This is another example of many people saying something is “impossible” where the so-called impossible occurrence is actually happening right now.
That is, many people are saying quantum computing is not possible while we have actual quantum computers operational at this very moment.
What explains this? Is the future just arriving too fast for people to grasp that it has come? It’s extremely odd.
Government Loophole Gave Oil Companies an $18 Billion Windfall.
This is a subsidy, among the trillions (yes, trillions) the fossil fuel industry has received over the decades.
Remember this when you hear about all the subsidies renewable energy receives, which are only a very, very tiny fraction of what fossil fuel companies have received over the years and are still getting today.
Just as in the 12th Century in Europe it was impossible to have a non-religious thought, it’s not possible in our era to have a non-corporate idea.
I’ve been researching the history of television cameras, as that’s the sort of thing I do, and I discovered there was once a class of television cameras called the “creepy-peepy.”
I guess someone thought of a walkie-talkie and just ran with it. Or, rather, creeped.
Here is a creepy-peepy in action.
Lemme uhhhh walk to class daily and drive a civic/motorcycle when I cant and eat less meat and drink more tap and use disposable bamboo toothbrushes and alter my lifestyle to curb my carbon footprint
That'll save the Earth, that'll do something
Meanwhile https://t.co/oHaiQY0Aq7— snake it till u make it (@raedioisotope) October 23, 2019
Some people are catching on to what plant-based garbage can food and cockroach milk are really about.
This is what your betters want you to be consuming.
They'll still be eating meat at Davos, though. https://t.co/29uMvsDyPN
— P. D. Mangan 🇺🇸 (@Mangan150) October 21, 2019
That’s pretty much it, right there. Mostly, though, I believe this is an attempt to force a false choice, to guarantee the rich retain all their resources in the face of climate change. That is, they wish to force the hoi polloi to see plant-based garbage food as good and worthy by propagandizing even worse choices like “cockroach milk.”
And so far, that propaganda effort seems to be working perfectly. I kind of admire their drive and tenacity a bit while still thinking they should be strung up from the rafters.
So much of what passes for "wisdom" on twitter is people rediscovering ancient and basic knowledge
Tribes are important
Eat whole foods
being outside is good for you
Move your body
Don't spend time with poisonous people
be patient
Focus is one thing at a time
Be kind
— Alexander J.A Cortes (@AJA_Cortes) October 22, 2019
The reason is capitalism is inimical to the requirements of human flourishing; therefore, these prior known goods have been denigrated and denied to large portions of the population. Modern neoliberal capitalism is opposed to anything other than power and profit, in that order.
That’s why we’ve “forgotten” these basic truths.
netsec people for once i am asking for a reply here. tell me why IPsec is so hateful. tell me there's some heinous story about it literally escaping a research lab at cisco in the early 90s by accident
— 🎃Utterly dispassionate documentary hog slaughte🎃 (@gravislizard) October 22, 2019
I’ve gotten many, many IPsec tunnels working and it does bite ass. The reason is that it’s a protocol (really a suite of associated-ish protocols and specifications) that has been in development, and thus ever-changing, since the 1970s.
And it’s all terrible because IPsec is designed to cover too many use cases and its actual implementation is up to dozens of different firewall vendors and OS makers, many of which don’t follow the RFCs or do it in such a confusing way that their interface or CLI is basically unusable. Additionally, since IPsec has been around so long, it’s not unusual to find firewalls or other devices still very much in service that can’t talk to newer devices because the old ones don’t support — or properly support — newer, now-required (by corporate policy) features. For instance, at work I have a firewall that is less than five years old that we could not initially use to connect to a client as it didn’t support IKEv2.
Anyway, IPsec is terrible because it’s trying to cover a huge territory with open source solutions which receive very little quality development, and because IPsec has been around so long there are 900 poor implementations of nearly-identical features, none of which play that well together for various reasons.
I’d like to think that if people knew how very much lifting weights would improve their lives, more people would do it.
But I’m probably wrong.
everything on linux is the most painful way it could possibly be on purpose
— 🎃Utterly dispassionate documentary hog slaughte🎃 (@gravislizard) October 22, 2019
Yep. It’s nerd-optimized and getting worse, so that means that absolultely nothing just works, it requires twiddling of endless configuration files and has no reproducibility at all. (That means that because you set it up a certain way on one system, doesn’t mean it’ll work the same on another, apparently-identical, system. In fact, I can guarantee it will not.)
And don’t tell me I just don’t know how to use it. I’ve been working with Linux since 1998, have a now-expired RHCE, and have deployed the OS in large-scale production environments. I do know what I am doing and I can tell you Linux is designed poorly even for its intended purpose, with some rare exceptions.
Do you ever think about how ice cubes aren’t real things. They’re just frozen water.
But then you realize rocks are just frozen magma and maybe your assessment of differential temperatures while orbiting on a planet with liquid water is not a great position of authority.
— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) October 20, 2019
Ice is just what we call the “mineral” form of water. Or, alternatively, water is the molten form of the mineral we call ice.
Fun fact: There are certain network stack error conditions where ping will fail to resolve localhost
— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) October 21, 2019
Yes there are. And those are a nightmare to troubleshoot. Often it’s just easier to nuke everything and start again.
If I had a $300 billion, however, I’d destroy Facebook and Mozilla.
Zuckerberg would be Epsteined. “Progressives” will apparently believe anything, so why not.
The Mozilla shitheaps are some evil, lying motherfuckers. If I had a billion dollars, I’d spend $999 million destroying that organization.
I am totally serious.
This isn’t really an unpopular opinion, but it’s a bit of a slantwise way of thinking about it.
Though fossil fuels kick-started our technological revolution and largely made possible the second phase of the Industrial Revolution, by causing so much harm it’d have been better overall for humanity if their major uses had never been discovered or their usage severely restricted.
Though I know the strict determinists and those who enjoy spreadsheet fuckery will protest, there is a path for humanity where we went electric in the early 20th century, never depended much on fossil fuels, and rapidly increased the efficiency and prevalence of electric engines. In this world the airline industry never developed and we made widespread use of high-speed trains since the 1950s. Ocean crossings are undertaken by fast cruise liners with nuclear reactors (60 knots cruising speed), so it takes two days to go from NYC to London, but you do so in a nice cabin with all the amenities, not packed in like lab rats in some population pressure experiment.
Don’t let anyone tell you this world was impossible — in fact, we could build it right now, and it’d only cost a few years of the DoD budget.
I agree that without such heavy dependence on fossil fuels tech development would’ve been delayed 60-90 years. But with them, it’s likely we will make the planet largely uninhabitable. So that’s not really a win in my book.