3. I used to agree with you, but then I came across Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso.

It’s the only example I know of where communists make an honest attempt to reduce the disparity in wealth rather than exacerbate it.

I think my PS3 still works, although I haven’t used it in awhile.

Piracy is a service problem if you have more money than sense or want the disparity in wealth to grow.

It’s a monetary one otherwise, hence why piracy is the norm outside of 1st world countries.

Part of me legitimately thinks Trump, West, and Musk are geniuses but not in the way most people expect.

They’re masters of controversy. They have no conscience and are willing to say whatever will keep them in the news the longest.

They’re all brands, and their controversy is just free advertising.

Raising wages just causes prices to go up faster.

Unfortunately, they’re right about this one because democrats are in on it too.

There’s no propaganda in America.

promptly fires everyone who criticizes Israel

“Piracy is a service problem.”

“Unused RAM is wasted RAM.”

“Communism doesn’t work.”

Pretty much any pasty-faced white boy talking point is a load of malarkey.

I totally believe you.

That kind of rigidity in software design leads me to believe more people need to read The Pragmatic Programmer.

I, of course, do not; because I am already a pragmatic programmer.

I think it’s purely durability. Larger cords are harder to snap.

I think a major deterrent from contributing things that aren’t code is that whoever is implementing it might think their design is better just because it’s theirs.

Try talking to the GNOME team, for example. You will never be able to get a suggestion past them because they’re always right and you’re always wrong.

Even when you prove them wrong and they backpedal, they are still correct and you are still wrong.

Doesn’t mean he needs to put on airs.

I don’t really value pronunciation as much as some do. If you understand what you’re talking about, that matters more than being exposed and remembering the right pronunciation.

So many words we never hear people say, but we read them and have to know them.

It’s definitely not their fault, per se.

They’re just doing their job. It’s how the system is set up.

The best teachers I’ve had were ones that routinely went outside of the curriculum to engage with students on a human level. But current trends in academia heavily discourage that.

It used to be sort of hard to find academic knowledge outside of an institution. Now you can download it all for free on libgen and have youtubers walk you through it.

their information

You’re conflating “their information” with “academic information.”

You can download the exact books they use in college.

A major difference is they can get information whenever they want.

It used to be sort of hard to find academic knowledge outside of an institution. Now you can download it all for free on libgen and have youtubers walk you through it.

That kind of accessibility causes people to take it for granted.

fundamentally do not know how to think for themselves about anything.

What’s sad is, that’s the point. That’s how they get prepared for the future.

A future where they work for their rulers and don’t cause controversy.

Saddest part is, their teachers who should be encouraging intrigue and free thought are usually the first ones to fight back against it in their classroom. All to make their job easier, lol.

I think they haven’t tapped into their potential intelligence.

Quality > quantity.

The masses have been duped into forgetting that.