komali2

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by komali2 4mo ago
Sure, it's a bit of an absurdity eventually, but when we talk about what we're actually trying to talk about with prisoner's dilemma, which is interpersonal and intergroup interaction, publicly announcing intent to collaborat
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by komali2 4mo ago
What about the part of the world that's A-Christian? Why is the only choice pre or post? And why is Christianity the only religion that gets to claim pride being bad? Lots of cultures oppose bragging. Also why is there no spectrum in y
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by komali2 4mo ago
Did you make this account just to misgender her a couple times? You haven't posted before or since but are very careful to use the masculine pronoun to describe someone that uses the feminine pronoun in the only posts you've made.
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by komali2 4mo ago
Ah! Then it should be trivially easy for you to write up a paper disproving the various supportive studies for therapeutic treatments and their efficacy. We all get you have this strongman opinion about mental health, what I'm telling
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by komali2 4mo ago
> The problems with balance and the overwhelming nature of my psychological symptoms eventually led me to fall and hit my head. This in turn led myself and my wife to decide that I couldn’t be safe at home. And that brought us to my firs
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by komali2 4mo ago
Oh, well, since you're sincere, the answer to your original question, "Does therapy actually work," is, yes: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5509639/ You aren't sincere, though, since
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by komali2 4mo ago
You're talking about a time pre-capitalism. "Incentives" don't map to a stable cross-community market. We should talk about "reasons," not "incentives." A great reason not to try to deceive about weig
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by komali2 4mo ago
Pretty gross comment. Just say you're cool and awesome cause you don't care about people. Virtue signal and move on, why make try to make a fake discussion?
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by komali2 4mo ago
Perhaps the police should not have earned the label if they didn't want it applied. The problem is the police and the State are allies in the end, and the State under liberal democracy is supposed to be the mechanism by which the polic
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by komali2 4mo ago
> Genetics isn't everything, but it's an indicator that the populations have remained extremely stable (no large scale migrations) while the culture shifted under them. This is why your comment is weird. You seem to be leaning
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by komali2 4mo ago
> Like really, think about it. These weights were very precise. And they had to be, because "weight" was basically equivalent to "money." So there had to be a standard, and that standard had to be enforced when the we
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by komali2 4mo ago
Therapy keeps people alive that wouldn't otherwise be, and people coping that wouldn't otherwise be able to. I've noticed that the human tolerance for extreme suffering leads sometimes to binary thinking. "Well they&#x27
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by komali2 4mo ago
> McCarthy, an Augustinian friar from the South Side who has known Pope Leo for 43 years, told the story as a reminder to parishioners that the pope “is like us,” and “a very humble guy.” So humble that he was able to change his informat
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by komali2 4mo ago
> Yes, the verification may be somewhat cumbersome It's a hard blocker. I was running an engineering co-op off it and the onboarding difficulties was what finally led us to switch to discord. All members are good engineers, but the
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by komali2 4mo ago
There's friends and there's friends. Someone might be perfectly happy being your friend, and not understanding why you never come to their parties that they advertise via the group chat on whatever platform, or insta posts or what
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by komali2 4mo ago
The only way to know the correct meshtastic configs for Taiwan is to join the meshtastic Taiwan Facebook group. Or attend an event in person. They advertise their in person events on the meshtastic Facebook group.
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by komali2 4mo ago
It seems like there's no solution, then: companies will always chase the next dollar that allows them to exceed growth expectations on the earnings call. It seems like no matter what, anti-user behavior in pursuit of profit is inevitab
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by komali2 4mo ago
That was a great deal when it came bundled with YouTube music. When they bizarrely tried to merge the two products so that when I was interested in watching videos, all I got was music video recommendations, it lost its lustre. Now I would
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by komali2 4mo ago
And if it's anything like Whatsapp, they'd need to keep up support for otherwise unsupported platforms like ancient Android versions, cause .01% doesn't sound like a lot until you realize your install base is in the hundreds
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by komali2 4mo ago
Old theory - I feel like that Simpsons meme, "say the words Bart," but, Marx write about this: > The ultimate reason for all real crises always remains the poverty and restricted consumption of the masses as opposed to the driv
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by komali2 4mo ago
What evidence do you have to support your accusation? Emdash usage? You have an emdash in your post, do you use LLMs? Go look at my blog. Any LLM use there? I care about writing, I use LLMs to write code but never let it touch my prose, hen
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by komali2 4mo ago
> The end state is something like China, where petty street level crime is essentially solved. PRC netizens, and who knows what percentage of them are real but presumably more than 0, will defend this when I talk with them about it. How
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by komali2 4mo ago
I do wonder about the tradeoff between convenience and the various negative externalities. Example: trains are better for the environment than planes. I need to get from Copenhagen to London for a wedding next month. The train schedule is r
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by komali2 4mo ago
Yeah 50/50 feels more accurate. The great success is equally dependant on both things. Actually probably more on luck since I know plenty of lazy but lucky successful people, but no hard working unlucky successful people.
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by komali2 4mo ago
The only place in Taiwan to get good hot wings is Hooters, so I was there the other day with some folks, and we noticed this dude alone at a table for a bit. His beer arrives, and he pulls out an unopened Lego box set for some car. For the
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by komali2 4mo ago
Also, what about the false police reports leading to police brutality?
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by komali2 4mo ago
Capitalists invented metrics to show how awesome capitalism for the world, and then said "see, against these metrics, the world is better!" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X
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by komali2 4mo ago
> I get that it still sucks today. The only point I'm making is that it's false that the historical economic surplus has accrued "solely" (or even, mostly) to the wealthiest. It's not true. It is, though, if we t
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by komali2 4mo ago
> Maybe i’m a cynical capitalist, but I expect everyone to be operating in their own self interest. Down to explore this with me? I often wonder if this is self fulfilling. I'm not saying you're selfish, I mean, has capitalism
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by komali2 4mo ago
> If someone gave me the chance to join something more like a worker-owned coop, where the workers on the business and vote on how it works I run a co-op, and the most surprising thing I've learned is that it seems the only reason o

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