So I've rewatched the Sopranos whole, the 6.5 seasons, and yeah, more than 15 years later, having watched all sorts of incredible pieces of TV (namely, The Wire, Breaking Bad...) I still get that empty hole in the pit of my stomach with that last scene. 😔
I have tried to watch four times since the weekend before last, and four times I've fallen asleep and had to restart episode two. Seems I can't get into it, even though I've been a great fan of Walton Goggins since forever.
I just reinstalled the game instead.
The state of pc gaming is that here I am, 9 years later, reinstalling Fallout 4.
That is literally less than what a team of five or six software engineers makes in any decent US based company.
The propaganda surrounding eugenics is one of the big indicators that along the years led me to the conclusion I've exposed here so many times already.
Namely, that WW2 was a war between two blocks of similar Corporatist State regimes (one colonial - UK/France and their satellites - vs one aspiring to be colonial - Germany/Italy and their satellites like Spain, etc). Of course with the ideologically older and more unsophisticated Soviets as guest stars.
Not only eugenics, as in mass campaigns of social-medical intervention mandated by the State and para-State organizations, did not originate in nazi Germany, but the nazis openly referenced the US and the UK as their inspiration.
Eugenics are inherent to Statist ideologies, regardless of the label they choose for themselves. As with all the other symptoms of Corporatism, currently in the West we just don't call ourselves fascist or recognize that we are pro-eugenics.
But sure as fuck our Dear Leaders act as such in both cases.
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"but what we think is the killer feature isn't right now"
Satoshi thought he had devised the ultimate electronic cash, and it turned out to be the ultime electronic gold. These things happen.
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This is what I keep saying the US military doctrine has been ever since 1945.
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You have to love sheeple and the legacy idiots dumping BTC like rabbits jumping in fear, just because Iran, Israel and the US agree to DE-ESCALATE.
More sats for me, yum!
If we constrain the conversation to tech specifically, it's quite obvious that we're far behind not only where people thought we'd be by now not so long ago, but of the real potential of our current existing knowledge. I blame the State.
There was this legacy media and finance idiot on tv bumbling on about how we live in the best world possible and how people do not appreciate all that the system "does for us", and that people 50 years ago couldn't imagine that in 2024 we'd be living in this hi-tech world of wonder.
Where are my flying skateboards, motherfucker?
I was sitting at the theater watching it the other day and I couldn't help but wonder, do people who haven't read the books actually get 10% of what's going on? There is close to zero explanation of anything.
Forgot to add - I also reject completely your claim that science leads to nihilism. If anything, it looks like people who feel a need for some mysterious, supernatural (?) "purpose" are easy prey for nihilism. That's why such people must have unquestioned belief in unproven and unprovable things. I'm perfectly fine with questions and enjoying the most probable explanation: that there is no "purpose" to the universe, that the universe simply is, and that How does it work?" is a valid, productive question that leads to our betterment, unlike "To what purpose?", which only leads to unprovable, unproductive false answers.
No one was scolding you...
You're not supposed to "believe" anything. You can learn physics from zero and follow the full reasoning to the several competing theories that try to explain the functioning of the universe. What you're supposed to do with them is question them, test them and try to invalidate them and come up with a more precise theory. The exact opposite of what you're saying. Don't trust, verify.
I reject the premise: the "question" isn't begged at all. I have never once felt the need to ask what is our "purpose".
Or rather, the "purpose" of our species is exactly the same as the "purpose" of any other form of matter generalçy speaking, and of living organisms if you want to be more specific. There is no special "purpose" beyond the inevitable unfolding of the laws of physics, including those that apply to the self-replicating chemical compounds that constitute "life".
My guests don't do it because I simply do not allow it.
It's fucking disgusting, they will even walk into the toilet and bathroom like that, on carpets and mats, regardless. Not exclusively an American problem though - in Spain it's the same.
I've never seen it anywhere. But I'm guessing if there is a major city im the world where you can find a community -- of ANYTHING -- that's Tokyo. Japanese people love having hobbies, projects, and specific lifestyles to which they devote themselves fully and that become a big part of their identity. I bet you can find a strong bitcoin subculture if you want.