The âoerumorâ was actually started by a Jan6 attacker who attributed it to a response to drag show. Question: did she post this before any indication of sabotage was public knowledge? It was before I saw reports of sabotage. So credit was actually taken for it already, but in a plausibly deniable way. https://wholistic.substack.com...

Each perspective adds more information, which leads to truth. I do not need to form a team. I search for truth, and as others also search for truth they become de facto on my team, but with no imperative. It is a declarative system: science. The Will to Truth is the key. The reproducibility of science is what allows it to be individualistic. Like how you cited a scientific paper, but I was able to read for myself that it supported your argument, but not your premise. Now we are discussing your premise, and we are closer to truth. That would not happen if you and I separated into teams, and we had no interest in sharing perspectives. Those who gather into teams independent of truth ultimately fail. There are extremes on both sides. I view the political left-right spectrum as a circle. Too far to the left, it looks the same as too far to the right. Tribalism on both sides. Communism and Fascism are effectively the same. I see being woke as in the middle top of the circle, and extremism as the middle bottom of the circle, and that is how Trumpism was able to get average Americans to attack centrists. It appears to be a center, when it is really an extremism. The political spectrum has rotated into authoritarianism, and that is how a democracy is turned against itself. The Democratic Party shifted much to the right. Institutional Hawk Republicans are openly campaigning for Democrats. Unfortunately, corporatists are taking advantage of both sides of the new political spectrum. Individualism is being left behind. That is where both sides can find truth.

Moral relativism isnâ(TM)t nihilism, but rather a pluralism. You are leaving out the aesthetic aspect of the difference, and that is why you are finding them to be the same. Moral relativism values multiple perspectives. Donâ(TM)t let fascists teach you that individualism is some sort of tribalist collectivism. To be able to determine your own actions outside of habit, that is the power of the individual aesthetic. Like the knowledge of good and evil, we do not need a priest to tell us what we can see for ourselves. A new culture can exist within a single person.

âoehelping others outside your team becomes ever more immoral. ( where moral approximately means evolutionarily effective habit )â That is tautological. You just defined morality out of the system.

You misunderstand equality. Being created equal means being born equal. That means no divine right. That is what liberal philosophy is. Harrison Bergeron is countering anti-individualism, not supporting fascism. If you are applying individualism in an anti-individualistic way, where cultures are nationalistically competing against each other, you are doing it wrong.

The lack of a fixed back button on the phone just sucks. I alwats have to make random gestures until it appears, hoping I don't accidentally click on something. I just want a browser with a basic, non-fucked UI.

If you're talking about how much the most successful 0.1% can make, then sure. Also not very relevant. Awful is, of course, subjective, but stress sucks. We dramatically underestimate the psychological and physical toll of sustained stress. Still, everyone should individually consider what sort of thing they find awful if they had to do it all the time. If working in hot spaces, or just generally outdoors, is awful to you, an office job recommends itself. But for lots of people, bing stuck ditting at a desk all day is more awful.

Well, that's true of many fields. Lawyers have a very high failure rate, but that's very poorly known. Something like 90% of lawyers fail to make it to partner, and have to find a new career after 10 years. But it's still true that most people who become master whatevers have their own business.

Heck, the reason I really like software as a career is it's almost unique in that you can make a lot of money without starting your own business. You're just not going to ever make much money in almost any field if you're working for other people, aside from a pretty short list of technical specialties that very few people can actually do.

It's useless telling people to become a software dev or aeronautical engineer for the upward mobility, as it's the very fact that most people can't do those jobs that makes them pay well at the top end. For almost everything, it's the ability to start your own business that gives the upwards mobility, and that applies equally to tradesmen and dentists.

Well, you can go with the objective truth, or you can go with what makes you happy, or you can go with what frightens you. Why do so many people pick the last one? Be wary of real threats, not imagined ones, and you be both happier and more successful in life.

Yeah, but that's a domain specialty, a project management specialty, sales talent, and you're running your own business. With those skills you can make six figures in quite a few lines of work.

The total confirmed death toll from Chernobyl was in the dozens, man, dozens of people! Nuclear is scary!

Admit it, you pick what policies seem smart after first seeing which are Trumps, not the other way around. A ton of people on both sides praise or condemn Trump loudly fort he same economic policies they condemned or praised Obama for.

But almost no one does. It's not worth worrying about multi-generational changes when picking a job. Do something that pays well enough and isn't obviously on its way out. The fact that other people mught choose to pile on in a decade or two matters very little.

It's actually fairly common for senior tradespeople to have their own business. Where you have to be smart beyond the trade is to grow that business to where you have employees - a "two-truck" business. But, really, where are you going to find six figures without being smart beyond your specialty? Software dev, maybe?

What isn't? The cable networks are just the propaganda for Boomers and GenX who haven't cut the cord yet. The rest of us get our propaganda from the internet. I recently culled everything overtly political from my consumption, because fuck them all.

My phone's back button isn't even displayed by default. It is not a place on the screen where I can click, without doing some dance to bring it up. Also, why are you simping for Firefox? What an odd thing to lust over.

How easy is it to run VisualBasic code today, now that the language is long gone?