xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

The Covid-19 pandemic should teach Americans to never defer to “experts” who promise that granting them boundless power will keep everyone else safe.

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For years and years, I've been searching for a rare Canadian computer game - and I finally found it. Really excited to get to share Crosscountry BC.

If you grew up here there's a good chance you played Crosscountry Canada at school. This is the local BC version, made just for local schools, and tracking it down was *really* hard.

https://cdrom.ca/games/cancon/2025/03/18/crosscountry-bc.html

I got my hands on a Sharp Keitai 4 and for the next month I'll be using it as my daily driver, as an experiment.
No touchscreens, no Google services, no doomscrolling, just me rawdogging a (badly translated) Android 10.

Would you be interested in a blogpost summarizing my experiences afterwards?

@lispi314 @adiz @pup thats the insidious part about it. they have rendered themselves incapable of understanding what they are doing.

people try to explain it to them and they do not acknowledge that they are doing it and then proceeding to defend it. it is simply spacing through the empty void in their heads.

@lispi314 @adiz @pup

> Untold evil in the pursuit of a good is /by virtue of its consequences/ evil (regardless of the original intent, the consequences are the point), particularly when the net outcome is vastly increased amounts of suffering rather than any amount one might consider "equivalent or lesser".

consequentialist and utilitarians do not have virtues. they have a calculus of world state and whether one world state is better than another.

in increasing degrees of brainrot extremism, they do not consider "people i don't like" to be "people," so that calculus assigns suffering to negligible. it is only evil if the world state score decreases and i can just classify people i don't like as furniture.

which, is what historical communist extremists have done (lenin, stalin.)

> Only the impractical fools.
well, that's who runs things now (cf. nixos, python, opensuse, opendesktop, fedora)

@lispi314 @adiz @pup
> How does that have anything to do with making technology into malware that abuses the user?

its fundamentally an issue of virtue ethics vs consequential ethics.

the virtue ethicist says that imposing decisions on the server admin is unvirtuous, so even if the intent is well intentioned the action is impermissible.

the consequential ethicist is not concerned. nazis bad, so anything that imposes that belief on others is good. killing an unlimited number of orphans is good if it results in one nazi dying.

my main issue with that crowd is they don't even have the presence of character to acknowledge they are naked consequentialists. if you read the tickets, the dev actively sidesteps and denies that they are making decisions for people at all and has an unlimited supply of copes that "we're not doing anything, we're just hurting nazis" as though the means they are intending to do so psychologically don't exist at all.

the everything is political crowd tends to oxidize people that want to just make tools (because the tool isn't being designed specifically to *their* own ends.) they also tend to be completely blind and unwilling to acknowledge what they are.

since one of my deepist maxisms is to always know what you are, this doesn't work well for me

@adiz @pup i mean i fundamentally agree that technology exists for the user. unfortunately the "everything is political" crowd has generally won the culture war.

@pup I'm using FunkWhale to record and stream DJ sets of local artists in Shanghai. My company says they might fork FunkWhale to remove this hard-coded crap because it's such an insult and slap in the face that developers would dictate upon the users how the software ought be used---what music you ought be able to listen to or share. It's the principle of the matter. @icedquinn