Given that it's a tech entrepreneur who is done work on ai, I feel like this is a live by the sword die by The sword sort of situation.
One of the elements of postmodernism is moral relativism. It permeates our thinking and our storytelling in the west, but it's a luxury of a safe and rich society. Contrast the demons in frieren who are depicted as totally evil. Some people regardless claim they are not evil.
In the Graysonian Ethic I wrote a lot about what we could consider to be evil or good, and I considered hypotheticals of creatures that were completely unlike humans. For example, a black widow who is sentient. For them, the idea of our pro-social morality would be completely alien, and to us ideas like eating your meat after copulation would be considered horrendous.
So does that mean that morality doesn't exist and something can only be considered evil if it allows itself to accept within itself the concept that it is doing evil?
I think that it's beyond any reasonable question, if you are in a human society, and you act in ways that are evil to humans, then you are evil.
For the demons in frieren, they are intentionally duplicitous, they exist solely to eat humans, they have nothing to protect with themselves, the only social contacts that they have with other demons are based on fear and dominance, and even the way that they look is solely intended to deceive humans. The human metrics, demons are of course evil. You can say that they aren't evil because they don't think that they're evil, that sort of moral relativism is the sort of thing that people can do when they are safe and not under threat of being eaten by demons. The reality is that they are unrequitedly evil, and that's why narratively there's no problem with Freiren doing what she does.
In our ancient stories, often animals are considered evil if they intentionally go after human communities whether they are doing so I would have hunger or malice or whatever. They are evil because they exist to harm us or will harm us. In some cases that extends to creatures that are clearly not out to harm us in any way such as rats, those rats represent filth and unclean conditions, and so they represent evil because we know what will happen if they are around, people will get sick and die. We can afford not to see animals in this way today because we have largely tamed the natural world as we see it, but to a human, even the mindless and thoughtless force of entropy can be considered evil because eventually it will mean the end of everything, and it is the force against which we toil at all times.
Now, if our stories were not meant for us but were meant for someone else, then maybe you could make an argument that within the frame of that story nothing and nobody was evil. But the thing is, everyone who is going to read a story that we are aware of on planet Earth is a human, and so the inherent lens of any story that is written for us and by us will be us, even if we are trying not to.
It is interesting that the posterchildren of postmodernism, globalist neoliberals, have found their moral absolutism for example in the war in Ukraine. The Trudeaus of the world who saw every moral position as equally acceptable just a few years ago magically found their moral foundations again once a powerful country started invading their puppe-- I mean once a big country was attacking a small country and that's bad. They also seemed to find a use for moral absolutism during covid -- they sounded like George W. Bush, "you're either with us or you're with the virus!"
In the Graysonian Ethic I wrote a lot about what we could consider to be evil or good, and I considered hypotheticals of creatures that were completely unlike humans. For example, a black widow who is sentient. For them, the idea of our pro-social morality would be completely alien, and to us ideas like eating your meat after copulation would be considered horrendous.
So does that mean that morality doesn't exist and something can only be considered evil if it allows itself to accept within itself the concept that it is doing evil?
I think that it's beyond any reasonable question, if you are in a human society, and you act in ways that are evil to humans, then you are evil.
For the demons in frieren, they are intentionally duplicitous, they exist solely to eat humans, they have nothing to protect with themselves, the only social contacts that they have with other demons are based on fear and dominance, and even the way that they look is solely intended to deceive humans. The human metrics, demons are of course evil. You can say that they aren't evil because they don't think that they're evil, that sort of moral relativism is the sort of thing that people can do when they are safe and not under threat of being eaten by demons. The reality is that they are unrequitedly evil, and that's why narratively there's no problem with Freiren doing what she does.
In our ancient stories, often animals are considered evil if they intentionally go after human communities whether they are doing so I would have hunger or malice or whatever. They are evil because they exist to harm us or will harm us. In some cases that extends to creatures that are clearly not out to harm us in any way such as rats, those rats represent filth and unclean conditions, and so they represent evil because we know what will happen if they are around, people will get sick and die. We can afford not to see animals in this way today because we have largely tamed the natural world as we see it, but to a human, even the mindless and thoughtless force of entropy can be considered evil because eventually it will mean the end of everything, and it is the force against which we toil at all times.
Now, if our stories were not meant for us but were meant for someone else, then maybe you could make an argument that within the frame of that story nothing and nobody was evil. But the thing is, everyone who is going to read a story that we are aware of on planet Earth is a human, and so the inherent lens of any story that is written for us and by us will be us, even if we are trying not to.
It is interesting that the posterchildren of postmodernism, globalist neoliberals, have found their moral absolutism for example in the war in Ukraine. The Trudeaus of the world who saw every moral position as equally acceptable just a few years ago magically found their moral foundations again once a powerful country started invading their puppe-- I mean once a big country was attacking a small country and that's bad. They also seemed to find a use for moral absolutism during covid -- they sounded like George W. Bush, "you're either with us or you're with the virus!"
Yeah, the dental and drug plans they are bragging about are explicitly against the working class. If you're working a full-time minimum wage job then you don't qualify for these plans that they keep on screaming from the hills for.
I'm not even necessarily saying that it's a bad thing to help out the poorest people in our society, but they are absolutely lying about what they've done here. None of it has anything to do with the working class, and jagmeet singh going to a union plant and bragging about how they don't need to pay for dental care just shows how little those idiots understand what they've done in their own legislation.
Of course, we're going to lose a lot more than this program once we start having to pay for the spending binge the liberals have been on for the last 10 years.
I'm not even necessarily saying that it's a bad thing to help out the poorest people in our society, but they are absolutely lying about what they've done here. None of it has anything to do with the working class, and jagmeet singh going to a union plant and bragging about how they don't need to pay for dental care just shows how little those idiots understand what they've done in their own legislation.
Of course, we're going to lose a lot more than this program once we start having to pay for the spending binge the liberals have been on for the last 10 years.
I think it's going to be really interesting because the millennials are really the last generation to really have a lot of people who understand technology because back then you had to learn technology to be able to use technology, but right now the technology is easy enough that you can use it without really knowing anything about it.
Most of the time it has nothing to do with smart or dumb, it's just which skills of people earned and people which skills haven't people learned, but some skills are tedious to learn if there isn't some reward for it, if you weren't going to be able to play the latest video game at the end of it, a lot of millennial boys wouldn't have learned Tech. It's a tedious skill to learn.
On the other hand though, skills are skills and they're often quite useful, and so people who disregard the effort and aptitude that goes into learning a skill do so at their own peril...
Most of the time it has nothing to do with smart or dumb, it's just which skills of people earned and people which skills haven't people learned, but some skills are tedious to learn if there isn't some reward for it, if you weren't going to be able to play the latest video game at the end of it, a lot of millennial boys wouldn't have learned Tech. It's a tedious skill to learn.
On the other hand though, skills are skills and they're often quite useful, and so people who disregard the effort and aptitude that goes into learning a skill do so at their own peril...
Most people, especially on the left, seem to have no concept of this. In the same sense as mussolini, Elon is a fascist, not in the sense of being a racial supremacist like the German national socialists, but in the sense of his understanding that the state is a totalizing one, and if you go with the state then you will succeed and if you go against the state you will fail. His recent change of heart isn't because he's so principled about the right, but that he was perfectly capable of seeing the winds change.
None of elon's success has anything to do with his car company or his rocket ship company. Neither of them have sales that are commensurate with his wealth even remotely. The electric car company that was handed a factory by the state, and whose products were individually subsidized by the state to the tune of $7,500 per vehicle, it's given huge amounts of money in ZEV credits it sells to other companies, yet is nonetheless barely profitable. If his wealth was commensurate with the actual success of his car company, he might be a billionaire, but not much of one. He is as rich as he is because the government wanted him to invest in electric cars and he did, they wanted him to invest in space and so he did, they wanted him to invest in military technologies and he has, and he happened to be in the right place at the right time to soak up all of the dumb money that America's largest period of money printing in history created.
Now that it appears that he has changed lanes because the next while is not going to be related to the far left, many of those same government institutions that supported him are now attacking him. He's seen Court decisions go against him, regulators are starting to go after his car companies for all the unsafe things that he does, his plans to retrieve some astronauts from. The international space station was specifically denied by the California government because of his support of the wrong political party. Private interests that act in accordance with the state are rewarded and those who oppose the state are punished, more or less the definition of fascism.
I do want to be clear I'm not saying that Elon Musk believes that fascism is the right way to run a country or anything, only that as a shrewd individual he understands the game being played and he's playing it instead of the game he wishes was being played. I think this model of the world also explains the recent kerfuffle with maga with respect to immigration, because part of the fascist reward for following the state is favorable regulatory treatment.
None of elon's success has anything to do with his car company or his rocket ship company. Neither of them have sales that are commensurate with his wealth even remotely. The electric car company that was handed a factory by the state, and whose products were individually subsidized by the state to the tune of $7,500 per vehicle, it's given huge amounts of money in ZEV credits it sells to other companies, yet is nonetheless barely profitable. If his wealth was commensurate with the actual success of his car company, he might be a billionaire, but not much of one. He is as rich as he is because the government wanted him to invest in electric cars and he did, they wanted him to invest in space and so he did, they wanted him to invest in military technologies and he has, and he happened to be in the right place at the right time to soak up all of the dumb money that America's largest period of money printing in history created.
Now that it appears that he has changed lanes because the next while is not going to be related to the far left, many of those same government institutions that supported him are now attacking him. He's seen Court decisions go against him, regulators are starting to go after his car companies for all the unsafe things that he does, his plans to retrieve some astronauts from. The international space station was specifically denied by the California government because of his support of the wrong political party. Private interests that act in accordance with the state are rewarded and those who oppose the state are punished, more or less the definition of fascism.
I do want to be clear I'm not saying that Elon Musk believes that fascism is the right way to run a country or anything, only that as a shrewd individual he understands the game being played and he's playing it instead of the game he wishes was being played. I think this model of the world also explains the recent kerfuffle with maga with respect to immigration, because part of the fascist reward for following the state is favorable regulatory treatment.
I've got laptop that I need to set up to be as light as possible, so I'm trying out Arch to see if that helps.
Definitely gives me some lfs vibes. Not a lot of handholding compared to most distros.
Definitely gives me some lfs vibes. Not a lot of handholding compared to most distros.
"it's easy not a special skill"
Cool, so that redditor is already doing it, right?
You know, I've been trying to grow food now for several years in a row, and it actually turns out that it's really fuckin hard. Like, you might be able to get something to grow, but the idea of growing enough that you don't die of starvation, especially when you basically have one shot at it, I'm really thankful that I can just go to the store and buy you a 3-month supply of rice for a couple hours of work.
Ironically though, we see the same thing with computers. People keep on claiming that it's just a skill set and that anyone can learn it, but that's not really true. We see lots of people who can't really learn computers. Hell, most of silicon valley at this point is facing giant layoffs because these tech companies picked up all these employees who can't actually do any productive work.
Yeah, it's great you can do a tick tock video about drinking your soy latte, but over the last couple years Facebook has gone down a few times and I guarantee you that it isn't the soy latte swilling tiktokers who got it back up and running.
I have a specific skill at work, and it's one of those skills that a lot of people think is easy because you don't have to lift up a giant physical thing to do it. One guy accused me of trying to hide all the information so that he couldn't learn how to do that thing, so I ended up spending the time and I put together a 100 page manual describing an excruciating detail exactly how to do my job, a several hour training course, and all the hardware required to do it, and guess what? I never heard from that guy again. Because it turns out that doing hard things is hard.
Cool, so that redditor is already doing it, right?
You know, I've been trying to grow food now for several years in a row, and it actually turns out that it's really fuckin hard. Like, you might be able to get something to grow, but the idea of growing enough that you don't die of starvation, especially when you basically have one shot at it, I'm really thankful that I can just go to the store and buy you a 3-month supply of rice for a couple hours of work.
Ironically though, we see the same thing with computers. People keep on claiming that it's just a skill set and that anyone can learn it, but that's not really true. We see lots of people who can't really learn computers. Hell, most of silicon valley at this point is facing giant layoffs because these tech companies picked up all these employees who can't actually do any productive work.
Yeah, it's great you can do a tick tock video about drinking your soy latte, but over the last couple years Facebook has gone down a few times and I guarantee you that it isn't the soy latte swilling tiktokers who got it back up and running.
I have a specific skill at work, and it's one of those skills that a lot of people think is easy because you don't have to lift up a giant physical thing to do it. One guy accused me of trying to hide all the information so that he couldn't learn how to do that thing, so I ended up spending the time and I put together a 100 page manual describing an excruciating detail exactly how to do my job, a several hour training course, and all the hardware required to do it, and guess what? I never heard from that guy again. Because it turns out that doing hard things is hard.
"you're gonna send me to a work camp!"
Lady you haven't worked a day in your life. It isn't worth the money to try to get you to start now.
Lady you haven't worked a day in your life. It isn't worth the money to try to get you to start now.
Kids are your immortality project, and in a society so broken the only way to deal with the crushing reality that your immortality project has been hijacked by satanic cultural forces is to cope by pretending this was your intention all along.
Why climb Mt. Everest (while listening to the most annoying voice in all of Asia?) because it's there.
I remember the advice "Just go outside" when I was trying to meet women. Honestly though, it's not that simple. If you go outside, you'll just be alone and outside.
And a lot of really good guys and good gals were busy doing the stuff they were supposed to do, so they never had a chance to learn how to do anything other than sit at home on twitch or sit outside in a lawn chair like a psycho wondering why the Internet lied to them and told them that if they go outside somehow they'll magically meet people.
It's really hard meeting people. It's possible, but it's not as straightforward as "go outside".
Thankfully I've been married for 15 years, so I don't need to meet women, but I remember it was really tough after I got out of college and got my first job, because I had to get out of my comfort zone.
I went outside every Friday, 2-3 times on Saturday, 2-3 times on Sunday, and once on Mondays because I go out with my son to the park every chance I get while the weather is good, and it's like a ghost world out there. We barely interacted with anyone all summer because we usually had the parks to ourselves.
The second last chapter of my book to my son, The Graysonian Ethic, is about how to meet women. Honestly, I doubt the little Casanova will need the help, He's growing up to be a really cool kid, but if you have no idea what you're doing at all then some strategies going into things are a good thing to have.
This one lady on youtube said "Guyyyyyys, just be huuuuman" and it pissed me off so much it's stuck with me. She was a blonde haired, blue eyed, gorgeous woman with a posh English accent. I don't use the phrase often unironically, but it's like "Check your privilege, lady". The romantic and overall social experience of any man who isn't actually a natural 10 is going to be so different than hers that giving advice is a bit like someone born a multi-billionaire trying to give tips on how to save money to someone who was born poor. "Well just take the money daddy gives you for a Porsche and invest in a business!"
You know, men trying to take dating advice from women is probably a big part of what creates incels. They go around "just being huuuuuuman", or "being nice" or "being yourself", and after following the advice as hard as they can they find themselves alone and start to figure they are incapable of ever meeting someone who likes them and get bitter and jaded with the world. In a different vein, the same happens to people who take rich people's advice about money and wonder why they aren't multi-millionaires because they stopped eating avocado toast every morning at Starbuck's. It's also like the boomers who don't realize that new graduate put out 100 resumes yesterday giving advice like "Just confidently shake the boss's hand and he'll hire you on the spot" -- no, that's not how things work anymore grandpa. Of course people get bitter when they hear this horrible advice and then try it and it doesn't work at all.
And a lot of really good guys and good gals were busy doing the stuff they were supposed to do, so they never had a chance to learn how to do anything other than sit at home on twitch or sit outside in a lawn chair like a psycho wondering why the Internet lied to them and told them that if they go outside somehow they'll magically meet people.
It's really hard meeting people. It's possible, but it's not as straightforward as "go outside".
Thankfully I've been married for 15 years, so I don't need to meet women, but I remember it was really tough after I got out of college and got my first job, because I had to get out of my comfort zone.
I went outside every Friday, 2-3 times on Saturday, 2-3 times on Sunday, and once on Mondays because I go out with my son to the park every chance I get while the weather is good, and it's like a ghost world out there. We barely interacted with anyone all summer because we usually had the parks to ourselves.
The second last chapter of my book to my son, The Graysonian Ethic, is about how to meet women. Honestly, I doubt the little Casanova will need the help, He's growing up to be a really cool kid, but if you have no idea what you're doing at all then some strategies going into things are a good thing to have.
This one lady on youtube said "Guyyyyyys, just be huuuuman" and it pissed me off so much it's stuck with me. She was a blonde haired, blue eyed, gorgeous woman with a posh English accent. I don't use the phrase often unironically, but it's like "Check your privilege, lady". The romantic and overall social experience of any man who isn't actually a natural 10 is going to be so different than hers that giving advice is a bit like someone born a multi-billionaire trying to give tips on how to save money to someone who was born poor. "Well just take the money daddy gives you for a Porsche and invest in a business!"
You know, men trying to take dating advice from women is probably a big part of what creates incels. They go around "just being huuuuuuman", or "being nice" or "being yourself", and after following the advice as hard as they can they find themselves alone and start to figure they are incapable of ever meeting someone who likes them and get bitter and jaded with the world. In a different vein, the same happens to people who take rich people's advice about money and wonder why they aren't multi-millionaires because they stopped eating avocado toast every morning at Starbuck's. It's also like the boomers who don't realize that new graduate put out 100 resumes yesterday giving advice like "Just confidently shake the boss's hand and he'll hire you on the spot" -- no, that's not how things work anymore grandpa. Of course people get bitter when they hear this horrible advice and then try it and it doesn't work at all.
The NHS in the UK put out an urgent warning over -8C, I'm poking some fun at that because it's going to be a little chilly here.
Eventually it stops mattering. At -31 it's -24, by -40 it's -40 and you can feel the reaper's blade on your neck no matter where you go or what you do.
Travelling from town to town visiting different masters in his traditional suit, never becoming wealthy and wearing a single gold earring to pay the gravedigger in case he ever dies, this is the life of the rape journeyman.
Feel like a lot of gravediggers wives would have a lot of earrings...
Feel like a lot of gravediggers wives would have a lot of earrings...
Man, they say don't judge a book by its cover... But come on. What else was that guy going to turn up to be?
I didn't realize cars that are a little bit newer than mine already had the always on cellular modem. Maybe the car company should be paying us a monthly fee for making use of our property...