I'm not saying it as a cope, I'm saying it as a shutdown of a basic misunderstanding of such technology.
Especially happens when you start dealing with programmers who think that because something is easy on their screen it's easy in real life.
I have spent more than my share of time chasing the promises of some salesman who says "all you need to do is put in a hundred billion hours giving us every single little piece of data on a thing and we'll be able to magically do everyone's job for them" just to have it not work because reality is more complicated than a computer program, and the human brain, even a dumb human brain, does a lot more than we give it credit for.
You have absolutely no idea how much time and effort is wasted on the false promises of high technology. The problem is eventually someone somewhere actually has to do something, and when rubber meets road, all the promises actually have to turn out to be true, and that's extremely rare.
Especially happens when you start dealing with programmers who think that because something is easy on their screen it's easy in real life.
I have spent more than my share of time chasing the promises of some salesman who says "all you need to do is put in a hundred billion hours giving us every single little piece of data on a thing and we'll be able to magically do everyone's job for them" just to have it not work because reality is more complicated than a computer program, and the human brain, even a dumb human brain, does a lot more than we give it credit for.
You have absolutely no idea how much time and effort is wasted on the false promises of high technology. The problem is eventually someone somewhere actually has to do something, and when rubber meets road, all the promises actually have to turn out to be true, and that's extremely rare.
There's a lot of folks who think that automation is going to end all jobs, it's usually people who don't actually realize how much is involved with automating a job. "Behold! We have eliminated an operator! All it took was a small army of engineers, electricians, millwrights, instrument technicians, automation specialists, and dozens of supply chains are absolutely have to remain open for it all to keep working!"
You can stand there showing the "totally autonomous" thing when the investors, politicians, and media are around to sell the thing, but once those guys are ushered away the reality sets in of just how much manpower it takes to keep an unmanned thing running.
You can stand there showing the "totally autonomous" thing when the investors, politicians, and media are around to sell the thing, but once those guys are ushered away the reality sets in of just how much manpower it takes to keep an unmanned thing running.
https://www.process-one.net/blog/matrix-protocol-added-to-ejabberd/
That's pretty massive. It's just for business users now, but eventually it'll come to the open source product. At that point, I might have to migrate my matrix stuff to xmpp...
That's pretty massive. It's just for business users now, but eventually it'll come to the open source product. At that point, I might have to migrate my matrix stuff to xmpp...
Bankruptcy is a nice thing created for individuals in debt. Such a thing does not exist for nations, really. There are debt refinances, or debt restructuring if countries can come to an agreement with debtholders, but sovereign debt tends to be something that doesn't go away as easily as bankruptcy.
Canada had a sovereign debt crisis in the 90s where their bonds eventually just went no-bid. They simply couldn't sell the bonds, there were no buyers. In order to solve its problems, it had to cut spending and increase taxes to reduce costs and raise revenues. That's the right thing to do around the world, and it's going to become mandatory, but it takes courage and will and right now all the politicians want to pretend they can be all things to all people.
Canada had a sovereign debt crisis in the 90s where their bonds eventually just went no-bid. They simply couldn't sell the bonds, there were no buyers. In order to solve its problems, it had to cut spending and increase taxes to reduce costs and raise revenues. That's the right thing to do around the world, and it's going to become mandatory, but it takes courage and will and right now all the politicians want to pretend they can be all things to all people.
It'll be fiiiiine. When have we ever gone full steam ahead on a technology with unknown ramifications and there turned out to be negative ramifications?
That's right, never. Technology is only ever good and anyone who disagrees is just a neo-luddite.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have some lead paint infused with DDT and asbestos to spray in my child's room.
That's right, never. Technology is only ever good and anyone who disagrees is just a neo-luddite.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have some lead paint infused with DDT and asbestos to spray in my child's room.
I figure one of two things will happen: Either we have hundreds of sovereign debt crises like what we've started to see in the UK as all kinds of countries that have been telling their people it's a good thing to rack up national deficits so massive they can never be balanced and national debts so massive they pose an existential threat to the governments if interest rates rise, or we have even worse inflation down the line because governments give up on trying to control inflation so they can continue QE and keep printing money to keep the game going damn the consequences.
Either way the common man loses. The former has destroyed empires, but the latter has created dictatorships that caused the greatest evil ever known by man.
Either way the common man loses. The former has destroyed empires, but the latter has created dictatorships that caused the greatest evil ever known by man.
"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.