tonguez
tonguez on Hacker News
“…it is unacceptable to have eighth grade Algebra I classes and gifted education programs that disproportionately exclude Black and brown children.”
a definition of exclude is “deny (someone) access to or bar (someone) from a place, group, or privilege.”
no one is barring access to these classes on the basis race. can you even imagine that? “sorry, you’re not allowed to take this class; you’re black.” it’s like everyone who writes this lives in their mom’s basement and has never gone outside and thinks if they just make the boring and tired declaration that non-black/non-brown people are evil/racist, that it absolves them of every other sin they commit, like not caring about homeless people or the fact that everything they own is made by chinese children. in reality it accomplishes nothing except complacency and it helps the people raping the world continue their work of exploiting everyone.
“1-5 tabs gets me a warm fuzzy body high”
no one cares
“ It is so sad that "make good game, sell it" model no longer works.”
What makes you say that? I mostly play single-player games”
it doesn’t work for the developers. obviously you can play a single player video game.
basically what it means is that when you have all the power, no one is capable of punishing you
“I don't think I follow your point about income level”
it makes sense when you consider that TLAs basic function is to preserve the status quo for wall street. we subvert democracy overseas to preserve corporate profits and have been doing so for many generations a la United Fruit Company, selling weapons to saudi arabia, etc.
“Personally, I don't enjoy the emotion of being angry.”
no one cares
belligerence is a bourgeois and pearl-clutchy way to dismiss desperate people writing text on the internet as a part of their struggle to improve the horrible material conditions of their lives and the lives of the people they love. it’s easy to be sophisticated when everyone else is effectively your slave because you happened to be born higher up in the global supply chain. belligerent is how Marie Antoinette would have described people who don’t want to want to be told to eat cake.
“most people are not cynical/annoyed or any other negative quality”
thanks for sharing that valuable information with us
its probably part of a pipeline to make a reliably isolated and scared voting base that will always vote to give big brother more power because they don’t know how to socialize so they are more susceptible to propaganda
“I wouldn't extrapolate on what she has or hasn't read haha, that's just silly”
i cringed reading that
the fundamental disconnect is you aren’t actually more important than other people just because you were given more money
Charlie Munger has spent his life doing nothing productive, and done promotional videos for “capitalism”. As long as he has enough money to pay some prostitute to suck his dick, we “can’t throw away the capitalist system”. Thanks for your contributions to humanity, Charles!
“I am not alone, and part of an ever increasing amount of people, that seriously question the anti-consumerism (hence, anti-capitalist, if you're very patriotic) practices employed by the status quo.”
this is one of the most bizarre sentences ever written
“The New York Times Is Right About X” would be a news headline.
“can't figure out how to end a call.”
“None of those are exclusive, or even more common in elderly people than the general population.”
you’re right, old people are generally just as good with technology as young people. there are no generalizable differences between any groups of humans.
“The right side of the bell curve can now program an application worth many dollars per month and zero marginal reproduction costs.”
“The inventions of the last 50 years were of smart people for smart people.”
building the surveillance state for big brother isn’t intelligent. also, they get paid a salary.
because there is no “us”; the people who run the world don’t want to lose their grip on power, so they use tech to make people stupider and thus less capable of challenging authority
would it even be possible for netflix to not block russian accounts? aren’t companies that big always significantly enmeshed with the state?
the alternative is humans decide to invest their energy in improving the quality of life of other humans instead of pure (financial) domination
“Thank goodness Bitcoin wealth isn't distributed evenly among everyone who holds it. Show me a system where that's true (or even close to true), and I'll show you a system controlled by tyrants.”
yeah that makes a lot of sense
“People totally have the option of living under this type of government - it exists in top down centralized places like China.”
you’re right, i much prefer to live under a decentralized government like the United States.
what’s rampant is billionaires ”amplifying” vapid narcissism because they want a disempowered population with no good role models or values other than the worship of money, and the path to money is being a cog in the western MCI/global supply chain/the great satan. people don’t want to build the surveillance state for google if it means they are going to be shamed and looked at as creeps. but if you give them enough money, they can film the crispest videos with their most expensive phones of their most expensive houses, making them de-facto cool, because everyone else is poor/a loser.
what a bizarre reaction to my comment
so life’s greatest winner is genghis khan
this advice from twitter users is always the same and its always so bizarre. just invest thousands of hours into cultivating your own feed through the following process: every time you get insulted by some child/idiot/bot, just select the account of that individual person then block them or mute or unfollow. do this thousands (or millions?) of times for every individual person on twitter. jesus christ i cant think of something more unappealing.
the worst part of this is the more you invest into making it useable, the worse it is when big brother blocks/mutes you; the more enmeshed you are into this MCI tool for manufacturing consent. it sounds like the type of person who would be into twitter is the type of person who likes to spend a lot of time researching which credit card gives the best 2% cash back or whatever. genuinely just gross and boring to the point of being repulsive to most people on earth
“On top of something like charm”
my autismometer just exploded
not sure why you’re being downvoted.
yea god forbid the poors are allowed to talk amongst themselves
“This is probably good for society, as it puts more capital in the hands of people who will invest in things that succeed rather than things that fail.”
interesting how in your model wealth inequality doesn’t affect society at all. if one guy has a trillion and everyone else has a penny, it’s good for our society, bc he will invest in things that succeed, because no one else has a chance to succeed.