I was under the impression it was for SEO purposes. You create websites that look legit enough, and that gets you higher ranked on google (at least under its original algorithm), so fake websites are beneficial and you can make a bunch of money selling SEO to companies who want to make sure they're doing well.
Why media is so boring and unimaginative: Nobody is taking chances and doing anything new and interesting, they're following the same playbook we've followed our entire lives.
The boomers built this road, and Gen X follows it, and the Millenials follow it, and Gen Z follows it, and Gen Alpha is being raised on it. It's conservative despite what it purports to be because there's an orthodoxy that cannot be violated.
It's so conservative that despite things like "first black [X] in movies/TV" having been a problem already solved 60 years ago, and things like "first gay [X] in movies/TV" being solved 40 years ago, companies are constantly falling over themselves to pretend they're the first because they're following a generations old playbook that ran out of pages long ago.
Why else do you think America has the oldest president in the country's history? Why else do you think the American congress is the oldest in the country's history? Why else do you think the American senate is the oldest in the country's history?
Does this look really like a country (and by extension a culture) that looks like it's embracing new ideas and change?
The boomers built this road, and Gen X follows it, and the Millenials follow it, and Gen Z follows it, and Gen Alpha is being raised on it. It's conservative despite what it purports to be because there's an orthodoxy that cannot be violated.
It's so conservative that despite things like "first black [X] in movies/TV" having been a problem already solved 60 years ago, and things like "first gay [X] in movies/TV" being solved 40 years ago, companies are constantly falling over themselves to pretend they're the first because they're following a generations old playbook that ran out of pages long ago.
Why else do you think America has the oldest president in the country's history? Why else do you think the American congress is the oldest in the country's history? Why else do you think the American senate is the oldest in the country's history?
Does this look really like a country (and by extension a culture) that looks like it's embracing new ideas and change?
>The problem is that this is conflating the handful of truly deranged women
Can confirm, multiple women wanted to marry me and I'm so anti-social I run several fediverse instances.
Can confirm, multiple women wanted to marry me and I'm so anti-social I run several fediverse instances.
That's a good point. This is about individuals actions and character, not entire types of people.
If refugees come over who just keep their heads down and act as good citizens, I think most people who have problems would not have problems (besides the tactical issue of exactly how many people you let in at one time).
I went to college and was friends with an Iraqi refugee (in 2004) who was an Engineer there and snuck out with his family. He was re-educating so he could get a technical job in this country. Great guy, his story of putting everything on the line and not knowing if he was going to be captured or killed in order to escape and give his family a better life was inspiring.
The powers that be equating a guy like that to a bunch of rapists and murderers is scandalous.
If refugees come over who just keep their heads down and act as good citizens, I think most people who have problems would not have problems (besides the tactical issue of exactly how many people you let in at one time).
I went to college and was friends with an Iraqi refugee (in 2004) who was an Engineer there and snuck out with his family. He was re-educating so he could get a technical job in this country. Great guy, his story of putting everything on the line and not knowing if he was going to be captured or killed in order to escape and give his family a better life was inspiring.
The powers that be equating a guy like that to a bunch of rapists and murderers is scandalous.
"people who entered the country illegally for no good reason" isn't a race.... Or is it?
It's ok when everyone else does it.
See: "if you mildly disagree with me about anything you're literally trying to murder me and so anything I do is justified morally"
See: "if you mildly disagree with me about anything you're literally trying to murder me and so anything I do is justified morally"
Rufus is such a great tool in that regard. You can turn off all the arbitrary system requirements and have it automatically create a local user account.
Since I'm running a half dozen federated services and I've got an IQ of like 87 and the attention span of a toddler, I find it really confusing when people are claiming it's hard and they're not even running any services themselves.
[Admin mode] Not sure why, but I've been seeing some odd outages during the day that aren't actually outages. Everything continues to be fine, I just can't see the stuff.
Added some dos and ddos protection, let's see if that helps things out.
Added some dos and ddos protection, let's see if that helps things out.
No, that should be my actual account on nostr from before the mostr bridge was up and running.
The most likely future is we'll be so busy congratulating ourselves on our cultural perfection we'll die out.
It's already well underway. Hopefully newer generations can come up with an innovative new answer, but if they do it'll be from within a cage we built for them out of their great grandparents narrow vision of the world.
It's already well underway. Hopefully newer generations can come up with an innovative new answer, but if they do it'll be from within a cage we built for them out of their great grandparents narrow vision of the world.
I'm here through alex's portal(this one), and I've also got an actual native account.
In the 9th century, the Song dynasty in China lost the northern half of the country because instead of dealing with the invaders to the north, they sat in the capitol writing poetry about how great it would be to win. In the same era, the Indian subcontinent was being invaded by the Muslims and instead of doing anything productive, they built nicer temples so the Gods would grant them victory and they ultimately ended up losing most of the subcontinent.
At the end of the day, reality is the final arbiter of what's real. Let one of many different bad things happen, you're dead. Reality doesn't care about ideology if the ideology inevitably leads to ruin. It'll just let you die. The giant stone heads on easter island is all that's left. The Minoans left virtually no trace of their existence despite once being a regional superpower.
We're ironically a deeply conservative culture. We already have all the answers. We don't need to change anything, just do more of what our grandparents did but moreso. We don't need to care about what other cultures do, what ideas are out there, because we're the center of the universe.
In that sense, it won't matter what we want the future to look like, because we won't be a part of it. Things will change too much, and we'll be too busy looking backwards to do anything about the future.
At the end of the day, reality is the final arbiter of what's real. Let one of many different bad things happen, you're dead. Reality doesn't care about ideology if the ideology inevitably leads to ruin. It'll just let you die. The giant stone heads on easter island is all that's left. The Minoans left virtually no trace of their existence despite once being a regional superpower.
We're ironically a deeply conservative culture. We already have all the answers. We don't need to change anything, just do more of what our grandparents did but moreso. We don't need to care about what other cultures do, what ideas are out there, because we're the center of the universe.
In that sense, it won't matter what we want the future to look like, because we won't be a part of it. Things will change too much, and we'll be too busy looking backwards to do anything about the future.
"Progress"
The word progress was undoubtedly uttered as justification for every genocide. It's a mindless word without any judgement of whether the thing being progressed towards is good or evil or something else entirely.
People who use it as justification are similarly without regard for whether what they push for is good or evil, which is why it isn't justification for anything.
The word progress was undoubtedly uttered as justification for every genocide. It's a mindless word without any judgement of whether the thing being progressed towards is good or evil or something else entirely.
People who use it as justification are similarly without regard for whether what they push for is good or evil, which is why it isn't justification for anything.