naught101
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- Comment on If suffering is good because it gives life meaning, wouldn't it follow that hurting people is good? 17 minutes ago:
Makes sense, thanks!
- Comment on If suffering is good because it gives life meaning, wouldn't it follow that hurting people is good? 17 minutes ago:
Goodness in one aspect doesn’t cancel badness in another…
It can be always bad AND sometimes good.
- Comment on If suffering is good because it gives life meaning, wouldn't it follow that hurting people is good? 3 hours ago:
Got some examples?
- Comment on If suffering is good because it gives life meaning, wouldn't it follow that hurting people is good? 3 hours ago:
No, it’s not. It’s saying that any amount of suffering is bad, but a tolerable amount of suffering can have good secondary effects (but this is not guaranteed, it’s circumstantial). The secondary good doesn’t mean that the bad part didn’t happen.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 11 hours ago:
Agree it’s on a different scale (everything is relative to 200 years ago).
One of the main “benefits” of mechanised factory machinery in the early 1800s was that shifted the demand side of labour, such that capitalists had far more control over it. I reckon that counts as a kind of large scale manipulation (but yeah, probably not as pervasive of other domains of life).
- Comment on Lemmy be like 11 hours ago:
More or less
- Comment on Lemmy be like 20 hours ago:
AI is exactly as bad as mechanised weaving looms.
- Comment on I have a question on how and when coal actually formed. 1 day ago:
- Comment on [Inverse Thinking] How do I make sure my place gets messy again after I thoroughly cleaned and organized it? 4 days ago:
Wait until the you run out of dishes before you start to wash any.
- Comment on Is it safe to assume the guy i went out on a date with, just wants to sleep with me? 1 week ago:
I would say someone getting offended by you communicating is not “nothing”. At least it would be a problem for me.
- Comment on Is it safe to assume the guy i went out on a date with, just wants to sleep with me? 1 week ago:
Seems possible.
But the answer might be highly culturally dependent, and also contingent on a tonne of extra context, so you’re probably not going to get a reliable answer from the internet.
You could try asking him his intentions directly. Or telling him that you’re not interested.
- Comment on Itch.io Re-indexes free NSFW content, are in ongoing discussions with payment processors to re-introduce paid content 1 week ago:
That REALLY isn’t how things work
It definitely can be. I haven’t dealt with payment processors in this way, but I’ve had (spurious) DCMA takedowns that required my service providers to act immediately, or else they’d get sued. They did notify me, but gave me about 2h to figure something else out.
A payment processor is in full control of payments across your entire site (unless you have multiple, I guess). They can pull the rug with no notice if they want. Doesn’t seem nice, but nice isn’t part of the business model.
- Comment on How did you decide what you generally wanted to do with your life? 2 weeks ago:
Interestingly, this is basically the approach of some of the best management/leadership thinkers these days (e.g. Cynefin). I think the basic premise is “the world is changing so fast that any plans you make now might be meaningless in a decade, so focus on what’s knowable in the here and now, and your next step”. Dave Snowden from Cynefin points to Ana’s “The Next Right Thing” from Frozen 2 as excellent advice 😅
- Comment on How did you decide what you generally wanted to do with your life? 2 weeks ago:
Pretty good approach. Most of the most interesting people I know started adult life doing one thing, and eventually switched to another thing. Maybe after one or two years of an undergrad, maybe after 15 years of a career.
I’ve got one friend in his late 30s who has been a highschool teacher for over a decade, and is still thinking of switching careers to be a train driver. He does public transport activism a bit too. I reckon you could head into the train network with IT skills anyway - maybe as some kind of network operator. Not quite the same thing, but aligned…
I would say that you should absolutely take maximum advantage of any electives offered to get as broad a taste of what’s available as possible. That’s what will give you ideas about where to head next.
- Comment on How did you decide what you generally wanted to do with your life? 2 weeks ago:
Great answer, flexibility and adaptability is underrated.
You’re almost never gonna get a perfect opportunity. But you’ll get good ones that kind of match your skills now and then. And if your skill base is broad, then you’ll find good ones way more often. And if you’re happy to deal with the temporary discomfort of learning some specific skills quickly, then you can make use of many of them.
I think being capable of being deeply interested in many diverse things is a critical part of this.
- Comment on How did you decide what you generally wanted to do with your life? 2 weeks ago:
Good answer. Ironically, pretty much all the answers here are good, and worth looking at (because they are mostly broad, general advice)
- Comment on How did you decide what you generally wanted to do with your life? 2 weeks ago:
By doing the next obvious thing until I’d tried enough things to be sure where I wanted to be. Took until my late 30s, but the stuff before that was fun and/or interesting too.
- Comment on How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news? 2 weeks ago:
Activism, contributing to your community, making the world a better place. The crazy-making part is that you know it’s crap, and that you feel like you have no agency to make it better, right? Well, doing something to make the world better makes it feel more tolerable, even if the bit that you’re working on isn’t related to the specific badness that you’re paying attention to on the news right now.
And yeah, there’s always the possibility that what you’re doing backfires, or has no effect, but if you don’t do anything at all, then there’s no possibility of having a good effect. Also, obviously no one normal person can fix everything, you just pick a bit that seems suited for you and work on that.
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 2 weeks ago:
*the Vatican, crying in the corner*
- Comment on I dont want to enter a contract when consuming your product.. 3 weeks ago:
Thus is the kind of legalistic bullshit interpretation I can get right behind
- Comment on Antisemitism envoy praises Elon Musk's X for using AI to 'root out hate' 3 weeks ago:
Is she high?
- Comment on Do the needs of the many outweigh the whims of the few? 4 weeks ago:
Basically this:
- Comment on Do the needs of the many outweigh the whims of the few? 4 weeks ago:
Maybe… My understanding (which is admittedly based on not much hard evidence) is that right wingism is more of a symptom than a cause, and that there are basically two or three drivers:
- insecurity, particularly financial (e.g. shows up as “they’re taking our jobs”, or "fucking dole bludgers). I think greed is sometimes an excessive response to this.
- trauma (e.g. I was treated terribly, and so I’m gonna treat the world terribly in turn).
- power-hunger. (which is probably often a reaction to the other two, a need to control your world).
The insane far-right that are in power in the US, and the people surrounding them are most of the third category… I don’t think much of the base is in that category. But that group knows the triggers for people in the first two categories, and abuses the fuck out of them…
So yeah… I guess you’re right in that “convincing them of the truth” of any single issue isn’t going to solve anything. But I think aiming to solve those underlying insecurity and trauma issues might… Not that I have any quick-fix solutions…
- Comment on Do the needs of the many outweigh the whims of the few? 4 weeks ago:
That example’s a good one for a anotger reason: right wingers do need to feel safe, but that doesn’t mean that anything needs to be done about trans people. RW perceptions of what needs to be done are wrong, because they are based on myths and misunderstandings about the risks transness. Or another way to say it: the need for safety is real, solutions proposed by rightwingers are not appropriate, even aside from the issue of trans rights, because they won’t solve need for safety - hiding the bogeyman under a rug or behind criminalisation won’t make it go away, and will increase misunderstanding.
- Comment on Do the needs of the many outweigh the whims of the few? 4 weeks ago:
I assets you mean “A greater number of people”?
- Comment on We really don't want to talk about our problems 5 weeks ago:
Your ethical choice to not just steal it is the only thing stopping you.
- Comment on We really don't want to talk about our problems 5 weeks ago:
Is this about his mental health, or just about his shit working conditions?
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 5 weeks ago:
The same thing should apply to private property, especially in cities.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 5 weeks ago:
Pretty sure it was so publishers (printing press owners) could have a guaranteed income. Those two things were correlated at the time. Not so much anymore. Streaming/subscription mentality is like planned obsolescence for IP.
- Comment on Albanese's plan to 'unleash the private sector' 5 weeks ago:
Why not?