

Basically just using a different analogy to say that you are spot on. Carry on.
Basically just using a different analogy to say that you are spot on. Carry on.
I believe that what they’re trying to say is this: keeping a government running requires more than just voting for whoever you think will do a decent job every year or two, because it, ultimately, doesn’t matter what Hamilton, Locke, Madison, De Tocqueville and other influential philosophers of politics might have intended, because any system that is only checked once a year is a fragile system, prone to corruption. It requires constant maintenance, bug fixes, security updates, and independent reviews. It requires not only that every part of it has the light of day cast upon it, but that the people at every level actually look and act on what the light of day reveals.
Whether you or the framers like it or not, the united states is no longer a representative republic. The people being elected are not representing the people. They are representing corporations, private interests and foreign oligarchs who pay them to give them the sweet meats of the treasury and leaving the ovens untended, but continuing to shovel the coals of our taxes into the ovens, because then they can make their own pies. The US government as it stands is committed to deregulation, to abandonment of all duty, and that laissez-faire attitude is by design, not of the framers or the people, but by the design of the corpocratic interests that have captured the government, media, and every other facet of our lives, including even our private actions and thoughts through a paucity of data privacy.
Thank you for your posts in this thread. Your work correcting these people is not unnoticed. They’ve got 300-year-old raw sewage in their basement, see their neighbour’s house has a black mold problem, and then when they find specks of mold in their kitchen, they scream that the neighbours have brought the plague. If they fail to clean their kitchen for one week, the rot will seep in to a degree that their neighbour’s house could never achieve, and it is only by the cleaning habits of a small minority of their household that the house remains livable, but the person screaming is too preoccupied with the spectacle next door to actually clean house. What, do they think that the person next door isn’t trying to clean? Next door is a much bigger house, and the sewage has started leaking through the now-septic foundations from the burst pipe in the screamer’s basement.
Bold to claim we had to export it. This is like someone saying “yeah, we’ve got black mold, but it obviously came from our neighbours, and has nothing to do with the raw sewage we’ve left in the basement for the last eighty years!”
Literally none of those things first gained traction in the Americas. As a US citizen, I think we need to be doing a general strike with riots in the streets and shutting down interstate trade with our bodies marching on the highways.
But you need to see to your own houses, because while the mold is running wild over here, it didn’t start with us.
Might not be criminal liability, and I don’t know enough about civil liability as regards presidential immunity, but I’d think a different standard of immunity would apply for civil liability.
If you haven’t read Neal Stephenson’s ‘Fall’, you should (though reading ‘Reamde’ for context on some of the characters may be useful).
‘Fall’ is about half Paradise Lost for the digital afterlife (less-realistic), but the other half is a fairly believable take on the outlook in a ‘post-truth’ world of deep fakes and AI slop.
Someone needs to read Pandora’s jar.
The attendance numbers will be:
“the biggest ever. YUGE. We have so much… The people.” - official FIFA statistics
Yeah, as I commented on the coding strip, I read it as a malicious compliance on the part of the coder, because they know that, once the models collapse, the companies will have to bribe them back at consultancy rates.
I don’t think this particular one is off the mark, though… it seems pretty abundantly clear that Democrats are, indeed, refusing to “do a fucking thing to stop any of it”. Like, where’s the obstructionism that the fascists have been committing for the last twenty five years? Where’s the “Good Trouble”? I think this take is spot on.
If you’re on android, I use TrackerControl from F-Droid. Be warned, however, that it absolutely will break most apps, because everything tries to track you through google, so blocking google with strict settings will destroy many of the apps you rely on. It is, however, the single best tracker blocking app I’ve ever seen. I feel like the fact that it breaks things, then you can check and see how everything it blocked caused the app to break, is a huge point in its favor.
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Fair. I, too, prefer wall-eyed, but these were prepared by NASA. You could edit the image to swap the two and make them Wall-eyed, though!
You’re doing “wall eyed” viewing. These are for “cross-eyed” viewing. “Wall-eyed” means your eyes are focusing at a point behind the image. You need to cross your eyes for these. Try putting your finger in between your screen and your eyes, varying the distance until the dots merge. Then, remove your finger, focusing on the image itself. That should allow for cross-eyed viewing.
Now that you’ve figured it out, behold: Stereograms!
The above satellite images from NASA allow you to SEE the topography in 3D.
Bold of you to think that the microplastic is going to go away after one generation…
If you want an actual set of puzzle games, they may not be math, but try Simon Tatham’s puzzle collection. Its available for free on pretty much everything including app stores, but can also be played in-browser. It has basically every deductive logic puzzle ever made except the water pouring one, and it can basically just generate them ad infinitum.
As someone stuck in this train wreck of a country, please don’t compare yourselves to us. It makes us feel worse when everybody stares. :(
(In all seriousness, though, please feel free to annex us.)
That’s fair. I feel like you might benefit from reading Cloud Atlas. It’s… apropos. That, and A Canticle for Leibowitz have basically formed my worldview since reading them.
I think that the philosophy can basically be summed up with the quote “You have to do whatever you can’t not do.” For us, that’s raging against the dying of the light. We can’t not. But for some, it’s hard enough just trying to survive and be decent to those around us, and that life is not without virtue. By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.