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Yes because all the teenagers reading Marxist works are well adjusted and based in reality.

It's humorous how debased from reality John roger's quote is. It doesn't challenge Rand's ideas it just insults it's readers. There's this stigma among her work as if it's dangerous, just like any other right wing idea. But reality is she only asks that one better themselves. She doesn't tell her readers to make a tort against another to right some perceived systematic wrong. Unlike many modernly accepted ideas her works have never been used to justify throwing people in the gulag, ethnic genocide,or insurrection. She tells one that you are not entitled to money, sleezy money grabs do not pay in the long run, and that being hardworking + innovative will payoff in the end.

Also Tokens works are now considered xenophobic and racist by many people as well because the orcs are portrayed as this dark evil race that invades this quent European landscape. so nothing really passes the purity test.

I was just trying to learn how to use dfroidcl last night on termux and kept running into this error. I thought I was doing something wrong.

Does my software have the right to read the contents of a DVD and sell my own MP4 of it then no. If a streamer plays a YouTube video on there channel is the content original then yes. When gpt3 was training people saw it as a positive. When people started asking chatgpt more things than searching sites it became a negative.

Let's be honest. The mental gymnastics to avoid calling it a rescue is just a political knee jerk reaction to Elon Musk's ownership in SpaceX.

If you lose your ability to become objective based on your view no amount of philosophical discourse is going to be meaningful. It's comments like this why "cope & seeth" has flourished in the modern lexicon

This is definitely true. I find there's a certain irony in society that we condemn people who aren't sceptical of anything until they are then we condemn them again.

Some of the worlds greatest thinkers and innovators suffered social execution from their peers and were deeply depressed.

I had a friend recently tell me about how his excess power is put back into the grid and how he hopes our area sees negative rates eventually like this.

My cynical side was quick to point out that I would fire up my crypto miners if electricity was free for a few hours a day. After talking to him more I realized we both had different take aways from the story of "the tragedy of the commons" I lightened the conversation up by informing him he could do folding from home for a few hours to make sure his excess power went to a noble cause & thwart my zero sum approach.

One of favorite pastimes out here in the northwest is getting old books from pay by the pound thrift stores. I've found over the years at anything past the 1880s people find worth scraping at their local thrift store. Based on the volume of them that I see it is definitely indictive of printing production of the time.

Or better yet make the switch to Linux. The steam deck really changed the gaming atmosphere.

I relate with this sentiment. Part of me is happy that my whole house is filled with solid wood furniture for cheep, but I'm deeply saddened by people's lack of value for real things as well as I fell alone in my system of values. It feels like we're living in a Huxley dystopia sometimes.

I like the cyber deck in theory but a project I've always wanted to take on that I felt would yield more value is to restore and upgrade an old ruggedized laptop. I planned a project to restore an old getec v110 gen3 from eBay. They are often sold there with no hard drive or extra batteries but best part is most of the hardware is backwards compatible. Seemed like a ~$500 project. I then found a new gen6 model on eBay for $1400 so I just got that instead. (Some pawn shop massively undervalued it)

I'm pretty certain that the other side of your political leaning would say the same thing about your party.

Ask anyone about there political merchandise and they will never see it as just "merch" but as a fundamental truth that is pivotal to there way of life they they feel is being threatened. It's much like calling someone's religious garments or iconography just merchandise and is a very closed minded point of view.

I have this same issue. I just wanted to be able to put my thoughts to paper. Especially ToDo notes when the boss is verbally listing out everything they want you to do off the top of there head. I could never keep up or transcribe but I've found more of a balance since I've started practicing shorthand stenography. Stenography or gregg shorthand can have you hand writing at 60-80 WPM depending on how good you are. While I'm not that fast yet I am to the point we're I can grab some conversations entirely on paper and nothing gets by me anymore. It used to be a industry standard to learn if you were a reporter before hand held recording devices entered the picture and it was taught at nearly all schools across America. Why we quit teaching this as a country I will never know. I am trying to learn typing stenography as well but the learning curve is a bit more steep for me.

I do find this to be somewhat true as well. Most tech journalists make news for everyday people and not really for people and not for technical professionals. There's some holdouts but its few and far in-between.