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by Adraghast 4y ago
White Fragility is an awful book. Even as baby's first guide to thinking about how you treat POC, it's a net negative and that role would be better filled by something like Ibram Kendi's books. Still fluffy and lightweight, b
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by Adraghast 4y ago
"You're not wrong, you're just being an asshole." No, it's not very fair he's been able to coast through most of his adult life by scrounging up links to things that elder millennial nerds find neat, but taking
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by Adraghast 4y ago
> Post the demise of RSS it's one of the few places I check in on directly every few days. What do you mean by this? I saw the announcement in my RSS reader before seeing it here. > What are your other favorites that might help m
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by Adraghast 4y ago
"God is dead. God is dead, and we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of the deed?"
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by Adraghast 4y ago
The headline gave me the same initial thought. I assume the experiment controlled for this, but so much of the mindfulness stuff is associated with self-optimizing hustle culture types that it seemed obvious to me it would correlate with hi
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by Adraghast 4y ago
This would line up with a broader trend I've noticed and would be interested in reading more about: the use of pop psychology to justify antisocial behavior. Ten years ago, telling a distressed friend you don't feel like hearing a
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Similarly, I went out to dinner Friday and could not scan the QR code to view the menu because I decided to leave my phone in the car. I asked for a a physical menu and was told they literally do not have them anymore. Had to hunch over my
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by Adraghast 4y ago
> And I couldn't use a phone because my hands were full Sorry, but you could have used a phone.
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Go to Chicago.
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> This post feels like shallow, Malcolm Gladwellish, wrap-a-simple-idea-with-a-random-narrative stuff. You've identified Seth Godin's entire schtick. The man is the godfather of vapid "give me your email address in exchang
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by Adraghast 4y ago
Swaths of the United States didn't start popping pills and drinking themselves to death over the past couple decades because they got bummed out by social media.
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He picked bad examples by going with the dirt cheap Walmart-grade brands, but the general idea is valid. Closer comparisons would be what you find at Target. Bombas are fine, but you're paying Darn Tough prices for Target quality. I ha
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by Adraghast 4y ago
Did the post make you so angry because you've invested a lot of your identity into the things you own?
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I'm curious why you became a "professional investor" instead of following your own advice. > Are you better than them? Are you?
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Many public places have TVs playing for the benefit of patrons/employees.
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by Adraghast 4y ago
> He's American, so he probably thinks China is inherently a bad place where stupid things happen. Without speaking to the book’s Eurocentrism, I can confirm this is not true. KSR has said in interviews he believes China is the worl
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by Adraghast 4y ago
It’s apropos you forgot the Silent Generation between them!
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> The goal is not avoiding chicken cruelty, is stopping a outbreak virus and saving millions of domestic birds and wildlife. People are not automatons who must follow a single goal at the expense of all other considerations. > I'
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“All is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.”
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I want to reconnect to someone I went to high school with. What steps would you suggest I follow to do so?
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True but irrelevant. Cavities begin showing up in the historical record several millennia before the advent of candy and soda.
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by Adraghast 4y ago
I just checked the NYPL catalog and found The Turner Diaries , Camp of the Saints and Mein Kampf to be available. Just three examples, but I find it hard to imagine what else they’d refuse to carry if those are fine. Is there a particu
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by Adraghast 4y ago
What is this in response to? Do you think Yanis Varoufakis is unfamiliar with undergrad-tier “communism has failed every time” bromides?
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Define what you mean by radical.
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I’d say any of the top three levels of Maslow’s hierarchy. A hobby that helps you achieve feelings of self-actualization, esteem, and belonging is great. Things get hairy at that second level. If you feel psychologically unsafe in your day-
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by Adraghast 4y ago
> In the update[1] he says it's calming and makes him feel safe. He's happier after doing it. That makes it more concerning, not less. A quirky hobby stops being quirky when it starts filling a psychological need. Fast forward
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The typical HN user is very hostile to the idea of someone telling them they can’t or shouldn’t do something.
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Which ones?
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> all of the NES, SNES, and N64 Mario games are on there Super Mario RPG isn’t. Chrono Cross, Final Fantasy 6, Mega Man X, TMNT. I’d even pay a couple bucks to waste an hour playing Bart’s Nightmare again. Pokémon is a nonentity. It’d be
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by Adraghast 4y ago
It’s telling how your libertarian astroturfing site accepts conservation groups’ numbers re: increasing/stable polar bear populations, but not the same groups’ estimates those populations will drop by 30% within two decades due to ice

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