wopazoo [he/him]

Yesterday, I witnessed a guy exit a toilet stall and head straight out the door without washing his hands. These people exist out there.

There are lots of lucky people out there, but no one lives forever.

Isn’t this lingo kind of dated now?

Liberals don’t actually have beliefs. To them, belief is about signaling group affiliation, not actual intellectual belief.

When a liberal says that they believe in freedom and democracy, they don’t mean that they think that freedom and democracy are the best ways to organize a society, they are merely saying that they belong to WEIRD (western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) society.

Of course it’s incomprehensible for a group of people who are profoundly nihilistic that someone would actually be willing to die for what they think is right.

I’m reminded of the tale of the liberal who says big words about climate change but cannot not be arsed to give up their gas-guzzling SUV. To them, “I believe that climate change is real” is merely a statement of group affiliation (i.e. “I’m with the cool kids”), not a factual statement that implies the need for urgent action.

Hitler lost WW2.

Maybe we should operate more like c/vegan where everything from omnivore apologia to overt antiveganism (analogous to the above anti-precaution/anti-max/anti-vax-apologia) is forbidden, and posting/commenting as much gets you a ban?

I agree with this. We should have at least one place where COVID can be discussed without people coming in to scold people for not kissing strangers on New Year’s Eve.

the impression i got is that soydevs are developers who create or use bloated apps or websites

Keep in mind that if you actually want to make a game, make a game not an engine. Too many video game projects get bogged down in the engine development stage and never make it to completion.

a sense that it must hold or unknown terrors will consume them.

“Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t”

Dumb fuck!

And I still think the overwhelming majority of blame has to lie with the ruling class and all the people carrying water for them who have repeatedly bombarded the public with messages expressing COVID is over for the last 2-plus fucking years and that you don’t have to worry if you’re vaccinated and that bad outcomes only happen to people who are already medically vulnerable.

(responding not to you but to the ruling class narrative about COVID)

Saying that COVID won’t affect you because you’re healthy is a very funny thought. You may be healthy now, but after a few infections you won’t be healthy anymore. There is no dividing line between the healthy and the sick; the world is in reality composed of the sick and the not-yet-sick. You are not immune to disability.

But like, I completely disagree with the notion that people can’t have their minds changed.

There is no need to change anyone’s mind. You do not need to convince people that wearing masks is good when you can force them to wear a mask. The way to restore mass mask wearing is to bring back mask mandates.

I read this blog post about a UKer’s experience of blocking all American IP addresses, which made the Internet mostly unusable.

https://www.nthbrock.com/posts/americaless-internet/

Select quotes:

Nine out of the ten most visited websites in the United Kingdom are those operated by US organisations. The same cannot be said for the flip side. There are zero UK-operated websites found in the US’s top 50.

A large chunk of the Anglo-speaking sphere I experience originates and is operated by American organisations. Within this sphere, we all feel any disturbances or changes made by the major players. We are all affected when an AWS data centre goes down. Our combined productivity goes down when Google publishes an enticing doodle. Any dint to Facebook’s SLA and we all find out as it hits the mainstream media.

One of the few constants in life is change. We can’t assume the internet as we use it today will last for the foreseeable future. The Internet is the most impressive distributed networks of our time. Yet its fragility isn’t in the technology itself but in the politics, geography and laws that encompass it. […]

(emphasis mine)

The author’s experience shows why the Great Firewall of China (GFW) is an essential economic protection measure. Without the GFW, the Chinese internet would be dominated by American websites, leading to Chinese social and economic dependence on American corporations and infrastructure. Mature American tech companies would occupy most of the space in the local market, stifling the development of an indigenous tech industry.