Ended up trying Nextcloud's deck app to set up a kanban board to manage tasks.
It's incredibly good. So straightforward, so you can set up a card in 5 seconds, and you can drag it between zones in 1.
It's incredibly good. So straightforward, so you can set up a card in 5 seconds, and you can drag it between zones in 1.
A lot of these companies think that VR will be the new smartphone, but that I think really misunderstands why smartphones are so popular. Nobody wants to wear something that blocks out the world and makes them sick.
Is this what those retards in silicon valley are looking at?
Because if they are, then they need to get their heads out of their asses. A "conservative" estimate for the monetizability of the metaverse would be zero, not 15% of all online interactions! Not every new technology ever makes money, and the so-called "metaverse" has existed in one form or another for 30 years and didn't take over the world at any point.
Because if they are, then they need to get their heads out of their asses. A "conservative" estimate for the monetizability of the metaverse would be zero, not 15% of all online interactions! Not every new technology ever makes money, and the so-called "metaverse" has existed in one form or another for 30 years and didn't take over the world at any point.
Continuing to push for more is doing it just like the boomers.
Frankly, the boomers in my country balanced the federal budget for 10 years.
Frankly, the boomers in my country balanced the federal budget for 10 years.
It's worse than government spending my money. It's my kids money, and my grandkids money. It's specifically not my money.
When we take out debt we never intend to pay back, we are enslaving our descendants tomorrow so we can have stuff we don't need to pay for today. Previous eras understood this and government debts often got paid down. Unfortunately in our age of supposed moral enlightenment, enslaving babies and the unborn is considered just fine.
Millennials in particular are such hypocrites. They're the ones who coined the phrase "fuck you, got mine", but apparently we just coined it so we could use it on future generations as we've accused the boomers of doing to us.
When we take out debt we never intend to pay back, we are enslaving our descendants tomorrow so we can have stuff we don't need to pay for today. Previous eras understood this and government debts often got paid down. Unfortunately in our age of supposed moral enlightenment, enslaving babies and the unborn is considered just fine.
Millennials in particular are such hypocrites. They're the ones who coined the phrase "fuck you, got mine", but apparently we just coined it so we could use it on future generations as we've accused the boomers of doing to us.
https://lotide.fbxl.net/posts/19830
I made a copy of the post here.
Some of the community moved to exploding-heads.com
I made a copy of the post here.
Some of the community moved to exploding-heads.com
I mean.... Lots of people complain about it. My feed is filled with folks from across the political spectrum upset with the status quo, and there's constant protests. The reason it keeps happening anyway is corruption and the fact that they can spend a little bit lobbying and get a lot of bang for their buck. Who cares about thousands of voters when one guy in a suit with a briefcase full of money is so much more effective?
It's terrible. You suck money from working Joes (most tax money comes from workers and most inflation comes out of their pockets and paycheques) and choose winners based on who the biggest bag licker is.
It's not even just corporate welfare which is bad enough but at least we can see it. The more insidious thing is regulatory capture. By having your man in Washington helping guide regulations, you can end up in a situation where you get to choose what regulations happen. Then you can choose regulations that aren't particularly going to harm you, but could potentially act as a barrier for entry to other people into the same industry, preventing competition. This is particularly insidious because at the same time you're getting what you want, the politician gets to act like they just did something crippling and deadly to you.
Which really comes up to the saddest thing, we're just regular people. We have jobs of our own, we have lives, we have families, this isn't the only thing we do. Meanwhile, these companies hire people for whom playing politics not just in Washington but in broader society is all they do. Not only can they go to Washington and get whatever they want from there, they are experts at figuring out how to pit us regular people against each other so that we're fighting each other instead of them.
It's terrible. You suck money from working Joes (most tax money comes from workers and most inflation comes out of their pockets and paycheques) and choose winners based on who the biggest bag licker is.
It's not even just corporate welfare which is bad enough but at least we can see it. The more insidious thing is regulatory capture. By having your man in Washington helping guide regulations, you can end up in a situation where you get to choose what regulations happen. Then you can choose regulations that aren't particularly going to harm you, but could potentially act as a barrier for entry to other people into the same industry, preventing competition. This is particularly insidious because at the same time you're getting what you want, the politician gets to act like they just did something crippling and deadly to you.
Which really comes up to the saddest thing, we're just regular people. We have jobs of our own, we have lives, we have families, this isn't the only thing we do. Meanwhile, these companies hire people for whom playing politics not just in Washington but in broader society is all they do. Not only can they go to Washington and get whatever they want from there, they are experts at figuring out how to pit us regular people against each other so that we're fighting each other instead of them.
They called us stupid when we warned that there would be severe global consequences to continuing the lockdowns forever. How long until we see a civil war in places like Laos?
I keep coming back to this video from youtuber whatifalthist that I feel really helps contextualize a lot of what we are seeing in cities and throughout western politics right now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKBMRkFIdm0
Like many of the examples given in the video, our society has a total disconnection from the reality of how we live. A 12 year old with clear mental issues stomping her feet and demanding genocidal policies RIGHT NOW is treated as a hero because people don't think anything bad can ever happen by doing "the right thing".
People think the food just ends up on the shelves, they don't think about where the shelf came from, where the building came from, where the street came from, and so on and so forth, so they don't think about how that could be disrupted and how the shelves could come up bare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKBMRkFIdm0
Like many of the examples given in the video, our society has a total disconnection from the reality of how we live. A 12 year old with clear mental issues stomping her feet and demanding genocidal policies RIGHT NOW is treated as a hero because people don't think anything bad can ever happen by doing "the right thing".
People think the food just ends up on the shelves, they don't think about where the shelf came from, where the building came from, where the street came from, and so on and so forth, so they don't think about how that could be disrupted and how the shelves could come up bare.
Some baby boomers, particularly those from Southern California, reject the concept of growing old. It's related to the larger cultural shift that occurred during the 1960s and 1970s, when the baby boomer generation rejected traditional cultural norms and institutions. This rejection of traditional values and norms extended to the concept of aging and the traditional expectations and roles associated with old age.
Unfortunately, rejecting the notion of growing old means that some of these people don't have a concept of growing old.
The rejection of the traditional notion of aging has led them to seek to relive their glory days of their 20s, rather than embracing the wisdom and experience that comes with aging. This can result in a failure to mature and evolve in ways that would allow them to make the most of their later years and to contribute to society in meaningful ways.
It's really sad, but inevitable. That's how you get things like the last boondoggles with Madonna. Without any model for how to grow into old age, she's acting like the past 40 years never happened.
Unfortunately, rejecting the notion of growing old means that some of these people don't have a concept of growing old.
The rejection of the traditional notion of aging has led them to seek to relive their glory days of their 20s, rather than embracing the wisdom and experience that comes with aging. This can result in a failure to mature and evolve in ways that would allow them to make the most of their later years and to contribute to society in meaningful ways.
It's really sad, but inevitable. That's how you get things like the last boondoggles with Madonna. Without any model for how to grow into old age, she's acting like the past 40 years never happened.
I grabbed one of those buckets and a couple 40lb bags of rice and some beef jerky and a few months supply of vitamins. I failed the last couple years to start my garden, but I have plans this spring to set it up with some permaculture so food basically just sorta appears every year.
Honestly, even in this remote location I don't think it'll be a problem for long. There's farmland all around and also forests so we can can forage or hunt if it comes down to it. A few months supply of basic nutrients is a good thing to have set aside though in times that are filled with such genocidal levels of incompetence in our leadership.
Although everything will more than likely be fine, I've got a baby in the house so paying the small fee for some insurance against the worst scenarios makes sense to me.
Honestly, even in this remote location I don't think it'll be a problem for long. There's farmland all around and also forests so we can can forage or hunt if it comes down to it. A few months supply of basic nutrients is a good thing to have set aside though in times that are filled with such genocidal levels of incompetence in our leadership.
Although everything will more than likely be fine, I've got a baby in the house so paying the small fee for some insurance against the worst scenarios makes sense to me.
We can try to admonish Pakistan for what they did, but many western leaders including the President of the United States would be on the side of the religious nutjobs (because they don't think their religion is one since that's one of its dogmas)
Yeah, it wasn't for that long, but for a time there entire aisles were completely bare and the stores as a whole had virtually nothing.
I'm pretty remote.
I'm pretty remote.
Olivia Newton John died last August. She was 74 years old.
I was thinking about that when I was listening to this different rendition of Greensleeves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g64hauOT6U
The thing that really struck me is that a lot of the stuff she did in her youth is perfectly consumable today. Grease is still a quite popular movie, her songs are recorded in high fidelity, and so she'll live on forever in her creations.
That's fine, it's good. Good for her. Immortality through our works is a dream of many. But John Travolta is 68 now, presumably most of the actors from that movie are in that age range of 68 to 74. some of them might live to 80, but before my son is legally an adult, all the actors from that movie are likely to be dead of old age.
My parents watched it in theatres when it was new, and I, their kid, watched it and it's still in copyright. And my kid can watch it, and it's still in copyright. And his kids can watch it, and it's still in copyright. And his kids kids can watch it, and it's still in copyright. His kids kids kids can likely watch it, and it'll still be in copyright.
We've got a problem of immortal high fidelity media being protected effectively eternally by overly powerful copyright law.
The purpose of copyright is to incentivise the production of new works. What additional incentive did the now dead Olivia Newton John have in 1978 to make that movie by knowing that my kids kids kids will be forced to comply with copyright, a lifetime after she's long dead?
Besides the legal question, there's another thing: Once we're all directly competing artistically with our grandparents, great grandparents, great great grandparents, and great great great grandparents in their prime and with the full backing of the world's governments to enforce that competition, what effect does that have on culture and on the creation of new culture?
I think it's already happened. Culturally, I'd argue we're in a period of intense conservatism.
I know, a lot of people might take issue with that statement, but consider how much culture is just remakes or reimaginings of things that are sometimes decades, sometimes almost a century old. Action Comics #1 is 85, and we're still rehashing new movies -- and by "we", I mean "the copyright holders of this 85 year old property", who are the only people allowed to create derivative works of the property despite everyone originally being involved with its creation being long-dead.
We see companies vying for control of our entire culture going back generations, and that's apparently ok.
I dunno, things can't stay like this for long imo.
I was thinking about that when I was listening to this different rendition of Greensleeves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g64hauOT6U
The thing that really struck me is that a lot of the stuff she did in her youth is perfectly consumable today. Grease is still a quite popular movie, her songs are recorded in high fidelity, and so she'll live on forever in her creations.
That's fine, it's good. Good for her. Immortality through our works is a dream of many. But John Travolta is 68 now, presumably most of the actors from that movie are in that age range of 68 to 74. some of them might live to 80, but before my son is legally an adult, all the actors from that movie are likely to be dead of old age.
My parents watched it in theatres when it was new, and I, their kid, watched it and it's still in copyright. And my kid can watch it, and it's still in copyright. And his kids can watch it, and it's still in copyright. And his kids kids can watch it, and it's still in copyright. His kids kids kids can likely watch it, and it'll still be in copyright.
We've got a problem of immortal high fidelity media being protected effectively eternally by overly powerful copyright law.
The purpose of copyright is to incentivise the production of new works. What additional incentive did the now dead Olivia Newton John have in 1978 to make that movie by knowing that my kids kids kids will be forced to comply with copyright, a lifetime after she's long dead?
Besides the legal question, there's another thing: Once we're all directly competing artistically with our grandparents, great grandparents, great great grandparents, and great great great grandparents in their prime and with the full backing of the world's governments to enforce that competition, what effect does that have on culture and on the creation of new culture?
I think it's already happened. Culturally, I'd argue we're in a period of intense conservatism.
I know, a lot of people might take issue with that statement, but consider how much culture is just remakes or reimaginings of things that are sometimes decades, sometimes almost a century old. Action Comics #1 is 85, and we're still rehashing new movies -- and by "we", I mean "the copyright holders of this 85 year old property", who are the only people allowed to create derivative works of the property despite everyone originally being involved with its creation being long-dead.
We see companies vying for control of our entire culture going back generations, and that's apparently ok.
I dunno, things can't stay like this for long imo.