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

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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...

Ngl, it seems to me like an irc chat client should be a pretty stable codebase anyway.

"you said you trained this on big tech posts, why is it doing this?"

>tfw nobody has a cdrom drive

Fair enough, both are existential threats our kids pay for because we don't want to. However, most other things just aren't actually important.

Balance the federal budget. That should be priority #1.

I have a son, he's 2. What did he do to deserve a trillion dollars in debt(Canada's national debt was 458 billion in 2008, 591 billion in 2012, and is 1.17 trillion in 2024)?

His job is to grow up healthy and to learn to speak and listen, to read and write, to use numbers. He's doing his job.

His job is not to pay for a bunch of goods and services I want "someone else" to pay for.

Americans have a similar story. In 2000 the federal debt was 4 trillion. Today it's 34 trillion.

All the people whining about the boomers should remember that millennials were a big part of the voter base through most of those trillions and it went to programs pandering to you, so don't act like our hands are clean.

"stand back, I am a *very* powerful reddit moderator!"

Sort of like if you stay a virgin until you're 30 you become a wizard?

Minor changes related to world war 2 being definitively the biggest conflict of the past 200 years. By body count there's a number of Asian conflicts that were comparable such as the Taiping rebellion, so I'd probably call it among the biggest conflicts. My note about relative non-combatant nations faring the best after the war still stands. Later on when I mention that sometimes you should fight anyway I probably would have wanted to mention that world war 2 nonetheless is widely seen as a moral war and although non-participants fared better it's still the right thing to do regardless if you personally benefit.

Of course the point I was making is that fighting doesn't magically confer benefits on the fighters, which I think remains.

I see a lot of people.talking about water consumption by data centers.

Big question is whether the water is consumed or just used.

Water is a renewable resource, so you can take it out if a river, run it through a heat exchanger, and return it and the water isnt consumed, it's just used and returned.

It seems that one major way of cooling is evaporative cooling. So the water is evaporated into the air, and eventually will fall as rain, and whether that's consumption becomes really complicated since it depends on local weather patterns and the like.

I do think there's an argument to be made that there's environmental effects from injecting Olympic swimming pools worth of water into the air every month. I would fully expect that to change the local climate.

Rest assured everyone that the parts stolen from a roadside sign that run my social media empire use not a drop of water for cooling!

Once again proving that websites like these lack any sort of wisdom...

Ironically, I was finding the me who has spent 3 more years deep diving into history was debating the me who wrote that. It's not totally wrong, especially in context, but it could probably be phrased more accurately.

Thanks. I couldn't remember where I was talking about that so I went back and found it in the Chapter "basics" where I was explaining that violence is a last resort and that it often isn't benefical to you. It kind of reminds me of the Sun Tzu quote: "He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight." -- I do say that sometimes you do have to fight, but especially when you're teaching a child it's often not that time.

What's funny is there's lots of posts tonight, and I was really got interested in reading this post until I realized I wrote it at the end. :P

tbf though, they can turn off a gasoline vehicle remotely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK0SrxBC1xs

I agree, it was a strawman and I was being intentionally obtuse so I could snark. Reality is a lot more nuanced.

On one hand, there's a lot of "governance" I see which just looks like attempts at bullying and domination to me. Demand everyone obey or affix them with a scarlet letter and try to rally enough people together that the people who control the lists become the most powerful people, able to shut down anyone they don't like.

That being said, even someone like me who has an empty blocklist, an empty mute list, and doesn't defederate anyone may occasionally have to use mod tools. The ideal for me would be having the ability to paint with as thin a brush as possible to achieve the desired result. I want even people I really don't like to be able to talk about things I really don't like within certain limits (which I don't need to tell anyone because I'm not their dad -- it's in the TOS)

I've never heard about this before, but it's sorta nuts seeing every party saying "yeah, this makes sense" except the one.

You're not the first person to suggest a blog, but it's more about the journey. I'm thankful to have people cool enough to have conversations about things with and who are willing to tolerate my big walls of text as I try to figure out the world with everyone.

Seems to me like as long as you're following your conscience and thinking for yourself it doesn't matter what you are labeled as.

Labels like that shift and change and some people expect you to shift and change with them, but do people really switch their beliefs on a dime like that? You believe what you believe, not what some label says you believe.

Moreover, the way the political statecraft becomes all encompassing is really harmful. "All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state" and "everything is political" are two sides of a coin we should melt down for scrap metal. For most of us, the most important questions aren't about some distant capitol, but what's around us and how we affect that.

I've been a rackets fan since the Maddox v. Dick Masterson lolsuit, and it's been sad seeing a decline. Every stream used to be a must-watch, and lately I haven't gotten around to seeing a lot of them.

It's easy to just say he's just a degenerate, but I can honestly empathize with him. As one stares long into the abyss, the abyss stares back.

Everyone has tough times, and tough times don't always look the way you'd expect. Sometimes they look fun in the moment. It isn't until later that you realize you're in a bed of snakes.

Back when he'd say wise things on his show, he said that there are seasons of life, and things sometimes aren't good and sometimes things aren't good for a long time. I hope he can eventually find his way out of the bed of snakes, because under it all he's a good guy.

Some of random things about Megaman 3:

1. The second gamepad on NES is a cheat device. I remember if you press the right button you get a mega jump. If you have megajump active then jump down a hole you can get a death sound then jump out of the hole and you're invincible, but you can't shoot unless you have something activted, and rush components work.
2. The menu is broken. If you fiddle with the D-pad, you can get to one of the rush things without actually getting it. I remember we'd hop into gemini man's stage and shoot the little eggs to get some weapon tanks and once you're on the thing and you pick up a weapon tank you just have that weapon from now on.
3. The end of the game has this sequence where it's like "Oh yeah Megaman has a brother" and my brother and I got super excited because we thought there might be a 2 player coop option in a future game where one of you plays as Megaman and the other one plays as Protoman. That never happened which sucks.

Man, I should make a 2 player megaman-like game sometime. That'd be cool.

Remember: High inflation is a tax increase. You have to earn more money to get the same amount of earning power which means you can get bumped up into a new tax bracket -- bam, tax increase.

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