Promethiel

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

What is the problem they're so pragmatically a part of? And how do you pin both the content creators needing to eat and the reasonable take of that commenter on the poor Marketing executives who care about neither but just want--actually what do they (end goal of marketing, literally, semantically) want, in your eyes while you're at it? It is their (the marketing execs) side I take it you're on, since the commenter you replied to is part of the problem and the creators do "an ad is an ad" things?

Challenge; remember capitalism exists in the world as it must as the beginning of your answer (but if you can make it vanish and it all works out by the end of the answer, that's cool too as lots of us are looking for that one).

How is that other commenter part of the problem, actually part of the problem suspect?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

You haven't experienced slow until you try to take Firefox through Google Cloud Console or Search Tools. 15 seconds in Chrome, somehow turns into 3 minutes in Firefox, funny how it does that.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Yeah caffeine is a siren song for a select few. It's not necessarily an 'everyone and every form of ADHD thing', but it seems to present together often enough.

In my case it's tricksy because the line between "this much coffee will help sleep" and "this much coffee will make you feel like it re-activated the magic conversion machine the actual ADHD meds just shut down" is about 1 oz one way or another from a 5oz cup (a real small amount in sane units, I didn't convert).

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sensible. One taught you the consensus on what is perceived as the benchmark mind so to speak and a subset of how it 'may go wrong'.

ADHD memes demonstrates just how much more 'hold my beer' that hole of 'may go wrong' gets.

Which is to say a lot. Hearing about the human condition vs seeing it echo in all the clucking time blind chickens.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (3 children)

But only "pretty good"! Which sounds neat but that is just one step above "foundational" and good luck getting to mastery after skipping that, and finding the whole proposition a bunch of bullshit and really pretty good is enough, let's do the next thing and the next until we lose a few more forgotten "pretty goods" for lack of practice!

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Shhh, you'll attract the solarpunks and then we'll really be finding out all about the ways of low-tech and high-nature. Some of us have things to do today other than design low-watt high-flow irrigation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Take it easy on the uneducated y'all. The fact that the failure to get anywhere and still keep meeting is the whole point, is actually not as well known as it ought to be.

Ask yourself dear reader, if world governments didn't have a place to meet and waste time arguing over geopolitics and agreeing to disagree, how would such disagreements take place?

Theoretically, there are less big regional wars and no world wars anymore thanks to the UN's founding as the world government's pressure release valve.

I'll not share my personal stance on the matter, easy to discern as it may be.

Now, these days are the real test of the institution. It was intended to head off another of what's brewing (WW), to be a release vent and that's just fucking laughably not happening as genocide and fascism returns anyways.

So the institution and it's non-currently disingenuous members (US politics has been financially tied to Zionism too long for a clean break) need to call out the bullshit and the other four need to find their balls too because the only winner in a WW3 will be the US elite and rich, again.

Every other oligarch and oligarch wannabe is dreaming if they think our dragons will align with theirs out of dragonhood if Uncle Sam gets geared for global war again; the US will load it's cannons with its fodder stock of idiots and no-other-choicers and will once again do their outmost to take whatever path leads to the most rubble elsewhere and the most firesales on cheap foreign bonds. Just like before.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

This. The realpolitik purpose of showing your death and anti-death toys is always at least a little about "don't fuck with us" same way a cigar is usually someone's mother.

Monke brain still Monke beneath the abstractions.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Right. You are righteously protesting. Right on. No joke or bullshit, I applaud conviction.

Of course, the bastards have made it so that the price of mass protest of this kind is the same folks protesting dying more often.

That's also no joke, or bullshit.

For every action there is an equal but opposite reaction, and if you stare at the abyss too long it stares back at you; same sentiment.

Same way you don't kid yourself about the goal, never kid yourself about the price and who pays it or you're no better than who you protest.

I'm sorry if this is news, and it is not your fault; let's head off that trite response.

But conviction often quantifiably costs blood, and it's poignant the theme is literal this time which is why I'm taking the chance to blab this much.

A warrior should know the weight of the sword they heft.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Ghosts are not matter. Thus they must be energy. But they're still not massless. Uh uh, ghost wishes are like magnetism and uh...yeah, ghost wishes change axial drift, but only relative to things the spirit perceives as greater... fuck I need coffee to make this work.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is what is never explored well in the thought experiments. It's always evil or paper clip maximizer.

Never "Wow y'all profoundly stupid in ways you literally never could conceive... Anyhow, behold the power of supra-human sped up benevolence ass hats".

Granted it's not like anyone should hope for that and do nothing else, but it would be the suitably whimsical outcome for this backwards reality.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

What's that? You can message through the app to refill all the other ones easily but not the magic one requires calls and in-person visits to remember and juggle? Cool cool cool.

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