WWII had a compulsory draft where it was already established by then that congress had the power to initiate a draft. It was also hashed out that it was a federal issue and not a state one.
Which we all know is hot garbage. The government quite literally says, your individual freedoms are not greater than our goal for the country. If you ask me, that sounds NO different than communism! But when you fight for uncle sam, it must mean "the greater good" is good, just because the "greater good" isn't commie red "greater good."
That is probably the one part of the article they really should've made more prominent. Yet they didn't. They hammered it home that videogames and young men not getting married and having 12 kids is the problem.
Maybe culturally getting married is incredibly more time consuming and difficult than it used to be? I mean I'm reading George Orwell's Burmese days and the main character was trying to propose (and the girl wanted him to) within 2 weeks of knowing eachother! Granted it's a book, but that doesn't sound outside the realms of normalcy, especially in Burma during the 1920's where there were like 1/1000 ratio of white person to native.
Abusive MEN in particular. Especially radical christians where divorce is stigmatized. It's like they take it as a free pass to just be hateful person. Honestly my dad more than anything made marriage seem worse than it could be that I figured if that's the worst case scenario, hoping for the best isn't even worth the gamble.
You know, it'd be nice if they'd look at the cultural aspects of gaming as opposed to just assuming all videogames are bad. It's like being in the 1920's criticizing someone spending time reading as opposed to working in a mill.
But what can you expect from a clearly biased news source that, while possibly not wrong, is likely not going to give any benefit of the doubt to people who live life differently from the "good 'ol christian boy" fashion.
First off, please don't take anything I'm saying out of context which is in terms of regular people that make enough to pay their bills. Lower income types struggle with these things so I wholly recognize they're in a different type of game.
However, this whole article sounds like some pretentious westerner who thinks because they opened their mind to some sort of zen meditation that their problem became easier to solve. Also this same person chants the praises of writing things down and decrys the usage of software because you can't meditate while typing in stuff. It's literally no different than writing something in your checkbook.
When you have multiple accounts at different financials, have a 401k, and other assets, paper management gets complicated and time consuming incredibly fast, especially if you entered something in wrong. Can you imagine adjusting a ledger for a whole year because you transposed a number? Sure reconciling the difference can fix it, but it's sloppy and isn't right. Software takes all the hard work out of it and turns it into very simply data entry. You can also back it up too.
Budgeting is a problem with the individual. People who inflate their worth with the things they have tend to blow their money away on the latest and greatest or on literally anything they want as soon as they can get it. These people don't adhere to those stupid questions this meditative system says your supposed to adhere to. These people don't associate spending money as a bad thing. It is an instinctive behavioral pattern and not something taught. How many people actually know how to read over loan docs and understand proper debt management? A lot of people know "Pay your bill" which, yes, is very easy. But how many people actually factor in their interest in the cost of the thing they buy? People ignore the incremental costs, and forget the total cost in the end.
Remember that the reason a large majority of the economy works is because of suckers like this. Impulsive people would rather buy something at a quoted low price than risk never having that sale again. They don't look for trends or remember the costs of things down the road. They also don't factor future costs for things they need like car repairs (which is why lots of people max their loan amount for a vehicle, only to end up not being able to repair it when a serious issue occurs).
Honestly in my life, I've just become incredibly apathetic to other peoples financial situation. The few people that actually do know a solid means of budgeting truly know the value of the dollar and time. They aren't perfect, but they learn from their mistakes. They forgo spending $5 on a cup of starbucks and instead opt for $5 of a can of folgers. Instead of Rolex, they get a Seiko. If they see a 50% off sale, they consider the final price, not the fact that it happens to be 50% off. Also impulse buying is a big one. Being able to deny yourself something long term is one I rarely ever see among people without money.
How about ban lawns in general? Their entire inception was devised because the bourgeoisie could flaunt the fact that they could afford to have land not be in use for food production.
Yet the apologists in my area of people who just chant the praises of lawn maintenance is just absurd. It's a complete waste of time. Get a better hobby ffs...
So what. Just because you send a retraction doesn't justify it or make the apology any better. That sounds like they allow some people too much freedom as if they ran this business in their parents garage.
Not sure if this has changed but I ditched noscript when I discovered it doesn't block inline script execution. These days I use Ublock Origin:
Settings -> check 'I am an advanced user'. You should now be able to block 1st party, third party and inline JS from executing and save on a per-site basis. Hope this helps someone!
Unfortunately there are too many sites that refuse to work without javascript, so any security benefits is negligible because it's very easy to be social engineered into enabling javascript.
You can get most to work by whitelisting one domain while keeping the cesspool of trackers off your computer. If it still doesn't work there are better things in life to spend time on than somebody's poorly constructed website.
This is what I do and I 100% agree about lazy people that aren't willing to make a halfway decent website. I'm not that old, but sometimes I just want a website with text. I don't need autoplaying videos with a billion slideshow images and shown how fantasmagical your company is.
I 100% agree about Sam Harris in particular. I really do enjoy listening to his podcast, but anytime I hear him discuss AI I want to shut him off. He's a neuroscientist/philosopher, not a programmer.
I mean it honestly grinds my gears that people even use the marketing term of "AI" today when what we have is not even close to the actual thing. Intelligence is something that can freely think and make decisions on it's own. A complicated algorithm that can interpret data to do something automatically is not AI. It is confined by the code that it is given and that it is programmed to write for itself. It cannot pause and think "We'll what if I wanted to do more than this? How would I write my own code to do that?"
> I 100% agree about Sam Harris in particular. I really do enjoy listening to his podcast, but anytime I hear him discuss AI I want to shut him off. He's a neuroscientist/philosopher, not a programmer.
Computers are getting better, sure but they are improving at a slower and slower rate. Moore's law has been dead for years now. Maybe the singularity is indeed coming, but what if instead of the typical 20-50 year predictions, it's instead 2000 years away. What if the 20th century's exponential curve was really just a blip in the long term, and we're headed into centuries of slow linear growth.
The likelihood of this happening is low, but far above zero. I'm amazed no one is talking about it.
Free will is something you have the power to act on, regardless of external influences. Just because the fear of punishment exists doesn't mean that a person cannot opt out.
It's the same thing as if an officer during war told you to retreat, however you still defy that order to rescue a fallen comrade in the presence of immediate danger.
Which we all know is hot garbage. The government quite literally says, your individual freedoms are not greater than our goal for the country. If you ask me, that sounds NO different than communism! But when you fight for uncle sam, it must mean "the greater good" is good, just because the "greater good" isn't commie red "greater good."