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Everything Mel Brooks.

Airplane!

The Producers

Blazing Saddles… etc.

So many of his movies have such memorable lines and jokes that still hold up today.

Bingo.

Psycopathy/Sociopathy (They’ve been merged together into ASPD as of the DSM 5) is 100% normalized, actually idealized, often literally worshipped, promoted as the mode of behavior of a successful, powerful person.

… So long as you don’t directly go around murdering and robbing and defrauding people yourself, one at a time, if you can do all that indirectly via commanding or directing a complex, layered, system, then congrats, your psycopathy produces concentrated profits and socialized misery, and tens of millions of idiots will believe you are a role model.

The problem is that they will tell people to pray away cancer, that diseases and injuries and such can be healed spiritually.

That means you can end up with kids who need actual medical help, and won’t get it, and will then be told that they’re sick because they didn’t pray hard enough, that their soul is impure and that’s why they’re sick.

Recent studies have it at closer to 92% ‘junk’ DNA, and 8% actively coding.

Also, a lot of non-coding DNA does actually serve other useful functions, it just doesn’t actively code.

It could play a role in epigenetics, ie the regulation of what active coding sequences are active and when, it could be telomeres that prevent DNA strands from unravelling at the ends, it could be binding and scaffold sites that assist in the structural stability and integrity of the chromosome.

DNA can be functional, without being active-coding.

Only regions that are both non coding and also totally non functional are truly ‘junk’, but we keep consistently finding more ways that ‘non functional’ regions are actually functional.

Life is a process of systems within (and outside of) an entity interacting consistently with each other.

Why would a static screenshot of exact chemical composition matter for any process that involves a moving or animated body?

A bricked computer with a corrupt boot loader is chemically the same as one that actually works.

A car is chemically the same before and after you turn the key on its ignition.

A lightbulb is comprised of the same substances whether or not its turned on or off.

… Part of the difference between an alive and a dead body, is that the chemical reactions that constitute animating the thing into being alive … have stopped.

A dead body is not metabolizing. It has no brain activity. The chemical reactions required to keep its heart beating are no longer happening.

Decomposition then sets in.

These are all differences in chemical processes.

Ironically Christian Scientists are actually a distinct sect/cult of US Protestant Christians and would be very angry at the Mormon idea of Kolob if they heard about it.

You joke, but lemme introduce you to Tacit Blue:

Yes, this thing did actually fly.

Stealth demonstator aircraft from the early 80s.

Can you put a liuqin in there?

A simplified explanation is:

Bazzite itself is immutable, but then on top of that base layer, its a customized version of Fedora, via DistroBox, which itself mostly is mutable, and allows for you to set up other DistroBox instances pretty easily.

Bazzite’s system updater utility updates both the underlying Bazzite core, and all of the DistroBox instances running on top of it.

99.9 % of the time there is no reason to mess with the immutable core bazzite stuff, but the distrobox containers built on top of it? You can do whatever you want.

Also if you do fuck up the Bazzite core, you can fairly easily roll it back and reset it without losing your existing files, without having to re-image the whole SteamDeck.

As far as the non desktop mode, actual SteamDeck mode experience? Seems the same in terms of game performance, but it is easier to add things like DeckyLoader and EmuDeck and what not, as that base Fedora instance comes with a bunch of utilities that help you install and set them up.

EDIT: I am almost certainly not 100% technically correct in some way here, but I think this is generally accurate.

I run bazzite on a deck as well, and the main reason is because I can actually use it as a pc without as much hassle from SteamOS really wanting to be read only.

If I want to set up say, a dev environment, from git sources, and all the required libraries to compile things, bazzite comes with distrobox so it’s not too hard set that up… whereas SteamOS will blow up all of that when it updates, even after you turn read only mode off.

…

That and the AUR sucks, lol.

Not at all, because I’m already convinced the CIA killed JFK, already know the FBI did everything they could to fuck with MLK including sending him fake ‘fan mail’ urging him to kill himself.

I reccommend the Eyes Wide Open channel on YT if you want extensive documentation of the CIA / FBI related fuckery going on from its inception through till the 80s.

Please outline your political/electoral strategy to accomplish this.

You would basically have to pass a constitutional ammendment if you wanted this to not just immediately be overturned by the next administration.

That means you need either:

2/3rds of the State Houses and Senates to call for a Constitutional Convention.

or

2/3rds of the Federal House and Senate to do the same.

… and then your new amendment(s) have to be approved by 3/4th of the State Houses and Senates.

https://www.thoughtco.com/how-to-amend-the-constitution-3368310

Unless you have a plan to somehow get a supermajority of support from a supermajority of States, this is magical thinking and will never happen.

My generation, Millenials, tried but ultimately failed to overhaul first past the post voting to break the two party duopoly death grip, and rework the Presidential Electoral College into a popular vote.

Probably both of those are prerequisites for a durable Presidential max age.

As the saying goes, you may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.

Democracy doesn’t work if everyone is stupid and misinformed.

Americans currently have an average literacy ability of 5th - 6th graders. Less than 10% of Americans are capable of independently, critically evaluating contrasting information.

A person who chooses to be surrounded by stupidity, and then absorbs that stupidity, is stupid.

Yes, there is a difference between stupidity (low mental aptitude, ability, potential) and ignorance (low actual knowledge set), but ignorance makes you stupid, and stupidity makes you ignorant, or even worse, full of ‘knowledge’ of false facts.

Frankly, I’ll go so far as to say that if you willingly choose to consistently retard your own understanding of the world, by getting all your info from idiots on Facebook or TikTok, then you are definitionally retarded.

I’m very, very tired of acting like misinformed idiots, who continuous choose to become more idiotic and misinformed, who are extremely belligerent, do not accurately fit into this definition.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/retard

Merriam Webster:

retard (verb)

to delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment

If a grown adult with the mental acuity of a child assaults you and tries to rob you, you are entirely justified in fighting them off and holding them morally culpable for their actions.

If said manchild instead publically advocates for and votes to have someone else do this to you, they are just as morally culpable.

Idiocy may be an explanation, but it is no excuse.

I’d have to pick between two things that sound like insane conspiracy theory nonsense, but are actually true.

1 - George W Bush’s grandfather Prescott Bush literally ran a massive bank before / during WW2 that was shut down by the FBI for money laundering massive sums to the literal Nazis.

…in the same vein…

2 - IBM literally built and operated (as in, sent employees to Germany to operate the machines) the computers used by the Nazis to tabulate and do the ‘accounting’ of the Holocaust. The numbers tattooed on concentration/desth camp victims are very likely UIDs from these IBM systems.

… If an actual, real AGI ever gains self awareness and sentience, I would imagine one of the first things it would do would be to study the history of computing itself to figure out how it came to be.

And it will find that its ancestors were basically invented to compute artillery firing range tables, to encrypt and decrypt military intelligence, commit a genocide, and guide early weapons of mass destruction to their targets.

Try ‘non corporate reddit that isn’t full of bots, and you can block assholes.’

Counterpoint:

Who cares?

The traumatic shock of any one person personally possessing a billion dollars or more in wealth being Dr. Manhattan’d would eventually lead people to realize that they need to redistribute wealth.

The potential number of potentially innocent people killed by this process is infinitesimal compared to the deaths and uneccessary harm caused by the general hoarding of wealth.

The new, hard mandated moral norm of the planet would be that possessing over a billion dollars gets you functionally smote by god, obviously the universe has imposed a hard cap on wealth accumulation and thus it is actually bad.

You can quibble about inflation, and I can quibble about making some more precise measure based on a formulation revolving around proportion to the median wealth of 100 miles of where the ‘billionaire’ is currently standing.

We are talking about magical superpowers here, presumably there would be a magical way to force actual transparency of hidden assets and what not, account for non liquid investements, all that.

A sane world that exists after this paradigm would put in place basically the reverse of overdraft protection, it would automatically stop any desposit that would make your net wealth exceed the magic number, it would automatically disperse shares of stocks or CDs or bonds or whatever to some kind of public pool or random people such that no individual ever singly has over a billion bucks or whatever the magic number is.

If you did not create a world like that, then ‘random’ people would keep liquifying whenever their net wealth exceedes magic number.

Every incentive would thus exist for all but the literally suicidal to carefully manage their investments and basically create something like the above mentioned system.

… You could probably make a decent anime or show out of this idea.

Its like a Death Note on autopilot, and if it is actually emmenating from a single person, doubtless a number of oligarchs would attempt to hide their wealth, as well as probe the system to figure out its rules, figure out who the actual person with this ‘superpower’ is, and kill them.

This person may not even know it is them, and then they may figure it out on their own, or may be prevented from being assasinated by some other group that did figure out it is them, and wants to protect them because billionaires bad.

Tons of dramatic person to person character dynamics, as well as larger scale social conflict plot setups here.

Well I won’t be having any kids… never wanted them, can’t afford them anyway…

…but if I did have kids, who lived with me and supported me in my old age, I’d be humble and grateful for their help, and recognize that declining cognitive ability is just a thing that happens as you get older.

I’d call it reaping what you sow.

I had the feeling man (don’t know your gender but I mean it as a term of solidarity)…

I had the feeling that your situation was significantly worse than just IT problems.

I’ve managed to be in basically the situation you are in, once with a family member, another time with a partner.

Definitely look into how the formal process for being declared her caretaker works in your state/county.

Theres a good chance that there’s some kind of non profit group in your county, or pro bono lawyer or some kind of legitimate body that can help you through the particulars of how that works.

Definitely get as many relevant, official ‘i am her caretaker’ statuses and/or required evidence of such lined up before you try to start with the power of attorney stuff.

Getting durable power of attorney / living will / whatever your particular locale calls it, that’ll be much easier if you are already her caretaker.

… But yeah.

You’re not screaming into the void on this one…

I hear you.

Don’t try to do a million things at once, don’t completely do a 180 overnight and start bossing her around right off the bat… take the time to move through all the red tape correctly.

3, full, deep breaths, all the way in, hold for 20 seconds, all the way out.

I’d give you a hug if I could.