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  • Yes. Marxism-Leninism cannot survive contact with competing philosophies. This is why things such as the Berlin Wall were necessary. It’s why Soviet WW2 veterans who had served on the Western front were sent to the GULAG.

    In keeping with this time-honored tradition of intellectual sterility, X links should be banned across this entire instance.

    I look forward to watching you match yourself down the same old path every other “ML” community has marched down throughout history.


  • The whole world is indeed in a bad mood and the reason is we’re all addicted to social media, which makes people miserable.

    It’s impossible to fully patrol one’s territory in cyberspace. That means our hippocampus never sends the “all clear” signal which would allow us to relax from fight or flight mode.

    As a result, the entire population of humanity is in an unprecedented state of hypervigilance.









  • Having a life plan that works, that realistically and with some degree of certainty is taking me to somewhere that I want to go, and in the context of which waking up is an instrumental action furthering my progress along that path.

    Without a good reason to wake up, waking up sucks. A good reason to wake up is a complex thing. A good plan for life is hard to make, but worth it.

    I say this from the perspective of a history of massive depression.

    A good reason to open one’s mouth is that there’s delicious food in front of you. A good reason to wake up is that there’s a plan for the day that brings you closer to the things you want in life.

    If you have a hard time getting up, resolving that starts with making sure whatever thing you’re getting up for actually serves you.









  • That’s the one thing old people just don’t do: they won’t read what’s presented on the screen.

    I think it comes from growing up before GUIs, so they think of an interface as a set of buttons on a console. There was very little reason to read an interface back when they were all physical; you either knew what each button did or you didn’t and you only had to memorize it once.

    Like, the controls of a T-38 tank are always the same. The controls of a ‘57 Chevy are always the same.

    Once GUIs came into play, people started interacting with orders of magnitude more control interfaces, so the concept of “there is no manual; the interface is self-documenting” came into existence.

    Now you’re supposed to learn the interface and use it on the first encounter, which means reading what the interface is saying.