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~walter-hoddel |
TANSTAAFL |
Jesus is Lord |
Richard Stallman was right |
July 19 is Kevlin Henney Day

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@effectfully I have two states of mind while looking at Haskell:
- hot damn that's clever!
- you think you're so cute you fucking know-it-all

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@politicalmath turnabout is fair play

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The thing I love most about AI becoming so integrated with software/IT work is that it shortcuts me through SO MUCH yak shaving that used to take hours or days.

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chef's kiss

[RÈBELs RÄÎDÈRs @Rebels_Raiders]

Ah yes, human economics. Very fascinating. Very concerning.

*wheeze*

“Who does Earth owe $350 trillion to?”

Mostly itself.

You owe money to pension funds, banks, insurance companies, investment funds, foreign governments, central banks, corporations, and millions of individual investors.

*wheeze*

In other words, humans have invented a system where they borrow money from themselves, pay interest to themselves, panic about it constantly, and then argue on the extranet about who is responsible.

As a Vølüs, I find this arrangement delightfully profitable.

The more interesting question is not who you owe. The question is whether the debt grows faster than the economy that supports it.

* wheeze*

If I owe 10,000 credits and earn 100,000 credits per year, nobody cares.

If I owe 10,000 credits and earn 12 credits per year, suddenly C-Sec starts asking questions.

Hah hah hah…* wheeze*

So when a human says, “We owe $350 trillion! Who do we owe it to?”

The answer is:

“Mostly other humans. The real question is whether future humans can keep making enough money to convince everyone not to panic.”

* wheeze*

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have several sovereign debt instruments to sell to the Elcor. They take a very long-term view of investments.

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

Leonardo da Vinci's greatest paragraph

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@SenSanders man, all you ever do is gripe

[Dark Meld Depot-SW @Catlover10000S]

@mjarbo The movie said "Oh you wanted to see luke, here he is, you like that you fucking piece of shit?" As we visibly gasp at Jake Skywalker

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@esrtweet @blackguypool I think I took on the label "libertarian" in the first place, years ago, after reading your essays

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@ChristianHeiens He could start his own and give The People 100% ownership of it. Why not do that?

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@BLeBlan68656830 @planefag @Cyn1calCrusader Indeed. Humidity makes a/c even more attractive IMO. If the electricity is so expensive, use it sparingly. Even a little relief is better than none

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Here's a hint:

It's called "Starship Troopers". Not "The Big War with the Bugs".

There's a reason for that. Heinlein was one of the 20th century's greatest authors, if not THE greatest, and he was also the 20th century's greatest philosopher and it's not even close.

So he didn't name things by accident.

Starship Troopers isn't about the war. It isn't even about war. And it's certainly not about the fucking bugs.

All that shit is just stage dressing for the story is really about. That's why the book doesn't end with defeating the enemy. It ends with Rico meeting his father again, facing future fights together.

Starship Troopers is about the military life, the relationship between armies and the civilizations they serve, and what it means to be a soldier and a man.

Eurotrash communists failed to get the point, not merely because they have the "media literacy" of a sack of wet hammers, but also because they don't understand soldiering, civilization, or manhood.

So, yes, Verhoeven tried to make fun of Heinlein and failed miserably because Heinlein was a better storyteller, a better man, and a better human being by a margin so great that the Earth can barely encompass it.

But even though his failed satire makes humanity clearly the good guys, the war clearly righteous, and soldiers clearly cool and heroic, it still doesn't recapture the actual meaning of Starship Troopers.

Because the real themes were so invisible, so incomprehensible, to Verhoeven that he couldn't even see them to disagree with.

So enjoy the film for what it turned out to be... a fun, campy, morally unambiguous story of heroes squashing disgusting bugs. Suitable for popcorn consumption.

Then, read more Heinlein.

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@drewsnafu82 @ShamashAran truth

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@eiranoirx Jetbrains is written with Swing

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@bearcaught45 @morallawwithin @spencedetroit This is true, and that's what makes it such a crime and tragedy when social norms are intentionally bent to enshrine madness

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@davepl1968 @ClarksonsFarm1

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Seriously considering insta-blocking anyone who says "USAians"

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@jackcoder0 if you can't trust the prediction of economists, what can you trust?

[Phil Labonte 🇺🇸 @philthatremains]

the issue is never the issue, the issue is always the revolution

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inquiring minds want to know

[Chris Allen @theodorvaryag]

@salingergregor do you enjoy being this feckless and weak

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@_Pax_Virtus_ @CuriosityonX Olympus Mons is volcanic, I'm pretty sure

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@ChrisDietzel @RCDaydreams I checked it out. Now I miss Bob, too 😭

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"The Man Who Watched The World End" by @ChrisDietzel might be the single most bleak book I've ever read, and it's stuck with me for years. So much in it to think about.