Problem is when someone starts at the conclusion and works backwards.
Yeah, you can end up with a rationale for the conclusion, but then you do it twice, three times, four times, and eventually you've got an entire inconsistent binder filled with incompatible rationalizations because they aren't based on building a consistent worldview, they're based on justifying the thing of the moment.
Yeah, you can end up with a rationale for the conclusion, but then you do it twice, three times, four times, and eventually you've got an entire inconsistent binder filled with incompatible rationalizations because they aren't based on building a consistent worldview, they're based on justifying the thing of the moment.
National Socialism is Socialism. Mussolini grew up a socialist and formed fascism (a bundle of sticks or fasci representing the people working together) based on socialist principles in a different vein than Leninism.
So yeah, having one brand of cultural marxism without any real counterpoint except "hold your horses, we move towards marxism at 30 miles an hour, not 50 miles an hour!" isn't really socialism vs. fascism.
That said, the form of marxism in the US is really bizarre.
Populism is where you separate the populace into elites and common people and proclaim that power should lie with the common people and not so much the elites. How many times have you heard populism used as a curse word by socialists in the past 5 years? How do you have socialism and not have populism?
It's a system that is designed to appeal to the working class....and it hates the working class.....
So yeah, having one brand of cultural marxism without any real counterpoint except "hold your horses, we move towards marxism at 30 miles an hour, not 50 miles an hour!" isn't really socialism vs. fascism.
That said, the form of marxism in the US is really bizarre.
Populism is where you separate the populace into elites and common people and proclaim that power should lie with the common people and not so much the elites. How many times have you heard populism used as a curse word by socialists in the past 5 years? How do you have socialism and not have populism?
It's a system that is designed to appeal to the working class....and it hates the working class.....
One of my favorite historians on youtube says "making predictions is betting against God" or something like that, and in the case of twitter, I don't really know what happens from here.
I don't have a very high opinion of Elon. I think he's taken a couple minor successes and used a stupid economic cycle to become obscenely rich with a few companies that don't make any money. Tesla is the world's smallest car company with the world's largest market cap. SpaceX is barely profitable despite working in government contracts. The Boring company is an abject failure. Hyperloop is an epic fail. Tesla Solar Roofs are a fail. Neuralink appears to be a limited success, but nothing remotely like what he was selling. Even among his "successful" companies, there's so many broken promises and outright lies. Where's the cyber-truck? Where's the electric transport trucks that cost less than rail? Where's the starships? Where's fully self-driving cars? Where's autonomous taxis that earn back the cost of your car in one year? Where's writing skills to your brain like The Matrix? There's just so many. For the one Elon, there's millions of would-be entrepreneurs who did basically the same thing and who failed cataclysmically.
We're also at the end of an era in my estimation. With inflation the highest it's been in 40 years, money is drying up and a lot of companies that were blowing up in a good way 10 years ago are blowing up in a bad way today. Tech companies rely more on that loose monetary policy than they realized, and we're starting to see the biggest names in tech nosedive. I don't think Twitter is any different in this regard. It doesn't do anything more than the soapbox instance I'm writing this on, yet it sold for 44 Billion dollars and requires over 3000 employees? Maybe, but I don't see it.
Musk sold this stupid purchase to other shareholders by saying he's going to create an everything communications company, and that's the sort of big vision he's famous for selling for cash then failing to deliver on.
That said, Twitter is so incredibly addictive to the people on it, I'm not sure they can stop. It's like smoking, just a hit of endorphins from arguing with people. It's destroyed careers just from people not being able to stop posting. Witness Kathy Griffin being banned and being so desperate for another hit of that twitter goodness that she signed in using her dead mother's account.
If the people on there can't pull themselves away from it, and the exodus to platforms like fediverse basically stops once the people come to terms with a different oligarch being in charge than they're used to, the advertisers will return because they will go where the eyeballs go.
So it'll be tough to see. It's an incompetent version of an "immovable object and irresistable force" situation where the marginal competence of Elon Musk will match up against the barely controlled addiction of the twitter userbase.
In the long term, I think the biggest thing he'll have to do if he wants to succeed is put a damper on his shitposting desire to "pwn the libs". They'll come back a couple times (and specifically the influencial ones, nobody cares about random dangerhaired basement dweller #293821), but if he dunks on them too much from the position he's in, they'll stop finding it fun and go find somewhere else to hang out. There's lots of big tech that would be happy to house them, especially at this moment where the reality of having to actually make revenue is sinking in for a lot of these companies.
If I were to make a holistic prediction, I think Elon Musk is a name we don't hear much of 10 or maybe even 5 years from now. His stocks are all bubbles, he massively overpaid for Twitter long after the tech bubble burst and it would have lost at least 80% of its market cap, he's probably loaded up on margin using that massive collateral, and as his assets crash (and it'll probably happen in the next year as the money runs out) he'll be stuck with margin calls and his companies could start to topple and he could face personal bankruptcy. At that time, we'll see if twitter just fails, or gets sold off to someone nobody expects like what happened with Yahoo. He's made too many promises and not followed up, and that's going to matter imminently.
I don't have a very high opinion of Elon. I think he's taken a couple minor successes and used a stupid economic cycle to become obscenely rich with a few companies that don't make any money. Tesla is the world's smallest car company with the world's largest market cap. SpaceX is barely profitable despite working in government contracts. The Boring company is an abject failure. Hyperloop is an epic fail. Tesla Solar Roofs are a fail. Neuralink appears to be a limited success, but nothing remotely like what he was selling. Even among his "successful" companies, there's so many broken promises and outright lies. Where's the cyber-truck? Where's the electric transport trucks that cost less than rail? Where's the starships? Where's fully self-driving cars? Where's autonomous taxis that earn back the cost of your car in one year? Where's writing skills to your brain like The Matrix? There's just so many. For the one Elon, there's millions of would-be entrepreneurs who did basically the same thing and who failed cataclysmically.
We're also at the end of an era in my estimation. With inflation the highest it's been in 40 years, money is drying up and a lot of companies that were blowing up in a good way 10 years ago are blowing up in a bad way today. Tech companies rely more on that loose monetary policy than they realized, and we're starting to see the biggest names in tech nosedive. I don't think Twitter is any different in this regard. It doesn't do anything more than the soapbox instance I'm writing this on, yet it sold for 44 Billion dollars and requires over 3000 employees? Maybe, but I don't see it.
Musk sold this stupid purchase to other shareholders by saying he's going to create an everything communications company, and that's the sort of big vision he's famous for selling for cash then failing to deliver on.
That said, Twitter is so incredibly addictive to the people on it, I'm not sure they can stop. It's like smoking, just a hit of endorphins from arguing with people. It's destroyed careers just from people not being able to stop posting. Witness Kathy Griffin being banned and being so desperate for another hit of that twitter goodness that she signed in using her dead mother's account.
If the people on there can't pull themselves away from it, and the exodus to platforms like fediverse basically stops once the people come to terms with a different oligarch being in charge than they're used to, the advertisers will return because they will go where the eyeballs go.
So it'll be tough to see. It's an incompetent version of an "immovable object and irresistable force" situation where the marginal competence of Elon Musk will match up against the barely controlled addiction of the twitter userbase.
In the long term, I think the biggest thing he'll have to do if he wants to succeed is put a damper on his shitposting desire to "pwn the libs". They'll come back a couple times (and specifically the influencial ones, nobody cares about random dangerhaired basement dweller #293821), but if he dunks on them too much from the position he's in, they'll stop finding it fun and go find somewhere else to hang out. There's lots of big tech that would be happy to house them, especially at this moment where the reality of having to actually make revenue is sinking in for a lot of these companies.
If I were to make a holistic prediction, I think Elon Musk is a name we don't hear much of 10 or maybe even 5 years from now. His stocks are all bubbles, he massively overpaid for Twitter long after the tech bubble burst and it would have lost at least 80% of its market cap, he's probably loaded up on margin using that massive collateral, and as his assets crash (and it'll probably happen in the next year as the money runs out) he'll be stuck with margin calls and his companies could start to topple and he could face personal bankruptcy. At that time, we'll see if twitter just fails, or gets sold off to someone nobody expects like what happened with Yahoo. He's made too many promises and not followed up, and that's going to matter imminently.
So what this university is saying is that HITLER WAS RIGHT!
I mean, not the professional stance I would have gone with, but I'm not a university administrator...
I mean, not the professional stance I would have gone with, but I'm not a university administrator...
I looked at the list, I don't think it's measuring correctly if it puts der fuhrer's Canada near the top of the list.
It looks like to make the cocoa butter that's a main ingredient of this, you'd take some of the cocoa product and dissolve it in water, then boil out the water. This process seems to take the fats out of the cocoa powder, then there's a liquid and a solid. The liquid solidifies into cocoa butter, and the solid presumably would be drier cocoa powder. Then you'd be able to add the refined cocoa butter to some unprocessed cocoa to make chocolate, and you'd probably be able to use the byproduct of refining cocoa butter for baking chocolate cake type stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaCZcdWk1DU
The process of making chocolate is really crazy considering the beginning ingredients look like they belong in a sci-fi horror film.
The process of making chocolate is really crazy considering the beginning ingredients look like they belong in a sci-fi horror film.
Watch out when you're buying wiimotes, try to get brand name ones. I got some off brand wiimotes, they only work half the time, and when they do work they don't shut off ever. In order to get them to stop running and burning batteries you end up having to take the batteries out.
Besides that, there are a number of really easy ways to get a Wii to run Homebrew. That really makes it a useful device, for example you can use one piece of Homebrew to copy all of your games onto a memory card so you don't need to switch between discs if you want to change games. There's also other games, and a lot of Open source stuff. It's really ideal for certain circumstances because the game controllers are fully wireless.
Besides that, there are a number of really easy ways to get a Wii to run Homebrew. That really makes it a useful device, for example you can use one piece of Homebrew to copy all of your games onto a memory card so you don't need to switch between discs if you want to change games. There's also other games, and a lot of Open source stuff. It's really ideal for certain circumstances because the game controllers are fully wireless.
You guys got it all wrong!
Journalists are supposed to mindlessly and breathlessly report whatever the establishment tells them to. Especially if it's the establishment telling the people who to hate this week, or what reality people are supposed to ignore this week!
The whole "search for truth" thing is so far right you're basically Hitler if you expect that.
Journalists are supposed to mindlessly and breathlessly report whatever the establishment tells them to. Especially if it's the establishment telling the people who to hate this week, or what reality people are supposed to ignore this week!
The whole "search for truth" thing is so far right you're basically Hitler if you expect that.
I've been reflecting on that a lot lately. Big Tech will specifically show you stuff that has nothing to do with you because it knows it'll "drive engagement", but generally speaking here you're going to find the stuff you follow and the stuff that the people who follow you engage with. Don't want a certain thing? Just stay away from that stuff. Maybe the people you follow might engage sometimes with it in which case you ignore it, but for the most part you'll find yourself in a place you're ok with being in.
I was telling a story recently about Facebook before I deleted my account. It knows I like pretty girls, and it knows I don't use the app much, so it would show me people I have absolutely nothing to do with, these pretty girls, and it would be like "Oh, you know this girl, right? Connect with her now!" -- That's the sort of scummy shit big tech will do to keep you coming back.
I was telling a story recently about Facebook before I deleted my account. It knows I like pretty girls, and it knows I don't use the app much, so it would show me people I have absolutely nothing to do with, these pretty girls, and it would be like "Oh, you know this girl, right? Connect with her now!" -- That's the sort of scummy shit big tech will do to keep you coming back.
The first metric I always look at is battery life. 12 days in smart watch mode isn't bad. For most people charging every couple weeks would be just fine.
The smart watches you need to charge every day are atrocious imo
The smart watches you need to charge every day are atrocious imo
It's all dead. All of it. Not just this franchise, every franchise any of us ever liked.
Very occasionally, something will come out that isn't dead, and it's a cause for celebration.
Very occasionally, something will come out that isn't dead, and it's a cause for celebration.
I occasionally play terraria multiplayer, and it's shocking that every time we fire it up I need to update the game despite it being like 15 years old.
To me, whether it's left wing or right wing or apolitical, I don't see value in being on another closed platform.
I was hoping the rumor was that they'd stop being a bitch and enable activitypub. That would be hilarious for so many reasons.
The idea is to package up the idea of environmentalism and sell it to people who want to "do something".
I've been highly critical of this sort of thing, and it happens in more ways than most people can possibly imagine, and in more explicit ways than people could possibly imagine.
I've been highly critical of this sort of thing, and it happens in more ways than most people can possibly imagine, and in more explicit ways than people could possibly imagine.
