WaxedChewbacca

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by WaxedChewbacca 4y ago
Imagine paying taxes your entire adult life, and then in an honest-to-God life-and-death emergency concerning your children, the police not only aren't doing their jobs, but actively prevent you from trying to save your own child. Th
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by WaxedChewbacca 4y ago
Let's go look at the actual data. Here's the Florida measurement station that has the highest rate of sea level rise that I could find: https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.... > The
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“Covid is critical because it convinces people to accept biometric surveillance”(twitter.com)
10 points by WaxedChewbacca 4y ago|19 comments
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by WaxedChewbacca 4y ago
This is not good. The problem here is essentially social, or we might call it antisocial -- people simply not caring about the living beings around them. That can't actually be solved with technology, but you can definitely create tech
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by WaxedChewbacca 4y ago
It seems as though the problem is primarily fear and/or aversion. The mind is kind of like a cavern of echoes, and you can choose to add power to, or dampen, the echoes. Are you able to think of something that will bring up a wholesome
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by WaxedChewbacca 4y ago
This is misleading. Let's look at the actual charts of nearby measuring stations. https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.... 3.36mm/year, flat since the 1950s. https://tidesand
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by WaxedChewbacca 4y ago
Don't try to raise funds. Don't consider it a win to get funding from some investor. Find some way to make money from the beginning without introducing some adversarial entity into your system that turns the CEO from your friend i
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by WaxedChewbacca 4y ago
I can buy this, but it might practically be a distinction without a difference. If social media is an amplifier, we have to be careful what we're amplifying. Most people have no regular practice for the cultivation of wholesome solace.
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by WaxedChewbacca 4y ago
I think this article is useful and insightful, but it's missing a big piece that I think is important to emphasize: being woke and looking to others to supply feelings of validity are kind of the same thing. That's one way to diag
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by WaxedChewbacca 4y ago
Mental health is a broad topic. Using medication for some mental health issues could be appropriate. But I think medication is fundamentally the wrong approach for many common mental health issues like anxiety, sadness, loneliness, etc. If
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by WaxedChewbacca 4y ago
I recently encountered this thing, which I'd never seen before: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/input.html#valid-e-ma... The original standard for email addresses seems to be so bad that it's just bein
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by WaxedChewbacca 4y ago
When people say there are problems with the world, they almost always really mean problems with the human world, i.e., bad behavior and suffering within the human realm. Well, the bricks of the human realm are made of humans. So if you want
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by WaxedChewbacca 4y ago
Nah. Or check your own eye for beams before speculating about motes in the eyes of others. "All progress depends on the unreasonable man."
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by WaxedChewbacca 4y ago
Invasion Of Human Bodies By Thetans (Disembodied Spirits Of Aliens Killed In A Volcano 75M Years Ago By The Galactic Dictator Xenu) Is Doable, But Time Is Short, Scientologists Warn Please quit spamming climate fear propaganda/pornogra
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by WaxedChewbacca 4y ago
Eh, the people of Paris might win against the globalists, you mean. The people of Paris might elect someone who seems to have the interests of Parisians in mind. It's eerily reminiscent of Trump in 2016... an outsider wants to do a bun
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by WaxedChewbacca 4y ago
I reiterate the advice I gave in the other thread. It sounds as if a lot of your anxiety is due to being unsure whether what you're doing is OK. That anxiety can be alleviated if you establish more certainty about your direction by lea
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by WaxedChewbacca 4y ago
Hi, sorry about your suffering. I think this is a hard thing to diagnose or make a prescription for, so everyone will be just telling you whatever has been good for them -- that's what I'm going to do. I'm a little worried fr
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by WaxedChewbacca 4y ago
As with everything, I think it's a mix of a lot of things, and we don't know which factors predominate. Partly it's because I'm getting older. Partly it's because I simply don't know of anything good that comes
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by WaxedChewbacca 4y ago
I'm glad the author is introspecting, but I think this is a bit of a misdiagnosis, or maybe an incomplete prescription. First, being boring to others is nothing to worry about -- let them attend to their own likes and dislikes -- it&#x
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by WaxedChewbacca 4y ago
Practically speaking, it seems to be a bunch of tiny balls kind of like Legos in that they like to stick to others in various ways according to their types. According to the rules of matter and physics we get a bunch of emergent phenomena,
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
People will be abused to the extent they allow. I'm never going to buy this stuff. No wifi in my oven, either. No cameras in my TV. Manufacturers, know that if you put inappropriate computers in the product, I'm not going to buy i
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
A creepy and arrogant suggestion that's actually a sterling example of the main problem over on the non-"conspiracy theory" side: the assumption that they are correct combined with a complete unwillingness to talk about speci
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
No, I can't agree. This stuff is not symbolic. The conflict is over nothing less than paramount human issues like bodily autonomy. This virus is simply not very dangerous to the vast majority of people, and those people who make close
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
I think you should very closely examine whether or not it makes any sense. Put aside for the moment whether or not doing stuff like that could be dangerous to you legally. What is the goal? To temporarily disrupt computer systems based sole
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
This is how it goes with the woke. A company can deliberately make itself incredibly overtly racist and sexist, and they'll still be sued for not doing enough. There's no way to win when you try to cooperate with the woke. You jus
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
Meanwhile, back in reality, ivermectin is associated with 70%-ish reductions in hospitalization and death. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz4adJXLHgA
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
The NY Post did its scoop in November before the election, and Twitter promptly suppressed the NY Post and the story based on their "hacked materials" policy. This was complete BS -- no one seriously thought that the materials wer
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
The idea that "homelessness" is about a lack of homes is a dumb idea that just won't die. Those who promote it endlessly simply will not go out in the world and use their own senses to determine for themselves that it isn&#x2
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
I'm sorry you're suffering. What you're going through is part of the human condition and nothing wrong with you. I'm glad you're thinking in terms of how to change yourself to be comfortable, rather than seeking adv
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
My leading contender is KeePassXC. https://keepassxc.org

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