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

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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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddk_fJwh_NU

Tim is right. Stewart was good because he was tearing down obviously lying establishment media. I don't see him doing that in 2024, he's going to sit there and chant with them because it's the media he built 10 years ago, they all came of age watching him. I don't think he has the cojones to do it anymore.

Sunshine is a streaming server you can use with moonlight as a streaming client, you can stream a desktop but it's desgined for gaming. Originally it was designed for nvidia video card users to stream their games from their desktop to their shield tablets.

Some people probably remember me talking about it before. I've now used it for a few days and it's really surprising how well it works. I've been using it to stream my powerful stationary computer to a cheap chromebook that's at this point barely able to watch youtube videos, It's great for pretty much everything. I've been watching youtube videos without incident, doing some productivity tasks, and even played some video games. I'm even writing this post through the streaming connection.

All FOSS. Maybe not something most people will have a use for, but for people with a particular narrow fringe use case, a viable streaming solution capable of gaming competently is a big deal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk_HQByQ6Ck

This is actually so interesting, and it explains why on older cars it's pretty frequent that on old cars the rearview mirror falls off and the idea that they've changed the design to solve that problem.

The unfortunate part about the whole constitutionality thing is it doesn't mean much 2 years after the fact. You need a government who isn't willing to break the law in the first place.

But it's a huge win nonetheless.

How embarassing.

I don't remember what it was, but on the daily show back when it was funny they had this one thing where the commentator is like "DO YOU BELEIVE IN MIRACLES? YES! YES!" and they got sixth.

Pretty impressive getting second in a two horse race. :P

Me: (watches one jojo video)

Youtube algorithm:

poor shondo

No kidding. Must be nice never having to see the poors.

In Canada they demanded Facebook "pay their fair share" so facebook just banned news.

Turns out this relationship is more important to one side than the other

"inflation reached 10%!" No it didn't. It's way higher than that.

Jamie marchie and then are absolutely terrible people. They live and breathe this crap.

I love the idea that so many people think people voting for someone you don't like is a threat to democracy.

This is related to a very practical political standpoint I have, and it's that you don't really know what someone's going to do until you give them the reins. Sometimes they say a bunch of stuff that's terrible and it turns out that pretty decent, other times they say a bunch of stuff that sounds great but they end up doing something completely different. Unless things are just getting insanely bad, I try not to back any politician until I've seen the sort of politician they are in action.

Of course, sometimes it's just time to vote the buggers out.

China had the longest lasting empire in history and made up the majority of the world's economy for millennia. They did this with a combination of three different ideologies, buddhism, taoism, and Confucianism. Those same three ideologies ended up putting up against each other, and when one of them started to run up against its limits one of the other two would step in and provide a different answer.

In the west we have something similar, the combination of liberalism, christianity, and the Germanic pagan warrior spirit. In assuming that any one of them is unnecessary, you lose critical ideas for the vitality of a civilization.

This also goes to show why Marxism is always destined to fail, because it will not live in harmony with any other ideology, considering itself to be perfectly brilliant. Without a real counterbalancing force, you end up immediately touching extremism. You see that with other ideologies as well.

The idiots doing things like gluing themselves to roads are doing so because they're narcissists seeking attention and social validation. That's why they're doing something that'll let them be seen instead of changing their own lives to be less damaging to the planet in their conception.

It has more to do with shame based Asian systems of face than western guilt based systems.

Jesus said to pray in private because those who yell and scream in the streets have already gotten their reward. That's the essence of a guilt based moral system, that it isn't about others it's about your own behavior. "Judge not lest ye be judged the same, dont point out the mote in your neighbor's eye while you have a log in yours"(paraphrased, all of this), "let he who is without sin cast the first stone[...]go, and sin no more" -- all of it advocating what you're talking about. Having a moral code isn't bad in itself as long as it's an ok moral code, but the expression of that code and the emotions behind it matter a lot.

For real, if they wanted to give a billion dollars to the government, the government *will* take it.

I know unions are a pain in the ass often. I worked at a union place, in some ways it was draining because you were trapped in such a narrowly defined role.

Even in that role, however, it's possible to use skills other than your primary skill as long as you're selecting properly complementary skills that aren't affecting anyone else's job. Nobody gonna file a grievance because you're doing a job nobody was going to do anyway.

What you're talking about in my view isn't the difference between morality and ethics, it's the difference between guilt based morality and shame or fear based morality.

In a guilt-based morality, you're always being watched by God and ultimately it's your business between yourself and God how you are acting.

In a shame-based morality, you're always being watched by others and it's ultimately your relationship between yourself and your clan (or your ancestors, or whatever) and it's everyone's business how you are acting.

In a fear-based morality, you're always following the religion because you're afraid of something terrible happening if you don't, including getting killed.

That's where many of the liberal aspects of western civilization come from, this sort of idea that you will be judged for being immoral by a force other than the community or the state. Then it stops being the responsibility of the community or the state to enforce your morality, it becomes your personal responsibility. Then the role of the state ends up being resolving damages or dealing with harm to others.

Frankly, I totally agree with you in that regard. a guilt based morality is the best humanity has ever created, and that's why I advocate for it in The Graysonian Ethic (which I've been referencing it a lot today). If you behave like someone is watching you'll do the right thing when nobody else cares if you're doing the right thing or when nobody is watching, and that'll mean a lot more than trying to look good when you know someone's watching. Doing the right thing regardless of whether society cares and regardless of being or not being punished is how you end up as the best person.

I'm surprised that you'd say that, because cross-training is quite common in some fields. For example, skilled craftsmen might cross-train because for example a millwright holding an electrical ticket can fully complete a job that might otherwise require both an electrician and a millwright to complete.

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