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by crocodiletears 5y ago
He pushed facebook to optimize for engagement, and used the tools facebook developed like every other propagandist. Honestly, that's fine. The Obama campaign was lauded for similar social advertising, and had a direct relationship with
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by crocodiletears 5y ago
I like him over other billionaires. He doesn't hide what he is, he doesn't seem to be interested in controlling "the little people" for their benefit, and he doesn't seem interested in hiding his reasoning behind a
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by crocodiletears 5y ago
This is what I've gathered, though I may be wrong: The implementation of foreign policy wasn't readily be farmed out to bureaucrats (by extension, neither could responsibility for its failures). Politicians were forced to be more
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by crocodiletears 5y ago
I would argue that neither the Boogaloo movement nor the NRX movement (despite its name) can be considered purely reactionary. The Boogaloo movement is/was composed primarily of hardline libertarians, and right-anarchists The NRX movem
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by crocodiletears 5y ago
> But it does raise the question: what would a genuine online counter-culture look like? I can think of: The short-live Boogaloo meme culture The NRX movement Fundamentalist religious communities Note that none of these subcultures are e
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by crocodiletears 5y ago
> Without a model of ADHD thought processes my attempts at empathy were counter-productive. This is why I often wonder it empathy isn't overemphasized as a tool in our collective toolbox. When teaching it, we often fail to highlight
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by crocodiletears 5y ago
That's not part of our cultural mythology, no. Though the US government isn't nearly as overbearing as a European state, it's still active in the domain of regulation and the public is generally fine with that. Thr US governm
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by crocodiletears 5y ago
Blaming a company for using a loophole is like blaming a shark for eating fish. Organizations tend to optimize for their target metrics irrespective of morality. It's only when they act beyond that mandate that they then become morally
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by crocodiletears 5y ago
I'm afraid that the past couple decades in technological progress have been unkind to people who might have engaged in such tinkering. DRM and safety regulations will ensure that vehicle repair, modification, and fabrication are pastim
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by crocodiletears 5y ago
Ime, this threw a whole bunch of entry level laborers under the bus. When I entered the workforce, you could work up to 29 hours (typically flex scheduling) at an entry level position in my region. If you wanted any more, you either worked
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by crocodiletears 5y ago
I've had the same issue with content around this vehicle category. Serviceability is a major component of vehicle ownership that's often overlooked by automotive journalists in the thrall of novel or exotic ideas.
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by crocodiletears 5y ago
Here's the obverse: The success of the radical equity crowd, and the parallel degeneration of American conservatism make good arguments for doing the opposite. The equitarians have stuck to their principals for decades, and through pro
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by crocodiletears 5y ago
A large portion of the population is indifferent to power, provided they can live their lives without significant disruption.
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Planned Obsolescence in Modern Homes [video](youtube.com)
6 points by crocodiletears 5y ago|4 comments
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by crocodiletears 5y ago
No, but keeping your family housed and fed usually is. If you've got kids to look after, and a mortgage to pay, it's very likely you're stuck doing whatever your doing, whether you think the work is worthwhile or not. Most pa
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by crocodiletears 5y ago
My first thought as well.
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by crocodiletears 5y ago
I'm absolutely an advocate for corners that are rounded to a reasonable degree. As you stated, perfectly sharp corners can produce a harsh, inorganic aesthetic that can be distracting to users. Even very round corners can be contextual
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by crocodiletears 5y ago
Most people don't particularly care how things look, so long as they're reasonably familiar, well-ordered, visually inoffensive, and functional. After that, it's optimizing for performance metrics and ensuring that the client
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by crocodiletears 5y ago
From the screenshot: I absolutely adore the positioning of the table of contents. The design looks clean, utilitarian, and overall well executed. That being said - and this is more a critique of modern design - I absolutely hate the suffoca
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by crocodiletears 5y ago
I just joined twitter a month ago, after seeing their redesign, and deciding to follow a person I heard on a podcast. Never could make heads or tails of the old UI, and I thought it was ugly as sin to boot. The new interface seems like a m
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by crocodiletears 5y ago
What are the best resources for learning about the current state of web3 projects? Most of what I encounter with respect to it seems like marketing copy, without good summaries of the pros and cons that come with the different technologies
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by crocodiletears 5y ago
Perhaps they updated it since, but this wasn't the case on focus two or three months ago. After a lot of googling, I could find other people mentionining the same issue but no solution. Ultimately I rolled back my installation to a pre
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by crocodiletears 5y ago
We weren't less divided, our cultural divisions were merely swept under the rug while the powerful got to set the tenor of our cultural and societal development. We're in an age of reckoning, and I think that's a good thing.
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by crocodiletears 5y ago
Firefox's greatest fault is Mozilla. They reinvent the UI every couple years, and seem hell-bent on stripping away power-user features. They also managed to ruin their privacy-oriented Firefox focus browser on mobile, by making it redi
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by crocodiletears 5y ago
This is my concern as well. Twitter already has significant issues with this. But based on Dorsey's Rogan appearances I get the impression that he was never entirely comfortable with playing the arbiter of truth/acceptable content
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by crocodiletears 5y ago
Stricter occupant safety and emissions requirements incentivise the development of larger vehicle platforms.
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by crocodiletears 5y ago
From what I've been able to gather, these QR code systems are mostly based off of the WEF's Commonpass digitial identity standard (either directly, or inspired by), which seems to be a graduated version of the ID2020 project (man
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by crocodiletears 5y ago
I'm personally quite curious as to how they managed to achieve such painterly lighting. Even with aggressive post processing and touch-ups, they had to have been doing some shader magic to achoeve the base of the effect.
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by crocodiletears 5y ago
I would think that there'd be a threshold where the elevated risk of birth defects would place a ceiling on how old parents should be. 25-35 seems to be the ideal window, where the parents have had ample opportunity to get to know them
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by crocodiletears 5y ago
I spend a lot of time vouching as well. Is that actual shadowbanning? Or just overzealous flagging by certain users?

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