TL;DR for Americans: American citizens are the biggest idiots on the fucking planet.

I think the reality is that the vast majority of US citizens are abjectly fucking stupid who have no clear understanding how absolutely anything works or any understanding of how consequences follow actions. They literally cannot piece it together. Kind of related to how often correlation and causation are confused by these bumbling fucking buffoons I’m surrounded by.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170519174502/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/09/06/hussein-link-to-911-lingers-in-many-minds/7cd31079-21d1-42cf-8651-b67e93350fde/

Nearing the second anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, seven in 10 Americans continue to believe that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein had a role in the attacks, even though the Bush administration and congressional investigators say they have no evidence of this.

Sixty-nine percent of Americans said they thought it at least likely that Hussein was involved in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, according to the latest Washington Post poll. That impression, which exists despite the fact that the hijackers were mostly Saudi nationals acting for al Qaeda, is broadly shared by Democrats, Republicans and independents.

I’m just so fucking tired. It’s literally mentally fucking exhausting to be surrounded by this many fucking idiots for four decades. It’s literally bad for my mental health and I can’t escape it. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills and yet I’m the one who has to go to therapy to fix myself while all these idiots get to just blithely continue to be fucking idiots.

One Thinks He Knows Why

Hang, I know this one.

It’s because it’s a fucking pile of shit.

US, west coast.

It’s not meant to make a person feel attacked as much as gently nudging them to use less power.

Pretty sure its even automated.

It’s not insignificant at all. Servers are beefy and take more power than a standard PC… a lot more. Further, failover servers mean you have to have exact copies of the same server up and available, which means you’re doubling, tripling, quadrupling power demands. Finally, you also have to have Uninterruptible Power Supplies, those take an amount of power as well.

It’s a huge power draw. I know because I have a bunch of low-power devices runnig 24/7 as microservices and it still increase my power bill and use by a lot. I regularly get letters from the power company about how I’m using like 3x the power of the average person in my type of unit.

This person has never seen the power bill for running a high-availability server with several failovers once in their lives.

Code switching.

Absurdism > Nihilism

We may be in hell, but at least I can laugh at the existential horror of being alive.

No watch history plus subscriptions is the way to go.

I turned off watch history which disables recommendations so my youtube homepage is blank but I always get notifications from channels I’m subscribed to

Underrated perspective. Absolutely a big part of the problem.

How about this:

At the apartments I recently moved out of, there were no quarter slots on the washing machines. They were an app that required a bluetooth connection to pay.

So if you lived there and didn’t have a smartphone? Go fuck yourself, you don’t get to do laundry.

Unless you bothered to check the laundry room when you were looking at the apartment, you wouldn’t know. No warnings.

I think the answer to that is: creativity is hard.

Ask Curtis Yarvin, seems like most of his “theory” is Ayn Rand rehashed. These people think they’re far more clever than they actually are.

Normalize punching Nazis

It couldn’t be more infuriating that these stupid fucks who take their marching orders from the likes of FOX News and Newsmax always have the audacity to call themselves “free thinkers” as though they really believe they came up with these ideas and positions themselves when it’s crystal fucking clear based on the evidence that they did not.

Hadn’t heard these guys. This is some good shit, thanks!

The way the singer does his lyrics kind of gives me The Hold Steady vibes.

That sounds entirely plausible to me. Once again, when it comes to PewDiePie, I have no idea what the fuck I am talking about.

I knew this was coming after 9/11/2001. That was my first brush with how absolutely vile, ignorant, and racist most US citizens could be.

I used to always say eventually they would bring the tools of the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars home and use against their own citizens and god damn it, it sucks to be right.

Interesting, I kind of assumed that he’d been long forgotten by the YouTube crowd, but he’s still number 10 top youtuber going by how many subscribers he has.

So, this may actually have an impact on Linux perception, but I’d wager with people in PewDiePie’s age group more than younger people. He’s 35, a lot closer to my age than expected.

If I sound like an idiot it’s because I never followed PewDiePie except for watching him scream and flail in Dark Souls that one time.

Oh there’s also Sweeping Promises, they’re kind of a lofi post-punk, but they dropped an album in 2023.

They’re from Boston, so also not midwest.

What you’re seeing is the end of Truth.

Especially in the face of AI generated photos, we’re dealing with a future where the youth can easily be misled about what actually happened in the past, or even in the current moment. There is very much an upswing of young people questioning established narratives of the past, often under the guise of “well you weren’t there, how do you know for sure?”

Reality is perception, and they are busy managing reality to deny any perception of Nazi behavior.

It’s why Musk especially lies so fluidly and easily in the face of hard evidence.

It’s all perception management, and as long as they keep talking and keep repeating the same lies, a significant number of people will believe them.

Musk still claims it wasn’t a Nazi salute, and a significant number of people believe him. It’s kind of like Trump’s statement that he could shoot someone in the middle of 5th avenue and not lose any support. It’s all attack, never back down, never admit fault.

EDIT: It’s also Bannon’s “flood the zone with shit” strategy at work, too. We’ve been in an Attention Economy for a long time now (at least since 2007 when the iPhone put a screen in everyone’s pocket), and they know people’s attention is limited, so they work to force themselves into people’s limited time and attention spans. If your message is the only one they have time to hear, they’ll probably be more likely to consider yours true. This, for example, is why Musk forced himself into everyone’s Twitter feeds, he’s force feeding himself the limited attention of millions.