kakistocrat
1yr ago
The real reason Google, et. al. have been hiring these people is because hiring them prevented them from becoming competition. Something which will become very obvious if they stop.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
This isn't reddit, you can't martyr yourself and get the admins to clamp down.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
DEMOCRATS ARE GROOMERS
If they're not groomers they're certainly doing a good job acting as if they are.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
Because Georgism remains a bad idea with a weird appeal to a small subset of smart people? Essentially, there's no difference between Georgism and the government owning all the land outright.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
Soon enough that will be considered child abuse.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
one female-bodied they/them person is hands down the most attractive person there - flat athletic tummy, great curves, etc
That's not a trans, that's a woman trying to be cool and edgy by following the latest social trends.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
AppImages and Flatpaks can contain whatever libraries the packager wants. So, e.g. when there's a vulnerability in some library, they are not updated automatically to the new patched version when you run apt update && apt upgrade
My biggest issue with Linux is that package manager cliques get to decide what programs I can run, which doesn't seem much better than the apple app store.
That is a very bizarre objection to package managers? I'm not aware of any package manage where you can't just add another repo for it to check against. For instance, I have added several repos to my computer so I can get certain software not included in the distro's repos by default. It's as easy as adding a line to a text file.
I want to be able to just Download_The_.EXE.jpg in cases where you can't trust maintainers to be supportive.
You can always do that.. just download the .deb or .rpm or whatever format your distro uses and run dpkg -i mypackage.deb
Granted you'll have to manually resolve dependencies but it's not actually hard to do.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
Notably, the MultiMC developer (peterix) refused to allow distribution of the launcher as a Flatpak on Linux (which is personally what I prefer for a project like this), and has been extremely touchy about distribution in non-distribution-package formats like Flatpak or AppImage
To be fair, Flatpak and AppImage are abominations to those of us who are Linux sysadmins at heart.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
with the mental faculties of a young child to high federal office, Pennsylvania is also setting up a judicial crisis for its election process.
Oh my god... I hadn't realized that he was that badly damaged by the stroke. To have him run is just cruelty.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
The fact that Jewish interests find it increasingly necessary to exercise hard-power to eliminate any sort of criticism of their behavior is a sign that these criticisms are not going away.
Or that they have gathered sufficient power that they no longer feel it is necessary to operate in a non-overt manner.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
a natural aristocrat of noble lineage, raised from birth with the kind of education necessary to rule in a traditional society, even if there was a little philandering on the side.
That's what we have now, except that the people in these roles are selected by virtue not of lineage or skill, but depravity.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
Can we have a sensible right that also is not concerned with people's private sex lives?
I would love to be able to not care about other people's sex lives, but it seems like there is a direct line from "well we'll let gay people be gay" through to "we are prescribing puberty blockers to your son/daughter and cutting his/her dick/tits off" and "we're fucking your kids and there's nothing you can do about it"
kakistocrat
1yr ago
"I can't spare this man - he fights"
kakistocrat
1yr ago
Putin didn’t know his army was complete shit. He didn’t take a good gamble and get unlucky. Some limited nato training since 2014 simply eclipsed the entire Russian military.
Perhaps, but if Ukrainian leadership had panicked and fled, I doubt the training makes a difference. See the Afghan Army and security forces in the face of the Taliban just last year.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
I was also surprised when Kiev didn't fall and the war dragged on. My perception was that Ukraine was a European version of the regime in Afghanistan, and would fold before determined attack because no one was truly loyal to it.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
It certainly is not.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
Property taxes also suck
kakistocrat
1yr ago
Utilitarianism is a false god. You can never genuinely capture what Utility is. Goodhart’s Law will bite you in the ass every time.
Put another way, if you really want to be a utilitarian, become a religious traditionalist. Amish, trad cath, Muslim, Hindu, Hasidic, doesn’t matter.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
The goal of human civilization and society is not to make the most efficient use of resources. If you can accept that then there’s no reason to insist on a tax policy that would inherently sacrifice things that are genuine good things.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
The last "real" president was maybe FDR?
I would guess Eisenhower actually.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
Does anyone actually believe Biden is the president? I don't mean in an election integrity sense. I mean, does anyone actually believe he is the one steering the federal government or making decisions?
No, not even my liberal to a fault wife.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
Well, the problem is that many, if not all, types of non-SFH have negative externalities for the people in the SFH.
For example, if my neighbor sells their house to a developer who then builds a 5 story apartment building, this will have significant effects for me.
My street will go from quiet to busy.
I will go from knowing all my neighbors to definitely not knowing all my neighbors.
Noise will go up.
Etc.
All these are externalities we, the current residents of this neighborhood, seek to avoid.
Therefore, we work with the town to zone our area for SFH.
There's no aspect of "competing" here except insofar as we are in a death struggle with developers.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
If true, I would imagine there certainly could be genetic factors. Similar to how pretty much every single 100 meter gold medalist in the past 30 years has been of recent African ancestry.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
And not relevant to a discussion based on nutritional content. Also overblown. Everything is a carcinogen.
Facts is facts.
More options
Context Copy link