I was going to say “I don’t use em-dashes in my books for when they sole all those books” but then I went into my first book and found 22 em-dashes so… oops. I thought the word processor changed – into an en-dash and not an em-dash.

I think you’d probably be ok with using em-dashes (I typically use en-dashes myself but I’m lazy), but don’t use cliche phrases like “It’s not [x] – it’s [reframed x]”

“This is not just a leak – it’s a blueprint for mass exploitation,” the researchers said.

Are the researchers chatgpt? Because that looks almost word for word how chatgpt would write something like that, right down to the em-dash.

I had to do it for my atom d2550s because of the odd hybrid x86/x86-64 systems they are. I had to install what ended up being linux mint debian edition 5 because that was the best way to get an OS on the odd bootloader system for various reasons, then upgraded to 6 to get to the latest debian, then I installed proxmox and removed all the debian stuff.

What do I do with something as weak as a pair of D2550s? Don’t you worry about that. I’ve found uses for both. :P

It’s an unusual use case, but it’s one reason you might need to install debian before proxmox.

China still burns more coal every year than every single other country on earth put together.

This matters a lot, because it doesn’t matter that you’re “using electricity” if it’s coming from a big ol’ coal pollution factory.

In some ways, it’s preferable to directly use the coal in some applications – changing from chemical energy to thermal to movement to electricity back to thermal energy can be less efficient than just changing the chemical energy to thermal energy and using that directly.

I have to admit, it’s something I’d like to see done a bit better (not that I’d be the one posting about it typically)

“Crocoslut version 12 released!”

Uh… great?

Though sometimes you go to the website and it’s not much better.

Yes.

I use nextcloud and I love it.

You want to follow the 3-2-1 strategy: 3 copies of your data on at least 2 different forms of media, and 1 backup being off-line.

(just in case people misunderstand and think I’m making a more pointed attack than I really am, I’m just making a reference to the 1880 essay “The Awful German Language” by Mark Twain)

https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/twain.german.html

“does not have to be clearly masculine or feminine, as was the case until 2008, but may also be neutral.”

If my child is a boy, I will name him fish. If a girl, Fishwife. If non-binary or it doesn’t like the other names, scaly skin.

“I’m invested now so fuck it” hrm… Phrasing?

Aw, nevermind.

Speedrunning destroying your platform.

Something that I have been warning about for years now is that all of these establishment voices that claim to support a thing are just going to use that thing up and then discard it like a used tissue.

The sooner people realize that, the better off everyone will be. Global megacorps are not your friend.

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Ugly good guy non-isekai

I think you’re making a number of major errors in your rant.

Your base assumption “Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state” is explicitly fascist, from the lips of Benito Mussolini. Ideally, culture is not the state, and religion is not the state, and the market is not the state. Many enlightenment thinkers who helped produce modern liberal democracy believed in a small state the protected people’s rights and believe that such a state could only exist alongside a culture and religion that resulted in people who were good enough when nobody was watching that they didn’t need a powerful state to micromanage them. In the absence of that, tyranny would be required and inevitable.

One consequence of this train of thought is you’re trying to narrowly define what epistemological basis people are allowed to use to come to opinions. Their opinions are only acceptable if they came to their opinions through the exact same method you personally did. What, exactly, privileges your epistemology over others? Why is it that someone who listens to their pastor is somehow less than you, listening to corporate news?

It appears that you’re stuck in the modernist fallacy – assuming that we need to find one grand narrative and stick with that and through that we’ll achieve utopia. Democracy is good, so everything must be democracy or it’s bad. This is the totalitarian fallacy of modernity, and we have overwhelming evidence it’s false, given how many millions of people totalitarian modernity killed.

Your second assumption “Religion is about not having opinions of your own, just following the opinions of the leader and spread the opinions of the leader” is deeply flawed. You’re not describing a religion, you’re describing a cult, and a cult that isn’t represented in western religious history. In orthodox Christianity, Catholic Christianity, and Protestant Christianity, it is a base axiom that humans have free will and will not always do what their pastor, their cardinal, their bishop, or the pope says. The metaphor of the pastor is that you can’t guide a flock with an iron fist, you can only hope to guide them and it’s inevitable that some will stray regardless. This way of seeing religious leadership is incompatible with your statement that individuals aren’t allowed to have their own opinions.

It is an important counter-point to your formulation that Protestant Christianity exists at all – it was a schism where people had different opinions to the catholic orthodoxy and instead of just continuing to have the opinions the pope told them to, they created their own sect – and today there are many different protestant sects of Christianity.

Your “Final Solution to the Religious problem” is wildly authoritarian and hypocritical – Apparently under your conception of “Democracy”, people shouldn’t have to agree with their pastor’s opinions, but they do have to have the same exact opinions as you or they can be expelled forcibly.

To assume that democracy is always good is also a shaky premise. American democracy formed their new United States with slavery centuries after Europe had essentially banned it under their monarchies and imperial frameworks. Greek democracy had many positives, but it was a slave state and acted deeply dishonorably with respect to the Delian league – the Parthenon, the symbol of Greek democracy, was effectively built using embezzled funds from the Delian league that were supposed to be used to protect the Hellenic world from the Persians.

Under democracy, there are leaders for sure, though the degree of formalization of that changes based on the form of democracy – democratic republicanism has democracy, but it is used to elect wise individuals to be the representative leaders. Even in pure democracy, there were people recognized as leaders – Individuals skilled in rhetoric and logic may not hold formal power, but they could sway the voters to vote in one way or the other, becoming de facto leaders regardless of their formal standing.

The idea that democracy is a telos in and of itself, that it is a moral good in and of itself is to mistake the means for the end – The end being individuals living a good life.

What you’re doing here, which you might not realize because we are the fish made of the water we were born in, is trying to replace theistic dogma with secular dogma – but the mechanism is equally religious. “Secular religion” might sound like a contradiction in terms, but as an example, Confucianism in China is religious in structure, but non-theistic as when for example you complete a Confucian ritual, it is in pursuit of social harmony rather than because a god or a clergyman told you to.

Your rant is a wonderful screed of the urban monoculture faith – you took the idea that democracy is good and therefore all things must be good and democratic or they must be destroyed, and really hammered it home. Like a screed about how Jesus loves you and therefore you should work even harder to be a good Christian, it rings hollow for those who don’t follow your faith.

Amen.

Nextcloud with a 3-2-1 backup strategy is ace. Proxmox can auto-backup, it’s slick.

“what did you think would happen? I’m fuckin evil! I killed kids! You think I’m too nice to use some f-slurs?”

Gemini isn’t a very smart AI, I don’t think it could figure out the parts of a video I care about most.