Soteriologian
5mo ago
Hey now, they fund zstd. Is that not worth the rotting cerebral cortices of 30 million boomers?
Soteriologian
5mo ago
Gatsby 1: I’ll have a pop!
Gatsby 2: I’ll have a cola!
Gatsby 3: I’ll have a soda!
Gatsby 4: I’ll have a carbonated beverage!
Gatsby’s nightmare: I’ll have a glass of water.
Soteriologian
6mo ago
Did the US even try over there? Was the whole thing just an excuse to put taxpayer money into rich people's pockets?
Morally, no; de facto, yes.
See, the way to make a great business in #currentyear isn’t to sell a product to consumers. That’s hard, and risky, and requires a lot of work. Instead, make a moral crisis and sell it to the government via social activism! Now, your endeavor is freed from annoying constraints like grounding in economic reality.
Note that it is entirely possible—and perhaps even optimal!—for participants in this myopic charade to not realize they are just engaging in parasitism with extra steps.
Soteriologian
6mo ago
That attempting to really super duper try hard mmf at something ends up looking a lot like gooning.
Soteriologian
6mo ago
Even modulo selection effects, this doesn’t really solve anything: it’s just rearranging the pregnancy chairs on the Titanic.
Soteriologian
6mo ago
To be fair, this sort of on-its-face won’t work. It’s just basic high school thermodynamics.
The carbon dioxide ratio in the atmosphere is increasing precisely because creating that carbon dioxide produced usable energy for us. You can’t un-make that carbon dioxide without spending at least as much energy as you put in (and in fact, substantially more).
So either you’re going to produce even more CO2 than you’re eradicating, or you’re simply pursuing non-fossil-fuel energy sources entirely—which would simply have not produced the CO2 in the first place if you’d just done that from the start.
The only way any of this makes any "sense" is if you get the government to write you a check to perform what ultimately amounts to fake work, in the most fundamental sense. Which probably means that’s exactly what will happen.
Soteriologian
6mo ago
It's complicated because of the perverse incentives created by bad regulations. The people running the insurance companies don't have a choice.
See, this works unless you think the people writing the bad-incentive regulation and the people running the megacorps as the same people.
Same as the subprime mortgage crisis. "The government made me do it 😩," howls the voice with more influence over government policy than your family tree could ever dream of.
Soteriologian
8mo ago
I mean, there was a recent fiasco with a guy shooting his gun with the scope on backwards. And it wasn’t some low-ranking cannon fodder recruited for Operation Human Shield; he was captain of a big ship! And he wasn’t a diversity hire, either—he’s a white male!
Like, just ponder for a moment the level of smoothbrain it takes to do this: looking through the scope backwards would make your target smaller.
I would not trust these people to run a lemonade stand.
Soteriologian
9mo ago
This tension is noted in the gospels as well. See Matthew 9:
And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples. And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners? But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.
Believers go through all sorts of mental gymnastics to convince themselves that actually they are indeed super evil and thus deserving of the title "publicans and sinners", as satirized in this Matt & Trey parody of Mormonism where the main character envisions his damnation in hell with Hitler and all the other Bad People because he stole a donut when he was 5.
Of course, actual Protestant theology is even better: you’re condemned not because you ate the donut, but because Adam ate the donut. Err, apple. Well, okay, we don’t know it was an apple, it could have been any fruit (but was probably a fig since Adam and Eve used fig leaves to hide their nakedness). So, let’s say a Fig Newton. Anyway, the point is you inherited this Original Sin by your birth: you were born fallen.
Now that we’ve successfully self-flagellated, we can take our place at the table with the publicans and sinners and Jesus.
——
You can see why actual publicans and sinners find these people a bit insufferable at times.
Speaking of which, can someone turn this water into wine? I’m not a drinker, but I hear it makes these people go away, so that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make.
Soteriologian
10mo ago
Did they bring back Zoltun Kul from D3? I loved that character so much.
Smuggest mofo in the underworld, right about absolutely everything, yet ignored and eventually killed by the good guys because they were too dumb to see it.
Then is resurrected by his own foresight to continue his smugmogging.
Absolute vibemaster.
Soteriologian
11mo ago
Who knows. YT shows me content I can’t watch all the time—I’ll click on result and get “you can’t watch this bc copyright.” Well then why did you fn recommend it to me, YT?
Anyway, I have other examples that I’m pretty sure have no relation to copyright. I think their system is just so laden with schizophrenic, contradictory rules that it ceases to function entirely for all but the daily slop from Approved Producers.
I have direct links to several YT videos that I can no longer find via search, even by typing the exact title of the video. Many of them aren’t even political, like Yundi Li’s performance of Beethoven sonatas.
I think it’s mostly because search today doesn’t even bother to do a search, it just spits back to you whatever slop Google feels like feeding you.
It’s sorta like how the thermostat in the office isn’t connected to anything; it’s just there to give the employees some illusion of control.
EDIT: in case anyone wants to try, here’s the Yundi Li performance I’m talking about. Nothing I type in search will bring up that video in the results.
Soteriologian
11mo ago
It's really weird that this happened by letter posted to twitter rather than an appearance in front of cameras.
Indeed. There’s a reason world leaders take more pics than a thirsty Instagram model on her first trip to Verona.
As much as we mock them, press conferences are as essential to the current political paradigm as PoW is to the Bitcoin blockchain. They are the mechanism by which consensus is demonstrated.
Soteriologian
11mo ago
There’s a reasonable case to be made that CrowdStrike isn’t a "real" company anyway: it’s a DeepState actor, worming its way into systems by enabling managers to check a box that satisfies regulatory compliance while giving wholesale control of their system to this opaque third-party.
I’d like to point out that nobody who doesn’t self-identify as part of this "caste" has ever referred to it as a priestly caste.
I’m sure they view themselves as Napoleon placing the crown on his own head, but to everyone else it looks more like Gavin McInnes putting something else somewhere else.
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