The object of a system of authority is order, not justice. Justice matters only after injustice sufficiently compromises order.

  • 0 Posts
  • 66 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: August 8th, 2023

help-circle
  • For example, I’ve noticed that some websites start throwing captchas at me or even just straight-up refuse to load with 403: unauthorized errors because I have my router set up to load-balance across two Internet connections. (At least, that’s my guess as to why it’s happening.)

    I maintain several multi-wan commercial setups and they don’t have this problem. I obviously don’t know what your setup is but I’d guess something is wrong with how its handling flows / connections. Once a connection is established between your edge and an internet resource that flow should remain “stuck” to whatever wan port it started with and it sounds like that isn’t happening.







  • My ideological opponents are already silencing speech.

    Uh huh. I can fire up Social Media and find endless content openly discussing the entire spectrum of Political,Cultural, and Economic beliefs. Nearly all of that is openly discussed on Mainstream Media as well. You aren’t being silenced.

    As long as fascists exist they must be silenced.

    Define “fascist”.

    When they seize power, they will not do you the courtesy of allowing you to speak…

    Which is precisely what you yourself are proposing. Congratulations, you are rubbing elbows with the very people you claim to despise.

    If you do not tolerate dissent then you are ethically and morally inferior.


  • Censorship of speech is a powerful tool. Why, if you have the true conviction of your beliefs, would you fight with one hand behind your back?

    Yes, but have you considered the outcome of everyone doing this?

    Moreover, I’ve seen no evidence in my lifetime that letting my ideological opponents speak leads to positive results.

    Mmmmm, yes. All ideological opponents should be silenced. This is clearly the way.

    Seriously, if this is what you believe then you are clearly stating that you have no interest in a Free Society. You are literally placing yourself in the same group with every other Tyrant, Authoritarian, and Fascists who needs to be resisted.

    Free Societies must tolerate dissent, it is a foundational requirement.


  • If HR isn’t asking candidates about themselves as a person, or is only asking generic “Tell me about yourself” kinds of questions, then **they are doing it wrong. **

    On the other side if a candidate doesn’t have any questions about their future work environment, not just the role they applied for, then they too are doing it wrong. A candidate should care about whether they would fit into an environment / culture.

    At its core employment is a relationship and both sides should treat it that way.




  • It is fun, but it’s much smaller than I imagined.

    It’s a product of its time. Oblivion’s game size was right at the 4.7G limit of what would fit on single layer DVD-5.

    Oblivion Gates

    Ugh, arguably the most boring and repetitive part of the game. Such a wasted opportunity too as they could have made each Oblivion gate be a hellscape mirror of the area that it spawned in (including towns). That would have been a fairly small amount of additional data for a huge gain in game play.

    They suck, don’t do any more of them then you have too.


  • Tesla employee or not they’re almost certainly correct, the barriers to entry in the automobile market are very high. Tesla made it, barely, through leveraging enormous amounts of Venture Capital. BYD made it by using even more enormous amounts of Government Funding plus Venture Capital and those were both done in areas that already had stupendously high levels of ICE auto manufacturing.

    Mexico has none of that and they’re competing with all of the established players. I wish them success but it’s extremely unlikely that they will succeed.



  • Yeah, typical Americans - won’t look elsewhere for solutions…

    We have those all over the place. Large National Parks like Yosemite are a special corner of hell because you quite literally have hordes of tourists from all over the world visiting on a daily basis. Randos who’ve rarely ever left the city see a can like that and may not know how to use it. In a place like Yosemite that rando could easily be from anywhere in the world.

    Meanwhile I know of dozens of these kinds of cans located in some very small parks and camping areas here in Wyoming and no one has any problems with them at all.

    Us “Americans” have those cans already and many of us know how to use them. You’ll need to find some other kind of shit to sling around.




  • Could be that they are taking a loss on the initial units in order to get going. Once the campaign backers are taken care the product is commercialized and then the price goes up. I’ve seen more than one Kickstart campaign used to launch a company in just this way. (Tempest PWS is another example).

    Anyway they aren’t vaporware. I backed the campaign and received my units today.