Ogmios

I’ve put a fair bit of effort into trying to understand the Japanese perspective, because as a northerner it frankly displays an odd contrast of values to me, being extremely sexually liberal, while also holding firm to tradition and social responsibility. It appears to me as though they manage this by maintaining quite clear social boundaries regarding empathy for each other’s individual perspective, and so they don’t appreciate when things which hold a strong sentimental place in many people’s hearts, such as the master of anime’s unique style, or a Shinto shrine in a popular video game, are portrayed in an uncharitable light within the public sphere.

The tools matter because of the sheer volume of content which literally any meth head can produce, which has already severely tainted the whole online ecosystem, and will only get worse.

Sword Art Online?

20 days

damn

Lawfare

We know

I’m a pretty odd person.

I think /c/r34 does that sort of content.

Oh great. Nothing is safe from the Trans Am agenda.

There has never been a better time for explorers. People lament that there’s nothing ‘undiscovered’ anymore, but after studying STEM and digging into history I’ve learned that the fact we currently have access to everything those early explorers left behind for us gives us an unprecedented window into what our world actually is, and how it actually works, if only you can look at it with an earnest desire to learn.

Mark my words: Those who actually manage to rise above the din will grow to shine more brightly than anyone has for thousands of years. There is incredible opportunity in hope right now.

Because irrational hatred is so ubiquitous that it goes entirely unquestioned (and even defended as you’re likely to see in response to this post), almost nobody seems to be aware that the scientific method was actually developed by the Catholic church as the religiously approved way to explore the mysteries of our world. The view that the Christianity is rigid and exclusionary just plain isn’t supported by reality. You can certainly find bad examples and pretend you’ve “proved” something, but there are far, far more good people who aren’t brain dead zealots.

what I really miss from that period of the internet was that children could use it safely

Uhh… my largest grievance with how the Internet has been designed is that it was never safe for children to be on it, yet children were thrust onto it en-mass long before adults even really understood what it was. And still people are ignoring the massive problems it continues to cause, specifically for the healthy development of children, as society is circling the drain.

I think someone calculated the time it would take to read every single one you’re expected to agree with in normal every day life, and it worked out to needing 76 work days to read everything you “agree” to in a typical year.

Russia doesn’t share a border with your country, while being home to a number of brutal cartels run by ex US military special forces.

Also, we are literally bombing Russia by proxy right now.

I just like spreading the good word when people complain about some of Windows’ shitty features.

Weird non-sequitur, but okay.

I was taught in college to only include a single question in one email unless you can’t get around it, because many people will only see the first one.

failed states ruled by warlords

Do you have any idea how many candidates get murdered in elections in Mexico?

but that way DRM and windows would be AI too

That’s why I use O&Oshutup to turn off many of windows’ automatic functions. Probably my last windows machine anyways.

I’m considering the term more broadly here, to refer to it because the function takes control away from the user without their input. I also like having to go back and manually correct my own mistakes, to improve my own tpying/spelling.