In a sense, to be liberal is to be conservative at the moment. That sounds like a contradiction, but the future is authoritarian, and anyone fighting that is trying to protect a good old relic.
Most of the government should be going to a firing squad for what's been done to the first amendment.
Absolute facts.
We don't see a moral component to borrowing money we never intend to pay back (there is a huge moral component, we're selling our kids into slavery because we want free shit) so there's little reason not to keep borrowing forever.
But with that hole in our collective morality, we're doing terrible damage.
We don't see a moral component to borrowing money we never intend to pay back (there is a huge moral component, we're selling our kids into slavery because we want free shit) so there's little reason not to keep borrowing forever.
But with that hole in our collective morality, we're doing terrible damage.
I've felt for years that you start by increasing taxes and slashing spending, and once the budget is in surplus you start cutting taxes while keeping a surplus. It will work, and it'll get things moving in the right direction.
It's entirely possible, there's just no political will for it. Right now every country in the west is on the same path, and it's the path to the destruction. The sooner we start acting like there's a future and we want to protect it, the better.
It's entirely possible, there's just no political will for it. Right now every country in the west is on the same path, and it's the path to the destruction. The sooner we start acting like there's a future and we want to protect it, the better.
"we must take out debt to relieve the debt or the debt will become overwhelming for us!"
Paying off one credit card with another on a global scale
Paying off one credit card with another on a global scale
The next 40 years are going to have a lot that looks like Madonna -- ancient people who stopped doing anything interesting in their 20s pretending they've still got youth and beauty because they neglected to build anything else.
The scar that the lack of meaning while approaching a nihilistic end with no legacy will leave will change society, since it'll be too late to do anything about it but so much of our lives will remain to stew over the meaninglessness of our deaths.
The scar that the lack of meaning while approaching a nihilistic end with no legacy will leave will change society, since it'll be too late to do anything about it but so much of our lives will remain to stew over the meaninglessness of our deaths.
I know I've worked with people who work from home who are productive and useful, but I've worked with a lot of people who were working from home and all they did was offload their work to the people still in the office. Getting those people back into the office (or in some cases the field when it's not purely a desk job) will be high priority next time there's a big financial crash since efficient use of capital will matter again and working together in a space is more efficient for a lot of jobs.
It occurs to me that I'm surprised you're not running your own mastodon instance off of a pocket calculator with an RTX 4090 installed. 😜
I chose different... I chose to be boring oatmeal ranting about things nobody but me cares about!
I'm not a big vtuber guy because I don't have hours to simp for anyone except rackets, but I understand and I approve.
Chapter 16 of the book I wrote for my son is titled "The Internet is not your friend".
It talks about how these big companies want to make you think they're your friends and you should tell them all about yourself, but in reality the Internet is a potentially dangerous place so you should be careful of exposing too much of your personal information because even if you ignore companies, it's a shared space with most of the planet, all the best and worst our human race has to offer, and that's not the sort of crowd you just start offering personal information to without good cause.
It talks about how these big companies want to make you think they're your friends and you should tell them all about yourself, but in reality the Internet is a potentially dangerous place so you should be careful of exposing too much of your personal information because even if you ignore companies, it's a shared space with most of the planet, all the best and worst our human race has to offer, and that's not the sort of crowd you just start offering personal information to without good cause.
guys i started no nut november and realized a week in that instanceussy is just janny ass
He's built a big body of his opinions on different subjects throughout many videos, and from that broad base his ideas are pretty coherent within that context. Now, whether it's correct is another question. It's hard to make predictions, especially ones about the future.
One thing that was really striking to me is something I've been thinking of more lately, and that's the consequences of a generation of people dying alone and miserable. It reminds me of the chapter in The Graysonian Ethic where I talk about what your life might look like if you build something or if you don't.
You're going to see two classes of people: People with families, and people who rejected families for the new answers wokeness provides. (There's obviously other classes, but I'm making a point here) The thing is, if one group is consistently happier than the other, and the other group requires converts from the first group to continue to exist, then that's a strongly negative evolutionary pressure on the ideology...
One thing that was really striking to me is something I've been thinking of more lately, and that's the consequences of a generation of people dying alone and miserable. It reminds me of the chapter in The Graysonian Ethic where I talk about what your life might look like if you build something or if you don't.
You're going to see two classes of people: People with families, and people who rejected families for the new answers wokeness provides. (There's obviously other classes, but I'm making a point here) The thing is, if one group is consistently happier than the other, and the other group requires converts from the first group to continue to exist, then that's a strongly negative evolutionary pressure on the ideology...
I was under the impression that mastodon had the 500 character limit hard coded in. Making it custom is an acceptable compromise for sure.