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I used to work for a skip-level manager who openly expressed that he would not approve spending corporate funds on employee certifications, but he would approve spending money on training. He believed that employees who got the certs were more likely to take the knowledge outside the company, while those with only the knowledge were more incentivized to stay.

I exited that company less than a year later, the company itself was bankrupt less than 3 years later.

It’s cute that you think you’re being judged, kiddo.

Give it a couple decades. Maybe with experience, you’ll understand the old saying that youth is wasted on the young.

You don’t know my life, my hardships etc. don’t pretend you do.

You thinking that’s what I’m doing is why I’m saying what I’m saying.

You haven’t yet matured to the point where you understand not everything everyone else says and does is about you. Other people live rich, detailed lives that are completely unlike your own and you will never understand the huge varieties of ways the world works until you get outside your own tiny, self-centered universe.

My point is: not all art is political.

Everything is political. You have just lived such a privileged life that you haven’t been required to see why.

You have “just gotten” things throughout your life that others have had to fight for. And you now take it for granted that everyone has your same experience. Not everyone is so privileged because the people who operate the systems that benefit you, are taking far too much from others in order for you to have those privileges.

As soon as you start seeing the things that others are forced to do that you’ve never had to confront, then you will understand why everything is political. Then you will understand what a disservice you’re doing to your fellow man by not doing your part to ensure everyone else gets the privileges you already take for granted.

Well I’m not conservative. Fuck the conservatives

This is the first thing most conservatives say right before they start offering opinions on traditional gender roles, homophobia, transphobia, isolationism, nationalism, and a whole myriad of other things that tells us you need to read more broadly and stop listening to Joe Rogan.

You should try asking yourself how artists create art. Where did that art come from that you so badly want to disconnect from the artist’s mind that produced it? What ideas is the artist expressing that you’re choosing to ignore?

What ideas did the artist also hold that are the reason the rest of human society decided that this artists art did not need to persist?

For example - These are questions that anyone involved in anything “Lovecraftian” needs to answer for themselves.

Why are conservatives always so upset at the consequences of a free market?

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How about https://neocities.org/

You’re looking for https://bubbles.town/

There’s other curated directories popping up, too.

They’re not doing anything about it for the same reason you’re not doing anything about it.

Bias plus volume. Memes used to be hand-crafted. That takes time.

Now, there’s a dozen websites to auto-generate them by the thousands. Plus AI.

No man in the wrong can stand against a fellow thats right and keeps on a-comin’.
— Texas Ranger Bill McDonald

The Five Fingers by Gayle Rivers. Might be one of the goriest books I’ve ever read.

Slavery was abolished in the 19th century,

Cute that you think that. Try reading the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution sometime. You’ll find that the USA did not abolish slavery. We just institutionalized it into the penal system. Look up some of the jobs performed by the inmates of the Louisiana state correctional system and then tell me slavery has been abolished.

So, it’s totally cool with you if the kernel that those anti-AI distros runs is being developed with AI?

Seems like a weird line to draw to me. But whatever. Enjoy whatever distro that is, if you find it.

GNU/Hurd maybe?

You should stop using Linux altogether if you want to be that much of an anti-AI snob. Linus is using LLMs on the kernel.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/linus-torvalds-to-critics-of-ai-coding-in-linux-fork-it-or-just-walk-away/

This is likely less about Ukraine and more about November.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect.