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QuentinCallaghan

@ QuentinCallaghan @sopuli.xyz

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Finnish guy

Founder and admin of sopuli.xyz

Mastodon: Rynach@mstdn.io

Matrix: @rynach:matrix.org

  • What is your opinion on Libertarianism?

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  • I don't think libertarianism works, it relies naively on how the free market is omnipotent, how freedom is everything and how having a small government is somehow good. There are no countries that are entirely libertarian, that also tells a lot about the ideology's applicability in practice. A brilliant book about why libertarianism doesn't work is a book "A Libertarian Walks into a Bear". In the book, a group of libertarians decides to take over the small town of Grafton in New Hampshire en masse as part of their "Free Town Project". Of course this group cares neither about the town's original inhabitants nor their rights. What's the result? They hollow out pretty much everything from the library, to the school, the fire department and the police. No regard is given to any laws on hunting or food disposal, and that lures in bears, who turn so aggressive that they invade people's homes. In addition to bears, sex offenders and all kinds of criminals are also lured into Grafton. It's pretty entertaining book, I recommend it.

    Another reason why I dislike libertarianism is that it can function as a gateway to fascism. This is a known phenomenon. Several key figures in the alt-right for example used to be libertarians. I stumbled into a clip from some American Libertarian Party convention where Richard Spencer was with Ron Paul. I had to rub my eyes a bit.

  • Crocs has teamed up with Xbox to release a pair of shoes designed to look like Xbox controllers, buttons and all

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  • No, that's reserved for Nintendo's upcoming Crocs collaboration, the Joy-Con Crocs!

  • Malaysia says it will ban social media for under-16s from next year

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  • Similar discussion is happening also here in Finland. However, if something is to be banned from kids, it has to be clearly defined. What is considered "social media"? Is it platforms like Facebook, Instagram or Snapchat? Does it include messaging apps like WhatsApp or Signal? Most of this discourse is also based on works of Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff and Jennifer Twente, all of which have received a fair share of criticism. There is also a considerable amount of a classic moral panic sprinkled in.

    Alice Marwick, an academic that has extensively studied kids, technology and social media, was on Taylor Lorenz's podcast earlier this year. Her organization published a report, where the following is stated:

    We strongly believe that reform of social platforms and regulation of technology is needed. We need comprehensive privacy legislation, limits on data collection, interoperability, more granular individual and parental guidance tools, and advertising regulation, among other changes. Offline, young people need spaces to socialize without adults, better mental health care, and funding for parks, libraries, and extracurriculars. But rather than focusing on such solutions, KOSA and similar state bills empower parents rather than young people, do little to curb the worst abuses of technology corporations, and enable an expansion of the rhetoric that is currently used to ban books, eliminate diversity efforts in education, and limit gender affirming and reproductive care. They will eliminate important sources of information for vulnerable teenagers and wipe out anonymity on the social web. While we recognize the regulatory impulse, the forms of child safety legislation currently circulating will not solve the problems they claim to remedy.

    Dr. Candice Odgers is also a vocal critic of Haidt, accusing him of cherry picking with a pre-made agenda in mind:

    The cross-country comparisons, you know, they’re they’re often a starting point to see whether there might be something interesting correlationally going on, but it’s a very slippery place to start and I think you know, unless you start with the pretty clear hypothesis about what should explain those differences, if you’re just looking at trend lines and then going backwards and starting to fill in an explanation, it’s hard to follow where it goes and whether or not we’re just fitting these lines to our existing theories, but I’ll leave it.

  • Crocs has teamed up with Xbox to release a pair of shoes designed to look like Xbox controllers, buttons and all

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  • How about having exclusive games and actual effort in competing in the console market?

  • Mega Man 1 - 3D Movie Maker [13:47]

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  • This is surely a work of art that makes Hitchcock roll in his grave.

  • So next time you see a rat remember they paid for sex in their previous life.

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  • More sexual... become Cockroach

    This is hysterical.

  • Mega Man 1 - 3D Movie Maker [13:47]

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  • I vaguely remember that software from the 90s. It's open source now, and it's interesting to see how the 3DMM community will shape it. Support for Vulkan, mode modern rendering features and 60 FPS would be great.

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    Will lemmy add live stream feature so that i can stream football cup for free for everyone? And thus this platform will grow more?

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  • This is a message board platform, period.

  • New Castro Bar Rikki's to Host Lesbian Pie-Eating Contest

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  • Somehow Howard Stern's radio show and "Son of the Beach" came to my mind.

  • ARCH ENEMY Parts Ways With Singer ALISSA WHITE-GLUZ

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  • Interesting to know, I'm not familiar with that band.

  • Game library

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  • And on Switch this happens every time I play Super Smash Bros Ultimate.

  • ‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response

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  • A similar inquiry should be done in Finland, here all the restrictions were dropped during Spring 2022. At least one association of entrepreneurs has wanted an inquiry to be done so that they would have tools to prepare for a possible next pandemic.

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    Jeffrey Epstein had a tiny, ‘extremely deformed’ penis shaped like a lemon: victim

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  • So did he have lemon parties?

  • Another Day, Another Banger

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  • Do you think Trump will fall because of the new Epstein emails?

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  • Let's not get excited too early!

  • Valve Reveals New Hardware Lineup: A Controller, Compact Gaming PC, and VR-Ready Headset

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  • At last, there were lots of rumours! Plus that controller looks like it has a face.

  • Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November 9th

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  • Dang it, I mean Ninja Gaiden Sigma, the original from 2004 was for Xbox only. I have the Master Collection.

  • Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November 9th

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  • I have been going down the rabbit hole of overclocking and undervolting Nintendo Switch. So the games I have been playing are Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Ninja Gaiden (2004). Thanks to overclocking, the former runs at stable 40 FPS, the latter of course doesn't need any.

  • US tech firm Nvidia invests $1bn in Nokia, with sights on next-gen networks for AI

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  • In the 2000s, Nokia was full of hybris and ignored many trends, such as the iPhone, and things started to go downhill quickly after it switched to Windows Phone in 2011. Had it acted differently, it would have been successful in the phone industry. However, Nokia's network business has been quite successful, and the dispute with Huawei that you mentioned has increased its popularity. In that sense, the Nvidia deal is a logical continuation.