Notices by of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org), page 2
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 05:40:44 JST of nothing @ArdainianRight @John_Darksoul nah it's completely impossible. Look at how incredibly weak NATO is right now! The only way we'd get WWIII is if it just started one day, but the opposing side showed incredible restraint and kept expecting the conflict to die down, while giving NATO time to test a generation of weapon systems and ramp production up to the point it could barely compete. And then the other side would still have to show incredible restraint as NATO-aligned powers resort to assassinations and terrorists attacks!
I mean, from a certain perspective, that's been happening for two years already, but it'll never happen. -
of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 08:11:05 JST of nothing https://nitter.poast.org/matt_e_cochran/status/1818995502630785170 abbreviated: >The problem (as usual) is that modern relationships are based on fornication. >Generally, men have lower standards for fornication than for marriage. >Women, however, generally have higher standards for fornication than for marriage. >The consequence is a lot of women (unknowingly) hooking up with guys who are out of their league. >At the same time, when relationships start with fornication, both sexes ignore traits that would be red flags for marriage.
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 03:13:07 JST of nothing @ChristiJunior @ArdainianRight the great part is that Gab's usefulness here came entirely from it being forgotten by society -
of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 29-Jul-2024 17:40:20 JST of nothing @matrix where LLMs really shine is slang and abbreviations, which you can't find in a dictionary and can't get out of traditional translators. -
of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 29-Jul-2024 02:59:34 JST of nothing @mint @lucy @sun @takao "just wait until this generation grows up" is eternal. There's a Doonsbury comic strip about our current deep state, tearfully applying to join the Clinton administration which is their generation finally coming to power and stopping all the dumb wars.
All I heard as a kid was that things would change once people who really understood the internet got into power. If there's a difference its probably that people who think they understand the internet are less cautious about legislating it to force "click here to accept cookies". -
of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 29-Jul-2024 02:44:04 JST of nothing @sun @lucy @mint @takao it's generational, but more in the Game of Life sense than the colloquial political sense. Things turned to shit because the prior order was upheld by a set of ideas that failed to propagate to future generations. We had open systems and open protocols and lightly moderated distributed platforms because that's the internet that most of the people on the internet wanted.
But it's all very easy to abuse, and once the abuse ramps up people stop wanting the abuseable systems and it becomes easy to sell other ideas with shadowbanning and algorithms.
Once upon a time if a guy had my phone number he could call it and I'd pick up and we'd have a conservation. Now I get 100+ scam calls a month and never pick up the phone ever. -
of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 29-Jul-2024 02:11:19 JST of nothing @mint @sun @lucy @takao pro trip: if you keep updating your seethe to include the new generation of teenager, your seethe begins to take on an air of broad-mindedness and cultural awareness.
The out of touch boomer complains about how teenagers dare expect 1/100th of the starting wages the boomer himself got. The boomer with his finger on the pulse of society, he complains about "broccoli hair" and "tiktok trends". -
of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jul-2024 09:51:47 JST of nothing not a big fan of the modern gaming experience where a game leads its presentation with 'diversity' and then, because I'm still interested in it, I have to scour a bunch of materials for the game to see how woke it is exactly to justify spending any money on it. -
of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 04:40:38 JST of nothing @Meemoo
a. your mind was read
b. you vocalized your thought unknowingly, and this was overheard
c. your thought yesterday was externally prompted without you noticing/remember the prompt. Say, he was in your recommends yesterday, maybe in an end-of-video wall of recommends -
of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 03:14:50 JST of nothing @WTFPurpleAlpaca @WashedOutGundamPilot aren't the Democrats taking the more moral route by bloating voter registration and then committing voter fraud with the excess registrations? Nobody has to participate. No free citizen has to submit himself to the polling station. Instead, all of politicians and lawyers go into a room by themselves and fight it out: I win if I can cheat more than you can stop me from cheating.
When this system gets more honest, elections can be fully replaced by weekend "capture the flag" hackathons, and nobody will be frustrated any more by delusions like
1. if I vote it sends a message
2. if I don't vote it sends a message
3. if I write in Calvin Coolidge it sends a message -
of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 05:04:10 JST of nothing @SilverDeth @p no network outages. No lag. No mess with joining a chat, joining a group, getting the perms right. It wasn't without its problems but you could solve them and learn from them.
There's been much progress that's less absolute advancement and more "dubious sidegrade", French press (1850s), K-cup machines (2004). Safety razor (1870), Gillette disposable multi-blade razors (1998). Kick scooter (1817), e-scooter (2000s). lan-party StarCraft (1998), online-only StarCraft II (2010). -
of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 04:59:48 JST of nothing @ArdainianRight easy.
1. aim for high disclaimability. You don't notice stuff. You have accidental gaps. You're naturally slow to respond. The assassination happens and it's not your fault - actually, you are one of the victims here!
obvious downside: this makes you look incompetent
subtle downside: everything you do to increase disclaimability, also decreases your ability to credibly tell truths that actually exonerate you.
2. aim for Chomsky's coordination without conspiracy. You don't have "Trump Assassination Workgroup" weekly plans. You don't have plans at all. You make sure everyone thinks the same way and has the same biases and then occasionally you run simulations or counter-planning for what you'd actually like to happen, trusting that people will make the correct inferences and, on the day of, independently decide to do things to benefit the goal.
obvious downside: all of these individual decisions make you look incompetent. Without a plan that everyone's on, people will sabotage the plan unintentionally.
subtle downside: this coordination works for something like the media where continuous acts of conspiracy can be demonstrated, and your group policed over time, but for something like a one-shot assassination the group is ripe for betrayal - members can invisibly decide not to go along with it, and then after the fact members can blow the whole thing up and describe the not-coordination *as* coordination, and that's also very difficult to argue against.
3. use stochastic terrorism to have your assassin volunteer himself. You just say that Trump is Hitler, over and over again, until someone independently decides to kill Hitler.
obvious downside: you don't get to pick the assassin except through stopping him - contrary to your goal. If you get a really dumb who does obviously threatening stuff and wastes a lot of time, your 'disclaimable' incompetence becomes harder and harder to explain.
Glowies have modern problems of everyone having a phone, every corner having a camera, and too much ability for observers to connect dots together. When they have an official pass for official duties they can go with an old-fashioned plan and then brag about it, but when they have to do completely black stuff they have these modern solutions.
But also, you don't have to be a glowie to just hate Trump and realize that a little intentional unintentional incompetence might hurt him. -
of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 00:25:49 JST of nothing @jk even a 5-year-old wouldn't make the higher, safer windows smaller than the lower windows. The 5-year-old would keep the windows the same size. -
of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 22:08:49 JST of nothing >play StarCraft again
>Raynor forced to join hands with a terrorist group
>next mission: Raynor murders harmless civilians and SCVs - for no reason! -
of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 19:35:13 JST of nothing @gnarley_boot @Diceynes @cjd occasionally someone will attribute some insane evil to Hitler like
"Behead cats. Throw cats against the wall. Break a cat's neck and drink it's blood. I just really hate cats." -- Mein Kampf
and then I open a copy of Mein Kampf, ctrl-f cats, and Hitler has an anecdote about how he saved a stray cat from a gutter and kept it as a pet for a summer devoted to arguing with Social Democrats and how his wordless cooperation with the cat reminded him that the default state of men is also cooperation and deepened his affection for the German people.
It's bizarre. -
of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 07:03:16 JST of nothing @xianc78
6. discord, generally aggressively-moderated secret clubs with a specific focus
7. poorly-moderated game chat that's not even intended to support a community
8. #7 with a lone moderator on a powertrip -
of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 02:33:37 JST of nothing @DEERBLOOD
>We did a bad thing before and it had good results, so we should do bad things again.
How do you know it had good results? You're suggesting that the situation was good afterwards, and that misses the correct point of comparison which is how good things were in the alternate timeline where you didn't do the bad thing.
At the top of a mountain I saw a gentle winding path down, and I saw a dangerous cliff that I could barely slide down. I chose the cliff and broke all of my limbs. But, I got better, and I also got to the bottom of the mountain. The next time I find myself at the top of the mountain I'm definitely doing what worked last time. -
of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 15:30:16 JST of nothing @augustus me, I'm content in knowing that the rest of the government is run so well that it hardly matters who the President is. We have a robust and loyal class of bureaucrats who will steadfastly serve any winning candidate and get his program done, while pushing back only as needed by law or good sense.
And, we have a federal form of government, where the more local the government, the more it matters to our day-to-day lives and the more direct control we have over it. Why should an American care whether the oval office has a (D) or an (R) by it, any more than he should care if the Whitehouse Christmas tree has an odd or an even number of decorations on it?
America isn't a dictatorship, after all! The elections are big and dramatic like this, first as a form of harmless entertainment, and second as a way for those unfortunates, who get a little steamed up and into politics, a way to safely vent that steam at the ballot box.
For any doubters, I recommend the excellent South Park time travel episode, in which Cartman attends the constitutional convention and overhears our Founding Fathers lay out a comedically cynical plan: with two parties, one can engage in country-serving realpolitik while the other engages in moral grandstanding. We'll always have the moral highground, and we'll also always kill and destroy any enemies! God bless America! -
of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 14:17:24 JST of nothing @Forestofenchantment @MCMLXVIIOTG @Terry the dress could be pulled off as mockery. -
of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 13:50:09 JST of nothing @splitshockvirus @eric @kirby @yakumo_izuru ow! Next time, I'm buying Sony's console!
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