komali2

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by komali2 10mo ago
I used to do that but then like 10 books would come available at the same time and I'd feel all this pressure to read them as fast as possible. In the end I gave up and just download now.
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by komali2 10mo ago
The Kobo Libra Color is within your size range and has pen support. You can run Koreader on it and some other things, it's not like, a linux device though. I do think you can run arbitrary scripts through the program that manages alter
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by komali2 10mo ago
Glomped. Oozed.
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by komali2 10mo ago
Or their constant threats against Taiwan, or their oppression of LGBT people in their borders, or their genocide against the Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang, or their heel-turn into racialized nationalism (Han Chauvinism).
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by komali2 10mo ago
Diminishing material conditions makes a fertil breeding ground for right wing nationalism (isolationism and xenophobia). It's a pattern being replicated all over the world. UK citizens don't have high heat bills and sewage leaking
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by komali2 11mo ago
Sure, all I'm saying is it's bizarre that the country allows its resources to be allocated so inefficiently.
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by komali2 11mo ago
I didn't even mention AI though, but, really, you don't think automation or improved efficiencies will make human labor redundant? What about 30% unemployment, is even that feasible to you? Because that would also be catastrophic
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by komali2 11mo ago
I meant it more in the modern usage where it's either thrown in liberally when using cop-speak, or by tumbler/redditor type writers when they're trying to be funny. "He then proceeded to" in these situations can bas
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by komali2 11mo ago
Not universally. I disagree, they read differently to me, and I'd say them differently. Parentheses to me always feel like the speaker switching to camera #3 while holding a hand up to their mouth conspiratorially. Em dashes are same-c
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by komali2 11mo ago
> The dialect our cops use is perhaps even worse, but at least most of us don’t have to read or hear it as much as the business variety. Ugh, and journalists often slip into cop dialect in their articles. It's disgustingly propagand
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by komali2 11mo ago
Maneuvered, marched, slid over to, snuck up on/to, rolled on up to, ambled, thread his way through the crowd to, slithered, slunk. Pimp walked. Danced over to. Hopped over to. Sprinted! Jogged! Charged!
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by komali2 11mo ago
Good point, maybe the more important statistic is that there's 900 billionaires in America, representing about 7 trillion in collective wealth. The USA GDP is 30 trillion... the situation just seems inherently wrong to me.
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by komali2 11mo ago
These are cherry picked. Mostly the first and last sentence look like this. I just checked settings, apparently I had it set to "nerdy," that might be why. I've just changed it to "efficient," hopefully that'll
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by komali2 11mo ago
.1% hold 12.6% of national wealth so that's 300,000 people. It tends to clump at the top, apparently. In any case, it seems a bit bizarre to me that the wealth is distributed so unevenly. Do you believe those 3 million people work so h
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by komali2 11mo ago
Imminent or not, what jobs will remain? Fixing the robots? Technology strives to reduce cost, labor is typically the largest cost, so is it not inevitable that labor will be made mostly redundant?
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by komali2 11mo ago
Governments can print money. But yes, you're right, the core problem is that in the USA, people need to justify their existence through labor. If they can't labor, they can't justify their existence (barring the slim few outl
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by komali2 11mo ago
I was trying to figure out why my SD card wasn't mounting and asked ChatGPT. It said: > Your kernel is actually being very polite here. It sees the USB reader, shakes its hand, reads its name tag… and then nothing further happens. T
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by komali2 11mo ago
> There were unspoken rules, commandments passed down from teacher to student, year after year. The first commandment? Thou shalt begin with a proverb or a powerful opening statement. “Haste makes waste,” we would write, before launching
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by komali2 11mo ago
I feel like the USA is not prepared for the 50% unemployment rate it's looking at when the value of labor in many industries drops to pennies. Other countries with safety nets and socialist programs can probably switch to a UBI style e
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by komali2 11mo ago
I did a bit of mild googling. 1% of Americans control 30% of the wealth of the nation, and apparently 12% of property. It's more than reasonable that people with that much wealth to their name pay the vast majority of the taxes, as it
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by komali2 11mo ago
I've had a PR on Kubb that was taken over by a human maintainer. They then closed my PR and reimplemented my fix in their own PR. So, the project is human enough to annoy me, anyway.
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by komali2 11mo ago
Because the owners want to get rich, not live as pensioners.
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by komali2 11mo ago
Discovering Kubb was a game changer for me last year.
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by komali2 11mo ago
I kinda rabbit holed on this and it seems to be a very lucrative scam https://medium.com/myndplan/myndplan-9961a084f750
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by komali2 11mo ago
Well that is interesting and if you had results then that's all that matters for your family of course. But sorry to clarify I'm still hung up on the "8 handed clock" thing - what does that mean? What information is disp
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by komali2 11mo ago
To the hundred millisecond?
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by komali2 11mo ago
I've been journaling and taking handwritten notes in cursive since 1998. You'd think I'd have developed beautiful handwriting - nope, illegible.
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by komali2 11mo ago
What information does an 8 handed clock convey?
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by komali2 11mo ago
That's hoarding. The content is downloaded and then used to train proprietary models at no benefit to greater humanity. Thus some few corporations are robbing the commons and trying to rent it back to us.
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by komali2 11mo ago
> You’re just a parasite. No. It's parasitic to horde human knowledge and seek rent for it. If one is obsessed with the idea of maximizing profit above all other considerations including one's brotherhood to man, there's s

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