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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • A fallacy matters if it’s central to proving the argument, otherwise it probably doesn’t. Eg Bringing up an anecdote, or a subjective experience as a way of illustrating a point could be said to be fallacious, but is not, if the argument is well supported enough that would stand without it.

    I just had an argument where I ended my point with the words “this is a pure could have been:” and added a very likely scenario that may well could have come to pass it some events were different. Obviously it was speculation and not central to the previous argument, but in my estimation likely.

    Then other person instead of responding to actual points took the last part and accused me of should’a, would’a, could’a.

    Dude, yes! But not the point, also I was the one that pointed it out. The type of person that would explain to a comedian their own joke.





  • But it’s not about the size of the government, or the bureaucracy, it’s about whether anyone can have dictatorial power over life, death, freedom etc of others without any check on the legality of their orders.

    The separation and co-equal branches of the 3 arms of government is bedrock. The government and bureaucracy can be huge or tiny without relevance to this.

    I understand the appeal of being unshackled by other people’s opinions and interests.

    I just don’t know how they reconcile their notional “conservatism” (they is conserving the traditions) with dismantling the actual tradition.




  • The focus mode ui is another bugbear - how scattered the ui is for this.

    I can alter it from the bottom middle of the notification shade once set, but I can’t enable it from there - why?

    At least put a line with date and time at the bottom of the notification shade so I don’t have to roll it all the way down.

    Also, I’ve set triple back tap to turn on the flash… well, it only works (inconsistently) when the phone is unlocked. Why?




  • I think a possibility is a series of open source anvil or nixos scripts that you can run on most hardware with minimal changes, in an extendable architecture of some kind to add or remove functionality and they perhaps get maintained by the community or some structure of the kind of Linux distributions.

    This could enable people with minimal skills set up and maintain a reasonably useful but secure environment just by changing a few variables.