codyb

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by codyb 8mo ago
Yea, Apple's decision to have its CEO embrace fascism has really destroyed a ton of my goodwill towards the company and I'm actively looking for alternatives, delaying further purchases, and encouraging others to do the same. Does
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by codyb 8mo ago
Sure. I participate quite frequently through calls, donations, and voting. But I'm not sure if you've looked at the news lately... we're pretty far into "too late". Non-violent protest movements have a great record
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by codyb 8mo ago
Thanks for coming out!! At the walkout on Monday, it was a smallish group of us out, and then like a class of high schoolers came out and joined us and it was such a nice burst of energy. "New York City get litty! Donald Trump is shitt
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by codyb 9mo ago
You found my message condescending? Lol. You must be really easily offended
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by codyb 9mo ago
Yea, you relax, and then your brain produces random thoughts about things. I suspect it's just about getting the space to relax, which is why I frequently have thoughts when staring at the wall, or taking a walk, or washing dishes, or
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by codyb 9mo ago
Tons of young people either voted for Trump or didn't vote at all this time around. Undoubtedly influenced by social media, they're now realizing that what they voted for was their own future's destruction and are now abandon
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by codyb 9mo ago
Get out and protest y'all! If this is what they're doing publicly, what they're doing privately is much much worse. I find actions here - https://www.fiftyfifty.one I also boycott as much as possible, and encourag
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by codyb 9mo ago
There's a lot of folk out here downvoting my protest and boycott encouragement. I just assume they're do nothing goobers or worse. The sad fact is, even most of the people who're sympathetic to democracy and human rights will
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by codyb 9mo ago
Oh, lol, now I get your question. Yea, it turns out the silence and lack of distractions are what produce "shower thoughts", more so than the act of showering itself. Doing any relatively rote act like washing dishes, walking plac
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by codyb 9mo ago
With a faucet my good friend!
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by codyb 9mo ago
If you delete social media, and leave your phone away from your person all day with notifications turned off, you can have these moments all the time it turns out. Considering how much more productive these moments are for me than the bulls
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by codyb 9mo ago
Non-violent protest only! Encouraged by me based on successes at Selma, in India, and in response to the killing of George Floyd. It's a long, inexorable march, but violence only perpetuates more violence and reduces sympathy for the p
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by codyb 9mo ago
Probably cause all the tech billionaires have been lining up on the side of fascism.
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by codyb 9mo ago
Lol. Yes, no one has ever been born in a water scarce location.
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by codyb 9mo ago
Apple's certainly been working to destroy their consumer trust though! At least on my end the political knee bending by Tim Cook and their recent iOS and MacOS updates have me firmly on the side of not giving any more money to Apple. (
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by codyb 9mo ago
Ah yes, it's just dirty Indians polluting the Ganges. And dumb Iraqis settling in the desert. Crazy's probably not the word I'd reserve for you.
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by codyb 9mo ago
Okay, so then you should read the article? "Four billion people face severe water scarcity for at least one month each year, and almost 75 percent of the global population lives in water-insecure or critically water-insecure countries,
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by codyb 9mo ago
And being told to restrict showers, not to water lawns, etc
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by codyb 9mo ago
Lol... really? Are you as a poor Iraqi villager able to make use of this information when you need water? Or poor Indian person?
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by codyb 9mo ago
When I read the welcome screen which includes the "hit features", all I remember was "You can change your icons!" - What? Was that the big issue of my day? (Although, after I saw what they had done to them, it certainly
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by codyb 9mo ago
One way to help stop it is to get off social media and stop giving these tech billionaires so much money. The less people on social media, the less real the network effect is, the less people who join in the first place, the less money the
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by codyb 9mo ago
Yea, definitely a good point. Going to be interesting to see how it plays out. I definitely do not have the expertise to answer the question
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by codyb 9mo ago
If their new platform reduces inference token cost by 10x, does that play well or not well with the recently updated GPU deprecation schedules companies have been playing with to reduce projected cost outlays? For context, my understanding
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by codyb 9mo ago
The studies are actually pretty interesting here... This article is from 2021 - https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/crash-rates-jump-in-wake-of... The conclusion seems to be that if you _only_ smoke marijuana you&#x2
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by codyb 9mo ago
Genuinely hateful usage is of course important to stop but let's not pretend that hearing negative things called something you are all day isn't damaging to people. The idea that gay people walk around and hear "Oh that'
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by codyb 9mo ago
Ah yes... sixth graders and human adults have so much in common. In fact, the culture at the school changed, and people stopped saying gay so much. It was very cool. You should try standing up for something you believe in sometime, maybe yo
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by codyb 9mo ago
Huge eyeroll. Who said anything about scolding anyone lol. I responded very calmly. I'm sorry, but you'll never win me over that the world be a better place if only we could bring back overtly prejudiced speech. Actions have conse
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by codyb 9mo ago
Yea that's it... definitely wasn't on our minds when we were 14 in middle school in America lol
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by codyb 9mo ago
Seems reasonable to me, a very anti Trump individual. Now deliver. And which of his buddies does this benefit? I'm trying to think if there will be ramifications to this... - Obviously forced divestment of all Wall St owned single fami
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by codyb 9mo ago
I've heard an uptick in derogatory terms being thrown around recently and while unsurprising, it sure is sad. Recent events... - Went to a concert, an underage kid with a fake ID couldn't get a beer, turned to me and goes "Is

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