Both posts make a good point.
On one hand, as I wrote in The Graysonian Ethic, everyone has urges that are bad, but the key is to recognise that those urges are bad and that while they are of course a part of you, you don't start identifying yourself by them and making them the core part of your identity and start going around forming communities full of people whose commonality is that they have bad urges. I see a beautiful woman walking down the street, not only do I not immediately walk up and molest them, but I don't hit on them either since I'm happily married, and I don't go online and join the molester community or the cheating on my wife community "but don't worry I won't do it I swear" because I'm not a psychopath.
On the other hand, lots of people who are called incels are clearly not incels. Nick Rekieta of Rekieta Law has 6 kids and a gorgeous wife -- he isn't celibate, involuntary or otherwise. He's called that because he fought for a guy he thought was metoo'd falsely and he didn't bend the knee to the woke lynch mob. Same with lots of labels -- People have views that aren't racist but they are called racist because someone goes "What they're really saying is" with no evidence. Remember the recent kerfuffle where people claimed not using spices is racist? Anyone with a cursory knowledge of history would know how absurd that idea is (for much of western history, slathering your food in way too much spice was considered a status symbol since they were rare and expensive), but why learn history when you can just brainstorm whatever bullshit you want?
On one hand, as I wrote in The Graysonian Ethic, everyone has urges that are bad, but the key is to recognise that those urges are bad and that while they are of course a part of you, you don't start identifying yourself by them and making them the core part of your identity and start going around forming communities full of people whose commonality is that they have bad urges. I see a beautiful woman walking down the street, not only do I not immediately walk up and molest them, but I don't hit on them either since I'm happily married, and I don't go online and join the molester community or the cheating on my wife community "but don't worry I won't do it I swear" because I'm not a psychopath.
On the other hand, lots of people who are called incels are clearly not incels. Nick Rekieta of Rekieta Law has 6 kids and a gorgeous wife -- he isn't celibate, involuntary or otherwise. He's called that because he fought for a guy he thought was metoo'd falsely and he didn't bend the knee to the woke lynch mob. Same with lots of labels -- People have views that aren't racist but they are called racist because someone goes "What they're really saying is" with no evidence. Remember the recent kerfuffle where people claimed not using spices is racist? Anyone with a cursory knowledge of history would know how absurd that idea is (for much of western history, slathering your food in way too much spice was considered a status symbol since they were rare and expensive), but why learn history when you can just brainstorm whatever bullshit you want?
Finished my print, but the quality on the overhangs is pretty bad. I think I need to reprint with the fans higher.
Unrelated, I also updated my searx instance to searxng. Nice having a bunch of new search engines including brave search set active by default.
Unrelated, I also updated my searx instance to searxng. Nice having a bunch of new search engines including brave search set active by default.
One thing to keep in mind about the games industry of the past is the character of trying to buy a video game was way different than it is now. Today, you can hop online and upon hearing about a game that's been released have it playing on your computer or game console in maybe an hour. Back then, you would have to go to the store, see if they had anything remotely interesting, and when they didn't because of course they didn't, you have to just wait until they restocked and hope they had something interesting then.
I assume that you could have some luck buying stuff through mail order if you were in the us, but it's a big wide world out there and sometimes the computer store was all you have.
I assume that you could have some luck buying stuff through mail order if you were in the us, but it's a big wide world out there and sometimes the computer store was all you have.
On the other hand, they are advised not to park outside of the garage.
Why?
Because being exposed to the outside world will harm the batteries in the winter and the summer.
Oops
Why?
Because being exposed to the outside world will harm the batteries in the winter and the summer.
Oops
>Describes every president of the United States in history, especially the present one
"you know, it's really inappropriate to keep comparing Trudeau to Hitler"
Not one person has said to me. Not once.
Not one person has said to me. Not once.
If TikTok were real chads they would have gone into their congressional thing on the full attack. "You called us here for bribes and power, so let's do this: how much do you want to stop wasting our time on this?"
"No, don't be silly, concentration camps are just camps you to go in order to help your concentration!" oh ok "also we want a final solution to the JQ" wait what?
The jello looks like that milkshake is being backed by the military industrial complex.
I'm afraid your friends will find that this circumcision station is quite operational...
To be fair, it is highly politically undesirable thanks to previous environmentalism campaigns, but in a lot of ways burning biomass such as trees is a relatively desirable method of getting fuel compared to a lot of the more technologically advanced ways. You have to be very careful about balancing getting the biomass with replacing the biomass or else you don't using everything up, but on the other hand you don't need anything fancy to get energy out of biomass -- you just start a fire and you've got energy.
On the other hand, it definitely leads to some greenwashing. Kraft paper companies that were always going to burn bark and black liquor end up able to call those acts "green" under this definition. Most people who have taken a deep breath next to a paper mill are not going to call burning black liquor particularly environmentally friendly.
Relevant to the uk, the small island ended up with some serious problems because there is a limited amount of energy you can get from biomass and then still have new biomass to burn in the next year. During parts of the feudal period, there just weren't that many trees anywhere to burn anymore except in legally protected Lord's forests. That lack of biomass to burn ended up being one of the reasons that people ended up moving to the less desirable coal. I think that that's an important lesson that we need to keep in mind whenever we're talking about Green energy, the fact that you can't keep your home with doing the right thing. You need to actually produce energy.
On the other hand, it definitely leads to some greenwashing. Kraft paper companies that were always going to burn bark and black liquor end up able to call those acts "green" under this definition. Most people who have taken a deep breath next to a paper mill are not going to call burning black liquor particularly environmentally friendly.
Relevant to the uk, the small island ended up with some serious problems because there is a limited amount of energy you can get from biomass and then still have new biomass to burn in the next year. During parts of the feudal period, there just weren't that many trees anywhere to burn anymore except in legally protected Lord's forests. That lack of biomass to burn ended up being one of the reasons that people ended up moving to the less desirable coal. I think that that's an important lesson that we need to keep in mind whenever we're talking about Green energy, the fact that you can't keep your home with doing the right thing. You need to actually produce energy.
That's true, and even that was ok for a while because there was a diverse enough population that different people with different ideas could vote up or vote down and moderation was pretty minimal. Later on it became more polarized and moderation amped up considerably and it became particularly bad.
I ended up going all-in on the fediverse after I started to realize they were really pushing the censorship angle openly. I was never personally censored (besides some really brutally biased subreddits that were more than happy to downvote all wrongthink into oblivion), but knowing it's out there has a chilling effect on speech. You start looking over your shoulder, and asking if you should really post that idea, and at that point what's the point of a discussion site if you can't discuss anything?
I grew up in a situation where I had to constantly hold my tongue thanks to divorce stuff between my mom and my dad. It wasn't healthy. Later in life I had to work really hard to open back up because there were so many filters I'd put on everything I said that I'd hardly ever speak, nobody knew me, I was all alone.
Once I forced myself to remove the filters, I found that while I wasn't everyone's cup of tea, some people really, really liked the person they discovered. I wasn't alone anymore.
Then our society started pressuring everyone the way I felt pressured back then. They're wrong -- The reason our society feels lonlier than it's ever felt before is that we've gone all-in on an ideology that says you have to watch everything you say, you have to shut out anyone who says anything wrong, you have to distance yourself from anything that isn't exactly what the establishment has told you to be and nothing more and nothing less.
I grew up in a situation where I had to constantly hold my tongue thanks to divorce stuff between my mom and my dad. It wasn't healthy. Later in life I had to work really hard to open back up because there were so many filters I'd put on everything I said that I'd hardly ever speak, nobody knew me, I was all alone.
Once I forced myself to remove the filters, I found that while I wasn't everyone's cup of tea, some people really, really liked the person they discovered. I wasn't alone anymore.
Then our society started pressuring everyone the way I felt pressured back then. They're wrong -- The reason our society feels lonlier than it's ever felt before is that we've gone all-in on an ideology that says you have to watch everything you say, you have to shut out anyone who says anything wrong, you have to distance yourself from anything that isn't exactly what the establishment has told you to be and nothing more and nothing less.