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>Each person is responsible for their own beliefs but the majority of people will not stay where they don't feel welcome.

Isn’t there a saying that republicans aren’t born republican but they are forced that way? Your anecdote rings true with my experience.


Never heard it. Doesn't ring true in my experience.


Upvote for usual MSM banter. In truth, JRE is good entertainment. It’s not a learning platform because there isn’t an active engagement component. He’s good at navigating you through a complicated issue by using storyline like pacing with the people he is interviewing being characters in his story. But it’s hardly ever anything one can hold onto once that episode is done. He’s pleasant to listen to and the bit of drama keeps it fresh and spontaneous.


But apparently these women are…educated? I don’t know how it all works if the end result of education (or being “liberal”) is being bigoted and clueless and lacking complete empathy towards the opposite sex.

Sounds like bog standard indoctrination and party line to me.


Honestly it’s the same issue with new media. Not much has improved. Moralizing and bullshit rhetoric is well and alive across the internet.


There are of course also similar contributors in new media (e.g. all the traditional media having also their youtube channel), but there are also youtube channels which deliver reliable facts and good research and analysis. You just have to find them.


Unfortunately, unless you already know fact from disinformation on the specific topic, it is not possible to robustly identify which youtube channels are even attempting to deliver reliable facts. You may get hints because misinformation often tends to be self-inconsistent and illogical, but you may just end up following a trail of confidently-presented lies.

Traditional media, however, at least has a traditional foundation of journalistic standards, even if they might also be biased toward augmenting fear or controversy, or giving equal weight to completely irrational viewpoints on a topic.


In theory, yes. But our society depends on and works with division of labor. Even science depends on it. Verifiability is a fundamental requirement in science, but barely anyone personally does or has the resources to do verification. Instead we trust in (specific) authorities. This admittedly is a potential weakness. But otherwise we would spend our entire lifetime on verification (and possibly die out). However, thanks to our experience or through recommendations, we can choose who we accept as an authority to do this work for us. The difference compared to the past is that the big media houses were automatically considered authorities back then, but not anymore because they have ruined their reputation (because they regularly and obviously violate the standards you mentioned). So today we have more choice but also more work to find these authorities. But it is still feasible. And as you say, there is still common sense and critical thinking, even if those seem to be a vanishing quality.


Substack? Absolutely.


Thank you. I was waiting for someone to stir the pot and start to bring in alcohol. Keep it going this is good stuff.


This site is puritanical, although I have noticed this a lot with the left wing. In addition to speech policing the nags are going hard after gambling and alcohol. I’m very surprised they haven’t tried to outlaw porn to Save the Women


In the US 'the left' (and it's various offshoots) is pretty much a straight-line descendent of Puritanism, albeit stripped of it's direct religious motivation. So while the right may ban porn because 'evil woman parts leading us astray', the left will ban it because 'exploitative patriarchal degradation of women'. In reality they've just found a different rationalization for a cultural choice that was made when the Mayflower first dropped anchor.


> So while the right may ban porn because 'evil woman parts leading us astray', the left will ban it because 'exploitative patriarchal degradation of women'

Your whole comment is pretty silly considering only one of these things is actually happening.


Neither has happened yet.


Age verification laws are becoming common in red states. Meanwhile CA is the porn capital of the world


Outlawing pornography is a right wing speech policing platform. I think you have noticed more what you want to see instead of what is real.

https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/88318/what-do-t...


Where did you get this from? We are as close to anarchism/libertarianism as you can find.


BS. This website has abandoned whatever liberalism it ever had and embraced trump.


Im a revolutionary leftist and I couldn’t disagree more. This crowd is not swayed by demagogues and is very much in their own category.


We should establish a Haidt of online gambling so we can have another merry-go-round into how there isn’t enough conclusive evidence to correlate gambling to shitty outcomes.

Any volunteers? We are all here in the breeches waiting for a champion to rise up and give us the arena for the smorgasbord of shitposting that is about to commence from the vultures that benefit off of societal decay.

Edit: not sure why the downvotes. This is exactly what’s going to happen.

Edit 2: Bingo. See one of the top posts in this thread defending gambling by trying to draw parallels to alcohol. Let the shitposting begin.


Just leaving this here in case anyone does a search for the name: Graham Hancock.


I prefer Randall W. Carlson.


Cube is built on Eclipse which isn’t too bad. If you want 90s, ARM and others have you covered. I still sling Dynamic C 9 from time to time.


> Due to the complexity of the signalling involved with ethernet, a dedicated ASIC is generally used, which takes in data at the frame level, and takes care of wiggling the electrical lines in the right way over a cable (though there are of course exceptions).

Like others in this thread I was hoping I’d see an RJ45 breakout board directly hooked into an STM32 and doing onerous bit banging and keeping it as low level and basic as possible.


Author here. CNLohr already did it better than I could 10+ years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwcvElQS-hM


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