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sj_zero | @sj_zero@social.fbxl.net

Author of The Graysonian Ethic (Available on Amazon, pick up a dead tree copy today)

Admin of the FBXL Network including FBXL Search, FBXL Video, FBXL Social, FBXL Lotide, FBXL Translate, and FBXL Maps.

Advocate for freedom and tolerance even if you say things I do not like

Adversary of Fediblock

Accept that I'll probably say something you don't like and I'll give you the same benefit, and maybe we can find some truth about the world.

Ah... Is the Alliteration clever or stupid? Don't answer that, I sort of know the answer already...

https://youtu.be/p20v8vBwJ8A?si=iBOCv70BPEiQgXti

Put together by a politician but nonetheless one of the best discussions of debt I've seen. Talks about knock on effects, compares current stats to other examples, it's great. The discussion about what the liberals and NDP did in the past with healthcare when the money ran out is important.

If it did then it'd also entitle you to an owners share of the losses. I think most wagies would think twice about that when the other side of the equation was in play.

I read some articles on the topic, but they struck me as deeply authoritarian. People talking as if they have a practical ability, a right, and a moral duty to try to control all speech on earth.

There's a whole spectrum of people I disagree with on the fediverse. From people I violently disagree with and can't easily coexist with to people I disagree with but respect and would invite over for a beer irl, and the fediverse is largely about choice. I follow folks who I can tolerate, and those people post things and repost things, and sometimes I fly a bit too close to the sun and need to unfollow someone who is filling my feed with something just a bit too out there, but there's no global algorithm playing Jerry Springer so typically I see mostly stuff I can tolerate just fine and I can tweak things to keep it that way.

The people I disagree with need to be here. First because I disagree with most everyone on something including myself at times so I'd be awfully lonely if voices I disagree with disappeared, but second because it's vital to the health of discourse.

There are all kinds of hugbox out there for people who want them. They are extremely diverse in the types of people on them. The one consistent thing is that the level of discourse is much lower as a bunch of people who already agree just yell at the walls about how bad "the other" who isn't around is.

Fact is, sometimes people I disagree with have something meaningful to say. Sometimes I might straight-up agree, or I might agree but in a different way than they imagine, or I might disagree but I learn something by the interplay of ideas. The last thing I want is to have them silenced because I don't like what they have to say.

My wi-fi reset at 4am and it brought up an old copy of my lotide instance with a bunch of exploding-heads posts.

Man, I miss exploding-heads and wolfballs. The threadiverse is just a bunch of judgemental authoritarian redditors without it. "Defederate threads! Defederate Nazis! Defederate alt-right! Defederate the unacceptable form of feminists!" Boring.....

People who are lower on the social ladder tend to end up where they can walk. Most crime happens in the areas around where criminals live and less happens where they can't walk to. It's pretty unfair when you think about it, but that's life.

Most train stations are set up so you can walk to them easily, but most airports are in industrial areas or out of town so it isn't as easy to walk there.

You can remove easy mode if you want, but I'm gonna cheatengine myself over 9000 in all my stats because I'm old and bad at video games and want to pretend I finished a game despite only having 5 minutes at a time.

Stupid sexy sith

"Sometimes I feel like climate change is just me, five friends, and the most powerful industrialized governments and megacorporations on earth versus the evil commoners who want to feed their families and heat their homes in winter"

Exodos is SSS tier.

Holy crap, it lets you play over 7000 MS-DOS games, and it catalogues the settings required to make the games work so they all start with a click. The full version is a whopping 1TB(!!!!!), the lite version only contains metadata and is still 6GB, and when you go to install a game it downloads it using bittorrent from no doubt legal sources.

It even lists some of those old shareware games everyone has forgotten.

People who aren't old as the hills might not know this, but even if you had a top tier computer back in the 90s, you didn't have any guarantee that a game would run. I was subscribed to gaming magazines back then (as was the style at the time) and you'd have a game that didn't claim to need anything special, and it'd crash on startup -- completely dead, never to run. Same with some shareware, the stars aligned and it didn't want to run and it didn't matter what you did with your config.sys or autoexec.bat it wasn't running, so that's incredible that even for the old shareware stuff you can just click, download, and play.

https://www.retro-exo.com/exodos.html

You muted me last time I bothered digging up actual data, so I'll just leave it at "ok."

I get a kick out of the idea that Canadian hospitals overflowing is because of COVID.

Oh geez, damn that COVID! it's been in our hospitals for going on 20 years now! If only that last 15% got vaccinated, everything would be different!

Hollywood doesn't run most cons on earth...

I had a dream once where the drill sergeant from full metal jacket screamed in my face: "half of all armies that go to war lost. Do your think the only reason is that they weren't trying hard enough?"

Hitler was well known for eating food.

The only cold winter came from the economic and social consequences to their insane policies

Silence is not consent. Unless it's an oak tree, if it is, get your freak on.

#4

The distinction between "liberal" and "woke" or "left" gets more important all the time. It would be smart for the right (and the center, and the non lunatic left) wing to start making the distinction more explicit because having such an authoritarian ideology as wokeness taking on a mantle like liberal is dangerous. If that doesn't change then it'll end up being authoritarianism vs. authoritarianism and nobody will win.

Cut out your citizens hearts to prevent climate change.

They play all the ads after 1pm, "rough morning? You may be eligible for a huge cash settlement."

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