Exactly what I'm ultimately after. I just think it would be easier if I and others had an efficient way to frame democracy without putting people on guard, or wasting less time finding if an acquaintance is a socialist pop-tart.
I subscribe to the Heritage Foundation's conclusion that this stopped being true some time in the 20th century. The faltering of our republic would be much easier for me to explain to normies, or debate shitlibs, if I had better vocabulary for the various methods of bottom-up participation. Same with economics; any discussion with IRL randoms involving minimum wage, unemployment, protectionism (tariffs, grocery store alcohol restrictions, occupational licensing) devolves into cliches and low-grade gametalk. Good populism (i.e. not trend chasing) stands a better chance if we can coax more regular Americans into thinking about substance instead of getting pawned/manipulated by low propensity baizuo issues (not to suggest that the culture-war shouldn't be fought).
R/drama has never been my cup of tea, only being more tolerable than r/subredditdrama. Still this is some classic trolling.
I didn't settle on the term "effective democracy" since 'effective', like 'holistic', has a leftist and pretentious connotation in common vernacular. It most certainly isn't representative democracy, which is even worse than direct democracy. An extreme example of what I mean is Senator Armstrong's ideal of action determining policy.
This is consistent with their plan to change mouse default from single-click to double-click in Plasma 6 DE; this default means the rest of UI is better tested and designed. Just like it's feminine to orient towards the subjective over the objective (lifestyle activism as seen in the photo), it's also not masculine to compromise product/service to appease the lowest common denominator or the loudest complainers. Individual Yelp reviews are not inherently valid, and a business can tank of they chickenshit instead of prioritizing regular customers. Depending on circumstance (unmeritocratic org. cultures, nature v. nurture), typical women are very prone to taking criticism personally and/or at face-value.
The above is separate from removing artificial barriers and improving ease of active use.
That kids are even subject to mandatory pride events proves that the Prussian model of compulsory education is utter dogshit, but I'll take the silver lining once in awhile.
Layers 8 and above are always the worst.
Bunch of fence-sitters and confused leftists.
It's pure controlled/performative oppoosition if ½kia doesn't go read-only after tomorrow. If the website has been declining since Aaron's departure in 2007 (Facebook tier content you find on r/all), it's taken a nosedive since the ban of FatPeopleHate.
The real dumb thing about ’07-'18 NN advocacy fad was the ignorance of regulatory capture, the last mile, technical matters like buffer bloat, and more generally the merits of federalism/10th amendment or Bastiat's 'that which is not seen'. While antitrust is usually fake and gay, it is absolutely justified against telecoms who lobby for state legislation against municipal competition.
Thanks. That's more inconvenient than a pushshift front-end, but that's a minor nitpick to having valuable data feasibly salvaged. I'll just have to accept that more comments I've saved are gonna be lost sooner than I would have liked.
Part of me is sad that quality documentation is going to be memory holed by enough subreddits staying dark after the 14th instead of restricting submissions, and bandwagoning dolts erasing their accounts so they can feel like they're hurting Reddit's profits. The other part thinks this is a karmic lesson in tolerating a centralized platform with knowledge, along with technical and business design decisions that encourage L.C.D behavior (a.k.a another Eternal September). Plus, whats with the lack of permanent archiving from when pushshift.io was functioning?
I use Linux and CalyxOS to resist brazen abuse by Amzn/Goog/MSFT, but indeed it's only some degree of user control. In practice, computers aren't as hackable[1] as they used to be. Any dork who hasn't gone through LFS start-to-finish shouldn't even entertain the thought of computing superiority. Back to my main point, Linux/Unix has a lot of cruft and corporate dependence, the www and mainstream culture have been turned inside-out, and so on.
If it wasn't for the Herculean task of hardware a, maybe a worthy competitor to current desktop triumvirate would have a better shot combating social inertia. Aside from monetary barriers, it's gonna take more than technological ingenuity to overcome our collective spiritual shortcoming.
- The essay focuses on a very niche subsection of our population, but the point holds when it comes to making good things (I'm in partial agreement with these guys) others want to use.
Don't forget his father being an establishment-left EU politician.
In old, related news, git (the original command line tool) following in github's footsteps in depreciating "master" in favor of "main".; this change wasn't even popular amongst the HN crowd (except for that self-aggrandizing first comment branch). If this was 1990-2007, Linus and co. would have loudly protested this as corporate and political interference.
Stallman, the autist he is, opposes "they" as an epicene, but endorses "per" and "pers" as gender-neutral pronouns. He's also got proto-woke ideas on branding, in the sense that artificial or pointless divisions must be presented and accommodated. His argumentation is indeed very robust and honest, but often with a few very flawed premises.
I've got nothing personal against him, but instead cliquish SV grifters who upheld him as principled, but turned on him or went silent when he wound up in the Feminazis' cross-hairs.
Of the top of my head, Greenspun, Palmer Luckey, Brendan Eich, and Carmack are examples of successful conservative/right-libertarian engineer-entrepreneurs.
Even before the cancel-cult broke him, he was infatuated with Barrack because of his emphatic rhetoric. Never trust a European who isn't explicitly anti-left.
I can't stand her M.O. and avoid her casual content, but I just went through the documentary on recommendation. Only thing I can say is that it's rather tragic that the status quo is 30-80% of the country not being able to preempt BLM embezzlement and other grand grifts.
That's a factor, but I'm talking across-the-board decay, emblemized by Corporate Memphis, which is much lamer than the iPod silhouette. Or even passable examples of modern urban aesthetic, as in The Finals or Xdefiant, just don't appeal as much as Viewtiful Joe / Gurren Lagann, or whatever the 1991-2011 Western equivalent was called.
Of course gradual decay extends beyond movies and urban aesthetic, but I can't be rambling on all day. My point that aside from sequel churn and international blunting, I expect a systemic drop in product palatability because the average creator, consumer, support staffer, etc being less sophisticated. This same phenomenon enables wokism/pc, but is discrete from it. Do we have the capacity for another Disco Demolition Night?
The movies can be accused of being tweaked to hold the attention of superstitious room temperature IQ folk (not that that's all the franchise is or only appeals to) as part of mass appeal, but that includes toning down agendas (not that this production rationality can be taken for granted). Broader, apolitical culture has decayed over the past decade, which could have had an inadvertent effect on the final product. I've only seen the first or second, so I can't confirm.
Just responding to the title at face-value, without the context of the body, men are perfectly capable of missing the bigger picture IRL. For every entrepreneur busting 70 hour weeks for years on end until they reach success, you have 30 wagies busting the same hours for table-scraps, whether it's software engineering or construction. Women are sometimes vindicated for bailing out of absurd scenarios where men (some) are too prideful and manipulable to say no in time.
Relate that to imaginative awareness as you will.
The 1950s-2006 left-leaning alt/counter-culture used to passionately scorn three-channel television as part of the uber-conformist, inauthentic, brainwashing, and hypocritical post-industrial culture (some post-modernist intellectualism was about rejecting both the consequences of both modernism [according to this comment] and conventional traditionalism, hence post-modernism). Leave it to this Nobel War Prize snake to pay lip service to anti political-correctness then play defense for the worst offenders.
Reposting my comment from r/½kia.
Carmack has a great track record of principles and heterodoxy, including rejecting powerplay on technical merits, rejecting software patents at ID to where Creative Labs strong armed them with Carmack's Reverse patent (John should have patentlefted), donating to Ron Paul's 2012 campaign, and a one-time donation when ESR had some medical bills. A nice contrast to some other successful tech founders who cowardly or enthusiastically support Current Thing.
The former is what I've used to broach the subject, which works with casual conservatives, but not confused leftists. It puts anyone that slants left on guard, which is okay if I want to piss off a coworker or bar addict. The key here is the concept that applies both to public office and private
Republican might work in Europe where at worst it means anti-monarchy, but here in America, low on the list of things I talk to a strangers about is the drama/theater surrounding the GOP and DNC.
I would have not even made this post if parasites didn't co-opt the word 'stake' for the incoherent "stakeholder capitalism", which is almost the reverse of the important concept I'm trying to condense to one or two words. I'm just falling back on meritocracy and social darwinism, even if those fail at subtlety changing a person's train-of-thought that majority-rule is good and natural. Democracy is a synthetic radioisotope.