Notices by sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net), page 6

sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2023 19:17:36 JST sj_zero
- matrix07012 :thotpatrol: :cunnyEmpire:
Don't go to New York City. Even once. It is, as I understand it, a little hell.

(There were multiple angles I could go with here, but this is the easiest one)

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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 22:42:32 JST sj_zero
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- DJ Solomon
Facts. Twitter has been a dumpster fire forever. I had an account for a while, I made more sense to delete it -- and this was back in like 2015

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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 22:33:20 JST sj_zero
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- DJ Solomon
bros its over! not the massive multinational megacorps! without them all platform are fully dead!

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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 01:46:29 JST sj_zero
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Money is a hygiene factor. It won't make you happy necessarily, but it doesn't hurt and not having it sure does hurt and will make you unhappy...

In the same way, nobody is going to be friends with you because you shower daily, but they'll definitely choose not to be friends with you because you don't shower...

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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Nov-2023 09:28:47 JST sj_zero
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- Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks
Honestly though? This post is fuckin true. There's a six figure market for just going door to door with a snowblower in winter and a lawnmower in summer.

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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Nov-2023 05:47:26 JST sj_zero
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- Terry Hendrix II 🏹
- LS
Ngl, I'd pay cash money to hear Martha Stewart's gangsta rap album.

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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Nov-2023 05:39:56 JST sj_zero
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- Terry Hendrix II 🏹
Snoop Dogg may be the most commercialized man on earth.

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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Nov-2023 01:45:57 JST sj_zero
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- Meemoo
If there was an antitrust case to be made against google, I feel like this would be the one.

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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Nov-2023 19:31:36 JST sj_zero

At the rate we're going globally, the Internet as we know it will be dead in 15 years.

Am I saying there will be no Internet? Of course not. You'll be able to go on a heavily regulated facebook or a heavily regulated youtube, or your heavily regulated banking website. But if things don't change, then the fediverse will be dead, regulated out of existence because the little guy won't be able to or won't want to follow all the new Internet regulations.

Meanwhile, people will continue to tilt at windmills as the media (both left and right) sends people on quixotic quests to distract us from the reality of what's happening.

Everyone please play attention to Trump and the gays, Israel and Ukraine, pay no attention to the fact that we're nationalizing the Internet at an alarming rate and will use that control to silence anything not deemed halal by the establishment.

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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 15:10:05 JST sj_zero
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A lot of companies don't realize your last game sells your next game.

Bethesda last put out fallout 76 and ten thousand Skyrim re-releases.

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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 06:04:14 JST sj_zero

A lot of people think that mastodon/the fediverse and capitalism are in opposition. In my opinion, capitalism is a requirement to create mastodon and the fediverse. That's why it was produced in a capitalist country, like virtually all open source software.

The thing is, capitalism is private ownership and wealth and the means of production and freedom to trade.

Sometimes, this means that rich sociopaths do every evil thing they can to extract the maximum amount of wealth from a thing before leaving it a useless husk. There's no debating that. It surrounds us.

On the other hand, for some people that means they take their resources and use it to produce common goods like open source software, because people are more than just a series of economic requirements.

This freedom is the source of the technologies we're using to discuss this. Large companies were perfect happy making money off of corporate and government contracts for mainframes, so they didn't care much about the idea of personal computers. Individuals who saw the potential for a personal computer quit their jobs at those companies and created new companies like MOS who created the famous 6502 which in contrast to Motorola was aimed at being low cost for home users, and companies like Apple and Commodore that produced personal computers when if you asked a central planner if you could make these things and give them out then they'd say no -- we know this because that's exactly what happened.

We've also got this entire ecosystem within capitalism of people spending the resources they personally control to create common goods they want, the fediverse is a perfect example -- I've got regular users on the FBXL network sites, and they're happy to be using the sites and I'm happy to have them, and I'll never make a penny from them because that's not the point. I'm sure that the instances you're on is largely the same, people who have private control and ownership of their own things going out and using that ownership to make the world better. The programmers who write open source software even the organizations that contribute to it (and there's lots of big companies that contribute) are all contributing privately owned capital to these commons, and that's pretty awesome.

The fundamental thing here, is that they were free to own and control the capital means of production (as in the computers they used). If they had to go ask a commissar then it's likely none of these projects would have happened. Capitalism isn't the driving force behind these projects, but it's the framework that allows individual people with ideas to go out and spend resources that might otherwise be spent on something the state or the tribe wants on what an individual wants.

Right wing capitalists tend to believe that people are generally bad and need to be civilized. Left wing utopians tend to believe that people are generally good and need to be unobstructed from making them bad, and both are wrong. In each of us we have a whole library of things we could be built into our DNA. Memories of being successful by being antisocial, and memories of being successful by being prosocial. Both are built into our capacity as human beings, and so when we are free to engage in what we would engage in, we generally do both.

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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 22-Oct-2023 01:01:06 JST sj_zero
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- Dad
- Machismo
- Leyonhjelm
- lonely ranger
Nevar forget Eternal September

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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 22-Oct-2023 00:59:39 JST sj_zero
2007 wasn't just the year the internet went to shit, it was the year everything went to shit. It's really something else, you take a look at a movie from that era, and maybe a little bit after that, and a lot of the time they're fun. Like, it was still okay to have pretty girls in movies, and it was still okay to notice that they were pretty. Everyone wasn't sitting on pins and needles and so people could make jokes and have fun. A lot of the people who are poster children for the insufferable postmodernist left today we're actually really funny people back then. And go figure, most of the people who used to be funny have disavowed everything that they ever did that made them good.

We used to live in a primarily guilt-based society, where everyone was sort of expected to have their own moral compass, and to follow that moral compass. For many reasons, including the corruption of the internet and pop culture and also the new economic realities brought about by the great financial crisis worldwide, we live in a primarily anxiety based society, where everyone is terrified that they're going to set off someone else's moral compass and in this economic game of musical chairs have their chair taken away.

In a guilt-based society, you can make a joke about something like racism, even if you're not racist, because you are the one judging yourself and so you know what your intention was and you would correct yourself if you felt that you were doing wrong. In an anxiety based society, you can't speak of evil because you are not the one judging yourself, everyone else is judging you so that they can kick you off the carousel.

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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 23:34:10 JST sj_zero

You gotta admit -- it's pretty hilarious watching people who called everyone who disagreed with them a Nazi for the past 10 years now calling for the end of israel and death to all the Jews.

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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 11:51:40 JST sj_zero
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I've been happy with the last couple MSIs I bought. The last alienware I bought was.... it was fine.... I guess....

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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 10:20:06 JST sj_zero
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- Alex Gleason
In the medium term, can we expect a migration path from rebased to ditto?

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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 09-Sep-2023 23:06:41 JST sj_zero
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- cool_boy_mew
I'm not sure there's a big market, but some worms want to hide their shame.

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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 02-Sep-2023 12:41:13 JST sj_zero
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- Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks
My grandmother was completely blind. Wonderful woman, even poast would have liked her. Never touched a computer because of course she didn't. She was completely blind.

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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 08:01:58 JST sj_zero
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- Kenny Blankenship
I'd eat der burger fuhrer just for the lulz.

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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 23:40:31 JST sj_zero
- cool_boy_mew
Maybe I'm thinking about it wrong, but didn't Blue beetle just come out and Barbie has been out for like a month? It's not like either one of these movies is one of those slow burn movies where this very well made but not very well known movie slowly builds up steam. They're both part of the establishment Hollywood system, with massive marketing budgets behind them...

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