“…and that was how we liked it!”

I know it’s irrational, but I feel “off balance” if I wear mismatched socks 😭

The only massive wars the USA ever actually won were the Civil War (against ourselves, doesn't count) and WWII (when we had almost the entire goddamn world on our side). We got like a participation trophy for WWI. Other than that, it's all been colonialist bullshit oppression of smaller/weaker countries, there's never been a direct conflict with another major industrialized country.

Slowly.

Biggest paper tiger in history.

I figured Biden might lose to another Republican, but I underestimated Trump. During the Biden admin, Trump was doing a masterful job of “leading from the opposition.”

We’re a long way from the WWII Navy ice cream ships. IIRC they have less than a few dozen logistical ships for the entire navy these days. Your last sentence is right on the money.

It's difficult to add too much vanilla extract, but you can definitely have too much almond extract or peppermint extract in something. Ask me how I know

Anarchism is about resolving the apparent contradictions between individual rights/responsibilities and collective rights/responsibilities.

That’s why I go to a mechanic with my car and listen to his advice, as I have zero clue about how that car even works.

What happened to "knowledge is free and out there"?

And honestly, if I’m using things without knowing anything about them, who is to blame? Am I not simply ignorant?

People don't learn about linux for the same reason you don't learn about your car.

https://spacehey.com/ <- revisit the nightmare

Same, that was about when I started emotionally preparing for 4 more years of Trump.

The distinction between left and right wing comes from the French Revolution. Everyone who wanted to keep the King lined up on the right. Everyone who wanted to try sonething new lined up on the left. Leftism is certainly inherently anti-monarchical, and I would argue also inherently anti-hierarchical. Tankies are right-wing communists; that's why left wing communists tend to disagree with them.

When I was a kid they told me they skipped E on report cards, because it was too easy to change into a B. I was like. Wouldn't it be just as easy to turn an F into an A?

If you get 1,000 Mod Points you become a Moderator

What is up with the Reagan apologia? Fuck that guy. Reagan walked so Bush and and Trump could run.

There is no need to prove that LLM’s don’t have consciousness, just like there is need to prove all the other software doesn’t have consciousness. I would say that here the burden of proof is very much on the person making outlandish statements not founded in computer science.

If only some German economist in the 19th century had written a bunch of dry ass texts about how automation would heighten market contradictions and ultimately lead to the downfall of capitalism. Cos those books sure would seem to be relevant right now.

Man, too bad Asimov apparently didn’t read the Appendix to 1984, because Orwell agreed with him. Canonically, the society in 1984 falls to a revolution a few decades after the book, because it’s impossible for the security state to continue spying on everyone.

Lots of people missed this crucially important part of the book because the Appendix was edited out of many editions, which is ironic as hell considering the context.