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Author of The Graysonian Ethic (Available on Amazon, pick up a dead tree copy today) 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...
Man, considering the next 100 years is exciting, but considering the next trillion years is depressing. The solution to the Fermi paradox is probably that solar systems where life survives the death of its planet and particularly the death of its sun is the inevitable evolution away from intelligence. I honestly don't know how geologists and astronomers can make this shit their day job. It's a bleak view of things, looking at geological or astronomical timescales. If we send some extremophiles to the moons of Jupiter life will thrive for a trillion years, but sentient life really requires an energetic universe to work -- partially because sentience requires energy, but partially because sentience only makes sense in a complicated world. You don't need a big brain to float around in an ocean collecting energy from osmotic gradients or next to rocks picking up stray hydrogen molecules. So for now I'll focus on the next 100 years where human thriving and partial extinction will coexist -- because I can't do anything about a trillion years from now, but I can definitely help with the next 100 years by focusing on the next 18.
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"don't you remember when Jesus said 'let he who is without sin cast the first stone'? That means nobody can be judged for anything ever. I haven't read the Bible of course, but I'm sure the next line was 'go, and commit adultery some more'"!
Capitalism is not consumerism. The fact that you can buy stuff doesn't mean that you should. In fact, one could argue that irresponsible consumerism ends up becoming the end of capitalism because all those individuals who consumed irresponsibily end up demanding the wealth of anyone who didn't. "Oh, they didn't spend all their money, they still have some, you should give it to me"
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I have to admit, at first I was like "Oh no, not 486 support and early 586 support!" but then it was like "wait, the 486 is less powerful than most microcontrollers these days, and the 586 was first released just a few months after George H. W. Bush left office after losing the presidential election to Bill Clinton. What would even still be using these chips?"
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EVs as a class of vehicle are about a tenth as useful as a real car, so if teslas get down to about 1/10th of their normal price in the used market I'd probably even get one.
"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?
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It says attempted in one article but implies he succeeded in the other. Which is it? Did he fail successfully?
Honestly, using base 10 for everything is actually super recent in historical terms. For a lot of things throughout history going back the babylonians, things were base 60, the babylonians were base 24, and a lot of stuff in English history is based around these as well, which is why you'd have "sixpence" -- their entire money system was base 240 or something nuts like that. So the idea that other cultures would set up their number naming conventions on another base than 10 then look strange because of it isn't so insane. We use base 60 more in our lives than you think -- 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours (which is divisible by 60) in a day, 360 degrees in a circle. If you think about it, it makes some sense -- in a world before calculators, having a base that can be divided in many ways without getting into long division would be quite efficient, even if it doesn't match our number of fingers (or the number system we're using)
The west doesn't understand character development like Chinese stories. Take Lord of the rings: One ring and he didn't even extract the heavenly essence from it to elevate frodo from the heavenly wankers cramp level to the base golden alley behind a 7/11 level!
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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/
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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.
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We can't even figure out exactly where a particle is and how fast it's going.
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Honestly, that seems to me to be the most ideal solution for this problem. Yeah, it means that there won't be a huge market for sports in these particular leagues, that's a question of reality and reality isn't fair sometimes.
De Beers just implemented huge price cuts on raw diamonds of up to 10% because prices in the market were falling so fast and they wanted to implement a price floor. There are a lot of things this could mean, but the narrative that makes the most sense to me is the middle, upper middle, and lower upper classes are cutting back on luxuries because they're being squeezed by inflation. Some people claim that sanctions on Russian diamonds are causing prices to drop, but that's the opposite of the reaction you'd expect. Russian sanctions would be more likely to raise prices outside of Russia, since a major source of diamonds would be eliminated. Another potential problem people cite is that lab grown diamonds are becoming more accepted, but there's no reason why that would have happened just recently to this extent unless something else such as economic pressures was causing people to rethink the natural diamond market. DeBeers has also reduced prices for its lab-grown diamonds by nearly 40%
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Most people have. It doesn't make the region any less devastated by globalization.
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Even though it's in canada, it's basically a rust belt town. The whole region was largely forestry and paper before those industries were moved first to South America and then eventually just to China. The whole region has been absolutely devastated by globalization and the like, and none of these lefties care in the least as to the struggles of towns like that. This is basically just kicking a homeless person on the street. "Get a job learning to code gay things!"
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"nobody's going to force you to do anything" I guess nobody fined that town!
I've started to realize that people are taking me up on my offer to ignore or block me if they don't like effortposting because I'm not gonna stop. Probably for the best. But in my view, there's only a few reasons to have discussions online. 1. To yell pre-packaged platitudes at each other for sport 2. To try to help the hours of our lives to tick away faster 3. To try to make the entire earth correct by correcting people one at a time 4. To become mutually better through putting ideas through the gauntlet. I've actually done some of these myself. When I was younger I'd happily argue online for sport, or I'd be bored and it was a good way to pass the time. When I was younger, I was even foolish to think I could help change the way the world saw things. Today, however, the only reason that makes sense to discuss things online is to try to become better yourself and help better the people you discuss things with. We are all so far from what we could be, and I think that's been intentional by powers larger than ourselves. I'm thankful to everyone who engages in good faith, perhaps especially people who push back and force me to better explain what I mean, or better understand what I'm saying. Recently there's been quite a few people who did well forcing me to think more about certain things I took for granted or forcing me to clarify something. @Hyolobrika@social.fbxl.net often asks one piercing question on posts and it's like "Well, I can see how without clarification it might look like I'm saying something I'm not" I'm thankful to guys like @amerika@annihilation.social who spend a lot of time and effort helping to explain worldviews that are fully alien to me, because how can you agree or disagree with that which you don't understand? I don't always come away agreeing totally, but often I come away with my worldview changed by exposure to ideas I hadn't explored myself. When people interact with me and get a big wall of text, it might be easy to assume I'm just trying to stonewall or filibuster, but often it's actually me trying to work through ideas publicly, and often there's a lot of actual research behind the wall of text. It might seem like it's a stop in the discussion, but what's the point of continuing to discuss if we don't actually take a deep dive into ideas that could change everything?
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You might remember I've been making the point of much larger government for months, maybe years now.