The US continues to be comically evil, except there’s nothing funny about this and it’s just incredibly distressing. Dunno how any yanks are going to bear to go about their day as normal considering what their country is doing.

My heart has dropped seeing some of the footage. I knew it was coming but had some hope we could continue down Nothing Ever Happensville. The US is such a deeply evil country.

Hey my personal pet peeve of ‘comic book discourse’ is this singular image

Decent line delivered in a cool way as part of a very compelling narrative

But boy the amount of comic-brained lib types who share this quote as if it’s something powerful, impactful, applicable to real life, as if the story the quote comes from doesn’t interrogate the sentiment itself

Like no dude if batman existed irl I’d hope he’s armed to the teeth, probably use the weapons your enemies are using especially if they are weapons that can kill

Yeah while I’ve always known systemic support to homeless people is objectively a good thing and most people take advantage of opportunities granted to them, I’ve also known that individual support to homeless people, like throwing a beggar a few dollars on the street, will likely lead to them buying drink/drugs/whatever habit gets them through.

And you know, so what? I’m giving them money to help them. Why the hell should I care if they’re using it to get high? Literally living on the streets. It’s the smallest comfort for them. Not like my contribution was ever going to get them a house.

They finally got true political freedom, good for them.

I never realized how fast and often you could get sick until my kid started going to daycare. They are hazardous to your health.

I’m pretty sure my kids generation isn’t going to see the worst of it. Everything’s hopeless on that front if we don’t raise a better next generation, anyway.

why should your child live a life of suffering just to gratify you?

Children are gratifying but infamously hard & life altering. No one’s doing it for kicks & because it’s a fun time. If my kid is suffering it’d be news to me; if I find that I’m unable to control the suffering they experience as an adult, that’s just the universal parental experience. You do your best and prepare them for the world they live in.

You got it. There’s no perfect scenario where you can have kids. Taking a step back, most of humanity has been raised in conditions infinitely worse than what I can offer my own children. While I may struggle as my parents did before me, I grew up well-adjusted and well-educated, even if not always happy or content. Why deny myself children based on the same conditions that created me?

You manage when you have them. I personally refuse to let children be a class privilege.

I’m a bit confused why they invited him on to be honest.

Australia doesn’t really have any serious organizational ML representation, like, at all. It could be that they wanted to feature someone from the Aussie sphere and Jordan/Purplepingers is all-but the face of Australian socialism, for better or for worse.

I was pretty chuffed to see him make an appearance on the podcast, would not have guessed it in a hundred years. I could also see ideological differences a mile away. I’m happy he was on for a slightly stilted episode as both sides are mutually platformed this way. I know Purplepingers fans in real life who I can now show an episode of the Deprogram to.

YouTube really recently stepped up their efforts to detect and circumvent adblockers. Before last year, there was no such thing as an adblock error message. Now, anything but uBlock will likely trigger it.

Part of this is Google’s step to gain more control over the browser ecosystem and lock down the ability to even use adblockers.

I think it’s both a matter of these solutions not being sufficiently problematic, while also being unfeasible to actually fix.

I love anything ARG-adjacent and think this is a pretty cool idea. I don’t have much advice on the technical side of things but the second or third options seem like it’d produce the most pleasing results to my non-coder brain.

I’d at least check it out!

Certified good posting, this put to words some more complicated thoughts I’ve been dwelling on while also broadening my perspective on the whole topic. Makes me want to get into an entirely new subject of reading. Banger job.

Hi honey, yeah, I need to make another trip next year. No, not a business trip. The best korean marathon is calling to me

I found this one particularly inspiring dawg

wanky pontification incoming but while I definitely agree with the spirit of this statement whenever I see it I think that we don’t really ‘deserve’ to be alive by the letter of the word. I think more spiritually minded people than me can easily make an argument that we do fit the strict definition of ‘deserving’ to live but from a material perspective I don’t see how humans inherently deserve to spawn into this random chaos world. It’s just a random chance thing that happened and continues to happen.

but my brain has wrinkles so my take doesn’t just end there. My material stand-in for the more spiritual idea that human beings deserve life is that any human born is owed humane treatment and actualization by the humans that came before, because the human born never asked to live but the actions of the humans before them brought them into existence. therefore, every parent owes their child a dignified, healthy and happy life. stepping back further, every generation owes the next a dignified, healthy and happy life. every society owes the next blah blah you get it.

basically I’ve always seen the right to life as something owed to you by others, a mounting debt humanity must continue to repay, not necessarily something that is based within our character or inherent essence. you don’t deserve to be alive but you don’t earn that right yourself, either. it’s collectively owed to you and in stable societies you get your pay out.

Yes, but at what cost?

Honestly I thought the suffering in the world radicalized me, or the sheer inefficiency of the distribution of resources, or the enforcement of in-groups inherent to capitalist imperialism. But nah, brother, it’s just the landlords. Just thinking about them too hard pissed me off one day.

You present the worst ideas possible but attach them to Approved Brand and a leading blurb and people will immediately regard your racism science with sincerity. Really demonstrates how these monstrously bad ideas got wind in the first place.

Absolutely, I just know lots of people are acclimated to cloud services and don’t see building their own library as worthwhile vs just getting it online. You can totally have best of both worlds.