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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Apr-2025 11:51:15 JST 
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Meanwhile, people clap like trained seals for new projects that are going to hasten that collapse. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 12:14:55 JST
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Discord is like the dread pirate Roberts combined with a used car salesman. "I'll probably kill you tomorrow, you should buy nitro" -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 19:27:08 JST
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Back in the 60s they tried to make a car that can use a turbine engine. Turbines have some really cool features that could make them more efficient than piston engines, and way fewer moving parts so they could last way longer, but they also don't really want to be doing what cars do, spinning up and down constantly to deal with the ups and downs of driving.
Seems like a big use case for generator electric, to be able to focus on building your turbine generator to be simple, reliable, and efficient.
Of course one problem with all this is if they build cars that last, nobody will need a new car every 5 years...
I have a set of PIAA silicone windshield wipers on my car. They've been on my car since February 2020 and they're still going strong. Anyone who has ever owned a car in a place that gets sun and snow in the same year will recognize that's an absolutely absurd amount of time to have the same set of windshield wipers. Nobody's trying to sell me a set of these, because replacing wiper blades every year is a useful business model. A turbine engine could potentially last for a million miles and only has a few parts. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 07:15:50 JST
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EVs as a class of vehicle are about a tenth as useful as a real car, so if teslas get down to about 1/10th of their normal price in the used market I'd probably even get one. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 07:15:41 JST
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ngl I can get behind that to a large extent without any politics at all. The guy's like a circus carney, and most of his fortune is from making people think he had a lot more success than he did. Has he *ever* met a deadline? -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 07:00:08 JST
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Most of the time when you see so-called "Canadian Patrioism", it's just anti-Americanism.
I mean, consider that despite all these claims of patriotism, nobody seems to care all that much that China is basically going hard bareback on us. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 06:48:23 JST
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I can answer that one actually -- apparently if Donald Trump were to oppose it, then they're suddenly super nationalists.
At least, that's how they're running their campaigns in Canada. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 18:56:19 JST
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Five
You ever think you've found some neat little niche song that nobody else had heard of, only to find out it's the #1 top selling song of all time in its genre?
I will ask: Does a 66 year old song really need government copyright protection? Does a 66 year old song really need another 29 years of copyright protection? The guy who composed the song died in 1977. So he died, he could have had boomer kids, gen X grandkids, millennial great grandkids, zoomer great great grandkids, gen alpha great great great grandkids, gen beta great great great great grandkids, and gen gamma great great great great great grandkids who are finally cut off from the benefit of getting paid for a song written in the post world war 2 period. (the red cross gets the proceeds in the case of this song, but that's immaterial to my point) -- if the purpose of copyright is to promote the arts, I don't think the guy who died in 1977 is going to be producing more material just because there's another 29 years of copyright left on the song.
I put my money where my mouth is on this point. My books all have it in the legal page to release to the public domain 15 years after publication because if I can't make my money back in 15 years then maybe it just wasn't meant to be.
Honestly, my first book is now 3 years old, and I'm already at a point where I just want to move on from it. Creatively speaking, there's only so much you can extract from one work before it's just time to make something new. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 22:17:56 JST
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"remember: it is your patriotic duty to vandalize Tesla's"
I can't imagine how painful it must be to belong to these people's tribe.
I imagine taking the hit to buy an impractical 60,000 dollar virtue signal just to have the meta change before the payments are up, and suddenly I'm having my car which I bought to save the world vandalized.
How can you guys claim to have empathy for people who aren't like you when you don't even seem to have empathy for the people who are exactly like you? -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 12:24:51 JST
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The way to make it ok to murder innocent people is to convince them that they aren't innocent people, and in fact the devil. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 01:24:30 JST
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Yacy is an open source distributed search engine. Basically, you can have it crawl whichever websites you want, or you can even send it up as a transparent proxy so that it knows which websites you've gone to and it will crawl any websites you've ever been to, and it hooks up with everyone else running the software so when you run a search, you end up searching all of the things in your index, as well as all the things that everyone elses index. Kind of like bittorrent, it also has each node on the system pass around different chunks of data to each other, so there's lots of different copies of different pieces of the index everywhere.
I've got a copy set up at https://yacy.fbxl.net
You don't even necessarily have to use it exclusively, because it can hook into a searx instance so yacy results are just one piece of the total results. That's how I've got my search.fbxl.net set up, it looks at a bunch of different websites, and yacy is just one of them. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 00:50:29 JST
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From where I'm standing, everyone on Earth should be running a yacy node. It isn't perfect or even great, but it's the only truly free search option, and it only gets better the more people use it.
There are presently 8 times more people seeding a single torrent of the Minecraft movie than were running yacy nodes at any point in the past month. If people really care about the danger Google poses, they ought to be participating in a solution. Even with its flaws, if there were to be a sudden boom in the use of the software, that alone could end up encouraging individuals and organizations to put more resources into it. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 18:55:59 JST
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Honestly, using base 10 for everything is actually super recent in historical terms.
For a lot of things throughout history going back the babylonians, things were base 60, the babylonians were base 24, and a lot of stuff in English history is based around these as well, which is why you'd have "sixpence" -- their entire money system was base 240 or something nuts like that. So the idea that other cultures would set up their number naming conventions on another base than 10 then look strange because of it isn't so insane.
We use base 60 more in our lives than you think -- 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours (which is divisible by 60) in a day, 360 degrees in a circle.
If you think about it, it makes some sense -- in a world before calculators, having a base that can be divided in many ways without getting into long division would be quite efficient, even if it doesn't match our number of fingers (or the number system we're using) -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 21:51:17 JST
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You mean whether one wants to use their speech to express their personal opinions about an individual's personal choices in a private conversation or to publicly support and organization whose goal is the genocide of the Jews.
The discussion here is about a Palestinian who was deported for supporting Hamas under a law which says it's illegal to support terrorist organizations on a student visa. Canada has a law, most European countries have the same law. This isn't new.
You know, the website you're on is hosted in Germany. Supporting Hamas is fully illegal there too. Are you sure you want to support a regional authority which committed numerous acts of terrorism? You'll get to find out exactly how much free speech there is in Germany if you're not careful.
Germany can and does arrest people for social media posts: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/berlin-police-arrest-pro-palestinian-woman-for-writing-from-the-river-to-the-sea-on-social-media/3165593?utm_source=chatgpt.com
In fact, Germany deported a bunch of people for the exact same thing.
https://www.euronews.com/2025/04/03/four-foreign-activists-face-deportation-from-germany-after-berlin-university-sit-in
There has also been discussion in the UK of doing the same thing under similar laws.
I'd also like you to consider that there are two examples of heinous invasions by horrible states recently -- if Russians were going out to different countries to protest against Ukraine's handling of the war in Ukraine, would you be opposed to deporting them? I'd be perfectly OK with sending them back to Russia if they love it there so much. If you're here on a student visa, you should be studying and not protesting. Ironically, Russia's was far less of a war crime than that of Hamas, but nobody seems to care about the red line war crimes Hamas has committed and continues to commit by holding civilian hostages.
If you think that supporting a terrorist organization in public on a student visa is actually better than expressing sincere concern to ostensibly a friend in private, then I think you need to reconsider your moral frameworks. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 13:06:41 JST
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If you think about it, making housing impossible to afford is basically suicidal. People need massive wages just to not die of exposure so all costs must go up and basic jobs are unacceptable to anyone not living 64 men to a 400 sqr ft apartment. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 06-Apr-2025 22:10:12 JST
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Moving from the United States *to* a country like Canada -- a country where a woman was recently fined 10k for being mean in a private conversation -- because they're hoping to have more freedom of speech? -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 06-Apr-2025 11:38:38 JST
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Lol "hands off our military alliances!" -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 02:43:42 JST
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https://www.junonews.com/p/canadian-freedom-convoy-donations
This is great news. I hope they give the piece of shit the chair. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 31-Mar-2025 23:45:58 JST
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The moment we started being told to work for the ultimate benefit of "the economy" and stopped working for the ultimate benefit of our families, that's the moment the memetic black death took deep root.
It sounds like a funny joke or a piece of histrionic nonsense, but the postmodern extinction event is on track to be worse than the black death. Some populations are on track to effectively die out, and even among the ones who aren't there's going to be half the individuals removed from the gene pool moving forward (I think it's presently half of women and three quarters of men under 40 don't have offspring)
So given all this, it's the job of mothers who keep the home (and who should be supported in that endeavor) and the fathers who will build what comes next through their children to make the right choices to ensure their kids can take hold of what's coming. Parents are building the ark that will carry the next generations through this flood, even as people mock them and call them crazy or stupid or evil for doing so.
One question is: Will these parents pass on the memetic black death they barely survived, or will they pass on something different, something intentionally built to last? -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 30-Mar-2025 04:33:15 JST
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I think fascism is a self fulfilling prophecy under modernism.
Fascism is made a carry-all for anything people don't like, so we have to assume something is fascist when it has attributes of fascism. This includes state worship, censorship of opposing views, expansionism, militarism, and reliance on violence. It might at first glance look like fascism is dead, but these attributes still live under the surface. I'm using a definition here closer to Umberto Eco’s “Ur-Fascism” essay than the definition I previously laid out as "state socialism" because if we use the latter definition, it becomes almost axiomatic, it's not even worth discussing at that point -- of course everything ends up being totalized under the state, it just does. This is also a distinct definition from Italian fascism, because if one narrowly defines fascism in this way then neither German national socialism nor Franco's Spain are fascist and neither is anything that is not explicitly Italian fascism. I think it's important to note that's the both incredibly narrow and incredibly expansive definitions of fascism are in part a dialectical tool that lets people assign anything and everything the label. This also means it's true fascism isn't a very useful label unless the definition is given up-front since it's intentional that different audiences use definitions in the same conversation.
Modernism is about finding a single coherent objective truth and building a single grand narrative.
It leads to a false certainly of black and white views of the world in a real world that has shades of grey and also many other colors as well.
When you know you're right and everyone else is wrong, totalitarianism is justified because you're saving the people who don't know any better. Militaristic expansion is justified because you're ultimately saving the people you expand into. Genocide is justified because the good people need to save the world from the bad people. Worshipping the state is justified because it is a tool to enforce the totalizing good ideology vs. the evil ideology.
Postmodernism is a reaction to this and rejects grand narratives and objective truth, but in practice it becomes modernized, an objective truth and trans narrative in and of itself.
Of course, fascism can hide under a veneer of civility. It can be expansionist and nationalistic as long as it's expansionism is Machiavellian instead of overtly aggressive. It can be nationalistic by redefining the nation as a meta-nation which exerts overwhelming control over member states. It can be violent and censorious as long as it follows certain rules in its violence or censorship.
For what postmodern fascism looks like, look at the "rules based international order" and it's reaction to Donald Trump, brexit, AfD, and the war in Ukraine.
It uses violence and censorship to silence opposing views.
It seeks to expand itself (I've even seen the idea of the EU consuming Canada in response to the "threat" of Donald Trump!)
It doubles down on more government control.
It presents anyone who doesn't agree as totally "ontologically evil"
And in Ukraine, the intention was to pretend the new global order is not militaristic, but the moment the United States says they might not want to play war anymore it's a global outcry.
If you're a modernist you'd take the above and declare the current world order evil and probably start railing against it, but all you do is replace one absolute for another. In reality we need to balance multiple, often contradictory, truths among reach other. That's why a more advanced worldview is both more accurate in estimating the world and weaker in terms of rallying people under a single banner -- complex and nuanced solutions that actually take multiple things into account are more correct, but resist being reduced into a slogan or a tweet.
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