Ogmios @ ogmios @sh.itjust.works

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I just started cooking for myself. Began simply with pizza from scratch. Dough and sauce are both easy to make from raw ingredients, and the result is far better than frozen or delivery.

You gotta have a public position and a private one, just like Hillary said. Say whatever is useful in the moment while staying on course to achieving your true intentions of obtaining more power.

Right, gottcha. So Current Year politics states that those who advocate for replacing white people are white supremacists.

And you actually expect anyone to take you seriously?

You're calling the guy who recently advocated for replacing white people with Indians a white supremacist?

Pretty sure

I wasn't being silly. They've literally been pushing that argument.

On the off chance that you're serious, methane also breaks down incredibly fast, so it's a complete non issue regardless of how much they produce.

Neither the position to keep all the old solutions because they are old nor to adopt all the new solutions because they are new is sensible.

That's what really bothers me about it. I actually got an education in STEM and was really hyped to contribute to building new technologies, until I came to understand that the people leading the charge appear to be hardliners driving as forcefully as they can to implement a completely artificial world right here and now.

They're already attacking agriculture for the existential threat of cow farts.

The more I've learned about technology, the more hardline I've become against having it in my life.

The world is not a blank slate to paint on. Every new thing that you add to your life takes away something which used to be there in previous generations, and the consequences of such can be far reaching and unpredictable. Society as it was, was not built overnight through deliberate intention, but was hard won by millennia of blood, sweat and tears. Changing everything now on the whims of fully grown toddlers who are so wealthy that they've never even been aware of the existence of the real world is the peak of insanity.

Well the country didn't previously have a legion of mouth breathing retards screaming at the top of their lungs about micro-aggressions and declaring that the nation was illegitimate. I'd also question your metrics for deciding now that he's an openly Nazi dictator, other than parroting what you hear from other people social media accounts.

While I also disagree with the claim that technology is “fundamentally” insecure

For pretty much everyone other than perhaps the CIA and Mosad, it is.

suspended reality

You are correct. There is a lot going on under the surface that has yet to see the light of day. I recommend rethinking your concept of political factions and working on learning more about how the real world works. It's going to be rough.

Computer technology is fundamentally insecure so long as everything is connected all the time. It drives me mental that idiots keep trying to foist the whole of human society onto devices which are clearly unfit for the task.

No, not like that!

Nah man. Everyone criticizing their decisions are just racist, homophobic, bigots. Now be a good little peasant and go fight the other peasants while daddy Marduk rapes Tiamat for fun and profit.

No u

You ever hear the phrase “never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by ignorance?”

Generalities like that can be useful when applied appropriately, but counter-productive when applied blindly. That positions of power are held primarily by those who are motivated primarily by power ought to be the most straight forward assertion possible.

Understanding that I can't solve the whole issue right here and now on my own, the very first thing I'd take a look at is changing from having an 'on by default' connection to other machines, to having an 'off by default' connection. I'd also worry about complicating the entire process to the point where parents can't reasonably understand/control how their machines are used by their children (the first point assists with that).

One other thing which I believe is important to actually protect children would be to establish and maintain national borders, similar to China's great firewall. The more automatic systems become, the more opportunity exists for bad actors to exploit them for untoward purposes. Understanding that we can't conclusively resolve every potential issue, we ought to at least do what we can to ensure that those participating in the ecosystem share similar goals and values with each other, which is really the point of borders in the first place.

My problem with all this nonsense is that it doesn't actually solve the problem, while causing many more. You'd need to fundamentally rethink the basic design of the technology if you were to actually prevent children from accessing sexual material with it. That's something they don't want to do, however, presumably because they're addicted to the power it offers them to spy on everyone, and exploit the population for profit.

We're in this mess right now because the one absolute truth preempting every other decision made by those who wield power is that the solution must first increase their power. Literally everything else is an afterthought.