Some people don't want to leave the cave. Once they leave, they cry about the lack of shackles, about the lack of shadows on the wall.
On the other hand, there's a lot of people desperate to breathe fresh air and see the sun.
On the other hand, there's a lot of people desperate to breathe fresh air and see the sun.
I tend to strongly agree with what you're saying here. One of the reasons why the early internet came up with so many really cool things is that the people who were making those things were doing so because they enjoyed making those things and wanted to, not because they knew there was a Payday at the end of it. In fact, for a lot of the people there was no payday at the end of it.
Once all the stuff is being done for money, it changes into an optimization problem: instead of there being unlimited ways to do a thing, there becomes one way to do a thing, whatever way happens to make the most money. When you hear people who end up doing something that they enjoyed doing as a hobby, and they talk about doing it professionally you can tell that the character of the thing has changed. Whereas previously they could play around with things and try out different things, suddenly you have to do things in a way that's going to make money. I think that's where you see some of the breakdowns of YouTubers who start off doing things for fun, quickly transition into doing a professionally, and then find that they're stuck doing something like nostalgia reviews for the next 30 years.
Everyone needs to find a way to eat. On the other hand, not everything that you need to do in life needs to end in a paycheck. For me, makes more sense for a lot of stuff to be done using your own resources because you want to, from your day job.
Of course, all of fbxl.net is a monument to all the things I did for fun that I didn't get paid for (and even though I sell copies of the graysonian ethic, there will never be a day that I become profitable on that project)
Once all the stuff is being done for money, it changes into an optimization problem: instead of there being unlimited ways to do a thing, there becomes one way to do a thing, whatever way happens to make the most money. When you hear people who end up doing something that they enjoyed doing as a hobby, and they talk about doing it professionally you can tell that the character of the thing has changed. Whereas previously they could play around with things and try out different things, suddenly you have to do things in a way that's going to make money. I think that's where you see some of the breakdowns of YouTubers who start off doing things for fun, quickly transition into doing a professionally, and then find that they're stuck doing something like nostalgia reviews for the next 30 years.
Everyone needs to find a way to eat. On the other hand, not everything that you need to do in life needs to end in a paycheck. For me, makes more sense for a lot of stuff to be done using your own resources because you want to, from your day job.
Of course, all of fbxl.net is a monument to all the things I did for fun that I didn't get paid for (and even though I sell copies of the graysonian ethic, there will never be a day that I become profitable on that project)
No. By engaging with Canada it ends up being under the banner of the law. Otherwise they couldn't force Google and Facebook to follow their edicts.
According to the Canadian Constitution, "The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society."
Canada has a test similar to strict scrutiny in the US, which is called the "Oakes test", which sets out to ask the two questions implied by the above: First, is this a "reasonable limit in a free and democratic society.", and second is this "prescribed by law"?
Canadian courts aren't perfect, they sometimes get cases wrong, but there's a lot they do right. One big problem is the problem of the power differential between the government and an individual. They violate your rights, so you have to spend your life savings protecting yourself, only to have them violate your rights again. They have unlimited money, you don't. On the other hand, there are laws the government wanted that were struck down on constitutional grounds, and in fact some of the freedoms we've seen in Canada such as the first stage of euthanasia, were won in court cases against the government. Other examples are prostitution legislation that was struck down, and finally ontario courts were given a deadline a few years ago where if they can't process you in a certain number of months you go free because they have failed to provide you a speedy trial.
Two big problems during the trucker protests were:
1. The Trudeau government is massively corrupt, and much of the stuff that was done was done through the old boys network, such as shutting down the gofundme and givesendgo and shutting down bank accounts in some cases
2. The Trudeau government employed a descendant of the war measures act (last invoked by his stepdad during a national crisis in the 1970s, oddly enough) to give his government extraordinary powers to violate human rights
Canada has a test similar to strict scrutiny in the US, which is called the "Oakes test", which sets out to ask the two questions implied by the above: First, is this a "reasonable limit in a free and democratic society.", and second is this "prescribed by law"?
Canadian courts aren't perfect, they sometimes get cases wrong, but there's a lot they do right. One big problem is the problem of the power differential between the government and an individual. They violate your rights, so you have to spend your life savings protecting yourself, only to have them violate your rights again. They have unlimited money, you don't. On the other hand, there are laws the government wanted that were struck down on constitutional grounds, and in fact some of the freedoms we've seen in Canada such as the first stage of euthanasia, were won in court cases against the government. Other examples are prostitution legislation that was struck down, and finally ontario courts were given a deadline a few years ago where if they can't process you in a certain number of months you go free because they have failed to provide you a speedy trial.
Two big problems during the trucker protests were:
1. The Trudeau government is massively corrupt, and much of the stuff that was done was done through the old boys network, such as shutting down the gofundme and givesendgo and shutting down bank accounts in some cases
2. The Trudeau government employed a descendant of the war measures act (last invoked by his stepdad during a national crisis in the 1970s, oddly enough) to give his government extraordinary powers to violate human rights
> You can justify all sorts of crazy policies, like eugenics, in professional / liberal circles, as long as you couch them in the right words and values.
I love what you said here because it encapsulates exactly what I believe. As long as you can stick a few smiley face stickers on something terrible, these people will support all kinds of objectively horrible policies because they sound nice.
It's something we all have to be careful of, especially with things we agree with, that someone can twist things that are fundamentally good into things that are fundamentally evil by getting people to turn off their brains and stop thinking for themselves.
I love what you said here because it encapsulates exactly what I believe. As long as you can stick a few smiley face stickers on something terrible, these people will support all kinds of objectively horrible policies because they sound nice.
It's something we all have to be careful of, especially with things we agree with, that someone can twist things that are fundamentally good into things that are fundamentally evil by getting people to turn off their brains and stop thinking for themselves.
You kidding? Trudeau would have gone out there and genuflected. He literally did that a little while before the trucker protests when BLM was protesting.
They were shutting down people's access to bank accounts if they were caught donating to the trucker convoy, so by that point other than handing cash to people there wasn't much that could be done.
What happened during that protest was a gross violation of human rights. They threatened to take away business licenses, to take away people's kids, to take away people's pets. The press (the public sector news making a billion dollars per year and the private sector news getting millions of dollars per year in government payola) was playing defamatory stories that didn't reflect reality on the ground at the direction of their government masters.
Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you agreed that covid restrictions should be eased in March instead of October (ultimately what the protest turned out to be about). Anybody who believes in Liberty should see what happened during those protests and be scared as hell because maybe the government agrees with you today, but tomorrow they probably won't, and all of those terrible things will be used against you.
What happened during that protest was a gross violation of human rights. They threatened to take away business licenses, to take away people's kids, to take away people's pets. The press (the public sector news making a billion dollars per year and the private sector news getting millions of dollars per year in government payola) was playing defamatory stories that didn't reflect reality on the ground at the direction of their government masters.
Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you agreed that covid restrictions should be eased in March instead of October (ultimately what the protest turned out to be about). Anybody who believes in Liberty should see what happened during those protests and be scared as hell because maybe the government agrees with you today, but tomorrow they probably won't, and all of those terrible things will be used against you.
Canada actually has something like that, and it's great -- Interac e-transfers. People can send a transfer to an email address or cell phone number, and the money is sent immediately. Many micro businesses exclusively use it
just another example of "the man" trying to keep us down by limiting our access to flashlight technology!
I'm happy that liberapay seems to work and acts as an impartial sender of cash to people who deserve it.
But we always need to remember the story of Dick Masterson's newproject2. He's just a comedian from L.A. and he created a patreon alternative that hosted politically sensitive people, and suddenly he's not allowed to process credit cards under the USAPATRIOT act.
Anything we build is one half step away from being regulated out of existence for no good reason.
But we always need to remember the story of Dick Masterson's newproject2. He's just a comedian from L.A. and he created a patreon alternative that hosted politically sensitive people, and suddenly he's not allowed to process credit cards under the USAPATRIOT act.
Anything we build is one half step away from being regulated out of existence for no good reason.
Don't know much about the rest, but the podcast of the lotus eaters is unironically fantastic.
It's hilarious seeing all these state funded broadcasters having a temper tantrum after being labelled the thing they are.
The CBC receives 1.2 billion dollars per year in federal funding, making up 70% of its total budget. They know full well that the Conservative Party of Canada has them in their crosshairs, so they have every reason to back the Liberal Party of Canada that currently has minority powers (made into a de facto majority by the pomeranian lapdogs of the NDP sitting in their purse) because the party ends the moment this government ends.
The CBC receives 1.2 billion dollars per year in federal funding, making up 70% of its total budget. They know full well that the Conservative Party of Canada has them in their crosshairs, so they have every reason to back the Liberal Party of Canada that currently has minority powers (made into a de facto majority by the pomeranian lapdogs of the NDP sitting in their purse) because the party ends the moment this government ends.
Context matters. The lefty messaging was a different beast when it seemed like they were fighting against the establishment, but when they become the establishment and nothing changed for the better, it became hollow.
Of course, with the benefit of hindsight, a lot of us realize they were always the establishment, and their plans were never going to work and never meant to work.....
Of course, with the benefit of hindsight, a lot of us realize they were always the establishment, and their plans were never going to work and never meant to work.....