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Where there is a divergence between what is factual and what is appropriate, which takes priority?

Hey, anyone else smell that? It smells just like BULLSHIT.

Der Fuhrer's Canada is NOT one of the freest countries on earth.

My little brother was highly successful with women and I was happy for him and all (which was my point), but to be honest I saw pretty quickly that it didn't make him happy. He fell down a rabbit hole that only ended when I drove across the continent to get him out of a traphouse he'd been living in.

This was prior to tinder et al, I'm an old fucker now. (And even now I tell guys that internet dating is like the light from poltergeist -- don't look at the light, don't go into the light)

"Why is it that when women date a lot of guys she's a whore but when guys date a lot of women he's a player?"

Because a guy's bros will congratulate him for success, and a chick's sisters will shame her for hers.

Not saying that ultimately that sort of success is fulfilling in the long term, but that's why the two divergent attitudes exist.

It was scary when I wrote it, it was scary when I read it back to edit it, it was scary when I went back to check the audio book, the idea in The Graysonian Ethic's chapter called "Build something" that while it might feel great not to have a family in your 20s, someday if you don't spend your life building something real you might be all alone, cold, incompetent, and your final moments you'll reach out for a hand that will never be there because you didn't bother building anything and the last time anyone ever thinks of you is your landlord cursing you for the burden you've left.

California: "WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF WATER!"

Also California: "OMG TOO MUCH WATER!"

Also also California: "NOW WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF WATER AGAIN!"

The more niche the thing you're learning, the more false the answers you'll get are, and the more it makes up out of whole cloth.

I asked it legal questions, and it came up with entire laws including the text of the statute that were entirely false and made up, but they looked extremely real!

They can promise a lot when they knows it's never going to pass and they can blame the other party. It's a game both parties play when they aren't in full control of the government. Suddenly stuff they weren't willing to put on the table 6 months earlier goes up for a vote.

There needs to be epic election reforms. Right now politicians spend their days begging rich people for money, and after they leave politics they head off to get paid by the back they scratched the hardest. Even when it looks like the law doesn't help their patrons, it does.

Lesbian pride in the middle east. I wonder how that went?

I was under the impression that there were no reserve requirements thanks to covid policies.

America doesn't deserve Peter Schiff.

lmfaoooooo "don't worry everyone, we have this $25B to take care of all the bank failures!"

"We won't be bailing out the banks again!" -The Lady who bailed out the banks again

Recently I purchased a music collection again and host it on my nextcloud so I can stream my copies of my music to myself.

Streaming is a good way to make money for companies, but it also means that they don't bother investing in risky but potentially lucrative new acts because there's no marginal benefit to finding a new act.

Besides that, the amount of power it gives is dangerous. Certain songs already have been taken off the radio because they were offensive. Eventually cancel culture will come for music, and when it happens that offensive but important cultural history will be erased, and if nobody has their own copy of that history then it'll fade from the collective consciousness, to be thrown in a vault never to be released.

I'm sure that's the case, but I'm also sure that for bigger institutions it's hybrid but more self-hosted than people think.

There's a reason why every company is pushing to sell the cloud, and it isn't because they're intending to make less money that way.

It's like "You don't want to lose weight! Do you know how uncomfortable being hungry is?"

I strongly believe that in the near future this will be how things start to turn.

Stuff like aws is acceptable right now because they're unlimited money. How about when there isn't unlimited money?

Apple has been about shitty proprietary cables since the beginning.

There's one video cable that only appeared on 2 models of Macintosh before disappearing forever.

I bought my son a book called 365 bedtime stories. I liked it because the data shows that having 500 books that are age-appropriate is equivalent to having a four-year degree at the end of their childhood in terms of benefit. I have tons of other books, they are everywhere, but I thought that one book that has 365 books worth of stories sounds like a good deal.

Anyway, on to my actual point. One of the stories was about a hen who found some wheat seeds. She decided to go plant the seeds, and ask if anyone would help her plant them. Everyone said no. Later, she asked if anyone would help her harvest the seeds, and everyone said no. After that, she asked if anyone would help her take the harvest to the mill, and everyone said no. Finally, she asked if anyone would help her bake the bread, and everyone said no. After all this, she asked if anyone would like to help eat the bread. Of course everyone said yes. And the hen angrily told them to fuck off, she and her chicks ate the bread and it was great.

I really like that story, I think it's the sort of story that you should tell kids.

There's no reason why the tuition plus per student grants shouldn't be enough to pay a few teachers per class. If they can't make it work, it's time to start cutting. I bet there's an army of administrators who don't do anything but harass teachers that would be a good start.