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“You need people like me who are sick in that way and who don’t lose any sleep making tools of violence in order to preserve freedom,” Luckey said in an appearance last year at Pepperdine University.

I’m not saying that this interview was conducted at gunpoint, but I might make a connection between Wilmore’s views on Trump and Musk? And who has control of Wilmore’s entire future at the moment.

It’s sad It felt like this one started out bipartisan and eventually devolved like everything else into the culture war.

Not to get all conspiracy-y, but it does t feel like there’s a good reason to do this if you’re not trying to inflame tensions / further divide America.

According to this article, 200,000 kids are injured every year on the playground, and 15 die. I definitely romanticize some the past, but as with most things, it's probably mostly romantic.

https://www.brainline.org/article/playground-safety

In a lot of ways, I think the things outlined in the article, especially risk taking, are more mental than physical. You can be risk averse on that old metal gear and risk taking on the new plastic stuff.

But some of the descriptions, what fun is a slide that overheats? Who cares about the romantic notion that some kid might get burnt.

Some of that doesn’t even look fun, unlike the like giant wood labyrinths of the eighties, those I miss.

https://wjbq.com/wooden-playgrounds-maine/

What will the impacts of this be, or I guess it says first quarter? Which is 2/3rds over? Are we seeing the impacts of this?

I suspect that Social Security is not long for this world and the results will be tragic. Anyone think we’ll manage to maintain it in this age of low societal cohesion?

Just thinking about writing this makes me think about how messy this stuff is.

But like, is there some long-term goal that there is world peace? And in that long term goal of world peace, is there some kind of international governing body?

And yeah, I guess in theory I think what you say is true, in practice, part of what makes a culture a culture are the sort of “decided questions” and one may not want to join a government that tries to enforce a different set of “decided questions” or undecided certain questions.

I’m sure some of the messaging would be to “liberate Canadians from their oppressive national healthcare system”

Something I find odd about pluralism - and maybe this isn’t strictly left/right but issue dependent.

Is it seems like the left is more sensitive to the paradox of tolerance. Like, well broadly speaking try to include everyone, but at your core, you also have to respect everyone else / abide by certain values.

Whereas as in this case, on the right, you get both a condemnation and a glorification of the nanny state in the same administration.

Maybe it was just sort of professionally coming of age for the rise of Silicon Valley in the early 2000’s

Observing my own brain for a second, it seems like one of the risks of reading a lot of history is you can get the impression that we’re much more wise about how to deal with geopolitics than we are, because you are necessarily reading something that benefits from hindsight. I think people try and get at, what were people thinking at the time (there’s a whole exhibit in the world war 2 museum about the decision to enter the war) but that feels emotionally obfuscated by the fact that most of what you’re reading is post-hoc analysis.

But like 50 years from now, everything that’s going on will seem really clear.

I would sort of argue it probably is a conservative phenomenon, but small-c conservative. It serves to entrench or protect a set of views and not allow a classical liberal approach, whether or not that’s from a “left” perspective or a “right” perspective.

In fact I think a lot of the dynamics playing out right now make more sense from the lens of the Democratic/left leaning parties being more “conservative” and right leaning parties being more change/reactuonary

Maybe our media diets are different, but all i remember hearing is criticisms of cancel culture. In fact, you sort of emphasized my point, I never even hear criticism of cancel culture anymore!

I would imagine the logic from the HR director is something like “the reason you’re not as successful as me is you don’t know how to manage your time well”

I think the problem is that like the business culture in the US is so cutthroat and stressful, and people generally so self-centered. That like, they literally can’t imagine a type of life or stress that isn’t solved by muscle through it or work more or whatever.

You also end up in these bubbles where you literally can’t empathize with people because you have no experience to fall back on.

Combine that with a sort of media and religious culture that will tell you you’re right to feel that way.

I’ve hear rich people complain about the fact that rich people are people to, d that poor people don’t appreciate them enough.

And actually, I think this is a common thread these days, that essentially the world’s problems are caused by the fact that rich people don’t have enough power and aren’t trusted enough by society. Marc Andreesen implied this in his Joe Rogan interview.

It feels like we went from an era where people were valued for being contrarian/independent, to one where people find value in being conformist. What changed?

And I don’t mean this in a strictly partisan way, like its not popular to have unique perspectives on conservatism anymore, it’s more popular to fall in line with the current administration's narrow definition of conservatism.

I don’t know how this is in more established languages, but in my experience there is a big problem in conflating versions.

In Elixir, I constantly get code with API calls that conflate different versions. As amazed as I can be in some contexts, with fast moving libraries I get nowhere fast.

I’ve been wanting to try vibes based coding, but can hardly get off the ground.

I wonder if most of this talk for CEO’s is external using their own anxieties. Sergei Brin talking about 60 hour weeks, Mark Zuckerberg going extremely hardcore at Facebook.

They’re sort of trying to drive fear into their software engineers to work harder, but why?

Partially they probably really are worried that if individuals can 10x their productivity they can run circles around these old companies. Mark has to be worried about the coming explosion in content. If that content is not on Facebook, he’s screwed. Google has been faltering for a while, but I have to imagine in ways that won’t be fixed by everyone just working harder,

And yet that seems to be the only lever they think they have?

But then, this guy also owns a GenAI company so he’s not exactly unbiased.