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by dalbasal 5y ago
Ah yes! The fact that workers find this shite meaningless is further proof that it's true. Of course all those things are encompassed by alienation. Alienation encompasses everything, because it doesn't mean anything. Thinking bac
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It's my "contention" that alienation is a term, very abstract, not a discrete thing that can have consequences. I contend that in the early 19th century, the term made for good rhetoric. IE, you could use it to describe the w
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Fair point. However... I have an illustrates copy of "Origin of Species," with Darwin's original drawings. It's quite beautiful. Naturalists of the day used a style of drawing. It was utilitarian, good for identificatio
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Yes. True. My advice is for the 90% of us, the serial jan-march gym goers. If you already have that habit, compete, and exercise is a given... don't take advice from me. That said, I suspect that even for advanced athletes, "Take
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by dalbasal 5y ago
A little sore is ok. Too sore to exercise again is not good. There's also a psychological aspect to it. If you push yourself to the limits of your discipline, you'll overtax it and "run out." It's one thing or anoth
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by dalbasal 5y ago
A pathology of our day. Look at it this way... (1) Basically any class on offer at your gym, taken daily, will get you fit, sexy & healthy. Pilates, weights, swimming, wall climbing. They all work good, as long as you keep doing them an
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by dalbasal 5y ago
That would be good advice if you are 100% disciplined, which irl usually means that you're under someone else's discipline. For most people most of the time, running out of discipline and quitting is the failure point. The relativ
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Alienation is/was a term coined at a particular time. It was easy to understand at that time, because it was related to changes in the world that were happening. You didn't have to be a marxist to use it in a sentence. Today it is
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by dalbasal 5y ago
This article actually quotes her. It's the only part of this article that isn't just a string of abstract jargon. Without the quote, I would have no clue what it's even about.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Also.... Your primary goal (IMO) should be "I will want to do it again tomorrow," not a performance goal. Those are secondary. Go hard enough to feel achievement, but not so much that your are sore or worn out, either physically o
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I wouldn't. The idea wasn't abstract in the 1830s. It meant the difference between having a loom in your house and working at a mill. We could debate the importance of this, but we'd be starting by talking about an actual thi
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I'd say that this type of jargonized writing makes articles extremely unaccessible . It would be pretty hard to understand without some pretty substantial roots in marxist, or social science literature. Ironically, that means most peo
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by dalbasal 5y ago
The authors stated intention was to depict a widely held, indulgent, sadistic fantasy.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I know what kind of lingo it is, just remarking on how much of it there is in every sentence. IDK if I'd call the jargon high-specificity though. I'd say that it tends to be broad and abstract. "Suburban and exurban socializa
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by dalbasal 5y ago
The garbage itself may not lie, but the process of turning garbage into history is still storytelling. It's very hard to escape. Most anything meaningful, to us, is a story. A fully empirical/popperian approach to knowledge isn&#x
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by dalbasal 5y ago
My early education was, in fact, was quite steeped in such terms. I'm a apostate, not an infidel. Anyway, my point wasn't a criticism of the content, or anything really. Just pointing out that its clunky and verbose sounding, to m
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Agile is like a perfect example of a lot of things. Publishing a "manifesto" makes the revolution analogy on-the-nose. Dissident manifestos tend to share a the same failure point. They're heavy on critique of the system that
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Well... If you also come around to the view that most nonfiction is fiction too... you might find yourself in a pretty nihilistic place. Those depictions of butterflies are intended to be nonfiction.. naturalism. A precise and true represen
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by dalbasal 5y ago
The PR success may be the problem. Once something is "the next big thing," people jump in for that reason, which isn't a great reason. At that point, you have a lot of people there randomly just for the sake of it... trying t
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I suppose we'll see how this play out but... I think there are some serious chasms between 19th century manufacturing's take on mass employment and the tech industries'. Henry Ford's ideal for manufacturing workers was l
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I'd say the spartan meme is also an example of art imitating art. Other greeks, and later Romans started this meme. They admired Sparta's dedication to conservative fanaticism, romanticized it and told stories about them. We still
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Sure. Also, porn, romance novels, high school social life, prison, mafia, war, psychotherapy... The world is full of examples where literary cliches have more influence on our biases and expectations than first or second hand experiences. W
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I suppose the name of the magazine implies this, but the amount of "concept terms" loaded into each sentence sounds so old timey, or something, to me. " Such a relationship between the company and public goods like a high sch
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by dalbasal 5y ago
One of those "once you see it" articles. It's a good example of art imitating art. On screen depictions of ER doctors zapping patients back to life with a defibrillator. Adrenaline shots to the heart. Gently putting bad guys
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Incrementalism is the name of the game. Cheaper, better devices... about an order of magnitude here. A larger user base, by more than that. A better understanding of UX paradigms. ETC. The majority of successful products of the last generat
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The social aspects are pretty interesting. I game occasionally with my brother, who lives on a different continent... Chatting about life while shooting zombies or whatnot. One of the best parts is hanging out, post game. Basic avatars and
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by dalbasal 5y ago
>> am always fascinated when I hear other nerds describe the process of learning Western history as "begin with the Greeks." A good example of frames being "made up," in the sense that they can be constructed multi
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i'm with you on the pessimism. I haven't quite experienced a continual "push" by news narratives. I think this is likely just excitement by nerds within the establishment, just like there is outside of it, at all the cry
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Transaction costs, speed, the willingness of banks to do that kind of business, the assurity that banks will not panic and reverse transactions or shut the account down. Tether, until it inevitably explodes, just works. The reality of moder
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My intuition is that it would be no different than human speech recognition. You'd need sufficient data, but the principle is the same. There arn't that many "words." Humans understanding bird calls isn't new. We&#

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