Anthony M.

Software developer, musician and music lover, cat lord, crypto enthusiast

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

The United States of America has now lasted for a quarter of a millennium.

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

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[shoe @shoe0nhead]

if you look around at everything happening and your conclusion as to why people are becoming more radicalized is still some shit like “andrew tate” and “podcasters” you should be wearing a helmet 24/7

[Sam Hyde 🇺🇸 @wigger]

Hitting your kids is in the same category as circumcision, iPads, strict adherence to the CDC vaccine schedule---it is for Ns, goyim, and walmart pajama people. It lowers IQ (Straus, 1995), increases aggression (Gershoff, 2016), is less effective than a timeout, and requires escalation to keep working. The replies to articles like this are filled up with the Dumbest People Who Ever Existed saying "it worked for me" and then genuinely malicious and hateful morons dropping reaction gifs of like daffy duck swinging a belt

"EVERY STATE IN AMERICA ALLOWS YOU TO PHYSICALLY CORRECT YOUR CHILD. It's legal. It's fun. Bring it on." -- profile says: Cat Sanctuary Dad. Unyielding steel. Workouts, keto, cat chaos, anime rants. Godzilla, Gundam, Mazinger, Ultraman, classical art, manga.

If you hit your kids, you will create permanent emotional distance with the only person/people you could ever be that close to, not to mention sending them down the road of being as much of a lost fuckup loser as you are who will hit their own kids, or wont, but only after spending a decade figuring out why they reflexively apologize all the time.

[HotSotin 🇫🇮🇺🇦🇪🇺△ @HotSotin]

"The evils of capitalism:"

[Space Koala @SpaceKoala]

The Octopus eye is trash compared to the human eye, and I'm tired of people treating the nerve arrangement like it's some brilliant innovation over ours.

Time for another biology rant

[TFTC @TFTC21]

A fake Ledger Live macOS app listed on Apple’s official App Store stole approximately $9.5 million in crypto from more than 50 victims between April 7–13.

Apple has removed the app.

[Reddit Lies @reddit_lies]

Fact check: False

[Anthony M. @thestrabusiness]

@reddit_lies Culture convinces people that wanting kids is either selfish or naive, and they buy it. Even if it IS selfish, that's fine. Pursuing your own flourishing isn't a vice. You don't owe anyone an unselfish reason to build a family. It's what we're made for.

[Anthony M. @thestrabusiness]

@DivinumGame IMO all of these work, but C works the best here. Very smooth. Nice! I bet each approach has its place.

[Anthony M. @thestrabusiness]

@space_colonist I know I'm conscious. I have a brain. Other humans have brains.

Putting "other humans" in the same bucket as "electricity" and "weather" means ignoring what you know most certainly: your own subjective experience.

Feels open-minded. Actually surrenders your strongest evidence.

[Anthony M. @thestrabusiness]

@cherthedev @jonatanpallesen @MattWalshBlog Totally. My thinking is somewhere here, too. I think it's so interesting that people want to handwave away the brain/nervous system as essential to consciousness.

[Colin Wright @SwipeWright]

I read a lot of woke “scholarship,” and the way the term “Indigenous” is used makes it clear it’s being treated as the antithesis of “white,” because “white” is viewed as nearly synonymous with “colonizer/settler.”

In this framework, “Indigenous” refers to “pre-settler societies” (see figure). But if “white” and “settler” are treated as synonyms, the logic forces the bizarre conclusion that most of Europe has no Indigenous population at all, and white people are native to nowhere.

The left likes to criticize what they call “scientific racism,” but there are few clearer examples of it than this.

[Anthony M. @thestrabusiness]

@SciTechera Look, I can't say for sure where consciousness comes from, but it's wild to me that folks are freaking out about whether or not Claude is sentient and people hardly part an eyelash at hooking human neural tissue to a hell simulator.

[tenso @distributedkv]

incredible

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

people keep talking about “the regime” as if it meant whoever won the last election. liberals think they’re fighting the regime. they aren’t. they don’t even know what it is.

the regime isn’t a political party and can’t be changed with an election.
it’s the apparatus that decides which stories get told, which emotions are rewarded, and which thoughts become forbidden
it’s whoever writes the movies, designs the textbooks in schools, sets the moral tone of news coverage, and decides which empathy is acceptable and which is “problematic”
those people haven’t changed in fifty years regardless of who wins any election.

they built something more effective than a conspiracy: a self-reinforcing system where the right beliefs grant status and the wrong ones make you unemployable. no coordination required. the incentives do the work. every institution that touches culture learned the same lesson: align with the narrative or be destroyed

the target is specific: white people (mostly men)
they are the only group you can openly mock, blame, and discriminate against while calling it progress (after all “minority” is defined as “any group of people that doesn’t include straight white men)

that target is always the population most likely to resist centralized control, most likely to remember what self-governance looks like, most likely to say no.
a regime that wants compliant subjects needs that population demoralized, guilty, passive, and hopefully destroyed, so that’s what the incentives produced.

the campaign was systematic.

first, capture education. rewrite history so western civilization is uniquely guilty, violent and illegitimate. children learn their inheritance is the original sin requiring lifelong atonement.

second, capture entertainment. for decades the same archetypes get vilified (traditional fathers, christians, anyone who builds) while the same messaging repeats. writers rooms are ideologically homogeneous so output converges naturally.

third, capture the legitimacy layer. make disagreement a moral failure, evil even. make defending yourself proof of the thing you’re accused of.

the results are everywhere.
people weeping in public because they feel guilty for showing human empathy at a white person’s memorial.
religious conditioning producing predictable behavior. millions have internalized the idea that their existence is a problem to be managed. that was always the point.

government agencies produce PSAs where every perpetrator is white and every victim is diverse regardless of reality.
corporations do the same because HR was captured decades ago
the messaging is constant and one-directional: the people who built this civilization are the problem, never the solution. anyone who notices is a bigot.

what you need to understand is that power doesn’t flow from elected office.
power is held by whoever controls social status, whoever decides who gets to feel like a good person

the regime controls that. voting doesn’t touch it. you can win the presidency, the senate, the house, the courts, and your children will still be taught to hate themselves by people who despise everything you believe.

win every election for the next twenty years. the regime will still be writing the textbooks, producing the movies, training the teachers, running the HR departments, setting the boundaries of what’s allowed to be thought. the ballot box doesn’t reach the cathedral. never did.

there are only two ways out
one is simple, quick, and extremely ugly
the other is complicated, long, and requires patience most people don’t have

the first one is obvious, the second one is building parallel schools, media, entertainment, institutions to replace the current ones

the regime isn’t scared of losing elections, they’ve never been and they never cared about them
they’re scared of losing the monopoly on who gets to tell the stories. and for the first time in decades, they’re starting to.

[Anthony M. @thestrabusiness]

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[Sensurround @ShamashAran]

I’m a black woman who pretends to be a catgirl on the internet. I enjoy sci-fi novels and I fix cars for enjoyment.

None of that tells you a damn thing about the usefulness of MY stance of gun control.

Just like you being a gun owner, a veteran, or married to a crime victim tells nobody anything about whether a proposed law is constitutional, effective, or even coherent.

Personal biography is not policy analysis. It’s just vibes in a dress uniform. In your case, I'll bet the medals are on backwards.

Gun control is a nice idea. So is banning drugs. So is banning murder. The problem isn’t intention, it’s reality. Laws don’t operate in a vacuum where only good people follow them and bad people politely comply. They operate in the real world, where criminals route around restrictions the way water routes around rocks.

Felons and domestic abusers are already prohibited from owning firearms. The "Charleston loophole" rhetoric pretends this isn’t true, as if violent criminals are currently wandering into gun stores, twirling mustaches, and lawfully purchasing rifles because a stopwatch hit zero. That isn’t how crime works, and it isn’t how criminals acquire guns. (HINT: They steal them, generally)

What these laws ACTUALLY do is expand discretionary denial and delay for people who are already legal, already vetted, and already compliant. They turn a right into a permission slip that expires if the government is slow, incompetent, or simply hostile. If the state can block a right by failing to act, that right no longer exists. It’s a favor.

You can believe gun control should work. (Many people do.) The thing is, belief isn’t evidence. Your credentials aren’t arguments. If the policy fails in practice, pointing at your life story doesn’t make it succeed.

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

The benefits of hard work.