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by jjulius 1y ago
>... even if US voters can't. Because blanket generalizations suck, I'll point out that 48.34% of voters did recognize a con artist.
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by jjulius 2y ago
But, that's life, no? We can never make plans that work out all the time. I'd say, as a father of a 5 and 3yo myself, it's a great opportunity to demonstrate/teach the kiddos how to deal with those situations. The point
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by jjulius 2y ago
It's entirely dependent upon where, specifically, in the Cascades OP was. There are numerous wilderness-designated zones that don't have limits on number of people in an area and access is free, save for the requirement that you f
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by jjulius 2y ago
This comment makes assumptions and gives OP crap for said assumptions. As someone who also frequently backpacks in the same region, it's just not true. OP specified "wilderness zone" and there are numerous wilderness area
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by jjulius 2y ago
We could always, uhh... go to NASA.gov. Weird, I know.
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by jjulius 2y ago
>Various levels of verification make it easier to distinguish what's real from not real, for whatever definition of "real" you prefer. Exactly! ;) Bullshit is still bullshit, whether it's under a real name or a pseudo
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by jjulius 2y ago
I move past, and don't click on, articles I don't care about all the time. That approach takes a lot less time/effort than it does to click on them and post something about it. Doing that also means that they leave my mind al
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by jjulius 2y ago
This is hobby-dependent and YMMV of course, but... ... go and do your hobby. Whatever it is. You're likely to meet people along the way who are also into whatever it is that you're doing. Even in the less sociable hobbies, you&#x2
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by jjulius 2y ago
After ditching social media, I've come to greatly value close connections with my friends and family. Meeting up and hanging out, or calling them regularly if they live far away, have proved far more fruitful than any value I thought I
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by jjulius 2y ago
>I know this sounds like work... Yup! At the risk of being flippant, all healthy relationships require work.
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by jjulius 2y ago
This is probably a "YMMV" kinda thing, because I thought that I would experience the same struggle, but in reality I've found out that I encounter those moments but... I don't really care. It's like being removed fr
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by jjulius 2y ago
>... but I’ve also felt a bit of a mourning period not being reminded about acquaintances’ lives. We don't need to be reminded of acquaintances lives - what people I barely know do in their free time has zero bearing on my life. The
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by jjulius 2y ago
This ignores nuance. There's "engaging content" (nods head) and "engaging content" (shakes head). I want the former, not the latter. Social media is optimized for the latter.
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by jjulius 2y ago
>... that only shows things from your friends... And any page you follow, including anything that tries to convince you to click through to their website via clickbait, anxiety-inducing headlines, etc.. It also shows FB groups you'r
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by jjulius 2y ago
>This is Jonathan Haidt, and he's been writing against all social media for years now. Yeah, it's not "moronic propaganda", it's someone who has, historically and famously so, been very focused on the broad issue
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by jjulius 2y ago
>I'm not willing to accept a single second of added latency or buffering or downtime... >... near-instantaneous access anywhere in the world to every song ever... Nobody needs this. You think you do, but nobody needs everything
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by jjulius 2y ago
>It costs a lot to buy those music files... And the artists and everyone who worked on it thank you very much for paying for an album/song instead of just paying a streaming subscription fee.
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by jjulius 2y ago
It's a "YMMV" situation, because... I don't want that. At all. It's algorithmic and there's nothing stopping artists and labels paying for placement in there. I don't want that. I am a musician, and a DJ,
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by jjulius 2y ago
Thanks!
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by jjulius 2y ago
I am ignorant here, this is a genuine question - is there any reason to assume that a paper solely about image mimicry can be blanket-applied, as OP is doing, to audio mimicry?
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by jjulius 2y ago
Ah, this is where nuance comes in. For instance, I do not like carrots - it's a taste thing, I don't enjoy the flavor a bit. I've kept trying them for years and if something is carrot-forward, I don't enjoy it. I tried s
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by jjulius 2y ago
Yeah, basically! I won't not serve it to them again no matter how much they insisted they didn't like it last time. When I serve dinner, I always make sure a little bit of everything makes it to their plate before they come to the
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by jjulius 2y ago
I think a person who has liked every single piece of food (in edible condition, to use your phrase) they've ever put into their mouths is a pretty rare specimen.
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by jjulius 2y ago
It's a different approach for us (am parent of a 5 and 3 year-old). Every type of food is equal, nothing gets put on a pedestal. Candies, snacks, ice creams, vegetables, fruits, legumes, meats, seafood - it's just "food"
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by jjulius 2y ago
>No, OP lamented that a "connection interruption" means you "lose" messages. You were participating in a conversation, but you don't receive the whole conversation because your connection was interrupted. Again,
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by jjulius 2y ago
I know - I was a longtime IRC user way back when. You're still not quite groking my point. Lemme try and make it a bit more clear: OP lamented that things like IRC meant that if you weren't always connected, you'd miss messag
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by jjulius 2y ago
... I know this. Again[1], not the point of my comment. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43687028
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by jjulius 2y ago
Regarding my comment, IRC was just a quick little example - to focus on that is to miss the forest for the trees. The lack of connection is the point .
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by jjulius 2y ago
That's a fair point. WATMM, for instance, is finally calling it quits. https://forum.watmm.com/
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by jjulius 2y ago
We don't always need to know everything that happened all the time, whether it's online or meatspace happenings. If my IRC connection dropped back in the day, and there was something that happened in that timeframe that was truly

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