I believe this is the article that kicked off support for the idea. Thankfully it’s not a Medium-requires-an-account article

Thank you, that’s one I’m going to read.

“Toxic masculinity,” for instance, a lot of people misunderstand to mean that masculinity is toxic.

Whatt‽‽ ϞϞ(๑⚈ ○ ⚈๑) I thought I was practicing the non toxic version of masculinity!

But I don’t know if this challenge to them is the same as a challenge to Popper.

Well, thanks for the link, in any case. My reading comprehension and analytic skills aren’t completely undeveloped, and while I’ve been known to fall for brief periods for clever sounding schemes*, I’m generally skeptical enough to read between the lines.

I think I have to admit I don’t actually know what Popper has to say on the matter. Though, I get the impression these two authors might agree, at least broadly, and are simply viewing the same problem through different lenses.

He wasn’t the first, but he was the first to really coin the term that stuck. It’s hard to read, if for no other reason than it’s philosophy and my eyes tend to glaze over.

That is, resolving the paradox might be interesting to someone if paradoxes bother them

Yeah, I think it’s a paradox only to absolutists, and I distrust absolutists. There are physical laws of nature that are absolute, and even then we find exceptions; but trying to hold to philosophical absolutes leads to people like Ayn Rand, and Libertarians. So, to paraphrase possibly the best scene in any movie ever, “the code is more what you call guidelines, than actual rules”.

• I once thought flat tax was a great idea, believing it’d get us closer to European-style “finally I don’t have to sorry about this shit for two while months every year” taxes; before a friend pointed out the disproportionate impact a flat tax has on different economic stratuses. Stratusi? Whatever.

I don’t disagree. In fact, I think a strength of US culture is the diversity in embraces. I do feel sorry that this came at the cost of indigenous cultures, but the end result has been a wonderful melting pot, ruined only by Laissez-Faire economics and some badly wrong turns in how we do Capitalism. Plus the inherent bigotry that hypocrite descendants of immigrants are unable to recognize. Or, worse maybe, an attitude of “we stole this land fair and square, and now it’s our’s and everyone else fuck off!”

All I’m saying is that my personal preference would be that this not happen to the entire world. I’d like to visit Germany and see a historic Germany, not another version of America with different preserved buildings. I’d love to visit the Basque region and immerse myself in Basque culture, not some mashup globalized culture selling Basque trinkets, which no-one uses at home anymore, to tourists. It’s selfish, I know.

I’m honestly not sure why he doesn’t just have all of SCOTUS murdered, and if anyone in Congress moves against him, have then eliminated as well. Do Trump in, whole he’s at it. Full on blood bath.

Tell me why not?

Wireguard really changed the landscape, for me, and my entire approach to networking. Suddenly, VPNs became fast and easy, and where previously impractical for casual (hobbyist) admins, it made creating enterprise-grade secure subnets easy. It’s astonishingly stable and reliable, such that my initial concerns about cutting off all access except through the VPN - once a truly nerve-wracking concept - is now a no-brainer. It’s made my network administration easier and more secure. My firewalls are simpler.

Wireguard is one of the biggest high-impact, low-visibility networking game changers I’ve seen in decades.

Is there a source for that response? It sounds good, and I’d like to read a reasoned argument for the paraphrase.

He says thank you, and you’re pretty, too.

Wages not tracking with costs and inflation is certainly a problem; corporate America and, specifically, Wall Street investors reaping the most benefits from growth is a cancerous tumor that will sink the country if not fixed. However, trade jobs are essential to the country. Not everyone gets their mommy to but them a car and pay for their degree. Not everyone wants to go to college, get a white collar job, and sit in a cubicle for the rest of their lives.

If you’re not getting paid enough, Unionize.

I love Zoey.

But do not tell my boys. One would probably love Zoey, too - he’s a cat’s cat, and a white-ish version of Zoey - but the other is fantastically jealous.

Friendly, pretty, outgoing, and wants to be involved in anything anyone is doing:

OK. Wow, I didn’t know. I don’t really track her.

That’s unfortunate; I guess there aren’t really any strong moral leaders, after all.

That tracks.

Cats are purely carnivorous. And yet we’ve had cats who’d regularly eat:

• lettuce
• potato chips
• popcorn
• canteloupe
• grass
• Hershey’s Kisses

The lettuce thing was a kitten phase; she stopped doing it as she got older. Potato chips and popcorn are “cheat” foods; most of the chips we eat have MSG, which is the “meat” flavor, and we put seasoning with MSG and nutritional yeast on our popcorn, so they probably think they’re getting meat. I’ve read many cats like cantaloupe; something in it tastes like meat, and it’s pretty common. Grass, well… I don’t know. Supposedly they eat it as an emetic, but this one just gnoshes on it and never throws it up. We have to keep a small lawn in the house for him; he’s just a weirdo.

The Hershey’s Kisses thing was odd. I know chocolate is toxic for cats, and we’d try to keep it away from him, but he’d find the bowl wherever we put it, pull one with carefully unwrap it, and eat the chocolate. He’d eat one or two at a time, and never seemed to suffer any ill effects from it. We’d re-hide the bowl, and when we discovered the wrappers around the house we knew he’d found it again. It was only around Christmas; Kisses in a bowl at Christmas was something my wife was brought up with. Anyway, strange cat.

Oh! We had another who’d dig through the trash for fast food wrappers and eat them. The paper. I think that’s because he was an older adoption and had lived on the streets and learned to live out of trash cans, though.

This has nothing to do with owls, but there’s a pure carnivore parallel and it makes me wonder. Are there owl individuals who pick up a taste for something omnivorous somehow?

I set up a wireguard VPN network between my computers and servers, and then firewalled off all services except Wireguard, and a few services on one server. That one server is my weak point, but even it has sshd firewalled off except through the Wireguard subnet.

It’s stupidly easy to set up WG subnetworks. I’m not a networking guy, and it was trivial for me to do. If u can run an ssh server, you can set up a Wireguard subnet: just do it.

Will owls eat pears, or are they strictly carnivorous?

The most perfect and delicious of pears, even! Asian pears are manna.

Henry II

Yup. And in the meantime, work to support the change to government that’s needed to allow third parties a chance. Support Approval Voting, or Ranked Choice Voting, or whatever is being most successful at your local level. Lobby your representatives to eliminate the electoral college. Support NPVIC, especially if you live in a state that hasn’t yet signed on.

You said forget third parties. OK. Trump wants a 10% tariff across the board on all imports. He’s said he thinks the Israelis agent going far enough, and should exterminate the Palestinians. He’s already cost women choice over their own bodies.

So, yeah. Work for initiatives that will allow real change; and in the meantime, swallow your gorge and vote for the lesser of two evils, because that’s the only kind of vote that counts.

I make no excuses. We’ve seen what Trump presidencies look like; the last was bumbling and did massive damage to civil rights, the next won’t be. Project 2025 ensures that.

Biden’s biggest crime has been supporting Israel. His presidency was categorically and measurably better for the US than Trump’s. Aside from Palestine, he wasn’t a bad president. Now, if Trump wasn’t saying that Israel isn’t going far enough; if Trump were supporting Palestine, then there’d be something to talk about. But he isn’t, and he did terrible things to our country while in charge, and should never be allowed near the White House again.

The word has negative connotations, but I stand by it. I an not saying there result isn’t stronger, but if you extend cultural mixing out to the maximum - say humans and the planet survives another thousand years, and global travel is no harder than traveling to the next town over - what you end up with is homogeneity, and this would be sad, I think. Imagine it: the entire world speaking some pidgin derivative mashup of Mandarin, English, and Hindi, with essentially the same culture everywhere on the planet. Just as has already happened, languages are lost, because nobody speaks them natively anymore. All that’s left of the original cultures are some UNESCO sites and preserved old movies. I can’t say the world wouldn’t be stronger for it, but in the process, something irrecoverable is lost.

That’s a decent solution. I was referring to The Paradox of Tolerance. You can disagree with Popper, but it’ll take more that a couple of sentences in Lemme to convince me.

So, you’re on favor of enslaving robots.

Duly noted, H-#1D0146641.

Maybe. I’m not that suspicious, and I think even Jill would balk at that if she knew.

I don’t believe she’s intentionally trying to be a spoiler, or is immoral. I do think she must be fantastically naïve if she thinks she’s doing anything other than helping Trump.