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- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 7 months ago:
It’s part of a shifting norm and shifting norms are always controversial. Especially norms that involve opening up bodily autonomy, dignity, or respect to previously excluded groups.
- Comment on Beauty standards 7 months ago:
Boys becoming Men, Men becoming Bears
- Comment on [Serious] Any high-quality right-wing media, books, explainers? 7 months ago:
This is not a right wing resource, but if you’re interested in learning about the arguments and historical evolution of ideas that underpin economic liberalism/neoliberalism, I highly recommend Geoff Mann’s Disassembly required : a field guide to actually existing capitalism. It’s concise, relatively short, and treats the ‘other’ side like rational actors (which is important for understanding, I think).
Ofc this would only help understand people who are quite well informed.
- Comment on Oddly specific question 7 months ago:
I guess I’m worried primarily about internal enemies too, but I don’t think we’d agree on which entities are the problem for some reason…
- Comment on You can drive for 1 minute in Hong Kong and cross a district. Your mind cannot comprehend this. 7 months ago:
Me too, eyelash extensions that rival the city’s stadium in importance.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Active support of something totally morally unacceptable seems more morally culpable than refusing to participate. I don’t think most people are consequentialists—the how matters.
- Comment on 'The Matrix' Is Getting a Fifth Movie—Without a Wachowski Directing | Wired 8 months ago:
Yeah, I wasn’t a fan of the ‘love conquers all” direction we went with the last one. Hope they fold in some more inspired nineties postmodern sci fi elements/themes
- Comment on How to know you're in Indiana. 8 months ago:
That’s a lot of nozzles
- Comment on Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent 8 months ago:
At my first full time job my supervisor specified that I coups hang up on anyone who brought up their lawyer, used abusive language, or brought up the BBB.
- Comment on This is $87 worth of shopping. Please feel free to use the space below to critique my purchases 9 months ago:
You can make fresh spinach last longer if you layer in some napkins/paper towels (something something moisture, I don’t really know the science).
- Comment on Please Stop 9 months ago:
People are always like “it doesn’t do anything we couldn’t do with SQL,” as if riding a horse isn’t an improvement in transportation over walking. Things don’t have to be impossible to accomplish in any other way in order to be marginally more useful or efficient depending on the goal. Public ledgers are indeed useful. Blockchain is one technology among a small handful that might be appropriate for your project depending on trust dynamics it demands. Consensus protocols are also useful.
One example, right now our global food supply’s movement and distribution is based largely on market dynamics. Say we want to focus on distribution based on need instead. A blockchain based ledger could allow a fred to ‘commit’ a few bushels of carrots which george ‘commits’ to transporting to mike, who in turn has committed to do do a supply run to Uruguay with his barge. Could they have done this in excel? Probably. Would it be more organized on blockchain? Yes. Would a regular database with a lot of contributors that is carefully designed to keep out bad actors work too? Yes, sure.
- Comment on what has worked for you to stop getting angry thinking about people who hurt you? 11 months ago:
It’s quite rational for you to feel angry towards people who seemingly went out of their way to wrong you. One thing that helps me is contemplating the inner existence of that type of person. It must be awful to walk around without a teaspoon of empathy. To walk around disconnected from basic humanity. To find pleasure in hurting others. What a cold existence.
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- Comment on Is the right to abortion a "negative right" or a "positive right"? 1 year ago:
IMO whether abortion turns out to be a negative or a positive right depends on the laws in the country in question. In the US the legal status of abortion is currently up to the states. In the couple states where abortion is explicitly a legal right you have a positive right to an abortion. That is, the state will ensure you have access to one.
In most states it’s a negative right—the state guarantees that if you pursue an abortion you’ll be protected from people who might want to hurt you for doing it. Sort of like being protected from religious persecution is a negative right in many places.
So, to me whether abortion is a positive or negative right (or not a right at all) depends on the legal jurisdiction.
- Comment on Study: Why Wikipedia is the Last Good Website 1 year ago:
good guy Craigslist too
- Comment on Why can I listen to radio for hours but when I listen to music I actually like I feel exhausted after 1 or 2 albums? 1 year ago:
There’s something about knowing there are hundreds of others listening to the same station at the same time that makes my local EDM station somehow more interesting than just shuffling the same playlist at home. Could your issue with albums have a social element similar to how watching a live sports match is just more exciting than the rerun an hour later even if you don’t know the outcome?
Also, I disagree with people saying that albums tend to be more boring because only the radio hits are good! I have many albums I like to listen to start to finish.
- Comment on Why were we able to stamp out Nazism but not the Taliban? 1 year ago:
Nazism was quite centralized and therefore easier to target and eliminate. The bureaucratic structure made it easy to find and convict the main players afterwards. The ideology wasn’t totally eliminated, but new laws and such helped tamp it down.
The taliban is much less centralized and on top of that the various governments involved don’t have a lot of incentive to fall into line like Germany (which the US came in and rebuilt with a ton of strings attached so that it wouldn’t lose its German market share).
- Comment on You didn't bought it you rented it! 1 year ago:
Just freecycled an almost new HP printer/scanner because of their ridiculous software locked in cartridges that print like 20 pages total. I specified in the listing that the ink was expensive and that it would be best for someone who printed almost never and just wanted a scanner.
- Comment on How Microsoft's ruthless employee evaluation system annihilated team collaboration 1 year ago:
Yeah, I’ve done a lot more school since and never seen it in another course. Shitty person I suppose.
- Comment on How Microsoft's ruthless employee evaluation system annihilated team collaboration 1 year ago:
I had a prof in college that graded like this (in an intro level geology class lol) and it made the atmosphere brutal. I don’t remember the exactly distribution but top x% got As bottom x% got Fs.
- Comment on How Microsoft's ruthless employee evaluation system annihilated team collaboration 1 year ago:
Here is another article on the subject, ctl f “At the center of the cultural problems”
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- Comment on Is the blockchain an interesting innovation, aside from cryptocurrencies ? 1 year ago:
Could be used for coordinating large scale decentralized projects. Say we want to organize logistics of food so that everyone gets some. After calculating need for each locale independently, Blockchain could be used for people to commit to, for example, bringing 4 crates of carrots to a location for shipping. Additional blockchain ledgers might keep track of space on the transportation vehicles etc. The ledger’s main job here would be to ensure that a given task (or a given cubic foot for the space example) is not double booked.
