effortposting
They're not even human beings, because human beings think for themselves. Even most animals think for themselves.
In premodern times, it was expected for a person to be strong, and while it was expected one would accept the given truths of the emperor or the oracle, it was also expected that one think for themselves to the extent that they would not be foolish. Even if you were taking truth as presented by a pastor or bishop, it was understood that theological truths were complex and layered, and that's why a pastor or a bishop was required.
In modern times, rationality was king, and it was always demanded that humans fully act as the rational beings the enlightenment incorrectly assumed we were. You were to follow the simpleminded modern ideology whatever it was, but that ideology was intended to be "rational" and often "scientific", and so you were expected to also be "rational" or scientific. To be irrational or hypocritical was a cardinal sin under rationalism, meaning that a modern man is intended to think for themselves, only rationally.
The postmodern eras we live in has reacted to modernism by claiming the grand narrative is that there is no grand narrative, the objective truth is that there is no objective truth, and that power is the only real thing. For fools like these, they might think that this means that no truth is real, and they should just switch to whatever they're told to believe this week, but in reality it also means that power is real, and to shut down your mind is to give up your power to whoever programmed you last is to give up whatever power you have as an individual and hand it to someone else (presumably someone more powerful, and since hierarchy is considered evil you're submitting to an oppressive hierarchy by refusing to think for yourself). Therefore, even under postmodernism, a man is intended to think for themselves perhaps more than ever to ensure they are making proper use of their own personal power.
In all eras, great men think, and ants don't.
For another animal example, I always like this one: They tested the intelligence of dogs and wolves. It turns out that the two have basically the same neuralogical structures and so if they have to they can both utilize intelligence to the same degree, but a dog will heel to its master and let the master do the thinking while it does the dog things, and a wolf will try to use its own intelligence first. If the dog's master dies, the dog had better learn to think like a wolf, or it will cease to exist.
Fitting, we live in a world where most people's entire bloodlines will cease to exist because they're doing as they're told instead of what's best for them. Population collapses in most countries. A near majority of women childless by 40. A supermajority of men childless by 40. And the ants keep following the path they've been laid.
I have shown that while each era of knowledge demands some adherence to current thought, each era also demands individuals think for themselves because in fact a man is not a piano key and a civilization of unthinking dogs is actually not very useful because while a dog can follow commands, it won't do the things it needs to survive without its masters orders. If you have a situation like today where the masters are powerful but have no care whatsoever for their dogs, then the dogs will die out.
In premodern times, it was expected for a person to be strong, and while it was expected one would accept the given truths of the emperor or the oracle, it was also expected that one think for themselves to the extent that they would not be foolish. Even if you were taking truth as presented by a pastor or bishop, it was understood that theological truths were complex and layered, and that's why a pastor or a bishop was required.
In modern times, rationality was king, and it was always demanded that humans fully act as the rational beings the enlightenment incorrectly assumed we were. You were to follow the simpleminded modern ideology whatever it was, but that ideology was intended to be "rational" and often "scientific", and so you were expected to also be "rational" or scientific. To be irrational or hypocritical was a cardinal sin under rationalism, meaning that a modern man is intended to think for themselves, only rationally.
The postmodern eras we live in has reacted to modernism by claiming the grand narrative is that there is no grand narrative, the objective truth is that there is no objective truth, and that power is the only real thing. For fools like these, they might think that this means that no truth is real, and they should just switch to whatever they're told to believe this week, but in reality it also means that power is real, and to shut down your mind is to give up your power to whoever programmed you last is to give up whatever power you have as an individual and hand it to someone else (presumably someone more powerful, and since hierarchy is considered evil you're submitting to an oppressive hierarchy by refusing to think for yourself). Therefore, even under postmodernism, a man is intended to think for themselves perhaps more than ever to ensure they are making proper use of their own personal power.
In all eras, great men think, and ants don't.
For another animal example, I always like this one: They tested the intelligence of dogs and wolves. It turns out that the two have basically the same neuralogical structures and so if they have to they can both utilize intelligence to the same degree, but a dog will heel to its master and let the master do the thinking while it does the dog things, and a wolf will try to use its own intelligence first. If the dog's master dies, the dog had better learn to think like a wolf, or it will cease to exist.
Fitting, we live in a world where most people's entire bloodlines will cease to exist because they're doing as they're told instead of what's best for them. Population collapses in most countries. A near majority of women childless by 40. A supermajority of men childless by 40. And the ants keep following the path they've been laid.
I have shown that while each era of knowledge demands some adherence to current thought, each era also demands individuals think for themselves because in fact a man is not a piano key and a civilization of unthinking dogs is actually not very useful because while a dog can follow commands, it won't do the things it needs to survive without its masters orders. If you have a situation like today where the masters are powerful but have no care whatsoever for their dogs, then the dogs will die out.
It's interesting. If this was a pro-russia protester attacking Ukraine for the war Russia started using the logic that Ukraine is evil for being attacked and not just taking it, would huffpo et al be calling him an "anti-war protester"?
Hamas started the war with multiple war crimes. Hamas continues the war. Hamas still has many of the civilian hostages they took, perpetuating crimes against humanity.
I bet if Hamas agreed to a permanent ceasefire in exchange for releasing all the hostages immediately Israel would take it, even with the obvious issues in Israel where netnyahu wants it to continue. It would be a cassus belli for peace, and western powers, particularly America under Trump, would likely pressure Israel strongly to take the peace regardless of the strategic reasons for Israel to continue.
You don't need to love the Jews or Israel to realize that. If this guy's loves Hamas so much, he can go live under the reality they created for Palestine. Careful though, they don't enjoy the same civil rights the western world does.
Free speech is important, but it can't be absolute. It can't be legal to commit fraud. It can't be fraud to arbitrarily commit slander or libel. And I'd argue you can't use student visas to have foreign nationals come over and advocate for terrorist governments. Again, if Russia was doing this it would be crystal clear why it's wrong.
Arresting American citizens for the same thing I would be prepared to defend to an extent, but that's a different question, and even that's borderline given that Hamas has done unspeakable things to innocent people including women, children, and babies. Since Hamas is de facto the state of Palestine it really shows the mixed up priorities we see with respect to different actions.
Hamas started the war with multiple war crimes. Hamas continues the war. Hamas still has many of the civilian hostages they took, perpetuating crimes against humanity.
I bet if Hamas agreed to a permanent ceasefire in exchange for releasing all the hostages immediately Israel would take it, even with the obvious issues in Israel where netnyahu wants it to continue. It would be a cassus belli for peace, and western powers, particularly America under Trump, would likely pressure Israel strongly to take the peace regardless of the strategic reasons for Israel to continue.
You don't need to love the Jews or Israel to realize that. If this guy's loves Hamas so much, he can go live under the reality they created for Palestine. Careful though, they don't enjoy the same civil rights the western world does.
Free speech is important, but it can't be absolute. It can't be legal to commit fraud. It can't be fraud to arbitrarily commit slander or libel. And I'd argue you can't use student visas to have foreign nationals come over and advocate for terrorist governments. Again, if Russia was doing this it would be crystal clear why it's wrong.
Arresting American citizens for the same thing I would be prepared to defend to an extent, but that's a different question, and even that's borderline given that Hamas has done unspeakable things to innocent people including women, children, and babies. Since Hamas is de facto the state of Palestine it really shows the mixed up priorities we see with respect to different actions.
I think the view of enlightenment modernity as fundamentally broken including liberalism is probably correct -- none of these totalizing ideologies actually did what they were supposed to.
It's pretty funny.
some of those dumbfucks tattooed the vaccine card showing they took Trump's vaccine on their skin permanently.
some of those dumbfucks tattooed the vaccine card showing they took Trump's vaccine on their skin permanently.
They wanted to cast a black guy, but all the sensitivity readers were opposed, saying that a black person wouldn't talk about how much they love Hitler, it's just not realistic.
because it's convenient to just cast music to the stereo or video to the TV.
Also, intertia. It isn't like you'd be having problems with a 2nd gen chromecast or a chromebook audio because you just bought one yesterday.
Back at the beginning of the android era, it looked like google was the one to beat in terms of open products. My first smartphone back in 2011 was a galaxy s1, and I think I got it all the way to cyanogen Android J before I gave it away and replaced it with an S3, which immedieately got cyanogen itself.
It appeared that chromecast was going to be a platform potentially as open in the beginning as well (we're past the golden age of hackability in general, sadly)
Obviously, at some point Google's no longer going to be an option, and I'll have to further expand my empire of dirt, just as I replaced most of my streaming services with jellyfin and most big tech websites with the fediverse, and cloud services with nextcloud. Thankfully, FOSS solutions have gotten really friggin good lately.
We'll have to wait and see. Maybe I end up just using some fanless sign PCs and a wiimote.
Also, intertia. It isn't like you'd be having problems with a 2nd gen chromecast or a chromebook audio because you just bought one yesterday.
Back at the beginning of the android era, it looked like google was the one to beat in terms of open products. My first smartphone back in 2011 was a galaxy s1, and I think I got it all the way to cyanogen Android J before I gave it away and replaced it with an S3, which immedieately got cyanogen itself.
It appeared that chromecast was going to be a platform potentially as open in the beginning as well (we're past the golden age of hackability in general, sadly)
Obviously, at some point Google's no longer going to be an option, and I'll have to further expand my empire of dirt, just as I replaced most of my streaming services with jellyfin and most big tech websites with the fediverse, and cloud services with nextcloud. Thankfully, FOSS solutions have gotten really friggin good lately.
We'll have to wait and see. Maybe I end up just using some fanless sign PCs and a wiimote.
A lot of the new ports were because of Ghidra, a reverse engineering tool released by the NSA:
https://ghidra-sre.org/
https://ghidra-sre.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctsEKf7-BJs
A bunch of chromecasts have been failed for a week now. I know the chromecast audio has been dead on my stereo, which sucks.
There are open protocol options, of course, such as bluetooth or DLNA, but chromecast, like airplay, is a good solution to a common problem.... when it works.
If they don't get this fixed soon though, well I'll just have to remove the CIA listening devices from my house, and then they won't know anything about my terrorist activities -- so there!
A bunch of chromecasts have been failed for a week now. I know the chromecast audio has been dead on my stereo, which sucks.
There are open protocol options, of course, such as bluetooth or DLNA, but chromecast, like airplay, is a good solution to a common problem.... when it works.
If they don't get this fixed soon though, well I'll just have to remove the CIA listening devices from my house, and then they won't know anything about my terrorist activities -- so there!
That glowie app for reverse engineering programs has been a massive benefit for reverse engineering efforts. Great seeing so many open source ports nobody ever expected.
His whole thing is that there's timeless and intuitive truths in the ancient myths of humanity. It's always going to look nuts because the old myths and legends are kind of nuts. The epic of gilgamesh starts with a dude banging a prostitute for a week, and it goes hard with the descriptions.
I've read through most of that book, and I don't remember seeing that. It feels like something I'd remember repressing to the deepest darkest depths of my memory forever.
I'm from Soviet canuckistan, so a crack house is a million to start in our biggest housing markets. The peak we hit nation wide was 850k, and that's you still have to live in Canada.
It's not a good house, but for 131,500 it kind of is a good house even if it's a POS core floor that's tiny and has no back door.
S&P500 just had its best day of 2025.
World war 1 never happened bro, it was an optical illuuuuuuusioooon. So security guarantees are always doubleplus good!