@OpenComputeDesign
The fasces has always been a symbol of government power.
It's annoying how contested and confusing political terms are.
Does "capitalism" mean free markets or investor-ownership?
Does "libertarianism" mean a politics of freedom or does it mean a politics of property?
Does "communism" mean a classless, moneyless, stateless society or does it mean totalitarianism?
Does "liberalism" mean a politics of freedom or does it mean a politics of 'equity'?
Wikipedia defines left-wing as a politics of equality and right-wing as a politics of hierarchy. But then why is transgenderism considered left-wing and the pro-life-movement right-wing?
And if being against abortion is right-wing, does that mean so is being against killing animals for meat and leather? Because any sane person would say those are both pro-life.
I hate having RSD.
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If you're into compooters (platonically) and nerdy rabbit holes you probably already know @tom7 a.k.a suckerpinch.
His misadventures in science of "why not" and solving problems we don't have in ways we don't want are incredibly interesting, often way over my head yet still entertaining and also educational in an odd sense of "this is what you don't want to do and why".
Chess, puns, machine learning (before it was cursed) electronics and the FLUGHAFEN top bike trick.
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Ham radio net today someone was talking about lack of space for an antenna, and also a metal patio cover in the way... I was the only one who told them to use the metal patio cover as the antenna, lol. (lots of "buy this" or "buy that"... conventional consumer thinking exists among the more DIY-oriented, techie ham radio world, too.) #hamradio #antennas
@gabbywheels
> Before, they didn't have the processing or storage power to effectively use this kind of information as a sieve or a bludeon. Now they do
How can I prove that to them in concrete terms that will hit home rather than in hypotheticals?
@veronica
@veronica What should we *do* about it though?
I've tried to red-pill people around me on privacy. Some people can see my point but others completely do not. My cousin and aunt actively make fun of me for it. What am I supposed to do in a situation like that? Force them to at gunpoint?
They do try to respect *my* privacy. My aunt won't take a picture of me if I tell her not to because it gets uploaded to iCloud. I've never asked that of my cousin (her son) but probably the same. Isn't that all I can ask for? Isn't that all many other people in the same boat can ask for?
@cy @foolishowl beans have protein and don't involve murder, unless you believe Pythagoras...
@PatrickoftheG
Evidence for this? and _where_ is this? Is this another American defaultism again?
@EthicalProfessor
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@TheBreadmonkey I would honestly say catching pests for me would qualify as more than sufficient rent if only we could come to some sort of agreement that they are not to walk around in the middle of the ceiling — especially above my bed. High corners are fine, but that's the one thing we can't have.
(You probably don't want to ask.)
Really if somehow we could just come to some sort of agreement with most of the bugs around us somehow I'd change so much... Like I wouldn't mind leaving out offerings for the ants or something for instance if they'd stay out of the inner part of the house and not randomly find me and sting me or suicide into my coffee (why???) Like I would actually give them food and water... I'd be fine with that. We just need a contract.
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been thinkin about nutrition and trying to feed myself better.
i think veggie meals may be an easy way to do it cause a lot of the time they're completely edible without too much in the way of cooking. and also good, fresh meat is expensive.
try find something i can make in a single pot/whatever. should have a look at japanese and chinese rice dishes, methinks, as those are usually packed with flavour
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Two More Major Linux Vulnerabilities Discovered in the Same Class as Copy Fail
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it's the U.S.S. Mommy Milkers or we riot
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Slavoj Zizek — Why I'm Against Both Sides in the Transgender Debate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sLJkQq38fs
This guy in the comments absolutely nailed it:
> Zizek goes way off into the wilderness on this topic. Traditional gender ideology posits that there is a broad set of social behaviours that are 'feminine' and another that are 'masculine' and that females must adopt the feminine and males the masculine. Trans ideology is a reaction to the traditional but on its terms, e.g. there are males who 'should have been females' and therefore they may adopt the feminine, and vice versa. The correct interpretation is that a large component of behaviour is neurologically constructed by experience, and innate aspects of behaviour are also contaminated by the constructed aspects. The 'masculine' and 'feminine' have no absolute biological origin. It is objectively true (and will probably remain so unless it becomes possible to transplant brains - which concept increasingly seems to be incompatible with the biological nature of subjective identity) that one's biological sex is immutable. However, a male behaving in the received 'feminine' mode of his culture is no more or less 'legitimate' as a male than if he behaves in the received 'masculine' mode of his culture. Whether it is culturally correct to call such a man a 'woman' and apply feminine pronouns is arbitrary, although it is worth noting that such a culture would then require a new term meaning 'human female' and new pronouns meaning 'referent who appears to be male', in order for the language to retain its capability for precision.
@SecondJon
>We fall prey to the availability heuristic here, rather than having any factual data to make any kind of comparison.
I'm sure there are official records from the government and from civil society / activist orgs.
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my post clarifying that this is not a golden calf is raising questions already answered by my post.
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