So I started a print for a friend of mine without looking at the printer first. Good thing it's a small print, because I'm almost out of filament! (Uh.... The white thing is the filament sticking out)
These people are addicts. The number of people that I've seen declaring that they're leaving Twitter who ended up staying exactly where they were is basically 100%.
Is ChatGPT a small car made in Yugoslavia in the 1980s?
No. No it is not. (But 500 words of that since you gotta get paid your 4 bucks)
No. No it is not. (But 500 words of that since you gotta get paid your 4 bucks)
Doctors are just doctors. Even if there was a medical justification for keeping the lockdowns exactly as long as they have been, the economic, political, sociological, legal, and moral justifications also play a role, and that's where you start to see a serious problem due to the long tail of lockdown after-effects.
Economically, the rich have been getting much richer and the poor have been getting much poorer as a result of COVID, since the rich have largely been able to continue doing the things that made them rich, where many of the poor were forced into unemployment and handed money that quickly became worth much less becuase there just wasn't as much stuff to buy. Inflation is eating the wages and savings of the poor and middle-class, we've experienced shortages in many areas and it's appearing that we're going to see worse shortages as the long tail of lockdowns works its way through supply chains.
Politically, political polarization became even worse than it already was thanks to the draconian nature of the lockdowns and the extreme means required to implement them. The rhetoric against unvaccinated was eerily similar to rhetoric against the Jews in Nazi Germany. It also led to weakness in the western powers -- why do you think Russia chose this moment to invade Ukraine? Because the west threw itself upon its sword and wasn't prepared to deal with something like Ukraine.
Sociologically, there's effects we won't even be able to measure completely for 20 years. We know that the lockdowns caused many children to be massively developmentally stunted. Everyone in the cohort, from babies whose development was stunted to a degree that makes them practically subhuman to teenagers who were not prepared for college because the school lockdowns resulted in pathetically bad education such that high school graduates had to drop out of college.
Legally, the governments usually lacked the legal framework to do anything like the lockdowns, so where there was a bill of rights or constitution, the government violated those en masse so they could get what they wanted, which is a major step in the slide to tyranny.
Morally, it's extremely questionable if any leader can justly cause all the harm enumerated above and more at all. The long tail of lockdown policies will likely result in far more suffering than covid itself.
This is why technocracy is bad. A technocrat who is an "expert" on one thing isn't an expert on everything. They may know a lot about infectious diseases, but they won't know about childhood development, agriculture, economics, politics, sociology, law, or morality to the point that they can lead us.
Economically, the rich have been getting much richer and the poor have been getting much poorer as a result of COVID, since the rich have largely been able to continue doing the things that made them rich, where many of the poor were forced into unemployment and handed money that quickly became worth much less becuase there just wasn't as much stuff to buy. Inflation is eating the wages and savings of the poor and middle-class, we've experienced shortages in many areas and it's appearing that we're going to see worse shortages as the long tail of lockdowns works its way through supply chains.
Politically, political polarization became even worse than it already was thanks to the draconian nature of the lockdowns and the extreme means required to implement them. The rhetoric against unvaccinated was eerily similar to rhetoric against the Jews in Nazi Germany. It also led to weakness in the western powers -- why do you think Russia chose this moment to invade Ukraine? Because the west threw itself upon its sword and wasn't prepared to deal with something like Ukraine.
Sociologically, there's effects we won't even be able to measure completely for 20 years. We know that the lockdowns caused many children to be massively developmentally stunted. Everyone in the cohort, from babies whose development was stunted to a degree that makes them practically subhuman to teenagers who were not prepared for college because the school lockdowns resulted in pathetically bad education such that high school graduates had to drop out of college.
Legally, the governments usually lacked the legal framework to do anything like the lockdowns, so where there was a bill of rights or constitution, the government violated those en masse so they could get what they wanted, which is a major step in the slide to tyranny.
Morally, it's extremely questionable if any leader can justly cause all the harm enumerated above and more at all. The long tail of lockdown policies will likely result in far more suffering than covid itself.
This is why technocracy is bad. A technocrat who is an "expert" on one thing isn't an expert on everything. They may know a lot about infectious diseases, but they won't know about childhood development, agriculture, economics, politics, sociology, law, or morality to the point that they can lead us.
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I call them all "The Establishment Media" because they're not mainstream anymore, they're just the tool of the establishment powers.
I find it interesting that the twitter people came over and immediately started clamouring for algorithms.
God is super chatty in the bible. He's always chatting people up, I think it's because he invented cocaine around that time and he was in a phase.
He also spent time wrestling with his bros, and occasionally letting his bros win! One guy was so excited he changed his name to "I wrestled god and won bro".
Serious Chad.
He also spent time wrestling with his bros, and occasionally letting his bros win! One guy was so excited he changed his name to "I wrestled god and won bro".
Serious Chad.
Imagine how long the wall will have to be to fit everyone who will need to stand in front of one over shit like this.
"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.