The number one largest by volume group of people who are trying to cut people off from being able to do business would be the woke religion. There are countless examples where someone is sitting there basically minding their own business and they end up getting kicked out of the banking system, or they get kicked off a website, or they get kicked off of a sales platform, or they get kicked out of their job, because they are not following the holy precepts of that religion.
So let's do it for everyone. Tax the churches, tax the political nonprofits. You're not allowed to deny someone because your religion of God tells you that they are evil, you're not allowed to deny someone because your religion of wokeness tells you they are evil.
I think doing that would immediately calm down a lot of this culture war crap.
So let's do it for everyone. Tax the churches, tax the political nonprofits. You're not allowed to deny someone because your religion of God tells you that they are evil, you're not allowed to deny someone because your religion of wokeness tells you they are evil.
I think doing that would immediately calm down a lot of this culture war crap.
Pretty much par for the course with these stupid political cases.
It cuts both ways. Was there really no other cake shop the gay couple could have gone to?
Thinking about this post is actually brought me to a completely different idea. When the US Constitution was first created, morality did swing largely around the church. So freedom of religion and freedom from religion was to an extent a right to your own morality, and a right to act or not act based on your own sincerely held morality.
Today, we live in a much more secular world. There are much fewer religious people than they used to be. So we end up in this really weird situation where if you have a sincerely held moral belief and you have that because you think God told you to, then you can be protected from having to act another way. And you have that because you think it's the right thing to do, you have no similar protections.
I think there's a good argument we made for amending the Constitution of the world to change the freedom of religion into a freedom of conscience. And similarly, a freedom from someone else's conscience.
It cuts both ways. Was there really no other cake shop the gay couple could have gone to?
Thinking about this post is actually brought me to a completely different idea. When the US Constitution was first created, morality did swing largely around the church. So freedom of religion and freedom from religion was to an extent a right to your own morality, and a right to act or not act based on your own sincerely held morality.
Today, we live in a much more secular world. There are much fewer religious people than they used to be. So we end up in this really weird situation where if you have a sincerely held moral belief and you have that because you think God told you to, then you can be protected from having to act another way. And you have that because you think it's the right thing to do, you have no similar protections.
I think there's a good argument we made for amending the Constitution of the world to change the freedom of religion into a freedom of conscience. And similarly, a freedom from someone else's conscience.
Imagine if he actually won on those stupid arguments. He'd have to sleep with a vest and helmet on for the rest of his life.
[admin mode] Downtime just now was due to a database upgrade that was overdue. Started to notice this week a lot of things were starting to fray because we were applying hotfixes but deferring some major upgrades. We should be good for a long while now on that front. At some point we'll be upgrading our back end and front-end, but not tonight.
The FBXL invidious instance was also starting to fall apart, it's set up to automatically upgrade on a schedule like most of our stuff. It's working perfectly again.
I'll probably be fiddling a bit more with invidious and lotide, but the social and video instances are back to normal now.
The FBXL invidious instance was also starting to fall apart, it's set up to automatically upgrade on a schedule like most of our stuff. It's working perfectly again.
I'll probably be fiddling a bit more with invidious and lotide, but the social and video instances are back to normal now.
Did you know that when I made this it was a stupid edgy joke and half the planet wouldn't pretend I was actually advocating we vote for Hitler?
A lot of folks following me since I posted this last: Privacy redirect is available for chromium and firefox based browsers and lets you redirect links automatically from big tech to privacy respecting sites.
Every single person on fediblock instances is a neurodivergent quadrapelegic fat hideously ugly Jewish black gay trans who migrated from India where he was part of the untouchables caste who lives under the poverty line and attended residential schools and speaks English as a second language! The dei machine just says "tilt"
If I went with that list rather than adding myself to it, I'd be cut off from some of the best people on the fediverse.
The establishment has discovered they can shut down legitimate debate by accusing it of being related to so-called "unacceptable speech" even where it clearly isn't. The moment you can shut down something legal by routing it through something illegal, they will.
We are seeing a whole bunch of speech that has absolutely nothing to do with race, sex, gender ideology, or nationality getting reframed by The Establishment as racist sexist homophobic transphobic Russian propaganda because that way they don't need to deal with any legitimate questions.
We are seeing a whole bunch of speech that has absolutely nothing to do with race, sex, gender ideology, or nationality getting reframed by The Establishment as racist sexist homophobic transphobic Russian propaganda because that way they don't need to deal with any legitimate questions.
One of the keys to building models is coming out with actionable predictions. Human beings are mastery rationalizers, so it's very easy to come up with a model to justify any course of action, but the important question is: when you take that course of action you've justified, did things play out the way that your model predicts?
Of course, there are Black swan events that no one could predict. There is no model that would have predicted that in 2020 the entire world economy would be shut down due to a pandemic. On the other hand, a model should account for some level of unexpected events, because the world isn't static.
It is no great miracle producing a set of predictions that tomorrow will be largely the same as today. Most of the time such a model will be absolutely correct. The value comes in trying to predict what might change, in figuring out what the next Black swan event could be, or in trying to see with unbiased eyes the White swan event that is sitting right in front of you.
Human beings have the tremendously huge brains we do in part so that we can try to predict the future. That is our superpower as a species. That's why our tool use is on a completely different level than any other species, because we can imagine how we might use some incredibly complicated tool that has no present use. It also allows us to behave in ways that are insanely social. For example, one person building a piece of software that allows different social media websites to connect together. They did that imagining a future that could have thousands of different websites existing and communicating. And today we have the fediverse. It also allows us to plan ahead at a level that no other creature even comes close to. How many other species do you think have 5-year plans? How many other species do you think have 10-year plans? How many species do you think have any conception of 15 or 20 years from now? That's incredible, and it's a superpower that we have as humans.
The thing is, we need to use that superpower. Just listening to other people and letting them tell us what to do means that we're going to be doing the exact same thing as everyone else and we're never going to get ahead. Just sitting and dogmatically reciting orthodoxy in the face of new information means we're never going to get ahead. We as individuals needed to take in information as much as we can, try to build models for ourselves, and most importantly take in additional new information from the outside world to test our previous predictions, honestly and lies whether our predictions were correct, and modify our models based on that feedback from The real world so that we can make better decisions based on better predictions tomorrow.
It sure sounds like a lot of work, having to go around and put all this effort into building models, and learning more information, and testing our models, and modifying your models, but the thing is if we don't do that then we're not going to be able to make predictions ahead of the pack, and we're not going to be able to get any sort of comparative advantage. Moreover when everyone else is hurting, you could be ok because you successfully predicted the bad thing others who were relying on others to do it for you.
Once you start putting in the work, many things become much more obvious. Then you start to see the establishment saying "nobody could have predicted this!" And you sort of have to shake your head because once you're out of the echo chamber, it's just not true anymore.
Of course, there are Black swan events that no one could predict. There is no model that would have predicted that in 2020 the entire world economy would be shut down due to a pandemic. On the other hand, a model should account for some level of unexpected events, because the world isn't static.
It is no great miracle producing a set of predictions that tomorrow will be largely the same as today. Most of the time such a model will be absolutely correct. The value comes in trying to predict what might change, in figuring out what the next Black swan event could be, or in trying to see with unbiased eyes the White swan event that is sitting right in front of you.
Human beings have the tremendously huge brains we do in part so that we can try to predict the future. That is our superpower as a species. That's why our tool use is on a completely different level than any other species, because we can imagine how we might use some incredibly complicated tool that has no present use. It also allows us to behave in ways that are insanely social. For example, one person building a piece of software that allows different social media websites to connect together. They did that imagining a future that could have thousands of different websites existing and communicating. And today we have the fediverse. It also allows us to plan ahead at a level that no other creature even comes close to. How many other species do you think have 5-year plans? How many other species do you think have 10-year plans? How many species do you think have any conception of 15 or 20 years from now? That's incredible, and it's a superpower that we have as humans.
The thing is, we need to use that superpower. Just listening to other people and letting them tell us what to do means that we're going to be doing the exact same thing as everyone else and we're never going to get ahead. Just sitting and dogmatically reciting orthodoxy in the face of new information means we're never going to get ahead. We as individuals needed to take in information as much as we can, try to build models for ourselves, and most importantly take in additional new information from the outside world to test our previous predictions, honestly and lies whether our predictions were correct, and modify our models based on that feedback from The real world so that we can make better decisions based on better predictions tomorrow.
It sure sounds like a lot of work, having to go around and put all this effort into building models, and learning more information, and testing our models, and modifying your models, but the thing is if we don't do that then we're not going to be able to make predictions ahead of the pack, and we're not going to be able to get any sort of comparative advantage. Moreover when everyone else is hurting, you could be ok because you successfully predicted the bad thing others who were relying on others to do it for you.
Once you start putting in the work, many things become much more obvious. Then you start to see the establishment saying "nobody could have predicted this!" And you sort of have to shake your head because once you're out of the echo chamber, it's just not true anymore.
Why do people rob banks? Because that's where all the money is.
Why do people use ActivityPub for posting content? Because that's where all the users are.
Why do people use ActivityPub for posting content? Because that's where all the users are.
Watching a few people saying they support the #workers in the UK.
I saw exactly how quickly the left turned on the workers when the establishment called them some names. Fairweather friends.
"What? The workers fighting for their basic human rights are racist sexist misogynistic homophobic transphobic American Russian nazis? Well then you can count me out! The media has never lied about someone to please their masters!"
I saw exactly how quickly the left turned on the workers when the establishment called them some names. Fairweather friends.
"What? The workers fighting for their basic human rights are racist sexist misogynistic homophobic transphobic American Russian nazis? Well then you can count me out! The media has never lied about someone to please their masters!"
The key will be putting money away to get a serious down payment. If mortgages stay high (the historical average before 2008 destroyed all the data was 8%, so I'd plan to be able to pay a mortgage at 8%) every dollar you save now is several dollars you don't have to pay back.
Maybe talk to an accountant in your jurisdiction. There's often tricks you can use to get a lot further along, for example by using tax efficient mechanisms to store and grow your down payment.
Maybe talk to an accountant in your jurisdiction. There's often tricks you can use to get a lot further along, for example by using tax efficient mechanisms to store and grow your down payment.
People have no idea. My generation has lived through several recessions, but those recessions were all filled with helicopter money. It's cocaine -- Makes the pain go away but that doesn't mean its good for you.
I'm really hoping it's sorta messy so maybe the world economy can start worrying a bit more about actually doing real stuff again instead of just perpetually making numbers go up.
I'm really hoping it's sorta messy so maybe the world economy can start worrying a bit more about actually doing real stuff again instead of just perpetually making numbers go up.
fediblock, fedifence
Ignore them.
There's a dark place on the Fediverse filled with hateful people who wrap their hate up in nice terms, but don't be misled. These people would be the first ones lining up to guard the railcars heading to Auschwitz.
They're just looking for an excuse to knock down anyone who isn't exactly like they claim to want to be like.
The fediverse worth being on isn't a gated community with 8 meter barbed wire fences.
There's a dark place on the Fediverse filled with hateful people who wrap their hate up in nice terms, but don't be misled. These people would be the first ones lining up to guard the railcars heading to Auschwitz.
They're just looking for an excuse to knock down anyone who isn't exactly like they claim to want to be like.
The fediverse worth being on isn't a gated community with 8 meter barbed wire fences.
and e) doesn't necessarily mean there's anything wrong with it
But A-D are more important, you just need to keep E in mind to prevent accidentally falling into faulty logic
But A-D are more important, you just need to keep E in mind to prevent accidentally falling into faulty logic