Maybe an unpopular opinion, but to an extent I sorta feel for her. I mean she's a young woman, she's probably been surrounded by woke idiots her entire life, and she's probably always been rewarded for spouting this nonsense. Then suddenly the culture shifts two degrees and she's on the defensive for saying what she's always been told are the right things to say.
I mean, don't get me wrong -- I'm still not going to watch Snow beige and the seven shortest people at the unemployment office, but I've lived through some of the cultural changes myself and they can be somewhat jarring if you don't expect them -- even for an ideology I disagree with I can empathize with someone blindsided by it.
I mean, don't get me wrong -- I'm still not going to watch Snow beige and the seven shortest people at the unemployment office, but I've lived through some of the cultural changes myself and they can be somewhat jarring if you don't expect them -- even for an ideology I disagree with I can empathize with someone blindsided by it.
I feel like when you see channels like yours or HTME where it's like "No, I want to do a thing" it becomes really clear that there's a chasm between conceptually knowing how to do a thing and actually doing the thing. In your case, I think about trying to get desktop GPUs running on a raspberry pi, and it's theoretically simple enough, but in practice was overwhelmingly complex.
In HTME's case, you see how hard it is to make steel or clear glass even if you know exactly what chemicals you need and even if you can get those chemicals, but especially when you're not relying on the precursor tools that are already available in a modern world.
In HTME's case, you see how hard it is to make steel or clear glass even if you know exactly what chemicals you need and even if you can get those chemicals, but especially when you're not relying on the precursor tools that are already available in a modern world.
Yeah yeah. It happened. It can't be taken back. And besides Trump, it's also happening to guys who aren't billionaires like Louis Rossman who years after leaving the state still faces constant harassment from their bureaucracy.
Problem is that what happened here can happen to anyone.
In Canada, der fuhrer Trudeau siezed the bank accounts of the common man who had the gall to disagree with him. It's just one tiny hop from one to the other.
In Canada, der fuhrer Trudeau siezed the bank accounts of the common man who had the gall to disagree with him. It's just one tiny hop from one to the other.
It's deeply ironic. They call us Nazis for opposing them, but the actual historical national socialist ideology was deeply rooted in disgust, which is an emotion whose utility is preventing and fighting disease. They saw their quest as one removing disease, they saw the people who were associated with disease as subhuman and any actions taken against them justified. Nazi propaganda painted the people who were later rounded up and sent to concentration camps as diseased and parasitic. They were described the same way you might describe rats.
I can't help but notice that we were described in such terms, as diseased, parasitic, as dangerous spreaders of disease. All for the crime of opposing their specific methods. Some people are still trapped in the propaganda of that time, and even at this moment think the world is dying (a position completely removed from reality) and it's solely the fault of us dissidents. They believe that if only we would sit down, shut up, and do what we are told then the miraculous healing of the planet would occur, that covid would mystically be purged from the world.
I can't help but notice that we were described in such terms, as diseased, parasitic, as dangerous spreaders of disease. All for the crime of opposing their specific methods. Some people are still trapped in the propaganda of that time, and even at this moment think the world is dying (a position completely removed from reality) and it's solely the fault of us dissidents. They believe that if only we would sit down, shut up, and do what we are told then the miraculous healing of the planet would occur, that covid would mystically be purged from the world.
You know, I click on a lot of things on fediverse behind sensitive tags.....
but I think that was actually something I shouldn't have clicked.
but I think that was actually something I shouldn't have clicked.
No kidding. It was one of the biggest lessons that the winners learn from the first world war, and that's why instead of just trying to punish the germans, the italians, and the Japanese, Europe and the Americans generally tried to rehabilitate those countries after world war II. It was an absolutely brilliant move. If it was just a matter of punishing them again we probably would have ended up with world war 3 a lot sooner.
I kind of feel like if organizations understood the benefits of running their own instance they would. Instead of having to constantly worry about trying to convince platforms to police speech in ways that they want, they could just do it themselves. In terms of communities, a lot of companies already managed their own communities and this would open those communities way up so a bunch of people that might never go to for example forum.blizzard.com might nonetheless sign up for their community on their own instance and keep up to date with the latest things that are going on.
Success is certainly possible, what the fact that eBay didn't last forever also goes to show that you have to keep on working to get better and better or else someone else is going to build a better mouse trap.
Paying money for St. Anger after they bitched about naptster killed Metallica in my eyes. They're dead, dead forever. It was good while it lasted.
Honestly, what I keep seeing is that New York is a horrible place to do business. They keep going after Louis Rossman years after he left too. Why would anyone do business in New York if it's such a vindictive, corrupt place that once you've stepped foot in the state will be ready to destroy you every day of the rest of your life?
Considering how many really bad people came out of programs like MKUltra and thus are direct products of the government "doing something", maybe we need to be having them "doing something" a lot less?
We still have examples today of what Marx called "tribal communism". What we find is that there is in fact a class structure. Sure, everything "belongs to the tribe", but the leaders of the tribe are at the top and so everything is really theirs, followed by the friends and family of the leaders, followed by everyone else, and the enemies of the leaders at the bottom. That's also as you note essentially the same stories for many ancient civilizations such as Mesopotamia (which was controlled by the priest class at first and then the war kings later) and ancient Egypt (where the pharaoh was both the king and the head of the religion as I recall)
You're absolutely right about capitalism done right, and you can see that the thing that makes someone insanely rich often isn't capitalism but finding ways to get the state to choose to make you insanely rich with its power of law. When you watch "shark tank", you see people with business ideas, and what are the ideas that get big funding aren't the ones that are the best ideas, but the ones that have a patent or a copyright or some other proprietary thing where the state will step in and kill off any competition.
You're absolutely right about capitalism done right, and you can see that the thing that makes someone insanely rich often isn't capitalism but finding ways to get the state to choose to make you insanely rich with its power of law. When you watch "shark tank", you see people with business ideas, and what are the ideas that get big funding aren't the ones that are the best ideas, but the ones that have a patent or a copyright or some other proprietary thing where the state will step in and kill off any competition.
ngl, I kinda agree.
It's like... It's great that you've posted the code, but if I'm going to try to compile this I'm going to need to figure out the exact stars aligning to get your build environment to compile it, and I don't even know if your program is any good. Just give me a binary so I can run it and go either "hey this is ok" or "wow this sucks crap"
It's like... It's great that you've posted the code, but if I'm going to try to compile this I'm going to need to figure out the exact stars aligning to get your build environment to compile it, and I don't even know if your program is any good. Just give me a binary so I can run it and go either "hey this is ok" or "wow this sucks crap"
"I've got an original Rasputin penis!" "Oh! Me too!"
If you get Rasputin's penis, do you get a piece of his immortality?
If you get Rasputin's penis, do you get a piece of his immortality?
Guy was poisoned, shot, thrown in a frozen river, and climbed out.
You think he didn't just grow a new one?
You think he didn't just grow a new one?