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sj_zero | @sj_zero@social.fbxl.net

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

Also Author of Future Sepsis (Also available on Amazon!)

Admin of the FBXL Network including FBXL Search, FBXL Video, FBXL Social, FBXL Lotide, FBXL Translate, and FBXL Maps.

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...

That's self-evident to anyone who has smoked or watch someone else smoke.

tbf, the problems can be solved overnight for individuals by hopping in a moving truck.

Assuming there's somewhere that's doing things better.

Authoritarian nutjobs don't realize that people who wouldn't care about Alex Jones suddenly will side with him when they see everything going on including getting a judgement greater than the GDP of Canada.

fbxl has an invidious instance at https://invidious.fbxl.net but not piped.

Hey, fediverse? Anyone have a Piped instance they recommend for speed? The one I use is piped.kavin.rocks and it struggles to go above 144p video quality with out buffering.

Yep. I've said for many years "Necessity is the mother of invention, and opportunity is the father".

I think understanding that is key to planning out your life. In some ways it's sad, but in other ways it's liberating. You and I will never be Steve Jobs because that moment in time has passed and will never come again. Instead, we can focus on the opportunities we have ourselves in the moment, and walk the roads that are unique to ourselves.

The really cool thing is that if we're willing to look, there are unique opportunities nobody else has right in front of us. We won't be able to be Steve Jobs, but we might be able to be ourselves.

That's all very true too. To become a really big semiconductor company you really needed to get started during that revolution. Most of the biggest big tech companies really came out of the 2000s. Other sites are rising, but it's on a different tide than those original companies and you can never be those companies again.

One piece of merit and skill is recognising this stuff and focusing on the possible.

That's true.

No matter how clever you are, you'll never create the next big tech website in South Sudan. There's no strategy which will lead to such opportunities (besides maybe leaving South Sudan)

opportunity is the father of invention, and opportunity is a function of luck, but it's often possible to make your own luck through skilful application of strategy.

I'd argue with you, but I presently have the kettle on because the humidity in the room I'm in is so low I'm waking up gasping from dehydration because winter.

Original sin is our ancestors leaving temperate europe for the ice fields.

"Revenge is a dish best served cold. And it's very cold.... in ssssssssaskatchewan"

It's unfortunate, but it is their right. Silently disconnecting is far preferable in my view to what happened on big tech, where they were able to actively have it so nobody can engage with people a minority of vocal individuals disagree with strongly.

The actual diversity that fediverse allows is awesome. I follow and have followed all kinds of people with all kinds of opinions I agree and strongly disagree with, and that's what I'd prefer.

What's really cool is seeing people are pretty chill about seeing opinions they disagree with. "Yeah, I disagree" and then move on with our day.

tbf, it's saskatchewan. What else are you going to do? Watch your dog run away?

That electric vehicles have already been perfected for 100 years. The problem is cheap streetcars don't make any dot com frauds into billionaires, they just provide inexpensive public transportation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb7VIowYekg

rip spoony, lost forever in the twitter salt mines.

I guess that's on them for disregarding their audience. Suddenly the AI/crypto boom ends and it's like "Oh shit, you mean we gotta ask you nerds to buy our products again?"

That wasn't even a 4090, which is closer to $1600!

The government gets over 50% of my income in taxes. Income taxes, land taxes, sin taxes, gas taxes, carbon taxes, HST, it adds up to them getting more of every dollar I make than I do. Besides that, the government of Ontario racked up the largest sub-sovereign debt in the world, and the government of Canada doubled its debt in just a few short years so even more than half of every dollar I make wasn't enough.

That being the case, My question must be: Why the fuck is there a single homeless person in Canada? Even if you don't say "Arrest them", there should be more than enough money there for gold plated hotels with blackjack and hookers!

Big question where I'm standing: "Is the latest crop of video cards revolutionary enough to justify a price tag of 1200USD?"

I think many people would make the same decision I would and would argue for most games you're still just fine with a 2-3 generation old card.

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