A wise culture should elevate those who exhibit virtue, because those who are famous are the people a civilization agrees we should be paying attention to. To elevate any old person who just wants to be famous means it tells people that seeking fame is the highest virtue to aspire to, and that's just not going to be a healthy civilization (as our civilization today is quite unhealthy)
Early Rome told the story of Cincinnatus, who became dictator during an emergency, and once the emergency was over returned to his farm to live out the rest of his days illustrating great civic virtue. Late Rome focused on gladiators, whose virtue was mostly in entertaining the masses.
Our culture today is on the tail end of universally focusing on celebrities, people whose main virtue is being entertaining, or politicians whose main virtue is being popular or powerful. Those people often pretend to be virtuous, but their veneer is thin, plastic, and fake and everyone can see that. On the other hand, I'm seeing a some people losing interest in such people and instead are looking to be inspired by virtue.
Early Rome told the story of Cincinnatus, who became dictator during an emergency, and once the emergency was over returned to his farm to live out the rest of his days illustrating great civic virtue. Late Rome focused on gladiators, whose virtue was mostly in entertaining the masses.
Our culture today is on the tail end of universally focusing on celebrities, people whose main virtue is being entertaining, or politicians whose main virtue is being popular or powerful. Those people often pretend to be virtuous, but their veneer is thin, plastic, and fake and everyone can see that. On the other hand, I'm seeing a some people losing interest in such people and instead are looking to be inspired by virtue.
Virtue can come in many forms. Exhibiting charity, grace, self-sacrifice, wisdom, honor, valor, discipline, hard work, adaptability, humility or other virtues may come alongside inherent attributes like intelligence, physical beauty, or raw strength but that doesn't mean the two necessarily coincide. Indeed, natural gifts can be used for positive or negative ends.
I think our lionization of "smart" people isn't so healthy. We should be making virtuous people famous, and that virtue ought not to be something as randomly granted as beauty, raw intelligence, or unalloyed strength.
I know what it's supposed to mean, but I don't think modern usage ever matches a small 10% reduction.
Elon Musk is entirely a product of government. His electric cars have always been massively paid for by the taxpayer, his spaceship business is almost exclusively a product of government spending, nobody in the private sector was ever going to look at the boring company.
So when I hear people on the big government side of things complaining about him, I'm like "why are you complaining? This is your guy!"
So when I hear people on the big government side of things complaining about him, I'm like "why are you complaining? This is your guy!"
It sure seems to me like federation would end up giving a lot of these companies The Best of both worlds: they would have full control over whatever exists or doesn't exist in their own communities, but they would also get the extended visibility and reach of being accessible on a larger platform.
https://ktvz.com/news/oregon-northwest/2020/07/02/iconic-120-year-old-portland-elk-statue-removed-after-fire-set-during-protest/
Elk are well-known racists. I'm not even black and one called me the n-word the other day.
Elk are well-known racists. I'm not even black and one called me the n-word the other day.
If some motherfucker I was at relative peace with came in and kidnapped my son, the war wouldn't end until that motherfucker's ancient ancestors regretted what that motherfucker did.
I've been playing the new port of The 1995 classic game Terminal Velocity by 3d Realms, called Terminal Velocity: Boosted edition.
It runs at 1080p nicely, and can be controlled with an xbox controller.
Although the setup mentions a 3d card, I don't know what it thinks its doing -- it looks to me like the game is still using software rendering, especially when you get close and the perspective gets all wonky. Also has heavy aliasing, looking like chonky 90s 3d.
The higher resolution dumps the difficulty level through the floor. You can see enemies long before they even start up their AI, so you can pick them all off easily. Also
The game really benefits from the xbox controller. I'm about 2/3 of the way through the game now, and having all the controls close at hand like that really makes it nicer to play compared to the old days with keyboard. I've never made so much progress in the game as I have this time through, and I think the nicer controls have a lot to do with that.
Another subtle but important change is the addition of autosaves. It really saved me after the first boss where I died in the tunnel after the boss but I was able to load the save that dropped right then and finish the level. It's another big difficulty drop, but it's also a modern feature I appreciate.
I'm really enjoying it, but it's a game I always liked but never quite got into. I'm not sure if everyone would feel the same. Regardless, for people with fond memories of Terminal Velocity or that era of gaming, it might be worth the 10 bucks.
It runs at 1080p nicely, and can be controlled with an xbox controller.
Although the setup mentions a 3d card, I don't know what it thinks its doing -- it looks to me like the game is still using software rendering, especially when you get close and the perspective gets all wonky. Also has heavy aliasing, looking like chonky 90s 3d.
The higher resolution dumps the difficulty level through the floor. You can see enemies long before they even start up their AI, so you can pick them all off easily. Also
The game really benefits from the xbox controller. I'm about 2/3 of the way through the game now, and having all the controls close at hand like that really makes it nicer to play compared to the old days with keyboard. I've never made so much progress in the game as I have this time through, and I think the nicer controls have a lot to do with that.
Another subtle but important change is the addition of autosaves. It really saved me after the first boss where I died in the tunnel after the boss but I was able to load the save that dropped right then and finish the level. It's another big difficulty drop, but it's also a modern feature I appreciate.
I'm really enjoying it, but it's a game I always liked but never quite got into. I'm not sure if everyone would feel the same. Regardless, for people with fond memories of Terminal Velocity or that era of gaming, it might be worth the 10 bucks.
I'd pay thousands of dollars for a crispr treatment to flip the mighty mouse gene that makes you stronger, leaner, and live longer.
These policies are ultimately genocidal and suicidal. Stuff like food and heat isn't a luxury, it's required to not die and if these people got their way a lot of people will die lacking food and heat.
But also, the policies aren't real. We stop making things because it takes energy, then get China to do it for us. China(then any other country willing to sell its environment for money) becomes the west's painting of Dorian Gray, taking on the environmental consequences for our consumption while we can walk around looking angelic.
But also, the policies aren't real. We stop making things because it takes energy, then get China to do it for us. China(then any other country willing to sell its environment for money) becomes the west's painting of Dorian Gray, taking on the environmental consequences for our consumption while we can walk around looking angelic.
I remember earlier this year when people were pretending climate change in Hawaii and in the Yukon were equivalent and must be equally responsible for both sets of fires.
If it's -40C and you raise the temperature by 1.4C (climate change per century according to their data), it's still really cold. If it's 40C and you raise the temperature by 1.4C really hot just got even hotter.
If it's -40C and you raise the temperature by 1.4C (climate change per century according to their data), it's still really cold. If it's 40C and you raise the temperature by 1.4C really hot just got even hotter.
I want to get something like the Raspberry Pi 400 and hook it right up to the living room TV.
You want access to the Internet? You're gonna be surfing with both parents watching, tyke.
You want access to the Internet? You're gonna be surfing with both parents watching, tyke.
"In the event of a dildo, we will always use the indefinite article 'a' dildo and never 'your' dildo"
I'd actually accept the idea that Trump isn't a conservative. He's a 90s Democrat. There are countless video examples of him espousing relatively progressive ideas, and relatively few of him really espousing conservative ideas. Even how he actually ran America is pretty liberal. How many Republican presidents would have loaded up lead bullets during the summer of love?