jwiggler

Respectfully, that’s not always the way to change peoples minds / hearts. Most certainly not in this situation, which involves family dynamics.

I appreciate the frustration though. I get it.

Unfortunately I’ve heard this exact refrain from at least one small town Christian couple up here in the northeast

I get these vibes, too, from some of the increasingly trad-aestheticized Catholics I grew up with, which is actually antithetical to the actual stance of the Catholic church which is, y’know, science and God go hand in hand, evolution is real, big bang happened , etc, etc

Edit: like suddenly those Catholics are ALL ABOUT demons and learning about demons. One was trying to tell me Labubus are based on Chinese demons and I blurted out “oh you believe in their demons too? Like not just Christian demons but ones from Eastern tradition as well” dude did not understand what I was asking so I dropped it to not be too much a dick

Anyone know if there are immediate practical implications of this? I get foreign made routers are now deemed a security risk, but

Previously purchased routers can still be used and retailers can still sell models that were approved by the prior FCC policies.

so it seems not much is changed? I’m curious what this means practically in the near term.

still quite concerning and stupid .

Edit: oh theyre banning imports apparently. Guess i didnt know the meaning of the Covered List? https://apnews.com/article/fcc-foreign-router-ban-national-security-technology-7e5333aeaf82496ce6350f57699db5ba

I dunno…80, 90 precent chance?

Quite skeptical of solutions that don’t involve just leaving the environment be and letting natural processes play out. Like trying to keep a forest healthy by “controlled” burning/logging, clearing downed trees as if they were human trash instead of newly fallen habitats for myriad species of life, distributing nutrients into the soil at a pace that seems slow to us but perhaps necessary to who-knows-how-many species.

The idea that we can affect nature on a human-rather-than-geological timescale is true. The idea that we could bring a particular ecosystem from collapse into balance on a human timescale, with rudimentary human interventions, is full of hubris and folly. They’re intricate systems in which innumerable species have co-evolved over millions and millions of years. We all know about the butterfly effect. Many of us have read A Sound of Thunder. How about Frankenstein? Icarus? We ostensibly know the lessons. When will we finally change our actions to be in line with what we are – a small component of a global ecosystem – instead of masters over it?

I’m just so tired of seeing 1984 and Brazil and Idiocracy and every other political warning and satire played out in the real world every goddamn day of my life

Ken Lacorte

The former…Fox News executive? Who killed the Trump-Stormy story before the 2016 election… uhhh… yeah im not fucking trusting that dude.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_LaCorte#Alleged_Fox_News_Trump_cover-up

check out this book

https://interesi.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/technopoly.pdf

Tech is a tool, you don’t need to connect with it in any transcendental way. According to this guy ^ Neil Postman, you may feel this way because we live in a TECHNOPOLY

I’m an admin and using an SSH key is the most common way we log into servers.

Also the most common way I log in to self-hosted servers.

Sure they’re bemoaning the failing state, but in doing so they’re glorifying State power – maybe that’s a better way to put it. But again, inspiration from community and anger at the State aren’t mutually exclusive – and the author making it out like they are is simping for the State imo.

I think we probably also have a disconnect because I tend to think of the State as an unjust centralization of power that is extremely vulnerable to this exact sorta thing happening, rather than a mechanism to execute the will of the people. Even if you’ve wrangled it enough to provide some material good to normal folk – look how fast it can be taken away at a whim. Communal acts tell me first that free relations between individuals are possible (plausible, or maybe inevitable?) outside of the context of Government and Market, that the Government and the Market are not as inevitable as we’re taught to believe – so I think that there is hope there. Hopefully that kinda illustrates what I’m saying better.

But I do see how a liberal or a socialist may say, “anger first” in this context, so I hear you. Just not that way for me.

But I never said it was more reasonable for people to bypass the state, especially, as you say, a state as large and rich as the US. Im specifically saying that the denial of even granting these communities the terms “inspirational” or “resilient” is Statist, particularly because the fact that wood banks are resilient and the fact that it’s bad thing that State institutions are failing are not mutually exclusive, while the author asserts that, since these acts are indicative of a failing State, they are neither inspirational nor resilient. It’s just a fallacy.

You can avoid the glorification of private solutions to public problems while also granting that a community that engages in communal acts is a good thing.

And that’s great that it’s happening, but it’s shifty that the government, ostensibly the representative of the community, can’t institutionalize what is clearly the will of the community

Yes ^^ but, to me, expected – when your politicians rely on boats of money to get elected, they are beholden to the money and not the community. Especially now it seems, the clear will of the community in the US is of less value than the will of the large donor.

NewRepublic simping for the State, fails to see how anything other than the State could be considered inspiring or resilient.

Apparently, acts of solidarity aren’t inspiring and people taking their material wellbeing into their own hands aren’t being resilient because it means the State is non-functional…just…what?

Such a weird article.