Eat the rich.
You’re not wrong, but this isn’t a prudism problem. It’s more like a “if it offends YOU, you’re a snowflake, but if it offends ME, then you’re under arrest” problem.
She turned her back on a cop and walked away. No better way to get arrested than to remind them how small they really are.
I think you would need to first make the case that software is making the world a better place. So far, it’s got a spotty record…
Apparently, neither do adults.
Did you used to work for the Justice Department, by chance?
“Guys, it turns out that molesting and raping children is indeed illegal for an American citizen. I think we might be able to prosecute Trump, and a whole lot of other people. I’m gonna share this with the office, I call it The Epstein files.”
tl;dr: Trump owns the Supreme Court
Seems like more people should be upset about this, but I guess we’ve all given up on democracy.
On the bright side, at least kids in the future won’t have to memorize the Bill of Rights.
Any thoughts you’d like to share? Knowledge you’d like to drop?
I don’t mean this in a hostile way. I can clearly infer that, in your opinion, communism does not represent an extreme viewpoint. I hope that you can likewise infer that my comments were a shorthand representation of American politics and not meant to offend anyone.
ALL MEN SHOULD HAVE THEIR SPERM HARVESTED AT 18 YEARS OF AGE, THEN BE CASTERATED.
I’m so sorry, you forced my hand.
I know a lot of people who hate fascists and communists. It’s kind of a thing, in democratic countries, to be wary of extremists.
I’m not saying this fully describes Ted, obviously he had mental issues. But pushing away extreme lefties with one hand and extreme righties with the other doesn’t make Ted any different than your average American.
“The more I work in tech, the more I wish I was independently wealthy.”
I love how people use the word “just” when making statements about the simple life.
Simple ain’t always cheap…
This is fact. Source.
there are better authors who have made those same points without all the fucking reactionary and eco-fascism tied to it.
Seems like a great reason to discuss Ted’s viewpoints. We should definitely discuss the ineffectual extremists. Compare and contrast. Weigh and measure. That’s what truth-seekers do. Telling people not to read a particular author borders on censorship.
But asking people to expand their reading list and providing actual recommendations - that is wonderful and commendable. Thank you for that!
It’s been 30 years and people are still talking about it. He’d probably consider that a win.
He predicted that technological advances would lead to extensive and ultimately oppressive forms of human control, including genetic engineering, and that human beings would be adjusted to meet the needs of social systems rather than vice versa.
Kaczynski stated that technological progress can be stopped, in contrast to the viewpoint of people who he said understand technology’s negative effects yet passively accept technology as inevitable. He called for a revolution to force the collapse of the worldwide technological system, and held a life close to nature, in particular primitivist lifestyles, as an ultimate ideal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski
He hated leftist views, he hated fascism. He seemed to advocate a technological level somewhere between Native American and Amish. Call him an isolationist libertarian, I suppose. His solution to the problem is like something out of Fight Club - a one man “Project Mayhem.”
tl;dr: His methodology was pointlessly cruel and ineffective. But his assessment of the human condition wasn’t too far off the mark.
Wow, OP, your post history is just…something special. This one in particular.
Think of it as a big clit. Which, biologically speaking, it is. So is yours.
Clitoromegaly
How can this be true if it’s not a category on PornHub?
not only are large enterprises also inefficient in ways, but they must seek profit.
This deserves repeating.
A government job often requires highly skilled union workers, thus higher pay for the workers. A corporation can find the cheapest labor, but it’s not always the best. The savings are then pocketed as profit, essentially giving shareholders a free government check while labor is poorly compensated.
“We give up a piece of ourselves whenever we adjust to conform to society’s standards. That, and we’re too plugged in. We’re letting technology take over our lives, willingly.”
Absolute insanity. Obviously a madman.
I don’t approve of his methods, either.
Then again, I don’t approve of the Church’s methods, but there’s some pretty good stuff buried in the Christian bible, too.
Reading something doesn’t mean you need to agree with the author. It’s not like people are financially supporting the Unibomber, or excusing his actions, when they read his manifesto. They’re just studying history.
Government contracts out everything to the lowest builder.
This is not always the case. In reality, the bid often goes to the company with political connections.
They might also look at things like timeframe and job creation. So, supposing that all other things are equal: One company plans to use robotic labor, one is using human labor. There’s going to be a lot of pressure from unions to hire the human labor. Or one company is using imported materials and the other is using local materials.
That’s not to say that the system isn’t biased and flawed. It most definitely is. But this idea that the “lowest bidder” always gets the job is just not true.
I’d love to see this - but not for this situation. Totally pointless. Counter-productive.
Cops got her on disorderly conduct, after the fact. Jt’s a bullshit charge. They had nothing to charge her with otherwise.
But she’s got a civil rights violation lawsuit in the bag. She’s clearly heard repeating “Am I being detained?” The officer didn’t answer and then used physical force to bring her down.
And even outside the law, the court of public opinion matters. Starting a riot by beating the shit out of a cop might not look so good. It’s 20 on 1, and he could get disoriented and fire into the crowd.
But, for the record, if you are EVER dressed as a life-sized penis and a cop asks “What am I supposed to tell my kids?”, you should answer “Tell them Trump is a dick.”
Because that’s an honest answer and there’s nothing inherently sexual about this situation. Half the world has penises, there’s naked statues and painting and pics of penises in every culture around the world. Kids can handle it.