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by ccsnags 6y ago
Same. HN is the best but even this was something I found from a random face to face in a hotel lobby. I have gotten most of my friends off of the social media feeds. All of them have seen benefits and a couple have seen such a drastic chang
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by ccsnags 6y ago
I think you are correct. The more accessible opting out becomes, the more leverage regulator people will have when negotiating with the dominant social order. Space travel like this is down the road, but it’s only a long road if you are thi
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by ccsnags 6y ago
Clubhouse interests me. I don’t use social media like twitter, ig, facebook and don’t miss them. Clubhouse seems more interesting than the others. It reminds me of one of my favorite things to do on VRChat, making drum circles and singing s
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by ccsnags 6y ago
I think this is the best way forward. The system needs integrity to work but it needs discipline to maintain it. Now it has neither. Political pressure creates an us vs them mentality where reality must pass through a filter to get to the p
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by ccsnags 6y ago
There’s plenty of hate on Twitter. They won’t go after all hate and they don’t care that you think they are hypocrites. Stop trying to convince these people of hypocrisy. They aren’t listening to critics and they lack the ability to see the
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by ccsnags 6y ago
If someone believes a lie, is it a lie? We are in a situation where all sides of the argument are essentially lies (to someone) because of how we have had events framed for us. Is the media responsible? Depends on who you don’t like. Is Piz
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by ccsnags 6y ago
He is dangerous because his revelations were true.
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by ccsnags 6y ago
I’m Appalachian. We have ridiculously low violent crime rates for the levels of poverty we have. I believe that this is a function of population density rather than any intrinsic trait of us hilljacks. I went to PDX often before the lockdow
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by ccsnags 6y ago
I have had both. Maschine is awesome. I used to use an MPC and I got to try a Maschine for a bit. I fell in love instantly. It takes the technical power of a full production studio and makes it feel like you’re playing with a toy you’ve had
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by ccsnags 6y ago
I go out to the Bay Area often and I don’t know many people who fit into this narrative. This article may say more about the author than the Bay.
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by ccsnags 6y ago
I can make you a 1 watt space heater for your hamster if you want. I see you edited it but the image in my head was too cute not to share.
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by ccsnags 6y ago
Bothsidism is a straw man argument designed to present arguments that compare practical effects of different ideologies in bad faith and give rhetoric to people who have no business making the argument in the first place. Dismissing an argu
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by ccsnags 6y ago
Decolonization seems to be a Trojan horse for a different type of Western colonization. It’s one thing to take western ideas and make them your own (Botswana). It’s another thing entirely when western influences try to attach themselves to
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by ccsnags 6y ago
Everyone is flawed. That comes with being human. It would be nice to live in a society that allows for people to make mistakes without burning them at the stake. This is not the world we live in, sadly. We have to change that by being forgi
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by ccsnags 6y ago
The problem with the modern economy is that companies can become “too successful” using underhanded and ethically questionable practices. They influence the government to pass laws that can strengthen their hold or eliminate competition ent
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by ccsnags 6y ago
If there is control over information, how do the masses protect themselves against disinformation campaigns coming from official sources? Conspiracy theories and baseless nonsense is the price you pay to be able to criticize those in power.
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by ccsnags 6y ago
The narrative fallacy is just a way for people to describe errors caused when conclusions are based inadequate information. It is an ancient and mundane idea with analogs across time and cultures. The article mentions the biological nature
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by ccsnags 6y ago
They consider offense to be harm because they seem to want to justify violence against their political rivals.
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by ccsnags 6y ago
GIGO is a principle i learned at audio engineering school and it applies to all input/output relationships across multiple disciplines. Have a 4k tv but only a 1080 cable box? Your tv will only show 1080. Did you record too much compre
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by ccsnags 7y ago
3D printing becomes more viable as people use it. Right now it is pretty niche, but many groups are doing it on an industrial scale. If every household or building had one, the parts could be crowdsourced from every machine that could make
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by ccsnags 7y ago
Good catch. I have turned a game into matching stories with their headlines. This is fun to do with buddies over email. Get any newspaper. Cut out the stories and cut off the headlines. Now try to match them. You will often ask yourself qu
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by ccsnags 7y ago
This was never a priority. In fact, they increased production and got a host of veterans hooked on the junk.
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by ccsnags 7y ago
That was the issue the whole time. There were no defined conditions of victory. On the ground, victory or defeat weren’t on the table. When we were there, we just wanted to come home in one piece.
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by ccsnags 7y ago
Large companies can combat this by aligning its incentives to include worker well-being and retention as part of their equation. Unhappy workers and revolving-door hiring costs real money. Quantifying these values in terms of dollars can be
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by ccsnags 7y ago
It isn’t a win for those people that voted against it. I worked blue collar union jobs throughout my 20s in private and public sector. That experience has made me critical of unions. I will never vote to unionize and I will always buck unio
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by ccsnags 7y ago
The article itself provides more than one coincidence, but they are making some assumptions that seem to be stretching what the evidence is able to provide. I dug a little deeper and found a host of interesting things but like the article,
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by ccsnags 7y ago
I think it is more of a social problem we can’t solve with code. As methods of communication get cheaper and more accessible, it opens the world up to see what humanity is, not what humanity wants itself to be. People that maliciously attac
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by ccsnags 7y ago
It’s pining for the fjords.
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by ccsnags 7y ago
Number of drinks is not a good way, in my experience. It’s a detail that isn’t important unless you are trying to game your own standard. You will convince yourself that your arbitrary line makes you ok. Hangovers turn into waking up drunk
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by ccsnags 7y ago
Early to late twenties for me. I struggled through AA but I found it to be too defeatist. I couldn’t get clean framing the problem the way that they do. The turning point for me was a joke by a stand up comedian that kind of glorified being

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