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How are you defining a successful democracy? If 20% of a nation elect a philosopher king type leader, is that more "successful" than 90% of another nation electing a tyrannical des…

One man's activist is another man's bigot.

Socrates didn't draw a crowd mostly because he was super annoying. Imagine going to the marketplace to buy food and then this short and ugly man with his two sidekicks shows up to …

Man is the measure of all things.

He translated the new testament from Greek to German. That helped the poor more than anybody else.

Nitpick. Socrates was given a choice. His decision to kill himself was his own. I'd probably do the same. He was 70+ anyway. A lifetime of annoying dialectic tends to make lots of …

Signal still requires a phone number. That alone should make it non-usable for people who are serious about their privacy. My alternate solution: stop using smartphones altogether.…

Rightly according to your subjective experience.

There's no reason to complicate your thinking about tastes and aesthetics. There is art that you like, there id art the you don't like. Then there are criteria by which you judge t…

Rust docs is decent. Elixir's is pretty good too! OpenBSD man pages. And of course, ArchWiki has saved my life a few hundred times so far. It's really comprehensive.

Nukes may shorten an otherwise prolonged war. "Better off" is obviously very subjective, but I don't see how nukes aren't better off if they end up saving lives. Let's also conside…

And what about the rest of us non-Americans who have our respectjve local media misleading the public? Perhaps we all have our own mini Fox News entities that drive this narrative?…

The SerenityOS author makes fairly regular videos related to the OS, bug fixes, and other dev and life things. It's cool and inspiring to see a highly productive hacker do their th…

Every individual has their subjective valuation of "decent reasons". Please do not proclaim yourself the sole owner of objective value. It is incredibly naive, and dishonest too. R…

This is actually a good indicator for understanding the issue of privacy/surveillance. There are enough hackers and engineers who care little about being spied, despite understandi…

Really want to push my bass playing into "primary instrument" territory this year. Will probably just spend a lot of time learning Gary Willis/Tribal Tech songs, and other great ja…

Get decent sleep and exercise. Stop reading the news. Spend a day or two away from computers, and habitat altogether if you're able to.

Hope you're able to change those habits, friend.

When I started binge-drinking, benzos and codeine helped keep hangovers to a minimum. Sadly, that led to a pill addiction, which led to an almost decade-long use of heroin/meth, an…

We've had at least 2 posts from cliqz in the past few days. I have genuine issues with my short-term memory after having recovered from a coma so I don't know whether this is a gli…

I have a weekly(Monday) chat session with an accountability buddy where we discuss the previous week's goals and make new goals for the coming week. It's a little bit more involved…

Thankful for still breathing. It didn't seem like a possibility just a few years ago.

I've tried to get into urbit a few times over the last couple of years. The jargon and the pretense-esoteric nature of it always causes friction, even while trying to read the docs…

My main work machine runs i3 with KDE. I'd avoided kde in the early 2000s because it seemed clunky at the time. Then used Macs for a while before switching back to linux. KDE plasm…

That's an interesting saying, thanks for sharing. Just today morning I was listening to an audiobook that mentioned something similar _ "physician, heal thyself so you may heal thy…