chillingeffect

the writer really went into depth about the problem and...surprise...the answer is almost embarrassingly simple.

Everyone in the country needs to read this.

As a remedy, I recommend everyone on the left read George Lakoff's book "Don't Think of an Elephant." It's a guide for how to communicate effectively, especially to people who have a vastly different worldview from themselves.

He's been consulting to organizations for a long time and these books are the distillation of his knowledge in plain language.

Preview:

1. He makes an (obv simplified) model of left vs right communication as "nurturing parent" vs. "strict father." There is obvious overlap - it's a model, but you can see how much this explains as he develops it a bit further.

2. He talks about a "staining" or "triggering" effect when communicating. what does that mean? people have key words that instantly shut down their thought, preventing useful discussion. For example, immediately upon hearing the words "trans," conservatives might picture a man in a dress molesting someone in a bathroom. Similar for leftists when they hear a word like "corporation" or "business." So he teaches how to communicate without stumbling on these.

Yes if you suck at science, you can't get paid.

But if the subjects you study are politically inconvenient to the presently-in-charge admin, you should still be allowed to research them.

and i'm saying: let's not wreck ourselves trying to get to Mars/beyond the solar system in the next century. Let's background it. Live gently in the meantime.

I think the disagreement is you believe we're already kinda screwed? I haven't commented on that possibility previously. I'm not fully qualified nor informed enough to make a decisive opinion. But it does seem like it will very uncomfortable for a long time. And it's very difficult to get people to change their minds when the surveillance capital propaganda continuously shapes our conscious imagination to its own constraints.

We can do a little bit each year. We don't have to tap into all of our social services, cops on the street, clean water, and create an entire surveillance and surveillance capital infrastructure to get there by 2050 or even 2100.

We can aim to get there by, say, the year 100,000, and still have 4000x headroom.

Meanwhile we live healthy, safe, low-stress lives, where fun, outdoor activity, swimming in rivers, picking fruit from trees, having all night parties outdoors, swilling beer, reading great books, napping in hammocks, camping in the mountains are all freely available.

YOU> HELP I'M DROWNING

C64> YOU' HERE!

YOU> OH NO I'M ON FIRE

C64> IGLAY!

YOU> IM BEING SWALLOWED BE A SNAKE

C64>

YOU> BIRDS ARE NIPPING ON ME

C64> YOU

In case it's not clear: Little-St. James Wannabe Invitee, Nazi-Saluter, Musk's full of it again, but to recognize it requires being halfway through college physics to understand it, so all the elites will be glazed over thinking they're onto the next big thing. grift, grift, grift, grift.

(1) a giant flipping vacuum.

and (no longer updated sadly):

https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/

re: thermodynamics....you can not feasibly dissipate GPU/LLM/Data center-level heat in space. You'd need radiators the size of football fields and you'd be highly susceptible to cosmic debris.

Also: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/30/elon-musk...

100% true, but also hides a powerful fact: Our choices aren't limited to doing it ourselves. Listening to others and discussing how to do things as a group is the essence of community seeking long-term stability abd fairness. It'a how we got to the special place we are now.

Not everyone can or should start their own open source project. Maybe theyre already doing another one. Maybe they don't know how to code. The viewpoint of others/users/customers is valid and should not only be listened to but asked for.

A militia to deter occupiers is different from protecting one's own house. And cases like this go beyond the Castle doctrine. This made had no legit fear for his life. Wiggling keys in a door and jiggling door handle don't equal legit fear. You have to at least identify a threat. This shooter was irresponsible and wrecked it for many other responsible people. Government will use this to weaken individuals' 2A rights.

Nuture not control.

Living wage.

Access to day care.

I submit that this user is not a hacker, nor has no intention of being part of the hacker community. They are clearly just using this resource as an outlet for their propaganda and it's not resonating with this community.

>The bodies featured in porn are parodies of nature: women with enormous breast and butt implants; male “chicks with dicks”. A taste for sissy porn, in which men are degraded by being forcibly feminised, is central to many trans-identifying men’s belief that they are really women.

And egads: >trans-identifying male journalist Andrea Long Chu,

Ouch! This is just another "porn is extreme" panic with no insight.

Human car crash? Human punishment. Corporate-owned car crash? A fine which reduces salaries some negligible percent.

(Wait this is still the rodney brooks discussion!?)

This is a confluence of many conditions. Some long-focused efforts, some architecting and annealing of interests, some individual greed, some long-lasting effects of trauma, and some massive ignorance.

One of the only good points is that the American people are stubbornly allergic to authoritarianism. Yes there are exceptions, but mainly carved out by people trading it for self-interest. Many good surprises like Tucker Carlson's opposition to squashing free speech and the Republican's long-lasting distaste for pedophilia are still out there.

The post above pointing out how we're diff to Nazism is on point. There have been many more authoritarian plays since then. Americans remain conveniently ignorant of them.

Also we're being economically crushed and everyone feels it. Although racism is a powerful tool by this movement, it's actually centered around impoverishing everyone and the dizzying egos of its leaders.