They know what they are doing. Their goals just don’t align with the rest of humanity.

The mistake we make is in assuming that government choices are born of incompetence… The actions of empire are not incompetent. They are not intended to serve you or the citizens, but to serve material interests, the plunder of land, natural resources, markets, and cheap labor".

-Michael Parenti

RIP to the GOAT

Edit: He talks about it in the lecture starting around 15:35. Though the quote above is from his book “against empire”

https://youtu.be/s5oPFAfdrkU?t=935

I think the rope they’re selling us might, one day soon, have a net positive impact.

So, you prefer light mode in an environment that has lots of natural light until it doesn’t. Welp, makes perfect sense.

Do you change to a night mode setting? I’m ok if someone prefers light mode. But natural light, well, it doesn’t happen at night. I hate the “eye comfort” filters since they just make everything look orange. Do you use that? Or just blind your eyes at night?

You’d like my granny. She be farting all the time with no shame.

Sure. But to an extent. I am definitely glad I didn’t grow up in a single room house on the prairie falling asleep with my parents making my younger siblings on the bed next to me.

Comrade bunny. If you can’t take May Day off - break the production branch and don’t look at your email until Monday.

You can’t relate to what?

You’re joking. But, honestly, I’m not sure why these tech CEOs are so excited about AGI. The first thing an AGI is going to suggest for productivity is to replace the CEO and management with the AGI.

AGI would likely turn into a Maoist third worldist at some point.

You’re right to point that out

Damn. You saw my comment too quickly. I misremembered my college math. Deleted after I realized the limit is 1 but 0/0 is undefined.

The limit doesn’t exist in the mean girls problem because the LH approach and the RH approach do not agree.

Just 0/0 is undefined.

But the limit of f(x) = x/x as x approaches 0 would be 1.

Meaning you can get infinitesimally close to 0 for values of x and the functions value will be 1. But actually reaching true 0/0 is an undefined state.

I don’t know. I really don’t want an eggplant “going off” on my face again.

It’s cheaper than buying a meal somewhere else AND a laxative. So if you need both of those things at once it’s a really good deal.

Oh my god. I found one. I almost feel bad telling you.

The USSR no longer exists. The Russian Federation is what is subjugating Ukraine.

Ukraine was literally a part of the USSR mate. USSR was never just “Russia”, even before it was illegally dismantled in the early 90s.

This is an interesting comment. I don’t have an issue with left and right. They as easy are up and down to me. But I have this problem in my brain inverting something. It’s hard to describe exactly. But say I need to fold something or do some set of steps in a 3D space in reverse from what I usually do. I “think” I can do it. I understand all of the operations. But when I actually perform the movements it feels like something doesn’t connect.

Again, it’s hard to describe what exactly breaks in my brain connected with my actions. But it’s a consistently inaccurate operation no matter how many times I try.

You’re describing your issue better. But I definitely understand it in a way.

Edit: I’m gonna leave my dyslexia typo in here. Since its probably related to dyslexia in some way. Actually, my typo probably explains it better as an example than I ever could.

For a screwdriver. Not really. If your body is in a different frame of reference then I really doubt the direction is the worst of your problems.

It’s basically the same as the right hand rule in physics. The reference frame is not difficult to derive. The ease of the rhyme or “hand” to use is the point.

Found the libertarian. We can draw you as a nut.

I think there are definitely different applications of the phrase and different versions of it.

As someone that does a “traditional” trade. I do work in leathercraft. My friends and family all have nice pieces I’ve made them. I’ve literally yet to make myself more than a belt. And it’s just a piece I didn’t like enough when it was done. So I remade another for the person I meant to give it to.

Not that I wouldn’t like a nice piece for myself. But, it’s just a lot more fun to make something for someone else.

Yeah but I doubt that saying has ever been used to mean the blacksmith thinks metal spoons are bad. Right?

It’s worth sharing but this post is more about the software engineer knows how much shit is spying on you.