RANT WARNING - If you don't want to read rants, follow on to older posts
You don't need to go too far in the depths of the internet to find the most ignorant sort of people in the world. Making generalizations, writing hateful comments against ethnic groups, answering easy questions wrong.
A lot of people probably thought of either "4chan" or "youtube" as I typed that first paragraph, and that's exactly what I mean. Places in the internet that are dominated by ignorant, disrespectful and hateful people of all sorts.
This is just a big rant because of some hateful comments I've been reading against brazilian people out there. That, and typing under the influence of revoltous masterpieces from Slayer. Is that what the world really thinks of us, or is it just disgusting youtubers being fucking bitches? They should learn to eat up the shit they type inconsequently, thinking they are kings of the fucking world.
What is up with this people? Is it their fucked up education in conservative countries what causes them to believe the rest of the world sucks? Youtube lacks a feature to just fucking report this sort of people, maybe that's because the assholes behind fucking youtube are little imperialist puppets who love seeing the rest of the world being put to shame by these god damn trolls.
These imperialistically trolling sides of the internet should be forgotten by people with a little hint of decency. There are so many better websites around to post videos, why don't you guys try Viddler or Dada?
Yes, I am trying to land a direct blow to the people behind the poor moderation of such sites's foreheads. They should at least TRY to moderate racism and cultural offense.
For all the ethnic trolls out there: Fucking imperialistic hogs. Brainless lapdogs of cultural imperialism. You stink of falsity and disrespect, of lies and greed.
I'm in favor of fucking destroying any sites with too strong signs of un-moderated prejudice.
Now, for all my readers around, expect to see a picture of my asshole hanging from a window where you tried to load youtube or /b/.
segunda-feira, 15 de fevereiro de 2010
sábado, 6 de fevereiro de 2010
Freeganism VS Consumerist waste
This post is extremely prolix, since I'm sort of uninspired, but bear with me for a second:
In front of a mall in Curitiba, someone wrote a graffitti that says "You all know the price of everything, but the value of nothing". There's no need to explain, for any human being that's conscious of our societal demise, that this phrase holds a lot of truth within it.
There was a time when people valued every single resource nature could provide them, using them up in the best way possible to take the biggest advantage of it they could. But forth came the industrial era, and the consumerist regimen of "buy this! buy that!" took over. The faster industries became, the quicker older products got obsolete or unfashionable. Time passed, and a lot of re-useable things got replaced with disposable ones (diapers, bottles, god, even CAMERAS in some countries).
Following this line, inevitably, the waste of resources increased exponentially, since people started getting rid of their disposable goods and retire their obsolete devices in a rate that was never seen before the industrial times. Nowadays, disposal, waste and throwing away are just as ordinary a part of our everyday routines as eating, sleeping and working.
Nowadays, our society's waste is big enough to build a new one with. That's where freegans come in. By consuming what other people waste, they are actually getting around pretty well: they have enough to eat, drink and wear. It's incredible to see how many people can survive only on what other people throw away daily. There's so many freegans around, and some of them are even professors and writers, definitely not your average drunken bums.
Freeganism is the philosophy of only consuming what comes for free. The philosophy of wasting little as possible, and cause as little impact as possible to the world's resources. Planting their own food or feed (impressively well, actually) on other people's waste.
I'm not saying we all should be freegans. I'm not a freegan myself, I'm too adaptated to the "modern commodities", but freegans are definitely people I admire a lot, carrying on a whole complete life in the shadow of our decadent society.
We could, very well, learn a thing or two from them. If all of us actually learned to take full advantage of the resources we have in hands before seeking more, trust less on disposable items and use our goods up to the maximum of their possibilities, our society would cause a way smaller impact in the world's resources, and that'd make room for more people, and, in the long run, increase the lifespan our human society.
It's not like I want everyone to change their lives completely, just maybe think of the possibilities of that Mountain Dew PET bottle before throwing it in the bin, and progressing from that point. And thank the freegans when you get good at it.
In front of a mall in Curitiba, someone wrote a graffitti that says "You all know the price of everything, but the value of nothing". There's no need to explain, for any human being that's conscious of our societal demise, that this phrase holds a lot of truth within it.
There was a time when people valued every single resource nature could provide them, using them up in the best way possible to take the biggest advantage of it they could. But forth came the industrial era, and the consumerist regimen of "buy this! buy that!" took over. The faster industries became, the quicker older products got obsolete or unfashionable. Time passed, and a lot of re-useable things got replaced with disposable ones (diapers, bottles, god, even CAMERAS in some countries).
Following this line, inevitably, the waste of resources increased exponentially, since people started getting rid of their disposable goods and retire their obsolete devices in a rate that was never seen before the industrial times. Nowadays, disposal, waste and throwing away are just as ordinary a part of our everyday routines as eating, sleeping and working.
Nowadays, our society's waste is big enough to build a new one with. That's where freegans come in. By consuming what other people waste, they are actually getting around pretty well: they have enough to eat, drink and wear. It's incredible to see how many people can survive only on what other people throw away daily. There's so many freegans around, and some of them are even professors and writers, definitely not your average drunken bums.
Freeganism is the philosophy of only consuming what comes for free. The philosophy of wasting little as possible, and cause as little impact as possible to the world's resources. Planting their own food or feed (impressively well, actually) on other people's waste.
I'm not saying we all should be freegans. I'm not a freegan myself, I'm too adaptated to the "modern commodities", but freegans are definitely people I admire a lot, carrying on a whole complete life in the shadow of our decadent society.
We could, very well, learn a thing or two from them. If all of us actually learned to take full advantage of the resources we have in hands before seeking more, trust less on disposable items and use our goods up to the maximum of their possibilities, our society would cause a way smaller impact in the world's resources, and that'd make room for more people, and, in the long run, increase the lifespan our human society.
It's not like I want everyone to change their lives completely, just maybe think of the possibilities of that Mountain Dew PET bottle before throwing it in the bin, and progressing from that point. And thank the freegans when you get good at it.
segunda-feira, 18 de janeiro de 2010
The paradox of productivity
This post was made to explain my feelings about my "productive mood" swings, because that became a really notable piece of my vacation time.
Since my classes will only start again in march, I realize, and ponder about, how unproductive my vacation times are (in general), and feel I should find something productive to spend my time on.
Before I went travelling to the beach for the past ten days, I felt like I should be doing something with my time, but I didn't have any ideas to work on, nor the energy to.
While I was away from home, there, in the beach, the good ideas started coming, and an urge to finally do something was growing. I started having some neat ideas for my game, GFA II, some slightly less interesting ones about simulated cellular automation, etc. The big problem in that moment was, of course, that all those ideas included my computer, which was here at home. Therefore I was just wandering around and thinking of the possibilities, which resulted in an urge to come back home and work on all these ideas.
Jan. 18th is finally here, and I'm finally home. Suddenly, all the ideas I had back in the beach don't sound that great anymore, and all I really want to do with my day is sleeping.
Well, I think the ideas I discarded, out of pure laziness, or forgetting how exactly my plans for them were traced, weren't worth it.
Now, some other ones might still ring a bell or two for me, those might be worth a try.
Did I mention I wanted to sleep? Gonna work on that, bye.
Since my classes will only start again in march, I realize, and ponder about, how unproductive my vacation times are (in general), and feel I should find something productive to spend my time on.
Before I went travelling to the beach for the past ten days, I felt like I should be doing something with my time, but I didn't have any ideas to work on, nor the energy to.
While I was away from home, there, in the beach, the good ideas started coming, and an urge to finally do something was growing. I started having some neat ideas for my game, GFA II, some slightly less interesting ones about simulated cellular automation, etc. The big problem in that moment was, of course, that all those ideas included my computer, which was here at home. Therefore I was just wandering around and thinking of the possibilities, which resulted in an urge to come back home and work on all these ideas.
Jan. 18th is finally here, and I'm finally home. Suddenly, all the ideas I had back in the beach don't sound that great anymore, and all I really want to do with my day is sleeping.
Well, I think the ideas I discarded, out of pure laziness, or forgetting how exactly my plans for them were traced, weren't worth it.
Now, some other ones might still ring a bell or two for me, those might be worth a try.
Did I mention I wanted to sleep? Gonna work on that, bye.
quinta-feira, 7 de janeiro de 2010
Hello Blogosphere!
So, after thinking through this a lot, I finally decided to make myself a blog. Making few but fruity postings every now and then, I might make this an interesting read for people around the internet. Won't reveal my personal shit here, though.
Mail me on gretgorbw[@]hotmail if you so wish.
While running around people's blogs in blogspot, I discovered there were pretty much three types of blogs:
1)The most frequent ones, that are made by mostly teenagers, where they discuss, with their friends, teeny personal life matters such as "which boy kisses well" or "which boy is gonna get beaten in school". These are pretty much mainstream blogs, obviously people who don't care about bringing up interesting content.
2)The "joker" ones, that usually post, among family vacation pictures, internet softcore humor such as lolcats, failblog, and joke-magazine sort of jokes. Once again, not very lenghty nor fruity content.
3)Finally, the few blogs that are actually worth reading: Blogs with interesting content, be it cool fiction novels, interesting, lenghty dissertations on everyday life, intelligent, well thought humor or readable scientifical essays. Good examples of those blogs that I know of are XKCD, Craig's List (I don't know if that can be considered a blog) and Wootmeister's blog. This is the sort of blog I want this one to be.
So, since that's what I'm aiming for, expect few, but worthy updates, bringing to you interesting paragraphs of rambling, discussions on polemical subjects and some interesting math and computing science essays.
I'm a major at computing science in the University of Parana, in Brazil. (OH NOES, PERSONAL INFORMATION! D:)
No, I can't fix your computer.
Mail me on gretgorbw[@]hotmail if you so wish.
While running around people's blogs in blogspot, I discovered there were pretty much three types of blogs:
1)The most frequent ones, that are made by mostly teenagers, where they discuss, with their friends, teeny personal life matters such as "which boy kisses well" or "which boy is gonna get beaten in school". These are pretty much mainstream blogs, obviously people who don't care about bringing up interesting content.
2)The "joker" ones, that usually post, among family vacation pictures, internet softcore humor such as lolcats, failblog, and joke-magazine sort of jokes. Once again, not very lenghty nor fruity content.
3)Finally, the few blogs that are actually worth reading: Blogs with interesting content, be it cool fiction novels, interesting, lenghty dissertations on everyday life, intelligent, well thought humor or readable scientifical essays. Good examples of those blogs that I know of are XKCD, Craig's List (I don't know if that can be considered a blog) and Wootmeister's blog. This is the sort of blog I want this one to be.
So, since that's what I'm aiming for, expect few, but worthy updates, bringing to you interesting paragraphs of rambling, discussions on polemical subjects and some interesting math and computing science essays.
I'm a major at computing science in the University of Parana, in Brazil. (OH NOES, PERSONAL INFORMATION! D:)
No, I can't fix your computer.
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