STOP TRYING TO REVIVE OBAMA!!! LIVE YOUR FUCKING LIFE AND GET OUT!!!

That is the coolest thing I ever heard on here, including from a certain guy I know in Vietnam. Cambodia needs so much stuff like that.

If you want to avoid white savior syndrome, it’s not an attitude. This is going to come across like a joke but go read every article on RedSails.org especially Losurdo stuff. Friend sent it to me last year and going though it was just like “oh yup that’s me, me, everyone I have ever met in my life, also me, wow I’m George Hitler Washington” and I felt so much better, like I wasn’t fucking crazy.

Consider that Western NGOs are still considered useful enough by China and Vietnam despite clearly having white savior syndrome, and actively stealing plans for the power grid

That is probably the question to ask before “is it good”

Distinct thing from consciousness and sapience. I am conflicted about, it since there doesn’t seem to be a hard divide between human and animal consciousness, but that has been used to create pseudoscientific justifications for racism. Even if we see some animals on a track that could eventually lead somewhere like this, they’re only just getting started. I said consciousness a few times where I should have said human consciousness. I am the one yammering, so by all means go ahead. 🌠🛌

Saying we now need rizz and romance wouldn’t be a good counter to evopsych (no need to elaborate on the crimes of this field probably) types saying human consciousness becoming necessary for reproduction has turned it into a cancer. It makes more sense when you see the Epstein emails where they’re talking about genetically engineering people to be incapable of love. Guy on Adderall who wanted to turn every worker into a drone was choosing who got funding for this kind of writing.

(I’m agreeing here if that’s not apparent idk)

How would we have invented spreadsheets without human consciousness and writing? You need those to manage the grain!

If nobody has the grain who cares who has rizz or not they’re goners

It is very undialectical framing but there is a charlimit in title. I almost started yammering about crows using tools but also just enjoying pranks and experimenting with their environment. I think saying stuff like consciousness is just slowing us down is reducing it to its drawbacks.

Yes of course I’m stoned. I’m doing the laundry on a Saturday evening, I have no plans. Here, let me rephrase the title: how much do you hate Richard Dawkins?

Imagining the kinds of people you could meet there is hearbreaking when you compare it to shit like WeWork which was also just an IPO scam

That’s very interesting. I don’t know anything about knives though, does this make the knife better for certain uses?

Yeah I didn’t even know what this meant at the time I’m genuinely sorry

So you’re saying that there isn’t much low-end software development work to get hired for? That was my worry. I think less in terms of maximizing salary divided by risk, and more in terms of minimizing the risk between transfer degree to UW, getting into the job market, and compatibility with foreign industries so I can escape the US before the asset market inevitably explodes. Not trying to maximize asset holdings to then exploit people as an expat. I don’t care when it happens because I’m scared I’m gonna get talked into having kids and I absolutely cannot send anyone into this hellhole. I only want to go to a country where I can be a worker and so can anyone I rope into living.

I Love My Computer clears most of these also shower soon

Just gotta be on the lookout for unusual segues, people who are open to them, and their general energy level. I don’t know how to get better at it.

Okay but imagine how much time I can save by completely shutting out local politics and skedaddling. My best option is that Sawant lady. She would have purged me from her campaign before if she knew my beliefs and I would not have been there if I had a clue. The whole underpinning of the US political system is going to shift.

I barely know what it going on why was I helping Trots months ago I didn’t even k kbow what those were really outside of icepick memes.

He should have asked me for money goddamnit I have no idea where that guy is now.

That seems like a major benefit of sticking with this track though even if it makes no economic sense, and maybe it does, I don’t know, that’s why I ShittyAsked. So far, I don’t get burnt out on it easily due to picking up projects methodically on a schedule, I enjoy talking to people about these subjectsl, and “overstudying” for things feels good because nothing is really discarded.

The most fun part that can be easily narrativized would be meeting other people on the campus who I strike up random conversations with, and things just spiral into a multiple hour discussion of programming or homelab shit. For instance I made a joke about cigarettes vs vaping to this guy in the smoking area, he started talking about Phillip Morris, we started talking about herbicides (that plus the treatment process modern tobacco goes thru to make it more addictive and tasty, being ammoniated, makes it really unhealthy even compared to blasting your lungs with tar alone), which led to discussing Monsanto, the Veiled Prophet Society in St. Louis, the Vietnam War, censorship in general, and after I made sure he wasn’t a libertarian (he is, he just doesn’t know that), he started telling me about Jellyfin/Jellyseer and we exchanged information. Hit him up and he’s running a very impressive piracy operation. Oh also he hates Matrix. Get with the times people.

Then there’s this TA who I was working with on some shit and he said something about Russia so we started discussing that and before I knew it I was at his house drinking, he was trying to make me watch some Chinese adaptation of Journey to the West, and he got me to read a textbook on pure logic which was indecipherable, because I was somewhat drunk. Which actually I have in my bag but I haven’t been reading, for shame. In terms of actual skills I get the most out of scripting stuff that used to require me clicking around, unifying all texting platforms including SMS and email in console so I don’t have to go around looking for them. I have joined as many online groups related to stuff like Invidious as possible and a few close-knit projects for scraping news related to geopolitics and software. Was considering getting some hardware for server stuff but everything is expensive. What else is new.

There’s been way more fun shit than that I just wrote enough. I talked to a cool programmer from abroad in a parking garage for like 6 hours before he was like oh yeah I’m homeless. Which made sense because who else would listen to someone talk about computer shit for that long. Well there were breaks, and the weather was nice, but I am really kind of oblivious. I hope he didn’t think I was gay or something.

Well the uni I plan to transfer to has a very low rate of acceptance for CS so I feel like I am dooming myself. If IT has a smoother track or more demand sure, but is there actually going to be this huge buildout of tech infrastructure in the United States?

Like let me lay out how I view what makes a degree worth it, since I am still early enough that I have not fully committed to any one track.

Likelihood of finding a transfer degree that won’t be what e/acc demons refer to as “an antisignal” » job market prospects of said degree (not based on salary but on gaining valuable experience for the following) » transferrability and competitiveness of those skills to industries abroad.

If you become an electrician for example you have to spend a gajillion years in all these contracts and when you’re done your skills are targeted at standards in one country.

My reasoning being that if I fail to escape Southbound Tales in Real Life then I at least have a chance of survival. It wouldn’t make a ton of sense at this point to shoot for something risky that makes a lot of money to slingshot that into a bunch of asset wealth. I hear the oil fields might be on fire soon? Last time it constituted most of the oil well fires in history, one fell swoop. Or even if you do get everything together, have a family, have a kid, what are you really setting them up for? A public school system that is increasingly being ripped apart by the Heritage Foundation? What is the solution? Vote?

Also I guess a side thing but would you say you use IT skills in your personal hobbies at all? Because that kind of stuff is nice to have even if you fuck up your life. Then at least you have something to do while doing fuck all right

I got 96% even tho my study buddy ABANDONED me so I’m going to be more arrogant from now on

I wonder which countries don’t have AI labs that do this 🤔 ah well I guess we just have to reject the new tech completely since there is no way of knowing