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by landl0rd 1y ago
Japan is reliant on use of those payment processors. Pretty sure Line Pay, crypto, Rakuten Pay, etc are all viable alternatives. I fail to see how a comic book site is at all relevant to democracy because some processors don't want to
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by landl0rd 1y ago
I have a family member who has never been alright due to moderate psychedelic and heavy marijuana use in college. Maybe some people are fine, sure, and maybe this is even a rare outcome, but the denialism bothers me when I personally know t
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by landl0rd 1y ago
So am I, of both "hard" and "soft" drugs. I'm just pointing out the ridiculous approach some people choose to take rather than arguing from principled grounds. It's also a dangerous one: "we shouldn't
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by landl0rd 1y ago
Most people involved in it are aware at some level that this is at best suspect and at worst a deception designed to push legalization. Same as the “health benefits of marijuana” crowd who violently deny the risks, addictive nature, potenti
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by landl0rd 1y ago
Which is a terrible strategy actually. People did the same with marijuana. “Dude it’s medicine lol. Dude it can’t possibly contribute to schizophrenia. Dude weed lmao.” All this does is create a credible argument that the pro legalization c
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by landl0rd 1y ago
“18% chance you go from depressed to schizophrenic” (in reality this risk is going to vary across a distribution of risk) is still not favorable odds the way I see it.
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by landl0rd 1y ago
Ditto. They contributed to long-term trashing the psyche of a relative and we have a really strong history of such issues, stuff like schizophrenia that they can trigger. It’s an under appreciated risk.
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by landl0rd 1y ago
For LLM inference, the market that will pay $20,000 for what is now $20 is tiny.
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by landl0rd 1y ago
The labeling of every little thing as a pathology is part of a broader trend. Nobody can be down for a few weeks, it must be a "depressive episode". If you feel nervous before a big test or presentation, you have "anxiety&quo
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by landl0rd 1y ago
This is actually a pretty sound framework and I mostly agree. Usually it's justifiable to intervene when somebody is harming someone else and not before. I think it's a bit oversimplified, though. Do you think it might contribute
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by landl0rd 1y ago
I'm not sure if that's the intent of everyone backing this; I think part of it amounts to parents who are legitimately worried. I may not agree with their means but I can understand that. I haven't personally met anyone who t
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by landl0rd 1y ago
I agree with this to an extent actually, which has led me to conflict strongly with the structure of most denominations. There are a few exceptions (the Roman Catholic Jesuits are a good example) but I'd actually say the Roman Catholic
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by landl0rd 1y ago
What makes me a "homophobic bigot"? If I believe sleeping with a woman before y'all marry is wrong, am I a premarital-sex-phobic bigot? Maybe standing with signs and saying mean things to people who do so, or lobbying to ban
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by landl0rd 1y ago
Yes, I would. Just like with proposed bans on alcohol, tobacco, and firearms, I understand the motives (particularly when I look at the rash of wife-beating that encouraged the temperance movement, for instance) but oppose the proposed solu
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by landl0rd 1y ago
I'm fine with criticizing that, and actually agree with that criticism. "Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven."
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by landl0rd 1y ago
There is a radical proportion of American Christians which believes this, yes. I'm fine with calling out those beliefs. That's not my issue here, more tarring Christianity broadly, or even specifically those of us who hold conserv
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by landl0rd 1y ago
You're the one identifying me with them. That's my point. The group you dislike is "people who support this policy" or "Christians who want to enshrine their social policy via legislation." That's not what
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by landl0rd 1y ago
This is, as a matter of fact. Both sides of my family are essentially universally obese. I grew up with it. I saw lots of it. I am probably genetically predisposed, but I'm not giving my DNA to one of those sketchy testing companies, s
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by landl0rd 1y ago
Do you really think it's fair to compare a questionable UFO sighting to what I've learned from talking with and knowing people, seeing how this affects them? I don't think it is. Or talking with their girlfriends and hearing
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by landl0rd 1y ago
Don, we've discussed this on an old account of mine so at this point I'm pretty convinced you are set in your beliefs and more interested in publicly lambasting mine. But, for the sake of this thread, fine. In the source you linke
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by landl0rd 1y ago
I agree that some "purity gospel" teachings have made people uncomfortable with their own bodies. For example, I don't find myself bent out of shape by girls wearing shorter shorts and don't agree with the degree of tabo
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by landl0rd 1y ago
Something being normal doesn’t make it right. Obesity is normal. Shoplifting has become normal in many places. People getting drunk is normal. Normalcy doesn’t equal moral rectitude. Why do the opinions of my ancestors bear on that, and whi
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by landl0rd 1y ago
Many of them are. I just don’t see any reason to say “I disagree with the conservative Christians pushing this” rather than “I disagree with the people who support this.” There are secular folks who also support such legislation. It hints a
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by landl0rd 1y ago
No, some of them are. More evangelicals than my crowd. Morality bears directly on what we consider to be a just society, so I don’t care if you don’t care. You’re broadening the scope beyond this particular issue, where I’m guessing I agree
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by landl0rd 1y ago
Did something I wrote read like I disagreed with this? What children do in their private time is their parents’ business. What children do can sometimes be the business of the state; there’s tons of precedent for it acting in loco parentis.
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by landl0rd 1y ago
> conservative Christians are trying to eliminate ALL sexually-related speech online I don’t really appreciate this framing. Despite being a very conservative Christian (at least in many ways, if not others) I don’t approve of or agree w
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by landl0rd 1y ago
The Cloudflare Radar page is probably a more representative sample: https://radar.cloudflare.com/domains
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by landl0rd 1y ago
No, they're just not going to work with you.
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by landl0rd 1y ago
Windows zip is not in fact good enough. I've run into weird, buggy behavior, hanging on extract, all sorts of nonsense. I can see the argument that a universally-adopted solution is better, but that's different from windows just n
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by landl0rd 1y ago
I usually see zstd on max settings outperform xz on speed and very slightly on compression (though that's a tiny difference).

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