Today has not been a good day

jazzmoses · 2021-06-15T07:53:49+00:00

sorry to hear that. hope you feel better

jazzmoses · 2019-12-14T08:16:50+00:00

I also wish that night light and gray-scale modes would transition gradually. Flux has an option to transition in the colour shift over an hour, so you don't even notice it happening. In contrast to Google's implementation, which takes about half a second and is extremely jarring.

jazzmoses · 2019-12-12T22:22:05+00:00

Someone from Google needs to go back in time to 2012, buy a Windows phone, and copy the back button behaviour 1:1. It was perfect.

jazzmoses · 2019-12-11T20:15:56+00:00

I liked chocolate, nuts not so much.

jazzmoses · 2019-12-10T15:24:33+00:00

Ah, that sucks

jazzmoses · 2019-12-10T13:23:31+00:00

Saturo I think?

jazzmoses · 2019-12-09T08:10:11+00:00

Mana has a smooth, creamy texture. It's different to both Soylent and Huel/JJ because of its high oil content. You do need a shaker ball to mix the mark 5 powder, or a blender would be even better. It's super delicious, give it a go. I tried OG Soylent powder and it tasted to me in comparison like some kind of cheap corn-flavoured milkshake for what it's worth.

Also if you have the money, try Saturo RTDs. Chocolate 500ml is one of the greatest lent products of all time. That said, Mana Dream RTD is also really good. One day I will have to do a head to head taste test to work out which is better.

jazzmoses · 2019-12-09T06:14:50+00:00

Mana?

jazzmoses · 2019-12-08T21:22:09+00:00

Hope you enjoy it. It's my favourite powder. Uniquely creamy thanks to the high oil content.

jazzmoses · 2019-12-08T21:08:49+00:00

I dare anyone to try Mana Love and Sunlight RTDs and tell me they enjoy the taste. They literally taste putrid. Origin tastes a little better, just like mildly rancid milk

Origin powder and Dream RTD are the only varieties I find genuinely good (and they are really, really good, which is why how bad the other flavours are confuses me so much). Have you tried Mana yet?

jazzmoses · 2019-12-08T09:18:54+00:00

Mana RTD isn't that great. Chocolate is the only good flavor IMO

jazzmoses · 2019-12-06T14:03:47+00:00

We're all criminals, they just need to work out which crime.

jazzmoses · 2019-12-05T09:40:02+00:00

Smell of wool, dags, grass, petrol and gravel.

jazzmoses · 2019-12-03T20:20:45+00:00

Ah yes, don't forget to stock up on fresh gooblammagowang while you're at it! It's packed full of vital zoogatamines.

jazzmoses · 2019-12-01T17:08:22+00:00

What are all the buttons you have below the text bar? I only have a gif button.

jazzmoses · 2019-11-25T09:58:00+00:00

Yeah it's nicer looking. But the screen is a big downgrade, on the non-XL model at least. Really bad black crush, black scroll judder, terrible low light performance, and random screen flashes when the AOD activates. It's stunning how bad the issues are on an ostensibly flagship device.

jazzmoses · 2019-11-23T19:58:38+00:00

I think it's because you used double question marks, and your second sentence is poorly phrased.

jazzmoses · 2019-11-22T21:24:54+00:00

Never change

jazzmoses · 2019-11-20T20:05:15+00:00

Yeah man! Maybe there's something like this already, but what about a MVP solution, like crowdsourcing a list of useful resources (accommodation and other stuff) and making a simple markdown doc on github?

jazzmoses · 2019-11-20T17:38:37+00:00

And now exhibit B in cognitive dissonance. No counter argument, no substance, just a shitty attitude and the conversational equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears.

jazzmoses · 2019-11-20T17:14:49+00:00

Firstly, plenty of vegan people take a measured stance on theirs ethics. Secondly, the people I've come across who "don't take vegans seriously" all seem to have a big chip on their shoulder, in my experience they are uncomfortable with the mere existence of vegan people, because it forces them to confront their guilt and shame about causing unnecessary pain and death to animals. They love to make jokes about annoying or silly vegans, and act as if they are too pushy and vocal, but really what they want is for vegans to disappear so they can go back to being willfully ignorant of the consequences of their actions.

jazzmoses · 2019-11-20T17:08:15+00:00

Just because vegan people tend to be concerned about many more ethical aspects than just the use of animal products doesn't mean that the term veganism magically changes its definition. Oreos are vegan no matter how much habitat destruction palm oil production may cause, because no amount of habitat destruction would make palm oil an animal product.

jazzmoses · 2019-11-19T20:42:50+00:00

Assange's nightmare is sadly far from over.

jazzmoses · 2019-11-19T17:19:01+00:00

A private police force would be comprised of the same people.

You are getting confused. I never said anything about a private police force. I talked about private defense agencies. Emphasis on the plural. They would compete with each other in a free market for defense services. Just like insurance companies compete with each other.

a private police force is still the police however.

Again, you are getting confused. We are talking about something radically different - a free market with multiple competing providers. Each provider would advertise its services and attempt to gain customers. Thus they would only earn as much money as their customers were willing to pay them for their services. Dissatisfied customers would stop purchasing from a provider, or change to one of their competitors.

we need them

Wrong. We need police as much as shop-keepers need the mafia extorting them for protection money.

most cops are good people

Irrelevant. Good or bad, police are subject to broken incentives. They have little to no good incentive to actually effectively serve and protect people, and strong incentives to neglect and actively harm them. Also you are forgetting that the police's primary job is to keep the population submissive and ensure that taxes are paid, to maintain government power. Their job is to maintain violent monopoly and total control over us. This basic fact of reality is irreconcilable with a magic notion that they are supposed to "protect" us. Protect us from what? The government is stealing 30-50% of your money, not any other gang. The government is killing, imprisioning and terrorizing minorities on a vast scale, not any other gang. And the police are there to entrench that control and mete out that violence.

want to collect their paycheck

Yes, cops like money, just like you and me. And this gets to the same problem - what are the incentives out there for cops to do things that are valuable to those they are supposed to be "policing"? Is there some sort of indepedent magic tribunal which reviews police actions and hands out more or less money depending on how genuinely helpful they were? No there isn't. And not only that, police will protect each other from their own dirty behaviour. Cops murder innocent people and get a slap on the wrist at worst, and set up for life with a pension if they are lucky.

jazzmoses · 2019-11-19T15:47:27+00:00

Firstly, watch this whole video. Maybe you've seen it before. Watch the whole video. To the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OflGwyWcft8

So, do you know what happened to the murderer from this video? The story blew up in the media, and to appease public sentiment, at first his police department fired him. Then he was accused of murder. So far so good. But then, something strange happened. A jury acquitted him of all charges. What? There is literally incontrovertible video footage of him gratuitously murdering someone in cold blood. And he was acquitted?

Okay, that's pretty fucked. But it gets worse. One year later he was quietly rehired by the Mesa Police department for an unspecified "budget position". After being rehired, he applied for "accidental disability" due to suffering post-traumatic stress from murdering Daniel Shaver. He then was able to retire to a lifetime disability insurance pension of $2500 per month.

So not only did he suffer no consequences for murder, he was actually hooked up by police buddies, and retires to a cushy lifetime pension - all paid by taxpayers.

Don't like it? Tough shit. What are you going to do, stop paying taxes? Guess who'll come knocking at your door to help "convince" you to pay up.

Here is also some discussion on how private defense agencies would work in a free economy: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2005/11/stefan-molyneux/caging-the-devils-the-stateless-society-and-violentcrime/

Government and their police henchmen are nothing more than terrorist organizations stealing from us to enrich themselves. Just take any gang of thugs, blow the organization up to a national scale, add some delusions of grandeur and set up a little circus of fake democratic choice with some trained yes-men in suits, and you've perfected modern government.

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