The quote I showed is a quote. Someone said it today. That's why I responded to it today.
I'm willing to break bread with reasonable people and even some fairly unreasonable people. Neither side of the political spectrum has a monopoly on truth and multiple things can be true at once even if they're contradictory. But I see someone saying something silly, I'll probably mention it.
I'm willing to break bread with reasonable people and even some fairly unreasonable people. Neither side of the political spectrum has a monopoly on truth and multiple things can be true at once even if they're contradictory. But I see someone saying something silly, I'll probably mention it.
"remember: it is your patriotic duty to vandalize Tesla's"
I can't imagine how painful it must be to belong to these people's tribe.
I imagine taking the hit to buy an impractical 60,000 dollar virtue signal just to have the meta change before the payments are up, and suddenly I'm having my car which I bought to save the world vandalized.
How can you guys claim to have empathy for people who aren't like you when you don't even seem to have empathy for the people who are exactly like you?
I can't imagine how painful it must be to belong to these people's tribe.
I imagine taking the hit to buy an impractical 60,000 dollar virtue signal just to have the meta change before the payments are up, and suddenly I'm having my car which I bought to save the world vandalized.
How can you guys claim to have empathy for people who aren't like you when you don't even seem to have empathy for the people who are exactly like you?
The other thing that's annoying is when chatgpt rewrites what you just said. If I wanted you to rewrite what I just said I'd rewrite it myself.
It's always important to remember that these stories are by their nature not entirely real. It's like "oh, we produced all these solar kwh!" And then it's like "cool, how many were at night?"
For my Canadian compatriots, just a reminder that today is the end of advance polling, if you can get into a polling booth now and not on election Day, you probably should.
The way to make it ok to murder innocent people is to convince them that they aren't innocent people, and in fact the devil.
Yacy is an open source distributed search engine. Basically, you can have it crawl whichever websites you want, or you can even send it up as a transparent proxy so that it knows which websites you've gone to and it will crawl any websites you've ever been to, and it hooks up with everyone else running the software so when you run a search, you end up searching all of the things in your index, as well as all the things that everyone elses index. Kind of like bittorrent, it also has each node on the system pass around different chunks of data to each other, so there's lots of different copies of different pieces of the index everywhere.
I've got a copy set up at https://yacy.fbxl.net
You don't even necessarily have to use it exclusively, because it can hook into a searx instance so yacy results are just one piece of the total results. That's how I've got my search.fbxl.net set up, it looks at a bunch of different websites, and yacy is just one of them.
I've got a copy set up at https://yacy.fbxl.net
You don't even necessarily have to use it exclusively, because it can hook into a searx instance so yacy results are just one piece of the total results. That's how I've got my search.fbxl.net set up, it looks at a bunch of different websites, and yacy is just one of them.
My pet peeve last time I drove in a sim racing title was I was driving around in a Ford Focus, and I hit the gas and the wheels squealed.
I owned a Ford Focus at that time, and can tell you that even if the wheels started to chirp, the ESC would automatically reduce the throttle and possibly also apply the brakes.
These games claim to be a simulation, and often they've got some race car driver saying he vouches for the accuracy of the simulation, but the cars all drive like they've got 300HP and were built in the 1970s.
I owned a Ford Focus at that time, and can tell you that even if the wheels started to chirp, the ESC would automatically reduce the throttle and possibly also apply the brakes.
These games claim to be a simulation, and often they've got some race car driver saying he vouches for the accuracy of the simulation, but the cars all drive like they've got 300HP and were built in the 1970s.
These insensitive monsters don't realize that some people's trigger is trigger warnings!
Considering that the only people who import things from other countries directly tend to be rich, tariffs are a tax on the rich.
So what's the problem? this is what they wanted, right?
So what's the problem? this is what they wanted, right?
Does this have an internal combustion engine? If it runs on dead dinosaurs it's already twice as cool as a real cybertruck.
From where I'm standing, everyone on Earth should be running a yacy node. It isn't perfect or even great, but it's the only truly free search option, and it only gets better the more people use it.
There are presently 8 times more people seeding a single torrent of the Minecraft movie than were running yacy nodes at any point in the past month. If people really care about the danger Google poses, they ought to be participating in a solution. Even with its flaws, if there were to be a sudden boom in the use of the software, that alone could end up encouraging individuals and organizations to put more resources into it.
There are presently 8 times more people seeding a single torrent of the Minecraft movie than were running yacy nodes at any point in the past month. If people really care about the danger Google poses, they ought to be participating in a solution. Even with its flaws, if there were to be a sudden boom in the use of the software, that alone could end up encouraging individuals and organizations to put more resources into it.
Jellyfin is the goat. I started with Plex but found it really complicated to just watch my own media, jellyfin is like "yeah here's your movies, your movies, your books."
Geez, poor guy's face stopped growing at 10 years old. I'd want to be blasted all the time too!
I agree with what you've said.
I've written at long length about the way postmodernism isnt used consistently, it's often used as a weapon used to cut down things that are in opposition to certain groups but magically never gets used on any of their grand narratives or objective truths.
Just a slightly different glistening facet of the crap gem that is contemporary western society.
I've written at long length about the way postmodernism isnt used consistently, it's often used as a weapon used to cut down things that are in opposition to certain groups but magically never gets used on any of their grand narratives or objective truths.
Just a slightly different glistening facet of the crap gem that is contemporary western society.
Japan is a modern society with deep premodern roots, America is a postmodern society (which is itself a modernist ideology where the grand narrative is that there are no grand narratives and the objective truth is that there are no objective truths) with modern roots. Once you understand this about the two countries, everything makes a lot more sense.
Both are flawed ways of looking at the world, but modernism still believes that there's a societal telos, postmodernism believes that any direction is inherently evil (except direction away from a societal telos)
For America, events such as the nuclear bombing of Japan may have won them the war, but those same events were existential attacks on the grand American project. Events such as World War 1 broke the western narrative of peace and progress, and events such as the holocaust held up a mirror for the west to see what their totalizing ideology looked like, and they didn't like what they saw.
Both totalizing ideologies -- modernism's totalization towards "progress" and telos, and postmodernism's totalization away from such things, are effectively suicidal in the long run. If you have a dog and you give it only food, and it dies, so you give the next dog only water, it will die too. A dog needs many things to thrive, and in differing amounts at different times. Food, water, purpose, rest, play, social play, meaning, meaningless moments.
Japan is in trouble -- but they're not in trouble the way the South Koreans are. There will be fewer Japanese in 50 years than there are today, but not "4 great grandchildren for every 100 living koreans today" fewer.
Meanwhile, America and the west's deconstruction threatens the foundation of the civilization. One of the reasons for the fall of Athens and the western Roman Empire was the constant importation of people from outside the Empire and the effects that had on the natives who weren't part of the elite classes, and we're seeing that today.
Japan's current trajectory began with Commodore Perry's black ships sailing into Tokyo harbor where the pre-modern ideology of Japan at that time was tested and found to be wanting against the modernist ideology of the Americans and Europeans, leading to the Meiji Restoration and quick adoption of many modernist ideals which ultimately resulted in Imperial Japan in World War 2.
America as a nation was born very close to the French revolution and the birth of the modern period, and is strongly influenced by that modernism. When Japanese modernism falls apart, premodern themes emerge. When American modernism falls apart, there's nothing left.
Both are flawed ways of looking at the world, but modernism still believes that there's a societal telos, postmodernism believes that any direction is inherently evil (except direction away from a societal telos)
For America, events such as the nuclear bombing of Japan may have won them the war, but those same events were existential attacks on the grand American project. Events such as World War 1 broke the western narrative of peace and progress, and events such as the holocaust held up a mirror for the west to see what their totalizing ideology looked like, and they didn't like what they saw.
Both totalizing ideologies -- modernism's totalization towards "progress" and telos, and postmodernism's totalization away from such things, are effectively suicidal in the long run. If you have a dog and you give it only food, and it dies, so you give the next dog only water, it will die too. A dog needs many things to thrive, and in differing amounts at different times. Food, water, purpose, rest, play, social play, meaning, meaningless moments.
Japan is in trouble -- but they're not in trouble the way the South Koreans are. There will be fewer Japanese in 50 years than there are today, but not "4 great grandchildren for every 100 living koreans today" fewer.
Meanwhile, America and the west's deconstruction threatens the foundation of the civilization. One of the reasons for the fall of Athens and the western Roman Empire was the constant importation of people from outside the Empire and the effects that had on the natives who weren't part of the elite classes, and we're seeing that today.
Japan's current trajectory began with Commodore Perry's black ships sailing into Tokyo harbor where the pre-modern ideology of Japan at that time was tested and found to be wanting against the modernist ideology of the Americans and Europeans, leading to the Meiji Restoration and quick adoption of many modernist ideals which ultimately resulted in Imperial Japan in World War 2.
America as a nation was born very close to the French revolution and the birth of the modern period, and is strongly influenced by that modernism. When Japanese modernism falls apart, premodern themes emerge. When American modernism falls apart, there's nothing left.