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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 13:16:36 JST 
sj_zero
One thing people need to understand about Justin Trudeau's "resignation" is that it actually prolonged his regime.
Things were looking like his regime was going to effectively end by March and we would be into another election. By proroguing parliament and holding a new leadership race, he's effectively set himself up to hold onto power until the next election.
His resignation was a political move, and one that he himself criticized in his predecessor, Stephen Harper, who prorogued parliament on December 30, 2009 to prevent his failing government from facing a non-confidence vote. In their 2015 platform they called this practice out directly, and in 2017 as part of government the Liberals claimed they were still dedicated to not using the practice.[1] In fact, to make the point Trudeau refused to prorogue his parliament for the entire 4 year term, which is unprecedented. (He's on video somewhere chirping Harper, but it's amazing to say that every piece of video from that era that could look bad for the left magically disappears)
His second term was no longer a cozy majority, so he prorogued parliament in 2020, shutting down investigations into the fact that he's a corrupt piece of garbage. So it isn't like this is a new thing.
Regardless, we're stuck until March now, and it'll take time to get the no confidence motion through, by the time the election starts we're not going to be far from the election we were supposed to have anyway by law. And Trudeau will have escaped the personal defeat he so richly deserves.
[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/leader-government-house-commons/services/reform-standing-orders-house-commons/2017/march.html
[2] https://www.parl.ca/Committees/en/AMAD?parl=42&session=1 -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 00:18:32 JST
sj_zero
https://youtu.be/HRhMBlVzlbs
Jose has the stick. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 06:45:35 JST
sj_zero
Woke is just a borrowed word they used to describe themselves. Its poor grammatically because it comes from African American Vernacular English.
It's a euphemism treadmill type thing, like a euphemism on ramp -- it only began carrying a negative connotation once people realized the ideology was bad.
Now progs are like "I'm not woke! Woke isn't even a thing!" Even though they're the ones who created the term.
The opposite happened with terms like chud, or chad. Both were initially intended to be considered derogatory but gained generally positive connotations, with Chad being particularly funny because it was supposed to be like "Chad stole your girl don't you hate him?" But the online right was like "Chad, you are an example for the rest of us, let us make you our king."
For chud it's funny because the elitist progs want to talk down to people who aren't like them, and the anti-elitists are like "I am everything you say I am and that's great."
That's like a reverse euphemism treadmill where they try to find terms to attack their enemy but their enemy isn't bad so the terms take on a positive connotation. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 04:17:22 JST
sj_zero
His wife is at Walmart. That's a coat rack. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 28-Dec-2024 12:02:54 JST
sj_zero
Toronto is such a beautiful city. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 00:57:40 JST
sj_zero
When I see someone claiming they'll save the world through social media posts, I always think of a paraphrase from my first book: "They want to save the world, they can't even save themselves"
I put way more effort into my posts than any of these idiots, and I actually make intellectual progress through my work, unlike any of these idiots. You'll routinely see me building on previous ideas I came up with or I investigated from others, and so as time goes on I'm different and my posts are different than they were before.
But am I saving the world? No. Not in the least. My hope isn't to change the world, it's to try to better myself and hopefully contribute to those who are around me in the process. If I can do that, that's enough because it's all I can actually ask for. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 19:36:15 JST
sj_zero
You're goddamned right. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 12:39:04 JST
sj_zero
Next upgrade for the FBXL network is ordered, a couple machines with embedded Ryzen APUs, totally fanless (I'm not about to start having fans now). -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2024 07:23:51 JST
sj_zero
Most people have. It doesn't make the region any less devastated by globalization. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2024 06:15:27 JST
sj_zero
Even though it's in canada, it's basically a rust belt town. The whole region was largely forestry and paper before those industries were moved first to South America and then eventually just to China. The whole region has been absolutely devastated by globalization and the like, and none of these lefties care in the least as to the struggles of towns like that.
This is basically just kicking a homeless person on the street. "Get a job learning to code gay things!" -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2024 06:03:00 JST
sj_zero
"nobody's going to force you to do anything"
I guess nobody fined that town! -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Nov-2024 14:36:04 JST
sj_zero
I've made this comparison before, but consider this with respect to the speed of technological advancements particularly in the area of computers.
1974 had the first commercially advertised computer that was at a home computer sort of price point. It had a tape interface and memory, but generally was not something that we today would consider to be a home computer.
By 1984, most of the 8-Bit computers that we know of had already been released. The Apple 1, 2, and Lisa had been released, and the Macintosh was released that year. The commodore 64 had been on sale for years. The IBM AT based on the Intel 80286 processor was released that year. The Atari 2600 had been released, had a renaissance, and caused the video game crash. In the ensuing crash Nintendo released their Nintendo entertainment system which was leagues above the Atari 2600, and as well as it's contemporaries the ColecoVision and intellevision.
By 1994, the 32 bit Intel 80486 which contained an integrated math co-processor on the DX model was relatively common. The video games doom and Wolfenstein 3D had already been released for many years, and descent for a fully 3D game have been released that year. The internet already existed, the Netscape web browser had already been developed to some degree, meaning that the World wide Web already existed. The super VGA video standard of the time supported up to 16 million colors at 24 bit color.
By 2004, the first to 64-bit processors had been released. Video cards had already ceased just being 2D accelerator cards and become 3D accelerator cards that could display triangles on the screen very quickly, and years earlier had become the graphics processing units first developed by Nvidia. By 2005, 3dfx had been born, lived, and died. Pixel shaders and vertex shaders were available on all new top of the line gpus. I do have a point of that in spite of 64 Bit having been released at this time, most consumer PCs were still 32-bit.
Here's where you can really start to see some of the stagnation take place, but the innovation moved from one product category to the other. From 2004 to 2014 things got incrementally better, and the top end technologies such as 64-bit and multicore became common in consumer pcs, the amount of RAM in a PC substantially increased, in 2005 you might have 128MB, in 2015 you'd often have 2gb. Besides that though, things had improved a little bit but not the same way. Compare any decade before that, and you can really see the difference. The one thing that had happened from 2005 to 2015 is the development of the entire mobile ecosystem. I have a MotoX 2013 still sitting in a drawer at home, and while it isn't perfect, it is shocking how usable it is even now. Big thing is, for the most part a computer from 2004 isn't great but a high-end one isn't so different from what you'd see in 2014.
Now we finally come from 2014 to today. The last 10 years is probably been the most disappointing 10 years since the 1970s. Most of my websites are hosted on computers made before 2014. My travel computer is computer made before 2014. Although it is cutting across the decade, my computer for gaming is pre-pandemic, and that 5-year-old PC is essentially state of the art. Instead of having a 4060 it has a 2060, but even rtx, as potentially groundbreaking as it is doesn't really matter all that much almost anywhere. You won't be able to run everything at high settings, but in terms of graphics a GTX 980 will still play virtually every game on the market today.
So in this context, you can really see where the sort of enthusiasm about the most advanced technologies just wouldn't be there anymore, because a lot of stuff is just slowed down. There's been some really exciting stuff on the software front such as the fediverse or nextcloud essentially bringing the sort of software that used to be solely proprietary and democratizing it, but once you realize the massive differences in previous decades compared to today there really isn't any comparison. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 12:26:27 JST
sj_zero
We used to build cool things to make money... -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 12:26:25 JST
sj_zero
Financial products aren't things at all. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 05:58:00 JST
sj_zero
+1 to CHA, (vasoline on the lens) -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 20:43:53 JST
sj_zero
Hm..... You make a compelling argument. I'll be right back. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 20:42:08 JST
sj_zero
If you buy a Subaru, why doesn't it come with return by death? False advertising. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 21:22:25 JST
sj_zero
"it's ya boy [whitey mcwhiterson]" -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 00:40:47 JST
sj_zero
I hate to say it, but when someone goes "We're a bunch of nerds" these days, I immediately hear "we're a bunch of far left tourists destroying your shit"
I mean, maybe that isn't fair, but disco stu doesn't advertise. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 07:45:21 JST
sj_zero
Stuff not being real is postmodern neomarxism, man!
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