“…and that was how we liked it!”

I know it’s irrational, but I feel “off balance” if I wear mismatched socks 😭

It’s difficult to add too much vanilla extract, but you can definitely have too much almond extract or peppermint extract in something. Ask me how I know

That’s why I go to a mechanic with my car and listen to his advice, as I have zero clue about how that car even works.

What happened to “knowledge is free and out there”?

And honestly, if I’m using things without knowing anything about them, who is to blame? Am I not simply ignorant?

People don’t learn about linux for the same reason you don’t learn about your car.

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https://spacehey.com/ <- revisit the nightmare

The only massive wars the USA ever actually won were the Civil War (against ourselves, doesn’t count) and WWII (when we had almost the entire goddamn world on our side). We got like a participation trophy for WWI. Other than that, it’s all been colonialist bullshit oppression of smaller/weaker countries, there’s never been a direct conflict with another major industrialized country.

The distinction between left and right wing comes from the French Revolution. Everyone who wanted to keep the King lined up on the right. Everyone who wanted to try sonething new lined up on the left. Leftism is certainly inherently anti-monarchical, and I would argue also inherently anti-hierarchical. Tankies are right-wing communists; that’s why left wing communists tend to disagree with them.

Anarchism is about resolving the apparent contradictions between individual rights/responsibilities and collective rights/responsibilities.

I figured Biden might lose to another Republican, but I underestimated Trump. During the Biden admin, Trump was doing a masterful job of “leading from the opposition.”

We’re a long way from the WWII Navy ice cream ships. IIRC they have less than a few dozen logistical ships for the entire navy these days. Your last sentence is right on the money.

Biggest paper tiger in history.

Same, that was about when I started emotionally preparing for 4 more years of Trump.

When I was a kid they told me they skipped E on report cards, because it was too easy to change into a B. I was like. Wouldn’t it be just as easy to turn an F into an A?

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Well of course you gotta think, Reddit and Twitter were also probably getting a lot more hits than Low Tech Mag 😅

And while I dislike AI in everything, I don’t believe that AI was introduced to hurt me or most other people.

Then why are they losing money on it while it pollutes inordinately and denies people access to information? AI is basically signal jamming the entire internet, at great expense, with no actual path to profitability. They’re certainly not doing it to make money, because as it stands they’re all losing money right now. Oppression, in the form of information denial, and regulation of communication, appears to be the primary goal.

I mean, what do you call Grok attempting to rewrite Wikipedia to make it more conservative?