Problem is they based authoritarian policy on the premise that the vaccine would stop covid and end covid. They treated people with legitimate concerns about taking a barely tested experimental drug like supervillains who were singularly responsible for continuing horrible authoritarian control of individuals lives, that if only that last 15% would lie back and think of England it'd all be over.
I wasn't opposed to the rapid development of the vaccine or making it widely available. Lying continuously about it's effects and risks was evil, as was the policy actions they took.
I wasn't opposed to the rapid development of the vaccine or making it widely available. Lying continuously about it's effects and risks was evil, as was the policy actions they took.
The most frustrating thing is that they did this along with all their drinking buddies around the world. It's like all their friends jumped off a bridge then they go "if you say I'm wet because I jumped off a bridge, why are my friends all wet too?" You lemmings all jumped off the bridge at the same time, that's why!
It does make sense if you're going to take it all four values to call it a 2 dimensional continuum with change / left wing on one side, tradition/ right-wing on the other side, authoritarianism as the one side of the other axis, and liberalism as the other side of that axis.
That's where you can have conservative liberalism, and conservative authoritarianism, or you can have progressive liberalism, and progressive authoritarianism.
I'd be the first to admit that the words are a little bit broken at this point, because just because something is new does not mean it is progress. Some of the moral calculus that is new and different over the last few years has a striking resemblance to religious forms of slavery that were outlawed in Ghana in the late 90s. Similarly, take a look at the rhetoric out of chairman xi in china, and even though it's a left-wing authoritarian regime it sounds intensely conservative: "we really got to get back to the communism, we need to go back to the way things used to be"
That's where you can have conservative liberalism, and conservative authoritarianism, or you can have progressive liberalism, and progressive authoritarianism.
I'd be the first to admit that the words are a little bit broken at this point, because just because something is new does not mean it is progress. Some of the moral calculus that is new and different over the last few years has a striking resemblance to religious forms of slavery that were outlawed in Ghana in the late 90s. Similarly, take a look at the rhetoric out of chairman xi in china, and even though it's a left-wing authoritarian regime it sounds intensely conservative: "we really got to get back to the communism, we need to go back to the way things used to be"
I just realized that he was referring to people who crack games.
In which case he's probably right.
In which case he's probably right.
"trans women are women and deserve all the same rights as women" is a phrase that sounds really pretty in the abstract dealing with perfect platonic forms, but gets real complicated when rubber meets road and you actually have policies that apply to real people.
Is bicycle with an electric motor a motor vehicle? In a world of platonic forms, you could perhaps say that an electric bike is a motor vehicle and should have all the same rights as a car or motorcycle. But then you get into the nitty-gritty of actually doing something like that, and things start to get very hairy very fast. Bike riders aren't licensed, they don't have to go through any particular training or testing, bicycles can't go as fast as a car, they don't typically have a headlight, they don't typically have signal lamps, they almost universally aren't insured, and so on.
So what this means is that in practice, while you can make an argument that a bicycle with an electric motor is a motor vehicle, and it's reasonable to give access to some streets in a limited manner, you can't say that a bicycle with a motor has the same attributes as a car or motorcycle, doesn't have the same powers, doesn't have the same responsibilities, and thus can't have fully equal rights.
And that goes both ways too. In my analogy, you will be in huge trouble if you drive your car down a sidewalk, or down a walking trail, or drive on the road without a license or without insurance. So you can't argue that because a bicycle with an electric motor is a motor vehicle that the car gets equal rights with the bicycle.
That doesn't mean that you ban bicycles, that doesn't mean that you unreasonably restrict bicycles, it doesn't mean that you unreasonably restrict cars or motorcycles. It does mean that a bicycle with an electric motor isn't a car.
Even if you can bully someone into saying it is, merely redrawing the map does not change the territory. You can draw 1000 lakes on a map of a desert, that does not mean the real world will morph into what you have drawn. Regardless of what the postmodernists would like to think, the real world is the final arbiter of truth, not human beings. Real world actions driven by convincing others to do things in the real world can of course change the world, if you convince a bunch of people to head out and dig a bunch of irrigation channels then a desert can be changed into arable farmland, but no amount of pure rhetoric and convincing others will
by itself change a desert into a wetland.
Is bicycle with an electric motor a motor vehicle? In a world of platonic forms, you could perhaps say that an electric bike is a motor vehicle and should have all the same rights as a car or motorcycle. But then you get into the nitty-gritty of actually doing something like that, and things start to get very hairy very fast. Bike riders aren't licensed, they don't have to go through any particular training or testing, bicycles can't go as fast as a car, they don't typically have a headlight, they don't typically have signal lamps, they almost universally aren't insured, and so on.
So what this means is that in practice, while you can make an argument that a bicycle with an electric motor is a motor vehicle, and it's reasonable to give access to some streets in a limited manner, you can't say that a bicycle with a motor has the same attributes as a car or motorcycle, doesn't have the same powers, doesn't have the same responsibilities, and thus can't have fully equal rights.
And that goes both ways too. In my analogy, you will be in huge trouble if you drive your car down a sidewalk, or down a walking trail, or drive on the road without a license or without insurance. So you can't argue that because a bicycle with an electric motor is a motor vehicle that the car gets equal rights with the bicycle.
That doesn't mean that you ban bicycles, that doesn't mean that you unreasonably restrict bicycles, it doesn't mean that you unreasonably restrict cars or motorcycles. It does mean that a bicycle with an electric motor isn't a car.
Even if you can bully someone into saying it is, merely redrawing the map does not change the territory. You can draw 1000 lakes on a map of a desert, that does not mean the real world will morph into what you have drawn. Regardless of what the postmodernists would like to think, the real world is the final arbiter of truth, not human beings. Real world actions driven by convincing others to do things in the real world can of course change the world, if you convince a bunch of people to head out and dig a bunch of irrigation channels then a desert can be changed into arable farmland, but no amount of pure rhetoric and convincing others will
by itself change a desert into a wetland.
It's been 10 years since Windows 8 dropped, and as far as I can tell you still can't correctly set an IP address from the settings app in Windows 11 so you need to use the windows 7 era components.
Windows is a Frankenstein's monster where you've got the way that works to do things, then you've got the post windows 8 way of doing things. Both have to continue existing because Microsoft isn't capable of handling basic tasks so people need to use the old ways of doing things.
Think about the comparable upgrades that occurred over the same time spans in the past. The switch from 3.x to 9x, from 9x to NT, from basic NT to 2000 and XP. Not just that, but the switch from Mac OS 7.1 to Mac OS 8, to mac OS 9, to Mac OS X! That year, the Linux Kernel was one year old, and essentially the entire Linux ecosystem went from being one shitty kernel to being kernel version 2.5 and from no distributions to speak of to having something as user friendly as mandrake.
In a lot of ways, it seems to corroborate the stories we've all heard that these companies which used to be filled with strong programmers are now filled with people who are basically like the Europeans in the dark ages squatting in the ruins of Greek and Roman buildings that wouldn't be possible to build again for centuries.
Evil is one thing, incompetent is another, powerful evil and incompetent is the worst of all possible worlds.
Windows is a Frankenstein's monster where you've got the way that works to do things, then you've got the post windows 8 way of doing things. Both have to continue existing because Microsoft isn't capable of handling basic tasks so people need to use the old ways of doing things.
Think about the comparable upgrades that occurred over the same time spans in the past. The switch from 3.x to 9x, from 9x to NT, from basic NT to 2000 and XP. Not just that, but the switch from Mac OS 7.1 to Mac OS 8, to mac OS 9, to Mac OS X! That year, the Linux Kernel was one year old, and essentially the entire Linux ecosystem went from being one shitty kernel to being kernel version 2.5 and from no distributions to speak of to having something as user friendly as mandrake.
In a lot of ways, it seems to corroborate the stories we've all heard that these companies which used to be filled with strong programmers are now filled with people who are basically like the Europeans in the dark ages squatting in the ruins of Greek and Roman buildings that wouldn't be possible to build again for centuries.
Evil is one thing, incompetent is another, powerful evil and incompetent is the worst of all possible worlds.
https://youtu.be/z65AVGrobWE
Context: Hastings is a street in Vancouver filled with drug addicts. It's gross.
Context: Hastings is a street in Vancouver filled with drug addicts. It's gross.
One reason why the people's party of Canada did so well in the last election. (Not great, but 8%, which was better than the green party which has has decades to grow and approached the bloc Quebecois who are a solid #4)
People don't want leftists who call themselves conservative. They want conservatives who call themselves conservative.
There haven't been any free marketeers forever. Free markets don't have government debt as over 100% of GDP.
People don't want leftists who call themselves conservative. They want conservatives who call themselves conservative.
There haven't been any free marketeers forever. Free markets don't have government debt as over 100% of GDP.
There's a line somewhere between "based" and "megalomaniacal supervillain". I sort of feel like this is getting close to the line, might be well over it.
The replacement for my amazfit bip, the amazfit bip s, just came in. Took me a bit to set it up like I wanted (basically exactly the same as the bip), and took me some figuring to get it working in gadgetbridge.
I fear this might be the last bip I buy, since the newer ones are all short battery life comparatively speaking. Hopefully this one doesn't meet the same fate as the last one, since apparently the waterproofing is much better.
Next watch will probably be a pinetime, assuming there's one available a few years from now when this bip bites the dust.
I fear this might be the last bip I buy, since the newer ones are all short battery life comparatively speaking. Hopefully this one doesn't meet the same fate as the last one, since apparently the waterproofing is much better.
Next watch will probably be a pinetime, assuming there's one available a few years from now when this bip bites the dust.
Not just the problem with student debt, but the problem of people being horrendously over educated for what they do.
An inconvenient Truth is that at some point somebody needs to do something. You need someone to pull a wrench, you need someone to operate a factory, you need someone to go out to places no one wants to go and operate an oil rig. Not everyone can be a senior manager. Not everyone can be a ceo. Not everyone can be a best-selling author.
The answer for the past 40 years has been "get the chineymans to do it, get the Mexicans to do it, get the Chileans to do it, get the Bangladeshis to do it", and that isn't a long term solution.
Even if you believe in the inherent superiority of the hwite race, eventually the bill comes due and when you have everyone else doing everything, and you're just not needed anymore.
An inconvenient Truth is that at some point somebody needs to do something. You need someone to pull a wrench, you need someone to operate a factory, you need someone to go out to places no one wants to go and operate an oil rig. Not everyone can be a senior manager. Not everyone can be a ceo. Not everyone can be a best-selling author.
The answer for the past 40 years has been "get the chineymans to do it, get the Mexicans to do it, get the Chileans to do it, get the Bangladeshis to do it", and that isn't a long term solution.
Even if you believe in the inherent superiority of the hwite race, eventually the bill comes due and when you have everyone else doing everything, and you're just not needed anymore.
Not to mention policies intended to end fossil fuels.
Suddenly there aren't enough fossil fuels, and it's everyone's fault but theirs.
Suddenly there aren't enough fossil fuels, and it's everyone's fault but theirs.
>buys another house
>Covid stimmies
>Buys another house
>Doesn't show up for work
>Buys another house
>Sex with the wife
>Buys another house
>Movie with the mistress
>Buys another house
>Manufacturing leaves the country
>Buys another house
Man, Australians are so rich! Look at how many houses they own! Such a sustainable economy!
>Covid stimmies
>Buys another house
>Doesn't show up for work
>Buys another house
>Sex with the wife
>Buys another house
>Movie with the mistress
>Buys another house
>Manufacturing leaves the country
>Buys another house
Man, Australians are so rich! Look at how many houses they own! Such a sustainable economy!
Independent observers are idiots if they think that. Look at Project Veritas being raided after his adult daughter lost her diary.
Yet der fuhrer trudeau is still fully in place with the full support of his pomeranian lapdog in a turban.