GloomyBoots

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HyperNormalisation (2016) [video](youtube.com)
3 points by GloomyBoots 3y ago|1 comments
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
Maybe in this case it should be spelled yacc shaving.
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
People can feel unsafe for a variety of reasons. Characterizing your "side" on this issue as the sole champion of compassion and empathy is a dishonest way to avoid rational debate. We understand that people with schizophrenia hav
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
Isn’t an older copyright date preferable? Could do <start-year>-<current-year>.
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
My mom got me a pair of AfterShokz (the former name of this brand) years ago, and I’ve been hooked ever since. I’m on my third pair now, and I’m pretty brutal on them. I wear them every day for long periods, and I really enjoy having headph
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
I have one of these in my home office. Just press a button to switch from my work laptop to my PC, including all peripherals like speakers, webcam, mic, etc. My only complaint is that the audio behaves a little strangely. It buzzes and pops
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
I don’t have anything bad to say about PipeWire. It's really been a breath of fresh air. And, as much hate as it gets, so was PulseAudio when it came out. Good to see things moving forward.
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
I used to do it regularly with major events. Set up streams of multiple live sources and just watch things play out. You get a very different perspective on things than if you watch the handful of clips and images that get replayed constant
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
I don't see any update yet on Maxime RF's site, but I guess that would be the place to watch for one: https://www.mrfdev.com/enhancer-for-youtube . Thankfully, I just installed the extension on my current machine a
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
> I've heard this idea before, from college students 20+ years ago, talking about US politics, and intentionally "throwing away" votes on independent leftist candidates. The goals I recall were to try to force Democrat lea
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
> Shitty English like "to unalive someone" isn't particularly disturbing I find it disturbing that certain words become verboten, so people swap them out with sarcastically infantile euphemisms, then that language becomes
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
I’ll take the other side. There’s nothing wrong with acknowledging race. Today people equate race with a biological essentialism that was grafted onto it in the recent past, but that’s not what race ever meant. Acknowledging race is nothing
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
I’ll agree with a nitpick. Nationality is also an ethnic concept. A nation is the political manifestation of an ethnic group. Not all states are nations, but we use the term imprecisely. Citizenship is something else entirely.
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
I think what’s happening here isn’t really regional at all. It’s a kind of confusion that can happen anywhere within the Anglosphere. We have a word, “couple” which means exactly two things. But unlike “one” or “two”, children don’t tend to
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
It happens if you use Cloudflare DNS. Not Cloudflare’s fault. Wish the owner of the site could be bothered to make it work with such a major service.
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
No mutual respect is possible when you frame disagreement as inherently disrespectful.
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
You’re talking about a drop of water in an ocean. The Islamic slave trade is the most massive and brutal such enterprise that has ever existed. And the Crusades were a direct response to Islamic invasions of Europe. Islamic culture is defin
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
> fringe extremist It’s socially conservative. Why the hyperbolic language? It’s only “extreme” when juxtaposed with the political expressions of “polite society”, not America at large, which skews conservative on social issues. > pro
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
Not a small town thing. There isn’t a town or city of any size in America that isn’t woefully deficient in rule of law. It’s just whatever artificial camp you get thrown into that decides which corruption you overlook.
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
1 and 2 directly contradict the point I was responding to. If you want to claim that this is a novel phenomenon, fine (I agree at least in part). But I was directly addressing the claim that this is a historical one. I don’t think so becaus
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
> this has never been done for any sustained period in any society ever, despite incentives of all kinds that were tried in the past Assuming that fertility decline is irreversible, this would mean that you should have specific examples
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
> Please explain how a population that sees its fertility rate voluntarily drop below replacement will ever have it raise back up to replacement level. Fertility rates tend to fluctuate in relation to stressors like resource availability
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
I know what you mean, but I see it a little differently. 1. I was a precocious kid, and as much as it might rub people the wrong way, there’s nothing wrong with being proud of yourself for that and bringing attention to it. The downside is
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
> It doesn't imply that it's matching black people to white perpetrators. The claim is that A) the model itself is worse at matching for black faces and B) the database being searched against is often disproportionately made up
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
Come on, we know that there is variation, sometimes drastic, between populations on all different facets of life. But this one ? No. It would be racist to even broach the subject. That’s why we know White people are to blame for it.
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
> Consequently AI is more likely to mark Black faces as criminal, leading to the targeting and arresting of innocent Black people. I don’t see how this relates to simple facial recognition. It doesn’t appear that they’re scanning for “cr
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
The link and the URL are what made hypertext hyper. They turned words in a document into portals to other documents. But that web isn’t the one we’re dealing with anymore. We’ve moved from documents to applications. Like tabindex, I’m sure
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
> You made the claim by listing it as a source for a prior claim that gays were pedos. My exact claim, which has been consistent and clear, is that they are at higher rates . You're the one intentionally dodging context. Of course
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
> I find the wikipedia link about lesbian domestic violence so interesting, especially due to the all the well-sourced text it devotes to the fact that it's not actually possible to state anything with certainty about the prevalence
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
I don’t need to do all of the work for you, but to get you started: Increased lesbian domestic violence rates https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_violence_in_lesbian... Increased gay pedophilia rates https:/

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