I ran a poll and 100% of people polled said they wanted me in power.
(I polled myself)
(I polled myself)
2000 was actually stable.
A few years ago I bought a thin client and installed Windows 98 on it, and I got a reminder of how much the 9x series blew chunks. Took me installing it three times just to get a stable install. Moreover, Windows 2000 had the first journaling file system on windows, which fundamentally changed the reliability of storage. Prior to that, a bad reboot could torch your FAT and leave you having to reinstall.
If you did spin the wheel and get a decent install, 98SE was pretty ok, but 2000 definitely was the one you wanted to use if you wanted your system to run and your data to remain where you left it.
A few years ago I bought a thin client and installed Windows 98 on it, and I got a reminder of how much the 9x series blew chunks. Took me installing it three times just to get a stable install. Moreover, Windows 2000 had the first journaling file system on windows, which fundamentally changed the reliability of storage. Prior to that, a bad reboot could torch your FAT and leave you having to reinstall.
If you did spin the wheel and get a decent install, 98SE was pretty ok, but 2000 definitely was the one you wanted to use if you wanted your system to run and your data to remain where you left it.
Windows 2000 was the last cohesive version of windows. Windows XP was half XP, half 2000 (and all the good parts were 2000). Windows 7 is half 2000, half XP, half Vista, Windows 8 was half 2000, half 7, half vista, half 8.
And the best parts of windows 11 are still just Windows 2000.
And the best parts of windows 11 are still just Windows 2000.
There are a few cardinal rules in Eurasia, and one of those rules is being violated right now. History tells us we do not break these cardinal rules.
Another thing is that competition and collaboration need not be opposites. High achieving teams typically work together very well, and are also quite competitive with each other, because success requires both, and they aren't incompatible.
That's a fantastic point. They'll sweep it under the rug, but now that the corruption is laid bare for everyone to see, it can't be forgotten.
I argue that anyone who is saying America is facing an "unprecedented constitutional crisis" needs to pick up a goddamn history book. Democratic saint FDR set up concentration camps for US citizens of a certain race. Abraham Lincoln suspended Habeas Corpus and oh yeah just a little thing probably isn't even worth mentioning *started a civil war with half the country that killed significantly more than half a million people*. And those two are particularly notable, but not alone (and their presidencies were both marked with things far bigger than anything I've seen Trump to yet)
FDRs New Deal policies might make him a darling to the left, but they were also wildly unconstitutional and the only reason he got them through was threats against the Supreme Court that he'd just keep packing the Supreme Court until they complied. Of course they'd never do that tod-- just kidding the left made the same threats under Biden.
Andrew Jackson committed a genocide against the Native people by continuing their forced removal from their homelands in the trail of tears. Sure is a good thing something like that isn't exactly the sort of narrative the left would prefer we actually remember and never forget to justify their postmodern deconstruction of US History. Don't worry though, the Supreme Court overturned the decision -- And Jackson ignored that decision and kept doing it anyway. The thing Trump hasn't done yet, but apparently would be unprecedented if he did. I suppose we just forget what happened due to the D next to his name?
Some people say that Trump using military troops on US soil is unprecedented. Ignoring Lincoln who literally started a civil war, President Johnson and Eisenhower both used the army army to force school integration. I guess it's ok though since that made him a darling to the left. By the way, Johnson and Eisenhower aren't alone -- he isn't even alone since the beginning of the 20th century, when most fools history begins.
I'm not actually a partisan either -- I've criticized the Republicans for decades when they were in the wrong. But what I'm seeing is the epitome of writers not even being real people. Instead, they're just mindless speaker boxes recreating whatever soundwaves they're told to make without any regard for the contents of those sound waves. Every time you hear someone say "This would be an unprecedented attack on our democracy", that's simply false -- it's fully precedented. Trump could do all kinds of horrible things he hasn't done up to and including genocide and ethnic concentration camps, and it's precedented in the United States.
The histrionic lies only serve Trump. He's in office for a second term in large part as the boy who cried wolf getting eaten.
But the other thing is that it's actually true that Trump isn't really authoritarian. He had every opportunity in the 2020 riots that took place over 6 months to be truly authoritarian, and many people would have supported it -- including a centrist like me. People don't have the right to burn down cities, if the police can't stop it for 6 months then I fully support putting down such riots with lead bullets. Trump didn't do that, despite having every precedent to do so. Dozens dead, billions in property damage, entire city blocks taken over and declaring themselves autonomous zones separate from the US government (which is definitionally insurrection, by the way)
In some ways, of course the protesters on January 6th must have just assumed you could riot without consequence now -- they'd just watched 6 months of riots without consequences. Imagine their surprise when their riot suddenly faced all the consequences for the entire summer of love?
Now don't get me wrong: I don't think Trump is small government. I also don't Trump wasn't somewhat responsible for his loss in 2020. I also don't think Jan 6th was good at all. He's imperfect and even his supporters in virtually every faction agree about that. During his Joe Rogan interview, he actually talked about some of the ways his first term was imperfect, which is a direct contrast to his opponent in 2024 who couldn't think of anything she'd change. My core point is about lies against Trump and the fact that press who repeat such lies are not even human beings, they're just parrots repeating sound waves they're trained to make.
FDRs New Deal policies might make him a darling to the left, but they were also wildly unconstitutional and the only reason he got them through was threats against the Supreme Court that he'd just keep packing the Supreme Court until they complied. Of course they'd never do that tod-- just kidding the left made the same threats under Biden.
Andrew Jackson committed a genocide against the Native people by continuing their forced removal from their homelands in the trail of tears. Sure is a good thing something like that isn't exactly the sort of narrative the left would prefer we actually remember and never forget to justify their postmodern deconstruction of US History. Don't worry though, the Supreme Court overturned the decision -- And Jackson ignored that decision and kept doing it anyway. The thing Trump hasn't done yet, but apparently would be unprecedented if he did. I suppose we just forget what happened due to the D next to his name?
Some people say that Trump using military troops on US soil is unprecedented. Ignoring Lincoln who literally started a civil war, President Johnson and Eisenhower both used the army army to force school integration. I guess it's ok though since that made him a darling to the left. By the way, Johnson and Eisenhower aren't alone -- he isn't even alone since the beginning of the 20th century, when most fools history begins.
I'm not actually a partisan either -- I've criticized the Republicans for decades when they were in the wrong. But what I'm seeing is the epitome of writers not even being real people. Instead, they're just mindless speaker boxes recreating whatever soundwaves they're told to make without any regard for the contents of those sound waves. Every time you hear someone say "This would be an unprecedented attack on our democracy", that's simply false -- it's fully precedented. Trump could do all kinds of horrible things he hasn't done up to and including genocide and ethnic concentration camps, and it's precedented in the United States.
The histrionic lies only serve Trump. He's in office for a second term in large part as the boy who cried wolf getting eaten.
But the other thing is that it's actually true that Trump isn't really authoritarian. He had every opportunity in the 2020 riots that took place over 6 months to be truly authoritarian, and many people would have supported it -- including a centrist like me. People don't have the right to burn down cities, if the police can't stop it for 6 months then I fully support putting down such riots with lead bullets. Trump didn't do that, despite having every precedent to do so. Dozens dead, billions in property damage, entire city blocks taken over and declaring themselves autonomous zones separate from the US government (which is definitionally insurrection, by the way)
In some ways, of course the protesters on January 6th must have just assumed you could riot without consequence now -- they'd just watched 6 months of riots without consequences. Imagine their surprise when their riot suddenly faced all the consequences for the entire summer of love?
Now don't get me wrong: I don't think Trump is small government. I also don't Trump wasn't somewhat responsible for his loss in 2020. I also don't think Jan 6th was good at all. He's imperfect and even his supporters in virtually every faction agree about that. During his Joe Rogan interview, he actually talked about some of the ways his first term was imperfect, which is a direct contrast to his opponent in 2024 who couldn't think of anything she'd change. My core point is about lies against Trump and the fact that press who repeat such lies are not even human beings, they're just parrots repeating sound waves they're trained to make.
Unless the "constitutional law scholar" said "Pick up a history book you idiots" then what you've actually got is a parrot who repeats whatever words they're trained to say.
Andrew Jackson didn't just ignore supreme Court order, he ignored a supreme court order for the purposes of committing genocide against indigenous people.
Don't worry though, FDR threatened the supreme Court with packing it so he could set up ethnic concentration camps where he locked up US citizens of Japanese descent.
Keep using that word unprecedented, there's an awful lot of precedent absolutely unspeakable things. It isn't a good idea to use words that aren't true. American history didn't start last week.
You guys aren't going to have an industry anymore if you don't use just a little bit of critical thinking. As it stands, the entire world is walking away from the news media because you are just ordered to say a stupid thing and like good little mouthpieces you repeat it.
The people have no use for a stenographer of the establishment. If you aren't going to tell the truth, you have no reason to exist.
Andrew Jackson didn't just ignore supreme Court order, he ignored a supreme court order for the purposes of committing genocide against indigenous people.
Don't worry though, FDR threatened the supreme Court with packing it so he could set up ethnic concentration camps where he locked up US citizens of Japanese descent.
Keep using that word unprecedented, there's an awful lot of precedent absolutely unspeakable things. It isn't a good idea to use words that aren't true. American history didn't start last week.
You guys aren't going to have an industry anymore if you don't use just a little bit of critical thinking. As it stands, the entire world is walking away from the news media because you are just ordered to say a stupid thing and like good little mouthpieces you repeat it.
The people have no use for a stenographer of the establishment. If you aren't going to tell the truth, you have no reason to exist.
Shame they never made any sequels.
I actually have a huge write-up on the failure of the sequels -- essentially, I argue that while the first movie fully embodies its core philosophy of postmodernism in its universe, themes, and plot, the sequels "have philosophy" but don't embody their philosophy. They have philosophical speeches, but the story isn't about the philosophy in those speeches.
I'm working on my next book which contains deep philosophical foundations, and I'm doing my best to keep this idea in mind as I write.
I actually have a huge write-up on the failure of the sequels -- essentially, I argue that while the first movie fully embodies its core philosophy of postmodernism in its universe, themes, and plot, the sequels "have philosophy" but don't embody their philosophy. They have philosophical speeches, but the story isn't about the philosophy in those speeches.
I'm working on my next book which contains deep philosophical foundations, and I'm doing my best to keep this idea in mind as I write.
"do you know how much electricity it takes to make a ton of aluminum? Do you know how much of that electricity comes from coal?"
Wtf I love aluminium now
Wtf I love aluminium now
Fear not! Trudeau, who has prorogurd Parliament to stay in power and absolutely will not be in any sort of power within a month or two, is here to save Ukraine!
Maybe he can donate some of the money that embezzled from the Canadian people?
Maybe he can donate some of the money that embezzled from the Canadian people?
The UK is cracking down on "hyper masculine influencers"
I guess you're just going to have to come get me. I'm ready.
I guess you're just going to have to come get me. I'm ready.
