lazyasciiart

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by lazyasciiart 2mo ago
> In the Vietnam war the US didn't win because it couldn't, no matter how much force was employed. Here same thing Yes, that is the point everyone has been trying to make.
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by lazyasciiart 2mo ago
Yes, Chesterton clearly hadn’t started working at a job where he was responsible for the security or accuracy of a process. “Then Marge calculates the late penalties by hand and enters them into the system? It’s fine, she … has a method?Rea
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by lazyasciiart 2mo ago
Ah, I guess that would advertise that users of the old version are vulnerable. I was imagining some altruistic contributor trying to sneak in a bug fix past the maintainer.
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by lazyasciiart 2mo ago
People are trying to secretly fix bugs?
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by lazyasciiart 2mo ago
Well, that goes with the metaphor. Debt is not an intrinsically bad thing, and most people agree on that: countries run deficits, people get mortgages and millionaires trade on leverage.
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by lazyasciiart 2mo ago
They did say k-12.
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by lazyasciiart 2mo ago
Words are funny. It is real, it's just not ..biological.
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by lazyasciiart 2mo ago
But there is a malaria vaccine? https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/php/public-health-strategy/malar...
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by lazyasciiart 2mo ago
My office suuuucks. All the actual machines are in a dedicated space so we have to hot desk and remote in even if we come to the office. There’s not even cubicles, just rows of desks. I would go out of my way NOT to work there.
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by lazyasciiart 2mo ago
Please don’t make comments about things that you don’t care about enough to have any information on. It wastes other people’s time when they imagine you are interested enough to learn some of the ways your comment is wrong.
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by lazyasciiart 2mo ago
> I’m afraid we’re completely ignoring the impact this has on society at large, the climate, and the balance of the world as a whole. Who's we ? The impact this has on society at large is such an enormous, pervasive topic in my lif
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by lazyasciiart 2mo ago
It is flat out not a nice feeling to experience uncertainty about things like "can I pay for someone to look after my child so I can go to work?" and "will I have food to eat this weekend?". For some people, "will
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by lazyasciiart 2mo ago
> prominence on the global stage, not...really a solid argument for how well they would combine, but clearly a major contributor to how how much you know about them. And FYI those languages didn't disappear 400 years ago. They are s
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by lazyasciiart 2mo ago
The most famous actual wall in Europe is the Berlin Wall, which wasn’t about ethnicity or built to keep anyone out. And even Trump’s wall isn’t about blood or soil - CBP and ICE would collapse without the Spanish speaking Hispanic populatio
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by lazyasciiart 2mo ago
My brother still believes this and he's 46 :(
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by lazyasciiart 2mo ago
Yes. I've seen people attempt to argue that the existence of racism/sexism is proof of the inadequacy of the discriminated group, because otherwise it isn't rational and humans are rational. Which is either a concerning level
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by lazyasciiart 2mo ago
I haven’t heard that as a cause of heart attacks. Is “oxidated lipids” the phrase to look for in research?
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by lazyasciiart 2mo ago
What percentage of any random western country population do you think has reached three plates on squat, and therefore has to consider this?
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by lazyasciiart 2mo ago
RL'd?
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by lazyasciiart 2mo ago
> It turns out that half of all people are of below average intelligence and they consequently make bad decisions. Worse than that; it turns out that even people of above average intelligence consistently make bad decisions! AND they sti
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by lazyasciiart 2mo ago
> I tried to explain why personalized search results are the beginning of the end of a shared reality It ignores the fact that there was no such shared reality. Just go and look for the time when everyone agreed if racism existed.
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by lazyasciiart 2mo ago
The first comment suggests that it was always like this and life has got worse. The second says it has almost never been like this, it was a short-lived condition only. That is in no way a normative statement on how it should be.
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by lazyasciiart 2mo ago
They didn’t own their own houses.
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by lazyasciiart 2mo ago
Not to mention that your full time alcoholic isn’t taking 12 hour shifts off to be sober.
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by lazyasciiart 2mo ago
They’re working off occupation as reported on death certificates, so they say they are assuming it’s still accurate.
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by lazyasciiart 2mo ago
Doesn’t that make it even worse that they also choose to flatten entire buildings?
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by lazyasciiart 2mo ago
I disagree. But if you want to have a conversation about whether specific actions achieve their intended goals, that’s very different to saying “but did you even DO anything because of what you learned???????”
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by lazyasciiart 2mo ago
And I’m surprised by your level of investment in being a jerk in this conversation.
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by lazyasciiart 2mo ago
Yes, not thinking about serious problems because they don’t personally impact you will make your life more comfortable. Butler appears to be making the less obviously self serving argument that spending time being aware of serious problems
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by lazyasciiart 2mo ago
My grandma does want tech because she loves sharing pictures with her grandchildren throughout the day. That doesn’t mean she wants to send money to Nigeria through a fake banking app?

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