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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 22:52:49 JST 
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https://youtu.be/J7XuGz5NFB4
Very real video. Lots of the time you want people to think you're broke and deeply in debt because Crabs in a bucket is real and once people think you have money they're like "oh can I borrow some money?" But it isn't a loan, you'll never see that money again. One good reason not just to be frugal, but humble and not braggadocios when you succeed. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 01:52:56 JST
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I've been using the amazfit bip for years because my pebble watches all died, but the pebble was head and shoulders better in many ways. More conventional smart watches are actually terrible and non-starters. I'm not charging my watch every night, that's stupid. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 07:19:09 JST
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Funny story.
Our daycare isn't run by an illegal immigrant. It's run by a girl whose family has probably been in this country for hundreds of years. She learned how to run a daycare from her mother, who also runs a daycare in this city.
But interesting thing. Thanks in part to Trudeau's immigration policy which has filled every available space with people from other countries, this young lady is shutting down her daycare, and shes leaving the city she was born and raised in. He's doing that because she can't find a place to live and run her business at essentially any reasonable price.
Food for thought when the rich and powerful on the left go on TV to bemoan their poor unloved indentured servant class who pick their cotton and raise their kids for them. Many stories have more than one side. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 09:31:26 JST
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEgwnhLHy3g
Really cool 3d printer design -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 08:00:08 JST
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Some people are pointing out that the dei executives in the federal government aren't being fired but are instead being given different roles. Now absolutely that could mean someone in the federal government is being sneaky and they are going to continue on their work with the dei, but it is also entirely possible that they put competent managers into at least some of those positions and with that particular mandate completed the organization doesn't want to lose a competent manager.
I know some people who has been perfectly decent people in some very stupid positions over the years. They are able to get things done, but the thing they are trying to get done is stupid. In that case, it's a net positive not losing that management, you can put them towards something productive like making sure they actually get their purpose as an organization done.
Of course, I don't want to disregard the idea that some of these institutions just are hanging on to dead wood. We've seen some dei managers and they won't be contributing positively to any organization they are a part of. Some of those people who have retained employment even though the reason that they were hired has disappeared probably should find themselves laid off as their position is mad redundant. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 07:17:30 JST
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A couple more nukes and Japan could have been the 51st state.
Shamefur retureato -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 09:29:34 JST
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What the fuck? -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 19:38:52 JST
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You know, in Canada suicide hotline is like pizza hotline -- 30 minutes or your suicide is free. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 11:30:59 JST
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There was a "Japanese age of consent" joke in Solo Leveling Abridged, so I decided to look up the Korean age of consent.
20! You can shoot at North Koreans for 2 years in your mandatory military conscription before you can get a little booty! -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 13:05:14 JST
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One thing people need to understand about Justin Trudeau's "resignation" is that it actually prolonged his regime.
Things were looking like his regime was going to effectively end by March and we would be into another election. By proroguing parliament and holding a new leadership race, he's effectively set himself up to hold onto power until the next election.
His resignation was a political move, and one that he himself criticized in his predecessor, Stephen Harper, who prorogued parliament on December 30, 2009 to prevent his failing government from facing a non-confidence vote. In their 2015 platform they called this practice out directly, and in 2017 as part of government the Liberals claimed they were still dedicated to not using the practice.[1] In fact, to make the point Trudeau refused to prorogue his parliament for the entire 4 year term, which is unprecedented. (He's on video somewhere chirping Harper, but it's amazing to say that every piece of video from that era that could look bad for the left magically disappears)
His second term was no longer a cozy majority, so he prorogued parliament in 2020, shutting down investigations into the fact that he's a corrupt piece of garbage. So it isn't like this is a new thing.
Regardless, we're stuck until March now, and it'll take time to get the no confidence motion through, by the time the election starts we're not going to be far from the election we were supposed to have anyway by law. And Trudeau will have escaped the personal defeat he so richly deserves.
[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/leader-government-house-commons/services/reform-standing-orders-house-commons/2017/march.html
[2] https://www.parl.ca/Committees/en/AMAD?parl=42&session=1 -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 04:42:54 JST
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One of the elements of postmodernism is moral relativism. It permeates our thinking and our storytelling in the west, but it's a luxury of a safe and rich society. Contrast the demons in frieren who are depicted as totally evil. Some people regardless claim they are not evil.
In the Graysonian Ethic I wrote a lot about what we could consider to be evil or good, and I considered hypotheticals of creatures that were completely unlike humans. For example, a black widow who is sentient. For them, the idea of our pro-social morality would be completely alien, and to us ideas like eating your meat after copulation would be considered horrendous.
So does that mean that morality doesn't exist and something can only be considered evil if it allows itself to accept within itself the concept that it is doing evil?
I think that it's beyond any reasonable question, if you are in a human society, and you act in ways that are evil to humans, then you are evil.
For the demons in frieren, they are intentionally duplicitous, they exist solely to eat humans, they have nothing to protect with themselves, the only social contacts that they have with other demons are based on fear and dominance, and even the way that they look is solely intended to deceive humans. The human metrics, demons are of course evil. You can say that they aren't evil because they don't think that they're evil, that sort of moral relativism is the sort of thing that people can do when they are safe and not under threat of being eaten by demons. The reality is that they are unrequitedly evil, and that's why narratively there's no problem with Freiren doing what she does.
In our ancient stories, often animals are considered evil if they intentionally go after human communities whether they are doing so I would have hunger or malice or whatever. They are evil because they exist to harm us or will harm us. In some cases that extends to creatures that are clearly not out to harm us in any way such as rats, those rats represent filth and unclean conditions, and so they represent evil because we know what will happen if they are around, people will get sick and die. We can afford not to see animals in this way today because we have largely tamed the natural world as we see it, but to a human, even the mindless and thoughtless force of entropy can be considered evil because eventually it will mean the end of everything, and it is the force against which we toil at all times.
Now, if our stories were not meant for us but were meant for someone else, then maybe you could make an argument that within the frame of that story nothing and nobody was evil. But the thing is, everyone who is going to read a story that we are aware of on planet Earth is a human, and so the inherent lens of any story that is written for us and by us will be us, even if we are trying not to.
It is interesting that the posterchildren of postmodernism, globalist neoliberals, have found their moral absolutism for example in the war in Ukraine. The Trudeaus of the world who saw every moral position as equally acceptable just a few years ago magically found their moral foundations again once a powerful country started invading their puppe-- I mean once a big country was attacking a small country and that's bad. They also seemed to find a use for moral absolutism during covid -- they sounded like George W. Bush, "you're either with us or you're with the virus!" -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 00:25:27 JST
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"it's easy not a special skill"
Cool, so that redditor is already doing it, right?
You know, I've been trying to grow food now for several years in a row, and it actually turns out that it's really fuckin hard. Like, you might be able to get something to grow, but the idea of growing enough that you don't die of starvation, especially when you basically have one shot at it, I'm really thankful that I can just go to the store and buy you a 3-month supply of rice for a couple hours of work.
Ironically though, we see the same thing with computers. People keep on claiming that it's just a skill set and that anyone can learn it, but that's not really true. We see lots of people who can't really learn computers. Hell, most of silicon valley at this point is facing giant layoffs because these tech companies picked up all these employees who can't actually do any productive work.
Yeah, it's great you can do a tick tock video about drinking your soy latte, but over the last couple years Facebook has gone down a few times and I guarantee you that it isn't the soy latte swilling tiktokers who got it back up and running.
I have a specific skill at work, and it's one of those skills that a lot of people think is easy because you don't have to lift up a giant physical thing to do it. One guy accused me of trying to hide all the information so that he couldn't learn how to do that thing, so I ended up spending the time and I put together a 100 page manual describing an excruciating detail exactly how to do my job, a several hour training course, and all the hardware required to do it, and guess what? I never heard from that guy again. Because it turns out that doing hard things is hard. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 22:29:07 JST
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Testedcthukbs hurt noq -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 22:24:34 JST
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You seen new car prices? No discounts here!!! -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 20:36:45 JST
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I didn't realize cars that are a little bit newer than mine already had the always on cellular modem. Maybe the car company should be paying us a monthly fee for making use of our property... -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 08:36:17 JST
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There's been a growing cabal of idiots trying to force Japanese media to follow western sensibilities and points of view, and I find it really frustrating. There's a million youtube videos looking at certain Japanese ads through a US lens and going "How offensive they are being!", I find it really annoying.
I feel like certain people think the entire world is and should be Southern California.
It's like... Japan is a different country than the US. For most of the history of slavery in the US starting almost a century before 1776, Japan's borders were closed and they were an isolationist nation, until they were ordered at gunpoint by the American Commodore Perry's black ships, so they had bigger problems than worrying about American slavery or how they treated black people.
Slavery was ended by the beginning of the Meiji period after the overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate which marked Japan's "coming out" into trying to start integrating the new reality from the west, which began after ratification of the 13th amendment banning slavery, and they were far more focused on not getting the same treatment China was getting by updating their military than worrying about how to be racist to black people "In the American style".
It's like "Why are you trying to export American prejudices to other cultures?" and the answer is I think my opening statement. Everywhere is Southern California, and everywhere should be Southern California.
And people might go "Oh, shouldn't the Japanese know that the Americans have this thing with gorillas and black people?", to which I'd strike back "Oh, shouldn't the Americans know that the Japanese have this thing with burakumin?" And of course 99.9% of Americans don't, disenfranchisement against those who aren't high enough in the the caste system during the edo period isn't something they really know much about.
Symbols mean completely different things in different cultures. In Asian cultures, white flowers are often associated with funerals, so giving someone white flowers is saying you wish harm on someone. Should we ban white flowers in the west? After all, there's a lot more Asians than there are us. Should we find it scandalous if someone gives or gets white flowers in the west despite us having no such cultural artefact? I would say of course not unless the person giving or receiving them is from one of those Asian cultures.
Anyway, that's my rant. It's really frustrating seeing cultural imperialism from Southern California, the one place on earth that ought to know better. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 00:18:36 JST
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https://youtu.be/HRhMBlVzlbs
Jose has the stick. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 14:47:44 JST
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Maybe I'm just ignorant, but I feel like vi should be like 300 loc max -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 15:34:21 JST
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Got the new 'servers' in place. 100% fanless still, but these two guys used to be Intel Atom D2550s (about as powerful as an old netbook), and these guys are AMD Ryzen Embedded R1505G (about as powerful as a new low power laptop, 4-5 times faster).
I really need to find my label maker for obvious reasons haha -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 21:51:37 JST
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It's kind of sad, 2024 saw the meltdown of a lot of folks I respected online, or at least the final chapters of ongoing meltdowns.
In the end I guess, wisdom isn't something that a particular individual can own, it possess you for a while, and perhaps you can help spread it, but it can just as easily disappear into the ether, and you end up going on at 12-hour Ayahuasca Bender online for the world to see... Or the world can find out that you were having a massive cocaine Bender with your kids in the house. You can find that just as quickly as wisdom possessed you, it leaves you, and in your arrogance you will go off and do something really stupid. So if you believe that you have a time you should nurture your wisdom by following it's advice rather than listen to the luciferian impulse to think that your intellect can outsmart your wisdom.
And I guess equally importantly, be careful not to idolize human beings, because every one of them is fallible. Especially yourself.
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