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sj_zero | @sj_zero@social.fbxl.net

Author of The Graysonian Ethic (Available on Amazon, pick up a dead tree copy today)

Also Author of Future Sepsis (Also available on Amazon!)

Admin of the FBXL Network including FBXL Search, FBXL Video, FBXL Social, FBXL Lotide, FBXL Translate, and FBXL Maps.

Advocate for freedom and tolerance even if you say things I do not like

Adversary of Fediblock

Accept that I'll probably say something you don't like and I'll give you the same benefit, and maybe we can find some truth about the world.

Ah... Is the Alliteration clever or stupid? Don't answer that, I sort of know the answer already...

No, there's no child porn here, pedos please just stay on twitter where you belong! I'm sure Elon will be hit hard enough for the feds for cracking down soon and you can go back to your normal Twitter activities, don't bring them here!

The "Donald Trump"

It would be the only intelligence he was ever connected to.

I was watching a video about the Marxist opposition to families today, and it made me realize how insulated the whole ideology is. It's an ideology by northern europeans for northern europeans.

The hate for the nuclear family in particular betrays the truth. It isn't the norm in most of the world. Not in Africa, not in Asia, not in South America, not in a chunk of Europe. Relatively speaking, the northern european conception of the nuclear family is a relatively tiny fraction of the world.

Given that there's a lot of different family structures in the world besides the northern european nuclear family, it would be positive to look at those societies and see what actual conditions end up developing. While the nuclear family isn't perfect, it sure looks like one of the better options imo.

I ONLY BELIEVE IN ABSOLUTE TOLERANCE. IF YOU ARE ANTI-SEMAPHORE THEN I BET YOU WERE BEATEN BY A FLAG WHEN YOU WERE A KID

No matter where you lie on the political spectrum, this is a huge problem. If things continue the way they are, we will start seeing things like civil wars. There are a number of instances from Roman history of someone being executed by having molten gold poured down their throat. What might happen to the oligarchs in a modern age if things don't start to change?

For admins out there, you might want to look up tuned. It's a tuner daemon that looks like it can fiddle with your linux install to operate at its best. Started using it during the sunday peak paired with pg_repack and I'm down to some pretty decent looking load numbers. I've seen sub 0.1 this evening which was pretty surprising for a sunday night. It's in the ubuntu repository.

The Millennials are more boomer than the boomers, so I think them too.

I think it should be really simple. Such people have often had important roles in the community, and people are starving for a return to real communities.

The white pill to me is that the population will shrink, and when that happens, the power of the individual grows. When the power of the individual grows, that's good for most people, even if the economy as a whole shrinks.

I think it's always important for us to remember that we don't get paid in economies, so if the economy shrinks because the population shrinks, you can have some really good stuff come out of that, including a huge increase in the potential to make sustainable economies. My son or his kids could have a really good future. In fact, we might even get to see the millennials and Gen Z catch it in their last few years.

Trying to think long an hard about what lessons to teach my son, I've also realized that we treat hedonistic pleasure as a virtue to pursued as a good in and of itself rather than a vice that feels good on the way to more deeply satisfying pursuits, those pursuits being what I like to call "building something". Building families, communities, making safe and comfortable places to live, it's all stuff you don't put a dollar value on, but it's so much more important than dollars and cents...

The west needs to either create a new ideological foundation in this regard or it needs to return to an older one, but if we continue on the nihilistic path we're on there won't be anything left. Eventually some other culture will come in and it will become dominant.

It wasn't even that long ago -- 2004 to 2006 -- that I rented a two bedroom place in a nice area of town with my brother for about 300USD a month. That wasn't some crazy underground deal, that's just what rent cost at that time. Since then, rents exploded along with house prices. That's kept the numbers rising so the politicians are happy, but it's kept a generation of young men living in their parents basements.

oof, so you're just trying whatever you can.

That's the sort of moment you want your e-brake to function for sure.

that seems like a really really bad idea to even try. Great way to break your transmission.

You tried to put an automatic transmission car in park and it didn't stay stopped?

dangit
The four horsemen of the apocalypse

I wish I could disagree, but it's impossible to argue against.

The hatred that society has against stay at home mothers is a perfect example. All the data shows they're incredibly valuable for raising good people, but they don't make money so they're considered freeloaders. Really terrible state of affairs.

How so? It stops your drive shaft from turning, preventing your drive wheels from turning. that's independent of your brakes.

tbf, the parking pin on a modern automatic transmission is plenty to keep a car from rolling away, or it'd be a much bigger issue than it is.

Different issue if you're driving a standard, of course. Unless you just leave it in gear when you park.

I agree to an extent, but wealth is the symptom, the cause is there's just too damn much power floating around and so too many damn opportunities for corruption.

The richest people on earth were all put there by the US government, whose agents in turn get funded by the richest people on earth. It's a dog eating its own shit off the ground.

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