The_Grinch [he/him]

I used to think I generally liked most people but it feels like covid made people go feral or something, the vibes are definitely off somehow. Just walking through the grocery store or anything in public feels much more tense than it used to and people are generally much more hostile.

For me the main selling point of epaper is that the device can write to it then turn entirely off, for potentially multiple weeks of battery on a charge.

Authoritarian is a non-starter for me on account of the fact that it doesn’t actually mean anything. Is it the opposite of democracy? What is democracy in this context, and what would your revolution look like?

So you admit it will be violent revolution then?

You can be as smug as you want about it, but the people who benefit from capitalism as it exists aren’t just going to let you change things.

Maybe you will meet someone like that and maybe you won’t I don’t know what to say besides the fact that they definitely exist and you will know it when you see it.

I have. Maybe it’s unkind to say it but they’re kind of a drain on everyone around them. They can’t even go to sleep without a podcast or the TV on.

That’s gonna be a what from me dawg. I agree that people’s empathy is often coopted to let the people actively doing harm get away with it, but holistically speaking shooting a Nazi for example is an act of kindness and empathy.

We accept that it’s unhealthy to be a shut-in and never leave your house, never interact with others if you can help it, but equally unhealthy is this sort of toxic extroversion where the thought of being alone with yourself for even a few hours is torture to you. If this is you, clearly you have some shit you need to work out that you’re avoiding. Take a week off from the internet and going out. Don’t talk to anyone. Maybe go camping alone for a couple days. You will survive, and be much more comfortable with yourself for it.

I got what it meant the first time I heard it so I figured it was fine to use.

Excluding bullet trains, these are just bazinga-brained Disney world attractions. Could have put mixed use zoning on the front, and toxic grindset work culture on the back.

You are pigeonholing my utterances as logical fallacies. You are committing fallacy fallacy.

If this is what exercising your intellect looks like I guess you need it.

Similar to another reply about shorthand, I practice with my own steno-typing keyboard I 3D printed as a hobby. I’m steno-typing this very message! (Very slowly)

Yes, good, we’re all very impressed that you know that word. They literally are pigeonholing you… and what’s your point?

And what precisely is the moral issue with stealing? Depriving someone of their personal property, which piracy is not.

It certainly feels like we’re on the precipice of something breaking what with computers rapidly getting more locked down, these secure enclaves and/or TPM chips verifying that you’re watching on an approved OS and web browser before allowing you to stream, and then the video is encrypted until it gets to your actual TV. Crazy what they’re getting away with.

In the near future I foresee pirates pointing cameras at TV screens then using AI to clean up the video, then media companies responding by creating randomized slightly different versions of videos so they can trace them back to the account holder who shared it (move some tree branches around, slightly different colored hat on background actors, etc) and perhaps getting legislation passed to stop cameras from being allowed to record IP protected material, and so on.

They want >$100 a month to come out with maybe one movie and maybe two TV shows worth watching each year? No thanks, piracy for me has become more of a means to assuage my fear of missing out and keeping in touch with the cultural moment than actual enjoyment of the media they’re putting out right now.