@realcaseyrollins when you refer to the death of God, is it the nineteenth century phenomena Nietzche referred to or something else?
"To be evil is bad, but weakness is what is truly unforgivable."
One rarely sees viewpoint this stated so pithily and plainly. It's the heart of an intuition that drives much of human behavior, the very essence of an infamous political ideology. A bit ironically it describes the ethos of the state of Israel recently. All of us are susceptible to it under certain circumstances, though its speaker here has required no exigency. Chalk it up as honesty.
From #RichardHanania https://www.richardhanania.com/p/effective-altruism-thinks-youre-hitler
@realcaseyrollins perhaps these aren’t mutually inconsistent ideas!
people expressing really terrible views with incredible certainty and sanctimony, and seeming to be respected and successful for doing so, is much of what has broken us.
@BenRossTransit that's a bit of a mindblowing timewarp! i'm sorry i'm kept by the paywall from reading most of the piece. i'm familiar, in a superficial way, with the Straussians, but know nothing of the Shachtmanites, who from the excerpt I'm likely to find more intriguing.
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@failedLyndonLaRouchite changing ones views is not a thing that requires apology. under many circumstances, it's not changing them that would be discreditable.
goldberg, though, does not so much change his views as his tactics for discrediting the people he disagrees with. a few years ago he'd tar them "liberal fascists". now they are "anti-liberals on the left". they refer to his same enemies! it's a bit orwellian.
so this is the guy who wrote "Liberal Fascism".
what a difference just a few years will make.
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/gfile/paranoia-will-destroy-ya/
once we understand the puerile to constitute a marginalized and vulnerable community deserving of our protection, we can appreciate the depths of elon's progressivism.
Has anyone else encountered this phenomenon on their mac, where if you don't manually thin time machine local snapshots (which are supposed to be automatically thinned or purged or not even generated when space is tight) your mac kernel panics and reboots a lot?
@johnelalamo @samlitzinger that’s a thing i found out quickly when in the company of humans.
“In 2013, the Kremlin adopted the first legislation restricting LGBTQ+ rights, known as the ‘gay propaganda’ law, banning any public endorsement of 'nontraditional sexual relations' among minors.” https://apnews.com/article/33e1b9a0110bf22dc2ebc7c42efe6335
// sounds familiar, here in Florida
@doriantaylor putting the stasis in homeostasis!
much of the work of the present is to keep the past at bay.
@cosmicallyf@universeodon.com 2000, just as we all expected.
@cshentrup a great antsa!
a true claim about a summary statistic of a thing does not imply a true claim about the thing itself. 1/
for example, that average wages have risen faster than CPI inflation does not imply a claim "wages have risen faster than inflation" is also true.
the latter claim may be require further definition in order to evaluate at all. (do we mean median wages? your wages or mine? what measure or concept of inflation?)
but if you are supercilliating the claim is true and that your interlocutor is naive or mistaken, well, we are all usually guilty of the sins we accuse of others. /fin
@zens@merveilles.town @akkartik @avi @loup@treehouse.systems Thanks all a ton for the advice! Kafka seems a bit buzzy, so I was curious whether I might have an excuse to play with it, but for my rather trivial application I'll see if I can't try out the pub/sub style while keeping to simpler infrastructure. Thanks again.