Sure, if you use your own alternative definition of the terms, then all bets are off.
Authoritarianism is about how you're pressured or forced to do things, and left/right is about what those things are.
I know that if we get too nuanced about all the many many dimensions of politics, then we'll spend so all our time fighting semantics and get nothing done. But if you simplify down to a single axis then the terms lose all meaning and you likewise can't communicate anything of meaning.
When people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.
The authoritarian left is bad
The authoritarian right is bad
But if you think that the two are equally bad, then you're wronger than wrong
Coming from the other direction - when someone ackshullys a parson, but the person was using the phrase correctly.
I had to explain to someone online today that "liminal space" had multiple meanings, and it didn't only refer to spaces you transition through, and the spooky "liminal space aesthetic" is a valid and coherent use of the word "liminal" and the term "liminal space"
I meant with the servers too, not just an empty rack.
In case it wasn't obvious, I was trying for this
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Most hosted AI image generators didn't wanna make this, so I had to use grok, which is shitty.
prompt
Create an image in the style of a still frame from a movie. In the frame the Whitehouse is exploding in a great fireball, with splintered wood flying through the air. An enormous city sized flying saucer is hovering above the Whitehouse, firing a blue beam into the Whitehouse, which is what caused the explosion. The flying saucer is very detailed and covered with greebles. The Whitehouse is exploding into pieces. The scene is at night, lit by the explosion fireball. The perspective is from the Whitehouse front lawn.
Copilot keeps telling me it's not allowed to generate that kind of content 😏
What honestly made a big difference for me was 2 things:
The solid principles are a great guide as a project gets large, but you can't really appreciate them until you've worked on a project that is a mess.
So this isn't exactly practical advice for you, but it's what helped me.
I wonder how easy it is to get used server racks, and how cheap they are 🤔
I just use millis since epoch
(Recently learned that this isn't accurate because it disguises leap seconds. The standard was fucked from the start)
Good thing I didn't say that.
Too bad you missed when I called both "bad"
Two things can both be indefensible, and yet still one is preferable. Although you lead with "and", you seem to be suggesting that this isn't the case, which is a wild position that doesn't hold up to even that barest of scrutiny.