For a little while I even read the transcripts of my provincial parliament. It convinced me that most politicians don't just act retarded, they actually are.
As a perpetual sufferer of 8th grader syndrome I deeply want the truck that looks like I drew it in the margins of my notebook while taking notes in class.
I'm not gonna pay for one, but I would to love to win one in a lottery.
I'm not gonna pay for one, but I would to love to win one in a lottery.
It's interesting that people don't intuitively understand the relationship between the two
tbh, free markets sure seem to be favoring asians at the moment.
otoh, these people claim "whiteness" is defined by being rich, successful, and powerful because they're racist.
otoh, these people claim "whiteness" is defined by being rich, successful, and powerful because they're racist.
Don't go to New York City. Even once. It is, as I understand it, a little hell.
(There were multiple angles I could go with here, but this is the easiest one)
(There were multiple angles I could go with here, but this is the easiest one)
Back when I was young, there was a lot of Christian media that was just insufferable. It was preachy, it was badly done, you felt like you were doing a job watching it.
So does that mean media can't work with Christian themes can't work?
Obviously not. Because I'm a weeb I'll use Trigun as an example of a show with very heavy Christian themes, it's widely accepted as a great work of anime and all kinds of people love it in part *because* of the beautiful Christian themes it contains.
In the same way, you can explore many woke themes and actually not be insufferable. It's been done a lot to be honest, previous eras had really good creators believe in woke sort of ideas but they still made amazing art containing those themes. But most woke media today reminds me of the old Christian media, just as preachy and insufferable and unwatchable.
So does that mean media can't work with Christian themes can't work?
Obviously not. Because I'm a weeb I'll use Trigun as an example of a show with very heavy Christian themes, it's widely accepted as a great work of anime and all kinds of people love it in part *because* of the beautiful Christian themes it contains.
In the same way, you can explore many woke themes and actually not be insufferable. It's been done a lot to be honest, previous eras had really good creators believe in woke sort of ideas but they still made amazing art containing those themes. But most woke media today reminds me of the old Christian media, just as preachy and insufferable and unwatchable.
A lot of people say things like "Canada doesn't have free speech because it doesn't have a first amendment."
The reality is worse than that. Canada is one of just a few countries to have freedom of speech enshrined in its constitution, specifically the 1984 constitution act that Includes the charter of rights and freedoms explicitly giving all Canadians freedom of speech.
The courts strike down laws on constitutional grounds all the time, even. The truckers won many of the cases brought during the convoy for example.
People will point at the notwithstanding clause as an example of how Canada doesn't actually have any rights, but to invoke the notwithstanding clause an unconstitutional law needs to be effectively renewed every 5 years. It's a lever that is often threatened but rarely used.
The real problem is that you can't rely on laws to police the government. The people in government need to hold those as sancrosanct because otherwise the government which is filled with lawyers we'll just find a way around the laws that they're not allowed to break. And that's what we get to see in Canada.
The reality is worse than that. Canada is one of just a few countries to have freedom of speech enshrined in its constitution, specifically the 1984 constitution act that Includes the charter of rights and freedoms explicitly giving all Canadians freedom of speech.
The courts strike down laws on constitutional grounds all the time, even. The truckers won many of the cases brought during the convoy for example.
People will point at the notwithstanding clause as an example of how Canada doesn't actually have any rights, but to invoke the notwithstanding clause an unconstitutional law needs to be effectively renewed every 5 years. It's a lever that is often threatened but rarely used.
The real problem is that you can't rely on laws to police the government. The people in government need to hold those as sancrosanct because otherwise the government which is filled with lawyers we'll just find a way around the laws that they're not allowed to break. And that's what we get to see in Canada.
More evidence that the only acceptable minority to the far left is in fact a white southern California far leftist who has been dipped in tea.
How dare a native American... wear a headdress and paint their face......
We see the same thing with their attitude toward Muslims, where they're the staunchest defenders of the faith right up until the Muslim actually expresses an opinion informed by their faith. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU AREN'T AN ALLY OF THE LGBT+?! AREN'T YOU BEIGE?!"
How dare a native American... wear a headdress and paint their face......
We see the same thing with their attitude toward Muslims, where they're the staunchest defenders of the faith right up until the Muslim actually expresses an opinion informed by their faith. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU AREN'T AN ALLY OF THE LGBT+?! AREN'T YOU BEIGE?!"
If you tell someone to kill themselves then the government might not need a new government program to tell people to kill themselves.
All I ever hear from jagmeet is "arf! arf! arf!" as he barks from within Justin's purse like the lapdog he is. Sometimes he yips at his master, but that's what lapdogs sometimes do.
It's sad, the NDP used to be respectable. You might have disagreed with Jack Layton, but at least you could tell he was doing what he felt was right.
It's sad, the NDP used to be respectable. You might have disagreed with Jack Layton, but at least you could tell he was doing what he felt was right.
"I'm a real man. A battering ram. I aint sneaking in behind, I'm coming in the front door."
I have this idea in my head that activitypub can scale specifically when it's split up with different small servers. That way everyone connects to who they connect to and everyone you aren't connected to is basically using no resources on your server. Mastodon.social can have millions of users but that doesn't affect me.
They're introducing a suicide hotline in canada.
30 minutes or less or your suicide is free!
30 minutes or less or your suicide is free!
I agree 75%.
For something like history I'm ok with the idea of starting shallow and digging deeper. One of the problems we face is that there's unlimited information and you need to start somewhere, and a comfy cartoon with a general rundown isn't a bad place to start, but once the framework is in place it's time to start digging.
I started a history kick a few years back and a huge thing is just getting started because I didn't know enough to know how little I knew. At least with a few hours of 15 minute cartoons you can start to appreciate the 10,000 mile view.
For something like history I'm ok with the idea of starting shallow and digging deeper. One of the problems we face is that there's unlimited information and you need to start somewhere, and a comfy cartoon with a general rundown isn't a bad place to start, but once the framework is in place it's time to start digging.
I started a history kick a few years back and a huge thing is just getting started because I didn't know enough to know how little I knew. At least with a few hours of 15 minute cartoons you can start to appreciate the 10,000 mile view.
As I previously promised, here's some information about why #neoliberalism is an irrelevant misdirection when talking about today's problems.
Neoliberalism is essentially the idea that we should let people and economies be free to do what they're going to do and then it'll be better for everyone. The policy consequences of this ideology ought to be lower taxes, lower government spending, staying away from government debt, and less regulation overall.
People can blame neoliberalism, but in a lot of ways neoliberalism failed. Neoliberalism has features like lower taxes and less regulation, but we're living in the highest taxed, most regulated times in human history. That's part of the problem. Blue collar folks are paying well over half their income to government, and what do they see around them? Tent cities, crime waves, good people losing their homes working three jobs while people who are snuggly with the government (and for those on the Elon Musk hate train, where do you think his billions came from?) become the richest people in human history. Despite the massive taxation, governments can't keep it in their pants, and so every government out there has massively increased their debts in the recent decades. My own country doubled its national debt, my home province increased its debt by several times, and meanwhile households are at record high debt levels and record low savings levels.
What we've actually seen is an overwhelming state stealing virtually everything from the middle class and handing it to the most powerful people on earth. That isn't neoliberalism by any definition -- it's just corruption.
The United States has an interesting case because one of the taxes is specifically for healthcare, and yet most people need health insurance. This sort of heavy corruption is what I'm talking about -- People pay enough money for a thing once through heavy taxation, then the system is so busy siphoning money to powerful interests that people need to go broke paying for a parallel system to get the thing they need, and sometimes even that parallel system fails individuals. The per capita public money spent on healthcare in the United States is the same as countries with universal healthcare, and that money isn't earmarked for research(a common argument made), it's earmarked for direct care.
Occasionally we see a little bit of deregulation here or there, but that's largely irrelevant next to the whole -- a massive, bloated central authority that tells us every little thing gives a tiny sliver or freedom back, then we blame all the problems in the world on that? It's absurd.
The 2008 financial crisis was blamed on deregulation, but the reality is much more complicated -- the banks that caused the collapse may have been slightly deregulated, but they are one of the most government protected forms of business on the planet, including having the literal money printer at the central reserve created solely to keep them in business. The banks were dealing in loans that were in one form or another insured by the government, paid for with deposits that are insured by the government, following directives by the government, and then when a little slice comes off of that people say it's lack of regulation that caused the problem, when in reality it's all the government money propping up the whole sector that let things get as bad as they did!
For many people in the western world, if they make an extra dollar, the government gets half. In some places it's even higher, closer to 75%. That level of taxation isn't compatible with the concept of neoliberalism. In many places debt/gdp ratios are exceeding 100%, that level of spending isn't compatible with the concept of neoliberalism, which advocates for lower government spending.
To give an idea of what another view of the universe might look like, prior to just before the world wars, there was no personal income tax in the United States or Canada. What might your life look like if you had that burden lifted from your shoulders? That's the question neoliberalism asks, but that's not a question even within the Overton window today.
Neoliberalism is essentially the idea that we should let people and economies be free to do what they're going to do and then it'll be better for everyone. The policy consequences of this ideology ought to be lower taxes, lower government spending, staying away from government debt, and less regulation overall.
People can blame neoliberalism, but in a lot of ways neoliberalism failed. Neoliberalism has features like lower taxes and less regulation, but we're living in the highest taxed, most regulated times in human history. That's part of the problem. Blue collar folks are paying well over half their income to government, and what do they see around them? Tent cities, crime waves, good people losing their homes working three jobs while people who are snuggly with the government (and for those on the Elon Musk hate train, where do you think his billions came from?) become the richest people in human history. Despite the massive taxation, governments can't keep it in their pants, and so every government out there has massively increased their debts in the recent decades. My own country doubled its national debt, my home province increased its debt by several times, and meanwhile households are at record high debt levels and record low savings levels.
What we've actually seen is an overwhelming state stealing virtually everything from the middle class and handing it to the most powerful people on earth. That isn't neoliberalism by any definition -- it's just corruption.
The United States has an interesting case because one of the taxes is specifically for healthcare, and yet most people need health insurance. This sort of heavy corruption is what I'm talking about -- People pay enough money for a thing once through heavy taxation, then the system is so busy siphoning money to powerful interests that people need to go broke paying for a parallel system to get the thing they need, and sometimes even that parallel system fails individuals. The per capita public money spent on healthcare in the United States is the same as countries with universal healthcare, and that money isn't earmarked for research(a common argument made), it's earmarked for direct care.
Occasionally we see a little bit of deregulation here or there, but that's largely irrelevant next to the whole -- a massive, bloated central authority that tells us every little thing gives a tiny sliver or freedom back, then we blame all the problems in the world on that? It's absurd.
The 2008 financial crisis was blamed on deregulation, but the reality is much more complicated -- the banks that caused the collapse may have been slightly deregulated, but they are one of the most government protected forms of business on the planet, including having the literal money printer at the central reserve created solely to keep them in business. The banks were dealing in loans that were in one form or another insured by the government, paid for with deposits that are insured by the government, following directives by the government, and then when a little slice comes off of that people say it's lack of regulation that caused the problem, when in reality it's all the government money propping up the whole sector that let things get as bad as they did!
For many people in the western world, if they make an extra dollar, the government gets half. In some places it's even higher, closer to 75%. That level of taxation isn't compatible with the concept of neoliberalism. In many places debt/gdp ratios are exceeding 100%, that level of spending isn't compatible with the concept of neoliberalism, which advocates for lower government spending.
To give an idea of what another view of the universe might look like, prior to just before the world wars, there was no personal income tax in the United States or Canada. What might your life look like if you had that burden lifted from your shoulders? That's the question neoliberalism asks, but that's not a question even within the Overton window today.
I was hoping to read the next Hell Mode, but it isn't out until January, but there's a new taking reincarnation one step at a time on Friday I'm hoping to blast through on a flight that day.
It definitely seems to make the most sense to assume that humans have built into our DNA both the capacity for "evil" but also the blueprint for "good".
But both are potential survival strategies, and often you have no choice what the successful strategy will be in a certain situation so you have to have the potential for both or at some point your bloodline ends.
You can see why between assuming everyone is evil and needs to be made good or assuming everyone is good and is only made evil one of the two is more memetically survivable over centuries and millennia.
But both are potential survival strategies, and often you have no choice what the successful strategy will be in a certain situation so you have to have the potential for both or at some point your bloodline ends.
You can see why between assuming everyone is evil and needs to be made good or assuming everyone is good and is only made evil one of the two is more memetically survivable over centuries and millennia.
Crazy protip we discovered:
You know how rufus lets you create a windows to go installation?
If you take your (empty) main drive and connect it to a computer using USB you can create a windows to go installation on a real drive, and then it'll just start up on whatever machine you plug it into -- and I don't mean using USB, I mean plug it into a computer using sata or whatever.
You may or may not have a use for such a thing, but it's a neat tool to have in your back pocket.
You know how rufus lets you create a windows to go installation?
If you take your (empty) main drive and connect it to a computer using USB you can create a windows to go installation on a real drive, and then it'll just start up on whatever machine you plug it into -- and I don't mean using USB, I mean plug it into a computer using sata or whatever.
You may or may not have a use for such a thing, but it's a neat tool to have in your back pocket.
My favorite part of spiking premiums is that during the pandemic everyone was staying at home and nobody was driving their cars so most insurance companies weren't paying anything out, yet premiums spiked because reasons!