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The left is by no means immune to this thinking. "He'll rig the midterms" "the climate is fucked" "no one will be held accountable" are all the same thinking.
Look, I get it, despair is natural and tempting but only serves the ones trying to burn it all down. We have got to keep dreaming, imagining a better future, and working to make it happen.
Sometimes when people justify their vote for so-and-so terrible politician they will say, "well all politicians are corrupt/lie/etc." OR when explaining why UBI or socialized medicine will never work they'll claim that people will always cheat, or be lazy, etc.
It sounds worldly and wise and it's an attractive idea because it absolves us of responsibility. You can't fight human nature, am I right?
Well I'm fed up with it. We have agency and the world does not emerge from immutable laws. Every good thing that exists does so because some person had an idea and put in the work to make it reality. Grow a fucking spine.
@ysb33r Definitely a good idea to avoid stepping on scorpions 
I've been thinking about this quote a lot. In the context of #genai but also just in the general context of modern society. The last line is how I feel about sooo many things.
"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." — Charles Babbage
@ysb33r Looks like solid choices! Do you bring any sort of camp shoe so you can air out your socks & feet at the end of the day? I've gone back and forth on the utility of camp shoes.
Personally I take 3 pairs of socks for similar length trips. One for sleeping in (and as backup) and two for hiking that I alternate wearing. That way I can rinse and air dry a pair while wearing the other.
In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa - Ada Limón
Arching under the night sky inky
with black expansiveness, we point
to the planets we know, we
pin quick wishes on stars. From earth,
we read the sky as if it is an unerring book
of the universe, expert and evident.
Still, there are mysteries below our sky:
the whale song, the songbird singing
its call in the bough of a wind-shaken tree.
We are creatures of constant awe,
curious at beauty, at leaf and blossom,
at grief and pleasure, sun and shadow.
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Modern tech is so goddamn needy. My old Motorola flip phone never needed an update before I could make a call.
@User47 oh brother!
All infrastructure should be publicly owned. Full stop.
