I mean, it’s not a huge problem to read Marx or Gramsci before arguing about Marx or Gramsci. You don’t have to read all they wrote, of course. To form an opinion on Gadamer I don’t have to read everything he wrote.

You mean that sound of finger bones clicking against one another? Just have to clap sufficiently hard and fast.

oilets in India (and probably rest of Asia) are at ground level, with two porcelain blocks on either side to keep your feet on (the blocks are set into the ground and have a rough top; neither you nor they will slip). Most hotels will also have western toilets.

Also this was the most common kind in the USSR.

“Western” seats are something more luxury, may or may not (EDIT: back then, not now, though I haven’t been in really depressive parts) be present even in apartment bathrooms.

Just relaxing and knowing where your center of weight is helps.

(My practice is Moscow in early spring or late autumn days after everything melted and froze again.)

Common for everybody learning a language in an educational institution without RL practice. Immersion, of course, is the best way to learn a language, - gives good results even if you didn’t know it at all before being, eh, immersed.

I mean, if I know what a quadratic function and a gradient descent are, does this mean I have knowledge of AI? Then most people can be taught that in an hour (if they are sufficiently dense).

Its own lives, so it’s not about humanity, it’s about arming yourself.

But, of course, nothing that ominous in this either.

“Me and my friends gangbanged your father.”

FYI, in the Middle East things like this are used to a great effect of starting a fist fight (possibly a knife fight) as well.

While without a profit motive of any kind they won’t exist.

I really don’t get how those things you mentioned existing negate what I said. These are orthogonal. Well, except for that weird logic that it’s about choosing between two teams, but nobody can be that stupid, right?

They had a profit motive, like space race, cold war and all that. You know, USA and USSR were really preparing for The Global Thermonuclear War back then.

And, of course, all the people participating in that were being paid.

In more general sense profitability is robustness against failure.

I’'m doomscrolling this thread personally

That effort is the reason social media emerged. The Web before them was sufficient, it had human-curated website directories and RSS (though that I began noticing later), and web rings, and in general was fulfilling its purpose.

Now, the idea was to centralize everything under Zuck or someone else’s control. And from the very beginning it was even more ominous than now, cause people usually knew then that in the Web you should be pseudonymous, except for your personal webpage, and also that what gets out doesn’t get back in, and that an account on some site doesn’t belong to you.

What I’m disgusted with personally is how the transition to social media was spearheaded by clueless illiterate people, and instead of protecting the culture everybody else just decided that they are right and we are wrong.

I mean, we are on social media now.

The Linux community is full of elitist assholes who think they’re special because they have the ability to install an OS.

I personally was elitist because of having a different taste which made me wish to use something open, more personal and more customizable. Do not mix us, please.

Honestly, I wish our governments would pump money and resources into open source operating systems so that we’re not all bound to one OS under the complete control of one company.

Corruption likes one or few big private companies to supply stuff. So it’s maybe better that governments don’t finance these things at all.

Intel and AMD seem to be doing just fine, it’s always Nvidia…

Well, on the other side of things - Nvidia has an official proprietary driver for FreeBSD.

A malware company using malware practices. Nothing to see here, gents.

I don’t think you fully got the meaning of my comment. Other than that, Musk’s deep pockets were shallow at some point.

Thank got, we have decentralized IMs available rn.

Which ones exactly? I can think only of Tox (for messages being sent p2p), but nobody’s using it.

And also nothing prevents people who ruined Reddit from coming here, and they do.

and the banking industry goes under.

Which translates to the banking industry learning some lessons and becoming more efficient. Yes, please.

Other than that, some drop in realty prices is welcome.