Soapbox and rebased has behavior I've never seen on big tech. Sometimes people are posting on lots of accounts I follow all at once and the new posts just blast past!
What do you mean by nova? The sun isn't the sort to nova, it looks more like it'll become a red giant, so I'm assuming it's a cultural event?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM6JSS3l-IQ
A 1 hour documentary on the bronze age collapse where the majority of civilizations of the era collapsed. It's just one example of civilizational collapse, but it's a really big one.
A 1 hour documentary on the bronze age collapse where the majority of civilizations of the era collapsed. It's just one example of civilizational collapse, but it's a really big one.
In some ways, that's authentic for those instances -- it's a lot of people who are intolerant and insular, and they get together and create their thing that's locked down and intolerant and insular. The nice thing is that the libre people can also find each other and their instances can have fun and be creative without having the intolerant and insular as middle-men.
What's your view of what civilization collapse would look like in the postmodern age?
It's probably healthy for the ecosystem to have people leaving to an extent. Not every user is going to find what they're looking for here, and considering that many, many people are addicted to the algorithm they shouldn't find what they are looking for here. The fact that it appears many people are staying however is also a positive thing, that there's maybe a thirst for the sort of authenticity the fediverse provides and big tech can't anymore.
https://invidious.fbxl.net/watch?v=-pZG7snE7tU
Looking at history through razzorfist's lens, it becomes immediately apparent why John Wilkes Booth screamed "sic semper tyrannis".
But in some ways it's a white pill. America survived Lincoln. It may have been changed forever, but it didn't remain as authoritarian as it was. There is a path to walking back from the ledge. With luck, maybe the America and the rest of the world still has a chance to walk back from the ledge.
Looking at history through razzorfist's lens, it becomes immediately apparent why John Wilkes Booth screamed "sic semper tyrannis".
But in some ways it's a white pill. America survived Lincoln. It may have been changed forever, but it didn't remain as authoritarian as it was. There is a path to walking back from the ledge. With luck, maybe the America and the rest of the world still has a chance to walk back from the ledge.
tbf, there's no right answer to "how high should interest rates be?"
If the interest rates are low it causes false demand driving up prices of assets for people who aren't using loans so it forces people into perpetual debt so fuck banks
If the interest rates are high then they're stealing more money from the productive economy so people are in perpetual debt so fuck banks.
There's a really good argument against debts in general. Not an economic one, but a moral one that no matter how inexpensive or expensive the loan is, it's going to have a parasitic effect on society.
If the interest rates are low it causes false demand driving up prices of assets for people who aren't using loans so it forces people into perpetual debt so fuck banks
If the interest rates are high then they're stealing more money from the productive economy so people are in perpetual debt so fuck banks.
There's a really good argument against debts in general. Not an economic one, but a moral one that no matter how inexpensive or expensive the loan is, it's going to have a parasitic effect on society.
It's deeply upsetting. How are we supposed to kill innocent defenseless children because they're inconvenient for us and we wanted to have meaningless unprotected sex if the state starts defending them? The only purpose of the state is giving free stuff, not enforcing laws!
I had a palm tungsten E, and prior to that I had a Casio BE-300 with this custom rom that turned what was a pretty proprietary device into a full windows CE device.
Honestly, the experience with both of those was enough that when I got my first ipod touch, I realized how amazing the experience was. The problem was that even though the ipod touch was an amazing experience for the time, it was limited by the locked down nature of the platform, so while android was much worse than apple at the time, it was the obvious choice. Thankfully, the open nature of android meant that while my first android phone started off much worse than the iphone of the era, it ultimately became much much better since I was able to install cyanogen and update it considerably.
Unfortunately, android is losing its advantage as it becomes locked down, but gnu/linux on mobile is coming a long way in a hurry. I'm really excited about what it may look like by the time it's time for me to look at a new phone a few years down the line.
Honestly, the experience with both of those was enough that when I got my first ipod touch, I realized how amazing the experience was. The problem was that even though the ipod touch was an amazing experience for the time, it was limited by the locked down nature of the platform, so while android was much worse than apple at the time, it was the obvious choice. Thankfully, the open nature of android meant that while my first android phone started off much worse than the iphone of the era, it ultimately became much much better since I was able to install cyanogen and update it considerably.
Unfortunately, android is losing its advantage as it becomes locked down, but gnu/linux on mobile is coming a long way in a hurry. I'm really excited about what it may look like by the time it's time for me to look at a new phone a few years down the line.
The problem for the polity is 2-fold:
1. The results of massive economic mistakes takes decades to manifest and in the meantime it can actually make people feel quite good, and
2. Since the baby boomer generation, history starts at 1900 and so we don't look at what happened in similar situations over 5000 years of recorded history around the world.
1. The results of massive economic mistakes takes decades to manifest and in the meantime it can actually make people feel quite good, and
2. Since the baby boomer generation, history starts at 1900 and so we don't look at what happened in similar situations over 5000 years of recorded history around the world.
There is literally none.
You may not like it, but this is what the peak Internet user looks like.
You may not like it, but this is what the peak Internet user looks like.
Fantasies usually aren't about the thing they're about. They're usually about a specific feeling they invoke that's usually cut away like a slice of pie from the whole experience.
Lots of virgin males out there fantasize about having some hot girl stalk them. Not because they want a stalker, but because the idea of a hot girl deeply caring for them to an unhealthy degree is appealing to someone who feels like the nobody in the world cares about them. Those men change their mind immediately once the reality sets in and they realize that the positive emotions of being cared about are in no way comparable to the negative emotions of having a dangerous and unstable person constantly sneaking around you.
Same with rape fantasies. There's a positive emotion in terms of being overwhelmed with this masculine force you can't stop desiring you and taking you, but reality sets in if it happens that the positive emotions are overwhelmed in the real situation by the negative emotions that come with it.
The biggest thing in both cases is that people's fantasies aren't about the thing they're about. They're about specific feelings picked out of a situation that's under the perfect control of someone's imagination.
Lots of virgin males out there fantasize about having some hot girl stalk them. Not because they want a stalker, but because the idea of a hot girl deeply caring for them to an unhealthy degree is appealing to someone who feels like the nobody in the world cares about them. Those men change their mind immediately once the reality sets in and they realize that the positive emotions of being cared about are in no way comparable to the negative emotions of having a dangerous and unstable person constantly sneaking around you.
Same with rape fantasies. There's a positive emotion in terms of being overwhelmed with this masculine force you can't stop desiring you and taking you, but reality sets in if it happens that the positive emotions are overwhelmed in the real situation by the negative emotions that come with it.
The biggest thing in both cases is that people's fantasies aren't about the thing they're about. They're about specific feelings picked out of a situation that's under the perfect control of someone's imagination.
I'm specifically poking fun at the idea that because something is a good idea we should necessarily make it the law, and if you're a opposed to a certain government action you're against the thing.
George W. Bush's "you either agree with war in Iraq or you're with the terrorists" comes to bind. "You're either freedom, or you're terror"
Worked well enough that everyone does it now.
George W. Bush's "you either agree with war in Iraq or you're with the terrorists" comes to bind. "You're either freedom, or you're terror"
Worked well enough that everyone does it now.
Trying to figure out post translation on soapbox-fe and rebased. I set up libretranslate and I think I lined it up where it should be working, but no luck so far...
um excuse me, what you are referring to as "Linux" is in fact "GNU/Linux" or as I like to refer to it "GNU plus linux" [insert copypasta here]
Nuance is the enemy of radicalism. If you want to do something crazy, you need to convince people that there's only 2 sides, and it's black and white, and you're on the white side.
Otherwise individuals start having their own complicated opinions and the way to win an argument becomes finding a good compromise between many varying viewpoints instead of it being a tear em down knock em out fight between two or three distinct and extremely specific viewpoints.
Otherwise individuals start having their own complicated opinions and the way to win an argument becomes finding a good compromise between many varying viewpoints instead of it being a tear em down knock em out fight between two or three distinct and extremely specific viewpoints.
As the world continues to grapple with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it has become increasingly clear that we must take drastic measures to ensure the health and well-being of our citizens. That's why I propose that we make it mandatory under the law to eat, drink, sleep, and breathe.
You may be thinking, "But wait, isn't eating, drinking, sleeping, and breathing something that we already do every day without fail?" And you would be correct. But hear me out.
Science has long proven the numerous benefits of these essential activities. Eating provides our bodies with the necessary nutrients to function properly, drinking keeps us hydrated, sleeping allows for proper rest and rejuvenation, and breathing...well, without it we would be dead.
But despite these obvious facts, there are still some who oppose this law. They argue that it is an infringement on their personal freedom. But let's be real here, who in their right mind could possibly be against eating, drinking, sleeping, and breathing?
These opponents are nothing more than anti-science, anti-eating, anti-drinking, anti-sleeping, and anti-breathing individuals who are more concerned with their own personal freedoms than the well-being of society as a whole.
So let's put an end to this nonsense and make it mandatory under the law to eat, drink, sleep, and breathe. It's time for us to take a stand for science and for the health and well-being of our citizens.
You may be thinking, "But wait, isn't eating, drinking, sleeping, and breathing something that we already do every day without fail?" And you would be correct. But hear me out.
Science has long proven the numerous benefits of these essential activities. Eating provides our bodies with the necessary nutrients to function properly, drinking keeps us hydrated, sleeping allows for proper rest and rejuvenation, and breathing...well, without it we would be dead.
But despite these obvious facts, there are still some who oppose this law. They argue that it is an infringement on their personal freedom. But let's be real here, who in their right mind could possibly be against eating, drinking, sleeping, and breathing?
These opponents are nothing more than anti-science, anti-eating, anti-drinking, anti-sleeping, and anti-breathing individuals who are more concerned with their own personal freedoms than the well-being of society as a whole.
So let's put an end to this nonsense and make it mandatory under the law to eat, drink, sleep, and breathe. It's time for us to take a stand for science and for the health and well-being of our citizens.