jimbokun

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by jimbokun 1mo ago
How well does the average parent know the other parents and children on the first day dropping their kid off at daycare?
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by jimbokun 1mo ago
Why do you think that?
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by jimbokun 1mo ago
And your bias is that if institutionalized child care is shown to lead to worse outcomes than parents caring for their own children, you will feel a lot of personal guilt.
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by jimbokun 1mo ago
You do realize this wasn’t an actual job search process…right?
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by jimbokun 1mo ago
How do you know what was in the article? Also, you see zero distinction between hearing opinions on political topics you might find objectionable, and building a bomb to kill people?
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by jimbokun 1mo ago
With other digital goods the distribution and operating costs have been essentially free. No business worried that much about the cost of running Microsoft Office on the PCs they already distributed to their employees. They were only conc
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by jimbokun 1mo ago
But that’s the exact opposite. By your own story, they did just leave their cave and experience the wider world by getting their ass kicked.
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by jimbokun 1mo ago
You need to go out and observe the world to test your theories and hypotheses.
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by jimbokun 1mo ago
For you the barbell itself is the mat.
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by jimbokun 1mo ago
What activities are you engaging in where you can make progress with no interaction with other people?
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by jimbokun 1mo ago
People like Trump and Musk.
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by jimbokun 1mo ago
The vegetables obviously weren’t fresh year round but my grandmother and mother and aunts canned lots and lots of vegetables we ate throughout the winter.
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by jimbokun 2mo ago
Well we still were in small town America in the 1970s. :)
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by jimbokun 2mo ago
One of the difficulties pointed out in the article is the difficulty of finding a control group when the entire culture has been transformed by these technologies.
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by jimbokun 2mo ago
The accelerationists are the ultimate result of taking Snow’s argument too its ultimate conclusion.
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by jimbokun 2mo ago
That’s a bracing statement and wondering if you have a citation for it?
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by jimbokun 2mo ago
Delightful indeed, and shocked that an English major would struggle with that text.
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by jimbokun 2mo ago
As the author also points out.
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by jimbokun 2mo ago
The article reveals that the broader debate is more gibberish and less settled than we tend to think.
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by jimbokun 2mo ago
Maybe not organic avocados but more likely to be eating produce from your own backyard garden. That was done for cost reasons back then but today local and seasonal produce is a staple of high end restaurants.
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by jimbokun 2mo ago
So better off today compared to 200 years ago.
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by jimbokun 2mo ago
The author discusses at length how the conclusions we reach about social media are strongly tied to our personal values and what we consider “good” or “bad” outcomes.
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by jimbokun 2mo ago
You can be against more than one thing.
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by jimbokun 2mo ago
Let me guess, you think it’s somehow impossible that people like Trump and Musk would end up running this One World Government like Trey have done in the US because…reasons.
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by jimbokun 2mo ago
It can ALWAYS get worse.
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by jimbokun 2mo ago
But at least there will be a lot of paper clips!
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by jimbokun 2mo ago
The people building the app didn’t know any better either. Maybe at some point they realized how addictive and corrosive to society the app had become. But I don’t believe they set out with that as an end goal.
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by jimbokun 2mo ago
Generational wealth is generally used to describe not just a comfortable personal retirement but your children and their children and so on never needing to work if they are remotely responsible with the money.
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by jimbokun 2mo ago
You said 10 years away from retirement so that’s closer to 2 million than 8.
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by jimbokun 2mo ago
Not much difference between storing as many songs you can listen to in a lifetime, or storing twice as many songs as you can listen to in a lifetime.

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