What you just said reminds me of the last comic book convention I went to before the lockdowns. It was like Feburary 2020.
I went because one of the youtubers I watch was going, and a bunch of anime industry cancel culture folks had targeted it. They called the fans of that youtuber racist, sexist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic -- you know the score.
The thing that blew me away was just how diverse the fans actually were. The person running the convention is a non-binary trans, and you saw people of every hue of skin color, gay people, women, as well as people who clearly weren't neurotypical, and so on and so forth.
It's where you realize, the accusations are just part of the attack, they didn't need to be accurate, they just needed to successfully isolate the people they wanted to isolate.
I went because one of the youtubers I watch was going, and a bunch of anime industry cancel culture folks had targeted it. They called the fans of that youtuber racist, sexist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic -- you know the score.
The thing that blew me away was just how diverse the fans actually were. The person running the convention is a non-binary trans, and you saw people of every hue of skin color, gay people, women, as well as people who clearly weren't neurotypical, and so on and so forth.
It's where you realize, the accusations are just part of the attack, they didn't need to be accurate, they just needed to successfully isolate the people they wanted to isolate.
In that case, I tend to agree quite strongly with you.
Unfortunately it's like a lot of things right now, a lot of movements claim to be about one thing and then end up actually about something entirely different.
I guess in that way, it also ends up becoming a lot more difficult to criticize, because whatever bad stuff they're doing, they're doing in the name of something that you actually might agree with. If we were actually talking about more freedom and less government I would totally be on board with that. In fact, if austerity was actually about balancing budgets I am 100% on board with that. Instead it just becomes sort of performative liberalism where they use the right words to convince people despite having no intention on following through with the whole.
I guess it's just human nature, claim you're doing something popular and then do whatever you want. It isn't new certainly.
Unfortunately it's like a lot of things right now, a lot of movements claim to be about one thing and then end up actually about something entirely different.
I guess in that way, it also ends up becoming a lot more difficult to criticize, because whatever bad stuff they're doing, they're doing in the name of something that you actually might agree with. If we were actually talking about more freedom and less government I would totally be on board with that. In fact, if austerity was actually about balancing budgets I am 100% on board with that. Instead it just becomes sort of performative liberalism where they use the right words to convince people despite having no intention on following through with the whole.
I guess it's just human nature, claim you're doing something popular and then do whatever you want. It isn't new certainly.
La distensia para una duelo
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nGusAJYHcjo&pp=ygUabGEgZGlzdGFuY2lhIHBhcmEgdW4gZHVlbG8%3D
I know it's weeb music, but the Spanish guitar type stuff is something I always liked.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nGusAJYHcjo&pp=ygUabGEgZGlzdGFuY2lhIHBhcmEgdW4gZHVlbG8%3D
I know it's weeb music, but the Spanish guitar type stuff is something I always liked.
I always see criticism of neoliberalism and austerity, but I don't think there's been virtually anywhere actually practicing neoliberalism or austerity. In the past 100 years, the government in almost every country went from 10% of GDP to 50 or over 60% of GDP, and that's under all kinds of parties, there really wasn't one that you could predictably say did anything differently since everyone basically agreed you needed to spend more, it's just a question of on what. Cut one thing, and splurge on another. The death of freedom in a thousand cuts. 110 years ago there essentially wasn't such thing as an income tax on most of the globe, today a blue collar worker can pay over 50% in taxes on his or her last dollar.
The politicians who claim to believe in that tend to just intend to cut taxes to buy votes while still increasing spending. Reagan is a perfect example, where he talked a good game about increasing freedom and shrinking government, but quadrupled the national debt and set up the next 40 years of debt explosion. Some politicians end up selling off common goods as well, but that seems to me to be sticking only to the most self-serving aspects of the ideology.
We'll have to see what President Milei in Argentina does. It would be interesting to see someone actually reduce government and actually increase individual freedoms in a century of creeping government weeds choking up our entire civilization.
The politicians who claim to believe in that tend to just intend to cut taxes to buy votes while still increasing spending. Reagan is a perfect example, where he talked a good game about increasing freedom and shrinking government, but quadrupled the national debt and set up the next 40 years of debt explosion. Some politicians end up selling off common goods as well, but that seems to me to be sticking only to the most self-serving aspects of the ideology.
We'll have to see what President Milei in Argentina does. It would be interesting to see someone actually reduce government and actually increase individual freedoms in a century of creeping government weeds choking up our entire civilization.
I picked up a remote for my chromecast. I looked up how to set up a chromecast remote, and it's like "First, use your chromecast remote to go to the pairing screen"
Google, they're not sending their best...
Google, they're not sending their best...
Making these characters not look like they hit every branch on the ugly tree they fell out of is literally violence against me.
I don't even call Jeff Cliff Jeff Cliff most of the time.
I mean, I did just now but most of the time I'd either talk directly to him so I wouldn't need to refer to him by his name, and I generally try not to talk much about anyone in particular since that's kinda weird to do.
I mean, I did just now but most of the time I'd either talk directly to him so I wouldn't need to refer to him by his name, and I generally try not to talk much about anyone in particular since that's kinda weird to do.
It can also be .xml. I checked my RSS feeds, and most have no file extension instead pointing at a folder which presumably has a default file it shows, some have .RSS extensions, and a few have .xml. one just used a parameter fed into the feed using ? (Squarespace sites)
The .RSS feeds tend to be more newsish and the .xml feeds tend to be more technical.
The .RSS feeds tend to be more newsish and the .xml feeds tend to be more technical.
Also remember that the sweet nothings commies use to seduce you are not the reality of living under their boot.
Environmentalism is counter-revolutionary, off to the gulag with you.
Environmentalism is counter-revolutionary, off to the gulag with you.
In industrial maintenance, an important axiom is: "every time you walk up to a working machine and do maintenance to it, there's a chance even a great technician will break it". Therefore in order to achieve the greatest reliability in your equipment you must strive to find the right balance so you're spending the best dollars and spending the best time to deal with potential problems without introducing more problems as a result.
This concept came about on the Boeing 747 project because they needed to get higher reliability and it turned out that aircraft maintenance was dramatically over maintaining aircraft and causing more equipment failures. Today aircraft have orders of magnitude better reliability because they're doing the right maintenance instead of just more.
It seems to me that medicine is about 60 years behind the curve in this regard. We think more treatment is better, even if nothing is ostensibly wrong.
This concept came about on the Boeing 747 project because they needed to get higher reliability and it turned out that aircraft maintenance was dramatically over maintaining aircraft and causing more equipment failures. Today aircraft have orders of magnitude better reliability because they're doing the right maintenance instead of just more.
It seems to me that medicine is about 60 years behind the curve in this regard. We think more treatment is better, even if nothing is ostensibly wrong.
I mean, Hollywood's idea of "diversity" is entirely performative.
30 years ago, movies and television shows written, acted, and produced by black people existed. There were a number of fairly big names that came from that, including the Wayans brothers and Wil Smith (and let's not rewrite history here, he was considered very cool for a very long time). Family Matters had a time slot right next to Full House on TV. Saturday morning cartoons had Static Shock alongside batman. Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan did a buddy cop movie that as I recall had some sequels.
So what do we have today?
We have a bunch of stories from the whitest parts of europe but now we dipped the main characters in tea (looking at you, black snow white). Every character is just the same southern california stereotype. You can swap in anyone -- black, white, muslim, christian, asian, gay, straight -- and it doesn't matter, it's surface level. The same character dipped in certain strengths of tea or rainbow or "foreign religion", but in reality they're just the same southern California writer who lacks any ability to write anyone but themselves. The idea of acknowledging that people are different in any way other than the food they eat or the most superficial of traits is in stark opposition to their entire ideology.
Things are far worse than they've ever been. They say "Oh, blazing saddles! That could never be made today!" Why not? The movie is fundamentally about racism, making a mockery of it. Despite that, it's the left that wouldn't let it get made, not the right. And guess who dominates Hollywood?
It can't be made today because it doesn't represent perfect orthodoxy, and so it can never be allowed. This isn't a matter of ignorant writers, it's about writers who know exactly what they're doing -- they're doing what they're told and following the script they've been given perfectly.
30 years ago, movies and television shows written, acted, and produced by black people existed. There were a number of fairly big names that came from that, including the Wayans brothers and Wil Smith (and let's not rewrite history here, he was considered very cool for a very long time). Family Matters had a time slot right next to Full House on TV. Saturday morning cartoons had Static Shock alongside batman. Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan did a buddy cop movie that as I recall had some sequels.
So what do we have today?
We have a bunch of stories from the whitest parts of europe but now we dipped the main characters in tea (looking at you, black snow white). Every character is just the same southern california stereotype. You can swap in anyone -- black, white, muslim, christian, asian, gay, straight -- and it doesn't matter, it's surface level. The same character dipped in certain strengths of tea or rainbow or "foreign religion", but in reality they're just the same southern California writer who lacks any ability to write anyone but themselves. The idea of acknowledging that people are different in any way other than the food they eat or the most superficial of traits is in stark opposition to their entire ideology.
Things are far worse than they've ever been. They say "Oh, blazing saddles! That could never be made today!" Why not? The movie is fundamentally about racism, making a mockery of it. Despite that, it's the left that wouldn't let it get made, not the right. And guess who dominates Hollywood?
It can't be made today because it doesn't represent perfect orthodoxy, and so it can never be allowed. This isn't a matter of ignorant writers, it's about writers who know exactly what they're doing -- they're doing what they're told and following the script they've been given perfectly.
Tbf the world wasn't destroyed by gen z or gen alpha. Both are living in the ashes of a civilization their parents and grandparents burned to the ground.
My favorite was during the pandemic they claimed was caused by the Chinese eating random animals they found, they suggested we should eat cicadas we found on the ground.
Idea for a youtube video based on some of the clickbaity stuff I see:
"TRANSFORM the curb appeal of your home with 78 bags of garbage and a 1985 k-car with no wheels or doors"
Since it's always implied that a transformation is an improvement, we'll transform the curb appeal of your home into being a lot worse by making your whole lot look like the ghetto.
"TRANSFORM the curb appeal of your home with 78 bags of garbage and a 1985 k-car with no wheels or doors"
Since it's always implied that a transformation is an improvement, we'll transform the curb appeal of your home into being a lot worse by making your whole lot look like the ghetto.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLZ3YmwSU44
Absolutely incredible video. Skilled people are the means of production, and it's dangerous for us to forget that fact.
Absolutely incredible video. Skilled people are the means of production, and it's dangerous for us to forget that fact.
"I hate women so much I'm gonna buy a badly tuned 1957 Pontiac and drive it all around town!!!"