"Twitter is shit now!"
"Twitter was always shit. Now they're shit and take down kiddy porn."
"I'll sue!"
"Twitter was always shit. Now they're shit and take down kiddy porn."
"I'll sue!"
And a lot of stuff also seems to be like "Hey, let's set this thing on fire and see what comes out the other side!"
One thing that we have to universally understand and accept is that all forms of industrial scale electricity generation will have an environmental impact, but hydro dams can produce power for generations using the same site, on long enough timeline the environmental damage has already basically taken place, so the marginal impact for every new kilowatt generated becomes lower and lower. I think a lot of these people don't like it because you can't get rich building hydro dams. You can get rich selling technologies that are perpetually just out of reach at massive cost and very minimal positive impact.
I'd be totally willing to say "let's make Canada for Canadians and stop exporting everything we have like a colony". Canadians are some of the smartest people in the world, and instead of actually getting a chance to use that ingenuity, they're digging holes in the ground for Chinese people. If they're lucky.
I agree with you that we should be focusing on food self-sufficiency first and foremost (we are canada, we should have some of the lowest food prices in the world not some of the highest!), but it's also important for us to realize that energy is not a luxury. A lack of food can kill you in days or weeks, a lack of heat can kill you up here in hours. Especially when it's 40 below out for days or weeks on end. Inexpensive and reliable heat is a game changer for everyone.
I'd be totally willing to say "let's make Canada for Canadians and stop exporting everything we have like a colony". Canadians are some of the smartest people in the world, and instead of actually getting a chance to use that ingenuity, they're digging holes in the ground for Chinese people. If they're lucky.
I agree with you that we should be focusing on food self-sufficiency first and foremost (we are canada, we should have some of the lowest food prices in the world not some of the highest!), but it's also important for us to realize that energy is not a luxury. A lack of food can kill you in days or weeks, a lack of heat can kill you up here in hours. Especially when it's 40 below out for days or weeks on end. Inexpensive and reliable heat is a game changer for everyone.
"I'm going to take my bo at, and I'm going to down the reeever, and I'm going to (where did my film career go?)"
Canadian power should be all hydroelectric, period.
If we stopped worrying about looking good and started worrying about actually being good, the first thing we'd do is build a bunch of ugly and boring but super effective dams in every single province and territory and make it so everyone could heat their homes in winter cheaply and without burning anything, and in the process we'd punch above our weight by selling a bunch of that carbon neutral power to the US.
If we stopped worrying about looking good and started worrying about actually being good, the first thing we'd do is build a bunch of ugly and boring but super effective dams in every single province and territory and make it so everyone could heat their homes in winter cheaply and without burning anything, and in the process we'd punch above our weight by selling a bunch of that carbon neutral power to the US.
A lot of people point out that being stupid is lazy, but what they don't talk about is it feels really good. Simple answers help the world make sense. You don't need to feel the pain of uncertainty, just follow what the orthodoxy says is true and the world makes sense. It's not fun being in an uncertain world. It doesn't feel good having to look at things you might not like to come to conclusions you might not think you'll come to initially. By contrast, a feeling that you're doing what's right is deeply fulfilling, even if it's not based on anything real or true.
When I was younger I got sucked into a couple ideologies like that for a while. Constitutional libertarianism is really nice because as an idea there's basically one question: "Is this directly supported by the constitution?" and usually the answer is "no". It efficiently sorts about 95% of questions before you even start. The problem is that beyond ideology the world is complex and dynamic. Even Ron Paul got gotcha'd for voting to recognize Rosa Parks despite the fact that the ability to do so is not enshrined in the constitution (In the grand scheme of things, that's a pretty acceptable thing to be gotcha'd on if I'm being honest).
Thing is, once you step out of the ideological realm, the world exists and does continue to exist regardless of how well or how poorly your model works. Often later on you come back out the other side and realize (like the German NPCs did) that you regret the way you acted despite it feeling like the only way to act in the moment because you were so certain of yourself and your ideology's imperviousness.
When I was younger I got sucked into a couple ideologies like that for a while. Constitutional libertarianism is really nice because as an idea there's basically one question: "Is this directly supported by the constitution?" and usually the answer is "no". It efficiently sorts about 95% of questions before you even start. The problem is that beyond ideology the world is complex and dynamic. Even Ron Paul got gotcha'd for voting to recognize Rosa Parks despite the fact that the ability to do so is not enshrined in the constitution (In the grand scheme of things, that's a pretty acceptable thing to be gotcha'd on if I'm being honest).
Thing is, once you step out of the ideological realm, the world exists and does continue to exist regardless of how well or how poorly your model works. Often later on you come back out the other side and realize (like the German NPCs did) that you regret the way you acted despite it feeling like the only way to act in the moment because you were so certain of yourself and your ideology's imperviousness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww47bR86wSc
This is a great video that fantastically explains one of the biggest ideas I think we need to be facing today. I've said that the sort of people who shut their brains off would be guarding the railcars to Auschwitz, here is the same idea presented by someone who was imprisoned and ultimately murdered by the people who guarded the railcars to Auschwitz.
It's funny seeing someone call out actual 1945 Nazis as NPCs.
This is a great video that fantastically explains one of the biggest ideas I think we need to be facing today. I've said that the sort of people who shut their brains off would be guarding the railcars to Auschwitz, here is the same idea presented by someone who was imprisoned and ultimately murdered by the people who guarded the railcars to Auschwitz.
It's funny seeing someone call out actual 1945 Nazis as NPCs.
Big problem no matter what with most of these attacks is you start with "Ok, so first we have to successfully attack the system."
If you've successfully attacked the system, then it's already game over. You can pass data through a number of different avenues.
If you've successfully attacked the system, then it's already game over. You can pass data through a number of different avenues.
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"