UtopiaPunk

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by UtopiaPunk 1y ago
I know, right? I can't imagine wanting to receive any kind of alert from a news app. If there's a real emergency, like an earthquake or tsunami warning, I believe there are alternative systems in place that will send out a specia
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by UtopiaPunk 1y ago
They are very different societies, sure. I don't think anyone would argue that point. But China has 1.4 billion people, and yet they have an overabundance of housing. If we are trying to find effective strategies for ending homelessnes
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by UtopiaPunk 1y ago
Somewhere in a photo album is a picture of my mother-in-law standing in front of a gas station 20-30 years ago. It was odd. Why stage this photo here? It didn't seem like a particularly pretty or special gas station. I asked her about
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by UtopiaPunk 1y ago
Is "ivape" Sam Altman?
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by UtopiaPunk 1y ago
I want to upvote the first half of your post, the part about school being about learning a breadth of subjects. I believe that wholeheartedly, and I believe pursuing knowledge, thinking critically about the world, and engaging with your pee
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by UtopiaPunk 1y ago
I think HN is a space where practically everyone has a grasp of what AI is and is not capable of, and of what tools could theoretically exist in the near future. I also think that HN is a space where there is not a consensus on whether AI i
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by UtopiaPunk 1y ago
"If genocide is good for the economy, then I am for it. If genocide is bad for the economy, then I'm against it." https://youtu.be/UOJ0zY14EbI?si=NRLz9TnH8mNfMv5m
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by UtopiaPunk 1y ago
Some people would argue that understanding ancient civilaztions and cultures is a worthy goal. I don't think it has to be an either/or thing. Also digital literacy is a fantastic skill - I'm all for it. And I think that digit
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by UtopiaPunk 1y ago
There's an adage I heard during my time in game dev that went something like "gamers will exploit the fun out of a game if you let them." The idea is that people presumably play videos games to have fun, however, if given the
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by UtopiaPunk 1y ago
It's one thing for a librarian to call a teen over and say "hey, you should look at this book. It's full of *** ." But if a teen wants to check out a book that has sexual content in it, then the librarian shouldn't
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by UtopiaPunk 1y ago
Oof, that's too bad. The libraries near me are great for my toddler. They do story time and play time, and it's a good chance for my kid to play with other kids. My kiddo always checks out a book (or three) when we visit.
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by UtopiaPunk 1y ago
Yeah, exactly. When someone like Bernie Sanders talks about the economy and big corporations today, they sound a lot like Teddy Roosevelt. Teddy Roosevelt was a full-on capitalist and proud of it, and definitely would not have been understo
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by UtopiaPunk 1y ago
Ooof, vote blue vs Temu is a dire state of politics
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by UtopiaPunk 1y ago
If one must toil for 25 years, then such a person is still in the working class. A few years of high inflation, terribly high medical costs, damage to a house that insurance won't cover, etc, etc, can ruin even a "wealthy" pe
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by UtopiaPunk 1y ago
The "class war" is between those who must sell their labor in order to survive, and capitalists who must purchase the labor of workers. Up to you to pick a side.
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by UtopiaPunk 1y ago
We're talking about Seattle because it is in the headline (the source is the Seattle Times). But there are 10 cities in the USA that have a higher percentage of "never-married single men." So this is a trend that is not uniqu
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by UtopiaPunk 1y ago
I agree with the sentiment that "most people want entertainment, not art," or at least they do a lot of the time. I have a pretty wide definition of what is art, in that almost anything created by a human could be appreciated as a
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by UtopiaPunk 1y ago
I don't want to come across as judgey, gate-keeping what is in good taste or what should make you "feel bad." The human element is just a very crucial part, at least for me. Art is a way of humans beings connectig with each o
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by UtopiaPunk 1y ago
I'm not the person who responded, but I believe it came from a place of "what is art" (and you had used the word "artist"). My own position is that "art" can only be created by a human. AI can produce text
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by UtopiaPunk 1y ago
You are assuming that there is an ethical way to use AI. There are several ethical concerns around using AI, and Adobe is perhaps concerned with one of these (charitably, respecting artists, or a little more cynically, respecting copyright)
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by UtopiaPunk 2y ago
NAFTA wasn't inevitable. Globalization has largely been about (some) people making money as we all race to the bottom, and that has meant a steady supply of desperate people willing to sell their labor for less than the current crop of
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by UtopiaPunk 2y ago
Darktable? https://www.darktable.org/
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by UtopiaPunk 2y ago
What do you mean when you say we need to "solve religion?" I don't mean my question to come across as combative or challenging, I just don't understand what you have in mind.
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by UtopiaPunk 2y ago
Community projects like this can operate successfully, but they do take work (like intentional communication and meetings), and there are politics. If we're envisioning 20 houses, yeah, there probably needs to be some kind of structu
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by UtopiaPunk 2y ago
I was actually a member of a "cohousing" community for a while, which is similar to what you describe. If you're not familiar with the concept, I recommend looking into it, as I think you'd find it appealing: https:&#x2
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by UtopiaPunk 2y ago
Yeah, the daily tasks are pretty small. Just a few minutes a day. Scoop some food, change out the water, gather the eggs. Every so often, you need to do bigger chores, like go buy fees or fix something in your setup. A couple times a year y
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by UtopiaPunk 2y ago
I've definitely heard REM in grocery stores and stuff, but not considerably more than other rock bands. I think popular older rock music of almost any genre is kind of the go-to background music these days. People are nostalgic for the
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by UtopiaPunk 2y ago
That is the problem with good things. They sometimes are ruined. Best stick to the bad things, then!
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by UtopiaPunk 2y ago
The bureaucracy of dealing with a patchwork of health-insurances plans, their different payment structures, what care is/isn't covered, in-network or out-of-network etc, etc is a HUGE bureaucratic burdern. Doctors already do what
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by UtopiaPunk 2y ago
Truthout's bias is clear. That said, I think there is actually a lot of value when a society can accommodate journalists with clear agendas and ideologies. Truthout is, generally speakking, going to be skeptical of large wealthy corpor

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