> Aldous Huxley was not fond of social engineering.
This is a consequence of his exposure to his family's philosophy.
> We should mention Francis Galton here, the last guy to realize that eugenics is the ONLY alternative to social engineering for governments that want to remain in power.
If true, that's enough of a reason to reject eugenics.
@amerika@SilverDeth You have just said that it will destroy the government if I screw a bunch of dumb hoes and then you told me that this is a *bad* thing and that I'm somehow the nitwit? Dude. I think you have to reexamine this position.
> (anarchy is for nitwits).
I think the version of anarchy that you think is for nitwits is a version that no one espouses outside reddit, same as the "yelling in someone's face is a free speech issue not an assault".
@amerika@SilverDeth Yeah, I mean, it goes back to Huxley, then Bernays, then the "scientific" plans for organizing society from the late 19th century, the unrepentant arrogance.
@SilverDeth Saw a post-mortem that said that campaign tactics and expert analysis couldn't "overcome organic enthusiasm for a candidate". I laughed out loud, like this is the premise, that people are just empty bottles with legs, bumping into shit until they are filled with "messaging" or "disinformation". It's that callous, sociopathic approach advertising took in the 60s: "everyone's fucking stupid and they'll do what you say if you find the right sequence of words and pictures". They treat the public the way an immature person treats a relationshiop, "What can I say to make her sleep with me?" or "What can I say to make him love me?", like the other person's problem is that they don't do what you want them to do.
What's blitz posting? Did he throw his computer into the ocean?
pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 16:08:07 JST
pistoleroAndreesen Horowitz, Goldman-Sachs, Dick Cheney, Google, George Bush, Bill Clinton, Beyonce, Eminem, LeBron James, Ben and Jerry's, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Economist, Vogue, xkcd, Buzzfeed, Al Sharpton, Michelle Obama, Barack Obama, the entire Bush family, David Hogg (S), Bill Gates, George Soros, John Oliver, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, John Kerry, Bill Nye, Michael Moore, Tarantino (S), James Comey, Taylor Swift, Jimmy Kimmel, both DJ Jazzy Jeff *and* the Fresh Prince, Peter Frampton, Lady Gaga and Cyndi Lauper, every goddamn labor union, all of the Kennedys except one, and they even trotted out the chick that played a hooker in Idiocracy.
:globalistlocated: Every reprehensible globalist piece of shit (hi, Bill Gates), every media puppet with a globalist hand up his ass (hi, Jimmy Kimmel), everyone that took a plane to Epstein Island, all of the venture capitalists, all of the private equity firms, all of these motherfuckers. All of the worst people and all of the people that they'd trot out when they wanted to tell people what to do, and it flopped. I mean, close race, right, but every single stop was pulled out, every dollar, every organization, they played every card they had, and it still flopped.
@frogzone@stefano@jeffcliff I don't see a problem with this, but exactly the same things I said last time still apply: if you think this is wasteful, it will be *more* inefficient to push all of this all the way to the edge. You also still don't seem to distinguish between "all datacenters" and "Amazon hollowing out a mountain". I don't care if Amazon hollows out a mountain to begin with, but I think "I take my computer to a building" is a completely different thing from a closed datacenter.
You do a traceroute between two hosts, and it's 12 hops or whatever and except the first and last two hops, they live in datacenters, because this reduces power and administration costs for the network. You do not have a mesh routing system for the current internet.
@syzygy@frogzone@jeffcliff@stefano That's a tricky one, because there is no type of pornography that you can look at to discourage the CIA. Fortunately, the answer is simple: hack @pernia and route all of his traffic through your network.
> I thought that maybe you could use unix time for everything. Then the problem becomes only a matter of presentation. Hours charged and scheduling will always be correct,
Nope. How do you apply DST to Unix time? So what I did was to keep the original representation around, calculate the times per day because a page never had to display more than thirty days. You can actually lean on Postgres for this but the queries come out extremely long so it was easier to grab a month, calculate when the slots would be. Not the most beautiful solution, but zero bugs and the more edge cases we started testing, the more skeptical I got that there could be a beautiful solution.
> you'll just have to remind the user
Lawyers are no good at this.
> having one hour charged while the local clock would go forward by two
Oh, if we're calculating the difference between two times, absolutely you just use Unix time, but this is different, this is basically drawing a calendar widget and letting a lawyer say when they are willing to block off time to talk to people on the phone, then presenting available slots to their clients to schedule a 15-minute call. Nothing to do with billing on that end, but the clients would pay, whatever, $100-200 per month flat and then they'd have a lawyer to call.
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