b00ty4breakfast

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by b00ty4breakfast 1y ago
all it takes is not shopping at amazon. now, obviously, if by some awful twist of fate, amazon is the only place to buy your life-preserving medications or whatever (God forbid things ever get that dystopian in my lifetime) then my advice
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by b00ty4breakfast 1y ago
if these comments are any indication, our inability to handle mild inconvenience and a lifetime of consumerist conditioning are the real reasons amazon can continue to get away with being cartoonishly awful. I get it, there's a lot of
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by b00ty4breakfast 1y ago
when has litfic ever been relevant to the wider culture? There are exceptions of course but those are remarkable specifically because they are the exception. The average reader has always wanted Peyton Place, not Proust
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by b00ty4breakfast 1y ago
I reckon one of these front ends serving ads will have trouble maintaining a user base large enough to justify the effort of serving ads
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by b00ty4breakfast 1y ago
I reckon a very large chunk of the JS on many mainstream websites is explicitly for data collection and advertising.
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by b00ty4breakfast 1y ago
>uh funny how python's doing the job of modeling type systems when it barely enforces types itself The magic of computers. You can write a standards-compliant Lisp interpreter in python, too and it doesn't have a large chunk o
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by b00ty4breakfast 1y ago
the privacy stuff is fine(if not a bit suspect since we're still relying on the goodwill of the instance hosts to not be sketchy) but for me the biggest benefit for these third party front-ends is that my crappy laptop isn't const
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by b00ty4breakfast 1y ago
>...only a few years ago they suddenly decided to essentially penalize people who don't play ball like good little data cows... I'm extremely skeptical that the company that makes most of it's money on the collection of da
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by b00ty4breakfast 1y ago
This seems very silly. It's either a death ray project in a fake mustache or somebody had earmarked a bunch of money that they had to spend before it expired.
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by b00ty4breakfast 1y ago
bit ironic, all this effort to extend life but it turns out that living that long isn't always so great so we start euthanizing folks. I'm not saying it's wrong or right (I don't have a full opinion on the matter yet) bu
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by b00ty4breakfast 1y ago
the biggest techno-pessimists I know are all in the tech industry. On the other hand, most of the "blindly accept every new technique or gadget" folks I know are also tech workers so maybe there's nothing going on there. Won
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by b00ty4breakfast 1y ago
can it? the only example we have of something reasoning on this level is humans and we are most definitely sentient despite our best efforts to sometimes appear otherwise. And even if the two could theoretically be separated, how sure are
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by b00ty4breakfast 1y ago
That's the MO for all these big players. They don't shell out merely for the marketplace advantage, there's always some meta (no pun intended) Gordon Gecko corpo warfare schtick going on in the background. To quote Peter Thi
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by b00ty4breakfast 1y ago
lots of those weeds probably weren't around ca 3600bp (and that's not even discussing the fact that many of those "weeds", so-called, are escaped crops, anyways, so the weediness would've been a feature for these f
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by b00ty4breakfast 1y ago
Well, if the thing is truly capable of reason, then we have an obligation to put the kibosh on the entire endeavor because we're using a potentially intelligent entity as slave labor. At best, we're re-inventing factory farming a
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by b00ty4breakfast 1y ago
It'll only come back if folks get desperate enough. union activity wasn't exactly "illegal" in the old days but it wasn't exactly protected by any laws, either, as attested by all the private goons that the mining c
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by b00ty4breakfast 1y ago
setting aside regulatory issues (and not commenting on whether any of that is good or bad), there is no universe where independent chicken farmers, solo or in a group, are going to compete with a group like Perdue in the industrial foodstu
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by b00ty4breakfast 1y ago
hmm, I dunno if that simple example holds up very well. In the real world, folks do awful stuff that could be categorized as pestering individuals weaker than them than them, stuff much worse than stealing lunch money from little kids, and
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by b00ty4breakfast 1y ago
there seems to be an implicit assumption here that smarter == more gooder but I don't know that that is necessarily always true. It's understandable to think that way, since we do have pretty impressive brains, but it might be a
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by b00ty4breakfast 1y ago
folks forget, or never figured out, that community-building is a thing that requires a degree of curation; you wouldn't want your sloppy alcoholic uncle showing up to your business brunch (or whatever the hep cats do these days...) bu