I went back to some of the sources that I used to use on a regular basis, sources from APM or NPR, and immediately had to stop because they were being a bunch of idiots, uncritically accepting State numbers as true despite the fact that 11 of the 12 of the monthly numbers that they were talking about had been revised downwards.
Particularly for economics or finance news sources, for someone with a couple of brain cells to rub together if you are reading real news, you're going to get insights that let you make decisions in the real world. As an example, I read about the chocolate price exploding, and so I picked up a huge bulk thing of my wife's favorite chocolates on amazon. Immediately after the listing was taken down, presumably because they couldn't get the same stuff to sell at anything near the same price.
Same thing happened with energy, I acquired some gas cans and some gas right before the European energy crisis. Now I misread the tea leaves and didn't end up needing it because there was no energy crisis in america, but given the insane stories coming out of Europe at the time it would have been the right move.
The non-establishment media also was the ones who actually came up with an answer to the question I had when during the market collapse around covid, bond prices also collapsed. This is totally contrary to what we are told would happen by the establishment media, but Independent Media was right there explaining exactly why bonds had collapsed.
The media wasn't even remotely entertaining the idea that Central Bank interest rates could go up in 2020, but thanks to my exposure to Independent media, I understood that it was inevitable and so I paid a significant penalty to refinance my mortgage (in canuckistan 90% of mortgages are 5 year mortgage terms or less), and to do so at a 10 year term. Within a year or so most people will be refinancing their 2% mortgages at 6%, I've got a 2 tail on my mortgage rate until 2030.
Now that doesn't mean that The Independent Media always gets things right. You still need to consider all the possibilities and think for yourself. If you listen to Peter Schiff, gold was going up the whole way from 1900 an ounce to 1200 an ounce. The thing is, at least if you see all the things being reported on you can balance different stories and decide what seems the most likely to be true. With the establishment media it seems like all you end up getting is a bunch of people blindly going "good things are good! Bad things are bad!" In lockstep.
Particularly for economics or finance news sources, for someone with a couple of brain cells to rub together if you are reading real news, you're going to get insights that let you make decisions in the real world. As an example, I read about the chocolate price exploding, and so I picked up a huge bulk thing of my wife's favorite chocolates on amazon. Immediately after the listing was taken down, presumably because they couldn't get the same stuff to sell at anything near the same price.
Same thing happened with energy, I acquired some gas cans and some gas right before the European energy crisis. Now I misread the tea leaves and didn't end up needing it because there was no energy crisis in america, but given the insane stories coming out of Europe at the time it would have been the right move.
The non-establishment media also was the ones who actually came up with an answer to the question I had when during the market collapse around covid, bond prices also collapsed. This is totally contrary to what we are told would happen by the establishment media, but Independent Media was right there explaining exactly why bonds had collapsed.
The media wasn't even remotely entertaining the idea that Central Bank interest rates could go up in 2020, but thanks to my exposure to Independent media, I understood that it was inevitable and so I paid a significant penalty to refinance my mortgage (in canuckistan 90% of mortgages are 5 year mortgage terms or less), and to do so at a 10 year term. Within a year or so most people will be refinancing their 2% mortgages at 6%, I've got a 2 tail on my mortgage rate until 2030.
Now that doesn't mean that The Independent Media always gets things right. You still need to consider all the possibilities and think for yourself. If you listen to Peter Schiff, gold was going up the whole way from 1900 an ounce to 1200 an ounce. The thing is, at least if you see all the things being reported on you can balance different stories and decide what seems the most likely to be true. With the establishment media it seems like all you end up getting is a bunch of people blindly going "good things are good! Bad things are bad!" In lockstep.
I'm presently using soapbox and rebased from the same developer, and I'm pretty excited to use ditto eventually.
One thing about nostr if you're trying to use it on the run is that a lot of public internet connections won't connect to most relays. So you can have a powerful Central node that can connect the relays for you and present a nice https interface, it means that individuals can have a nostr experience on the road.
One thing about nostr if you're trying to use it on the run is that a lot of public internet connections won't connect to most relays. So you can have a powerful Central node that can connect the relays for you and present a nice https interface, it means that individuals can have a nostr experience on the road.
Some of the things Plato and Aristotle wrote about politics, and about democracy in general were incredibly prescient and I think everyone should end up reading at least Plato's Republic and Aristotle's politics.
Very occasionally Jon Stewart reminds us of why his crappy little show on comedy Central was one of the most influential on Earth for a little while.
Ah, the nomadic species of trampoline returning to the suburbs.
If the insurance company ever comes rolling around to my neighbors place, this is their story.
If the insurance company ever comes rolling around to my neighbors place, this is their story.
One of my pet peeves with retro tech channels is when they call cards like the 3dfx voodoo a "GPU".
3dfx never made GPUs. The first GPU was the Geforce 256, and for the first time ever you completed transform and lighting calculations on the graphics card, hence their coining of the phrase. Everything before that including voodoo cards only accelerated the rendering of 3d textured pixels and thus were only "3d accelerator cards".
3dfx never made GPUs. The first GPU was the Geforce 256, and for the first time ever you completed transform and lighting calculations on the graphics card, hence their coining of the phrase. Everything before that including voodoo cards only accelerated the rendering of 3d textured pixels and thus were only "3d accelerator cards".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs8zGMT6_gg
Can you build a gasoline engine from a bunch of assorted blocks of aluminium, brass, and steel?
Wish I could. That's pretty epic.
Can you build a gasoline engine from a bunch of assorted blocks of aluminium, brass, and steel?
Wish I could. That's pretty epic.
I always find it odd realizing how many people used to be able to make entertaining and hilarious content and stopped in their tracks and became political robots instead.
I used to love Yugioh abridged. One of my favorite things period. Today there's a nice big "omg I don't actually believe this plz no cancel" on each episode produced. No wonder, it was actually good.
I used to love Yugioh abridged. One of my favorite things period. Today there's a nice big "omg I don't actually believe this plz no cancel" on each episode produced. No wonder, it was actually good.
This photo brings back memories. I had a computer like this, right down to the angled hard drive.
Imagine the sort of pins and needles these people live on. You are actually very moderate in my view, if anyone were to start banning you as some sort of extremist, then that paints them.
Strong societies tend to require multiple ideologies to be successful.
For example, Imperial china had Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism which combined to give their society multiple modes of thinking for different situations. Without multiple modes of thinking, the flaws of one ideology end up hamstringing the civilization.
Christianity started in the Middle East and North Africa. It was the dominant religion throughout a large portion of the world at the time prior to the 9th century. The thing is, Christianity is a religion largely based around peace and understanding. Jesus's core message is about forgiving those who trespass against you. When Islam, created by a warlord, came in and started conquering, they had no choice but to submit and turn the other cheek, as Jesus commanded. By contrast, Western Europe combined Christianity with the warrior ethos of the Germanic tribes and remnants of the Roman imperial warrior ethos, and that combination of contradictory ideologies led to a society that had the capacity for tremendous good but also tremendous violence. That's why it continued to exist while North African Christianity was conquered. The softer side of Christianity needed to be tempered by the harder side of Germanic and Roman warrior culture.
A lot of people think that humans ought to be only good and reject evil, but reality is that we are built with the capacity for both good and evil because there are situations where to survive we must sometimes be good and sometimes be evil and the people without capacity for both tend to go extinct. If one cannot make war, then they will not be able to make peace.
In this sense, people claim the fruit of the tree of knowledge is forbidden and that's what got us kicked out of paradise, but it was in fact the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Of course eating that fruit would mean we get kicked out of paradise, because in that moment we'd understand we weren't always doing the right thing and sometimes we were doing evil to others and in the same way Adam and Eve realized they were naked and they tried to cover their nakedness, the natural state of things is sometimes evil and there's nothing that can be done about it. We will all need to be naked at some point in our lives, no matter how pious we are. Whether it's when we were born, when we're in the bathroom, while we are producing children, when we bathe, or something else we're always going to be naked at some point, to be imperfect is inevitable in a material world.
Many of the post-Christian ideologies in the postmodern world take on the characteristics of the new testament and lack not only a warrior element, but even the old testament brutal honesty about the nature of the world.
Having the post Christian ideologies wouldn't be a problem in and out of themselves if we still had other ideologies to balance them out, but part of those ideologies is working towards the extinction of all other ideologies, and as a result we are arguably already at the point of monoculture. The problem is that the monoculture lacks a lot of fundamental reality. The Old testament tells us that even a king who deviates from doing the right thing and then later repents will harm their children to the extent that they will no longer be the Kings of the promised land, contrast that with post Christian ideology which doesn't want anyone to be responsible for anything, and considers judging anyone to any standard to be deontologically evil.
This new value system cannot exist in a world where evil exists, and just as evil existed before Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, evil will continue to exist if you have an ideology that claims the only thing that is evil is to call out evil. It seems more or less inevitable that these new value systems that only consider judging others to be evil will eventually be overrun by something else that is if not objectively, then certainly subjectively evil.
I was watching a video recently, where they were claiming the demons in freiren weren't evil because they were just following their nature to deceive and kill. I think that this is a good example of that absurd postmodern ideology in action. If someone's sole motivation is to lie to you in order to kill you, then of course at least to you that person is evil. Just as evil existed before Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge, the fact that the demons don't realize what they're doing is evil doesn't make them not evil. It means that they are unthinkingly evil, committing reprehensible Acts without either knowledge or care of whether those acts are evil or not.
Such an ideology can only exist in a Time that is quickly fading, a Time of unprecedented World Peace. And as such ideologies allow for evil to fester and grow, eventually there will need to be a reckoning, and either postmodernists are forced to change their ideology to account for the fact that there's evil without just being misunderstandings, or they will become extinct.
There is a contradiction in my way of thinking here, because the the necessity of the objective reality of the existence of evil stands against the subjectivity of evil which is also undeniable. A rock smashing against another rock so far away from any inhabited planet that no life of any kind could ever be affected likely has no moral component of good or evil, and what is good and what is evil may be quite different between different species -- In The Graysonian Ethic I imagine a sentient black widow spider and how its values may be different than a human in ways we can't imagine. It's a paradox that exists but I don't think can be easily reconciled because objectively evil does exist, regardless of the specific subjective standard being used to measure it, and to ignore that fact will mean reality chooses to destroy you showing that it is real and objective, despite its subjective measurement and nature.
Part of the inherent contradictions in the universe are between the fact that the world is better if we can work together and be social as human beings, but the inherent dangers of being social. For this reason there is a legitimate argument to be made that we ought to try to allow people in because it makes our lives much better having good people in our lives, but there's an equally legitimate argument to be made is that we ought to protect ourselves from others because they can try to harm us to make their lives better. The reconciliation of this contradiction lies in the previous contradiction, the objective reality that you must have subjective standards and they exist and matter regardless of you realize it or not.
For example, Imperial china had Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism which combined to give their society multiple modes of thinking for different situations. Without multiple modes of thinking, the flaws of one ideology end up hamstringing the civilization.
Christianity started in the Middle East and North Africa. It was the dominant religion throughout a large portion of the world at the time prior to the 9th century. The thing is, Christianity is a religion largely based around peace and understanding. Jesus's core message is about forgiving those who trespass against you. When Islam, created by a warlord, came in and started conquering, they had no choice but to submit and turn the other cheek, as Jesus commanded. By contrast, Western Europe combined Christianity with the warrior ethos of the Germanic tribes and remnants of the Roman imperial warrior ethos, and that combination of contradictory ideologies led to a society that had the capacity for tremendous good but also tremendous violence. That's why it continued to exist while North African Christianity was conquered. The softer side of Christianity needed to be tempered by the harder side of Germanic and Roman warrior culture.
A lot of people think that humans ought to be only good and reject evil, but reality is that we are built with the capacity for both good and evil because there are situations where to survive we must sometimes be good and sometimes be evil and the people without capacity for both tend to go extinct. If one cannot make war, then they will not be able to make peace.
In this sense, people claim the fruit of the tree of knowledge is forbidden and that's what got us kicked out of paradise, but it was in fact the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Of course eating that fruit would mean we get kicked out of paradise, because in that moment we'd understand we weren't always doing the right thing and sometimes we were doing evil to others and in the same way Adam and Eve realized they were naked and they tried to cover their nakedness, the natural state of things is sometimes evil and there's nothing that can be done about it. We will all need to be naked at some point in our lives, no matter how pious we are. Whether it's when we were born, when we're in the bathroom, while we are producing children, when we bathe, or something else we're always going to be naked at some point, to be imperfect is inevitable in a material world.
Many of the post-Christian ideologies in the postmodern world take on the characteristics of the new testament and lack not only a warrior element, but even the old testament brutal honesty about the nature of the world.
Having the post Christian ideologies wouldn't be a problem in and out of themselves if we still had other ideologies to balance them out, but part of those ideologies is working towards the extinction of all other ideologies, and as a result we are arguably already at the point of monoculture. The problem is that the monoculture lacks a lot of fundamental reality. The Old testament tells us that even a king who deviates from doing the right thing and then later repents will harm their children to the extent that they will no longer be the Kings of the promised land, contrast that with post Christian ideology which doesn't want anyone to be responsible for anything, and considers judging anyone to any standard to be deontologically evil.
This new value system cannot exist in a world where evil exists, and just as evil existed before Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, evil will continue to exist if you have an ideology that claims the only thing that is evil is to call out evil. It seems more or less inevitable that these new value systems that only consider judging others to be evil will eventually be overrun by something else that is if not objectively, then certainly subjectively evil.
I was watching a video recently, where they were claiming the demons in freiren weren't evil because they were just following their nature to deceive and kill. I think that this is a good example of that absurd postmodern ideology in action. If someone's sole motivation is to lie to you in order to kill you, then of course at least to you that person is evil. Just as evil existed before Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge, the fact that the demons don't realize what they're doing is evil doesn't make them not evil. It means that they are unthinkingly evil, committing reprehensible Acts without either knowledge or care of whether those acts are evil or not.
Such an ideology can only exist in a Time that is quickly fading, a Time of unprecedented World Peace. And as such ideologies allow for evil to fester and grow, eventually there will need to be a reckoning, and either postmodernists are forced to change their ideology to account for the fact that there's evil without just being misunderstandings, or they will become extinct.
There is a contradiction in my way of thinking here, because the the necessity of the objective reality of the existence of evil stands against the subjectivity of evil which is also undeniable. A rock smashing against another rock so far away from any inhabited planet that no life of any kind could ever be affected likely has no moral component of good or evil, and what is good and what is evil may be quite different between different species -- In The Graysonian Ethic I imagine a sentient black widow spider and how its values may be different than a human in ways we can't imagine. It's a paradox that exists but I don't think can be easily reconciled because objectively evil does exist, regardless of the specific subjective standard being used to measure it, and to ignore that fact will mean reality chooses to destroy you showing that it is real and objective, despite its subjective measurement and nature.
Part of the inherent contradictions in the universe are between the fact that the world is better if we can work together and be social as human beings, but the inherent dangers of being social. For this reason there is a legitimate argument to be made that we ought to try to allow people in because it makes our lives much better having good people in our lives, but there's an equally legitimate argument to be made is that we ought to protect ourselves from others because they can try to harm us to make their lives better. The reconciliation of this contradiction lies in the previous contradiction, the objective reality that you must have subjective standards and they exist and matter regardless of you realize it or not.
Evidence: 15,000 different sects of Christianity who sometimes came to blows back in the day
Part of the biggest problem right now is that leftist purity testing is being used to shrink the number of people eligible to become elites, since we are in a part of the cycle where the average income isn't enough to live a reasonable life and people are crawling over each other to get a limited number of decent paying jobs.
You almost have to feel for the baby boomers, everybody wants to attack them, but the rank and file didn't do what the elites did. No factory workers voted to move the factories to China. One of the great myths of our age is that economic growth is inherently good, but the only people who get paid as a percentage of GDP are the politicians.
Part of the biggest problem right now is that leftist purity testing is being used to shrink the number of people eligible to become elites, since we are in a part of the cycle where the average income isn't enough to live a reasonable life and people are crawling over each other to get a limited number of decent paying jobs.
You almost have to feel for the baby boomers, everybody wants to attack them, but the rank and file didn't do what the elites did. No factory workers voted to move the factories to China. One of the great myths of our age is that economic growth is inherently good, but the only people who get paid as a percentage of GDP are the politicians.
Tonight I was able to power the amiga for the first time. I had to get a new third party power supply which took a bit to arrive. Version 1.2 kickstarter rom.
I became aware of the fact that the battery on the amiga trapdoor memory expansions fail, and so I removed the EM shielding and sure enough, the battery was looking pretty crusty. I cut it away.
I don't have any floppy disks of any kind, let alone any amiga floppy disks, so I had to flash the Gotek floppy disk emulator with the FlashFloppy firmware. I took the top cover off to get a good view but it seems you don't need to do that to flash the unit.
Not sure if I'll get a chance to install the floppy drive and get a workbench disk running tonight or even this weekend, but if I do I'll keep everyone posted.
Plans right now are replacing all the caps since it's cheap insurance, printing a new trapdoor cover because it didn't come with one, I've got the raspberry pi zero hdmi mod board coming in, but I'd like to look at one of those Raspberry pi cpu replacement boards that clip onto the sidecar.
Not sure in the end if I'll hang onto it forever or if I'll get it running, play with it a while, and find a new home for it, but it's a really neat little toy to play with right now regardless.
I became aware of the fact that the battery on the amiga trapdoor memory expansions fail, and so I removed the EM shielding and sure enough, the battery was looking pretty crusty. I cut it away.
I don't have any floppy disks of any kind, let alone any amiga floppy disks, so I had to flash the Gotek floppy disk emulator with the FlashFloppy firmware. I took the top cover off to get a good view but it seems you don't need to do that to flash the unit.
Not sure if I'll get a chance to install the floppy drive and get a workbench disk running tonight or even this weekend, but if I do I'll keep everyone posted.
Plans right now are replacing all the caps since it's cheap insurance, printing a new trapdoor cover because it didn't come with one, I've got the raspberry pi zero hdmi mod board coming in, but I'd like to look at one of those Raspberry pi cpu replacement boards that clip onto the sidecar.
Not sure in the end if I'll hang onto it forever or if I'll get it running, play with it a while, and find a new home for it, but it's a really neat little toy to play with right now regardless.
https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesprelbmk.htm
The Bureau of Labor Statistics revised their numbers from 300k to -800k jobs in March.
People get mad at me when I say we need to be careful of the official numbers, this is the second largest revision of job creation in US history. The largest revision was during the great financial crisis.
I tend to think that right now we're in an era of Soviet-style hyperrealism because things are actually getting much worse for the common man in many ways, and nobody wants to be the one holding the bag and having to tell people that things actually are as bad as they feel.
I've seen quite a few politicians say it outright: "Don't tell people things are bad, they'll start acting like things are bad which will only make things worse" -- sort of like George W. Bush's stupid "The economy is crashing, keep spending no matter what" directions to the people. It's really irresponsible, and one of the reasons why both the people and the state have gotten so much weaker over the past 20 years (They're expressing more authority but the clock is ticking). Instead of pulling back which hurts the economy in the moment but helps individuals be more resilient and prepared, and instead of pulling back spending when times are allegedly "good" so you spend in the bad times and you spend in the good times, both parties shotgun money into the economy during the "good" times and then also during the "bad" times.
Bread and circuses, and the fall of an empire... Much like 1991 I'm sure.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics revised their numbers from 300k to -800k jobs in March.
People get mad at me when I say we need to be careful of the official numbers, this is the second largest revision of job creation in US history. The largest revision was during the great financial crisis.
I tend to think that right now we're in an era of Soviet-style hyperrealism because things are actually getting much worse for the common man in many ways, and nobody wants to be the one holding the bag and having to tell people that things actually are as bad as they feel.
I've seen quite a few politicians say it outright: "Don't tell people things are bad, they'll start acting like things are bad which will only make things worse" -- sort of like George W. Bush's stupid "The economy is crashing, keep spending no matter what" directions to the people. It's really irresponsible, and one of the reasons why both the people and the state have gotten so much weaker over the past 20 years (They're expressing more authority but the clock is ticking). Instead of pulling back which hurts the economy in the moment but helps individuals be more resilient and prepared, and instead of pulling back spending when times are allegedly "good" so you spend in the bad times and you spend in the good times, both parties shotgun money into the economy during the "good" times and then also during the "bad" times.
Bread and circuses, and the fall of an empire... Much like 1991 I'm sure.
https://dev.narwhal.city/posts/15944
The end of development on a project I use. Sad to see but not entirely unexpected. The number of instances never was more than half a dozen or so, and it didn't update much. I still like it for its simplicity. It isn't a fancy web app, it's a website that sends html so straightforward it displays mostly correctly it ncsa mosaic.
The end of development on a project I use. Sad to see but not entirely unexpected. The number of instances never was more than half a dozen or so, and it didn't update much. I still like it for its simplicity. It isn't a fancy web app, it's a website that sends html so straightforward it displays mostly correctly it ncsa mosaic.
Ozempics main ingredient has been found linked to a 45% increase in suicidality according to the WHO.
There's 3 things it could be:
1. This drug changes our perception of things. It changes how we are sated by food. It's likely it also changes other parts of how we perceive the world so it could definitely change whether we consider to live or die.
2. This drug changes our perception of things. It changes how we are sated by food. If people are mentally ill and using food to self-medicate, then their self-medication no longer works.
3. A lot of people who successfully lose weight after years learn they're actually miserable people and it wasn't because they were fat. Once they realize that it's not their fat's fault it can be a big mental hit. I imagine if it was basically handed to them with no effort would be doubly painful.
There's 3 things it could be:
1. This drug changes our perception of things. It changes how we are sated by food. It's likely it also changes other parts of how we perceive the world so it could definitely change whether we consider to live or die.
2. This drug changes our perception of things. It changes how we are sated by food. If people are mentally ill and using food to self-medicate, then their self-medication no longer works.
3. A lot of people who successfully lose weight after years learn they're actually miserable people and it wasn't because they were fat. Once they realize that it's not their fat's fault it can be a big mental hit. I imagine if it was basically handed to them with no effort would be doubly painful.
Something a lot of people don't realize is that every medical intervention has a risk associated with it. A lot of the time even though you feel like shit the right thing to do is to drink plenty of liquids and lay in bed for a few days.