BLKNSLVR

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by BLKNSLVR 10mo ago
It's all very nuanced, but to put it overly bluntly: career-orientation is about power and control and self image. My understanding is that it's all mental illness related behavior. Happy to be disagreed with, it's just my ex
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by BLKNSLVR 10mo ago
To be clear, I'm no worshipper, nor Apple fanboi. In fact, I try to avoid that ecosystem entirely. I'm a praiser of good parents and good people and Steve was definitively neither, it would seem.
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by BLKNSLVR 10mo ago
I'm in no way attempting to do that. I live my life in the opposite manner, I have two great kids (that are my lifetime greatest achievement) and a "career" that pays the bills that I could totally take or leave (pending the
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by BLKNSLVR 10mo ago
There were things about Jobs around before he died, I'm pretty sure. The denial of paternity of his first born being one of them. (I think that was relatively well known well before he died)
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by BLKNSLVR 10mo ago
Your comment makes me interested in the hypothetical of how Jobs would have positioned Apple under the current administration. I haven't read much about Tim Cook being anywhere near the level of sycophant, or raising the curtain to sho
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by BLKNSLVR 10mo ago
There's no question in my mind that having kids gets in the way of single-minded vision that's required of the kind of career success that Jobs had. It's unfortunate, but the reality is that having kids and actually caring fo
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by BLKNSLVR 10mo ago
My suspicion is that Ken Paxton thought Samsung was Chinese, and soon after the court action was submitted found out they were actually South Korean (or at least 'not Chinese').
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by BLKNSLVR 10mo ago
The depth of knowledge of Richard James surprises me every time I come across articles about him. No wonder Aphex Twin's music stands out the way it does. He's always a fair way ahead of the curve.
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by BLKNSLVR 10mo ago
Yeah, but that particular line rings true for me because I've used similar hyperbole when describing lite milk in comparison to real / whole milk. If you can't tell the difference, then it's been a long time since you&#x
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by BLKNSLVR 10mo ago
Just to be clear, I wasn't agreeing with it. I was attempting to answer the question of 'how do they sleep at night?'. What they tell themselves is: liberty! Like I said: gross.
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by BLKNSLVR 10mo ago
I think the point was more Streisand Effect than commentary on the popularity.
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by BLKNSLVR 10mo ago
I've only realized this somewhat recently, and it happens passively, but the way people use some of these magic words helps me to categorize the person who said it. Sure, use whatever derogatory or offensive words you want, I don'
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by BLKNSLVR 10mo ago
Something I've noticed under Trump is how a country's leadership does actually affect the behavior of the people under that leadership. Trump's openly crude behavior is normalizing such behavior amongst the impressionable. An
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by BLKNSLVR 10mo ago
I appreciate the nod to whole milk because 'lite' milk is, well, Nick Offerman said it best as Ron from Parks and Recreation: "There's only one thing I hate more than lying: Skim milk. Which is water that's lying ab
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by BLKNSLVR 10mo ago
I agree, but: "individual freedom" It's a great umbrella. If they so choose to dissolve their teeth and decimate their guy bacteria, who am I to intervene? It's gross, but it works for gross people, and there's a hi
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by BLKNSLVR 10mo ago
> actually enjoy the game, or have an unsatiable (fear-driven?) need for status, or something else of this sort Ie. Somewhat serious mental disorders as requisite for leadership. I wonder how we got onto this darkest timeline?
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by BLKNSLVR 10mo ago
Yep, Windows performance on my work laptop reminds me of computing in the 90s: waiting and resource management.
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by BLKNSLVR 10mo ago
My work machine is grossly slow due to all the various security software. Loading Teams can take minutes. I'm often late to meetings waiting for the damn thing to load. Feels like early 90s computing and that Moore's Law was an ex
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by BLKNSLVR 10mo ago
> without it I cannot function in a work environment. This is more about what you choose as your operating environment, not what your work imposes as your working environment. Most places of work, mine included, run Microsoft services th
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by BLKNSLVR 10mo ago
I guess Google are just smarter at hiding the proof of their shit like this. If Meta are profiting off scammers, Google are profiting more.
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by BLKNSLVR 10mo ago
Twitter also seems to have considerable influence over the US Government. So much so that the US has imposed sanctions on a few people in the EU for suggesting that maybe Twitter should moderate hate speech. https://townhall.com&
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by BLKNSLVR 10mo ago
Ummm, no there is not.
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by BLKNSLVR 10mo ago
Ask them for their home address. Ask them for their children's names and the school they go to. Ask them their mothers maiden name, their first pets name, and they street name they lived on as a child. Ask to film them going about thei
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by BLKNSLVR 10mo ago
All of these things mean that email is no longer fit for purpose. I host a few of my own domain emails using mailu (a system of docker containers), but not my primary (so I'm slightly hypocritical). It's a certain amount of hassle
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by BLKNSLVR 10mo ago
Another daily GrapheneOS driver here. I've kept banking apps off my phone anyway, and I do banking via desktop/website (I don't understand why people need to do banking 'on the go') and just use a physical credit ca
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by BLKNSLVR 10mo ago
The US has any soft power left? I think Trump has successfully destroyed all of that and replaced it with (rhetoric about) threats of hard power. The Trump administration is the equivalent of a lazy/absent parent. The kids have no resp
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by BLKNSLVR 10mo ago
I am intrigued by the fact the US acts despite no US citizen having an arrest warrant put out for them. Israel can't do sanctions for Israelis? I mean, the realpolitik of these sanctions by the US is in hope that the USs involvement in
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by BLKNSLVR 10mo ago
Easy solution then, let's just cut down on logging. ...waits 50 years...
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by BLKNSLVR 10mo ago
It feels as if the more I go in one direction, the more the rest of the world goes in the other. My in-laws are a lost cause. I can make immediate ground in most discussions, but give it a day and they're back to their same FUD argumen
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by BLKNSLVR 10mo ago
Remind me of the fantastic line: "The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment"

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