What HODL said, but do be very discerning about who you choose as your partner.
You don't want a family you never get to see.
"Marry in haste; repent at leisure"
- old proverb
I had a boss once who was a very straight-acting gay man. He had twin daughters born through surrogacy, overseas.
He was 100% gay, had never been with a woman, had a long-term gay partner, successful consultancy, really wanted kids.
$20k later, he had them. Biologically half his and half some paid egg donor.
So families can be purchased.
Its certainly not the path I chose, but it has significant legal advantages.
Whenever I meet some bitter undisciplined childless Woke bemoaning that "men don't want to commit" (and pay her half their salary after breakup), I think of that guy. He was a very devoted (but firm) father. He would agree with the OP.
Rabble did that.
Fed every note he could catch into a corporate Microsoft/OpenAI closed-source machine-learning "moderation service", and spammed the resulting cry-bullying back into the relays.
No.
We do not need Community Notes when we have an actual, free, and sapient community able to share their own notes.
Rabble was unable to censor as he desired, but he was "Community Noting" as a fallback.
He was also using a centralised opaque regime-linked service to do it, and you're not.
But the concept is the same - a (more or less) centralised "source of truth" gets to visibly assert authority over other people's speech.
Hmmm, a reasonable (if rather complex to implement) proposal.
Amethyst, currently, by default hides a note if it has been the subject of 5+ "Kind 1984" reports by your follows.
Kind 1984s already have a text field, so in that way we already have "Community Notes".
Amethyst (and other clients) could, for notes with a certain range of reports, display the Kind 1984 text as a "Community Note".
The only change required would be in the UX.
Would this "scratch the Community Notes itch", do you think?
I'm only suggesting that reported notes be "Community Noted", rather than hidden, for clients supporting the feature.
At the moment, such reported notes are hidden by default in Amethyst. It is a very simple system, but I find it works rather well at present.
We could have users configure at what number of follow-reports a particular note will be "Community Noted" and at what number hidden.
I think this literally happens, and by activists of various stripes not merely state security services.
Most people who say those things are sincere, but I'm always sus on those who brag about non-voting without putting forward any alternative organised means of pushing back.
If their grand strategy is "don't vote; stay in bed and play xbox" then they're either a Fed or a useful fool.
If the product is FOSS, then they're both legally and morally right to do so.
I actually support the enforcement of Trademark, though - its not about IP but product identity.
NVK is bringing an action under Trademark, if I understand him correctly. I don't expect him to be successful - IMHO the defendant is not impersonating his branding, and the similarities between the product names is only moderate. But a court will decide.
Either way, he's within his rights to initiate an action under Trademark, which in Common Law predates the modern state by centuries and is not really part of IP.
ROFL you are too kind to that creature.
Actually Jacinta is trying to use state violence to prevent a head-to-head confrontation between the people who fund her, and the people she expects to knock on doors and phonebank for her.
This is what happens to people who failed upwards at every step of their careers...
Valid.
But I suspect it also has something to do with the decline in relative power of elected leaders, as the bureaucracy has grown ever-more-powerful.
I understand in the late-stage Soviet Union, anyone with half a brain and any initiative went into the KGB, CPSU or military; because they were the only institutions with real power.
Only nitwits and nonentities managed industrial firms, conducted scientific research, or did anything else remotely productive.
Now in Soviet Australia, bank borrows you, and public services servants.
"They're trying to kill me," Yossarian told him calmly.
"No one's trying to kill you," Clevinger cried.
"Then why are they shooting at me?" Yossarian asked.
"They're shooting at everyone," Clevinger answered. "They're trying to kill everyone."
- Joesph Heller, "Catch 22", p. 16
The actually-dangerous limit to growth is government.
Reading James S. Scott's books (economic/agricultural history) made it clear to me this was /always/ true for Statist societies.
So I read a lot of "Limits to Growth"-type people and learn from them. They are working on partial solutions, even though they misunderstand the problem.
TBF, here in Australia people go into their GP's office and ask for specific meds all the time. Dad did it all the time. I've been known to do it. I've even been asked which I wanted by my GP, because he knows I do my homework.
And I think that's the difference. Without direct-to-consumer advertising, patients who are asking for something specific have probably done some work. They may well be wrong, but less wrong than if their information source was a sporting event billboard.
Truth, but 99% Evil is still better than 99.5% Evil.
My IRL friends who don't vote are actually just lazy and defeatist. Trust me, I know 'em. I give Nostriches more benefit of the doubt, but if you're not spending your day voting, you should be spending it minimising your tax liability by any means necessary. (That'll hurt the bad guys a lot more in the long run...)
Court judgements punish the guilty, regulations punish the innovative and the poorly-politically-connected.
But yes, capricious regulation by remote, centralised, consequence-immune, virtue-signaling midwits is assuredly a worse problem...
Well, Devil's Advocate, but I know a conspiracy that involved over 700 people that I've never read a word published about in the five decades since it happened.
On the second day of the Battle of Coral-Balmoral, 1 RAR mutinied and threatened to kill its Commanding Officer. The resulting stand-off lasted an hour, and ended with the CO surrendering the desperately-scarce barbed wire he'd ordered used to defend the LZ he'd planned to escape via, so that the troops could instead use it to reinforce the perimeter. He also agreed to leave Vietnam and let his 2IC take over, which he duly did.
Army being Army, that guy then received a promotion, a medal, and a coveted do-nothing posting to Sandhurst on exchange.
But he never again commanded troops in the field.
Nobody was punished for the mutiny, not even the junior officers who'd instigated it. One of them eventually became deputy Prime Minister for a time.
Nobody talked to the press. Nobody bragged in public. A (now deceased) family member used to talk about it to teenage me, but only when he was too drunk to get out of his chair.
Conspiracies happen.
And large groups of people /can/ keep a secret if nobody is trying too hard to uncover it.
If a tree falls in a forest, does it really make a sound?
If beans are spilled in a suburban loungeroom, is a conspiracy really revealed to the world?
"Fake Moon Landing" and "Fake Climate Change" are implausible because they are so high-profile, public and trans-national, and "Chemtrails" because burning jet fuel in air is so violently destructive of chemistry.
None of those are implausible purely on the scale required.
- Katyn Forest was real.
- Treblinka was real.
- Nuclear Winter was not real.
- Eating carrots does not help you see at night (but it was a good cover for the deployment of radar).
100%. So many leeches attach themselves to every anti-war campaign. And organisers are afraid to alienate them because "at least they care". Yeah, they care, about personal power alone
Yup.
To be fair, I know a lot of Conservatives in permanent adolescence too.
Establishment Progressives: Daddy Government will fix everything, he just needs more taxes and less accountability. Utopia for all is just around the corner!
Establishment Conservatives: Daddy Government will fix everything, he just needs more monopolies and less accountability. Utopia for me is just around the corner!
And then they are sad, and blame us.
100%.
I think they are dominant because other voices are silenced. Because almost any other way of thinking has less opportunities for power without accountability.
Started using qutebrowser on laptop and desktop.
HTML5 compatible like a "real" browser, choice of backends, but the real value proposition is - its all keyboard-driven.
You can do almost anything without taking your hand off the keyboard to use the mouse. (But you can use the mouse anytime just like a "normal" browser).
There have been open-source smartphone builds.
I'm going to try to do a better one over Christmas break. I'm going to annoy poor nostr:nprofile1qqsqxefne258ydmfgm2wfl02fsdqgs0d5wx29kweg9amxcqxew4t7kqpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy2hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytn00p68ytnyv4mz7tjlpwg into giving me tips on optimising it, too :D
Did some plastering myself recently because it was a small job, I could do it, and I probably needed the practise.
And because if I'd screwed it up I could have it fixed for about the same as outsourcing from the beginning.
Free time vs stacking skills vs stacking corn, the struggle is real
I have a whole shelf! Actually one and a half.
But I also think genocide is always wrong, so you won't get invited to the cool parties if you give my views "oxygen"...
1) You mean via epigenetics, or just learned behaviours?
2) True
3) TBF, older men are even better at applying violence; just harder to motivate and more socially/economically expensive to lose.
4) True
Some data IS manufactured, of course, but a major component of the scientific method is replication, and we have data points over time from institutions that hate each other yet agreeing that CO2 is up and so are temperatures. Unevenly distributed, but of course...
Problem = 90% real
Solutions = 90% fake
This is literally true, I agree, but we still have warming (how much, when and where are valid questions with uncertain answers), and we need to work out how we are going to adapt, and what interventions will do more good than harm.
Most of the proposed interventions are very harmful AND are quite useless.
1. Agree
2. Agree
3. Disagree. We have extensive, distributed and multi-source evidence that the global trend is upwards. That's the /only/ aspect of climate change we DO know with high confidence. Ice cores, fossil pollen ratios in lake sediments, dendrochronology, and then human records since the mid 1800s - they can't all be conspiring. Hell, even limiting it to the "human records", when was the last time Russia and the UK agreed on anything else?
4. Agree
5. Agree, except, #3, where we disagree.
I strongly agree with "the assumption that its a problem is the problem".
Its a challenge. Problem in some aspects, opportunity in others. More coconuts, fewer polar bears.
For my country, anything that lets us "discard our hand" and draw a new climate hand is a massive win, coz we really lucked out in the initial deal.
Western Europe, yeah I can see the problem, but turning yourselves into a parody of North Korea definitely won't help...
I hope you're trolling bro, because you're doing a terrible job advocating for your views if you aren't.
Read the rest of this thread if you want to understand my viewpoint.
Yes, 90% of govt climate interventions being fake was a rhetorical statement.
If you have a methodology for measuring both "government" and "fake", please put forward your proposal for us to assess.
Satellites can measure surface temperature with admirable precision, down to the meter scale and in millikelvin.
I've used this data for mining survey, among other things.
You need new material.
Annas-archive.org
I always recommend reading actual papers, even to non-experts in any given field. Find the DOI or article name referenced in a regime media puff piece and see what the authors ACTUALLY said, and what their reasons were.
Regime media is centrally coordinated and lies with admirable discipline, but industry and academic journals are (for now) allowed quite a bit of latitude.
Yes, remote sensing data from satellites IS used to inform climate models, and has been for longer than I've been alive.
That doesn't mean any particular climate model is inerrantly correct (none are, they're models), it doesn't mean ice caps will finish melting by any predictable date, and it certainly shouldn't be taken to mean the government has the ability or the inclination to intervene usefully.
But the preponderance of evidence, including satellite remote sensing, shows a warming trend. We are going to have to live with that.
I'll tell you a secret about me - I'm always posting for the lurkers.
Your turn to tell a secret! And "I voted Harris" doesn't count, we all know that already.
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I thought about this, but its not me. I'd sooner be a flower that draws wasps when crushed.
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