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by komali2 1y ago
Well, first, I reject both sidesism because Nazism is an ideology that wants me and my friends to die, and denies our very humanity, and my ideology doesn't really want anyone to die, and absolutely does not deny anyone's humanity
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> I don't know what other "happiness" there can be Doing the same thing but with other people is fairly universally baked into our psychology as a satisfying and good thing. There's absolutely nothing wrong with leadi
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> but deep down I am ready to jump in front of a train once my mother dies. I have a similar ideology to yours but I'm not sad like this because I'm not experiencing what appears to be clinical depression. You should seek medic
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by komali2 1y ago
This is an insight I always want to explore more. I believe that virtue signalling neoliberalism (the dominant ideology regardless of political party in all western democracies - basically, capitalism good) has done tremendous harm by weari
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> According to? General consensus. Also it seems to lead to more stable societies when people are kind to eachother. That creates mutual safety and comfort. Humans are uncomfortable with constant conflict and violence. Doing things that
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by komali2 1y ago
But, the obvious failure mode: you assume it locked automatically behind you, but how can you be guaranteed of this without checking? It seems to me at that point it's better to just lock it with a key, which guarantees it's locke
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by komali2 1y ago
I never understood the smart lock. Some other connected appliances make sense - HVAC for example. But unlocking my door with a key is such a trivially easy, failure-proof thing to do, and every smart lock I've ever seen so riddled with
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It's irrational long term since his golf courses will eventually be underwater or turned into refugee camps.
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Unfortunately you're also engaging in an appeal to universal virtue. It's weird because your argument doesn't seem to disagree with the notion that people should stay enfranchised, other than you saying specifically people sh
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Philosophy has spent 3000 years trying to organize humans well and has apparently failed to solve that problem. Reframing that reality as "actually it doesn't matter what the consequence is as long as we followed our values to the
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Yes yes I'm sure smarter people than me have done lots of interesting logical things to philosophy over the last thousand years. And I maintain my simple point: if your ethical system doesn't allow the flexibility to not give up A
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The potato trick. https://www.farmersalmanac.com/parmentier-made-potatoes-popu... > Still, even after all of Parmentier’s work, the French feared and hated potatoes. But Parmentier was undeterred. Determined to prove to
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by komali2 1y ago
Have you ever met in real life a person who wouldn't lie to the axe murderer, because of their Kantian values? If a Kantian can be put into a situation where their morals would require them to say the word that gives up Anne Frank, we
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by komali2 1y ago
I feel like people who make such blanket value statements like "I don't cheat people" or "I don't lie" aren't being honest with themselves, or are putting too much faith in the stability of the society the
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I found this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_(1795_ship) which may be that ship and it's indicated it may have been a slaver and is in the ballpark of the right time period. Ironically there was an HMS Amelia
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Why would manufacturing cost come into play? Isn't it a given that a company will charge as much as they can get away with charging? Cost of labor and material I understood to only matter at the absolute bottom of a highly commoditized
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Rich parents were cited as a reason for success, not as a thing to criticize. Perhaps people aren't blaming wealth for everything like you think?
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I got Finals working on an i3 nvidia system basically by doing nothing more than installing Steam and then installing The Finals and playing through proton. What issues did you run into?
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This is a gentle reminder that it really doesn't matter what the color of a Muslim's skin is to those who care to distinguish someone as Muslim or not-Muslim. To the racist right wing machine, those that are undeniably white (say,
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My meaning is more like, St. Nicholas and his flying sleigh and reindeer have existed since at least the 1800s, Father Christmas as well, Sinterklaas even earlier most likely, but Coca-Cola invented Santa Claus as the world knows him in 193
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> Email-based login does not require matrix.org accounts (and never did) - it sounds like there's confusion there with inviting users by email, which indeed needs you to run an email->matrix 'identity server' (which def
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Just fwiw, Threads is basically the go-to for Taiwan stuff. It's absurdly popular in Taiwan and people recently used it to help organize one of the largest protests in Taiwan's history.
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The USA is also an authoritarian State, it just has better marketing. I live in Taiwan. I'm no fan of the CPC. But if you zoom out a bit, it's kinda hard to distinguish the two beyond Americans winning global cultural victory (CPC
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The article personifies things a couple times and I always wonder about the actual mechanics when people do that. It mentions selfish queen genes and how the DNA from the male of the species "ensures its propagation by applying pressur
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Cory Doctorow has called this "enshittification" and it seems to be a universal process across the tech industry.
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Matrix and element are phenomenal bits of software for nerds only. I tried running a community on it and it was a collosal failure. The onboarding flow sucks, if you want to send email logins it implicitly requires them to make matrix.org o
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by komali2 1y ago
Privatization of many things is turning out to be a failure. Sewage, water - see the UK, failure. Healthcare: USA, failure. Utilities: UK, USA, failure. Mail: Denmark, failure. Transportation: UK, USA, utter failure. Further privatization w
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by komali2 1y ago
What I'm learning is that some people don't keep a stock of what I would consider "bare minimums" in their cupboard. First of all, properly stored flour, sugar, and cocoa powder doesn't attract bugs. Glass jars that
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Pause, you could write an HTML to markdown library in half a day? Like, 4 hours? Or 12? Either way damn
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Maybe they are, I can't speak for them but I've noticed that React hasn't been "reinvited every year" since maybe, 2019 or so, whenever we changed from functional components to class components and then back to func

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