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by crispinb 7y ago
Here in Aus a great deal of it is managerial complacency and in some cases laziness ('management' aspirations sometimes comprising mainly a desire to play golf & watch rugby). There's a strong tendency to clutch at patter
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by crispinb 7y ago
The only form of ageism I've experienced was reverse. I entered dev professionally in my 40s, and it was frequently assumed because of my age that I knew more than I truly did. In consequence I was often given higher levels of responsi
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by crispinb 7y ago
Similar to my experience. First on MacOS, then when I switched to dual-boot Win/Linux in 2018, I found it to be the same on all three platforms. I don't get extreme CPU & machine freeze often, but FF itself frequently (2 or 3
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by crispinb 7y ago
There's no serious prospect of the whole planet being too 'toxic' for human groups to exist here and there. Even the probable nuclear wars aren't going to leave everything uninhabitable. The sheer amount of suffering and
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by crispinb 7y ago
Quite. A trickle of refugees precipitated huge European political convulsions in 2015. That was minuscule compared to what's coming. War is likely to be the leitmotiv of the global collapse.
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by crispinb 7y ago
> there's nothing you can say to any leader, politician, or pleb that can shock them into action The notion that a bright ape, with social cognition designed for small group interaction, could scale its decision-making abilities to
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by crispinb 7y ago
Depends what you mean by "we". Homo sapiens has enormous cultural flexibility (though clearly, as the worldwide ecosystem collapse shows, this doesn't scale). So groups of humans will continue to live. But our global civilisa
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Climate change represents a near- to mid-term threat to human civilisation(climatecodered.org)
7 points by crispinb 7y ago|1 comments
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by crispinb 7y ago
I'm with you, fellow alien! I don't know how to be bored. Sitting, standing, breathing, thinking, observing - it all seems quite captivating to me, with or without further activity.
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by crispinb 7y ago
> The only criticism I'd make against GP's claim is that the advertising industry is just one spoke in the global wheel of impossible growth and consumption. GP's claim is not nutty, it's too narrow and limited. Ogilv
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The World’s Most Annoying Man: Steven Pinker Is Selling Reason (TM), Not Reason(currentaffairs.org)
10 points by crispinb 7y ago|3 comments
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The US becomes more self-parodying by the day.
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I understand that, and agree from a conventional point of view the comment does look nutty. However the notion that the current so-called 'growth' oriented global order threatens the very fabric of our living planet, while not yet
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by crispinb 7y ago
A shout out for Firefox multi-account containers here. Set up google-specific containers for any google properties you do want to log into, leaving your main container uncontaminated with google cookies.
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by crispinb 7y ago
The Guardian is weirdly patchy - runs the gamut from genuinely serious reporting to trashy etiquette, celebrity gossip and lifestyle columns (under which head I'd include this one). Living in an area where mobile rollouts are objected
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by crispinb 7y ago
Marketers have always been clear that their task is to manufacture desire. Beyond the basics of food, sex, basic security, etc, wants are cultural constructions. Of course you want what you want. You did not make yourself. Your culture has
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by crispinb 7y ago
That's a nice thing to say, thank you. I'm off to an Extinction Rebellion meet up this afternoon, where this kind of perspective is less alien than in the tech sector. They've had to book a bigger venue than originally planne
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by crispinb 7y ago
> I view advertising as a form of pollution Quite. If (which is now for obvious reasons somewhat unlikely) our global civilisation manque struggles on for another century, it will look back on the overconsumption propaganda industry very
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by crispinb 7y ago
Insane indeed. As someone who lives in the bush, the craziness of it all smacks me in the face when I make city trips. It's a prime example of the boiling frog syndrome - generations have become insensible to physical reality. As waves
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by crispinb 7y ago
> Yeah, like that's not a good thing You think it's a good thing. The parent doesn't. So isn't it better that both Go and Java exist, rather than Go be Java-ised, so you both get what you want? > Strawman fallacy.
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by crispinb 7y ago
Quite. He's solving a nonexistent problem. Next he'll tell us that English is H. Sapiens' natural language. > I found it annoying to use negative numbers for temperatures that aren't really that cold All Australians u
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by crispinb 7y ago
> Those who don’t have paid subscriptions probably aren’t that interested in music in the first place .. or find that the endless-firehose model doesn't suit them? I honestly just prefer to buy one album (either CD or digital downlo
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by crispinb 7y ago
Well this is an astonishingly clear example of corruption of our political system by the fossil fuel industry. Even in nations where militaries pretty much get what they ask for, almost regardless of budget (eg. the US & Australia), the
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by crispinb 7y ago
Yes, this is the discredited Blair-Clinton Third Way, applied to environmental issues. It was a catastrophe applied to the so-called 'economy' as a whole, and would be worse applied to more serious real (ie. physical-ecological) i
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by crispinb 7y ago
> One thing I don't understand is why political leaders aren't all over this 1. Political leaders in many countries (eg. Australia) have been deeply corrupted by the fossil fuel industry. And they're mostly legally immune
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The author has added a welcome screen that it seems (haven't tried the build myself yet) won't enable google analytics until specifically authorised by the user ( https://github.com/Eugeny/terminus/issues&
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by crispinb 7y ago
I'd always be more impressed by a poacher-turned-gamekeeper who returned his gains and then lived like the rest of us. Continuing to live a megaconsuming existence while consolidating power over fellow humans via 'philanthropy&#x2
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True - it is (very roughly) a Darwinian machine designed to select for traits inimical to the flourishing of ecosystems.
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by crispinb 7y ago
> Nor are billionaires the cause of poverty Whether that's true or not, many billionaires (Bezos, Thiel etc) are certainly propagandists of death cult capitalism.
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by crispinb 7y ago
> The current generation of children will include deeply radicalised kids so disillusioned with government that it will lead to an overthrow. We're seeing hints of that now, and it's one of the few chinks of light. I don't

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