize taking it off our books doesn't mean it's not actually there. That dotted line on a map is imaginary.
We pretend that because the externalities of our lifestyle aren't immediately taking place within our borders that they no longer happen and so we can pretend everything is ok, when in reality it means that those externalities are worse because the people we're outsourcing it to don't care about what we care about.
Them and nobody else, eh? Just opec? No other countries on earth that could be producing oil cheaply and not in a bunch of totalitarian dictatorships? No countries that could be producing oil cheaply that specifically went out of their way to produce less oil because we don't need it anymore (except we do so I guess we'll give all the power to russia and opec)?
We don't need food. In fact, we should throw all our food into the ocean to stick it to putin!
Cancel oil contracts with russia, then start cancelling contracts with the middle east, get booted out of south America, cancel oil and gas production in the USA
Man, good luck for minnesotans or north dakotans. You didn't need the luxury of not freezing to death anyway.
Man, good luck for minnesotans or north dakotans. You didn't need the luxury of not freezing to death anyway.
Normally I'd tell them to eff off, but that's basically what everyone needs right now, not just the public sector.
https://nitter.net/echetus/status/1579776106034757633?t=3Qy6LhLKh7HDOKus_XM3VQ&s=19
Not really a surprise to me, I used to donate quite a bit to Wikipedia annually and I also spent quite a bit of time contributing. Some niche subjects are still entirely articles I wrote with virtually no edits not done by various bots.
I stopped several years back when I realized they don't want me there. There's a lot of organizations that don't want me there, and I've started to just quit when I find them.
Not really a surprise to me, I used to donate quite a bit to Wikipedia annually and I also spent quite a bit of time contributing. Some niche subjects are still entirely articles I wrote with virtually no edits not done by various bots.
I stopped several years back when I realized they don't want me there. There's a lot of organizations that don't want me there, and I've started to just quit when I find them.
As the federal reserve increases rates and engages in QT (directly removing money from the economy by selling bonds it bought off the open market during QE), the interest rates for government debt rises. This is a huge problem because the US and other governments around the world have been relying on massive government deficits for decades now, and could afford it because interest rates were being driven down by central bank policy. As the cost of that debt rises, it's just like the adjustable rate mortgages in the 2008 great financial crisis -- suddenly affordable payments become impossible to pay.
And what happens after that? Well, they might try issuing more and more debt for a while, but eventually you have a no-bid situation -- literally nobody else on earth wants to buy a government bond. It has happened in the past for countries, so it's not unprecedented. At that point, there's exactly one choice: Raise taxes, and eliminate government programs en masse. At that point it stops being "But this is such a good thing to do for people" and the reality starts being "There's literally no money, we just can't do this thing".
Of course, some people would just go "Well, just go back to QE! Problem solved!" -- and that would work, but the cost would be much higher inflation that we're seeing even now. Inflation now hurts, but if we don't get it under control, it will start having systemic effects. I've got every denomination of old zimbabwean currency from 1 dollar to 100 Trillion dollars hanging on my wall as a warning to what can happen. Incidentally, hyperinflation was the environment under which Adolf Hitler rose to power, which is another example of why we might not want to go there.
The UK is experiencing a taste of this right now, and they're schizophrenically raising interest rates and engaging in QE to limit the costs of their bonds which isn't really going to help. They were among the first, but they won't be the last.
And what happens after that? Well, they might try issuing more and more debt for a while, but eventually you have a no-bid situation -- literally nobody else on earth wants to buy a government bond. It has happened in the past for countries, so it's not unprecedented. At that point, there's exactly one choice: Raise taxes, and eliminate government programs en masse. At that point it stops being "But this is such a good thing to do for people" and the reality starts being "There's literally no money, we just can't do this thing".
Of course, some people would just go "Well, just go back to QE! Problem solved!" -- and that would work, but the cost would be much higher inflation that we're seeing even now. Inflation now hurts, but if we don't get it under control, it will start having systemic effects. I've got every denomination of old zimbabwean currency from 1 dollar to 100 Trillion dollars hanging on my wall as a warning to what can happen. Incidentally, hyperinflation was the environment under which Adolf Hitler rose to power, which is another example of why we might not want to go there.
The UK is experiencing a taste of this right now, and they're schizophrenically raising interest rates and engaging in QE to limit the costs of their bonds which isn't really going to help. They were among the first, but they won't be the last.
My Amazfit bip died in the pool, tragically. It's surprising to see that Amazfit isn't really making anything like it anymore. Had to import one from another country because all the new amazfit watches don't have always on screens, don't have a month of battery life, and are generally way too expensive, and nobody else seems to have picked up the slack.
Am I the only one who wants a watch that's a bit smart instead of a smart that's a bit watch?
Am I the only one who wants a watch that's a bit smart instead of a smart that's a bit watch?
How exactly are you going to o impose price caps when every member of the g7 already banned or cannot receive Russian oil and gas?
"UPS" is actually an acronym for "Unreliable Power Supply". Those lead acid batteries die with a shocking regularity.
Just think -- according to der fuhrer Trudeau, the demands of the trucker convoy were so extreme, so racist, sexist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, and so horrible that the same government would implement the requested policies a mere 8 months later.