Isn’t that the red one? At least there’s no excuse for not being able to find it.

They’re about training children to comform and obbey arbitrary rules created by people in position of authority and to value impression more than behaviour.

Of the countries I lived in, Britain was the one that had most of this shit and was also the one with the strongest “know your place” and “keep up appearences” mindsets of them all, especially amongst the middle and upper classes which were the ones were this shit was more common (there was a time of working class cultural significance during the 70s and 80s, which were a veritable explosion of creativity with movements like “punk”, but the social mobility and freedom that created it were crushed in the meanwhile, so working class kids can’t make it in the Arts anymore and that whole class is back at being culturally irrelevant outside fighting each other after football games).

Yeah, that’s another layer of the joke: tech bros trying to shove AI were there is already a working solution in place which is more reliable.

Surely we should have AI pilots by now.

It would make all flights much faster…

The idea of “both-siderism” is anchored on 2D politics: you can’t have “both-siderism” where there are more than 2 sides, hence my point about viewing politics as 2D.

You’re living inside a box and only seeing what’s in that box, hence hyper-aware of the difference between those because they’re all that you know, whilst I’m outside the box and pointing out that compared to the rest of the Universe what’s inside that box you live in isn’t actually very different.

It’s like I’m talking about “the landscapes of the World” with an Eskimo - you keep insisting that “this icy landscape is very different from that icy landscape” (which I’m sure they are in the eyes of a person who has only ever known those landscapes and nothing else) even whilst I point out that they’re both icy landscapes and thus very similar to each other when compared to other kinds of landscapes that do exist in the rest of the World, such as sandy beaches or tropical forests.

Worse, your persistence in closing your eyes to the point I’ve made repeatedly that there are more sides than just two, leaves me with the feeling that I’m talking to a particularly provincial and simple minded Eskimo who thinks that those differences they’re so hyper-aware off between different kinds of icy landscapes are far more important differences that the vastly larger differences between those and the rest of the landscapes that actually exist outside the place they live in.

Exactly.

For the Fascists, the ones they see as lesser are pretty much sub-human and to be treated as vermin, and they have no more empathy for the younger “vermin” than they have for the adult “vermin”.

Just look at Nazi Germany and Zionist Israel for very obvious examples of how for these people the children of the “lesser” races aren’t really human and get targetted same as all the other members of the ethnicities they literally call “vermin”.

If these people were both capable of empathy and unable to block their empathy on a per-ethnicity basis, they wouldn’t be Fascists.

Funnilly enough plenty (if not most) games which won’t at all run in a more recent Windows like Windows 10 and Windows 11 run just fine in Linux via Wine.

All in all if we consider the full or near full timeframe for “windows games” (say, all the way back to Win95) I wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out that a present day Linux distro can run more “windows games” as Windows 11.

One of the more entertaining (though hardly unexpected) discoveries for me when I moved from Windows to Linux on my gaming machine was that several of the games I owned which I could not get to run in Windows, worked fine in Linux.

You own post:

This bothsiderism is pretty thoughtless.

Your post starts with a sloganeering, hyper-reductive take of what I wrote.

As I wrote in response, “This is Politics, it’s not 1D or 2D”!

It is true that both contribute to a surveillance state but to equate both is to just ignore all policy differences, actions and more to pretend to be nuanced while painting everything as the same shade of grey, which is a downgrade to even black and white thinking.

In case you’re unware of it, two forests can be the same kind of forest even when the trees in each are different: demanding for others to focus on the details of the trees in each (otherwise they’re “painting everything as the same shade of grey”) is just a way to try to avoid that people look at the forest as a whole.

That said, you’re right. The details are different and I didn’t address that in my original post were I only talked about the main policy direction on these domains.

The broad policy direction on this subject is the same and the outcomes have been very similar and over time progressed in the same direction during the time in power of both parties, but things worsened in different domains at different speeds with different parties in power.

This is not even what many Americans call “the ratchet effect”, it’s actually worse because in this case it’s not one pushing in a certain direction and the other refusing to revert it, it’s actually both pushing in the same direction, with just some difference in details here and there which didn’t add up to much difference in outcomes.

So yeah, my point stands that in this domain both US parties are shit and my second point also stands that you’re trying to move the conversation away from criticizing parties for doing this shit by claiming that subtle differences in each party’s shit are more important that the overall shitty nature of their actions in this.

This is Politics, it’s not 1D or 2D, it’s N-Dimensional (with a very, very large N): it’s not just possible but pretty much a Mathematical certainty than in a country were there are only 2 parties they will match perfectly on some dimensions, even whilst not at all matching in others.

Trying to dismiss away that aspect of Reality (which is incoveninent for tribalists) with sloganeering like “bothsiderism” is just parroting propaganda meant for simpletons who see reality as having just one dimension where there is nothing more than 2 sides.

It’s pretty evident by their actual policies that strengthenning of police powers and the surveillance state are things in which both sides of the power duopoly in the US agree in the most, and it the face of both of those parties being shit on that domain your “yeah, but <tiny difference>” discourse is really just trying to distract away from the most nasty aspects of both of those taking big fat dumps on the face of every American, by talking about subtle details in the shape and consistency of each one’s shit.

Now, if you favorite party did start to diverge in that, you would have reason to celebrate, but it ain’t hapenning and discourse such as yours makes it even harder that it will ever happen - why would the tribe’s leadership change their ways when there’s a veritable army of tribalist peons going “yeah, but, bothsiderism” at any criticism of what they do, even those parts which are undeniably shit.

In case you haven’t noticed, the system in place now in the US became what it is today under both Republican and Democrat Administrations.

One has to be a tribalist useful idiot to deny that “their side” has done as much to create a Surveillance State as the “other” side - amongst those few things which have bipartisan support in the US are strengthening of police powers and erosion of privacy.

The comparison with most of Europe (with notable exceptions such as Britain and Russia) is very telling: it absolutely is possible to have low crime without reckless invasion of privacy, widespread civil society surveillance, draconian police powers and a pay-to-play Judicial System.

Also the fraction of Israelis who descend from Holocaust survivors is minuscule since the origin of the vast majority of those who immigrated to Israel is Russia.

Unlike the image they try and push with things like their “Western Values” talk, Western Europe and North America are the origin of only a small fraction of Israelis.

You can see the numbers here

In Israel the Holocaust is little more than a tool for nationalistic propaganda.

In my experience AAA games from around 2000s and early 2010s often have problems running in Linux, especially if they have DRM.

In some cases a pirated version will run just fine whilst the official one won’t.

It has been my general experience over the years that with just about all electronics devices with “everything and the kitchen sink” in them, you’re actually better off buying functional elements separatelly as discrete devices.

For example, you’re better of with a “dumb” fridge plus a good tablet and something to hang it on the fridge door. Another example is how a “dumb” TV and a TV Media Box separatelly are a better choice than a Smart TV.

This is because those things usually have different technology life-cycles (i.e. the time period were a tablet is expected to remain useful and performant is much less than for a fridge) and some parts are useful on their own and hence are more flexible to use if they’re separate (i.e. a standalone tablet has many more uses than one integrated in a Smart Fridge).

It’s a way of showing one’s wealth (and peak dunnig-krugger status when it comes to technology) to visits?!

An alarm that beeps when the door is left open more than X minutes (say, 5 minutes) only requires a stupidly simple circuit and about $5 in parts.

No smarts needed (though it’s probably cheaper to make it with a microcontroller than have the timer circuit be done with discrete parts).

Receives a letter at home from Panasonic containing a message, a color printed sheet and a fridge magnet.

Message reads: “Dear costumer, please use enclosed fridge magnet to hang provided advert sheet on your Panasonic refrigerator”

Por que no los dos?

Which specific ethnicities are deemed untermenschen and which are deemed ubermenschen isn’t what determines or not if somebody has a Nazi mindset. The ethnicities deemed to be in those categories are only important when talking about historically very specific groups of people with a Nazi mindset.

As the Press keeps pushing (and pretty obviously so in the coveraged of the Gaza Genocide) If it’s done under the aegis of a State it’s all “the authorities” doing everything proper and legal, if it’s not then it’s a “group” and whatever they do is illegal and bad, even if morally both do the same thing.

It’s all part of the standard messaging in our societies to obey unquestioningly authority and treat the Law as if it’s some kind of holy perfect thing brought down from the Heaves rather than the product of lobbying, horse trading and even corruption.

The correct reaction against a bully (especially one who, again and again, uses the very same threats that got him compliance before and only ever those) is exactly to double down on the thing the bully does not want.