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If my relatives want to talk to me, they can pick up the phone.

try to reduce stress

Ok, well.

Fine, but I don’t want the smart features to be installed at all in the first place.

I don’t want a WiFi antenna or Ethernet port in there.

I know that sounds ridiculous, since I can “simply not use them,” but I want to spend my money on an appliance, not a consumer data collection tool.

I don’t want them to have any of my data, and I don’t want to spend money “voting” with my dollar for these data collection devices.

Some of these devices have even been known to look for other similar devices within WiFi range, and phone home that way (i.e., send analytics data via a neighbor’s connected TV as a proxy).

Fuuuck that. I don’t want my dollar supporting this, at all, plain and simple. And I don’t want to pay a premium for the privilege of buying a technically simpler device. I do, but it’s bullshit, and I’m unhappy about it.

I don’t care about 8k.

I just want an affordable dumb TV. No on-board apps whatsoever. No smart anything. No Ethernet port, no WiFi. I have my own stuff to plug into HDMI already.

I’m aware of commercial displays. It just sucks that I have to pay way more to have fewer features now.

¿Por qué no los dos?

Time to unionize

Linux phones I guess. I really don’t know.

Honestly, I don’t know why they couldn’t have two logos - the classic, more complex one for the signage and menus ‘n such, and the simpler one for digital media, letterhead, branded clothing, and whatnot.

Anyway, I also don’t give a shit, so.

Sounds like archonic propaganda to me. All my man did is teach mankind the arts of metallurgy, making of bracelets, the use of antimony, the use of eyeliner, the working of fancy stones, and coloring tinctures.

Also, fun fact: Azazel was also called the scapegoat in Leviticus IIRC. So of course it’s highly likely he was defamed and besmirched. It’s right there in the title he was given.

More of the same “knowledge is bad” narrative we find throughout the Pentateuch. Also, in the Book of Enoch, the “just and merciful” God has him bound and cast into darkness forever, even after he apologizes and begs for forgiveness! Sounds like harsh, cruel tyranny to me, not justice.

His big crime? Teaching people stuff.

Perhaps the snake in the garden of Eden was right, and Lucifer (the light-bringer) was the snake who was spilling the beans, and Christ Jesus is Lucifer, come incarnate on earth as a man to free us from this prison planet built by Yaldabaoth, the demiurge calling himself “God” (while demanding subservience, blood sacrifice, and keeping humanity small, fearful, and ignorant), and monitored by the jail-warden archons working to keep us all trapped in here. Which is an interpretation that makes sense if one discounts the Pauline writings and includes the Gnostic ones (Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Mary, Gospel of Judas, and so on).

Maybe the god of the Old Testament is a fascist fraud who rules by fear, cruelty, and human ignorance. No Tree of Knowledge for you! Destroy the Tower of Babel, lest “they become like us.” And maybe Jesus / Lucifer / Prometheus represents liberation and enlightenment. Neo, who knows the Truth and can have us unplugged from the Matrix, if we’re ready for it.

If one believes in any of this sort of thing beyond myth and metaphor, that is.

Thiel has long been fascinated with political theorist Carl Schmitt’s ideas about “political theology”—the notion that all significant political concepts are secularized theological concepts.

No wonder I’ve related better to Gnosticism than mainstream Pauline Christianity.

To hell with any tyrant says that knowledge is bad, and has an unquenchable narcissistic need for constant praise and worship. And hail Azazel.

I swear to god, there are people who want these meetings to last longer (and they purposely wait until near the end of the meeting in order to try and drag it out), and for the life of me I don’t understand it!

We didn’t see this one coming a mile away.

Palantir execs and shareholders are buzzing with anticipation.

How very “libertarian” and “small government” of him.

It’s time to abandon the internet and build a new one from scratch.

Pour Mountain Dew through a fresh Brita filter and watch what happens.

Like, don’t tell them your lemmy username?

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How does this work, and how is it legal?

I hate everything about this. Because it’s probably spot on.

So, what is to be done about authoritarians?

What are those of us who simply want to live free and be left alone (and leave others alone, if they’d only tend to their own business) to do?

Maybe the answer really is guillotines idk. The paradox of protecting liberalism with illiberal means and all that.

It must be such a radically different mindset to live in. Like, I can’t imagine ever feeling enthusiastic about enforced hierarchies and monarchy.

Social mobility feels the most liberating, and social constraints the most confining. How can anyone feel differently? I genuinely do not understand.

Weren’t we supposed to be in suppprt of free markets? Aren’t those supposed to empower people to make deals with other people on their own terms, create value, compete, and prosper? Enforced hierarchy and oligarchy feels like not at all that.

It must be control-freakery which, again, I cannot relate to at all.