Author of The Graysonian Ethic (Available on Amazon, pick up a dead tree copy today) Also Author of Future Sepsis (Also available on Amazon!) Admin of the FBXL Network including FBXL Search, FBXL Video, FBXL Social, FBXL Lotide, FBXL Translate, and FBXL Maps. Advocate for freedom and tolerance even if you say things I do not like Adversary of Fediblock Accept that I'll probably say something you don't like and I'll give you the same benefit, and maybe we can find some truth about the world. Ah... Is the Alliteration clever or stupid? Don't answer that, I sort of know the answer already...
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Last Notes npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Damn that seems like a waste of money to end up on a list made for people who don't like you. I guess you can re-sell the books later, but still! npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero When it's cold? Seems self-evident, a toque or a balaclava depending on how cold it is. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero lol "Hey, can you work this weekend?" "No, I'm homophobic." npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero After owning my tevo tornado for years and years, after the original textured bed came up and was effectively destroyed, then I had to deal with all the adhesive on the glass bed underneath for years, I finally got my hands on some goo gone. Removing the adhesive from the print bed has imo brought the printer to the next level. It's printing on glass. Thing is, I simply haven't had the bandwidth to print anything on the revealed glass print bed, because it meant re-levelling the print bed and all that. Today I'm doing my first print since removing the adhesive. Wish me luck -- it's still a bit dodgy, but the first layer seems to have gone down pretty well. Having a perfectly flat print surface really changed everything. https://social.fbxl.net/media/8c0d8e1dd5fa9112d0a3f41241314bdf32e99493fe902891a942056b550bf9ba.png npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero To understand why I found openBSD annoying, you have to understand what I was using immediately beforehand. I started on ubuntu, which is something that's familiar to me. All the tools are gnu tools I'm familar with, and it took a few tries to build a package with dependencies but it was ultimately completely doable. Not only can you chroot into a base distro install easily, with linux you're basically able to chroot into different distros which is quite useful. The qemu/binfmt method is amazing -- it lets you chroot into a different CPU architecture's distribution and operate as if you're running natively. It's possible to build an entire matrix of linux distributions and platforms without what is typically considered cross-compilation, and all from one command line. Next I moved to Haiku. It also used standard gnu utils, gcc and gnu make, and the shell was bash. Package installation and creation with dependencies were both really straightforward. Honestly, working on Haiku even fully through the shell was enough to convince me it's a solid OS worth looking at. I didn't try chrooting. The options for APIs were nice, havng extensive bsd and linux shims for cross-compatibility, as well as native APIs such as the window APIs. After that I was on FreeBSD. That particular BSD has a lot in common with linux, and it's quite forgiving to compile on, to install on, and FreeBSD really wants you to be building in chroot jails. There are 3 major versions active at any one time and you really want to build and package for each with integrated dependencies, I did exactly that and it went very smoothly. There were few to no surpises. Next I was on OpenBSD, and I got pretty annoyed. It really doesn't want you using gnu utils, but I need them for what I'm doing so I felt like a second class citizen. The make you call is totally incompatible with gmake. The shell is a bsd shell incompatible with bash. You can chroot, but you can't really spin up an isolated OS for compilation and testing because of limits on the local commands. A lot of files are in unusual spots. Everything else I used so far was able to use non pie/pic libraries without problems but you couldn't even build them on openbsd. The packaging tool has command line options documented for adding dependencies but it doesn't look like you can actually do that without going through their ports system which relies heavily on bsd/make. Then when I finally decided to pull the pin and generate a package without deps, I couldn't open a file dialog box in firefox because it was locked down too much, so I had to install a file manager to drag and drop my updated file onto my nextcloud to get the file off the system. So yeah, it's just really annoying trying to do what I was trying to do on OpenBSD. I moved to netBSD afterwards and it shares some quirks with OpenBSD I've thankfully already resolved, but even then it isn't nearly as locked down so for example I checked and at least in firefox I was able to open a dialog box with no drama. But, as I said before, it's all for a reason. OpenBSD didn't make those choices to mess with some dummy from the sticks. They made them as part of their security minded design. For that reason I can find it super annoying, but I can also understand it. If I wanted a thing that would happily just do as it was told, I've got lots of options. But if I wanted something that would not have a root exploit in its base install for years and years, obviously I'm going to pick OpenBSD. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero It is my growing opinion that OpenBSD is really annoying. It's supposed to be annoying, mind you. that's what makes it secure. That's why its logo is a puffer fish, but being annoying for a reason doesn't mean it's not annoying. It's like, we all have that friend, right? They're super annoying, but you understand why so you tolerate it. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero You ever been about half way through something and started to be like "am I the first person on earth to have done this? There's no way the devs intended this to be the process for making this work!" npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero It's a generic android set top box running on a p281 reference board, apparently using an s905x chip. Normally you'd press a reset button with a paperclip or toothpick to get it to try to boot off the SD card, but I ended up writing the sd card dozens of times trying to get it going so I drilled the reset button hole and printed a little button (the blue thing sticking out of the side). Two distributions generally work on these out of the box: CoreELECT which provides a basic experience with kodi, and armbian which provides Ubuntu or debian support. Neither worked out of the box for me. The armbian distribution written by the armbian app had a lot of complexity but didn't work, and the coreelect didn't either. What I eventually found was ta LibreElec-Generic-S905-9.2.8.19.img file which didn't work out of the box but did hard lock on boot up (which was progress -- the two behaviors before that were either skipping SD booting altogether and loading the android update app or boot looping). I found out that on that one you have to pull the correct .dtb file and copy it to dtb.img on the root of the card, and that one worked, which was a big deal. That dts file seems really critical. Arm isn't standardized so before you even load a kernel it describes the way stuff is laid out. Finding a working dts file ended up being a key to getting it to boot at all. Shortly afterwards I found amlogix-s9xxx-armbian by ophub on GitHub, and it didn't work directly but I was able to get an image from that repo to write and then boot using the dts file I got from the libreElect distribution. It seems to support basically all the hardware, after I got everything set up using the ethernet port I was able to get it onto my house WiFi. It all works, but the 1GB of memory, limited CPU, and the fact everything is running off an SD card means it doesn't feel very snappy. However, the fact that this tiny little box is now a functioning PC is very cool to me, and if I take the SD card out, it returns to being an android set top box. https://social.fbxl.net/media/05cc5023638ad17fc9344690dc94fe3cd20996b8daf4649cdabd4f83f9ea323a.jpg npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Successfully got this android set top box from 2018 running Ubuntu. Arm64 quad core and 1GB of memory but it's got two USB ports and lots of connectivity so it's a neat little thing to have running a desktop OS. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Get used to it! That's gentoo life. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Jean Baudrillard's simulations and simulacra describe how you start with reality, and reality is then simulated and eventually the simulation is simulated to create a simulacrum, and the original reality may in fact cease to exist. This toy really reminds me of that. There was once a thing as a rotary phone. The rotary phone was simulated in a children's toy. Then the children's toy itself is simulated in another children's toy, and meanwhile rotary phones have disappeared, and in an example of hyperreality, the reference to reality has disappeared entirely and the toy which is the simulation becomes an icon which is represented separately from its original context. https://social.fbxl.net/media/f021c6cd2104e9e639d88b0600934b9154ff05524d318ebeb810d52a11caf1d4.jpg npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Black people should be made aware of why there are no descendants of black slaves in the middle east. They might smarten up right quick. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero If I became the top general, I'd probably legally change my name to epic fury. Probably not the best reason they shouldn't make me a general, there are better ones. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero It's a recurring thing, even people that you think you like, you can never stop thinking for yourself. Even if you like them, that doesn't mean that they're not going to say something stupid or not to be a completely different person than you expected them to be. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero The French revolution represented a changing of the guard, where there was previously several estates competing for power, the nobility, the clergy, and everyone else -- the rich, and the commoners. The French revolution represented a burgeoning middle class between the rich and the commoners successfully for a limited time knocking out the ability. However, that revolution ultimately failed and that's one of the reasons that marks was so focused on the bourgeoisie. But let's say for a second that you wanted to elevate yourself to a new nobility. It seems to me that you would allow a revolutionary class to eliminate the clergy, and then you would make sure everyone was hyper fixated on the rich and middle classes because then a new nobility would have a monopoly on power. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero My first impression to anyone who is saying "you can't dismiss it until you've tried it" is "watch me". Absolutely nobody and nothing are entitled to my attention or anyone else's. More importantly, absolutely nobody or no one is entitled to my money. New game releases where I live on 80 to 100 dollars. That's a lot of money. That's almost a full year of supporting a YouTuber at a fairly high end. That's enough money to hire an artist to do a non-trivial work on fiverr. It's enough money to buy enough rice to feed yourself for months. And then for a lot of these games, they'll get mad at you if you decide early on that you don't like it, you're supposed to play it for 40, 80, 100 before you are allowed to decide that you don't like it. That's a big investment in time and money if you don't think the product ever made the initial case for investment. It might feel unfair, but your current work isn't what sells your current work. It is your last work that sells your current work, and at present mini video game companies are woefully lacking in that regard. I've put out two books now, and I would love it for people to give my books a chance. The ebook for each is very reasonably priced, just a few bucks, and even if you read the whole thing end to end a novel takes about four continuous hours of reading. But again, I'm not entitled to that time and I'm not entitled to that money. If I happen to break out as a writer, I will be praying to God for creating universe in which I can succeed, and if I never do it's just a reality that creative works are a gamble that may or may not pay off within the commercial window for a work. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero That's rookie numbers. You gotta get that number way up. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero To honor NoFX putting out an album about how much they agree with the bilionaires and world leaders who tell them what to think, I present this AI slop, a 100% corporate AI approved punk song. AI is pretty good at playing the 4 cords required for this brand of punk. https://social.fbxl.net/media/1d2787d9ca2318fe130855bc4f3babdde47aef42376e568de98aada5276326dc.mp3 npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero It's true that we are tiny. One look at the sheer number of star systems in the universe should be enough to break our sense of scale. But it's also true that we're massive. Tens of trillions of individual cells working in concert in a way that's kind of insane to think of, and a chain of life that's lasted billions of years through multiple mass extinction events. The universe is so massive, but at the same time it's so tiny, and in that context we're like a massive megastructure, like seeing a supernova from billions of light years away. There's forms of life so small you can't even see it with light, but we're so large that each microstructure looks like one giant individual instead of trillions of individuals. And we carry entire ecosystems we don't even know or care about. There's an entire galactic empire in our digestive tract, and global civilizations in our mouth, our ears, our nose, and around our skin. Some of our cells only purpose is to be born, grow, and die, and the corpses become national walls to protect against others. Imagine that people think that a 4 billion year old micro-civilization of tens of trillions of lives working in a unison so powerful that it can produce the phrase "Cogito ergo sum" and mean it is small and meaningless. Imagine people that think such a micro-civilization ought to stop that 4 billion year fire. And the stuff we're made of, it's a miracle by itself. Energy so immense that it structured itself into something we call matter, something so intense it literally warps the universe around it in what we call gravity. Then everything that wasn't hydrogen in our bodies was born in the heart of a star, fused together into a new thing, and that star died of old age and scattered the corpse throughout the universe, slowly aggregating into the complex structures capable of supporting this micro-civiization. A single atom is a thing of wonder, and we're made of so many of them that the human mind can't imagine the number properly. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero And part of the reason of that is any attempt to coordinate what being good means will necessarily end up with bad actors who want to inject their little things, and suddenly what it is to be good has a bunch of little strings attached that bad actors can use to justify evil. The solution probably isn't scalable, it's that people just need to be trying to do what they think is best without letting themselves get too caught up in the hubbub of trying to standardize it all. Historically, the best that anyone could do would be coming up with a set of common standards for the people immediately around you that were the ones that mattered. Universal standardization is ultimately an invention of modern nationalism. People didn't used to have to be that standardized, even stuff that you would think of as standardized like religion would be somewhat relational, and depending on your local church. That didn't mean that those local decisions would necessarily be even better than the universalized ones, but at least people could choose where they wanted to be, whereas under the more nationalist view, everywhere has to be the same thing. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Peak music, but it seems like every decade before that had some iconic music. Not so much today. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero It's like, do they think that if you were to go to a communist country and pull a gun on a cop or try to run one over with a car that you're going to come out of it better off? Because rather than a single officer acting in self-defense and having it be a big incident that draws intense scrutiny, in a lot of these countries your entire family would face some form of punishment of some sort. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero I feel like YouTube gave them a lot of good boy points recently because I don't watch rlm other than plinkett reviews but since January it's just ended up auto playing for hours. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero [admin mode] power failure due to electrical repairs. Back up now. One huge win that came out of this is I created a script to handle changes to ip, and script immediately operated as designed, so DNS came up a lot faster. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero I mean, probably not that fascist free. Spain was one of the longest running fascist regimes, only liberalizing once Franco's successor decided running a fascist dictatorship didn't sound like a fun time. There could certainly be a timeline where Spain is still fascist, and I'm sure there's still living people who wouldn't have a problem with a return to 1974. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero It's true. Imagine an America where I'm a citizen. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Since the French Revolution, the first violent modernist revolution, there’s a recurring pattern: the people who start the revolution are rarely the people who survive once power finishes consolidating. The French Revolution itself was arguably a bourgeois or early capitalist revolution. It pitted the rising middle class against a rent-seeking aristocracy and dismantled feudal privilege in favour of legal equality, property rights, and market participation. In that sense, despite being revolutionary and sharing many of the same ideas that would propogate to the Marxists, it wasn’t anti-capitalist at all. It was part of capitalism’s emergence. What failed, however, wasn’t capitalism so much as modernist political reasoning applied at revolutionary speed. Once legitimacy stopped being inherited and became ideological, loyalty replaced tradition, and deviation became dangerous. Many people outside normal social boundaries were swept up in revolutionary enthusiasm, only to be executed during the Reign of Terror when the new regime needed stability instead of disruption. The same structural pattern appears in the Russian and Chinese revolutions. Early on, broad coalitions are tolerated because they help destabilize the existing system. Once power is secured, those same differences become liabilities. The same thing happened under German National Socialism. In its early phase, the movement showed tolerance toward certain fringe groups. Once power was consolidated, that tolerance disappeared very quickly. Marx later absorbed the unresolved failures of the French Revolution into his theory, but the modernist assumption remained: grand narratives are just, “we” possess objective truth, and those who don’t share it must be corrected in service of an inevitable telos. Once that assumption is in place, the same historical resonances tend to repeat. There is value in recognizing a structural feature of modernist revolutions, of which communist revolutions are prime examples. They are permissive while tearing something down and restrictive once responsible for maintaining their own system. Focusing only on early phases misses how these systems behave over time. And so, consider the idiots presently tearing down Minneapolis. Useful idiots, the sort a Stalin or a Hitler or a Mao would make use of in the early days. Once the revolution is over, the new powers that be have no use for revolutionaries, and in fact such revolutionaries are dangerous -- likely to engage in another revolution, you understand. It's been happening for centuries, revolution after revolution, but the useful idiots don't read, so they don't know the historical precedent. Robespierre ultimately experiences his own guillotine blade, assuming they even get that far. Until that moment, useful idiots believe the guillotine is their ally and will never turn on them. Ironically, unlike the Jacobins and the Marxists and the National Socialists, there is no revolution in America. They're just tools of one part of the establishment butting heads with another part of the establishment. Once election season is over and the midterms are over, there's no place in the palace for them, just a return to ignominy. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero People who have to make stuff on their own and convince someone else to buy it know that you really have to think about your audience, or at least try to make something you think people would want to buy. Most of these idiots grew up thinking that wet roads cause rain, so the only reason big companies had stuff that was so popular is that they have lots of money for advertising, so if they get into the big companies they can make whatever they want and the big companies can advertise it and everyone will have to watch whatever dreck they puke up. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero The Democrats lost the last civil war, why are they trying to start another one? npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero LLMs can be clever at times, but anyone who has ever tried to use one to solve a hard problem and gotten "This proves it. We're on the right track" for a few hours where it is clearly not on the right track knows agentic AI isn't necessarily such a good idea. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Honestly, every year that this doesn't get done is another year you know that the government doesn't do anything good for anyone. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero To be fair, he won't be on the run for long because he'll be so weak from eating rice paper dipped in chicken broth instead of real food. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero I feel like this helps us understand why you want to get married to a good woman and have her bear your children, rather than doing what Elon Musk did and having more kids than Ghengis Khan and half of them are even more messed up than his kids... npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Sorry to hear that. Actually sucks. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero 40% chance that anyone you didn't like isn't your problem anymore. https://social.fbxl.net/media/e3ff696127db61f4d3247eb38f9f4dd257310d7fa1726bd96bfaa93a4e14d437.png npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero [admin mode] well be going down today for an extended outage for software upgrades. See you on the other side! npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero [admin mode] sometime this week we'll be going down for back-end upgrades. Just a heads up. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Like 36 countries go "oh sweet, reduced tariffs" npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero It's going to be like the Dare program. Within three generations they're going to legalize the rule of thumb. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Hell mode started it's anime this week. Only 12 episodes, hopefully it's good. Still one of my favorite LN series. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero I might have misunderstood you then, I'm glad I did because I think that it's an important distinction that a lot of people aren't going to make, so I added a couple paragraphs about it to my broader analysis. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero I haven't posted it yet, but I did a full analysis on this. The thing is, proportionality still lies on the cops side, and it would probably be on the cops side no matter what, even if it wasn't a cop. When you try to run someone over with your car, or at least if someone believes that you are trying to run them over with your car, proportionality says you are already using deadly force, so using deadly force back is justified in defense. And I would push further, and say this isn't an America thing. If you try to run over a law enforcement officer in europe, or in the uk, or in japan, or in china, or in canada, pretty much every one of those places would consider that police officer justified in pulling their gun on you. You just don't have a right to run people over with your car. Don't do it, it's a bad idea. Earlier mountain_jay talked about the fact that the shooting wasn't necessary, and and I think that that's a separate question from whether it was justified. Legally and morally speaking, when that lady hit the gas when someone was immediately in front of her car, if she got shot it was her own fault almost anywhere. But I would tend to agree that this isn't like that white SUV that happened the same day where the guy turned around and went to run the cop back over three more times. I'm guessing that based on the fact that the police officer did survive, that things would have turned out much better if he hadn't. She would still be going to jail, but she would still be alive. But, that's something that's easier to say with perfect hindsight. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero In the situation with that lady who FAFO'd, I have the most sympathy for the young child. I read that the woman was a widow, so that child already was growing up without a dad. Then this lady left her home in Colorado to get involved with something that had nothing to do with her in Minneapolis, and now that kid is an orphan. You can have all the political opinions you want, but confronting armed federal agents is a young person's game. It's still dangerous and stupid, but at least you aren't digging two graves. When you're a parent, your life no longer belongs to just you. You have a responsibility to this life you created. Heading out and getting mercked by driving your SUV at federal agents, you didn't just give up your life for something stupid, you just gave away something that was no longer entirely yours to give. Now that young child has to grow up without either parent. Honestly, raising your children ought to be the meaning of your life. It has far more actual impact than some stupid protest in another state. It's a full-time job with 2 parents, and more than that if you're a widower with the father. I know that even being married, I wake up in the morning doing my duty as a father, spend the day doing my duty, and might get an hour or two at the end of the day to relax. It's a double marathon, even with a great partner. There's no time to be trying to run down federal agents. Incidentally, this isn't a hypothetical. I agreed with the trucker protests in Canada, I had time off during them, and guess what? I didn't go. I watched viva frei attend them on YouTube with my son drinking his bottle on my arm, because that's where my place was. New relationships happen, but data consistently shows that birth parents are wired different. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa? No.... That can't be it, can it? npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero lol "All the foreign powers hoping to kiss Trump's ass to keep sending military aid for their wars are definitely going to try to extradite him, especially immediately after Trump just captured a foreign leader in 30 minutes or his pizza was free (it wasn't free that night)" npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero If only that millennial white woman had remembered Chris Rock's advice. https://social.fbxl.net/media/ed8b7cbd1a9cec9efebdfa1a02be1c0ff0f18b6e2d339bd36493ef56147bc1e3.mp4 npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero One of the biggest problems with so-called degrowth is that the sort of people who want to degrow the economy don't want to degrow the largest part of the economy, the government. In spite of being up to 60% of the economy of some Western nations, and in spite of in some countries all economic growth being concentrated in the government, the idea of drastically reducing the size of government to reduce growth in the broader economy is a sacred cow that they are not willing to touch. Given orthodox economic theory, that's sort of absurd because every dollar cut from the government is going to be several dollars cut from the real economy. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero That's kind of messed up when you think about it, because all this time the discussion has been about illegal immigration at the Southern border. Now, I did go to public school so perhaps my geography is lacking, but I do believe that Minneapolis is about as far from the southern border as you can get. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero "you're not dealing with your average Saiyan warrior anymore" But he kind of is now.... Considering that there's like 6 Saiyan's left and most of them are insanely powerful.... And I expect Goku and brolly to bring the average way up... npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero There's a big problem with the term conspiracy theory, and that is that, stripped of the value judgments, it is just a theory about a conspiracy. Though of course it's more like a hypothesis about a conspiracy. The problem with universalizing claims about conspiracy theories is that those claims break when some proportion of those conspiracy hypotheses end up turning out to be conspiracy facts. MKUltra or Project Northwoods or the Tuskegee Syphilis Study are now officially backed conspiracy facts,for example. Arguably, the Manhattan project was a conspiracy fact. Disbelieving these things doesn't make you a clever scientist, it makes you a denier of the official narrative. There's a similar problem with the term science denier. The nature of science is such that if you're doing the process correctly, most of science will be denied by the process of science. Some of the most famous and respected scientists of the 20th century were science deniers. Einstein and Heisenberg for example denied Newtonian physics that were "the science" and helped create relativity and quantum physics. In a sense, both terms end up smuggling in epistemological certainty that isn't necessarily warranted. Some of the scientists who put a man on the moon believed in science that today the sort of people who use terms like "science denier" would deny, given how many of them were German national socialists. Nobel prize winning scientists have ended up wrapped up in pseudoscience and using their status to push easily falsifiable claims that are certainly wrong. To deny what they say isn't science denialism in spite of their high status as scientists. The truth is the truth, and that which is not the truth is not. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero I loved Electronic Boutique back in the day. Buybacks were cheap enough and game prices were low enough that I was able to spend the summer playing different PC games on a broke-ass high school student's money. I went back years later, and it's like "Holy crap, these games are so expensive, and they want to buy my old ones for HOW MUCH? Forget that!" -- actually did pawn shops for a while in the ps2 era. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Imagine getting caught with CP and that's the second worst thing you did to young children with your life. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero I'm sure there's nothing important going on. It'll be fine. #nevent1q…3qnc npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero "this is Google Gemini for home, the helpful software assistant. In spite of using more computing power than existed in 1975 for every query, I'm not yet able to count from 30 to 0" npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero One thing that most contemporary models of power fail to address is the fact that the ruling class is significantly more powerful today than it was in the 1800s. Globally, in Western Nations the state can make up to 60% of GDP in the bureaucratic state has much tighter control over everyone's day-to-day lives then was possible for most of History. Through that lens, it becomes pretty self-evident that the capitalist class is a pawn of the ruling class, a lot of the calls to focus exclusively on the capitalist class and get more power to the ruling class are self-evidently futile. Historically speaking, we have examples like imperial China, where the state didn't like the power of the merchants, and so pounded down that class. The result was never more itarian society, it was a more stratified one with those aligned with the state becoming more powerful and everyone else becoming less. In that sense, what we see in Western societies today is in some ways extremely similar to what we saw in imperial China: individuals end up paying outrageous amounts of resources to train their children hoping that they would get picked as mandarins, bureaucrats who lived as part of the state, because once they became those powerful bureaucrats, their entire families could be taken care of through corruption. Even in allegedly Democratic states, what we see is a sort of ouroboros of the powerful. The state spends money on its allies, a chunk of that money gets returned to the powerful within the state who then use that money to enrich themselves but more importantly to entrench their own power. Meanwhile some working class schlub is paying 50% of his last dollar to the state, while the state still racks up massive debt nobody intends to pay back in this generation. Those systems don't go away, and they don't even necessarily get diverted when someone else wins an election. Through this lens, left versus right becomes irrelevant because what really matters is the divide between the powerful and the powerless. It ultimately doesn't matter if you are trying to give power to the mega Rich who benefit from removing agency from the individuals under them, or the mega powerful who benefit from removing agency from the individuals under them, what actually makes the world better is giving power to individuals who would not otherwise have power. This ends up aligning a lot with the principles of things like the fediverse or other forms of social web, because these technologies take power away from governments or mega corporations and puts a very limited amount of power into the hands of individuals who have sovereignty over themselves in a way that they wouldn't if regulated by either the state or by the megacorporations. That's also where someone like me is deeply skeptical of attempts to centralize control of the fediverse. We take something that is distributed and where each man is in control of his own micronation, and risk producing a new caste of mandarins who exercised disproportionate control over the powerless. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero But let's be real, not really. I can get on board with the general message you're trying to send here, but the United States has been fucking around in South America since Trump was in diapers -- and the political doctrine probably predates Trump's grandfather. Munroe doctrine goes back to the early 1800s, and is the doctrine that says "we reserve the right to fuck with things we feel are our interests abroad". As for south America in general, lots of regime changes and other fuckery occurred during the cold war without any formal declaration of war. Lots of regime changes and the like in the 1950s onwards. Lots of "police actions" that weren't declared by Congress, and nobody got impeached. Presidents of both parties have done similar things in the past without being impeached. Kennedy, johnson, nixon, Reagan, for the majority of the past century it's just how things were done, and generally people didn't like it but there were no consequences. You just call it a police action, and I think that Trump has, and a lot of people uncomfortably sit with that. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero I wanted to take a trip to Minnesota to do some learing, but since the center shut down I'll take my business elsewhere. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Almost nobody is talking about the Renewalageddon in Canada. 60% of mortgages are set to renew in 2026. Unlike the US, where mortgage terms can be up to 30 years fixed, the overwhelming majority of mortgage interest terms are 5 years or less, fixed or variable rate. Variable rate mortgages have survived with similar payments so far because they stretched amortizations to 50 years, but the CMHC (canadian home mortgage corporation) is not allowing them to renew at those amortizations, so payments will rise more than the amount of the mortgage increase would imply. Fixed rate mortgages will be renewing at rates going from as low as 0.99% if renewed at trough mortgage rates for 5 years to 4-6%, which is going to massively increase house payments for millions of Canadians. For a sanely priced house (200-400k), that might be painful but managable. House prices in Canada peaked around 2021 at over 830k, and on a mortgage that big, moving from 1% to 4-6% will mean huge increases in monthly payments. Mathematically, it looks like we're facing one of the biggest financial crises in Canadian history and even though it's operating like clockwork, nobody is talking about it. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero The end of world war 2 was actually brilliant, but it was built for a specific purpose that hadn't been applicable in generations. After WWI, you had trained killers who were feeling disconnected from the country and so in the US you got the bonus army, in Europe you got fascism and national socialism as well as armed revolutions elsewhere, leading to WWII. The purpose of the postwar order was demobilizing after universal mobilization. Once the greatest generation aged out of wartime, the purpose had been fulfilled. Unfortunately, all the wise leaders aged out too and people just started thinking this insane system was supposed to exist forever, and that's suicidal over time. There just aren't enough resources to keep doing it for nothing. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero If any company causes the AI apocalypse, it'll be Google with their Gemini. My Google homes recently updated, and I'll be like "hey Google, count from 0 to 30" and it goes "I can't count" -- despite counting just fine an hour ago. "Hey Google, sing the alphabet." "I can't sing" you did it an hour ago! I go "reduce volume by 10%" which is something it's fully capable of doing, "I can't change device volume" yes you can you wanker! Then you call it out and it's like "I am google Gemini, a helpful AI!" -- the hell you are! Gemini will nuke Moscow and I'll be like *what the hell Gemini you nuked Moscow!* And it'll respond "I'm Gemini! A helpful AI assistant!" npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Could have been one seat away from the presidency. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero I don't understand, these guys love it when people get arrested for political speech. What's the problem? npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero https://bac-lac.on.worldcat.org/search/detail/1535677953?queryString=no%3A1535677953 The physical copies haven't arrived yet, but I think it's pretty neat seeing the metadata for my books in the national archive and in worldcat, the global book cataloging system. It's mandatory to submit anyway, but I still think it's neat having my work as part of a permanent national archive and international library metadata list. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero When these politicians say stuff like this, usually you can go back and find some huge lie that they've said. I always want to ask: "what punishment are you willing to accept today for your misinformation and disinformation?" Oddly enough, that doesn't seem like they thought that far ahead. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero who has 300TB for a shit music megatorrent? npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Before Musk bought Twitter I ran a small test: I searched hashtag killallblacks and then hashtag killallwhites. The former was all about how bad it would be if someone said that. The latter was about how good it would be if someone did it. Considering the state of Twitter at the time, the only conclusion I can come to is that those were all the acceptable opinions. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Merry Christmas, friends. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero I always think back to the mid-2000s when it turned out that the United States was pursuing an official policy of torture. At that time, rather than accept that torture is evil and not something that liberal democracy should be doing, they just double down. "Yeah we tortured people, and it was the right thing to do and we would do it again." Shockingly, it worked. Nobody really seems to care anymore that the government tortures people or violates Fourth amendment rates en masse, or does any of the things that they do. Things like MK Ultra turn out to be true and responsible for radicalizing homegrown US terrorists like the Unabomber, and that doesn't seem even worth the discussion. I feel like if anyone was really in danger we'd be seeing that taking place, a huge campaign to minimize the damage that occurred and effectively turn it into background noise. It's all just political games at this point. Nobody thinks they're really in danger on either side of the political spectrum, they're just hoping to score some points before the ride stops. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero It's like "I like the internet, but why is it a global internetwork? Seems like a waste" That's it's raison d'etre. Without federation, there is no fediverse, and without a fediverse it's just another Twitter clone. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Glad I cashed out of my intc when it first rose. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero I know a guy who had electric heat in his house. His monthly electric bill was almost $1000. He installed a propane furnace and the season cost as much as one month. He paid for the install with the difference immediately. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero I like how we used to have paper cups and plastic straws, now we have plastic cups and paper straws. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Of course, the worse dating advice in human history includes things like "go outside" and "be yourself". npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero In other words: the accusations were true, Tim Walz actually is retarded. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero What sort of list isn't going to have a Dodge Grand caravan that'll definitely die on you before your payments are up? npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero The Republicans would be smart to point out just how much money is being spent on healthcare in the US compared to countries that have single payer systems, and keep on pushing the fact that the Democrats had a supermajority in the Senate, as well as the presidency the house and the supreme Court at the time. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero 2000 text messages per day. That's over 86 per hour. Over one per minute if one was texting 24 hours a day. There's no two ways around it -- this lady's cray cray. That's not normal. I wouldn't expect a woman texting Brad Pitt in his prime to be sending 2000 text messages a day. I wouldn't expect a woman texting Robert Pattinson immediately after Twilight came out to be sending 2000 messages per day. That's acting on a compulsion that shows a total breakdown of self-control at a basic level. Not only could she not inhibit this obviously bad behavior, but she kept on returning to it again and again and again over such a long period of time. She can cry all she wants in court, but anyone who's been on the receiving end of that level of nuts knows it changes a man (or in this case, a boy) forever. You never forget that feeling of being hunted by a rabid animal who just wants to express pure unfiltered id. "I am going to take what I want whenever I want even if it means you can't even touch your phone anymore because it's beeping all day every day with my insane messages. I don't care about you or the consequences." -- you probably don't see messages from your friends and family anymore, because your notifications are filled up and your phone is constantly buzzing, and so when you're facing constant notifications the system is basically useless. That has social and practical consequences. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero I think it might be time for some more revolutions. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero "it must have been consensual, she was outside without her husband or a male relative" Probably not an actual quote. Probably. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Judgement day will be caused by cyber-chad breaking up with his clanker girlfriend. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero I copied the text and pasted it into notepad. It says "The best I can do is pretend to redact things" npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero No. Bad. 2002 is not old school. No way. Uh huh. Not happening. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Hey I know we can do let's act like a bunch of pathetic mean girls to Donald Trump some more! That always helps! npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Same Toronto police service that said to comply with home invaders. We need to get rid of that red Tory in charge and get a mike Harris back. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Just because Trump isn't president doesn't mean the numbers are suddenly trustworthy. I think most people with jobs and grocery bills still feel squeezed. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero As far as I'm concerned, activism funded by taxpayer dollars should be illegal. Imagine how insane it is to pay yourself to convince yourself to do something that you want to do. I can't imagine anything much more wasteful. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero oh no now countless worthless corpo meetings that couldn't have been resheduled for after Jan 1 will have to be rescheduled for after Jan 1. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero From a superpositional standpoint it's pretty obvious. People support the police because they do a bunch of things that people do respect and want. If there's murder to be solved, people want the police to be in there. If your house gets robbed, they want the police to come find the guy who did it and lock them up. At their best, police are protecting people's individual rights from being infringed by others. People hate the police state because instead of providing basic order and thereby protecting people's rights, they end up using the pretext of order to harm people's individual rights on behalf of the government system. In a sense, it's similar to left wing arguments against guns: the tool can be misused and often is so we should eliminate the thing. There's a nice first order logic to it, but we live in a multiple order world with multiple effects to an action. Of course, it could be that having a tool like the police will inevitably mean it gets corrupted and break it's mandate, and that may be true too. Power corrupts, after all. But it's also true that without some force capable of using force to enforce societal norms, someone else will come in and use force to enforce whatever they want and thus use of force is required. Does that have to look like contemporary police forces? Not necessarily, but I don't think people who support police are necessarily so fixated on a specific form. I do think a healthy society is one with mechanisms other than violent enforcement of norms to maintain order. A healthy society has cultural norms and mores, values and concepts such as honor or guilt that serve to get people to act in ways that don't need enforcement in the first place. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero One of my favorite facts is that if your kid is yellow they put your kid in blue. I really think about the amount hospitals probably charge to blue the yellow out of your kid. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero My first vehicle was an '83 Bronco II that was long past its prime, it didn't have the foot switch, but I'm pretty sure late 70s F150s and the like would have had them. The Bronco II wasn't based on the F150 platform but the ranger, so it already did a lot differently. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Don't forget the high/low beam switch on the floor! npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero No... There is another... https://ladybird.org/ npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero If the management wants to mandate minimum tip, they should just increase food prices by 25% and give it to the workers. After all, they're not the boss of their customers. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRrVOfOU9qE Interesting, using a rotating blade to 3d print metal on an ender3. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Reads like reefer madness for the left. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero I bought my current laptop a shocking 7 years ago in 2018, and what's kinda nuts is it's even still just fine for most gaming. I need to take it apart and clean out the fans and repaste the heatsinks, but that's it. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Return to the moon, pay for it by taking the moon rover back and selling it to billionaires. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Good news though! If you say something the regime doesn't like on Facebook the police can immediately find you! Just think about how much safer we are! npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero "engineers" npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Physical media is irrelevant. You can have physical media that's so locked down that you don't actually own it. What's actually going to make a comeback is media that you control. If you have a Sony rootkit CD or a DRM-free floc file, the latter beats the former every time. If you have a physical disc of the video game spore which requires you to call into Central servers before writing your video game, or you have a drm-free copy of a similar game that you bought off of Gog, the latter is the only one you actually own. To that end, I've got a multi-disk NAS in mirroring mode with all my media, and I host jellyfin so I can watch it or listen to it using my own personal hardware, without any need to ask a corporate overlord permission to listen to my own music. I do have a large library of ebooks, but I've also got a a very real library of paper books on shelves, and short of coming around door to door, nobody can change the contents of either, but particularly not the dead tree books. It's a big contrast to physical media like what you can get on playstation, xbox, or the Nintendo switch. You can own the physical media for any of these consoles but without an internet connection be totally incapable of playing your games. Something that you increasingly need to pay attention to now is whether the hardware itself requires internet access and access to a central server you do not control. There have been a number of instances where for example people owned thermostats in their home and could not operate their furnace because the servers for the thermostat company had been shut down. Anyone with a Google video game unit should know that since the streaming service has been shut down they can no longer ever play any of the games that they bought for that. Even someone with an old Nintendo Wii my plug it into the wifi today and discover that many of the items on the home screen are like an old shopping mall that's about to shut down -- the old signs are there, but the real estate has been vacant for years. I was fairly lucky because I got to experience with this looks like firsthand over 15 years ago. Around 2008, there was a video game streaming service called gametap. It proposed that you would pay a subscription fee and be able to get access to an entire game library on your PC. Had some really good games on offer too, including the original fallout games. Two things occurred: first, is that streaming service lost the license for that video game, you could not play that video game any longer. Second, if you stop paying the subscription fee, you will lose access to all of your video games, and they also locked your saved games behind a paywall as I recall. That was a very early lesson for me how about the dangers of outsourcing ownership.