Pup Biru

whilst modern anarchism certainly has a lot of good points to make, anarchism in general also covers some pretty horrendous ways of structuring society…

anarchism is, at its core, is just absense of government and rulers

The word “anarchy” was first defined by Ancient Greek philosophy, which understood it to be a corrupted form of direct democracy, where a majority of people exclusively pursue their own interests

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy

that original definition pretty well covers “everyone for themselves anarchy”

you can argue “yes but no serious anarchist”, but the word at its core doesn’t just mean the serious and thought out structures

it is what it is: anarchy can mean chaos, it’s just that when discussing with people who are discussing the implementation of anarchy, it’s widely agreed that chaos is not the goal and thus other systems are put in place

are you sure they’ll have experienced troops? russia doesn’t really fight wars in a manner that ends with experienced troops

i think that aspiring to be a politician, and even becoming a politician isn’t so bad… there are a few people i know that went into politics and they legitimately did it to make a difference

many get corrupted and i reckon it pretty much requires abandoning morals to become one of the “top” politicians, but there are plenty of staffers in the world that don’t and do legitimate good at the expense of their own standing

if they get into it with eyes wide open as to the reality and for the right reasons, credit to them: it’s what they do after that that matters

public service is still noble, even if most politics has become a perversion of that

investment is an important way that money flows around an economy. safer investments tend to move money slowly… if people think conditions can flip on a dime, that adds risk and more risk leads to people making otherwise safer investments (this goes double: more risk usually means more reward, so if you increase baseline risk then you’re negatively effecting both sides of the equation)… we do things like grandfathering in laws because of someone in good faith invests in something it’s good to have reasonable expectations that they’re not going to have the risk calculation changed underneath them - otherwise you have to take that risk for all classes of investment, and that’s far worse than the small (probably ~10 year) loss from not catching out the practices you’re trying to change in existing activities

that’s not a useful metric though. the science of winemaking isn’t some dark secret. given enough money to replicate conditions i’m sure even saudi arabia could produce a wine that blind tests better than french wines

the point of comparing regions is their average wine: pick up a random wine off the shelf from each region and how comparable is it?

french wine isn’t good by magic - french wine is good for the same reason french pastry, bread, and cheese are also good. because it’s deeply ingrained in french culture that these are things that you don’t accept bad versions of. bad wine doesn’t sell in france. americans are less picky. each wine region adapts to local conditions

not about NY, but in melbourne we have a bunch of solar powered bins that compact the waste when it gets close to full so they can fit about 3x more in it before it needs collection

the city also has a city-wide LoRA network that they use for various sensors, so they could also easily (and cheaply) signal that they need collection

you’re right of course, but i think part of the sentiment behind “once a maga, always a magat” is that often people in the MAGAsphere don’t actually admit that the original premise is wrong, or change their way of thinking, or develop critical thinking skills: they just get personally burned…

changing how you ingest and process information about the world is a very hard thing to do, and few “reformed MAGAs” have likely done that work… we should applaud them for leaving their current cult, but the next one right around the corner might grab them just as hard

vivaldi recently disabled uBO and said it’d soon be unsupported. you can re-enable for now

poor blackrock! how can we expect people to ever live in a society if they can’t exploit people and then see their plans through to make profit from them at the expense of literally everyone else?!?!

the fact that nothing happened doesn’t mean it was overblown. the fact that nothing happened means all the engineering effort and sleepless nights that went into the problem were well-spent

prevention that succeeds so completely to prevent a disaster that you don’t even notice is just a job very well done: not evidence that the disaster wasn’t real or very dangerous

Even the good old “think about the children” is used less often nowadays. Soon it’ll just be “submit without question or get executed.”

TBH we have the “think of the corporations” line these days that’s used more than think of the children

just boil your water!

stringify is used to serialize an object good enough in the large majority of cases because we have far more poorly implemented hacks to work around

i agree but hate to add the caveat that it (well, typescript) these days is by far the language that i’m most productive in, with the fewest bugs

it took me a long time to admit that to myself

it’s still a human rights violation

as an australian, don’t you know anything not visible without a US passport is a government conspiracy?

if they’d have called it “related reviews” it might have gone down okay

and gone down well if reviews about the publisher/developer/etc were shared between games automatically… even if they were separated

it’d be annoying for like 2 sec giving up better auto complete when i’m writing code (keywords: when IM writing code), or “intuitively find and replace non-identical things based on what i just did”

and then id get over it because i could buy RAM again

australianbananas.com.au says brown bananas are great for bbq tho and im willing to chance that because that does sound excellent

and they’re BOTH GREEN

COINCIDENCE?!?

there’s a reason GREEN is in the MIDDLE OF THE RAINBOW

as with everything, per capita is incredibly important… australia has twice the per capita renewable capacity as china… US is actually only about 100w/capita behind china (about 15%)

china just has a massive population, so you’d expect their government to necessarily build more power - which is to say nothing about their industrial capacity which, again, necessitates a larger total capacity

per capita or renewables mix is far more relevant than total capacity

none of that is a dig at china of course: they’re still doing better than most countries! but let’s not hold them up as a shining beacon when they’re just doing better than average. we can find better examples of success to copy