ToucanLoucan

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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
I often think about this while watching Hoarders, and this is hitting similar neurons so if you'll forgive the off-topic-ish nature... I think more than anything this is the ooze you get out of the sides of societies that focus so terr
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
Yeah I'm guessing if someone walked up to you and crowed a bunch of "common sense" that don't align at all with your own lived experience and understanding of how your own body works, you know the one you're living
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
Well firstly, specifically in gambling, self-reported statistics from the NCPG indicate that of the 60%-ish of the population that will engage in gambling, about 5-7% develop problems around that gambling. So it isn't 99.9%, it's
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
Because these problems have never been dealt with. We scold victims and sell this "individual responsibility"/"bootstraps" bullshit to avoid doing so. Some of us create these products that actively fuck with people&
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
I mean I can't speak for everyone but in my mind, sending lmgtfy was not only always insulting, it was meant to be. It's saying "I know you have access to the tools you need to answer this question, why are you asking me, a
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
> Additionally, you have to realize that a major concern on the right is that academia itself has become ideological to the point where only politically acceptable studies can be 1) studied and more importantly 2) published. There's
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
Emailed!
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
And as a fellow enjoyer of HRT, I assure you it didn't enhance shit for me, beyond what I was hoping to get: longer, more full hair, boobies, and smoother skin. My muscles are gone y'all. Like I've had to buy more breaker
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
Because Republicans get fucking dog-walked on any issue of any importance. The only things they can ever even come close to claiming "victory" on are irrelevant nonsense that no serious person gives a fuck about. There are now mor
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
As a fellow trans woman, we've been the scapegoat for reactionaries, at least documented, since the rise of the Third Reich. And if we're honest, probably before that. Fixing society-scale problems is really hard. Being angry at p
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
Agency occurs in individuals who operate within systems and Americans are some of the most propagandized people on the face of the Earth, and some of the worst educated in the global north. Average reading level is 6th grade. Critical think
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
The politicians (and more directly, their corporate sponsors) stoked that opinion. It didn't come from nowhere. From day 1 of the pandemic the reactionary media ecosystem would not shut the fuck up for even a MOMENT about the unneces
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
Doesn't matter. Literally the same calculus as reopening everything far prematurely for COVID: "But the economy!" The people running this show don't give a flying fuck about the working class. They'll march us into
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
They will if they run out of money to light on fire.
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
As an iOS dev who then got Mac development effectively for free in the bargain, fucking this. Xcode is not perfect, far from it, but it is still head, shoulders, cock and balls above every other toolset I've ever used, bar none. And wh
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
Also they bloated it to death. VSCodium gets you the same solid core app without the oodles and oodles of useless "features" Microsoft has bolted to it.
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
What's extra egregious there is I do understand the logic because developing for Windows is such a fucking nightmare, that they're also responsible for.
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
> It is the job of management to figure out how to make gains over the next 90 days, not make gains sustainable. This is the cancer that has killed so many otherwise good businesses here.
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
It's objectively bad because of how hot my phone is. It's subjectively bad because it's an embarrassment. Like you're seriously going to tell me something like Discord, worth 15 BILLION, cannot afford native apps? Spare
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
This, 100%. The only other headset I was aware of even remotely in AVP's price zip code was the Valve Index, priced at $999 and the AVP was three times that. And even then I proooobably would've been able to justify it? But no e
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
Tbh I wonder if it's related to AI at all, or just a consequence of Microsoft being institutionally unable to ship working software anymore and people are finally tired of spending so much money for such garbage products. Buddy of mine
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
> the "never" is what gets me here. The process is the point for any passionate creative. And yes, for every passionate creative you have a burned out creative who's trying to make ends meet who will use more AI centric
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
> Imagine saying this about a graphing calculator, because that is essentially what the LLM is for knowledge work. A frankly hilarious statement given several key facts: * You don't get and in fact are usually barred from using a gr
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
> The question for doomers is why is this time different? Difference 1: The tools themselves only exist due to rampant exploitation of vast intellectual resources that were created, catalogued, and published with the intent to help peop
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by ToucanLoucan 3mo ago
Genuinely unhinged that companies can just lie this way to the public and it’s completely fine. Normal even. You didn’t agree to shit, Meta. You’re scum, so much so that even in the incredibly hostile to industry regulation environment we f
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by ToucanLoucan 3mo ago
I mean I did word that carefully, "as much of the workforce as possible." So yes entirely possible that the middle managers get automated out too. I genuinely don't get what the endgame here is, just AI's talking to AI&#
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by ToucanLoucan 3mo ago
IMO the top end goal is to allow capital to access skill without allowing skill to access capital. IF they can make these products work as advertised (big if, very very big if) the corpos can fire shitloads of low-end workers and give their
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by ToucanLoucan 3mo ago
> Not too different from what "the cloud" did to this market from 2015 or so... I mean for all the inefficiencies of the cloud, it solved a lot of problems. It also created a new category of problems but rarely does any particu
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by ToucanLoucan 3mo ago
It also surprises and bewilders me that businesses (usually tech or tech adjacent) apparently expect and have for some time expected the ability to do business internationally completely without friction. Which is less something I think is
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by ToucanLoucan 3mo ago
It’s not about regulation it’s about intervention. It’s not that you’re not allowed to saw pieces of yourself off with a chainsaw, stranger of a choice as that may be. The idea is people in your life who care about you may want to intervene

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