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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...

Even people who ought to know better don't seem to know better.

Imagine that conversation with your doctor though.

"So, I get sick in VR and I don't like it."

"Oh, do you have any other symptoms?"

"No, I just don't like VR. I'm fine at all other times."

"Do you have to use VR for work or something?"

"No, but I want to finish Half Life: Alyx!"

When you force virtually all productivity to stop and you slam a bunch of money into the system, the outcome is going to be that the limited resources that are limited by reality will go up in price. The producers of those limited resources will make more money. That's the consequence of the policy. Normally more production would come online as prices rise, but with productivity being universally shut down by government fiat the money had no choice but to raise prices for whatever was left to buy.

If the producers don't raise prices, then there will be shortages, and scalpers will buy the limited supply and resell at the actual market price. We saw this in the past few years with graphics cards and automobiles (and even with hand sanitizer and toilet paper at one point). Instead of the money going to people who actually produce the thing, it goes to parasites.

In reality, every political party around the world marched us into this situation.

That's not a Democrat or Republican position; Everyone did it, and not just in the US. Conservative parties did it. Liberal parties did it. Mainstream parties did it. A lot of fringe parties did it. New candidates were elected to do things differently, and they did the exact same thing.

The consequences were predictable and predicted.

Thoughts to you guys. It's sad that certain people want to take something good and destroy it for no good reason. ✊

I pointed out that VR is a self-innoculating technology where it's sort of uncomfortable to wear and makes you feel sick, and someone suggested I go see a doctor.

It sort of blew me away, the idea that I would go see a doctor for no other reason than a technology known for making people feel sick made me feel sick.

I hadn't seen that before, I'll read it.

I noticed my nephew was clever and interested in tech, so I gathered all the parts to build a PC, put it all together to make sure it worked, and then took it all apart and had him figure out how to put it together on his own. Even made a little 15 minute video with all the big details. Not many kids his age who can say they fully built their own computers including installing Windows and Linux. But it isn't something that just happens, it's something he needed to figure out one step at a time.

https://futurism.com/gen-z-baffled-basic-technology

I've said this a lot: They say that young people are good with tech, but they're *not*. They're good at consumer apps. There's a big difference. If you're good with technology, you can make it work for you. If you're good at a few apps, then you're working for the technology.

I remember bringing up this problem years ago, and I was told that I need to change the way I think of travel and that people aren't meant to drive to the next city in one go.

Religions don't need a God. If we go back to what is traditionally considered a religion, Confucianism; Taoism; and some sects of Buddhism are atheistic, for example.

Confucianism is particularly interesting because it's considered a religion by some and not one by others. Despite generally not including supernatural elements, it has rituals, beliefs, and practices that are similar to those found in many religious traditions.

That opens the door to an interesting idea: Some people consider the most extreme examples of certain modern ideologies to be religions. Certainly there are examples of rituals, founding stories that only bear a slight resemblance to objective reality, an expression of moral systems, implementation of community controls in certain ways that are separate from the philosophical underpinnings of the movement, so there's an argument that those are religions as well.

Once you're not using the language of Christianity, it opens up thinking about religions in different ways. A lot of people who would oppose church being involved in state by default might have a different way of thinking if it was an ideology they didn't have so much direct baggage with.

I think most people running major instances say exactly the same thing.

It's relatively easy to start an instance thanks to the great work of a lot of people, and if your instance federates with 200 other instances, then no one actor can totally break your fediverse. Moreover, if you've got 1000 users over 200 instances, no one target is worth attacking, while one instance with 1000 users might be a lot more attractive.

If they aren't one, then literally nobody is and we should just retire the term.

"researchers"

The same ones no doubt who lied about literally everything else.

This looks like a final solution to the hot weather problem.

long dark winters come
sold to one with words untrue
"we will protect you"

Crimea belongs to Jeb!

I feel like that's a patent that never should have been granted, since I came up with a similar design about a week after learning about op amps, meaning that it was obvious to anyone with a basic knowledge of electronics. It's one of the purposes of op amps ffs...

Oh neat a wii u

Had an interesting idea about a sort of hive mind civilization, and the idea of somebody who is mentally ill joining such a collective. Eventually such a person would join the collective and a peaceful group would suddenly become violent with all the injected dysfunction.

Nobody could have predicted crop failures in 2023! (Except everyone)

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.

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