I think that's how some extraordinarily minor movements got so much airplay: Despite being insignificant, they win on engagement so a tiny number of bad actors get immense play.
I see stuff I disagree with on fediverse, but usually it's organic enough I can just ignore it and move on with my day.
I see stuff I disagree with on fediverse, but usually it's organic enough I can just ignore it and move on with my day.
The fact that we're talking apples and oranges is part of my point.
We could create vehicles that are actually greener given 30 years of technological advancement, but we refuse to. We could build things even cheaper and less resource intensive than a geo metro, but it's illegal to do so.
It's all a fraud, it's all a display put on to pretend they care about something. Instead of doing the thing we can do today, we go "oh, the technology just isn't there yet" and we dump more money into our political allies companies.
We could create vehicles that are actually greener given 30 years of technological advancement, but we refuse to. We could build things even cheaper and less resource intensive than a geo metro, but it's illegal to do so.
It's all a fraud, it's all a display put on to pretend they care about something. Instead of doing the thing we can do today, we go "oh, the technology just isn't there yet" and we dump more money into our political allies companies.
I strongly suspect the carbon impact of a version of a hypothetical geo metro that runs for 30 years vs. an electric car that needs to be replaced because the proprietary battery is dead after 10 years is so wide you'd never be able to recover.
But who wants to sell us a geo metro that lasts for 30 years?
But who wants to sell us a geo metro that lasts for 30 years?
Music ended for me sometime around 2010. That's not that I don't listen to music, I'll listen to music going all the way back to the 1920s, but the music industry just doesn't produce music as far as I can tell.
Let's be perfectly real here, even the ones who "left" often just moved to their alts.
They're addicted. If someone were banned off of Twitter and they could suck a dick to post a tweet, they would.
They're addicted. If someone were banned off of Twitter and they could suck a dick to post a tweet, they would.
Oh, that's an easy one. Southern California paedophiles. That's the god our prime minister worships.
Tbf, as someone who opposes a Trudeau policy she's now a racist sexist misogynistic homophobic transphobic American Russian bot. Perfect target for der fuhrers eugenics program.
I tend to think that was actually needed is to stop sticking our fingers in things.
People need to put their hand on the hot stove to realize the stove is hot. If you build a giant iron gate around the hot stove, then eventually people forget that the stove is hot, and eventually someone is going to forget why you built the iron gate and they're going to tear it down and everyone's going to rush in and put their hand on the hot stove again.
These massive scams keep on happening because of the fallacy that the government will protect you from massive scams.
People need to put their hand on the hot stove to realize the stove is hot. If you build a giant iron gate around the hot stove, then eventually people forget that the stove is hot, and eventually someone is going to forget why you built the iron gate and they're going to tear it down and everyone's going to rush in and put their hand on the hot stove again.
These massive scams keep on happening because of the fallacy that the government will protect you from massive scams.
One important thing to keep in mind is that they're lying about inflation.
Over time, they've changed the way they calculate inflation to reduce the number without reducing inflation itself.
There's a few different ways. For one, lets say you can't afford steak anymore because it gets too expensive so you move to chicken, but then later you can't afford chicken so you buy organ meats. Things have gotten way more expensive, but they twist it so technically there was no inflation because you're paying the same!
For another, let's say that you bought a smart phone 10 years ago for $400, but today the smart phone is $1200. Well, they just say "Yeah but the new one is way better!" so despite your objective cost of living going way up, there was no inflation!
Yet another, let's say your rent goes up 400% and house prices go up 400%. It's totally cool because instead of looking at rents or house prices, they go to a homeowner and ask "hey, hypothetically if you had to rent a replacement for your home, how much would you expect to pay?", and the homeowners consistently guess way lower than the real value so there was no inflation!
If we were to use the old method of calculating inflation, we had fairly high inflation after 2008, and presently we are experiencing some of the highest inflation in history, forget the past 40 years.
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts
Doing that completely changes the conversation. When you account for the actual rises in cost of living rather than the doctored cost of living, the true cost of the constant bailouts becomes obvious. It's not just the cost of the bailouts, but the reduction in virtually everyone's cost of living. If you're an oligarch who owns assets that only go up then you're fine, but if you're someone who earns a wage then the inflation tax robs you of your wages forever from the moment it takes effect.
There's somthing in finance called the "rule of 72" where if you divide 72 by the growth rate of a thing you see how long until prices double in years. If inflation was really 2% then prices would only double every 36 years. If inflation is really 7%, then prices would double every 10 years. I know many of my bills have doubled in the past 10 years. Groceries have far more than doubled. Rent has far more than doubled. energy has almost doubled. Many cars have doubled in MSRP. Most technology has more than doubled in price.
Like... What's left? Everyone from the poorest of the poor to the the upper middle class of wage earners are paying the inflation tax every year watching their wages disintegrate, meanwhile fighting just to get 2% raises.
Don't bail out main street, don't bail out the banks. Return to responsibility and let the good investments succeed and the bad investments fail, and let people be responsible for taking care of themselves because they're going to do a better job than the government has, clearly.
Over time, they've changed the way they calculate inflation to reduce the number without reducing inflation itself.
There's a few different ways. For one, lets say you can't afford steak anymore because it gets too expensive so you move to chicken, but then later you can't afford chicken so you buy organ meats. Things have gotten way more expensive, but they twist it so technically there was no inflation because you're paying the same!
For another, let's say that you bought a smart phone 10 years ago for $400, but today the smart phone is $1200. Well, they just say "Yeah but the new one is way better!" so despite your objective cost of living going way up, there was no inflation!
Yet another, let's say your rent goes up 400% and house prices go up 400%. It's totally cool because instead of looking at rents or house prices, they go to a homeowner and ask "hey, hypothetically if you had to rent a replacement for your home, how much would you expect to pay?", and the homeowners consistently guess way lower than the real value so there was no inflation!
If we were to use the old method of calculating inflation, we had fairly high inflation after 2008, and presently we are experiencing some of the highest inflation in history, forget the past 40 years.
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts
Doing that completely changes the conversation. When you account for the actual rises in cost of living rather than the doctored cost of living, the true cost of the constant bailouts becomes obvious. It's not just the cost of the bailouts, but the reduction in virtually everyone's cost of living. If you're an oligarch who owns assets that only go up then you're fine, but if you're someone who earns a wage then the inflation tax robs you of your wages forever from the moment it takes effect.
There's somthing in finance called the "rule of 72" where if you divide 72 by the growth rate of a thing you see how long until prices double in years. If inflation was really 2% then prices would only double every 36 years. If inflation is really 7%, then prices would double every 10 years. I know many of my bills have doubled in the past 10 years. Groceries have far more than doubled. Rent has far more than doubled. energy has almost doubled. Many cars have doubled in MSRP. Most technology has more than doubled in price.
Like... What's left? Everyone from the poorest of the poor to the the upper middle class of wage earners are paying the inflation tax every year watching their wages disintegrate, meanwhile fighting just to get 2% raises.
Don't bail out main street, don't bail out the banks. Return to responsibility and let the good investments succeed and the bad investments fail, and let people be responsible for taking care of themselves because they're going to do a better job than the government has, clearly.
Northern Canada. It's relatively routine to see temps like that in January and February.
Something that really is obvious to me when I see things like the Darrell Brooks trial.
Without a properly functioning legal system, there would be no choice but for the families of those 70 victims to just kill everyone in the city with the name Brooks.
People who want to totally remove the legal system thinking that'll be a good thing should consider that fact.
Without a properly functioning legal system, there would be no choice but for the families of those 70 victims to just kill everyone in the city with the name Brooks.
People who want to totally remove the legal system thinking that'll be a good thing should consider that fact.
Since we can apply for other people to get medically assisted suicide now, I nominate our Prime Minister.
He's clearly unwell, it's immoral to allow his suffering to continue.
He's clearly unwell, it's immoral to allow his suffering to continue.
John Carmack gave a massive interview on the Lex Fridman podcast a while back, and I listened through much of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I845O57ZSy4
One thing he talks a lot about is how over the years he's come to realize that building good systems and having a good strategy overall is more important than having individual clever algorithms.
When you're dealing with stuff that's going to be a base for work that continues indefinitely, that's absolutely true to an extent that people in the moment often don't realize.
Building something that's super efficient and clever is fine if you're done the project in 18 months and never work on this again, but a lot of companies take that base that's built in one game and use it as the basis for their next 15 games, because that's good business and good game development.
I've experience this myself, where the stuff I can help others maintain is worth its weight in gold.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I845O57ZSy4
One thing he talks a lot about is how over the years he's come to realize that building good systems and having a good strategy overall is more important than having individual clever algorithms.
When you're dealing with stuff that's going to be a base for work that continues indefinitely, that's absolutely true to an extent that people in the moment often don't realize.
Building something that's super efficient and clever is fine if you're done the project in 18 months and never work on this again, but a lot of companies take that base that's built in one game and use it as the basis for their next 15 games, because that's good business and good game development.
I've experience this myself, where the stuff I can help others maintain is worth its weight in gold.
That last one is incredibly true. The thing is, you make the documentation and it's good, you have it. Maybe 1 year later, or 2 years later, or 5 years later, or 10 years later someone asks you how it works, and you've got this impeccable documentation and you look like a king.
I want to know: how cold is your cold climate?
I routinely see -40C, and I'm really curious about what -40C and not leaving your car in a garage overnight would look like for an EV.
I routinely see -40C, and I'm really curious about what -40C and not leaving your car in a garage overnight would look like for an EV.