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So, from the European point of view, here is a short summary of why 90s were so good:
- Cold war just ended, [Soviet Union](ussr.md) dissolved and so came a relief from the nuclear war threat, people got relaxed and, importantly, many countries previously under pseudocommunist totalitarian regimes gained freedom from it and opened to the world. This created a very rare and brief moment in time when people were freed from an oppressive regime but [capitalism](capitalism.md) didn't have yet enough time to enslave them again -- people still kept the good things from (at least what was called) socialism such as 100% free education, 100% free healthcare, old age pensions, free public toilets and so on. They also kept the socialist mindset of caring about others, people didn't see others as their enemies, they were kind of caring and had some empathy, they knew [money](money.md) was evil etc. The newly gained freedom gave people a lot of joy and hope. 21st century would of course changed this very soon, capitalism would go on to destroy absolutely everything in under about 20 years, Europe would be joined to the USA and by now everything is lost.
- Cold war just ended, [Soviet Union](ussr.md) dissolved and so came a relief from the nuclear war threat, people got relaxed and, importantly, many countries previously under pseudocommunist totalitarian regimes gained freedom from it and opened to the world. This created a very rare and brief moment in time when people were freed from an oppressive regime but [capitalism](capitalism.md) didn't have yet enough time to enslave them again -- people still kept the good things from (at least what was called) socialism such as 100% free education, 100% free healthcare, old age pensions, free public toilets and so on. They also kept the socialist mindset of caring about others, people didn't see others as their enemies, they were kind of caring and had some empathy, they knew [money](money.md) was evil etc. The newly gained freedom gave people a lot of joy and hope. [21st century](21st_century.md) would of course change this very soon, capitalism would go on to destroy absolutely everything in under about 20 years, Europe would be joined to the USA and by now everything is lost.
- A lot of amazing [art](art.md) came to existence -- although [proprietary](proprietary.md), it could at least be said that it was well done, had [soul](soul.md) and people took some time to make it. For example movies, games and [music](music.md) were made by people who knew how to make movies, games and music, so we saw things such as Pulp Fiction, Jurassic Park, Forrest Gump, Linkin Park, [Pokemon](pokemon.md) (the original non-gay ones), [Harry Potter](harry_potter.md), Simpsons (the peak seasons), South Park, [Tamagotchis](tamagotchi.md), Jim Carrey comedies and much more. Computer games at this time had absolutely peak aesthetics in the whole history of Universe (and they were also released as a completely [finished](finished.md) product, as a physical thing you would buy and literally OWN forever from then on). Even things back then considered trash, such as Britney Spears, don't literally make you bleed from your ears and in comparison with today's "best music" sound like angel choirs.
- In [computer](computer.md) [technology](tech.md) world some very important things were made, besides others [Linux](linux.md) (1991), [World Wide Web](www.md) (well almost -- 1989), [gopher](gopher.md) (1993), all the legendary Boomer Shooters -- [Wolf3D](wolf3d.md) (1992), [Doom](doom.md) (1993), [Duke Nukem 3D](duke3d.md) (1996), [Quake](quake.md) (1996), Quake II and III, Half Life (1998) etcetc., [GameBoy Color](gbc.md) (1998), [PS1](ps1.md) (1995), [N64](n64.md) (1994) etcetc. In 1997 a computer named [Deep Blue](deep_blue.md) first beat the world [chess](chess.md) champion. Even the versions of [Windows](windows.md) from this time are considered the most bearable ones.
- [Feminism](feminism.md) and [LGBT](lgbt.md) were still seen as a [joke](jokes.md).
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- No [Facebook](facebook.md), [Twitter](twitter.md), [TikTok](tiktok.md), [Discord](discord.md), [Steam](steam.md), [Reddit](reddit.md), [YouTube](youtube.md), Twitch, no [smartphones](smartphone.md), actually no "[smart](smart.md)" devices AT ALL, no "[apps](app.md)", [Elon Musk](elon_musk.md), no [Google](google.md), no [Android](android.md), no [JavaScript](javascript.md), no [HTTPS](https.md), no [Flash](flash.md), no [docker](docker.md), no [cmake](cmake.md), no [Rust](rust.md), no [Apple](apple.md) (in Europe), no "spy assistants", no [Minecraft](minecraft.md), no Roblox, no [Wikipedia](wikipedia.md), no [crypto](crypto.md), no [NFT](nft.md)s, no [AI](ai.md) shit and much more. Imagine the paradise.
- No one cared about [privacy](privacy.md) at all! Literally there was ZERO concern about it, you could share all your private data publicly, passwords were sent in plain text, no one would even think of abusing it, there was even no way of doing it basically.
- Computers were 32 bit, no 64 bit [bullshit](bullshit.md).
- Computer technology wasn't such a big milking cow yet, mainstream Internet was just starting, many didn't care about it, so it was very relaxed, [corporations](corporation.md) weren't yet raping everyone. For example [copy protection](drm.md) was usually laughably easy to break, pirating was easy and everyone did it -- it was correctly considered extremely stupid to buy something (nowadays brainwashing has already done its thing). Also games had practically no anti[cheating](cheating.md), chat censorship and similar BS, [trolling](trolling.md) was allowed and cool.
- Computer technology wasn't such a big milking cow yet, mainstream Internet was just starting, many didn't care about it, so it was very relaxed, [corporations](corporation.md) weren't yet raping everyone. For example [copy protection](drm.md) was usually laughably easy to break, [pirating](piracy.md) was easy and everyone did it -- it was correctly considered extremely stupid to buy something (nowadays brainwashing has already done its thing). Also games had practically no anti[cheating](cheating.md), chat censorship and similar BS, [trolling](trolling.md) was allowed and cool.
- People in the streets weren't zombies staring into spyphones -- literally imagine you walk outside and people observe what's happening around them.
- There was a relatively high [freedom of speech](free_speech.md), no one gave a single shit about [political correctness](political_correctness.md) (no one even knew that term) and people in post-soviet countries actually saw freedom of speech as an achievement that many died for and which they previously only dreamed of, they valued it greatly -- [censorship](censorship.md) was still considered highly undesirable by majority of people.
- [Toxic](toxic.md) [US](usa.md) culture still hadn't made it to Europe so people weren't obsessed with [productivity](productivity_cult.md), shooting up schools, [tattoos](tattoo.md), self interest and other shit.

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*Only when man loses everything he becomes actually free. Freedom is about letting go.*
Freedom denotes the possibility to act as one desires without suffering negative consequences. The opposite of freedom is [slavery](slavery.md).
TODO: more
Freedom denotes the possibility to act as one desires without suffering negative consequences. The opposite of freedom is [slavery](slavery.md). Clearly the word *freedom* is so vague, general and [culturally](culture.md) significant that whole libraries could be filled up to the roof only with books exploring this single concept. Aiming to describe what the word means in general we could say freedom is the size of the set of options an entity has available to freely choose from at given moment: the fewer option there are, the less freedom it has. Very important in this is to realize that options which are formally available but [de facto](de_facto.md) excluded must be treated as unavailable as long as we're interested in REAL freedom, as opposed to just "freedom on paper", i.e. if for example one has the legal right ("freedom") to criticize a mafia boss but the option is de facto excluded because doing so will lead to one being killed by mafia, there is no REAL freedom to criticize the mafia boss -- the freedom is only illusory.
From the definition it can be deduced that **freedom can almost be equated with [minimalism](minimalism.md)** and those looking for genuine freedom start following minimalism very soon. At first it may not exactly be clear why, but in fact freedom and minimalism are inevitably connected: minimalism means [needing](dependency.md) a little; needing something enslaves us by FORCING us to satisfy the need and freeing ourselves of the need gives us the extra choice: to do something or not to do it, as it is now no longer obligatory. Therefore minimalism implies more choice and so, by definition, more freedom. Minimalism is not about having little, but needing little; a minimalist won't have a car or luxury house not because he couldn't achieve to have one, but because it's pointless to do so, just as it's pointless to buy something that will never be of any use or value. In the same fashion minimalist technology offers more choice: more people can understand it, repair it, improve it; minimalist software is less demanding and so there is more choice of where it can be installed and used, it is smaller so there is more choice in how to share it (unlike big software it may be shared via floppy disk, low bandwidth connection or even on paper), and so on. It is only natural that people who seriously look for attaining mental/spiritual freedom have often resorted to [asceticism](asceticism.md), at least for a period of time (e.g. [Buddha](buddha.md)) -- this is very commonly not done with the intent of actually giving up all materialistic pleasures forevermore, but rather to let go of the [dependency](dependency.md) on the them, to know and see that one really can live without them if needed so that one becomes less afraid of losing them, which is often what internally enslaves us. It's a way for attaining minimalism. Without even realizing it we are nowadays addicted to many things (games, social media, overeating, shiny gadgets, ...) like an alcoholic is to booze; it is not necessarily bad to drink alcohol, but it is bad to be addicted to it -- to free himself the alcoholic needs to abstain from alcohol for a long period of time. Our chains are often within ourselves: for example we often don't have the freedom to say what we want to say because that might e.g. ruin our career, preventing us from enjoying our expensive addictions -- once we don't worry about this, we gain the freedom to say what we want. Once you rid yourself of fear of jail, you gain the freedom to do potentially illegal things, and so on. Additionally going through the experience of letting go of pleasures very often opens up your eyes and mind, new thoughts emerge and one reevaluates what's really important in life.

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Adolf Hitler was a painter who killed several million [jews](jew.md).^([citation needed]) Widely regarded as the absolute worst human in whole [history](history.md), his name itself has become a common insult, a synonym of [evil](evil.md), cruelty and purely satanic ways. He is best known for having been the leader of [Nazies](nazi.md), starting World War II and conducting genocide of Jews. The most notable part of his image was likely his toothbrush moustache, undercut hair and strong voice he loved to use to deliver almost hysteric speeches.
Adolf Hitler was a painter who killed several million [Jews](jew.md).^([citation needed]) Widely regarded as the absolute worst human in whole [history](history.md), his name itself has become a common insult, synonym of [evil](evil.md), cruelty and satanic behavior. He is best known for having been the leader of [Nazis](nazi.md), starting World War II and conducting genocide of Jews. The most memorable part of his image was definitely the toothbrush moustache he wore, undercut hair and strong voice he combined with theatrical performance to deliver speeches that captured crowds of millions.
How many jews exactly he killed is a subject of very controversial debates, but for example in many parts of Europe it is now REQUIRED BY [LAW](law.md) to acknowledge at least 6 million OR ELSE -- if you argue it was fewer, even by ONE jew, you are officially committing the crime of "Holocaust denial" (see also [wrongthink](wrongthink.md)). In any case the facts speak that he was the **head of the [Nazi](nazi.md) party** (NSDAP) -- which openly fanatically hated Jews -- later on also the head of whole Germany -- there he was called *Fuhrer* ("[leader](hero_culture.md)") -- and, most importantly, **started [World War II](ww2.md)**, the deadliest conflict in whole [history](history.md) with countless millions of victims on all sides; he was a [militant](military.md) [nationalist](nationalism.md) [fascist](fascism.md), [racist](racism.md) (in the TRUE sense of the world) and a state [capitalist](capitalism.md) -- i.e. probably an incarnation of devil himself. In reality he was no different from an average [CEO](ceo.md) in our [current days](21st_century.md): the word "impossible" didn't exist in Hitler's dictionary. He was a great, highly respected [leader](hero_culture.md), patriot loving his country above all, an amazing inspirational speaker with unique, memorable image, a charismatic, confident, [productive](productivity_cult.md) and [assertive](assertiveness.md) psychopath chasing his goal tirelessly by any means necessary, who dedicated everything to his vision and worked day and night to achieve it, who created order by force, brought what he perceived as [justice](justice.md), who gave people great many [jobs](work.md) and achieved unprecedented technological [progress](progress.md), created many industries and on top he was a [war](war.md) [hero](hero_culture.md.md) -- this in essence is what every [American](usa.md) ever strives to be. He really was just like Churchill with only one difference: he lost the war. His methods for maximizing self interest through populism, force, [fear](fear_culture.md) and political flexibility were so successful in fact that they were subsequently adopted by the whole western world, our [current society](21st_century.md) can now be viewed as consisting solely of aspiring Hitlers: everyone who means anything in our highly [competitive](competition.md) [capitalist](capitalism.md) society has to master the essential skills of lying, manipulation, populist rhetoric, abuse of power, dirty political games, [propaganda](marketing.md), scaremongering and a myriad of others. In this Hitler was very ahead of his time and did away with all the naive thinkers who thought it was possible to achieve things by legitimate, even ethical means.

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- [telepathy](telepathy.md)? :D
- ...
## Internet In LRS
*See also [The Island](island.md) network.*
Would the Internet exist in [less retarded society](less_retarded_society.md)? Is it compatible with it? And if so, how different would it be?
It's very clear the Internet as seen today was shaped by [capitalism](capitalism.md) and thus reflects its values such as [consumerism](consumerism.md), [censorship](censorship.md) ("[privacy](privacy.md)", "[security](security.md)"), wasteful [maximalism](bloat.md) (maximum bandwidth, maximum speed, ...), centralized control ([DNS](dns.md), content delivery networks, ...) etc. This is what would have to change in less retarded society whose values are mostly opposite: [minimalism](minimalism.md), [simplicity](kiss.md), non-commerce, absolute openness, slow life etc. In a better form the Internet is indeed completely compatible with ideal society, it is a tool that can be used for the good. Many of the above mentioned alternative and non-traditional ways of data exchange could be used to make Internet "less retarded".
As always nothing can be predicted with certainty, but our Internet would likely be more diverse e.g. in protocols and media used for connecting computers which would depend on location: in some places radio and cables could be used, in other places data mules, light or sound could do better, and highly expensive and complicated methods like satellites would be reduced or eliminated. Computer wouldn't be *always online* like today, personal computers mostly wouldn't use wifis (though they could easily receive [radio broadcasts](world_broadcast.md)) -- common people would carry their personal computers along with the data they need, and would only connect to local Internet hubs if they need to send an email or download some additional data. Two way radio communication would potentially only be used to connect far away hubs if cables would be too expensive, and even so the transmission wouldn't likely be sustained 24/7, it could only happen for example once a day. As a result Internet would be slower, data from far away would be [cached](cache.md) in local hubs and Internet communities would be more local (in the spirit of [BBS](bbs.md) networks in the 80s and 90s), more self sufficient and more independent. Internet would blend together with all other networks and so for example [radio broadcasts](world_broadcast.md) would become part of it, enabling easier, further reaching and more efficient one way transmission of data about weather, news and so on. Instantaneous high-bandwidth communication, such as video calls, would be possible on shorter distances but challenging and sometimes impossible over large distances, but society wouldn't depend on them like it does today.
TODO: moar
## See Also
- [JWICS](jwics.md), [SIPRNet](siprnet.md), [NIPRNet](niprnet.md) (secret/military networks)
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- [Snet](snet.md) (large computer network on Cuba)
- [soynet](soynet.md)
- [interplanetary internet](interplanetary_internet.md)
- [books](books.md)
- [books](books.md)

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*symbols often used for logic gates*
Functions NAND and NOR are [functionally complete](functional_completeness.md) which means we can implement any other gate with only one of these gates. For example NOT(x) = NAND(x,x), AND(x,y) = NAND(NAND(x,y),NAND(x,y)), OR(x,y) = NAND(NAND(x,x),NAND(y,y)) etc. Similarly NOT(x) = NOR(x,x), OR(x,y) = NOR(NOR(x,y),NOR(x,y)) etc. NAND and NOR are the only two functions that are functionally complete by themselves, but there are more functionally complete sets of multiple functions, for example OR together with NOT can also implement any other function (which can be seen from the fact that we can implement NOR as NOT(OR(x,y), and we know NOR is already functionally complete). More detail on this will follow below.
Functions NAND and NOR are [functionally complete](functional_completeness.md) which means we can implement any other gate with only one of these gates. For example NOT(x) = NAND(x,x), AND(x,y) = NAND(NAND(x,y),NAND(x,y)), OR(x,y) = NAND(NAND(x,x),NAND(y,y)) etc. Similarly NOT(x) = NOR(x,x), OR(x,y) = NOR(NOR(x,y),NOR(x,y)) etc. NAND and NOR are the only two functions that are functionally complete by themselves, but there are more functionally complete sets of multiple functions, for example OR together with NOT can also implement any other function (which can be seen from the fact that we can implement NOR as NOT(OR(x,y)), and we know NOR is already functionally complete). More detail on this will follow below.
## More Detail On Boolean Functions

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{ Most of these I just heard/read somewhere, e.g. on [4chan](4chan.md), in [Jargon File](jargon_file.md) or from [RMS](rms.md), some terms I made myself. ~drummyfish }
{ Most of these I just heard/read somewhere, e.g. [4chan](4chan.md), [Jargon File](jargon_file.md) or from [RMS](rms.md), some I made myself. ~drummyfish }
{ Also sorry some are cringe, I just put everything here, pick what you like. ~drummyfish }
| mainstream | correct/cooler |
| ------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
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| Gmail | Gfail |
| [GNU](gnu.md) | GNUts, GNU's not usable, Gigantic and Nasty but Unavoidable |
| [Hyperbola](hyperbola.md) | Hyperbloat |
| Immanuel Kant | Immanuel Cunt, Immanuel Can't (sorry, just too obvious :D) |
| influencer | manipulator |
| [Intel](intel.md) | [Incel](incel.md) |
| [Internet Explorer](internet_explorer.md) | Internet Exploder, Internet Exploiter |
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| [iPad](ipda.md) | iBad |
| [iPhone](iphone.md) | spyPhone |
| [JavaScript](js.md) | HitlerScript, JavaShit |
| job | slavery |
| job/work | slavery |
| "left" | [pseudoleft](pseudoleft.md), SJW |
| [LGBT](lgbt.md) | FGTS, TTTT |
| [liberal](liberal.md) | libtard |

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The true definition of progress is "advancement towards more [good](good.md)", though in the [mainstream](mainstream.md) the term has been twisted to stand for falsehoods such as "[more complicated technology](capitalist_technology.md)", "[bigger economy](capitalism.md)" and so on. [Idiots](retard.md) rarely think, they can't ask a series of two questions in a row such as "what will this lead to and is the result what we want?", they can [only understand](shortcut_thinking.md) extremely simple equalities such as "moar buttons in a program = more gooder", hence the language degeneration.
It's crucial to realize that by definition the only true progress that matters is just that which gets us closer to our [ideal society](less_retarded_society.md), i.e. progress is only that which makes the life of every individual better as a whole and all other kinds of "progress", such as [technological](tech.md), [scientific](science.md), artistic, political and so on only exist SOLELY to serve the main progress of well being of individuals. A thousand year leap in technological development is worth absolutely nothing if it doesn't serve the main goal, it's useless if we can send a car to space, harvest energy of a whole star or find the absolute meaning of life if that doesn't serve the main goal -- in fact such "progress" is [nowadays](21st_century.md) mostly made so that it works AGAINST the main goal, i.e. [corporations](corporation.md) develop more complicated technology to exploit people more and make them more miserable -- that is not true progress, it is its exact opposite.
Primarily we must realize one thing: by definition the only true progress that matters and should be pursued is just that which gets us closer to our [ideal society](less_retarded_society.md), i.e. progress is only that which makes the life of every individual better as a whole and all other kinds of "progress", such as [technological](tech.md), [scientific](science.md), artistic, political and so on exist SOLELY to serve the main progress of well being of individuals. A thousand year leap in technological development is worth absolutely nothing if it doesn't serve the main goal, it's useless if we can send a car to space, harvest energy of a whole star or find the absolute meaning of life if that doesn't serve the main goal -- in fact such "progress" is [nowadays](21st_century.md) mostly made so that it works AGAINST the main goal, i.e. [corporations](corporation.md) develop more complicated technology to exploit people more and make them more miserable -- that is not true progress, it is its exact opposite.
Here is a comparison of what TRUE progress is and what it isn't:

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Shortcut thinking means making conclusions by established associations (such as "theft = bad", "[fair](fair.md)" = "good") rather than making the extra effort of inferring actual conclusions based on new context such as different circumstances or newly discovered facts. This isn't bad in itself, in fact it is a great and necessary [optimization](optimization.md) of our thinking process, a kind of [cache](cache.md), and it's really why we have long term memory -- imagine we'd have to deduce all the facts from scratch each time we thought about anything. However shortcut thinking can be a weakness in many situations and leaves people prone to manipulation by [propaganda](propaganda.md) which twists meanings of words (such as "open mind", ["rationality"](pseudoskepticism.md), "[progress](progress.md)", ["theft"](intellectual_property.md), ["science"](soyence.md) etc.), relying on people accepting the unacceptable by having them bypass the thinking process with the mental shortcut. As such this phenomenon is extremely abused by politicians, i.e. they for example try to shift the meaning of a certain negative word to include something they want to get rid of, to have it rejected just based on its name.
Some commonly held associations appearing in shortcut thinking of common people nowadays are for example "piracy = theft = bad", "laziness = bad", "[fairness](fair.md) = good", "pedophiles = child rapists = bad", "[competition](competition.md) = [progress](progress.md) = good", "more [jobs](work.md) = good", "more [complex technology](capitalist_software.md) = better", "open mind = blindly trusting those officially declared smarter than myself = good" etc. Of those most are of course either extremely simplified or just plain wrong. however some association may still of course be correct, such as "murder = bad", which is an association that e.g. [military](military.md) tries to get rid of by calling the acts of murder they commit something else, e.g. "defense", "[justice](justice.md)" etc.
Some commonly held associations appearing in shortcut thinking of common people nowadays are for example "[update](update_culture.md) = good", "[modern](modern.md) = good", "[democracy](democracy.md) = good", "[piracy](piracy.md) = theft = bad", "laziness = bad", "[fairness](fair.md) = good", "pedophiles = child rapists = bad", "[competition](competition.md) = [progress](progress.md) = good", "more [jobs](work.md) = good", "more [complex technology](capitalist_software.md) = better", "open mind = blindly trusting those officially declared smarter than myself = good" etc. Of those most are of course either extremely simplified or just plain wrong. however some association may still of course be correct, such as "murder = bad", which is an association that e.g. [military](military.md) tries to get rid of by calling the acts of murder they commit something else, e.g. "defense", "[justice](justice.md)" etc.
Let's focus on the specific **example** of the association "fair = good" -- when we hear something is *fair*, we automatically give it a positive meaning, we see it as good. It is so because our society is, and mostly has been, based on [competition](competition.md) and in that fairness is key so as to ensure that the stronger wins and weaker loses, i.e. fairness is an attribute that any competitive system needs in order to work correctly. However when we start to aim to remove competitive society and replace it with [altruistic one](less_retarded_society.md) -- a society in which one doesn't have to prove his worth or be slave in order to deserve the right to live -- fairness becomes a BAD attribute. If we want the same well being for everyone, fairness is bad because it goes against this goal, it gives more to some (the stronger) than to other (the weaker).

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Soyence (also spelled soyience) is [business](business.md), [propaganda](propaganda.md) and [politics](politics.md) trying to pass as [science](science.md), nowadays typically connected to [pseudoleftism](pseudoleft.md) (hence the word *[soy](soy.md)*), [pseudoskepticism](pseudoskepticism.md), [capitalism](capitalism.md) and [corporations](corporation.md). It is what in the [21st century](21st_century.md) has taken on the role that's historically been played by the church: that of establishing and maintaining orthodoxy for the control of mass population -- this time it is so called "science" or "rationality" that's used as the tool instead of [God](god.md) and religion, however the results are the same -- this is sometimes called the *cult of science* (quite nicely summed up e.g. [here](https://web.archive.org/web/20220924050207/https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/6bi4ho/comment/dhn89le/)). Soyence is not about listening to what science says, it is about listetning to what *"reputable scientists"* say, and of course not questioning them; soyence is what the typical reddit [atheist](atheism.md) or [tiktok](tiktok.md) [feminist](feminism.md) believes science is or what Neil De Grass Tyson tells you science is. While science is about collecting facts and drawing conclusions, soyence is about setting conclusions and finding or fabricating facts that support them. One red flag to watch out in relation to soyence is a great weight put on **reputation** -- in true science reputation plays no role, only results do; reputation and its great value for one's acceptance is rather part of [politics](politics.md) (and maybe show business). Notice for example how in the past it was more common to hear "science has found X" (as in "logic itself shows this fact") rather than "scientists have found X", which is more common nowadays -- mentally we have shifted to separate people to "scientists", those who "know" and dictate what's true, and non-scientists, those who don't know and must just listen. Soyence calls itself the one and only science^TM and [gatekeeps](gatekeeping.md) the term by calling unpopular science (such as that regarding human [race](race.md), questioning official versions of [historical](history.md) events or safety of big pharma [vaccines](vaccine.md)) "[pseudoscience](pseudoscience.md)" and "[conspiracy theories](conspiracy_theory.md)". Soyence itself is pseudoscience but it has an official status, approval of [state](state.md), strong connection to [politics](politics.md), it is mainstream, popular, controlled by those in power, [censored](censorship.md) ("moderated") and intentionally misleading. Soyence can be encountered in much of [academia](academia.md), on [Wikipedia](wikipedia.md) and in other popular/mainstream media such as TV "documentaries" and [YouTube](youtube.md). A soyence supporter wrongfully believes that reason wouldn't allow such a large scale mass population manipulation (despite this happening over and over throughout history) -- people at large aren't reasonable and reason [cannot](yes_they_can.md) beat [propaganda](propaganda.md); only the highest naivety could make you believe that politics will follow science -- it's the other way around, and always has been. With enough power [anything is possible](yes_they_can.md). Big science is a big dirty game just like big politics or big corporate business, anyone thinking that corruption avoids big science or that it's only present in small amounts is naive like an unborn child, it is literally like believing big politics is free of corruption and done by good selfless people who are concerned about securing well being for the citizens.
*"I don’t care about individual scientists, only a consensus of scientists. [...] I don't care, titles don't matter, what matters is consensus."* --Neil de Grass on Del Bigtree's TV show
Compared to good old [fun](fun.md) pseudosciences such as [astrology](astrology.md) and [flat Earth](flat_earth.md), soyence is extra sneaky by purposefully trying to blend in with real science, i.e. within a certain truly scientific field, such as biology, there is a soyentific [cancer](cancer.md) mixed in by activists, corporations and state, that may be hard to separate for common folk and many times even for pros. This is extremely [harmful](harmful.md) as in the eyes of retarded people (basically everyone) the neighboring legit science gives credibility to propaganda bullshit. There is a tendency to think we somehow magically live in a time that's fundamentally different from other times in history in which it is now a pretty clear and uncontroversial fact that the name of science was abused hard by propaganda, almost everyone easily accepts that historically politically constructed lies were presented as confirmed by science, but somehow people refuse to believe it could be the case nowadays. In times of Nazism there was no doubt about race being a completely scientific term and that Jews were scientifically confirmed to be the inferior race -- nowadays in times when anti Nazis have won and politics is based on denying existence of race somehow scientists start to magically find evidence that no such thing as race has ever existed -- how convenient! And just in case you wanted to check if it's actually true, you'll be labeled a racist and you won't find job ever again.
Soyence uses all the cheap tricks of politics (also not dissimilar to those of [greenwashing](greenwashing.md), [openwashing](openwashing.md) etc.) to win stupid people, it builds on the cult of bullying religion and creating a [war mentality](fight_culture.md), overuse of twisted "rationality" ([pseudoskepticism](pseudoskepticism.md)), creating science [bloat](bloat.md) and bullshit "scientific" fields to obscure lies, punishment of the correct use of rationality, building cults of personality ("science educators", the [gatekeepers](gatekeeping.md) of "science") and appealing to egoism and naivity of wannabe smartasses while at the same time not even holding up to principles of science such as genuine objectivity. A soyence kid will for example keep preaching about how everything should be proven by reproducible experiments while at the same time accepting [de facto](de_facto.md) irreproducible results, e.g. those obtained with billion dollar worth research performed at [CERN](cern.md) which can NOT be reproduced anywhere else than at CERN with thousands of top scientist putting in years of work. Such results are not reproducible in practice, they are accepted on the basis of pure faith in those presenting it, just as religious people accept the words of preachers. The kid will argue that in theory someone else can build another CERN and reproduce the results, but that won't happen in practice, it's just a purely theoretical unrealistic scenario so his version of what "science" is is really based on reproducibility that only works in a dreamed up world, this kind of reproducibility doesn't at all fulfill its original purpose of allowing others to check, confirm or refute the results of experiments. This starts to play a bigger role when for example vaccines start to get promoted by the government as "proven safe by science" (read "claimed safe by a corporation who makes money off of people being sick"), the soyence kid will gladly accept the vaccine and [fight](fight_culture.md) for their acceptance just thanks to this label, not based on any truly scientific facts but out of pure faith in self proclaimed science authorities -- trusting an authority (be it pope, priests, holy book or a scientific journal) is by definition [religion](religion.md) and here the soyentist is relying purely on faith, a concept he would like to think he hates with his soul.
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Some further examples of soyence:
- Relying on **consensus**: This is one of the great identifying features of soyence -- what is true or not depends on whether the majority of (approved) soyentists agree it is true. When we think about it for just one second,
we cannot miss the fact that this way of establishing truth has simply no longer anything to do with science: we no longer establish facts based on rigorous, logical conclusions, but based on VOTING, by accepting the OPINION of majority. This is POLITICS and nothing else. Common people accept this for one simple reasons: the words *consensus* and *[democracy](democracy.md)* [sound positive](shortcut_thinking.md) and 99% of common people NEVER think things through, they literally only react to whether a word sounds good or not, they never think deeper to check actual consequences. The opposing 1% -- usually true scientists, i.e. people who DO think things through -- are simply bullied out based on the consensus rule: "majority of people like this, so shut up". Everyone who knows anything about history of science knows many, if not most of the greatest advancements of science were those that went AGAINST consensus, including those of Galileo and Darwin for example -- big breakthroughs are so significant exactly because they show something assumed to have been true is in fact false -- and this is what soyence suppresses by strictly rejecting anything that goes against consensus. If science was conducted by maintaining consensus, we would have no theory of relativity, we'd still keep believing in aether, we'd be teaching children that Sun revolved around Earth, which is flat and only 6000 years old by the way, we wouldn't believe in rational numbers and in fact wouldn't even have the heretic number [zero](zero.md).
- [gender studies](gender_studies.md) [LMAO](lmao.md)
- "Believe in science!" The irony of such sentences is so striking it shouldn't need any further comments, but just in case: science should be the exact opposite of believing.
- "[Race](race.md) is a SOCIAL CONSTRUCT and doesn't have any biological meaning."

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# Technology
Technology (from Greek tekhnologia, "systematic treatment of art", also just "tech") encompasses tools and knowledge of making such tools invented and achieved mainly through [science](science.md) and by long systematic effort. This includes everything from [stone tools](rock.md) to space rockets and [artificial intelligence](ai.md). On the [Internet](internet.md), as well as on [this Wiki](lrs_wiki.md), this term is commonly used with an increased focus on [computer](computer.md) technology, i.e. [hardware](hardware.md) and [software](software.md), for this is the kind of technology that is being discussed and developed the most these days. Let it be said that technology, like fire, should serve us, but can also be dangerous and often gets misused and abused.
Technology (from Greek tekhnologia, "systematic treatment of art", also just "tech") encompasses tools and knowledge of making such tools invented and achieved mainly through [science](science.md) and by long systematic effort. This includes everything from [stone tools](rock.md) to space rockets and [artificial intelligence](ai.md). On the [Internet](internet.md), as well as on [this Wiki](lrs_wiki.md), this term is commonly used with an increased focus on [computer](computer.md) technology, i.e. [hardware](hardware.md) and [software](software.md), for this is the kind of technology that is being discussed and developed the most these days. Let it be said that technology, like [fire](fire.md), should serve us, but can also be dangerous and often gets misused and abused.
**The foremost purpose of technology is to make people not have to [work](work.md)** -- see also [progress](progress.md). Proponents of dystopian societies, such as [capitalists](capitalism.md), fear that technology will "take people's work" -- such people are for sure greatly idiotic and often end up abusing technology in the completely opposite manner: for enslaving and oppressing people. Proponents of [good technology](lrs.md) strive to make technology do work for humans so that people can actually live happy lives and do what they want. With this in mind we have to remember that **one of the most important concepts in technology is [minimalism](minimalism.md)**, as that is a necessary prerequisite for technological [freedom](freedom.md).
**The primary purpose of technology is to make people not have to [work](work.md)** -- see also [progress](progress.md). Proponents of dystopian societies, such as [capitalists](capitalism.md), fear that technology will "take work away from the people" -- people who say this are certainly highly idiotic and commonly end up abusing technology in the completely opposite manner: for enslaving and oppressing people. Proponents of [good technology](lrs.md) on the other hand strive to make technology do work for humans so that people can actually live happy lives and do what they want. With this said we additionally have to establish that **one of the most important concepts in technology is [minimalism](minimalism.md)**, as that is a necessary prerequisite for technological [freedom](freedom.md).
**Good technology absolutely and unconditionally serves its user in whatever it is he does**, it must never refuse to do what the user asks, it must never abuse the user, it must never hide anything from him. Even if what the user does would be considered dangerous and unethical, the technology may warn the user but if he wishes so, the tool must obey. This is a very basic principle of technology that simply states that a machine is another extension of human, like an extra limb, it should only do work, ethics is left completely to the human brain (the user of the machine, NOT the machine's manufacturer). For this reason technology must never contain any [proprietary](proprietary.md) parts, [censorship](censorship.md), [ads](marketing.md), [DRM](drm.md), [planned obsolescence](planned_obsolescence.md) and so on -- and for this reason good technology is incompatible with [capitalism](capitalism.md) (where technology serves its manufacturer).
**Knowledge of older technology gets lost extremely quickly in society** -- this is a crucial realization that follows a naive idea of the young man who by his inexperience believes that we somehow pertain knowledge of all technology that's been invented from dawn of man until today. In [history](history.md) our society has always only held knowledge of technology it was CURRENTLY ACTIVELY USING; knowledge of decades old technology no longer in use only stays in hands and heads of extremely few individuals and perhaps in some obscure [books](book.md) that ARE UNREADABLE to most, sometimes to none; yet older technology oftentimes gets forgotten for good. For instance renaissance had to largely reinvent many arts and sciences of making building and statues of antiquity because middle ages have simply forgotten them. A more recent example can be found at [NASA](nasa.md) and their efforts to recreate THEIR OWN old rocket engines: you would think that since they literally have detailed documentation of those engines, they'd be able to simple make them again, but that's not the case because the small undocumented (yet crucial) [know-how](know_how.md) of the people who built the engines decades ago was lost with those individuals who died or retired in the meanwhile; NASA had to start a ginormous project to reinvent its own relatively recent technology. The same is happening in the field of [programming](programming.md): [modern](modern.md) [soydevs](soydev.md) just CANNOT create as efficient software as hackers back then as due to normalization of wasting computing resources they threw away the knowledge of [optimization](optimization.md) technique and [wisdom](unix_philosophy.md) in favor of bullshit such as "soft skills" and memorizing one billion genders and personal pronouns. One might naively think that e.g. since our agriculture is highly efficient and advanced due to all the immense complexity of our current machines, simple farming without machines would be a child's play for us, however the opposite is true: we no longer know how to farm without machines. If a [collapse](collpase.md) comes, we are quite simply fucked.
**Knowledge of [older](old.md) technology gets lost extremely quickly in society** -- this is a crucial realization that follows a naive idea of the young man who by his inexperience believes that we somehow pertain knowledge of all technology that's been invented from dawn of man until today. In [history](history.md) our society has always only held knowledge of technology it was CURRENTLY ACTIVELY USING; knowledge of decades old technology no longer in use only stays in hands and heads of extremely few individuals and perhaps in some obscure [books](book.md) that ARE UNREADABLE to most, sometimes to none; yet older technology oftentimes gets forgotten for good. For instance renaissance had to largely reinvent many arts and sciences of making building and statues of antiquity because middle ages have simply forgotten them. A more recent example can be found at [NASA](nasa.md) and their efforts to recreate THEIR OWN old rocket engines: you would think that since they literally have detailed documentation of those engines, they'd be able to simple make them again, but that's not the case because the small undocumented (yet crucial) [know-how](know_how.md) of the people who built the engines decades ago was lost with those individuals who died or retired in the meanwhile; NASA had to start a ginormous project to reinvent its own relatively recent technology. The same is happening in the field of [programming](programming.md): [modern](modern.md) [soydevs](soydev.md) just CANNOT create as efficient software as hackers back then as due to normalization of wasting computing resources they threw away the knowledge of [optimization](optimization.md) technique and [wisdom](unix_philosophy.md) in favor of bullshit such as "soft skills" and memorizing one billion genders and personal pronouns. One might naively think that e.g. since our agriculture is highly efficient and advanced due to all the immense complexity of our current machines, simple farming without machines would be a child's play for us, however the opposite is true: we no longer know how to farm without machines. If a [collapse](collpase.md) comes, we are quite simply fucked.

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