@deadheat@BronzeAgeHogCranker@roundtrip "Do you think if you had some bad experiences with piracy, that might help you stop pirating?" sounds almost like maybe they have something in mind.
There's no need to try to turn Linux into something it isn't. There are lots of OSs, it's possible to use ones that aren't called "Linux".
> achieved just as easily configuring every available flag before compile time.
It takes longer now to go through `make oldconfig` than it used to take to compile the kernel. At some point, it starts to make more sense to split up concerns. It's pretty amazing that the same kernel does all right on a phone and on a supercomputer, but maybe it's stretched a little thin: we still have drivers for sound cards that haven't been sold since the 90s, when sound cards were an extra peripheral that you crammed into an ISA port and had to pick an IRQ for and there was a 15-pin D-sub connector for MIDI devices but most people just used them for the GRAVIS GAME PAD WHICH THE ULTIMATE DEVICE FOR PEOPLE THAT WANT ALMOST ENOUGH BUTTONS TO EMULATE THE SNES. see_the_joystick_unscrewed_it_was_a_mess.gif these_controllers_sucked.jpg
If you can reproduce on your own, please do not share any details.
But the point is that if humans in groups made bad decisions, groups would get themselves killed.
> I ascribe to democracy things democracy has done. Whether the CIA also participated or not is probably not relevant.
Only if the CIA is a consequence of democracy, but the KGB exists. It's the consequence of paying taxes to an unaccountable ruling class. Eliminating all taxes solves all of our problems. :ancapchanlol:
> Removing idiocy is a matter of shaving off the left side of the bell curve
You can't do it, because it can't be done. Road to hell. Burned souffle. Utilitarianism has always been doomed to the dual fates of abject failure and broad appeal to people that like simplicity.
> This is not a bureaucratic exercise, more a social attitude,
You will get no dispute from me that it's reasonable as a social attitude, but discussing it in terms of policy goals makes it a bad idea. "Elitism" is one thing, "kings plus caste system plus end democracy" is a lot more like a policy goal.
> Lower IQ societies are third-world. There is a lesson in that.
Well, sure, no one expects a dingus farm to make a fancy economy. You know how you turn a civilization into a dingus farm, though? Build in safeguards for people that would otherwise get themselves killed through stupidity. (This is why I can definitely get behind your "SODOMIZE THE WEAK" policy.)
1. Fuck everything up completely 2. Make sure people blame the scapegoat of your choosing 3. Make sure no one in polite society is allowed to directly blame that scapegoat 4. People chase each other around, either participating in or hiding from the witch-hunt for people that hate the scapegoat 5. No one is blaming you because they are either frustrated that they're not allowed to blame the scapegoat or they are looking for imaginary Nazis 6. Day of the pillow never wakeup.mp4
@Zerglingman@eidolon@mint If we're retvrning, I'd like to at least go back to the 80s, before the boomers ran out of drugs and then decided to make it illegal for anyone else to do drugs. It was not weird for a janitor to own a house in the 80s, I mean, think about that.
There's this line in The Matrix where Agent Smith tells Neo, that the matrix simulated the late 90s because the late 90s were the height of human society. People in the theater chuckled.
On the other hand, that was basically the boomers laying the foundation for the last 25 years of batshit lunacy that has dominated politics and geopolitics across the earth and all this shit turned the millennials into paranoid nutjobs (...hi) and I don't even know what is happening with the zoomers but it's like they are all normcore trad-nazbol power-bottoms and I DO NOT KNOW WHAT "HONMAXXING" MEANS
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