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Goddamnit Anakin I don't want to hear about your goddamned thesis!

Actionretro has some good videos on it. I won't pretend it's got a lot to offer, but at least it's got a working web browser now. for some applications that might be enough.

It's a beos clone. I've been keeping track of it because I loved beos. Been making a lot of progress recently.

Wish I could make fun of them, but....

I have to assume that in a year or two, any references to antisemitism will be wiped from Wikipedia. By then they'll just be acceptable targets like Asians.

It's like Soddom and Gamorrah. "If you can find me one person in Washington who isn't a total piece of garbage, I won't raze the city"

I don't know about the exact circumstances between these two people, but on a purely practical and ideological basis I totally agree.

It's a two-step process: the first is to behave in ways that are defensible, and the second is to then be able to defend your actions. The way that the powers that be in the world just starts screaming at the top of their lungs rather than do the second suggests that they don't think that they've done the first...

Is the US trying to federally do the same paper straw in a plastic cup thing that seems to be popular these days?

Regardless of your stance of free speech or hate speech, people who have the resources and ability should host their own instance anyway. It's much healthier for the fediverse to have all kinds of people running all kinds of instances to spread out the load and to make sure the network is robust enough that it can handle a large instance going down without becoming a ghost town.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/social-science

social science

noun
the study of society and social behavior.
a science or field of study, as history, economics, etc., dealing with an aspect of society or forms of social activity.

Blitzed through "Finding Avalon: The Quest of a Chaosbringer" book 1 and 2 today. It's an isekai about a top player in an MMO being sent to a world a lot like but not perfectly like the MMO. It's too slow, but I found it reasonably enjoyable. They spent a lot of time focusing on technical aspects of grinding other with people, and there's a decent amount of character intrigue because it's obvious there's stuff going on and things aren't going the same way they did in the game.

I won't say it was unique or memorable, it's popcorn. Fun to snack on.

Also winters fuck them right up. Can't forget that!

I almost never see lots of carpeting in airports. Just looks like it's everywhere in this one.

Pretty much anytime that I go into an airport anywhere the main walkways are all tiled.

Carpet in airports is gross and Arizona is largely desert.

I feel like the guy who sold Vancouver airport carpet could sell fish a vacation in Arizona.

In the good times you can argue the homeless want to be homeless and base responses on that, but I tend to believe many homeless right now have been driven to it by conditions they had no control over. It's been a slow burn.

When I went to college you could get a 2 bedroom place for 350 a month. Today good luck renting the same place for less than 1500. Meanwhile, minimum wage went from 10/hr to 15/hr. People are scrambling for university education no matter the cost because they know behind the rat race is a rising tide that will drown the losers.

It has always seemed to me that people get things backwards.

Because someone could predict what you'd do then you have no free will? So the only way to manifest free will would be to be totally irrational in a way that exhibits quantum randomness? That is absurd. Freely choosing to make understandable choices is still freedom. You aren't only free by embracing raw chaos.

Of course we make choices about how to act and also how to understand the world that informs how we act, and you can take siblings from the same family raised the same and see them go off and live their lives in completely different ways based on their own choices. I'm one of 6 kids, and none of us live remotely similar lives today because despite the many similarities of our upbringing nonetheless led us to different conclusions regarding life and how to live.

Ironically, even our beliefs about free will affect how we live our lives, and a person who believes he or she has a choice will act differently than a person who does not believe she or he has a choice. It changes our choices, because we are making choices and manifesting our will thereby.

A laplaces demon who knows everything and has an infinitely precise model of the universe may be able to predict your choice, but again -- understanding and predicting a choice one makes does not mean you aren't nonetheless free to make that choice. It just means your choice is predictable by someone who understands you well enough.

On the other hand, we don't have models about ourselves that are necessarily so accurate. Every decade of my life I find I've done things I didn't expect, and came to believe things I didn't expect, and often it wasn't changes in the material conditions I faced that changed me. Decisions upon decisions bring about changes in a person and after a million decisions a different outcome becomes an emergent property. What can you call that besides free will, the constant decisions as to how to think, how to be, how to perceive the world? I think Aristotle said "we are what we continually do, virtue then is a habit" -- how else do we come upon such habits but by choice?

Took me a moment. Lol

Got a long trip ahead of me today, mostly on planes. I've got more power infrastructure in my right pocket than 1905 and more computing power than 1965 in my left.

There's a TV show that was on YTV back in the day late at night called "the buzz", and the big black guy mista Mo always did fake profiles on people who were horrible, like a guy who snuck into the special Olympics. And he always goes something like "am I a hero? Yes."