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- Comment on Is Kagi Worth It? 2 days ago:
Just adding my two cents as a happy user of several years: I vastly prefer its results to ddg/google, I kinda forgot the AI stuff existed since I turned it off and it’s stayed off, and I never hit the quota when I was on the limited plan.
The real killer feature is the ability to downrank spammy sites IME (pinterest, fandom, etc.).
- Comment on How would you actually tax the ultra wealthy? 5 days ago:
Attainder.
- Comment on The unAbomber. Otherwise, I agree. 5 days ago:
It’s just off-the-cuff writing without copyediting. Tad sloppy, but weird hate, homie.
- Comment on The unAbomber. Otherwise, I agree. 5 days ago:
Just gonna rip from Wikipedia
With its initial publication in 1995, the manifesto was received as intellectually deep and sane. Writers described the manifesto’s sentiment as familiar. To Kirkpatrick Sale, the Unabomber was “a rational man” with reasonable beliefs about technology. He recommended the manifesto’s opening sentence for the forefront of American politics. Cynthia Ozick likened the work to an American Raskolnikov (of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment), as a “philosophical criminal of exceptional intelligence and humanitarian purpose … driven to commit murder out of an uncompromising idealism”.
- Comment on The unAbomber. Otherwise, I agree. 5 days ago:
Industrialized Society and Its Future (name of the manifesto)
- Comment on The unAbomber. Otherwise, I agree. 5 days ago:
Might be a matter of taste, but ISAIF is worth a read on the basis of its wild mix of sociological brilliance and unhingedness IMO. That’s not to say I endorse blowing people up in the slightest, but the work stands taller than the sum of its influences.
E.g. I think he synthesized and added to quite a few different authors in presenting his concept of oversocialization. (Please do correct me if I’m off-base — I love philosophy but it’s not my main wheelhouse).
- Comment on The unAbomber. Otherwise, I agree. 5 days ago:
Nah, you’re likely thinking of McVeigh, who cited The Turner Diaries.
- Comment on Me watching someone on Lemmy getting cooked for having the same opinion as me: 5 days ago:
The modlog is public. Show us some examples?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I’m totally on board with the idea that for academic anthropology, self-identity should be treated as the core determinant of cultural grouping: i.e., people are who they say they are.
But IMO, to take that academic lens outside a scholarly context and browbeat that there’s no point having a commonplace semiotic label for “common behavioral and stylistic trends of white, working-class British youth from the 90s and aughts” is a weird leap that misunderstands practical semantics.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
You’re quoting the political opinion piece of one lone sociologist, though. It’s objectively a hot take that the majority of the field would not agree with.
You can find plenty of physicists who will tell you aliens, bigfoot or alternative dimensions are real. The validity of that statement does not make aliens, bigfoot, or multiverses a physical reality.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
What makes this a recurring fixation for you, OP? Didn’t you post a bunch of old threads arguing that chav is a slur?
Just a weird hill, mate.
- Comment on Call me Barbie the way I lust after Ken Thompson. 1 week ago:
I think I speak for all Debian users when I say I love me some bussy.
- Comment on Annon was too spicy 1 week ago:
His nipples make some great points.
- Comment on Avocado. Is it really so untasty or I am doing something wrong? 3 weeks ago:
Eating an avocado straight-up like you would other fruits will generally be unpleasant. It needs other food to balance it.
Cut the fruit in half the long way, core it, slice thinly, and serve on top of anything salty, savory or crunchy. Tortilla chips, fried eggs, bacon, mushrooms, ground beef, etc. You’ll have a very different experience :).
- Comment on Someone should register Lemmy.Worlf, and use it as a URL redirect for Lemmy.World. 4 weeks ago:
Someone got lemmy.wang already… Robbery.
- Comment on 29 years since our homecoming queen was taken from us 5 weeks ago:
Everything else I post on this site is just cover for my Nico shilling, tbh.
- Comment on 29 years since our homecoming queen was taken from us 5 weeks ago:
Weird crossover, but for the Twin Peaks fans who like EDM, Nicolas Jaar’s breakout DJ set samples this interview as its opener:
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
What you’re describing is a teratoma, not a vestigial twin.
- Comment on This MF is quadrupling down and dropping Alien files before dropping the full, unredacted Epstein Files. GODDAMN. 5 weeks ago:
All common English-language standards and style guides will tell you the article should be based on the pronunciation of the acronym.
- Comment on Anon likes archaeology shows 1 month ago:
I’m repeating from last time this was posted, but Time Team is massively underrated. All their new episodes are posted free on Youtube, as well as the vast majority of their back catalog of 20 seasons:
youtube.com/@TimeTeamOfficial/videos
Check it out & support the cause if you’re able!
- Comment on Anon likes archaeology shows 1 month ago:
Lmfao, that second link sent me.
Yeah, Tony’s schtick is definitely grating at times, and I think the new hosts are doing a better job now that they’ve hit their stride.
In that same vein, it’s fascinating to watch how the levels of sexism among the cast change from the early seasons to now. Carenza and Helen took some real shit in their day…
- Comment on Anon likes archaeology shows 2 months ago:
Time Team is literally the best television show ever invented.
It’s an archaeology TV show with a reality-TV twist included: Send a team of professional archaeologists, geophysicists, historians, etc. to research a site of interest… in the span of just three days.
The show ran for 20 seasons on TV, and is still running today, rebooted as a Patreon-supported Youtube series. Watch it.
- Comment on Adderall vape? 2 months ago:
Sounds like you don’t want the public knowing about the Shadow People who are constantly watching us, huh?
- Comment on The Lioness does not... 2 months ago:
The lioness’ joke was kinda butchered by the typos though.
- Comment on Anon enjoys Minecraft 3 months ago:
Minecraft is old enough to vote in less than two years.
- Comment on Does each country have a book/library of the laws of the land that a commoner can consult to check if they're about to do something illegal? 3 months ago:
You’re not wrong that most statutory legislation is freely and readily available, but determining if an act is illegal in a practical sense requires looking at case law too.
Depending on what domain we’re talking about, technical legislation often references paywalled documents too. E.g., I work in biomed R&D, and the FDA regulations for medical devices are often tied to pay-to-play ISO standards.
- Comment on Tf is a ternary diagram 3 months ago:
How did Albert Munsell figure out the color of the soil everywhere we go? Is he the mastermind who put it there?
- Comment on Is audiophile bullshit cheating? 3 months ago:
I know you’re playing devil’s advocate, but to play devil:
In a theoretical world where you can manage to perfectly beamform the entire 20-20k Hz frequency range into a single node (or pair of nodes around the ears)… you’re still just re-condensing the original reference reference signal at the site of your beam target.
And if your idea of peak quality is to hear the reference signal loud and clear, it might be marginally easier to set up some well-tuned speakers in an arrangement relatively free of resonance hotspots and then crank up the volume.
- Comment on More information will be revealed at a later date 3 months ago:
…is this a Shaft III announcement?
- Comment on who is searching this 3 months ago:
If you haven’t boofed toad, you haven’t lived.
Now get off my Lemmiwinks fan club site.
