Basman

Linux users jerk off to the terminal.

I was once considering trolling a little bit by writing like Kant but that would be too much effort.

It's needs to be stupid easy and play all games in existence without fuss.

I wonder how people's opinion on MLMs will change once they run out of investment capital and have to start making a profit. Suddenly using MLMs come with a significantly greater cost to the user. It's probably one of the reason they are so horny for more investment dollars, so they can extend that period where MLMs provide more value than ever and insert themselves into businesses and daily use as much as possible. Optimize the squeeze.

It's a shame because it makes academic philosophy as a study unbearably tedious. It makes philosophy in general seem like drivel since academia culturally has all of the prestige. It's a grift that university is treated as the be-all and end-all of knowledge when they are so corrupt in terms of incentives. People just drink the kool-aid. It should be obvious that philosophy isn't inherently confusing stuff.

The crab people live up above in them mansions 🦀

I don't feel like Linux is quiet there just yet, but it's getting closer. I honestly look forward to dump Windows one day for a less bloated, younger and sexier OS.

Last time I checked it cost Sora about 5 dollars to make one clip to make. But you usually have to make multiple videos beford you get something remotely watchable. Insane expense all for a meme of Michael Jackson stealing nuggies. We are currently in the venture capital stage, burning through investments like coal.

University system is so shameless with these scam degrees. Imagine going into debt for thousands of dollars so you can learn how to vibe code 🌷

Calling it "AI" has to be one of the biggest investment grifts in history. MLMs as a whole feel like a grift. Its actual value is completely disproportional to the amount being invested in. Where's the morbillion dollars in shitty memes and ChatGPT? They are yet to make an actual profit.

Technology and infrastructure are required to exploit and turn natural resources like coal and land into value. That is something only a company can really do, so they do deserve compensation for that. Not that I disagree with disinsentivizing rent seeking behavior via tax. There's too much rent seeking, especially of land.

Reading academic philosophical texts makes you feel like you don't know how to read as an adult.

Islam is written as a rule set for a medieval society. It makes sense to perhaps avoid eating pigs in the middle of a desert where sanitation isn't the greatest. Our survival standards rise, thus much of Islam is outdated as a guide for living.

But people ARE their culture. If you attack any ideology you attack its ideologues by proxy by virtue that your undermining their identity. I think Islamophobia is going to be to certain extent inevitable, with the terrorism of Islamic extremists in the recent past and the backwardness of certain majority Muslim countries. The solution is that people just need to feel that their borders are secure and solid and that their values aren't being compromised. So no honor killings, genital mutilation, burqas, etc. Respect the liberal culture, etc. Basic stuff which are already mostly present to be fair. There was a recent incident in Holland where a Muslim family conspired to and murdered their daughter because she refused to wear a hijab. They are all in prison now but they really should've gotten the death penalty in my opinion. Politically, that would calm some of the fascisation of locals. The trend of the progressive treating the political issue of Muslim integration as if it is not an issue at all backfires as it hurts their credibility and subsequent trust in institutions. Progressives seem very aware of how easily people can develop islamophobia. It's why they covered up the rape scandal in Cologne. It is also probably a big reason why feminists don't really criticize Islam much (in fact, you see a bunch of attempts at whitewashing the concept of hijab for example, to avoid the issue). But then you got to question if there is perhaps is some legitimate cultural incompatibility to a certain extent that needs to be acknowledged. But Muslims do gradually secularize as they grow up in western countries. I've met a bunch of Muslim guys who the only thing they are really pious about is not eating pork. You still see them drink and fuck casually. Getting into combat sports and shit. They are probably less strict on boys though, I imagine.

You couldn't find a less Muslim immigrant either LOL. It's like if Apu from the Simpsons stopped 9/11.

You can litterally sue the government and win in the US. You have nothing compared to that in China.

Most of these guys where apparently gun nuts. They probably wanted to know what it actually felt like to shoot someone.

Scandinavian countries are social democracies. Capitalist but the populace contribute to welfare programs through extensive taxation and the government heavily regulates business. Very liberal in spirit. It's not reformist or revolutionary, like true socialism. Something like the nordic model works in Scandinavia because the culture is compatible. People are not that ambitious, easily content and decently educated. They are bit dogmatic about liberal values as well. You don't tend to see that same fiery ambition there as you see in Americans.

Don't throw pearls at swine.

When you don't have limits on power your hoping that power isn't abused (which it is in the case of Tibetans, Uyghurs, Hong Kongers, Falung Gong practitioners, human rights activists and political dissidents, both domestically and internationally). The upside of a dictatorship is that you can plan for the long-term without having to worry about elections and pleasing voters. China prepared for the EV boom that way. The downsides of a democracy is that it requires an educated populace to work and that people tend to be quiet depoliticized. But like Elliott mentioned, China has a slew of wealthy liberal democracies as customers, from whose innovations it built itself off. Even the concept of progress is a western invention. Their success didn't happen in a vaccum.

Your wasting your time and energy trying to change the mind of fundamentalists. Your better off keeping your cow worship to yourself. You fucked up by even making it a topic in the first place, because now they are worried their son's a blasphemer.

Ambiguity is their point. It is necessarilly confusing when you deconstruct gender, but then also assert certain ideological conclusions politically.

Watching Tiktok instead of longer more substantive videos.

Gaming instead of developing an interesting life. Oof 😬😬

People on social media largely only read the headlines of articles.