KittenInABox

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by KittenInABox 3y ago
ADHD is known to be highly hereditary and has genetic markets. I don't think it's normal, as it's fairly consistent globally (not all countries have the same access or culture around technology and yet ADHD occurs at around t
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by KittenInABox 3y ago
> And you had to really work to get a ban in most forums and IRC channels. You had to really step out of line - and continue stepping out of line. I disagree with this. It was easy to get kicked out of a channel for just being kinda anno
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by KittenInABox 3y ago
> Do other careers have such a vast gap between the platonic ideal and the actual lived experience? Any NGO worker or nonprofit probably has this. Nurses, doctors, and veterinarians also.
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> We want to go back to the Internet of thick-skinned people who rarely even blocked others, much less actively tried to get them banned. IRC had channel-wide, server-wide blocks available since the olden days, as well as user-to-user bl
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by KittenInABox 3y ago
How can you possibly claim that social diversity was universal in the old school internet when "tits or gtfo" was an extremely common meme for anyone who claimed to be female? No, in my experience people mostly kept to individual
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by KittenInABox 3y ago
Public transportation can be good or bad, depending on execution, unlike car-centric infrastructure which never scales and becomes more expensive and results in more deaths from everyday distractions, drunk drivers, etc. If I could live in
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by KittenInABox 3y ago
Yeah, actually. I want to be able to read, study, catch up on work, get wasted with friends, nap, and not worry about insurance, parking, or killing anyone. All for cheaper than gas, repairs, tires, etc.
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by KittenInABox 3y ago
A friend of mine who lives in los angeles made a sad laugh when I complained "ugh, my subways are 12 mins apart". So I suspect public transport in los angeles forces people into cars because the other options suck.
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by KittenInABox 3y ago
I strongly disagree with this for children & community buildings. Children shouldn't be subject to congestion pricing. Teenagers should be free to rove a mall and be harmlessly loud and messy without being pressured to buy somethin
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by KittenInABox 3y ago
> there isn't anywhere to go because car dependent infrastructure has killed all the places that young people used to hang out. I think it's way more than car dependent infrastructure. It's also the pressures of monetizin
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by KittenInABox 3y ago
In the context of an entire presumed talk, conference, interview, panel, or whatever presumably about race and racism... nah not really lol. Dude only really has about a minute to respond, and he probably spent already at least 30-45 minute
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by KittenInABox 3y ago
Not going to like, the definition of racism there makes sense to me. Racism being a set of racist policies resulting in inequality based on racist beliefs. I mean, how else do you describe what race-based slavery is? Slavery is a policy res
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by KittenInABox 3y ago
I don't think that's "adults today". Adults in the past also had parasocial shit going on. Do you think the people banging on Sherlock Holmes's author feeling personally betrayed by the ending were all young kiddos?
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by KittenInABox 3y ago
The thing with nurses is that there is no amount you can reasonably pay a nurse to risk their license by forcing them to provide literal medical neglect. I would rather strike, unionize, fight tooth and nail, if it meant I could avoid knowi
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by KittenInABox 3y ago
I'll throw my hat in and suggest also: "I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World" by Kai Cheng Thom Really tackles the issues with non-nuanced public discussion on political topics in an eye-open
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by KittenInABox 3y ago
> companies have been behaving the same way forever (trying to maximize profits), yet inflation has been low for a decade This isn't true. Companies only started to maximize profits under shareholder value recently. Corporations or
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by KittenInABox 3y ago
Have you actually been disabled with significant health needs on Medicaid? It sucks super, super hard.
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by KittenInABox 3y ago
I don't think this is accurate. In the US, the onus of abuse reporting is on the employee. You can abuse your employee knowing that if they report you, you'll know they reported you, and can carefully torpedo their career knowing
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by KittenInABox 3y ago
> For example, my wife has a much keener recognition for something that's messy - a full sink or a shirt laying on the floor of my office will "scream" at her louder that it does at me. This may be because she's train
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by KittenInABox 3y ago
If you've seen your wife and female friends scroll Instagram then you know you were inaccurately describing the scenario as trying to ban "classically beautiful" women. The problem is you think it doesn't change anything
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by KittenInABox 3y ago
See my second point: how is a young teen supposed to handle something designed by teams of psychologists to keep them engaged in? It's why we don't let children play slot machines or don't allow tobacco advertising to childre
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by KittenInABox 3y ago
> I can see it now ... young girls cannot see content showcasing skinny or 'classically beautiful' women, because it gives them a skewed perspective of 'beauty' that may lead to eating disorders. Do you actually have
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by KittenInABox 3y ago
> young adults/teens will drone on about "mental health" because its fashionable (if social media is giving you an eating disorder or making you anxious, how about putting down the phone?) To be fair, for many young adults
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by KittenInABox 3y ago
I actually think talking to 5 independent artists to draw an Indian man would still produce wildly different depictions than a model, and that's because... well I don't think of turban == indian personally. I think of a brown guy
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by KittenInABox 3y ago
I actually heavily disagree with this. Most AI has one specific depiction of a thing and really struggles to get away from that specificity, which honestly is something I consider to be a fundamental failing of ML modeling currently. For ex
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by KittenInABox 3y ago
That seems to suggest coasting your job, not really doing it.
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by KittenInABox 3y ago
Do you have a link to such a case? Genuinely asking because I want to know how the lawyers argue this in court without bursting into giggles from embarrassment.
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by KittenInABox 3y ago
I don't think cops extorting marginalized people is new, sadly. I actually think cops making life hard for people of color is the tradition of cops in america, all the way back to the slave-catching days.
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by KittenInABox 3y ago
IMO the effect of Twitter is not the major media traffic but the indie organizations advertising their stuff through word of mouth. Think freelance editors or smaller one-off courses on media analysis, centers for various nonprofit educatio
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by KittenInABox 3y ago
No, I found it extremely difficult to use during a school shooting affecting family of mine. Fuckton of bots and irrelevant shit.

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