NostraDavid

I mean, I’ve never done it until just now. Turns out it works just fine. What’s your point?

Does that mean we only had Democracy when Trans Rights were introduced?

Like, if the removal is the end of democracy, then is the opposite also true?

Netherlands

Good, I’d pay my “eigen risico” of a few hundred EUR - presuming I didn’t already spend it before then - but it’s slowly getting worse due to mass-migration (3x the historic percentage-points of the total population; that’s over 100k added on a population of 18 mil, even when that should be closer to 30k instead, historically speaking).

Because Non-MAGA isn’t really smarter than MAGA.

People like to act like they are, but they’re really not.

People are idiots.

NostraDavid’s Warcraft Credit Visualizer

I wanted to check who worked on what World of Warcraft game, so I’ve vibe-coded this together, over the years. Not the data though - I didn’t want hallucinated data.

Anyway, turns that one person worked on all the games: Glenn Stafford - the absolutely musical legend!

IIRC, they’ll add new books every year, as older books slowly become Public Domain, so classics like a bunch of Tarzan books (though not all of them, yet) have become available.

Also, for those that don’t get the name: Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press that was much better than existing presses (and pretty new to Europe).

“You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics,”

If you only measure the workers, sure. What if you measure the processes that have been automated by programmers?

I’ve automated a semi-manual (first run this script, then that one, and then…) process. Would that process show up on their measurements? I bet it won’t.

Thanks for the recommendation; I’ve opened the audiobook in my YT window, so I’ll eventually give it a listen (~4-5 hours is quite a chunk of time, and I don’t want to run it as background noise - give it an actually fair shake, you know).

Ah shit, you must be from the based timeline. I got the one with 9/11 and COVID instead :/

Is Liberalism good?

1. Get all the Pro-Iranian-Government people right on top of important infra
2. USA blows them all up
3. ???
4. PROFIT!?

Make it three downvotes, because this thread is about least logical fears.

Mad cow disease is also caused by prions, which is why the cow’s body gets destroyed, not just buried.

It depends on the lens you’re using to look at the situation:

Would you argue that the Dems are not Progressive Liberals?

They are leftist depending on the definition. Classic left-wing was simply anti-monarch, pro-republic. In that regard the Dems are left wing. Are they Communists/Socialist though? lmao, absolutely not. They are WAY too focussed on social issues, in general.

Oh, also, the left-right-wing binary (or even spectrum) is poisoning the well. Everyone in the UK is right-wing because they have a literal king. Everyone in the USA is left-wing because they don’t have a king. Simple as is.

Now, lets talk about how authoritarian a party is, how good they are at improving society’s health, etc. Calling a party left or right-wing MEANS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

I think the 2-party system is worse than Capitalism, but by now your Capitalism supports the 2-party system.

Not all Republicans are bad.

Was Mitt Romney not the brainchild behind the ACA/Obamacare?

they just happen to be vegan

Yeah, that’s not butter and cheese what you’re eating… No need to lie to us.

That shit never tastes like the actual product. And it’s completely fine if you don’t want to eat it for whatever reason, but don’t lie.

math is hard, annoying, useless

I stopped my IT schooling because they started throwing some minor maths around, so I switched to game programming.

WHOO BOY, SO MUCH MATH! 😂

Nowdays I’ve self-taught Linear Algebra, Calculus, and some Category Theory (because Functional Programming - Monads), via Khan Academy and MIT videos on YT. Good shit.

Religion and politics.

Was raised Christian (Protestant; not sure which subchapter, but I’ve sung Psalms in whole-notes, rhythm, organ or drum and guitar - it didn’t matter much), but turned secular/atheist around the time The New Atheists (Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris - the four horsemen, lmao) went around. Part was several youtube videos, part The Selfish Gene audiobook.

Nowadays, I still consider myself atheist, though I call myself heathen after the pre-Christian religion(s?) we used to have in the Netherlands (which is basically Norse mythology, but we call Odin Wodan, and Thor Donar. We also have a few extra figures like Frau Holle, some local legends, etc. I also wear two rings with the Elder Futhark alphabet, and a chain with Thor’s Hammer.

I just think Germanic Myths and Legends are just neat.

Regarding politics: I used to regard myself as Liberal, but the more I learn about Liberalism (starting at John Locke, and ending with John Rawls) the less I like it. It feels like it’s individualism and egoism to an extreme, and I think it will be damaging to humanity at large in the long term.

What would replace it? I’m not sure yet. I do feel we should probably try to get families living closer to each other, to ensure they can better support each other - nowadays a family can easily live all over just fine, which just means they’ll grow apart. Yes, yes, not every family can do that, because some families are assholes, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try. Our capitalistic system is breaking the family tribe apart, and I think that’s bad for everyone involved.

Also, forced paternity tests. If men get the burden of fatherhood legally shoved onto them, then they should get legal evidence the child is theirs. I think cuckery (raising another’s child without knowing - not the sexual act) is a deeply immoral move, a deep and traitorous move, and if women use the legal framework to force men to pay for support, then they should be OK with us using the exact same framework to support ourselves, right? That would only be fair, right?