People claim that money is evil, that accumulating money is evil, and that all we have to do is abolish money and all evil will disappear.
In reality, money is just pieces of paper or numbers in a computer or pieces of shiny rocks. It isn't good or evil. The thing that makes people crazy is the power it represents, to be able to take something for yourself, or to get someone else to do something you want them to. If you take it away, you have unlimited desires and limited resources and so another method needs to come about to determine how to divvy up power, and unfortunately the alternative is monsterous because we're humans who have an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other.
So if getting rid of money won't solve people's drive for more power, how do we abolish such evils? I don't really think you do as long as you've got people thinking in terms of power. In that sense, the postmodern neomarxists and the nietzschians are both terribly wrong, and looking at the world in terms of power is self-destructive. Instead of a will to power, we should be striving for a will to awe, and strive to become people we are impressed with ourselves.
Being true to oneself (because some people try to become "impressive" based on what they're supposed to find impressive rather than what they actually find impressive) and striving to be that best person you can imagine rather than focusing on accumulating power I think would help the world, as long as that striving has some understandings that for example you can't cheat the devil -- If you cheat on your way to becoming awesome, then you will know deep down you aren't.
In reality, money is just pieces of paper or numbers in a computer or pieces of shiny rocks. It isn't good or evil. The thing that makes people crazy is the power it represents, to be able to take something for yourself, or to get someone else to do something you want them to. If you take it away, you have unlimited desires and limited resources and so another method needs to come about to determine how to divvy up power, and unfortunately the alternative is monsterous because we're humans who have an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other.
So if getting rid of money won't solve people's drive for more power, how do we abolish such evils? I don't really think you do as long as you've got people thinking in terms of power. In that sense, the postmodern neomarxists and the nietzschians are both terribly wrong, and looking at the world in terms of power is self-destructive. Instead of a will to power, we should be striving for a will to awe, and strive to become people we are impressed with ourselves.
Being true to oneself (because some people try to become "impressive" based on what they're supposed to find impressive rather than what they actually find impressive) and striving to be that best person you can imagine rather than focusing on accumulating power I think would help the world, as long as that striving has some understandings that for example you can't cheat the devil -- If you cheat on your way to becoming awesome, then you will know deep down you aren't.
"what proof do you have? That giant pile of direct evidence? The court cases you keep on winning? The news stories from Pulitzer prize winning journalists? Pffft all far right disinformation."
It's easy to forget amidst the art and architecture and military accomplishments of the Roman empire that it was a particularly brutal slave state.
To be clear, most civilizations of the time had slavery in one form or another, but the combination of the fact that Romans implemented chattel slavery where slaves were purely property, and the dictatorial powers the patriarch of the family had over slaves, women, and children in his family combined to have a wide range of permissible behavior towards those who didn't have any social power.
Though to be fair, we need to also remember that just because a state didn't have slavery didn't mean it was a modern liberal democracy. Often, they didn't have slavery in name but the lowest classes of society might as well have been slaves for the level of control they had over their lives.
As an example, after the roman empire fell many European states didn't have slavery but feudalism tied people to the land and gave their lords overwhelming power over them meaning they had a similar lack of control over their own lives.
To be clear, most civilizations of the time had slavery in one form or another, but the combination of the fact that Romans implemented chattel slavery where slaves were purely property, and the dictatorial powers the patriarch of the family had over slaves, women, and children in his family combined to have a wide range of permissible behavior towards those who didn't have any social power.
Though to be fair, we need to also remember that just because a state didn't have slavery didn't mean it was a modern liberal democracy. Often, they didn't have slavery in name but the lowest classes of society might as well have been slaves for the level of control they had over their lives.
As an example, after the roman empire fell many European states didn't have slavery but feudalism tied people to the land and gave their lords overwhelming power over them meaning they had a similar lack of control over their own lives.
It sure seems like MK Ultra is the gift that keeps on giving. "We created all these psychopaths, so you better give us more power to save you from all these psychopaths who exist because of reasons unrelated to our unethical medical experiments even though a surprising number of them were involved with them!"
Can't get directly to my log files right now, but I opened up the log aggregator and didn't see anything of note.
I'd expect that anyone running a scraper would just hit a big instance instead of us. They'd get most of our posts through osmosis anyway.
I'd expect that anyone running a scraper would just hit a big instance instead of us. They'd get most of our posts through osmosis anyway.
I'll go on about freedom of expression all day long, but even I block spammers.
I hope a blue whale materalizes over their house and crushes it with them inside.
I hope a blue whale materalizes over their house and crushes it with them inside.
In the United States at least, it's already been argued and won in court that the police have no duty to serve and protect. If you call up because your kids are about to be murdered, and they do absolutely nothing for 4 days, and your kids are in fact murdered, well I guess you should have raised less murderable kids.
I've got respect for many police. There are people who walk towards situations that many of us would run away from and have to deal with the thankless task of dealing with situations without a win scenario. Regardless, the institution itself is no less corrupt than any other government institution.
I've got respect for many police. There are people who walk towards situations that many of us would run away from and have to deal with the thankless task of dealing with situations without a win scenario. Regardless, the institution itself is no less corrupt than any other government institution.
I lowkey love that the two things getting liked and shared in my notifications this morning are a joke about sharing your ballsack with your bros and a post about the historical political context of the american revolution.
The duality of man.
The duality of man.
Who doesn't engage in some straight ballsack photo sharing? I make sure to share photos of my balls with every man I know, from my grandfather to my boss to my minister. It's not gay if the photos don't touch.
One interesting thing about the American revolution: America the democratic republic was rebelling against England the parliamentary democracy. For all the talk of kings, by 1776 the country the Americans created wasn't so different from the country they came from. The court system went from English common law as its foundation to English common law as its foundation. Granted there wasn't a king at the top, but in the grand scheme of things with all the things that were kept that's almost a trivial detail.
If anything, the Americans took the fundamentals of the existing English system and kept them, throwing in just a dash of French revolution into the mix (minus the beheadings...mostly) to end up with a system that was mostly English but integrating some aspects of the French.
Even the concept of a constitution that limits the power of government is baked into the English constitutional monarchy that arguably started with the magna carta.
Remembering all this I think changes the character of what happened in 1776, making it a more evolutionary change wrapped in revolution rather than a revolutionary change.
If anything, the Americans took the fundamentals of the existing English system and kept them, throwing in just a dash of French revolution into the mix (minus the beheadings...mostly) to end up with a system that was mostly English but integrating some aspects of the French.
Even the concept of a constitution that limits the power of government is baked into the English constitutional monarchy that arguably started with the magna carta.
Remembering all this I think changes the character of what happened in 1776, making it a more evolutionary change wrapped in revolution rather than a revolutionary change.
[Admin mode] Ok, we're back up. Sorry for folks who had to live without the fediverse for 16 hours!
I'm not sure why, but pg_repack went out of date, and when that happened it started causing database errors in pleroma so while the site loaded it wouldn't pull new posts or allow you to post. I updated pg_repack and everything is working as intended now. Sorry for the semi-outage!
I'm not sure why, but pg_repack went out of date, and when that happened it started causing database errors in pleroma so while the site loaded it wouldn't pull new posts or allow you to post. I updated pg_repack and everything is working as intended now. Sorry for the semi-outage!
In some cultures an L as big as he took would require committing sudoku to salvage the honor of your ancestors and descendants.
I found this thing worked pretty well on anything I tried including some arcade stuff and some Dreamcast games (it did struggle with PSP games), but it's supposedly weaker than a 351V
I just got my hands on an RG35S+ portable game console. The cheap portable game consoles are getting insanely good. It's got a powerful CPU but also a GPU which my previous unit, a powkiddy V90 lacked. The difference means that you can play stuff like dreamcast games on this whereas the V90 struggled with SNES games at times.
The very first thing I did (even before playing many games) is I grabbed a reliable SD card and replaced the 2 it came with. The cards it came with are about the dodgiest things you've ever seen. The bigger one just has two letters on it: Z J, really inspires trust.
The original software looks really pretty, and if the SD cards were a bit less dodgy I probably would have just used them but my "this is going to die terribly" alarm was going off. Also, I found that I was having a problems trying to get my new SD cards to work with the old software.
Ultimately, I first grabbed the software from https://github.com/christianhaitian/arkos/wiki for the RG351MP which isn't quite right, but is close enough with one change.
I flashed that to the card using dd next.
One thing, I had two cards at first, a 16GB for the OS and a 128GB for roms. And what I discovered is that this thing is pretty dodgy about SD cards. The one I had was a pretty high test one but it wouldn't see it if you tried using it as SD card #2, so I installed the OS on it instead.
The next thing is I needed to go to https://github.com/tech4bot/r35s and downloaded rk3326-r35s-linux.dtb. Various write-ups say to replace one of the existing files, but I dropped the file into the boot directory and edited boot.ini to load that file instead of the other dtb file instead.
Once that was all set up, I booted up off the newly created card and it automatically created an exfat partition and made it the proper size, then I brought all the roms from the card onto my new card.
Now after all that, I'm finally ready to actually give it a shot. On the upside, updating the OS gave me a full year of additional work, going from mid-2022 to mid-2023, which could mean nothing but on stuff like this a year of updates can mean a lot.
Another thing I'm interested in is this unit has two USB-C ports -- one is designated for charging, the other is designated for OTG. It looks like you can plug a small USB-C Wifi hotspot into it, and the OS I'm using is ubuntu behind the scenes apparently so it might be pretty interesting.
One last thing for now, see that nice Fn button you'd expect to bring up the menu? Doesn't do anything. Select is the button you use in combination with other things to get back to the menu and the like. Select and start twice will return to the main menu.
The very first thing I did (even before playing many games) is I grabbed a reliable SD card and replaced the 2 it came with. The cards it came with are about the dodgiest things you've ever seen. The bigger one just has two letters on it: Z J, really inspires trust.
The original software looks really pretty, and if the SD cards were a bit less dodgy I probably would have just used them but my "this is going to die terribly" alarm was going off. Also, I found that I was having a problems trying to get my new SD cards to work with the old software.
Ultimately, I first grabbed the software from https://github.com/christianhaitian/arkos/wiki for the RG351MP which isn't quite right, but is close enough with one change.
I flashed that to the card using dd next.
One thing, I had two cards at first, a 16GB for the OS and a 128GB for roms. And what I discovered is that this thing is pretty dodgy about SD cards. The one I had was a pretty high test one but it wouldn't see it if you tried using it as SD card #2, so I installed the OS on it instead.
The next thing is I needed to go to https://github.com/tech4bot/r35s and downloaded rk3326-r35s-linux.dtb. Various write-ups say to replace one of the existing files, but I dropped the file into the boot directory and edited boot.ini to load that file instead of the other dtb file instead.
Once that was all set up, I booted up off the newly created card and it automatically created an exfat partition and made it the proper size, then I brought all the roms from the card onto my new card.
Now after all that, I'm finally ready to actually give it a shot. On the upside, updating the OS gave me a full year of additional work, going from mid-2022 to mid-2023, which could mean nothing but on stuff like this a year of updates can mean a lot.
Another thing I'm interested in is this unit has two USB-C ports -- one is designated for charging, the other is designated for OTG. It looks like you can plug a small USB-C Wifi hotspot into it, and the OS I'm using is ubuntu behind the scenes apparently so it might be pretty interesting.
One last thing for now, see that nice Fn button you'd expect to bring up the menu? Doesn't do anything. Select is the button you use in combination with other things to get back to the menu and the like. Select and start twice will return to the main menu.
