"you're going away, it can't be stopped even if you try, and we're going to bring in a bunch of people from sub Saharan Africa get over it" isn't fact. The same study from 3 other political viewpoints could yield 3 different interpretations, but that's the one they chose. There's a reason.
To me, the ideal scenario is the post Black death scenario, in which a reduced population led to dramatically improving the lot of life for individuals in the lower classes because their value as individuals increased. This also happened after the world wars. But they didn't choose that scenario, they chose the scenario where everyone gets replaced. (Oh look the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation funded the study who woulda guessed?)
To me, the ideal scenario is the post Black death scenario, in which a reduced population led to dramatically improving the lot of life for individuals in the lower classes because their value as individuals increased. This also happened after the world wars. But they didn't choose that scenario, they chose the scenario where everyone gets replaced. (Oh look the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation funded the study who woulda guessed?)
The left: "great replacement theory is a baseless far right conspiracy theory"
Also the left: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)00550-6/fulltext
Also the left: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)00550-6/fulltext
The funniest thing is that anyone who's been paying any attention realizes that every single piece of this has happened every single other time.
Is it internet, is it internet of things, is it big data, is it cloud, and I'm not saying that none of these things had an impact, but each thing ends up being a tool with strengths and limitations and sometimes these things don't have anything to do with the problem you're trying to solve, or the thing you're trying to do is possible on the tool that is the latest thing, but isn't necessarily the right tool for the job.
AI has a lot of potential uses, but the way it is right now people were under the impression that it was a lot less limited than it actually is.
That isn't to say that it won't be revolutionary at some point, but the revolution will look a lot different than people are imagining.
Is it internet, is it internet of things, is it big data, is it cloud, and I'm not saying that none of these things had an impact, but each thing ends up being a tool with strengths and limitations and sometimes these things don't have anything to do with the problem you're trying to solve, or the thing you're trying to do is possible on the tool that is the latest thing, but isn't necessarily the right tool for the job.
AI has a lot of potential uses, but the way it is right now people were under the impression that it was a lot less limited than it actually is.
That isn't to say that it won't be revolutionary at some point, but the revolution will look a lot different than people are imagining.
[admin mode] on the 31st we were up and down like a yoyo, I did send a post talking about one of the measures I took but the downtime continued to occur afterwards.
At first it looked like we were running out of connections again so I assumed it was a ddos attack and activated mod_evasive. The problems continued. Next, I added more lines to sysctl.conf to further reduce bad packets getting in, but that didn't help either.
My final clue was that the uptime was only a few minutes, suggesting that the server was actually rebooting. It only did so when the fbxl DNS was set correctly, so I decided to think about what that could mean, and I decided it could be that my rebased back-end was maybe getting overloaded to the point it was triggering a reboot. I went in and reduced my worker threads from 20 to 4. After that the reboots stopped and everything has been rock solid since. I think federation updates have been marginally slower but safe to say given a choice you'd prefer a working site that's normal speed over a non-working site that's lightning fast.
I intended to write something earlier but I wanted to wait until I felt confident everything was working to report on the outcome.
At first it looked like we were running out of connections again so I assumed it was a ddos attack and activated mod_evasive. The problems continued. Next, I added more lines to sysctl.conf to further reduce bad packets getting in, but that didn't help either.
My final clue was that the uptime was only a few minutes, suggesting that the server was actually rebooting. It only did so when the fbxl DNS was set correctly, so I decided to think about what that could mean, and I decided it could be that my rebased back-end was maybe getting overloaded to the point it was triggering a reboot. I went in and reduced my worker threads from 20 to 4. After that the reboots stopped and everything has been rock solid since. I think federation updates have been marginally slower but safe to say given a choice you'd prefer a working site that's normal speed over a non-working site that's lightning fast.
I intended to write something earlier but I wanted to wait until I felt confident everything was working to report on the outcome.
We watched a kids movie named "home" yesterday. It was a decent movie, but one big problem with the movie is the name.
My wife opened the app and says into the mic "home", and it returned to the homescreen. She was really confused.
Then later on she goes "I really liked that home movie" and I was really confused until I realized what she was talking about.
My wife opened the app and says into the mic "home", and it returned to the homescreen. She was really confused.
Then later on she goes "I really liked that home movie" and I was really confused until I realized what she was talking about.
Pretty funny that these writers tell on themselves so hard.
"They're male! And they're voting! A way I don't like!"
Uh.... Ok?
"They're male! And they're voting! A way I don't like!"
Uh.... Ok?
I brought up the lie, you asked if they're still lying, I asked if it matters if they're still lying.
"They eventually stopped lying" isn't really material when it was a huge lie with huge consequences. They lied about the Tuskegee syphilis experiment as well and after 40 years finally came clean, they lied for 40 years and caused massive suffering to innocent people virtually their entire lives.
"They eventually stopped lying" isn't really material when it was a huge lie with huge consequences. They lied about the Tuskegee syphilis experiment as well and after 40 years finally came clean, they lied for 40 years and caused massive suffering to innocent people virtually their entire lives.
Does it matter? Millions dead based on blatant lies. And then the same government thinks it ought to protect us from lies.
"once we get rid of Christianity we'll live rationally in a utopia!"
How's that working out?
How's that working out?
"Trump Shooter Cause of Death Revealed" -- I found this news headline unintentionally hilarious.
Was it the bullet to the face? I bet it was the bullet to the face.
Was it the bullet to the face? I bet it was the bullet to the face.
The social psychologists whose field of study presently is in the midst of crisis of reproducibility.
"I'm an expert in fraud, I've been defrauded dozens of times this month alone!"
"I'm an expert in fraud, I've been defrauded dozens of times this month alone!"
Looks like he did it in 2023 and it was effective earlier this year when the first election was bypassed.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn007p39zdzo
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn007p39zdzo
https://rufus.ie/en/
https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
https://community.spiceworks.com/t/windows-10-11-decrapifier/975250 (this is a powershell script so you run it by running powershell ise in admin mode, creating a new document, pasting the script into it, then running the script)
https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu/releases/tag/v4.4.191
https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
https://community.spiceworks.com/t/windows-10-11-decrapifier/975250 (this is a powershell script so you run it by running powershell ise in admin mode, creating a new document, pasting the script into it, then running the script)
https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu/releases/tag/v4.4.191
Setting up windows is something I do with like 10,000 steps, but it starts like this:
1. use rufus to make the install media, using the options to set the region and create a basic account, and remove all the limitations on where you can install it.
2. once installed, o&o shutup10, with at least the recommended, but I go with recommended and somewhat recommended
3. Windows 10 decrapifier script (still works on windows 11)
4. install the latest openshell
5. Install a non-edge browser, libreoffice, vlc
6. remove onedrive
And at that point it's the least amount of crap it can be more or less.
1. use rufus to make the install media, using the options to set the region and create a basic account, and remove all the limitations on where you can install it.
2. once installed, o&o shutup10, with at least the recommended, but I go with recommended and somewhat recommended
3. Windows 10 decrapifier script (still works on windows 11)
4. install the latest openshell
5. Install a non-edge browser, libreoffice, vlc
6. remove onedrive
And at that point it's the least amount of crap it can be more or less.
When it's not related to politics Jimmy Carter seems like the nicest guy on planet earth and he's done a lot of really good things, but there's a reason why he's remembered as one of the worst Presidents in history.
According to one source, the average wage of a professor is 155,000USD. So class size to pay the wage of the professor and break even would be 3 if they're paying 200k for their education over 4 years. Of course there's administration and buildings and other taxes so let's double the cost to employ a professor to 300,000, which makes it 6 people to break even. But 200k for an education is too damn much! So let's say you have 12 students, that would cut it down to 100k over 4 years, you could further cut it down to 24 students to make it 50k for 4 years, but that's getting to be a pretty large class.
On the other hand, when I started in college there was 45 people in my class, and that number shrank pretty quickly, so it's entirely possible to have the average higher than the number of grads.
To be honest, I don't think that $200,000 for an education is a good investment. You're just relying entirely too much on future earning potential, and so if something happens and for example it turns out you just don't have any talent or you can't find a job in your area and don't want to move, you can end up with entirely too much debt for something that didn't pay off. That's why I think it makes a lot more sense to go with a more modest education that maybe won't get you top pay, but is likely to get you a nice mid-tier job somewhere and if it turns out it doesn't, you don't have a literal house worth of debt to pay off on minimum wage.
On the other hand, when I started in college there was 45 people in my class, and that number shrank pretty quickly, so it's entirely possible to have the average higher than the number of grads.
To be honest, I don't think that $200,000 for an education is a good investment. You're just relying entirely too much on future earning potential, and so if something happens and for example it turns out you just don't have any talent or you can't find a job in your area and don't want to move, you can end up with entirely too much debt for something that didn't pay off. That's why I think it makes a lot more sense to go with a more modest education that maybe won't get you top pay, but is likely to get you a nice mid-tier job somewhere and if it turns out it doesn't, you don't have a literal house worth of debt to pay off on minimum wage.
I think we might have to just stop talking about this topic, because there seems to be a communications barrier.
And it might be my fault, after all UBI isn't an abstract thing to me, it's a thing that our idiot prime minister is probably going to try to enact if he gets any more of a chance to run our country into the ground.
That's where for me, it's an actual risk, and the things that I'm talking about are things that I'm actually concerned about imminentpy. I mean, our prime minister racked up the federal debt by a trillion dollars, tripling it. In 2006 we had been paying down the federal debt for years and even the response to the GFC was relatively measured. Starting in 2015 the spigot opened and unlike what huge government spending predicts, it's meant slow collapse in quality of life for a decade.
Our province hasn't done any better. In 2001 we had a balanced budget, and a total debt of 140 billion. Today, we have a debt of 380 billion dollars, and quality of life isn't better than it was back then. In fact, our electricity prices more than doubled during a short period after the spending started.
Meanwhile several of the rust belt towns I grew up in are just welfare dens. They once supported themselves by producing value to the world, now they're black holes of productivity.
So talking about UBI, I can't see anything but the overwhelming risks of what would have the capacity to be the largest social program ever, and after 10 years of "the budget will balance itself"(actual quote from the guy who then tripled the debt) and the government overreach from covid, my bias is that every threat from the government is deadly serious and every mitigating factor is a lie.
If that bias is leading me to be unreasonable in this conversation, I do apologize. At this moment I perceive UBI as a direct and immediate existential threat to my way of life, coming from a government that is already an existential threat to my way of life and the bias is so deep in my gut I can't see the world any other way I'm not trying to be a jerk to you personally.
And it might be my fault, after all UBI isn't an abstract thing to me, it's a thing that our idiot prime minister is probably going to try to enact if he gets any more of a chance to run our country into the ground.
That's where for me, it's an actual risk, and the things that I'm talking about are things that I'm actually concerned about imminentpy. I mean, our prime minister racked up the federal debt by a trillion dollars, tripling it. In 2006 we had been paying down the federal debt for years and even the response to the GFC was relatively measured. Starting in 2015 the spigot opened and unlike what huge government spending predicts, it's meant slow collapse in quality of life for a decade.
Our province hasn't done any better. In 2001 we had a balanced budget, and a total debt of 140 billion. Today, we have a debt of 380 billion dollars, and quality of life isn't better than it was back then. In fact, our electricity prices more than doubled during a short period after the spending started.
Meanwhile several of the rust belt towns I grew up in are just welfare dens. They once supported themselves by producing value to the world, now they're black holes of productivity.
So talking about UBI, I can't see anything but the overwhelming risks of what would have the capacity to be the largest social program ever, and after 10 years of "the budget will balance itself"(actual quote from the guy who then tripled the debt) and the government overreach from covid, my bias is that every threat from the government is deadly serious and every mitigating factor is a lie.
If that bias is leading me to be unreasonable in this conversation, I do apologize. At this moment I perceive UBI as a direct and immediate existential threat to my way of life, coming from a government that is already an existential threat to my way of life and the bias is so deep in my gut I can't see the world any other way I'm not trying to be a jerk to you personally.