CyanBird

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by CyanBird 7y ago
>aren't we making people a lot more selfish? Not necessarily , we all are to a degree or another, hard wired to care for each other and to want to belong to something. I care for my neighbor because I have met him several times and
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by CyanBird 7y ago
One of the guys below posted a beautiful analogy comparing us people to cracked poorlywwritten legacy software/hardware https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20069693 I think that the only hope remains in the newer gene
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by CyanBird 7y ago
>but I highly disagree that this is a straightforward distinction to make. Yep, 10000000% agreed, this is why this question needs to be answered by the individual itself with the help of a therapist. There is simply no clear line as you
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by CyanBird 7y ago
I'm sorry, but this is such a cheapo propaganda like comment to what the other guy said Throwing numbers around as if the decentralized killing or the fami es within non-totalitarian systems weren't comparable is just silly The gu
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by CyanBird 7y ago
I gotta say those folks on Brave New World seemed quite happy tbqh
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by CyanBird 7y ago
>Voluntary delegation is different than involuntary delegation I mean, this is 100% correct, yet that's not quite the problem, and stating it that way leads to overall confusion, the issue is that policy makers, companies and othe
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by CyanBird 7y ago
>Agency is the only option. This is the problem, agency is dead, or at least in the grand scales, manufacture of consent has been a thing for a long, long, long time now and it won't go away simply because some people are afraid of
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by CyanBird 7y ago
I think that what you are missing is that this is not an option, this is a reality, Cambridge analytica already happened and since then they have moved into manufacturing consent in many other countries elections For a long time, marketing
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by CyanBird 7y ago
>The more I see of this emerging mass mind control dystopia the harder it is for me to think of non-radical solutions. You should 100% see the adamn Curtis documentary I mentioned above and read up on manufacture of consent https:/
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by CyanBird 7y ago
Our entire idea of "agency", "individuality" and even "freedom" needs to be re-thinked. Basically all of what we have built resides in one way or another on the idea that individuals bar exceptions such as with
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by CyanBird 7y ago
> there was no point in making a game addictive. This is what you are missing, they were already addictive , it was only not a wide spread thing because games in general didn't had mass appeal back then, it was a niche thing that c
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by CyanBird 7y ago
>ow do we differentiate from a compelling and effective form of entertainment with an addictive activity? Just like we have always done, if something constantly disturbs day to day activities, then it is an addictive behaviour >That i
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by CyanBird 7y ago
The article does indeed mention them both >The nature of addiction has implications—more precisely, temptations—for businesses that sell habituating products. One is to encourage early and frequent consumption. Treat the lads, the saloon
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by CyanBird 7y ago
"Limbic Capitalism" Oh god that's such a wondrous name, the perfect descriptor
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by CyanBird 7y ago
This is a good take, I like it, the US has deployed tons of spy satellites, and if they think the sail/shield+Mirrors will deploy well because they have used it in spy satellites before then I'll believe it
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by CyanBird 7y ago
Nuclear and Renewables are mostly equivalent when it comes to their CO2 cost https://www.carbonbrief.org/solar-wind-nuclear-amazingly-low... Solar in particular can vary wildly when it comes to the CO2/MWatt because of
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by CyanBird 7y ago
I live in Uruguay and a shudder runs by my spine to even think of what might happen if Brazil government and companies where to get their hands in a working reactor/plant. Brazilian companies can't be trusted to handle measly mini
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by CyanBird 7y ago
>Climate change is causing massive loss of land in the form of shifting climate and rising sea levels. And coal power's contribution to that lost land is far greater than the lost land at Chernobyl and Fukushima. False equivalency,
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by CyanBird 7y ago
That's a false choice, as natural gas is already being wasted and burnt as a byproduct, if that natural gas were used as an energy source, then we could better control the burning process and reduce emissions. Building nuclear plants
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by CyanBird 7y ago
>gas isn't acceptable Neither is waiting 15 years until a next generation of nuclear plants are built.... Natural gas is the resource that we have right now , and as it stands, in Bakken Oil Fields, natural gas is being burnt as e
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by CyanBird 7y ago
Yeah, it is, and that's where things get interesting such as logistics, economics trends, risk assestment At the moment the US is going through a natural gas boom, companies many times have a serious over supply of it, and they are rel
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by CyanBird 7y ago
In the chernobyl podcast, where a lead director and producer of the show talks about it, he said a haunting line that in my opinion is nothing but the truth >Chernobyl could only happen in the Ussr, but the Ussr was the only country with
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by CyanBird 7y ago
You are not impressing anyone by playing the "I'm smarter than you card", you are only shaming yourself and not addressing the points of the discussion Solar plants with natural gas backup turbines are still cheaper than nu
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by CyanBird 7y ago
What happened at chernobyl WAS Not a "worse case scenario", had the entire with the other 3 reactors plant exploded in a thermal explosion. Now that would had been a worse case scenario, and today there are still RBMK reactors i
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by CyanBird 7y ago
Reduce, reuse, recycle That has always been the mantra and always will. I'm certainly opposed to God forbids opening new nuclear plants, but I'm also opposed to closing existing ones, those are different arguments and should be tr
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by CyanBird 7y ago
Nuclear is not an essential part of any solution, it is more expensive than solar and wind per Mwatt, it takes far longer to build new plants, and if you want to make sure those plants are actually safe then you need to invest billions of d
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by CyanBird 7y ago
When it comes to the miners, they actually weren't necessary, the corium lava didn't breach the lower levels of concrete, it solidified before that, so all those miners were exposed to all that radiation and risk of cancer needles
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by CyanBird 7y ago
I wonder how would it be possible to teach young children to not value "being smart" and make that stick as they grown into rebel teenagers, deception is certainly not the way to go, as they will obviously notice it over time. Tel
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by CyanBird 7y ago
The US has already done cyber attwto Russian banking system back in 2016, and even when not a great power, there have been serious claims of the Venezuelan electric failures being caused by US intervention, beyond that the Snowden leaks sho
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by CyanBird 7y ago
At least from what I read, it is the slant of the entire piece than anything in particular. If we removed environmental protections we would also see a boom of growth in the industry, but we decided that those benefits don't outweigh t

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