HalloweenSnarry
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HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
Presumably, Apartheid could have been maintained if South Africa's white leaders chose to become a North Korea-style shithole. At least for a time, it was a good thing that they chose another path, it's simply a shame that those under the ANC's flag were so corrupt that SA is probably going to become a NK-tier basketcase anyways.
HalloweenSnarry
3mo ago
I understand that Italy's motivation in WWI was more against the Austrians than the Prussians (irredentism over Trieste, IIRC?), though I did forget about the second war.
HalloweenSnarry
3mo ago
Jeez, never thought about it like that.
HalloweenSnarry
3mo ago
I've never heard of that (and DDG brings up nothing except stuff that looks more relevant to biology), what are some examples of tech-gone-bad like that?
HalloweenSnarry
3mo ago
Did you mean to post this reply to the above comment? I think you meant it for Stefferi's post instead.
HalloweenSnarry
3mo ago
I imagine nothing beyond making the weapons at all, as your comment implies.
HalloweenSnarry
3mo ago
Is there any need by the DPRK to spin things for its own citizens? I imagine everyone will have to go along with the new direction whether they want to or not.
Though, realistically, I imagine the domestic shift might be more gradual.
HalloweenSnarry
5mo ago
Oh.
HalloweenSnarry
5mo ago
I mean, "product that makes you crazy for it" is a genre of ad that goes back to at least Honey Comb cereal.
HalloweenSnarry
5mo ago
But do they have the willpower to do so? This is the country that has first-hand experience with what nuclear weapons can do in the middle of a war, after all.
HalloweenSnarry
6mo ago
For some, the easy retort here is "what's the difference?"
HalloweenSnarry
7mo ago
For reference: when Kanye West went on his show and said "I admire Hitler," Jones was absolutely flummoxed.
Granted, the face sock that completely concealed Kanye's head probably wasn't helping Jones keep a straight face, but still.
HalloweenSnarry
7mo ago
"Memocide," I suppose (from "meme").
HalloweenSnarry
7mo ago
Indeed, we are all here because, centuries ago, some opportunistic Anglos and Scots had questions about rulership.
HalloweenSnarry
8mo ago
I was recommended Shut Up Windows 10 by O&O Software.
HalloweenSnarry
9mo ago
Personally I blame it on PE. If we taught it like we taught other subjects, paying even the slightest attention to children’s abilities and actually trying to improve them over time, a lot more people would be a lot more active.
For all that Mottizens complain about American public schooling, I'm surprised that American PE isn't criticized more. I won't say my experience was particularly bad, but I feel like gym class is quite possibly one of the biggest pain points in American childhood.
HalloweenSnarry
9mo ago
I'd like to reply to both you and @raggedy_anthem on this: what if competence is a virtue unto itself? We may then just be prioritizing for different kinds of virtues.
HalloweenSnarry
9mo ago
Reagan Democrat
...These are a thing?
I suppose the synthesis here is "extremists tend to make history by subjecting themselves to a high attrition rate and building their legacies on piles of corpses--whether theirs or their enemies'."
EDIT: As to the overall discussion of moderate change vs. extremist drives, I think we rarely do see modest goals being strived for and accomplished, whether that's because they're so modest as to be virtually-inconsequential (like, say, de-bloating some middleware for a specific IT solution or spending a few hundred thousand on a beautifying project for a city square), we just fail to notice them when they do happen (e.g. important bills for digital speech and copyright getting passed without much media outcry), or because some "modest" goals are actually not-so-modest and require outsized amounts of effort to achieve (like, say, housing reform). And if you have to shoot for the stars just to land on the Moon, why not pledge to reach the edge of the Universe while you're taking off the limiters?
HalloweenSnarry
1yr ago
I think the (possibly weak) counter to this is "the Great Recession, the War on Terror, and Web 2.0 all provided enough force and upheaval to nurture the woke surge."
HalloweenSnarry
1yr ago
People cheered when Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest and became leader of Burma. They jeered when she went on to persecute the Rohingya Muslims.
Two points:
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Aung is probably still in the good graces of those in favor of democracy, given that she got couped by the military a little while ago.
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She's not exactly responsible for the Rohingya's ethnic cleansing, she merely failed to protect them from their Buddhist neighbors.
HalloweenSnarry
1yr ago
Perhaps the AI will become so charismatic that it could meme "LEGALIZE NUCLEAR BOMBS" into reality.
HalloweenSnarry
1yr ago
Where I am, that's not been a requirement for like a year-plus, I think.
HalloweenSnarry
1yr ago
I think many images on the internet, particulary those posted to art sites like dA, ArtStation, HentaiFoundry and maybe also Pixiv, do tend to come with a Creative Commons or Berne Convention license disclaimer thing, but as you suggest, this doesn't really do much against scraping. Artists generally ask and demand that their art not be reused without permission.
What 07 failed to mention is that the conspiracy theory goes that the radical entryists were given an opportunity to do so by Big Business, who were scared of how loud OWS's megaphone proved to be.
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