(2016) Technology destroys people and places. I’m rejecting it

Post by MatrixAlgebra » Tue, Jul 10, 2018, 5:53 PM UTC

XorNot wrote: post #39

IanDrake wrote: post #25

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>The campaign to exterminate any alternative political discourse in the West has been so successful that it's now very hard to even talk about any alternative I’ve seen no evidence of that and with the severity of your claim should you should include a source or two. Perhaps you’re confusing people disagreeing with your view with people attempting to silence you. Those are two very different things. Recall the Occupy…

Yes I guess a literal neo-nazi terrorist attack didn't happen on American soil. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally Oh wait it did. And so have numerous ongoing campaigns of harassment and death threats against any dissenting voices. Like this guy: https://www.12news.com/mobile/article/news/local/valley/phoe... Even advocated for by the current President of the United States: https://newrepublic.com…

Post by c1sc0 » Tue, Jul 10, 2018, 6:10 PM UTC

ChrisArchitect wrote: post #59

put a date on this old article title! [2016]

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 10, 2018, 6:40 PM UTC

rollcat wrote: post #50

adreamingsoul wrote: post #34

I think his heart is in the right place, but the execution is over-reactive. Here are my ideas that I want to implement for myself: 1. Move back to dumb phones, landlines, or a wifi phone. 2. Limit movie/video consumption to a fixed time limit per day. For example, 1 hour a day. 3. Re-use old technology/re-cycle technology waste before buying new. 4. Move back to bare metal servers, and self-host. 5. Use simpler tech…

Bare metal self-hosting is cost-ineffective and over-complicated, and will never happen at any non-trivial scale. Even among the competent people, most of us simply have better things to do after work. We need something like an app store for self-hosted apps, on top of a mesh/P2P network with built-in load balancing, redundancy, and sandboxing; ideally with a distributed data-store. Installing and running Wekan shoul…

Post by cleanyourroom » Tue, Jul 10, 2018, 7:33 PM UTC

Post by IanDrake » Tue, Jul 10, 2018, 7:53 PM UTC

wccrawford wrote: post #60

IanDrake wrote: post #25

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>The campaign to exterminate any alternative political discourse in the West has been so successful that it's now very hard to even talk about any alternative I’ve seen no evidence of that and with the severity of your claim should you should include a source or two. Perhaps you’re confusing people disagreeing with your view with people attempting to silence you. Those are two very different things. Recall the Occupy…

>Perhaps you’re confusing people disagreeing with your view with people attempting to silence you. Those are two very different things. Actually, if they're talking to random people around them, those people probably are trying to silence them. It's just about impossible to have rational discourse about politics with a random group of people these days. Far too many of them don't understand how to have a rational con…