guscost

You are serving an evil cause. It will go down in history as such.

Hopefully you never find out how hard people fight when they know that they are fighting pure evil.

No true patriot, eh?

Nah, please delete my account. I should be putting energy into a community that isn’t dominated by fascists.

To the fascists: Get the fuck out of our business, and maybe we can coexist peacefully. Or don’t, and see what happens.

Please wake up before things turn violent. Your side is literally going to start a war in the name of “public health”, if this continues.

The point is that this only works when the truth is on your side. “They” are understood to be the dominant/incumbent forces, but the truth eventually wins.

1. They ignore you

2. They mock you

3. They fight you <- You are here

4. You win!

Even the word “coronavirus” sounds scary and exotic.

No. Here are your guerilla tactics:

http://www.jointhewhiterose.com/

Hiding will only grant legitimacy to tyrants.

In this case the flame is necessary, because these people are behaving like cowards, and many of them need to be slapped out of it.

Alright, mom! Sheesh!!

“CCP good”

Pathetic. If you’re going to stand up to the government, stand the fuck up! Don’t hide like a rat.

Here’s what I wrote in May 2020 (I underestimated both the seasonality, and the speed of mutations, at least): https://guscost.com/2020/05/12/pandemic-woo/

Yep, thanks.

Asking this question pretty much reveals what you’re going to recommend. Obviously, I’m looking for opinions about: “CCP good, or CCP bad?”

Eh, I don’t really care which username recommends things on the internet, I care about finding more sources to expand my understanding.

pphysch’s sources could very well be garbage, but I can decide that for myself.

I’ll add these to my sources, thanks.

Ok, do you have any recommendations for uh, China analysis YouTubers?

Thank you for the source.

I can’t help but wonder how badly the CCP is actually fighting to suppress this, though - I think I heard laowhy86 argue that they might allow it to consume the news cycle, to distract from something else.

Seeing this comment, and seeing e.g. CBS highlight the story, it really just seems fishy in general. Something is different - maybe we’re just in a new era, but who knows.

Love/stealing this, but adapting it to be:

Does the product generate the revenue for their paychecks, plus extra for the company?

You want to be comfortably generating/contributing more revenue than the expense of employing you.

bitcoin is a meme token for gambling on a fantasy about living in a cyberpunk dystopia.

Ok, thanks.

It’s a scary but essential truth to realise that normal software engineers like us are an integral part of society’s immune system against the enormous moral hazard of technology-hyped asset bubbles metastasizing into systemic risk.

This sure sounds like “a fantasy about living in a cyberpunk dystopia” too. Maybe the author should diversify a little into Bitcoin, and relax.

It’s a “people don’t like paranoid hypochondriac fascism” shock, and you know it.

You either misunderstood or ignored the point I was trying to make, and filled in some additional details about risk... to what end?

None of this is relevant to the conversation, unless your goal is to imply (without actually claiming) that the risk/reward is in fact robustly understood, and that the choices made by the out-group are indefensible?

You don’t fully understand the risks or benefits - nobody does. Where are you going with this?

We’re so far past good faith at this point, try to at least wake up to that fact. My good faith expired around week twelve of the original two weeks.

I didn’t start any of this shit, someone else is barging into my life and saying that I need to comply with paranoid hypochondriac fascism, or else.

I have tried arguing rationally with these folks, but this is one of the situations where the right strategy is simply: “No, fuck you too!”

The right response is not “no, your concerns are actually illegitimate.”

That direction only ends in war, because you will discover that I don’t care whether you agree with my choices, and I am 100% ready to die over them. Are you?

So at this point, we have now seen legitimate questions raised about both the benefits and the risks involved with this stuff.

I can still totally understand anyone who decides the risk is worth it for themselves or their understanding of “the greater good”, but forcing this choice on others is becoming less and less tenable of a position.

I will probably never care about “climate change solutions”, but I’m happy to support this campaign to rehabilitate nuclear power, because it is a very good idea.