Fighting global warming and investing in clean tech is more important than funding ClosedAI and friends and making hyperteers and enshittificationers even richer than they already are.
I like your post and the length you went to cut off distractions and your desire to explore things deeply. And yes it’s about the journey.
And hats off for wanting to stop causing unnecessary suffering, i.e. stop eating animals. It takes deep introspection to realize that we are … in the words of ex special forces guy Damian Mander … ‘full of sh!t’ with our flexible morality when it comes to other sentient beings[0].
I have found a lot of great content available in Libby and Hoopla. I use my local library card, but am also able to get a card from a nearby larger city library, and between the two I have access to a lot of content and very soon in a lot of cases.
I get that people don't like Elon because he's a bit autistic and espouses political views that are unpopular on this platform, but if you can't acknowledge Elon's business acumen and technical vision, I feel like you aren't a serious person. He co-founded Paypal, SpaceX, and OpenAI (3 of the most influential companies of our time), has been the CEO of Tesla (the world's leading EV company) since before they were shipping product, and has arguably made Twitter exactly what he set out to -- an uncensored social media platform. I haven't had any problems with it, and he's substantially reduced its net operating less at the cost of lower revenue, mostly as a result of politics.
3 of his companies are HARD technology companies and basically the 3 most influential companies in the world today. Founded or co-founded 4 of the most significant organizations in the country. There is no one else in recent history who even comes close to his level of accomplishment. And you're telling me Elon's only notable skill is marketing and getting lucky with his executive hiring. Come on.
This sounds like actual socialism. The kind of socialism that seeks to abolish private property and the concept of ownership. Only personal property remains, and workers controlling the companies they work in as a natural extension. It may not be intended to be socialism, but it would lead to socialism if universally adopted.
On the average, when someone says "socialism", it's intended to be an insult. It also serves as an indicator that the person is not interested in having a real discussion. But this is not it. This is real socialism. The kind of socialism that died as a mainstream option in Europe with the USSR, but which is still somewhat popular in the US.
That sounds like concentrated power in a hands of a few people, government officials who decide what's what. This leads to oppression. And central planning for everything is definitely bad. Plenty of examples from China and former Soviet block.
Our current system (which is not true capitalism in my view) also has concentrated power in the hands of a few people.
So what do you call a system where the majority of people can't be exploited by the 1%?
I’ve not checked recently, but can you export an entire project retaining all interactions and run it offline like you would with a HTML based prototype?
Fighting global warming and investing in clean tech is more important than funding ClosedAI and friends and making hyperteers and enshittificationers even richer than they already are.