Oops. I’m too young

Why does every idiot who is not a Star Wars fan think that repeating the normie stereotype about it is very smart? Which is this pic BTW.

Star Wars since the OT and till around 2006 had very clear borders between, 1, that which doesn’t get mentioned, but follows from what’s shown, 2, that which doesn’t get explained, 3, that which is explained by magic, 4, that which has decent, but very roughly cut sci-fi descriptions and, finally, 5, that which is taken seriously.

Disney doesn’t understand how to use any of these categories, especially that core plot points can only belong to #5, that #1 is not just fan imagination, but part of the paradigm, that #2 is not a box for everything lazy, that #3 cannot be center of the plot, and that #4 is still necessary.

It’s not a cold boot and it’s not empty.

I know. BTW, if something is done in an order of magnitude less efficient way than it could and it did, one might consider it a result of intentional policy aimed at neutering development. Just not clear whose. There are fewer corporations affecting this than big governments, and those are capable of reaching consensus from time to time. So not a conspiracy theory.

Idiocracy was a prophetic movie, with everything working, eh, like this and planes falling.

Yes, you wouldn’t have 4K in 2002.

4GB today is nothing.

My normal usage would be kinda strained with it, but possible.

$ free -h
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:            17Gi       3,1Gi        11Gi       322Mi       3,0Gi        14Gi
Swap:          2,0Gi          0B       2,0Gi
$ 

256MB or 512MB was fine for high-quality content in 2002, what was that then.

Suppose the amount of pixels and everything quadrupled - OK, then 2GB it is.

But 4GB being not enough? Do you realize what 4GB is?

Those who have Apple shares worth more?.. But they’d be clueless to expect people to move to MacOS en masse if Windows gets unusable.

but a heavy prosecution of him would definitely have a chilling effect on whistle-blowers

As if the last decade plus of his life were not enough for that. Better than a life sentence, yeah.

I still can’t fully accept that 1GB is not normal, 2GB is not very good, and 4GB is not all you ever gonna need.

If only it got bloated for some good reasons.

All my life. What’s your specific question?

It’s a society (or the whole humanity) becoming big enough to survive even when ignorant murderers are the elite and the majority of it, and civilized people - a smaller part and almost a property, similar to animals in a zoo.

When such a point is reached, the former will make the transition, and the latter will diminish over time. Then it just has no future.

A bit like with Ottoman empire and Qajar Iran, only on the scale of the whole humanity there won’t be someone else to buy weapons and technologies from to keep going. Then some of the previously passable filters will kick in. Like hunger or resource scarcity.

The goals of the lesser evil from his PoV.

Being mostly interested in the events around Armenia (where “the West” and Russia are playing “good cop, bad cop” at making Armenia “voluntarily” kill itself without making Azerbaijan the aggressor, cause they like Azerbaijan), at this point I can agree with anyone saying that Russia, China etc just have worse propaganda and worse everything, and lack power to give their citizens a competitive level of life. Morally they are on the same level as “the free world”.

In general, if it comes to trust, I’d trust Assange more than Snowden, because Assange has left a trace of how he came to be what he is. Snowden just suddenly emerged as a whistleblower (supposedly).

Well, there is a joke about Chernobyl station fulfilling the 5-year plan for energy output in 5 seconds.

I meant that to protect that free market from various people trying to make it less free in their favor you’d need that energy. Which is why it’ll never reach that state.

And removing those very important limitations I named is very hard, even unrealistic maybe, but that doesn’t mean that it’s adequate to pretend that a market including them is free. They change everything.

or they assume and project the idea all they did was have power and that’s all that needs to be done to maintain it.

Yes. And those people who for some reason are near power are very arrogant and think that abusing it is how you achieve things.

There’s been a time in my childhood where I thought that the humanity will become better and kinder, if we make everyone play non-rigged multiplayer games again and again, so that everyone sees how these things really work.

My childhood with Travian and MMOs and WarCraft III and browser RPGs has definitely taught me some things in that area.

Not sure if today’s multiplayer games generally lacking this effect (except for Eve, maybe, but it’s unplayable with ADHD, thus for me) is a result of some targeted policy (as in conspiracy) or just evolution.

How do you do “mechanical failure” with hercons? I’m all attention. They may not be as pleasant to use, but beat touchscreens still.

What I don’t get is this constant cheating where they don’t have to.

Even where making a real thing with its advantages is cheaper or same, they’ll still make it dependent on something that breaks.

Well, it would be advantageous where no competition will do the real thing. But we have competition, right? Free markets, right? No cronyism, right? LOL

There really was a motive, if you wish, to use the land freed by expelled (or dead) tenants for something else.

I just don’t like blaming things on markets and profit motives and capitalism in general, because “tit for tat” in human interactions is not something you can just replace ideologically. It’s in our nature. The sane approach is to make it work in less catastrophic ways, like with sports and video games and martial arts and adult entertainment.

There’s no free market. Free market would mean no copyright, no patents, no brand protection. With real free market (provided you have endless energy from Satan knows where to support that state of things) we’d have noname small to medium businesses coming and going, bigger corporations existing for very complex supply chains and\or some advantageous trade secrets.

That would potentially cause stagnation in some long perspective, but fix the current situation.

The Irish famine was more of a result of imperial policy. It’s about genocidal states, not capitalism. I mean, yes, most of Ireland was owned by landlords residing elsewhere, and “protection” of their rights was one of the reasons, but there were also things quite obviously showing the intent, like widespread destruction of church records and local history.