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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)

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...

Are bedframes a thing women want?

Because I'm an alpha chad in that department. I've got like four bedframes. Bitches hanging off my dick all day long!

Wait...What just happened here...?

It's fooooine. Poor people don't heat their homes or eat food or take forms of transportation anywhere!

My son has a toy that works like this, and it's frickin hilarious.

The A, B, C, D, Circle, Triangle, Star and Square all fit in the square hole.

The summer of love riots were a political stunt largely directed by the powers that be, but I suspect real riots with the productive members of society would be much more effective and wouldn't end up in poor neighborhoods tearing up what few possessions they have.

In that context, it should be obvious why they're stomping on the neck of anything they didn't orchestrate.

Our leadership is decadent, and so they don't realize there's a physical world that can't be ordered around. We need food, we need to keep our homes warm, we need a lot other things, and if we don't get those things then we start to die (and slightly before that riot en masse) and there's no order you can give to people not to die of starvation if there's no food.

I can't get past the fact that these people seem to forget they're on a platform that allowed calling for certain forms of genocide the whole time, and oh by the way FOUGHT IN COURT TO BE ABLE TO CONTINUE HOSTING CHILD PORN.

I'm well on the record of not liking Elon, but him buying Twitter so far has been a net positive for the human race.

I was new to the city so I guess I get to swing because I don't have a bunch of friends to vouch for me...

Probably more than you'd think. My little server hosted on parts scavenged from a roadside sign claims to be connecting to 8251 peers. I would imagine that number would be quite a bit higher on a server with 1000 times the users.

If we can teach the upcoming generation that "Free" doesn't mean free, that'll be a good thing we've done.

Wow, you must have a seriously nice collection to be filling not just your local space, but such a large hard drive!

I can see both sides. On one hand, I had a lot of fun trying to figure out how to do everything in 640k back in the day, but on the other hand, being able to just use the memory you need and focus on solving the problems is nice sometimes as well.

"We've tested this 2 year old vaccine on children for over 18 years!"

I ended up putting all my movies in digital format using handbrake, and now I host them on a plex server.

My first adult relationship ended up being really abusive, and once I finally left after lots of nasty stuff, she started going to the police constantly for months accusing me of all sorts of stuff while stalking me at my new apartment, at my workplace, leaving threatening letters, all sorts of stuff.

Over all those months, the cops dutifully came to harass me every time she came up with a new conspiracy theory. I just wanted it all to be over, but it didn't end for a long time. I can only imagine how things would have turned out if I didn't ensure I had a good alibi from the moment I left her house that night.

Privileging anyone with an presumption of victimhood is dangerous. Particularly once those people realize they have that presumption, they can use it to turn the tools meant to protect abused into tools of the abuser.

That's one of the reasons why there needs to be an impartial process, because in the passion of the moment sometimes your lynch mob gets it wrong.

Virtually no Peter Schiffs out there, but there should be.

This is absolutely true. The entire world economy has solely been propped up on money printing and debt, which has been really good for a small number of people who have managed to gather up all of that debt and all of that money, but there's been stagnation in true productivity meaning that the average person's quality of life has been dropping like a rock.

The sad thing is that people who need to know better don't. Like children, they think that the answer to people not having enough money is to just give them more money.

If you think about it though, it's the danger of being wildly successful. If you end up creating a car company larger than every other car company on the planet combined, and then and a claimed space company, and you have a bunch of other things that seem to be doing fine, the message that the entire universe is sending you is that you're something special.

That's how you overextend yourself, and we really do see it with a lot of these really successful people.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm sure Elon works very hard and makes a lot of good decisions, you don't get to be in the spot that he's in without doing some things right, but there's an awful lot of stuff that was pure chance as well. Just happened to be the guy running the company that all the investors decided to dump all their money in during an era of unprecedented money printing. Just happened to become the darling of the environmental movement. Just happened to become super rich in the com blow up, and be one of the few people to keep their wealth.

Once you temper your view of yourself as an infinite genius with the reality that no matter how infinite your genius and how virtuous your life is, you only get the opportunities that you get, and if you're the best it's probably because you got some opportunities someone else didn't, then you stop imagining that everything that you do is going to be immediately and automatically successful.

Now getting away from all that stuff for a second, seems to me that if you wanted to produce an open ecosystem, it would make a lot more sense to support the existing open ecosystems. Instead of making a brand new operating system, pay some people to contribute to the existing open operating systems such as mobian, and if you're going to make a new phone, figure out how to make one that's powerful enough to run the software that already exists. Pine phone is great, but it's like a 15-year-old phone and that is immediately apparent once you load Android on it.

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