I actually did an apprenticeship for a short time in a school as a helpdesk tech back in high school. It didn't end up turning into a journeyman in being a helpdesk tech (and thank God it didn't, what a useless thing to be a journeyman in), and my ultimate field wasn't remotely in that, but there's a lot you can learn on the job, and that opportunity paid of much later.
It's a good model, especially once you remove the struggle of trying to find someone who is willing to take a chance on you. (I did read the link before replying the first time, btw -- otherwise I wouldn't have mentioned having the kids doing stuff because I wouldn't have thought of it)
It's a good model, especially once you remove the struggle of trying to find someone who is willing to take a chance on you. (I did read the link before replying the first time, btw -- otherwise I wouldn't have mentioned having the kids doing stuff because I wouldn't have thought of it)
There's also probably hundreds or thousands of tech literate, highly educated, industry experienced people who are willing and excited to volunteer locally to assist with helping kids learn tech in any given community. People who have real-world experience and passion. I bet you'd even find many of them are willing to work for free.
I'm a capitalist. I like paying people to do things I can't or don't want to do. But not everything falls under capitalism, and it shouldn't. There are things more important in the world, and things that you don't need to pay others for because they will do it for free.
Then imagine: You get local volunteer tech experts who are better than cross skilled teachers will ever be at the tech they are native to, and you combine that with students who actually get their hands dirty making the tech work and give them the duty and the responsibility for helping others, and suddenly you've got something really special.
I'm a capitalist. I like paying people to do things I can't or don't want to do. But not everything falls under capitalism, and it shouldn't. There are things more important in the world, and things that you don't need to pay others for because they will do it for free.
Then imagine: You get local volunteer tech experts who are better than cross skilled teachers will ever be at the tech they are native to, and you combine that with students who actually get their hands dirty making the tech work and give them the duty and the responsibility for helping others, and suddenly you've got something really special.
One thing that I've really come to realize is how important having a family is. In that chapter I'm not just talking about having a family, I'm talking about making sure that you are building a career, building relationships outside of family, building a home, building other reserves, because you need to be thinking ahead. Culturally, we are extremely shortsighted. We think that someone else is going to take care of it all for us, and that's just not true. Especially on a personal level, doing the right thing early pays off infinitely later.
I'm sure that everyone in this conversation knows somebody who is 30, 40, 50, and for the last however many years they've been talking about how they're going to go back to college and they're going to build a career and they're going to do this and they're going to do that. Fact is, you reach a certain point in your life and it doesn't matter anymore. It takes 40 years to build a 40-year career.
https://video.fbxl.net/w/11up92Vwb8asZqq3iAHY9g
I had a deep fake audiobook made, here is the chapter in question. Proceeding chapter was called "build something" and it talked a lot about the same ideas because I think it's the most important thing that we need to pass on right now. Pop culture values pretend to think ahead but don't. You're busy trying to save the world when they can't even save themselves.
I'm sure that everyone in this conversation knows somebody who is 30, 40, 50, and for the last however many years they've been talking about how they're going to go back to college and they're going to build a career and they're going to do this and they're going to do that. Fact is, you reach a certain point in your life and it doesn't matter anymore. It takes 40 years to build a 40-year career.
https://video.fbxl.net/w/11up92Vwb8asZqq3iAHY9g
I had a deep fake audiobook made, here is the chapter in question. Proceeding chapter was called "build something" and it talked a lot about the same ideas because I think it's the most important thing that we need to pass on right now. Pop culture values pretend to think ahead but don't. You're busy trying to save the world when they can't even save themselves.
That's a tough question. On one hand, the US is a food exporter and always has been so there's no reason for mass starvation. On the other hand, it really looks like the worst recession ever is imminent. On the other other hand, the US government almost always gives massive handouts when there's a bad recession. On the other other other hand the US has 32 trillion in debt and is already facing high inflation so the next recession may cause a sovereign debt crisis and currency crisis that is the sort of thing where models start to break down. Depending on exactly which direction the leadership decides to go, we could be looking at mass nationalization, or we could be looking at a move towards Mass liberty. We could be looking at hammering through with what worked before anyway so hyperinflation happens. It's really difficult to predict which way things will go because when the things that have worked for so long stop working, suddenly everything's on the table.
Hate is an emotion. The concept of banning an emotion on a communications platform is absurd. You can't do it.
Because it's so broad, everyone is always breaking the TOS, and so they can pick and choose who to ban and who to ignore. That's why on pre-elon twitter it was halal to call for genocide of certain groups but not others.
Because it's so broad, everyone is always breaking the TOS, and so they can pick and choose who to ban and who to ignore. That's why on pre-elon twitter it was halal to call for genocide of certain groups but not others.
There's a chapter in my book called "Think ahead", and it has one of the most terrifying passages I've ever written.
"Now finally, imagine that you are one of the few who hits 100. If you are an esteemed family matriarch or patriarch, then maybe you are held with respect by multiple generations of your offspring and their offspring and their offspring’s offspring. Very few people make it past this point, but that moment of your death and the moments leading up to it are going to be defined completely by what you have built. If you have built relationships with your family over a lifetime, then you may be surrounded by loved ones in your final moments. Otherwise, you might be all alone. Starving. Freezing because you have forgotten how to pay the heating bill, or you just do not have the money for it. Living in squalor because you just do not have the energy to deal with the growing mess around you. You will reach out in those final moments for a reassuring hand that will never ever come, because you never built that."
"Now finally, imagine that you are one of the few who hits 100. If you are an esteemed family matriarch or patriarch, then maybe you are held with respect by multiple generations of your offspring and their offspring and their offspring’s offspring. Very few people make it past this point, but that moment of your death and the moments leading up to it are going to be defined completely by what you have built. If you have built relationships with your family over a lifetime, then you may be surrounded by loved ones in your final moments. Otherwise, you might be all alone. Starving. Freezing because you have forgotten how to pay the heating bill, or you just do not have the money for it. Living in squalor because you just do not have the energy to deal with the growing mess around you. You will reach out in those final moments for a reassuring hand that will never ever come, because you never built that."
I have to assume I'd have to create a filter to block any links to canadian establishment news sites if this passes. I'm sure that'd be good for Canadian news sites, getting blocked everywhere.
For real. There's so many things that are hard enough to start with, starting with a server back-end that lots of people use and lots of people write documentation for makes the experience so much easier.
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Yes, you can follow the group itself. you just go groupname@narwhal.city
I follow @Permabear so every time I post there the software sends the posts to this account. I can also post there by tagging it and adding a CW for the title.
I follow @Permabear so every time I post there the software sends the posts to this account. I can also post there by tagging it and adding a CW for the title.
Unlike Trump, Musk is halfway competent at surrounding himself with smart people. He wouldn't make that stupid mistake.
@realcaseyrollins has been doing a really nice job posting on non politics related groups on narwhal.city. Lotide supports activityPub so you can connect to it directly from here.
I don't think we're opposing each other, just having a discussion on the nature of free speech. There's a lot of stuff to consider beyond good/bad, and I've found some of the stuff we've discussed thought provoking.
I ended up discussing it a bit in the following post: https://lotide.fbxl.net/posts/17835
One of the things is that restrictions on free speech have different parts to it. Law, platform rules, or social taboo all can each contribute to the ability to speak or not speak, and they have different effects and should be treated with different levels of scrutiny, since laws directly affect people everywhere, platform rules directly affect people on an entire platform, and social taboo is essentially a code of ethics people agree to follow generally. The shade of the enforcement is different between the three as well.
What you're talking about is with respect to free will is also important, and it's a completely different angle of free speech. I speak of "The Establishment" often, and the danger of communications monopolies or government taking over communications pathways. You end up only getting a certain point of view and nothing else, and that does end up affecting how wide your thoughts can be. That's one reason why it's so important that diversity of speech be encouraged, even if we find what's said offensive. Sometimes what is offensive is also true.
There was a woman from North Korea who did the interview circuit about a year or two back, and she talked about living in North Korea, and that people thought they were skeptical and that they had a good idea that the propaganda wasn't true, but when she left she was blown away by just how much beyond the obvious lies were lies. Imagine living on the verge of starvation your whole life and getting out and realizing the rest of the world had *an obesity epidemic*!
While we're not facing the same problems as North Korea, it's clear that there's so much propaganda from the establishment that those who step out of it may be shocked at what truths we have been blind to.
One of the things is that restrictions on free speech have different parts to it. Law, platform rules, or social taboo all can each contribute to the ability to speak or not speak, and they have different effects and should be treated with different levels of scrutiny, since laws directly affect people everywhere, platform rules directly affect people on an entire platform, and social taboo is essentially a code of ethics people agree to follow generally. The shade of the enforcement is different between the three as well.
What you're talking about is with respect to free will is also important, and it's a completely different angle of free speech. I speak of "The Establishment" often, and the danger of communications monopolies or government taking over communications pathways. You end up only getting a certain point of view and nothing else, and that does end up affecting how wide your thoughts can be. That's one reason why it's so important that diversity of speech be encouraged, even if we find what's said offensive. Sometimes what is offensive is also true.
There was a woman from North Korea who did the interview circuit about a year or two back, and she talked about living in North Korea, and that people thought they were skeptical and that they had a good idea that the propaganda wasn't true, but when she left she was blown away by just how much beyond the obvious lies were lies. Imagine living on the verge of starvation your whole life and getting out and realizing the rest of the world had *an obesity epidemic*!
While we're not facing the same problems as North Korea, it's clear that there's so much propaganda from the establishment that those who step out of it may be shocked at what truths we have been blind to.
Yelling fire in a crowded theatre isn't illegal, particularly if the theatre is on fire. That example is non-binding dicta from that decision.
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Growing up, my parents were divorced and there was always a bit of a cold war going on. Say the wrong thing to one parent and the other will have to hear about it.
Part of becoming an adult for me was taking off all those screens in front of the real me I had to put up. Until I did, I couldn't meet friends or really love my life.
These people want everyone walking on eggshells forever. That's hell on earth, their life's work is enacting hell on earth, and it's no wonder they're so miserable if they think that's a goal worth fighting for.
Part of becoming an adult for me was taking off all those screens in front of the real me I had to put up. Until I did, I couldn't meet friends or really love my life.
These people want everyone walking on eggshells forever. That's hell on earth, their life's work is enacting hell on earth, and it's no wonder they're so miserable if they think that's a goal worth fighting for.