I was gonna say. The idea of Mongols herding on the planes with a diet that contains a lot of butter suddenly makes a lot more sense. The idea that folks would invent a mode of long-term food storage for free/accident is kind of mind-blowing.
Considering how The Matrix is one big Gnostic saga, this one moment of ironic realization echoes throughout the whole.
Thanks for linking that. I learned something important today.
I don’t think there’s anything here that suggests that a person should ascend this hierarchy. Rather, I think our observations fit the contrary: people clearly can hang out indefinitely at any stage. I suppose it comes down to environment, observation, and motivation to move up a stage. If a person’s circumstances never challenge a given world-view, how else would it change?
What I take away from this is still very positive. What I can see is that a person is unlikely to regress once they understand a more advanced framing for social morality. Each stage carries additional nuance that is incompatible with the more broadly defined stage that precedes it. For example, stage 4 “Law & Order” is incompatible with stage 5 “Social Contract” in that people that adhere to the social contract are typically lawful, but break the law when the law itself (or its enforcement) is unethical. Once a person sees and comprehends that, the evidence is hard to dismiss and a blanket “the law is the law” framing is rendered untenable.
I see where you’re going here but at least Dent had a good side to start with.
You may not like it, but this is what peak (toxic) male performance looks like.
I’m reminded of another observation I read online, some time ago. To paraphrase:
The biggest lie put forward by toxic masculinity is that anger is not an emotion.
Also, that meal looks bland as fuck.
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I appreciate the workaround here, and I’ve tried this in production environments to one degree or another. This usually fails due to another problem: the number of systems that think unexpected JSON keys are an error, is is too damn high.
Eh, it’s Facebook in a suit-and-tie. Rarely does anything get above the level of watercooler talk, job-fair friendly material, and hiring/training/talent influencers strutting their stuff.
Also, like Facebook, the most useful part of it is the built-in chat. It’s hard to stand out on the “feed” if you’re not a company, and most of your networking and job hunting happens in chat. The latter is crucial since recruiters use this to screen out robots and invalid candidates, and it’s your best opportunity to do the same. And you will get feelers from crafty LLMs pushing all kinds of sketchy “opportunities.”
Meanwhile, the slop that hits your feed is inreasingly AI-generated nonsense, awful infographics, techbro/ceo-bro influencer nonsense, and just straight-up corporate PR advertising. It would be better if people posted things, but nobody wants to say or do anything that would cost a job now or in the future.
The fact that “it’s kinda obvious” suggests to me that people are being distracted by Epstein.
It’s all distractions. All of it. It’s practically a distraction onion at this point.
like a movie or TV show.
Last one I went to, the staff were singing together while they cooked. It was phenomenal.
Poor executive control and possibly substances. Consider the dark side of ADHD where “fight” is the go-to response after getting overwhelmed, scared, provoked, or just too tired to think straight. It’s straight dysfunction to be sure, but many of us were blessed with other default responses to adrenaline and bad executive function.
Oh shit.
You could probably work with some artists to knock that together in Mugen or something.
A single-player Final Fight clone would work too, but it would be a handful of small stages: parking lot, inside the diner, and out back by the dumpsters. Destructive scenery and being able to use furniture as weapons would be a big plus. Game/mission types would be king-of-the-hill, time trial, survival mode, and boss rush.
I’ve done the nudist camp thing. This is 1000% true. This also works if you’re “Donald Ducking it” and just wearing a shirt.
I honestly don’t think that’s a driver here, but that narrative is a good way to generate moral panic around the whole matter. Forget kids, think about terrorists for a second.
IMO, the goal is to maintain a tight grip over online communications and make any mass dissent impossible if not illegal.
Counterargument: the rear of your car is far more resilient to impact than the front. You can cope with backing out, but maybe your wallet/schedule won’t cope with a fender-bender to your headlights or front bumper.
The part that frustrates me the most about all of this is how it’s a chess move towards a massive power-grab by the few and monied. What’s more frustrating is how many people completely miss this, instead focusing on this first move.
We can argue the validity and the expense required in complying with such laws, especially the egregious “on every device” language. But that’s not the point.
Up front, only the most powerful and well-connected will be able to comply and lobby for exceptions to this law. And the only feasible way to pull this off is with 100% cloud-connected devices that are already prepared to gather biometrics and basically stick a camera in your face. That means that Apple, Microsoft, every cellphone vendor, every cell network provider, are pre-selected as winners in this race. Anything else can’t possibly come up to this level, and/or won’t due to the obvious ethical conflicts it causes.
Looking at an even bigger picture, the problem sets up widespread de-facto censorship. It’s surveillance and a cudgel for sites that don’t participate in said surveillance, all in one.
We’ve already seen major social media consolidated and owned by the obscenely wealthy and powerful, who are nakedly well-connected with government. Requiring ID to use these sites effectively pushes anyone with a brain OUT of that space. Algorithms were already punching-down on our ability to coordinate and find common ground across the (largely artificially generated) political divide. Now, we’re self-segregating and retreating to spaces like Lemmy. The proposed laws would make it much harder to start and maintain alternate media, and hosting an environment full of dissenting opinions would be well-documented and served to law enforcement on a silver platter if ID laws are adhered to. But if you don’t comply? Be prepared to lose that whole site since it’ll be illegal to do so.
I’m convinced of this because I know with absolute certainty in my heart that if any of my friends on the spectrum were alive in the 13th century, they’d be sent to the seminary for being weird and would spend their days doodling butt trumpets in the margins of manuscripts.
Holy shit that tracks.
First I’ve heard of that. This is brilliant.