It's somewhat ironic, everything everyone complains about the English doing, they did it to the Irish first.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRVOOwFNp5U
Still my favorite rap song of all time. Should be at the top of most lists.
Still my favorite rap song of all time. Should be at the top of most lists.
that's reasonable as a sort of first order heuristic for who is your friend since most people who are nice to you are most likely to be your friend, but then you need to think one step beyond that and ask why.
It's not just important for this purpose, but because as you rise in the world people will be nice to you not because they're your friends, but because they want something from you -- be it money, access to your power, or whatever else.
It's not just important for this purpose, but because as you rise in the world people will be nice to you not because they're your friends, but because they want something from you -- be it money, access to your power, or whatever else.
Judas betrayed Jesus not with a dagger, but with a kiss. This is directly contrasting Julius Caesar who had a number of daggers forced into him at point blank range. Rather than being betrayed by overt hostility, he is in the end of a trade by a symbol of affection, intimacy, and warmth.
I think that that has very strong parallels to today. There are movements which either intentionally or unintentionally are going to break civilization. They advocate for things that are simply not in the best interest of the human race and over the long term, such as degeneracy, embracing hedonism, generally ignoring reality, rejecting deferring gratification, rejecting grit, rejecting the whole concept of virtue. But they do this with a veneer of affection, intimacy, and warmth.
It's a difficult tactic to deal with, because someone you love must sometimes be pushed back against if you love them. People will do things that hurt themselves or hurt others, and if you care about them, you do have to judge them and you do have to let them know that what they're doing is wrong, while someone who doesn't care can just keep supporting you right into the grave. Meanwhile, the person who loves another looks like the bad guy for pushing back, and the person who doesn't care about another looks like the good guy for supporting someone.
Another archetype is cassandra, someone who was spurned by the gods and given the curse to speak true prophecy but we considered insane anytime she did. And I think that we see this out there as well. I have to admit I've been as guilty as anyone of seeing Cassandras speak, and just assuming that the prophecy is insane ramblings, but here we are. The world is a mess and a large part of that seems to be the predictable and predicted outcomes of things people warned us about.
I think part of the issue there is that the people who would be the most conducive to the message are also the ones who in the moment aren't nearly as much the people that the message would apply to. In my case, I listened to all the messages that everyone warned us about, but for the most part it ended up finding a balance where I can take the good parts of that ideas. And integrate them, and the bad parts of good ideas and try not to integrate them, and so the outcome really isn't that bad because it becomes a synthesis of the best parts of many different ideas, whereas for a lot of people that's a lot of work and so they're just going to take things to face value. Some of the things that we're seeing as a result of that are absolutely abhorrent.
But for someone who's going to intuitively take the good parts of bad ideas and disregard the bad parts of good ideas, it seems intuitive that the bad ideas aren't necessarily going to lead to ruin, and so the prophecy seems absurd. But it isn't. Prophecy didn't speak of the sort of people who can build their own ideology, and spoke of followers and the consequences of people who just follow following something terrible.
I think that that has very strong parallels to today. There are movements which either intentionally or unintentionally are going to break civilization. They advocate for things that are simply not in the best interest of the human race and over the long term, such as degeneracy, embracing hedonism, generally ignoring reality, rejecting deferring gratification, rejecting grit, rejecting the whole concept of virtue. But they do this with a veneer of affection, intimacy, and warmth.
It's a difficult tactic to deal with, because someone you love must sometimes be pushed back against if you love them. People will do things that hurt themselves or hurt others, and if you care about them, you do have to judge them and you do have to let them know that what they're doing is wrong, while someone who doesn't care can just keep supporting you right into the grave. Meanwhile, the person who loves another looks like the bad guy for pushing back, and the person who doesn't care about another looks like the good guy for supporting someone.
Another archetype is cassandra, someone who was spurned by the gods and given the curse to speak true prophecy but we considered insane anytime she did. And I think that we see this out there as well. I have to admit I've been as guilty as anyone of seeing Cassandras speak, and just assuming that the prophecy is insane ramblings, but here we are. The world is a mess and a large part of that seems to be the predictable and predicted outcomes of things people warned us about.
I think part of the issue there is that the people who would be the most conducive to the message are also the ones who in the moment aren't nearly as much the people that the message would apply to. In my case, I listened to all the messages that everyone warned us about, but for the most part it ended up finding a balance where I can take the good parts of that ideas. And integrate them, and the bad parts of good ideas and try not to integrate them, and so the outcome really isn't that bad because it becomes a synthesis of the best parts of many different ideas, whereas for a lot of people that's a lot of work and so they're just going to take things to face value. Some of the things that we're seeing as a result of that are absolutely abhorrent.
But for someone who's going to intuitively take the good parts of bad ideas and disregard the bad parts of good ideas, it seems intuitive that the bad ideas aren't necessarily going to lead to ruin, and so the prophecy seems absurd. But it isn't. Prophecy didn't speak of the sort of people who can build their own ideology, and spoke of followers and the consequences of people who just follow following something terrible.
I remember in the debates in 2020, Joe Biden was bragging that more people involved with the Bush administration liked him than Donald Trump.
Of course they would, Donald Trump is a direct answer to all the epic failures of the Bush administration. The Bush administration is closer to the Bible administration then the Trump administration, because the Democrats haven't had their road to Damascus moment, they haven't yet realized that the status quo they're trying to maintain isn't going to continue to work for them.
Of course they would, Donald Trump is a direct answer to all the epic failures of the Bush administration. The Bush administration is closer to the Bible administration then the Trump administration, because the Democrats haven't had their road to Damascus moment, they haven't yet realized that the status quo they're trying to maintain isn't going to continue to work for them.
"they love games but hate the people who make them!"
Bad news chief, they don't love all games, just good ones. That's why there's so many layoffs, because nobody loves the crap games sbi et al put out!
Bad news chief, they don't love all games, just good ones. That's why there's so many layoffs, because nobody loves the crap games sbi et al put out!
Heads up that you might see a lot more issues than you expect. I know I ended up reinstalling Lemmy on a machine and the outcome was so broken I gave up on Lemmy -- No other servers accepted outgoing federation from me, but I was constantly getting hammered with incoming federation.
Last I checked, I don't live in Europe, Africa, or Asia. They can protect their own damn undersea cables.
I'm kinda torn on tiktok. On one hand, the government shouldn't have the power to ban websites at all.
On the other hand, tiktok isn't a private website, it's a glowie op....
But I'd like to ban *all* glowie ops, not just Chinese ones.
On the other hand, tiktok isn't a private website, it's a glowie op....
But I'd like to ban *all* glowie ops, not just Chinese ones.
One thing I find amazing is that people seem to be completely disconnected from reality. They seem to think everyone on earth died, but that didn't happen.
The propaganda says it's raining out, but the sun is shining. But some people are so badly traumatized they keep yelling at us that we're gonna get wet if we take one step outside.
The propaganda says it's raining out, but the sun is shining. But some people are so badly traumatized they keep yelling at us that we're gonna get wet if we take one step outside.
Our government is evil, and those who support it are evil, whether they realize it or not.