Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "ReasonTV"
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Eating breakfast is key for me to get to sleep at night. I tend to skip it, coffee-up, and not eat until much later. I'm GONNA get my calories in a day, and if I don't have them by bed-time, then I'm eating a huge bowl of cereal or something sweet, when my day should be winding down. I eat late, and then I have a hard time getting to sleep, which makes me really tired the next morning, craving COFFEE, and I'm caught in that loop.
For me, I just need to "gut it out" and EAT something in the morning. Then I'm really hungry at lunch and really hungry after work, and I'm ready to go to bed at a reasonable hour. Coffee is my nemesis. But I LOVE IT! sigh
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@ailanifeather2320 Imagine the Westward Expansion if we had had to NEGOTIATE with the native people... I try to. It would've been slower.
But the mass invasion from Europe was pretty inevitable. The settlers were coming. Much of what our government did was just scramble to protect the settlers who were going to march West, no matter what the government did.
Back in those days, people made no bones about taking any land they could, by force, natives and Europeans alike. The lands were ruled by warrior societies before the white man came, and the white men, with their firearms, were all citizen-soldiers, themselves.
Go back a millenium (-plus) and it's Saxons committing genocide on Britons. Until the "Modern Era," the world map was a pure expression of who could hold what, by force. It still pretty much is that, although in the 20th Century, we tried to change that, with the failed League of Nations and the currently failing United Nations.
With the exception of the Westward Expansion of the USA and the conquering of Australia, there isn't a single nation that doesn't look on its imperial beginnings with great fondness and pride.
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Far out. Brilliant stuff. Sounds like he can get some nice functionality, at some level, with spin-offs for the physically handicapped and visually impaired, maybe. Love his attitude. Except for wanting to be Bill Gates, instead of Steve Jobs. The GUI brought tech to a lot of non-techie people, which may be hard to see from a hard-core-techie perspective.
I love the way he sees the forces at play. It's driving the Establishment crazy, but the people are evolving faster and faster, and the government is, by nature, a creature of the status quo, and they can't stop themselves trying to control, but gov't just keeps falling farther and farther behind. Bad actors get tripped up by the technology they would weaponize against others. And the beat goes on.
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I don't think anybody has any idea of how many people are self-educating themselves with free content available online. I've learned a ton of history, philosophy, evolutionary psychology, physics, natural history, ... in the last 5 years, alone. I put everything from intermediate algebra to calculus III online, for free. You just have to dig for it. Ask for it. Your curiosity trumps EVERYthing being done in brick-and-mortar institutions filled with un-curious students, just going through the motions, dragged kicking and screaming through new knowledge, seemingly against their will!
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Been looking for this to manifest. It may be inevitable, for the same reason(s) there are so many independent content creators competing with legacy media. The independents don't NEED 5 million views to make their nut. When I look at the programming task of creating competing platforms, I see no real barrier holding it back. It seems inevitable. Just look at the functionalities of the dominant platforms, they don't seem that hard to match or beat.
Set out to duplicate the functionality of sbnation.com for asynchronous chat. It's proprietary. I wish those platforms had been more aggressive about licensing that chat client to all comers, for a small fee, rather than pursuing legacy-media strategies of sanitizing content and wooing the legacy advertisers. Heck with that. Just a one-man operation hooked up with a good company that checks all the ethical and best-practices checkboxes for the CONTENT creator, rather than the content creator having to sanitize THEIR content to please every single snowflake who might by accident view their content, get offended, and go crying to big brother.
Nah. Be a content creator that a few righteous business owners really like, and they'll want to spend a few bucks for product placement and such, and the independent is THRILLed to have a very modest income stream from several (local) vendors. Also, a culture of person-to-person support of content creators, where large numbers of people also contribute small amounts to help support the content they want. The future is best, cheapest connection you can find, and direct support of the stuff you love, whenever you can afford it.
Shows won't live or die based on getting MILLIONS of views, but good stuff can be supported for $40 or $50 thousand, total, coming in by 2s and fews, all year long. Throw in some merchandizing, and an individual can make a decent middle-class income by doing their own thing. It's not something you can immediately quit your day job, but if you can put together a half hour of content once or more times per week, and it's good stuff, you can build a following and make money on the side.
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