It would cost 1k-2k retail for a top end smartphone, and costs would go down substantially if America was cleaned up (red tape, etc). America used to be manufacturing king, and this is still possible even if we account for automation replacing jobs.
That's just labor cost, according to comment section.
I favor multi dimensional axis of political alignment. However I found only one measure matters; factually rigorous vs. cognitively dissonant. The compass is a modernist left-wing construct that implies all worldviews have roughly equal subjective merit.
I just have to emphasize the obvious, that federal spending was much much lower. The evil of income tax is that it was effective enough to enable our Byzantine apparatus. If we kept peacetime spending at the same per-xapita levels, income tax would merely be an ignored soft-evil.
The more respectable economists very clearly made the point that selfishness or selflessness is not an option that effects optimal resource allocation; assuming current limits based off animal biology. Centrally directed humans could decide to be selfless, and fail to output enough harvest for society because farmers' supply chain collapsed. Such collapse is inevitable when participating agents aren't permitted to act on localized knowledge to decide actions. Communism is not just morally incompatible with primate psychology, it is mathematically impossible (without a Mother Brain provided with sufficient information and communication capacity).
Viva LA Bam is 2 layers removed from CKY, and I have not watched a minute of it.
The degeneracy comes from imitators forgoing the independent thought and outcast aspect that came from the earlier extreme sports and hooligan cultures, then the later cultural homogeneity that's built up since 2007. Sure Bam is a full on addict, but before that CKY/Jackass was a real entertainment documentary.
Makes me think that most UBI proponents don't get the economic case surrounding UBI. The case being small wealth redistribution for power balancing across socioeconomic segments, with bleeding heart assessments of basic needs being irrelevant to calculations. If they had a hard macro socioeconomic interest, they'd apply the same logic to reactive tariffs against dysfunctional countries. But UBI devotees are leftists, and leftists cozied up with the neoliberal tribe. It's all social signalling via copying acceptable opinions.
I never imagine Trump as a literal emperor saint, but I refuse to ascribe the word 'evil' to him in association with early 20th century tyrants. Obama, Bush, Clinton, Reagan sure, but Trump's sin is merely not being a first-principles intellectual, and only having better policies than predecessors within living memory. You have to go back to Cleveland and Coolidge/Harding for mature governance.
Most people are sheep/proles/NPCs/bystanders/bandwagoners. They should at best be removed from any political authority for being complicit with the subhuman leftist hate brigade.
Whether fakeedgestreamer is right, I'm at the point where if the establishment targeted spend happy simps like they do the dissident right, we'd have an socioeconomic boom to dwarf the 1920s.
GenX/Millennial media addled Gnostic/Pagan heretic. I'm apprehensive about using the label because of the new-age whackos that morphed into a core segment of today's superficial, gynocentric hysteric left-leaning society. These hugboxing loons don't stop to ponder that priomordial Woman is partially responsible for original sin, as in mainstream Christianity. There's also the older usage of Gnostic as a byword for two-faced conspiratorial arrogance. To me, it is merely a heterodox exploration of metaphysics.
When asked, I just say nondenominational Christian or Neo-Platonist, and I avoid the confusion of the other person hearing 'agnostic'. If the other is familiar, I have no desire to discuss whether he serves Yaldabaoth, like we're having a fanboy flamewar over football teams or gaming consoles. Good Christians (or any other religion) serve the highest god of our universe through virtue.
Progressives decried free market healthcare in America, not realizing that it hasn't existed for 45+ years. Populists do the same with NAFTA, not realizing it wasn't a free trade agreement. Free trade is about independent individuals and businesses trading with other independents, without artificial middlemen and barriers. These satanic multinationals don't go away with managed trade agreements, antitrust fakery, and similar bait-and-switches. All these do is open up regulatory capture, to raise the water level so that more independent competitors drown while the politically connected float.
Same with the celebrity culture crap. He was a risk as formerly being part of that upper class Democrat city crowd. I thought his latching on to the birthed phenomenon was opportunistic attention seeking. But around his official run, he was willing to say stuff like "Haiti is a shithole" (whether he said that specifically post inauguration). I still voted libertarian, but Trump surprised me by doing the most a president can do to cut spending and regulations, with the hand he was dealt.
Voted for him 2020/2024. I don't like his continuation of Perot's proposed protectionism, and I would prefer Ron Paul's idea of true free trade. At least Trump is threatening tariffs to get other countrys' shit together where it concerns American citizens' interests. I can't support the libertarian party until the Mises paleo-libertarians break away from the LP, so Trump is the best we will get in my lifetime. Maybe another small country will figure out a controlled border, gun ownership, and constitutionally constrained government scope.
In the Gervais Principle Trinity, people are psychpaths, fanatics, or losers (as a large society or organization progresses to the natural state of dysfunction). I wonder if these moderators are dumb psychopaths, reacting to whatever social trends are flowing with shallow dedication to ideology. Or, are they fanatics w/o an inner dialogue to distinguish between corporate intersectionalism from academically grounded (if deeply flawed) progressivism?
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First game suffered from decades of brainwashing that the crusades were bad wars against natives, but at least portrayed war profiteering by unloyal bankers.
2 and/or Brotherhood had a shitlib writer, from the Daily Show, for the riddle minigames deciding that FDR and Al Gore good, Churchill Stalin (class traitor) and G.W. Bush bad; betraying the cynicism of the first game. At least 2 had Ezio give a speech clarifying the creed.
Unity might have portrayed monarchists as good, never played it.
Using Sowell's typography, the series always had a wrong leftwing slant. Are human beings assumed fundamentally trustworthy or fundamentally flawed?
The series would have been better if it emphasized the flawed worldviews of the average assassin, but that would require heterodox writers working for a privately owned company. Star Wars suffered similarly with it's prequel era Jedi. It's fine to have objective good and evil, but show the damned order as evidently flawed. Make Yoda an exile preceding the start of episode 1.
The modern day protagonists have a very weak presentation, written by people who listen to NPR and soyface over Nintendo Wii themes. Reminds me of 2:23-2:27 of https://youtu.be/9VvmixeowNI?si=nTc2RbuDWCOzYjIY . That modern day stuff where I'd pinpoint the vulnerability to wokeness, the same retards that would attend a BLM rally than topple the CCP.
Title is premature. Are any of the lead maintainers insufferably woke? It is part of SPI, which may or may not have cancer CoCs.
How much is this sheer unfettered conformism from spineless nerds and industry tourists orbiting the arbitrary generational pop fad? If they separated the T+, the artificial self-reported statistic would be irrefutable
I'll take the upside that console generations have had longer lifespans for 2 decades now. Even phones are getting half-sane support periods, still not at the 12 year span to stem manufactured consumerism. I haven't looked at the leaked specs yet, but I hope Super Switch Mii (best names I saw in other comment threads) is not grossly underpowered at release this time around. Then, another 8+ years where innovation happens on the software side.
If hardware as a whole can get past the upscaling/frame-generation fad, some developers might rediscover lost low level engineering arts of pre-Zoomer games. Or, at least clean up some of the engineering bloat of modern engines and content slop of failed triple-As. When we're ready, an actual post Moore's Law computing breakthrough will make it's way to the consumer side.
I'm also boycotting Nintendo because of their worse-than-Disney policy on copyright. Steam Deck and emulation will be enough for me after I'm done with my Switch.
Linux is staunchly C, not C++, but the point still applies.
Personally, I wonder if Rust will have any relevance in 2 decades. C, Zig, or a cleaner C++ like for low level systems programming (with better tools to write memory safe code), and a automatic memory managed language with good enough performance for newer hardware. If Rust were such a developer improvement over c++, why hasn't a Rust game engine displaced Unity and Godot?
I think this acutely narrows down why 'Left is the real racists" just won't work. It concedes that their teachings of racism are valid, emphasized as the great bogeyman of modern Western civilization. Something like Sowell's typography is discarded, a down to earth overview of rational discrimination spanning the entirety of written history. Not conflating generational slavery with sound border policy and enforcement is tricky for so many because of inherently weak personalities compounded with far-left indoctrination steadily applied since the 19th century.
How many teenagers and young adults take too long to realize that capitalized Anti-racism is but a lasting fad, more dangerous than the worst racism ever accomplished.
If one is worried about targeted state-level surveillance, he will double anonymous VPN or stick to TOR, in addition to paranoid opsec. Mullvad has resisted/nutered legal orders before, if one is doing garden variety piracy.
In my early 20s, I figured dealing with shit-tests, general rudeness, and shallow interests of many modern women was just stupid. The ease life-ruining accusations is a bonus. I stay the hell away at a hint of crazy or lack of virtue/independent thought, and don't bother dating or sleeping with sane ones I can even stand having a conversation with.
This might or not be some deleted scene, gay either way and regardless of the year. Black Sabbath just does not fit a goofy kid's scene (for the sake of the argument, ignore the barely veiled pedowood programming), age doesn't matter. Post 50s rock was still prevelent in high school at least a decade ago, unless zoomers/alphas really became a warped monoculture since I was a youth.