https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/elon-musk-says-make-public-internal-twitter-discussions-decision-censor-hunter-biden-laptop-story/
Man.... Just sit back and enjoy your popcorn from not twitter!
(Or from twitter, whatever. idgaf what you do)
Man.... Just sit back and enjoy your popcorn from not twitter!
(Or from twitter, whatever. idgaf what you do)
Nursing homes are nightmarish at the best of times.
In earlier times we saw nightmarish long term care facilities such as insane asylums and decided the solution was to shut them down. I don't think thats the answer, we took away the facilities because they made us feel bad and as a result those people who needed help ended up just swept under the rug. Many of those people ended up homeless, or criminals, or drug addicts because they try to self-medicate. Sometimes people who needed help for their entire lives didn't get it and it resulted in tragedies such as chilling murders that could only be committed by a human with an unwell mind.
Shutting down long term care homes would likely have similar effects, so that's not an acceptable option. The correct option would have to be making sure they're well run. Regulation plays a part, but there's a hell of a lot more than that. Highly regulated industries screw people over all the time. The important part in my view is building an industry wide culture. Clearly this care home was lacking in positive culture since so many bad things happened leading up to a guys foot being stuffed in a taxidermy shop window, including nurses aides standing by and going "this is fine"
In earlier times we saw nightmarish long term care facilities such as insane asylums and decided the solution was to shut them down. I don't think thats the answer, we took away the facilities because they made us feel bad and as a result those people who needed help ended up just swept under the rug. Many of those people ended up homeless, or criminals, or drug addicts because they try to self-medicate. Sometimes people who needed help for their entire lives didn't get it and it resulted in tragedies such as chilling murders that could only be committed by a human with an unwell mind.
Shutting down long term care homes would likely have similar effects, so that's not an acceptable option. The correct option would have to be making sure they're well run. Regulation plays a part, but there's a hell of a lot more than that. Highly regulated industries screw people over all the time. The important part in my view is building an industry wide culture. Clearly this care home was lacking in positive culture since so many bad things happened leading up to a guys foot being stuffed in a taxidermy shop window, including nurses aides standing by and going "this is fine"
Any time nextcloud comes up, I have to hype it a bit. It was the first self-hosted service I ran, and the beginning of a journey that has led me to spending more time on my own websites than most others combined. It's my personal utility knife. It's my news site. It's my music streaming service. It's my webmail. It's my online notes. It's my office suite. It's my password manager. It's my tool for keeping my home PC and my travel PC synchronised and backed up.
The best part is I don't need to ask permission. It's libre software running on hardware I own. I didn't do it this way, but my asustor Nas allows nextcloud to be installed with one click, so non technical people could run their own home nextcloud quite easily. For others, there are hosts that'll run your nextcloud instance for you and they don't make money on your data, they make money from you paying them.
Imo some of the best FLOSS has to offer.
The best part is I don't need to ask permission. It's libre software running on hardware I own. I didn't do it this way, but my asustor Nas allows nextcloud to be installed with one click, so non technical people could run their own home nextcloud quite easily. For others, there are hosts that'll run your nextcloud instance for you and they don't make money on your data, they make money from you paying them.
Imo some of the best FLOSS has to offer.
Naturally their superior Nipponese hard work and cool uniforms won the day over the inferior Germans!
Yeah -- that's how bad the other parties are in Ontario.
He wasn't just elected again, he gained seats.
THAT'S how bad the other parties are in Ontario!
He wasn't just elected again, he gained seats.
THAT'S how bad the other parties are in Ontario!
They're used car salesmen. "You can prevent so much COVID with this shot" slaps roof of covid shot
Holy shit, Elon actually banned someone for something they probably deserved to be banned for.
I need a fainting couch, this isn't the Twitter I know!
I need a fainting couch, this isn't the Twitter I know!
My wife swore up and down she'd never look at the nutrition information on her foods, but eventually she started looking at it. The thing that shocked her is that you could have two identical foods, but one had 5g of sugar, and the one right next to it might have 50g.
tbf to both of you, they probably didn't put refined sugar in literally everything. Your borgar was just borgar, your fries were fries, your Coca cola....ok, that was sugary.
I think the creality cr-10 and ender3 are similar, many parts can be swapped in and out.
I think you might be able to get a decent deal on ebay shipped right from china, think both Companies are chinese. Might be faster than shipping to the us then over to NZ.
I think you might be able to get a decent deal on ebay shipped right from china, think both Companies are chinese. Might be faster than shipping to the us then over to NZ.
There's a lot of good options in the market, the biggest thing that I would say for someone who didn't have a 3D printer is to go with an XYZ printer and don't try to go Fancy with something like a delta. I found that everything has to go so perfect with the delta and there's so many different variables that it was just a lot nicer having a nice simple design.
I went with a tevo tornado which I retrofitted with a duetWiFi board, and it's been bulletproof enough for me that I would probably recommend it to others who wanted to get into 3D printing, but it comes as a completed unit so that might not be up your alley. I believe that there are kits that will come with all the parts that you're going to need and then you can build it yourself, that's what my first printer was, and I had no problem with doing that. It helped me learn a lot about how all the different stuff worked together.
One thing I found is one of the first things that you start printing is upgrades for your printer.
I went with a tevo tornado which I retrofitted with a duetWiFi board, and it's been bulletproof enough for me that I would probably recommend it to others who wanted to get into 3D printing, but it comes as a completed unit so that might not be up your alley. I believe that there are kits that will come with all the parts that you're going to need and then you can build it yourself, that's what my first printer was, and I had no problem with doing that. It helped me learn a lot about how all the different stuff worked together.
One thing I found is one of the first things that you start printing is upgrades for your printer.
About 5 years ago I ended up getting myself 2 big toys for Christmas: the Oculus rift which was fairly expensive at the time, and one of the cheaper 3D printers.
In terms of which one I've gotten the most enjoyment out of, there's no contest. The 3D printer is top shelf, I find that VR tends to sit on the top shelf because I'm not using it.
In terms of which one I've gotten the most enjoyment out of, there's no contest. The 3D printer is top shelf, I find that VR tends to sit on the top shelf because I'm not using it.
"The Liberal government in Canada aren't anything like Fascists! Stop comparing Trudeau to Hitler!"
Even the very best of things can become twisted and evil if you turn off your brain, turn off your humanity, turn off your heart.
The positive value of loyalty was twisted and turned evil by the Japanese in WWII and it resulted in countless atrocities such as the rape of nanking.
The positive value of purity was twisted and turned evil by the Germans in WWII, and it too resulted in atrocities such as the concentration camps. Arguably, Saudi Arabia's worst excesses come from such a place as well.
The positive value of fairness was twisted and turned evil by the British in the 1800s, and it resulted in extreme class division under the idea that those who were doing well did so by their own merit and those who did not had obviously done so by their lack of merit, as well as treating those in the lower classes horribly because the world is fair so you must deserve what happened to you!
The positive value of liberty was twisted and turned evil in iceland, where pure liberty ended up turning into massive multi-generational blood feuds, the worst of what people fear would come from unlimited liberty. Arguably some of the worst excesses of early American colonisation came from a similar place.
The positive value of security was twisted and turned evil in the war on terror in America, where many basic human rights were infringed in the name of security.
The positive value of meritocracy is twisted and turned evil in many Asian countries, where the young are placed under such tremendous pressure to perform that it causes massive social problems, as well as myopia in adults because they spent every spare second studying for the next test for decades on end.
The world is not black and white, but many shades of grey, and so too is no single value only good or only evil, but consisting of many different attributes which interact with the world where those attributes exist in different ways with different outcomes in different situations. Therefore, people can't just turn off their brains and assume they're doing the right thing because they're following a good value. The world isn't that easy.
Often, these things happen in part because when one value is elevated above all others, people start to figure out how to re-frame getting what they want in terms of that value. The Japanese gets what he wants because it'll help the Empire. The German gets what he wants because it'll help the pure Aryan race. The Brit gets what he wants because it's only fair, the Icelander gets what he wants because that's what it means to be free.
Human beings are master rationalizers, and so over time they can build great obelisks of philosophy balanced on a single twig. A twig is not a firm foundation upon which to build such a philosophy, so inevitably the obelisk topples over, but a philosophy is not like a physical obelisk, even one that has been toppled can continue to be built as if there's nothing wrong even if it's obvious to everyone else there's a big problem.
Wokeness is one such obelisk. It was once much more balanced when it was younger, but it has been coopted by so many interests that it is no longer on even a twig of foundation whereas previously it had quite a strong foundation.
There is an image floating around of all the evil corporations happily throwing out their rainbow flags. Do you think they're doing it because they're good? These are companies like Phillip Morris, who sell cancer causing cigarettes, and paid off surgeon generals to lie about the cancer, and paid for studies for decades to muddy the water lest cigarette sales be affected, suddenly good and just? Halliburton was a key figure in the disastrous Iraq war, suddenly they're woke. Do you think it's because they're suddenly the good guys? The pharmaceutical industry is filled with some of the most evil people on earth, yet they're all super woke now. Are they the good guys and none of that other stuff ever happened?
And the sad thing is, that worked. Somehow, companies are attaching their soulless corporate products to the idea of equality and justice. Which is absurd. You mean to tell me that to refuse to take the pharmaceutical industry's latest poison, or the film industry's latest billion dollar mind poison actually means you hate women and black people? Think about that proposition for a second. Especially given the history of most industries regarding women and black people.
Similarly, and I think this is the key to all of this, about 10 years ago I started to see a lot of really angry people start to move into what was previously a pretty chill movement. At first they festered in their little echo chambers where they hatefully built ideologies that actively demanded genocide of certain groups (and calling for those genocides is considered acceptable in modern wokeness and will not generally be punished by our woke corporate overlords), threatened violence against political enemies, made unreasonable and bullying demands of innocent people, and overall just seethed in toxic hate.
Those little communities of toxic hate and entitlement were benign at first in the sense that they were siloed, but eventually they metastasised, and brought their cancerous hate everywhere. That would be the moment that the word "woke" started to be such a universally loathed phrase.
If you stop feeling guilty for a second, and stop feeling angry for a second, and look at some of the latest stuff coming out of some of these movements with eyes unclouded by guilt or hate, this new ideology isn't what my entire generation grew up believing. Many people who believe in justice will look at what academia (a thoroughly infected class of people if any exist) defines "whiteness" as and be disgusted by what looks like pure bigotry. If you were a member of the KKK, I suspect academic "whiteness" would be just fine.
A movement that once idolized Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., and Mahatma Gandhi suddenly gleefully pronounced "Punch a Nazi!" (Where 'a Nazi' is just anyone who slightly disagrees with you), and all tactics are allowable because wokeness has rationalized that all who disagree in the least actually are literal 1945 Nazis and so they aren't even human beings anymore.
A movement that once asked for equal treatment under the law now cheers for explicitly racist laws that lay out exactly what each race gets.
A movement that once convincingly argues that not all black people are responsible for the crimes committed by a few suddenly argues that all white people are responsible for the crimes committed by a few.
A movement that saw injustice against women and fretted constantly about issues of sexual consent and peer pressure suddenly loudly proclaimed "You will have sex with this person over here or you are one of *THEM* and will be dealt with appropriately"
A belief in tolerance and diversity never went away for most people. But most people aren't hypocrites and cannot simultaneously support tolerance and diversity and support wokeness because the two are not compatible belief systems.
Even the very best of things can become twisted and evil if you turn off your brain, turn off your humanity, turn off your heart.
I fear what will come of the values I grew up with when this abomination finally dies. I hope the cancer doesn't take the patient with it. Most of us care for the patient.
The positive value of loyalty was twisted and turned evil by the Japanese in WWII and it resulted in countless atrocities such as the rape of nanking.
The positive value of purity was twisted and turned evil by the Germans in WWII, and it too resulted in atrocities such as the concentration camps. Arguably, Saudi Arabia's worst excesses come from such a place as well.
The positive value of fairness was twisted and turned evil by the British in the 1800s, and it resulted in extreme class division under the idea that those who were doing well did so by their own merit and those who did not had obviously done so by their lack of merit, as well as treating those in the lower classes horribly because the world is fair so you must deserve what happened to you!
The positive value of liberty was twisted and turned evil in iceland, where pure liberty ended up turning into massive multi-generational blood feuds, the worst of what people fear would come from unlimited liberty. Arguably some of the worst excesses of early American colonisation came from a similar place.
The positive value of security was twisted and turned evil in the war on terror in America, where many basic human rights were infringed in the name of security.
The positive value of meritocracy is twisted and turned evil in many Asian countries, where the young are placed under such tremendous pressure to perform that it causes massive social problems, as well as myopia in adults because they spent every spare second studying for the next test for decades on end.
The world is not black and white, but many shades of grey, and so too is no single value only good or only evil, but consisting of many different attributes which interact with the world where those attributes exist in different ways with different outcomes in different situations. Therefore, people can't just turn off their brains and assume they're doing the right thing because they're following a good value. The world isn't that easy.
Often, these things happen in part because when one value is elevated above all others, people start to figure out how to re-frame getting what they want in terms of that value. The Japanese gets what he wants because it'll help the Empire. The German gets what he wants because it'll help the pure Aryan race. The Brit gets what he wants because it's only fair, the Icelander gets what he wants because that's what it means to be free.
Human beings are master rationalizers, and so over time they can build great obelisks of philosophy balanced on a single twig. A twig is not a firm foundation upon which to build such a philosophy, so inevitably the obelisk topples over, but a philosophy is not like a physical obelisk, even one that has been toppled can continue to be built as if there's nothing wrong even if it's obvious to everyone else there's a big problem.
Wokeness is one such obelisk. It was once much more balanced when it was younger, but it has been coopted by so many interests that it is no longer on even a twig of foundation whereas previously it had quite a strong foundation.
There is an image floating around of all the evil corporations happily throwing out their rainbow flags. Do you think they're doing it because they're good? These are companies like Phillip Morris, who sell cancer causing cigarettes, and paid off surgeon generals to lie about the cancer, and paid for studies for decades to muddy the water lest cigarette sales be affected, suddenly good and just? Halliburton was a key figure in the disastrous Iraq war, suddenly they're woke. Do you think it's because they're suddenly the good guys? The pharmaceutical industry is filled with some of the most evil people on earth, yet they're all super woke now. Are they the good guys and none of that other stuff ever happened?
And the sad thing is, that worked. Somehow, companies are attaching their soulless corporate products to the idea of equality and justice. Which is absurd. You mean to tell me that to refuse to take the pharmaceutical industry's latest poison, or the film industry's latest billion dollar mind poison actually means you hate women and black people? Think about that proposition for a second. Especially given the history of most industries regarding women and black people.
Similarly, and I think this is the key to all of this, about 10 years ago I started to see a lot of really angry people start to move into what was previously a pretty chill movement. At first they festered in their little echo chambers where they hatefully built ideologies that actively demanded genocide of certain groups (and calling for those genocides is considered acceptable in modern wokeness and will not generally be punished by our woke corporate overlords), threatened violence against political enemies, made unreasonable and bullying demands of innocent people, and overall just seethed in toxic hate.
Those little communities of toxic hate and entitlement were benign at first in the sense that they were siloed, but eventually they metastasised, and brought their cancerous hate everywhere. That would be the moment that the word "woke" started to be such a universally loathed phrase.
If you stop feeling guilty for a second, and stop feeling angry for a second, and look at some of the latest stuff coming out of some of these movements with eyes unclouded by guilt or hate, this new ideology isn't what my entire generation grew up believing. Many people who believe in justice will look at what academia (a thoroughly infected class of people if any exist) defines "whiteness" as and be disgusted by what looks like pure bigotry. If you were a member of the KKK, I suspect academic "whiteness" would be just fine.
A movement that once idolized Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., and Mahatma Gandhi suddenly gleefully pronounced "Punch a Nazi!" (Where 'a Nazi' is just anyone who slightly disagrees with you), and all tactics are allowable because wokeness has rationalized that all who disagree in the least actually are literal 1945 Nazis and so they aren't even human beings anymore.
A movement that once asked for equal treatment under the law now cheers for explicitly racist laws that lay out exactly what each race gets.
A movement that once convincingly argues that not all black people are responsible for the crimes committed by a few suddenly argues that all white people are responsible for the crimes committed by a few.
A movement that saw injustice against women and fretted constantly about issues of sexual consent and peer pressure suddenly loudly proclaimed "You will have sex with this person over here or you are one of *THEM* and will be dealt with appropriately"
A belief in tolerance and diversity never went away for most people. But most people aren't hypocrites and cannot simultaneously support tolerance and diversity and support wokeness because the two are not compatible belief systems.
Even the very best of things can become twisted and evil if you turn off your brain, turn off your humanity, turn off your heart.
I fear what will come of the values I grew up with when this abomination finally dies. I hope the cancer doesn't take the patient with it. Most of us care for the patient.