Reminds me of the quote attributed to Gandhi, but incorrectly:
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win"
It doesn't matter who said it, I think it's fitting. They're fighting and they're losing because you can't bully everyone forever.
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win"
It doesn't matter who said it, I think it's fitting. They're fighting and they're losing because you can't bully everyone forever.
Notwithstanding the fact that certain ideologies are deeply hostile to most normal people right now, I tend to agree with you. Good ideas are good ideas, and bad ideas are bad ideas, we need to retain the good and filter the bad regardless of their source. One of the rhetorical tricks used by net evil factions is to package good ideas with horrible ideas so you can push through your horrible ideas, because the good of the good ideas can be dwarfed by the bad of horrible ideas.
As for your main point, I think a lot of people have been damaged into thinking that the only way things can work is top down, and that's one of the reasons everyone's feeling so shitty -- Someone convinces you that you can only be granted change rather than making it for yourself, and suddenly you've had a slice of your humanity taken away from you.
I remember, I had a similar event when I was a younger man. I had just broken up with a crazy lady. She was the sort who would try to control you through constant accusations, and the only way to sort of keep the peace was to comply. So once I left her, I had my crappy bronco ii, and filled in some of the holes with riveted tin, and I spraypainted the whole thing from top to bottom in mat black. Looked like shit, but it was like "I'm doing this, I don't need to ask permission, and if it turns out like shit it's my thing that looks like shit". It was a big moment for me, a realization that you can and sometimes should just do things.
It did end up looking like shit, but I wasn't done. I ended up tearing out the dash and the headliner and doing it all up custom (padding and fabric), and it looked terrible and probably would have killed everyone in a 5 mile radius if I ever got in a crash, but I didn't care because it was my customized piece of crap. I even redid the dashboard plastic, taking plexiglass and painting the back in black with a stencil so it looked like one piece of glass with openings for the various things. Again, didn't look great, and if there was any resale value I had destroyed it completely by making it look terrible, but it was my little piece of crap.
Having now learned that I have the agency to do what I want even if it ends in something objectively terrible and even if it does the world doesn't end, I later started to realize the power in just doing your best. Most people don't try to excel, they just want to do what is standard or even just what is required. That can mean at work, but it especially means at home. There's overwhelming evidence in many ways that lots of people aren't putting in any effort, so just doing your best, doing what you think is right is actually a revolutionary act because history is written by those who show up.
There's another piece of that too, because a lot of other people are still stuck in the box, still thinking they need permission to act, permission to make decisions in their own lives. There's a lot of people who wouldn't ever think they are even allowed to paint their own piece of crap car, and people who think they aren't allowed to raise their kids right, and people who think they aren't allowed to make a video game, and people who think they aren't allowed to write a book, and people who think they aren't allowed to pick up trash. Whatever it is, people think they aren't allowed without getting some big corporate or government sponsorship, so they don't even try.
As for your main point, I think a lot of people have been damaged into thinking that the only way things can work is top down, and that's one of the reasons everyone's feeling so shitty -- Someone convinces you that you can only be granted change rather than making it for yourself, and suddenly you've had a slice of your humanity taken away from you.
I remember, I had a similar event when I was a younger man. I had just broken up with a crazy lady. She was the sort who would try to control you through constant accusations, and the only way to sort of keep the peace was to comply. So once I left her, I had my crappy bronco ii, and filled in some of the holes with riveted tin, and I spraypainted the whole thing from top to bottom in mat black. Looked like shit, but it was like "I'm doing this, I don't need to ask permission, and if it turns out like shit it's my thing that looks like shit". It was a big moment for me, a realization that you can and sometimes should just do things.
It did end up looking like shit, but I wasn't done. I ended up tearing out the dash and the headliner and doing it all up custom (padding and fabric), and it looked terrible and probably would have killed everyone in a 5 mile radius if I ever got in a crash, but I didn't care because it was my customized piece of crap. I even redid the dashboard plastic, taking plexiglass and painting the back in black with a stencil so it looked like one piece of glass with openings for the various things. Again, didn't look great, and if there was any resale value I had destroyed it completely by making it look terrible, but it was my little piece of crap.
Having now learned that I have the agency to do what I want even if it ends in something objectively terrible and even if it does the world doesn't end, I later started to realize the power in just doing your best. Most people don't try to excel, they just want to do what is standard or even just what is required. That can mean at work, but it especially means at home. There's overwhelming evidence in many ways that lots of people aren't putting in any effort, so just doing your best, doing what you think is right is actually a revolutionary act because history is written by those who show up.
There's another piece of that too, because a lot of other people are still stuck in the box, still thinking they need permission to act, permission to make decisions in their own lives. There's a lot of people who wouldn't ever think they are even allowed to paint their own piece of crap car, and people who think they aren't allowed to raise their kids right, and people who think they aren't allowed to make a video game, and people who think they aren't allowed to write a book, and people who think they aren't allowed to pick up trash. Whatever it is, people think they aren't allowed without getting some big corporate or government sponsorship, so they don't even try.
This might have been made by a wannabe socialist revolutionary (I literally don't know, it could honestly have been), but it's still filled with deep truth.
It's a good video that suggests that in the context of what we're talking about, we need to go small again, and have the people owning their own plot of land. Metaphorically, that suggests to me something I've been talking a lot about lately, having your own little slice of the world. Once game development is mechanized and made into a billion dollar industry of virtual serfs tilling someone else's land it was always ripe for perversion.
So it's like other things in life right now -- we need to make our own things, own them, not give them up in the face of rewards from empire. In so doing we'll be free, and likely happier. But a small farm will only ever produce a small amount and we need to refocus our visions to account for that. Instead of coveting the corrupt cities, we should be looking instead at what our own lands can produce. It won't be bright and shiny, it won't field giant armies to conquer the entire continent, but it'll be honest and it can be good...
So it's like other things in life right now -- we need to make our own things, own them, not give them up in the face of rewards from empire. In so doing we'll be free, and likely happier. But a small farm will only ever produce a small amount and we need to refocus our visions to account for that. Instead of coveting the corrupt cities, we should be looking instead at what our own lands can produce. It won't be bright and shiny, it won't field giant armies to conquer the entire continent, but it'll be honest and it can be good...
Rome is decadent, all we can do is find a hermitage and start rebuilding quietly so we can emerge once the city is empty.
Strategic reserves are soooo 1950. We're a Just In time manufacturing base now. So if we lose it, we'll stop making things just in time for world war 3.
For the record, FBXL is and always has been a BASIC site and that's not going to change.
I always feel like if you're a game developer you're sort of selling the family farm if you don't want to have the competence internally to build a game engine. I might just be really old school in this regard, but it seems like most of the best game developers of all time had an engine in house, got really good at it, and were able to turn over great games pretty quickly that did exactly what they wanted them to do.
"more security!" "Oh cool so you're gonna do something about all those confirmed Chinese spies in your party?" "We're gonna make it illegal to criticize Chinese spies!". Trudeau for MAIID
The BQ and CPC need to get their heads in the game. I want to see a BQ official opposition. 21 fewer seats for the LPC or 21 more seats for the BQ and we can make that happen.
One thing that I've always gotten a kick out of on Asus products is they always have inspirational phrases on the box that are just way overselling what you've got.
The eeepc box say something like "rock solid - heart touching" -- which is a pretty high bar to set for a computer that was one of the slowest things you could buy new when it was released.
The eeepc box say something like "rock solid - heart touching" -- which is a pretty high bar to set for a computer that was one of the slowest things you could buy new when it was released.
Yes, and something a lot of Keynesians don't understand besides that is that money isn't wealth. You can make line go up but if all you have is a bunch of holes you dug then filled back in then nobody is any wealthier. Youve just got a wasted workforce that still needs to eat and a pile of destroyed shovels. But line went up! And there was taxable GDP!
I think you've got a point there. The unlimited loans give a chance for unlimited revenue, but if there was only limited loans because the banks might have to face bankruptcy or defaults, then there would only be limited money and so only the chance for limited revenue.
Same as the Canadian housing market. When I went to buy my house, they said they'd give me a $650,000 mortgage (at that time, USD and CDN were pretty close together).
U FOKKIN WOT? No I'm not borrowing that much money what the hell is wrong with your brain to think you should ever lend that much money to a private individual? But lots of people will borrow that much, and so the house prices keep going up. In Toronto and Vancouver they would have lent me twice that, and that's absurd and broken.
And now the country is on the verge of a economic meltdown because rates went back to where they were in 2007 -- just 2007!
So yeah, get the government out of banking altogether, but particularly housing and student loans. Watch administrative costs plummet and tuition come back to earth because at some point someone actually needs to pay the cost of what you're selling.
Same as the Canadian housing market. When I went to buy my house, they said they'd give me a $650,000 mortgage (at that time, USD and CDN were pretty close together).
U FOKKIN WOT? No I'm not borrowing that much money what the hell is wrong with your brain to think you should ever lend that much money to a private individual? But lots of people will borrow that much, and so the house prices keep going up. In Toronto and Vancouver they would have lent me twice that, and that's absurd and broken.
And now the country is on the verge of a economic meltdown because rates went back to where they were in 2007 -- just 2007!
So yeah, get the government out of banking altogether, but particularly housing and student loans. Watch administrative costs plummet and tuition come back to earth because at some point someone actually needs to pay the cost of what you're selling.
One of the most important parts of the "student debt" debate is that much of that money is likely not spent on tuition, but on living expenses, and "living" isn't the same for everyone.
I lived a pretty cheap life in college and so didn't end up with many student loans, they're all paid back now. Other people bought cars, went on vacations, held parties, and overall lived like they were living in a boomer college movie.
People might argue that the student loan industry and higher education are predatory. I'd counter that the "Taxpayers should pay back my student loans" argument is predatory. After getting an elite education and a chance to join the upper class and for some people the literal 4-year vacation of a lifetime, suddenly it's everyone's responsibility to pay for that for them?
The colleges already get massive government subsidies from the taxpayer, go after the colleges to use that money to eliminate tuitions, rather than further fleecing taxpayers (or unborn generations) to pay for individual's personal consumption. If you think of the actual cost of goods, a university classroom can pay for itself with just a few students, even without government assistance. 10 students paying a tuition of 10k a year, well that's 100k right there, but in reality many classes have a lot more than 10 students to start, sometimes classes can have huge numbers of students in a year. It means there needs to be a lot less administration, but the idea of universities are already virtually self-sufficient by themselves with fairly low tuition costs, and then they get millions in funding from the government (even private institutions with huge amounts of money in the bank get hundreds of millions of dollars from the government), and then they have value added services such as dorms and food plans and the like, it all adds up to something that should be wildly sustainable with much lower costs. Most things I've read suggest the problem is an overwhelming administrative system that dwarfs the size of the actual teaching population, so there's room to cut.
But at the end of the day, tuition is almost immaterial compared to the fact that many student loans went to non-educational causes, and so if people's student loans are forgiven, what we're really saying is that people who never had a chance to become elites because they couldn't afford to go to college should pay for vacations in cancun and keggar parties, we're asking unborn children to pay for party drugs and video games.
I lived a pretty cheap life in college and so didn't end up with many student loans, they're all paid back now. Other people bought cars, went on vacations, held parties, and overall lived like they were living in a boomer college movie.
People might argue that the student loan industry and higher education are predatory. I'd counter that the "Taxpayers should pay back my student loans" argument is predatory. After getting an elite education and a chance to join the upper class and for some people the literal 4-year vacation of a lifetime, suddenly it's everyone's responsibility to pay for that for them?
The colleges already get massive government subsidies from the taxpayer, go after the colleges to use that money to eliminate tuitions, rather than further fleecing taxpayers (or unborn generations) to pay for individual's personal consumption. If you think of the actual cost of goods, a university classroom can pay for itself with just a few students, even without government assistance. 10 students paying a tuition of 10k a year, well that's 100k right there, but in reality many classes have a lot more than 10 students to start, sometimes classes can have huge numbers of students in a year. It means there needs to be a lot less administration, but the idea of universities are already virtually self-sufficient by themselves with fairly low tuition costs, and then they get millions in funding from the government (even private institutions with huge amounts of money in the bank get hundreds of millions of dollars from the government), and then they have value added services such as dorms and food plans and the like, it all adds up to something that should be wildly sustainable with much lower costs. Most things I've read suggest the problem is an overwhelming administrative system that dwarfs the size of the actual teaching population, so there's room to cut.
But at the end of the day, tuition is almost immaterial compared to the fact that many student loans went to non-educational causes, and so if people's student loans are forgiven, what we're really saying is that people who never had a chance to become elites because they couldn't afford to go to college should pay for vacations in cancun and keggar parties, we're asking unborn children to pay for party drugs and video games.
I remember back in the day watching this cop show out of Nevada, and they spend an awful lot of time arresting citizens for working without a license.
At the time I was pretty confused, it seemed like a bullshit charge. Even now as a licensed professional it still seems like kind of a bullshit charge.
At the time I was pretty confused, it seemed like a bullshit charge. Even now as a licensed professional it still seems like kind of a bullshit charge.
I use something similar to that to get wifi in my garage. Mine doesn't work great but there's newer versions that probably don't need to be routinely power cycled.
Another option for houses still wired for cable TV is units which provide networking over the cable TV wiring. Particularly good for houses that don't otherwise use that wiring at all.
Another option for houses still wired for cable TV is units which provide networking over the cable TV wiring. Particularly good for houses that don't otherwise use that wiring at all.
I'm shocked, poast only started a few months before fbxl social. props on building a robust community in the fediverse, it isn't just a given where you go "if you build it they will come"
Are we just apologizing for things that we had nothing to do with now? Cuz I could get in on this.
"I am deeply sorry for my participation in the Nazi concentration camps. I didn't realize, my German isn't very good, I thought that we were just helping them get over ADHD, obviously I was mistaken and I won't make that mistake again."
"I am so so sorry for my role in the Mongolian invasions. You know how it goes, you watch that one episode of South Park too many times you get all fired up and before you know it you're taking part in conquering most of Asia and Europe. My bad. I've talked it over with my pastor, and I'm going to just have to pray a little bit harder this week."
"I once again have to express my sincerest apologies for my role in the fall of the Western Roman empire. As you no doubt know, they had a custom of drying penises on the ground, and I ended up just having to get my sillies out because it was so funny to me, but I now recognize that my role in the collapse of the Western Roman empire was wrong and I shouldn't have done that.
"I am deeply sorry for my participation in the Nazi concentration camps. I didn't realize, my German isn't very good, I thought that we were just helping them get over ADHD, obviously I was mistaken and I won't make that mistake again."
"I am so so sorry for my role in the Mongolian invasions. You know how it goes, you watch that one episode of South Park too many times you get all fired up and before you know it you're taking part in conquering most of Asia and Europe. My bad. I've talked it over with my pastor, and I'm going to just have to pray a little bit harder this week."
"I once again have to express my sincerest apologies for my role in the fall of the Western Roman empire. As you no doubt know, they had a custom of drying penises on the ground, and I ended up just having to get my sillies out because it was so funny to me, but I now recognize that my role in the collapse of the Western Roman empire was wrong and I shouldn't have done that.