I’ve often said fascists are the weakest and most brittle snowflakes, but they’re a close second to white supremacists.
Any group which resides at the pinnacle of privilege, yet feels aggrieved such that it requires exclusion of, and protection from, conflicting ideas; it has relinquished all legitimate claims to strength and authority.
The US has been on the losing side of every armed conflict it’s been involved in for 80 years. The clowns currently in charge believe that streak is at least double that.
Absolutely FUCK that. Treating psychopathic bullies as serious entities is appeasement, and provides them vacuous credibility.
The US has been on the losing side of every armed conflict they’ve been involved in for over 80 years, the clowns they’ve currently placed in charge believe that streak is double.
Distance should be applied until shit settles down, isolation if that fails, and ridicule until the populous matures enough to elect representation worthy of respect for once.
The US has been a nation no-one should treat as a serious entity since 2024-11-05, and will not be again until they can prove their ability to hold another legitimate election.
Right now it’s a coin flip as to whether I’ll see that within the remainder of my lifetime.
I consider economics to be the control mechanism which filled the void in society vacated by religion after the enlightenment.
Finance replaced mythology.
Banks and insurance replaced cathedrals and churches.
Economists replaced the clergy.
GDP replaced God.
Basically economics, as an intellectual discipline, is far closer to theology than physics. Given that, I don’t respect the positioning of economics as dictating the function of legitimate fields.
I’ve always considered Windows to be a toy OS, because the only use case that could legitimately justify its need is gaming. Removing that requirement leaves only the clownishly unserious and terminally incurious users, which is a large population in computing today, but I’m fine with leaving them to kick in their wading sewer.
‘Piracy’ is only a problem if ‘Intellectual Property’ is treated as a legitimate concept, and not an arbitrary construct of artificial constraint imposed on intrinsically abundant resources.
Copyright and patents should be replaced with a system designed to quantify and attribute the true value of ideas, and not reward locking them away as tightly as possible.
My observations around the lack of deployment of IPv6, and many other iterative technical refinements, is the majority of those who make technical decisions today are so thoroughly abstracted away from roles which understand the need and benefit of it.
‘IT’ has become mature to the point that technical competency has been neutered by economics being granted an unchallengeable veto over its design and implementation.
Until the world recalibrates and suppresses economics to an appropriately subservient status, we won’t see properly robust technical advances again.
So many of the technically competent individuals I know are just gleefully throwing their competency and credibility into this ‘AI’ grift chipper with utter abandon.
I can’t see a viable path through it, and whenever they’ve articulated what they see on the other side, it is beyond repugnant and I truly don’t see any benefit in existing in that world if it ever manifests.
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
At least one thing is Tracy Mills’ head…