esotericn

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by esotericn 6y ago
I fully accept that you are willing to put up with this and that you'd like to see something 'in between'. I'm not and most people I know aren't. The 2 metre rule will kill off all of the cultural institutions I hol
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by esotericn 6y ago
If you refuse to engage on my points, which you still are (as is the Government, literally completely ignoring the main issue people are having) then you need to justify that with reasoning other than "well I don't care about it,
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by esotericn 6y ago
As another northern man from the UK, you're an absolute fucking beast, mate. :)
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by esotericn 6y ago
It bears repeating again - as responsible individuals, we can handle lock down for a few months. It's a reasonable thing to do given the uncertainty of the situation. We won't do it for years - that's a delusion, a fantasy th
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by esotericn 6y ago
It's possible for a short period. It's not possible for years. We won't do it. Really, we just won't. I can't be clearer on this, I consider it pointless, frustrating even, to discuss - it feels like arguing against
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by esotericn 6y ago
At the moment we _still_ have no date in the UK for when people will be able to visit their wives, husbands, partners or children if they're not cohabiting. If you're living alone, then you still have no idea when it will legally
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by esotericn 6y ago
The article here is describing a time-frame of years. Yes, most people are on board with a lockdown of a few months. Flattening the curve is a sane aim. If you persist with this idea of deleting social interaction for multiple years, people
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by esotericn 6y ago
Strawmen everywhere as of late. It has to happen, because people cannot stay inside forever, with all the will in the world. This is definitional unless you're planning to create a police state and forcibly prevent the young from i
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by esotericn 6y ago
We are not eradicating the virus, we are flattening the curve. The goalposts have moved, I support lockdown on the original basis, not your fantasy, because it's not only physically impossible - we are not doing it politically or socia
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by esotericn 6y ago
Being charitable - you're inadvertently being dishonest here. Your "close friends", unless you met them all on IRC or whatever, literally _exist_ because you met them. Your family exist because you spent time close to each ot
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by esotericn 6y ago
Yeah, I reckon that's fairly probable (the lockdown - not the second wave, I think that's inevitable, where the case numbers sit after that is yet to be seen though). I figure we have N waves, with herd immunity building during th
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by esotericn 6y ago
Yeah, I'm doing everything I can personally at the moment, this is more a discussion around how in N months I feel hands will be forced. The current situation is some sort of distributed trade of mental health for physical health; the
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by esotericn 6y ago
You're in good company there ;)
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by esotericn 6y ago
For every pint they don't drink, I'll drink two? :)
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by esotericn 6y ago
FWIW, I don't feel that way at all (re throwing old people under the bus). I think that what's happened is the opposite - the young have been thrown under the bus (even disregarding social activity we have things like school closu
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by esotericn 6y ago
In the real world, people across the country will be piling in to pubs to socialise (actually socialise, not just 'chat at 2 metres away from a person they already know') and a blind eye will be turned. People will go out, get sma
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by esotericn 6y ago
Same here, and that's ignoring the asymptomatic cases, so you can at least triple/quadruple that number.
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by esotericn 6y ago
I use the phrase 'mild insanity' because I honestly feel that it's some element of cabin fever that's caused a minority of individuals to become paralyzed in this way. At this point we've gone way beyond any semblan
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by esotericn 6y ago
The article takes a long time to essentially get around to saying this: > But covid-19 and the extreme social-distancing measures used to combat it pose a new and more profound danger to the capital I feel that during lockdown a fair few
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by esotericn 6y ago
These posts miss the point of life, to me. They read as propaganda distributed by sociopaths or something. It's intuitively obvious that if you're a relatively healthy person, and grind at a goal exclusively with no other desire,
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by esotericn 6y ago
The PinePhone is $150.
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by esotericn 6y ago
It makes me genuinely really angry that this isn't the case, it has me questioning why I even bother to interact with the development ecosystem when it seems like 90% of the stuff out there is this sort of closed-off 'got mine&#x2
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by esotericn 6y ago
That answers the question of why management operates the way it does. It doesn't answer the question for developers. I actually can't fathom it at all, I find it completely impossible to sustainably perform tasks that I think are
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by esotericn 6y ago
I think you've missed my point here, this goes _way_ further than this specific individual issue. The entire ecosystem is built on a model that turns it into a disposable toy and there's no sign that this is going away any time so
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by esotericn 6y ago
I ordered a PinePhone the other day and I'm going to do as much as I can to try and make it my daily driver. I really can't be arsed with this stuff any more. Why are the developers at Google acting in such boneheaded ways? Is it
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by esotericn 6y ago
Are HMRC paying you for this comment? :)
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by esotericn 6y ago
I think you're more pointing to the fact that most 'raises' are joke tier. The word 'raise' in and of itself generally refers to an ~inflation bump. 5% per year is practically nothing. There is no point in my life a
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by esotericn 6y ago
Literally nowhere that is a good place to work is even listed in these rankings. It's always massive corporations that get the award for some weird PR reason.
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by esotericn 6y ago
Thought experiment: Google controls 90% of the search market, the 10% (or 1%, whatever) they don't serve being made up of people who are oppressed in some way by the 90%, deliberately or otherwise. Google censors information relating t
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by esotericn 6y ago
Precisely.

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