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sj_zero | @sj_zero@social.fbxl.net

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

Admin of the FBXL Network including FBXL Search, FBXL Video, FBXL Social, FBXL Lotide, FBXL Translate, and FBXL Maps.

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...

Pippa and Tenma are my favorite comedy duo.

Last year I kept on writing a news articles about how it was the hottest year ever, but last year had something very unique about it -- I went out for a walk with my son every single day I could, and at no point in the entire year was it too hot for us to go out for a walk. That's actually relatively unique, it was a cool summer.

Of course, weather is local and they're claiming climate is global, but I think it goes to show you have to be very careful about taking these people's claims at face value.

Isn't wanting more stuff for less money a common human experience?

I'm making a distinction between the rank and file and the media, I don't really believe most rank and file are really like whatever the media or the like claim.... I mean if they really did flip 180 like that then it makes them incredibly disingenuous people...

People probably think he chose to live in the middle of nowhere in west virginia (I think it was?) because he's gone down the far right rabbit hole, but I strongly suspect it's because you can get a giant compound for the price of a studio apartment in most big cities.

I strongly suspect that most Democrats don't actually want to fund a bunch of forever wars either. I mean, that's what Obama was elected for, he just turned out to do the opposite of everything he was elected to do. "Help the poor, end the wars, shut down gitmo? I agree but let's tweak it to help the 0.1%, keep the wars going forever, keep gitmo going!"

Went better than expected.

With the 15% inflation we actually see up here, "middle class" starts at about 250,000/yr

"Ahmed! I've killed him!"

"You dummy how are we supposed to collect? The guy who posted the bounty is dead now!"

Considering the crowd that I roll with, I'm sure that most of you have heard about the shopping cart test. The question about whether you can live in a civilization ends up being "can you return a shopping cart that you've been using?"

Well that is about whether you can live in a society, but I've been thinking a lot about the sort of people who can build a society.

Yesterday, we were all buckled up in the car leaving a place, and there were a couple carts blocking the exit. I parked the car, took the two carts, and brought them back to the entrance (where the carts were stored)

It still cost almost nothing to do, but it wasn't a problem I created, and considering I could just drive around the shopping carts I didn't have to do it. However, in spending 30 seconds helping out, in taking on that load, a lot of people day got a fraction of a percent better because they didn't have to steer around a bunch of random shopping carts.

Now meanwhile, there are people who metaphorically would take all the shopping carts and block off the roads and say that they're helping. And I still can't help but think that the people who would do something like that are going to leave to the end of Western Civilization assuming they get their way.

I got in on wireless charging pretty early with Powermat which turned out to be an epic fail of a standard. The charging case I got ended up dying pretty quickly and so all the mats were junk, but at least you could charge other stuff, but there was no other stuff, so you could use your powermat to charge your shitty battery packs or to act as a wireless charger on a wired device you plugged in.

Powermat included positioning magnets from day 0 which was nice.

Later I moved to Qi charging because that was the ultimate winner.

Today I don't wirelessly charge anything. Turns out there's just too many caveats to it. Even my wireless charger in my car ends up getting unplugged so I can plug in the phone directly.

The Toronto Maple Leafs are the worst team and the best business in the league. Which really should make you think.

Jesus...

Even if you're a liberal or a leftist, that's a really dumb thing for him to say. Even if you're a Democrat superfan that's a really dumb thing to say.

Which is about par for the course when it comes to celebs I guess.

"I'm sorry, ma'am. Your husband... He died due to a double sus amogus friendly fire attack from the fortnight balls shell."

This image is one of the visualizations in yacy, showing your node talking to all the other nodes it knows about. It's showing here (and I'm not sure if it's going to be animated but it is on the page which is really neat) my node getting a bunch of packets with knowledge of search data and sending out some packets of my own search data.

My search box is the sort of potato that gets made fun of by other, stronker potatoes, so my server only represents 0.3% of the searchable documents on searx, but its 0.3% more than I can contribute to google or bing...

A canadian flag followed by the text "Embrace Canadian Healthcare"

The Simpviet Union

Honestly, if having $20,000 in student loans paid off changes your whole life, you've got bigger problems than $20,000 in student loans.

I know the movie wish was made by communists, but the funny part is that in a big way the main plot is a repudiation of state communism.. essentially, a bunch of people come to the communist utopia, realize that the commissar is going to be the one making decisions about whose dreams get to come true and whose don't, and so the main characters stage a liberal revolution so that people can work towards their self-interest as individuals instead of just relying on the benevolent state to do it for them.

One of the core struggles in the plot is the battle between the common man and the technocrat, with the technocrat portrayed as arrogant and dismissive of the needs of the common man. Given what postmodern Neal marxists want to shape the world into, again that looks like a repudiation of their values rather than an affirmation of them. Tossing a brown girl into the hero role and a white dude into the villain role doesn't really change anything there.

As hokey as it sounds, I feel like this movie could be used as an allegory for how the left dealt with the lockdowns. This paternalistic technocrat sings beautifully about protecting people's dreams, but it's more than happy to crush those dreams the moment that their power is threatened. In the end, said government technocrat ends up drawing upon forbidden power, and sells their soul because it turns out it never had anything to do with protecting dreams.

The logic in your post is fallacious (the guy is right because he's right or wrong because he's wrong and unrelated stuff has no real bearing on that), but with respect to the retarded boomer take that everyone should be forced to use their real name on the internet, it doesn't matter because you're still fully 100% correct.

All the retarded boomers who think that we need to be using our real name and usually real face on the internet are probably the same sort of people who will give their credit card to somebody who calls up in the middle of the day saying "I'm from windows, you have a virus".

It's really great that mister former Harvard professor has a media career that he was able to fall into, but for a lot of people if they get their professional license taken away by internet communists, it just means they're going to be joining Trudeau's tent cities. Fuck him.

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