There is a difference between practical statements and moral statements. You can simultaneously believe that nobody should die (moral belief), while also believing that assassinations are the natural consequence of unchecked capitalism (practical belief).

This is made particularly confusing in English, since the word “should” can use both definitions. eg, you should apologize (moral), vs you should protect yourself (practical)

I am of the belief that Brian Thompson should (moral) have been locked up for his actions. Having failed that, I predict that Brian should (practical) have been assassinated. And he was.

My interpretation is that it’s not really a political thing, it really was just a genderbent fanart that got wildly viral due to random internet reasons.

The name does derive from incel terminology, but I think that name was chosen mainly because it’s an awesome pun rather than for political reasons.

Nevertheless, as with all things internet, the degenerates made it political. And I assume the name probably didn’t help either.

My interpretation? Anyone saying that it’s political is just retroactively rationalizing someone’s fetish and/or fanart. I don’t see any way that either the left or the right can make a reasonable argument that it “stands for” anything other than quirky internet meme

There is no karma here. Don’t worry too much about being downvoted every now and then.

Also, I like sorting by scaled. It’s like sorting by hot, except it pushes smaller, niche communities up. Which is great if you don’t want your feed to just be news articles.

Immutable distros have several downsides. The OS is locked down/gets reset every update, so you can’t make any custom changes to the OS. More importantly, that also means you can’t install many programs. The only software you can install natively is Flatpak since those install to your home folder. Other software have to be installed through workarounds like distrobox to get them to install to your home folder as well, but those workarounds are hacky

Outages are likely to be regional. I suspect more rural/out of the way regions will face outages, whereas cities and other regions with robust logistics networks will likely just face increased gas prices.

The ovservable effect for most citizens will likely not be fuel outages, but the knock-on effects (higher shipping prices and higher prices for virtually everything)

Non sequitur. There’s no logical connection between the two statements

Unfortunately people conflate single-A games with indie games. (Probably because most indie games are also single-A games)

Remedy is definitely indie, but I’d consider them an AA studio

I think the weirder question to ask is how much publisher/investor pressure should there be for a game to no longer be considered indie. Because it seems to be that there’s many publishers that exert little to no control over a game’s contents, especially if the publisher is itself an indie game studio. For a while, as well, Microsoft seemed to have not applied any editorial pressure to any of the studios that they bought. So would these games (eg Ori) still be considered indie?

He did his dissertation on The Story of Darth Plagueis the Wise and singlehandedly caused the entire Jedi temple to jump out the window from his lectures on Darth Plageuis the Wise

First part to a series of videos

I fail to see how what I said conflicts with any of what you said. You give a more detailed summary, but what I said, from what I see, is still completely accurate. I make no claim for how society will develop over time, only that societies that operate under socialism or communism should operate in this manner. I also make no claim that the government under communism is the same continuous entity as the government that we currently exist under, only that a government must exist to enforce its will onto companies (a collective of the workers is still a government if it has the ability to enforce its will).

Your comment is informative for sure, and also a good summary of Marxist communism, but it does not directly answer the question posed, ie, how does a society theoretically operate under communism?

Broadly speaking, there is no practical difference, hence I didn’t make that distinction. Even in a stateless society, there must be some sort of regulatory body. Even a regulatory body made of the common people is, by definition, a regulatory body. And if this regulatory body has the power to enforce its will onto the entities that it has control over, then I fail to see how that is any different from a government.

It’s not a governmental structure that we would be used to, but it’s a government nonetheless. So at that point, what we’re really arguing over is what methods the people should use to influence this regulatory body. Which is something that I explicitly did not comment on.

If we acknowledge that some form of government must exist in any form of communism, then we can roughly summarize Marxist communism as “the government, which consists of the people organized in a nonhierarchical manner, exerts total managerial and executive control over all industries.” I consider this to be an accurate assessment of Marxist communism, just not phrased in the way that a leftist typically would phrase it

Communism is a more extreme subset of socialism, where socialism, broadly, is an umbrella term for “we want government oversight on companies.” Socialism can take many forms, such as government having direct oversight on companies, or government passing binding guidelines on what companies can or can’t do, or government operating a company (while still allowing competitor companies to operate as normal). Note that government policies under socialism can and will depend on the industry. Healthcare might be subject to more government oversight than steel manufacturing, for instance.

Communism takes this idea and applies it to all companies in all industries. ie, the government has oversight on all companies. Note that there are also many forms of communism that interpret “oversight” in different ways. More classical forms of communism, for instance, recommends that the government directly manages companies and operates as executives

High school really doesn’t expose you to many, if at all, real careers. I essentially lucked into the career that I’m in. I wouldn’t be that concerned that you don’t really have any ideas for a career that you’d be interested in - that’s pretty expected.

That being said, you probably should find some interests. Do some volunteering if you’ve got no idea what to do. There’s a lot of good community work that needs to be done, and it’ll expose you to many real careers

Shadowing is very important for jobs where the outcome of failure is potentially harmful or costly. Biological research is done almost exclusively through an apprenticeship-like training system, and part of that system is that you shadow a mentor when you start. (You’ll also continue to work closely with your mentor so that they can continue to supervise you personally for a long while before you’re allowed to work on your own)

My understanding is that hospital or medical work is pretty similar in that regard

The potential alleviation of suffering is great, the potential suffering is also great. There’s a reason nobody gene edits humans (with one notable exception…), and it’s not because it’s hard to do, I’ll tell you that much.

It’s at least somewhat reassuring that all scientists (except the one notable exception who shall not be named) is taking their time to really understand the implications of the technology.

Gene editing is, like many technologies, a tool, and it must be subject to guidelines and regulations to ensure that it can only be used for good. That much, everyone agrees on. The question that people still need to grapple with is where the line is drawn between acceptable and unacceptable editing.

I will also point out that there are ways to influence your biology without messing with your DNA. And similarly many ways to mess with your DNA that do not carry over to the next generation. All of these fall under the umbrella of gene editing but don’t fit the popular concept of gene editing (germline editing). These techniques are much less ethically ambiguous and many are already being used to help people. Here’s a fun video where a guy transduces a gene into himself to cure his lactose intolerance. It’s gene editing by technical definitions but not the type of gene editing that you’re probably thinking of.

https://youtu.be/J3FcbFqSoQY

fruitarian

It’s interesting to me that they went with that name, since there’s already a name for eating fruit (frugivory)

Isn’t that what I meant? English saying is a prescriptivist version of the Chinese song; Chinese saying is a descriptivist version of the English saying

To be clear, the Chinese saying isn’t implying that the problem will naturally go away. It’s implying that people will be driven to solve the problem as the deadline approaches

There’s a saying in Chinese. It rhymes in Chinese (which makes it so much cooler) but the translated version is this:

Given equivalent units of gold and time, it is easy to trade time for gold, but it is challenging to trade gold for time.

Essentially, be wary of how much you’re devoting to your work, because it doesn’t matter how successful you are, you will never get your life back

There’s another one that I find to be very relevant with the times:

a boat with naturally straighten itself when it nears a bridge

It’s a descriptivist version of the English saying “we’ll cross that bridge when we get there.” Essentially, problems have a way of sorting themselves out when things get desperate enough

My opinion? Decompiled software has always existed in a legal gray area, it just hasn’t been worth ruling on because of how challenging it’s been to decompile software. AI seems to have allowed sloppers to get in on the action, and given how many sloppers have zero concept of nuance, they’re being very loud about their efforts. In particular, releasing decompiled paid software seems like the easiest way to get companies on your ass. You’re probably breaking half a dozen established and existing laws, especially since some of these projects are selling their decompilation. I expect the legal system to step in and rule in favor of the companies.

To summarize, just like in every other field, AI sloppers are ruining it for everyone

I wonder if there is in part a reverse causation. That is, that people with developing dementia tend to lose their jobs earlier

This person’s advice is comprehensive and correct. You need to accept it. What you’re feeling is not love. Love is something that is built up over years of being in a relationship. No relationship, no love. If what you’re feeling is as strong as you claim, then the correct word would be infatuation, or possibly obsession.

You’re going to come off as extremely creepy to her. Let it go.