YellOh

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by YellOh 3y ago
You're equivocating between your stereotype of nihilism and what "real nihilists" "should" do to be considered a nihilist. Nihilism != depression, even if there is overlap, and it's useful to let the words have
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by YellOh 3y ago
Seems like a weirdly stringent test for nihilism. If a nihilist believes there is no meaning in living but also no meaning in dying, why would they default to dying? A lot of built-in taboos (e.g. against bodily damage) make living a "
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by YellOh 3y ago
Plenty of us hate it just as much. Sadly I'll probably be around for it all, though.
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by YellOh 3y ago
I have no particular opinion on Guam or its governance, but if Chamorus are a minority of the people living there (& a minority of the people born there?) it feels kind of unfair for them to unilaterally make major decisions and remove
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by YellOh 3y ago
You can take Roko's Basilisk out of the community forum but you can't take Roko's Basilisk out of the community zeitgeist.
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by YellOh 3y ago
The actual cause of the overlap is probably due to [generational] poverty; diversity itself doesn't cause crime. I have no idea where you even read that in my comment. I'm trying to point out that it is beneficial to some groups t
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by YellOh 3y ago
My bad! Didn't see that before submitting. (For anyone reading this comment, the article is from March 2020). This is my first submission & I don't see age in the submissions guide; is there a specific way I should indicate it
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by YellOh 3y ago
Can you add a source for this? I've been able to find plenty of resources about dangerous SF areas, but not a news article on restricted public services there. Would be super interested in learning more
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by YellOh 3y ago
I think the trouble is the overlap of high-crime and high-diversity areas. Say you're sending an armored vehicle into a high-crime area and it's reasonable protection. Someone writes a news article about having expensive & spe
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by YellOh 3y ago
Archived link: https://archive.is/7DYjv Discussed by Zvi: https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2023/07/12/housing-and-transit-...
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Uber warns drivers against avoiding 'disadvantaged' areas(ft.com)
13 points by YellOh 3y ago|14 comments
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by YellOh 3y ago
I was interested and looked it up. For anyone else that cares, Unihertz is a Chinese company. I'll probably add it to Huawei in my mental "avoid" bucket for the foreseeable future.
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by YellOh 3y ago
Managed to make it almost all the way to the end! Note that "is this your final password?" is not the last challenge, despite it being the last thing on the lists other people have posted. Afterward you're asked to retype y
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by YellOh 3y ago
There doesn't seem to be a way to search YT videos (except videos you yourself post) by exact length. I got 21 min 45 seconds. Looking up "3000 second timer" on YT got me close (only 4 seconds out), but not exact. Do you have
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by YellOh 3y ago
Honestly not sure how you'd pass the youtube one, unless you were incredibly lucky
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by YellOh 3y ago
I have the same question. I'm not an erath scientist, so maybe I'm completely wrong. But it's my understanding that GHG emissions are artificially lengthening the current interglacial period, and (what I've read about) t
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by YellOh 3y ago
Thirding it. I'm guessing the move is to back up the password, move Paul to the first/last character, and delete everything to save him. Update: this strat works. But then don't immediately overfeed him.
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by YellOh 3y ago
VIIJuneVShell65$bw6n6aboutHecroatia0000 so far. Croatia was extraordinarily hard to guess. Currently stuck on the chess game, if anyone has generic advice on how to not suck at chess. Fun bonus: it can't seem to figure out what's
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by YellOh 3y ago
Reply w/ extra context by Zvi: https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2023/06/26/on-the-cost-of-thriv...
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by YellOh 3y ago
Drugs are a revelation we're not ready for. Old favorite: https://www.stilldrinking.org/the-episode-part-1
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by YellOh 3y ago
Maybe they're only A/B testing the dark patterns, because this is exactly how it worked for me recently. I turn Prime on & off every so often. Last time (~a month ago) I forgot to cancel before the auto-renew, it very easily g
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by YellOh 3y ago
Depends how invasive / unpleasant the needle biopsy is. If it can be taken from an animal with minimal pain (using anesthetics) and the animal otherwise lives a life comparable to animals in farm sanctuaries, it seems pretty much ethic
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by YellOh 3y ago
I don't really want to pull out a blender just for a quick snack. Maybe I'll try out nut butters besides peanut butter to see if pre-processed tastes as good as whole. ETA: since roasted nuts are easier to digest, maybe the smart
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by YellOh 3y ago
Lower calorie is only better if trying to lose weight. I'm trying to get my daily calories (to maintain or increase my current weight) for cheap, so high-calorie inexpensive foods are preferable. Low-calorie foods are only worthwhile
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by YellOh 3y ago
This is disappointing. So nuts are actually lower calorie per dollar than it seemed, so a worse deal than previously expected (for those food shopping on a budget). A 21% drop in the expected calories from walnuts will definitely have me bu
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by YellOh 3y ago
I mean, I think outright saying that you don't care if extremely successful, powerful people leave the country (taking their skill, experience, and creations with them) is not a particularly strong rhetorical move. I quite like being i
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by YellOh 3y ago
For people in the U.S., international adoption is both logistically difficult and morally fraught. Domestic adoption is less difficult, but it's very hard to adopt infants, which is what most adoptive parents are hoping for (and willin
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by YellOh 3y ago
I live in a smaller city / large town and the local libraries are pretty dangerous-feeling with lots of cops & homeless folks. My anecdata doesn't match yours; actual data may be more useful.
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by YellOh 3y ago
I mean, people do still get on-brand Xanax / Percocet / whatever for non-recreational reasons. Painkillers still kill pain. But otherwise, hard agree. If you're going to do medical tourism, avoiding sketchy independent pharma
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by YellOh 3y ago
GPT? Normal humans don't seem to be this verbose (except when writing essays or monetized articles, I guess)

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