RIP @atheopagan.bsky.social , you will be dearly missed

please stop pretending that leftist cultural arrogance had no role to play in the radicalization of the right. leftists pushed too hard, and some people got uncomfortable. "polarization" is objectively correct regardless of their comparative goodness.

Look I don't have any motivation to shitpost back but this is cool as shit

I want some of whatever you're smoking

My grandmother uses a Linux Thinkpad as do two of my completely incompetent friends. It's literally easier to install and maintain than Windows. We just have to abolish Microsoft.

We have been at the year of the Linux desktop for years now! We are in the promised land! Almost 3% of Steam users use Linux, installers just work, software just works, most old Windows games work better than in new Windows.

I would teach Hitler and Stalin to install Gentoo at the same time, and I'd take code commits from Idi Amin and Mao Zedong. Just behave in the project itself and I don't care. Religious commitment.

As someone with close friends on both sides here I really do think that many of these people are brain broken by what they (and I to a lesser degree) see as norms violations. I just want everyone to focus on the software. Anyone for any purpose.

>annoying guy that gives long speeches nobody cares about
>terrible at judging his actual political capital
>only had a job because he was important in seizing power
>his supporters are all insane or do nothing but read obscure theory
>loses to a guy that’s illiterate

Comrade Trotsky…welcome back

God dammit

bad people can write software, and grown-ups have to accept this fact as a consequence of FOSS and non-enclosure.

liberalism is the adult form of humanity. it is time for you to grow-up. <3

Unfortunately the odds that the P50 will ever be corebootable are pretty low, which is a shame. Not a big deal given that the upgrade only made sense if I were willing to run the proprietary driver. I have failed the prophet RMS. I'll have to do some free software projects to repent.

So far I'm enjoying using it. As always, on my desktop/gaming system I just use a lazy distro like Manjaro. The Intel/NVIDIA dual GPU setup in these laptops is a huge pain and I hate setting them up manually. On the bright side, gaming is actually enjoyable again. I love this laptop.

I'm an exclusive Thinkpad user (because of course I am) and I recently upgraded from my T440p to a P50. While there are a few strange behaviors, it's well within Linux user tolerance. CPU is only a very small upgrade, but storage is noticeably faster, and it's a +400% GPU performance upgrade.

In the end I find myself mostly convinced by Steinhart's system, although I'm continuing to work through various possible objections and practical issues with the steps taken in working out the metaphysics.

Will be going through the rest of Steinhart's published work over the next few months.

The "value" that is being preserved and optimized by the axiarchic system is complexity, since ordered systems produce more entropy than chaotic ones. Inherently attractive to naturalists who already have a religious awe of complexity, especially those with some knowledge of computer science.

What's innovative about Steinhart's metaphysical system is its use of axiarchy. "[C]oncrete reality is ultimately generated by the logic of value" (Steinhart, "Six Axiarchic Arguments"). This frankly absurd-sounding proposition is well-argued in the text, and it plays a key role in the ontology.

There is a focus on ritual in parts of the text -- in order to make it aesthetically compatible with various neopaganisms and religious naturalisms and more attractive to their followers, and to use the empirical development of effective ritual without starting from scratch. It's foreign to me.

Finished reading Steinhart's "Atheistic Platonism". Excellent, persuasively argued metaphysics. I have long held a stance of mathematical platonism, but Steinhart makes a case for an atheoplatonist religion that is compatible with my existing metaphysical commitments. Much to consider.

Making my way through Eric Steinhart's "Atheistic Platonism". Strongly persuasive argument that is in most ways consistent with my existing views, except for some extra stuff which appears internally consistent.