matrix87

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by matrix87 3y ago
> I think the 'ignoring that there are discernable differences between people' thing needs to die. Maybe having a connection with someone? Does that mean anything to you?
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by matrix87 3y ago
> and that without talk therapy (or some kind of self dialogue perhaps?) psychedelics are not as effective. Probably because there aren't any people there looking for specific boxes to check Doing this in front of one of them is a h
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by matrix87 3y ago
How was 5-MeO compared to the other two?
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by matrix87 3y ago
> A false belief that we we have control over our destinies and ignoring the vast amount of luck is how we end up with increasing suicide rates. This seems kind of counterintuitive. If anything, a belief in agency gives people a hope for
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by matrix87 3y ago
> And following up on that, do you honestly believe that the students at harvard want all jewish people all over the world to be murdered? "We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for
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by matrix87 3y ago
> I often shrug when people ask me to pay more for public schools / child programs to encourage births. The claim is often that 'You're investing in our future'. Except... we're not. The data are pretty clear. A
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by matrix87 3y ago
> We need to remove as many impediments as we can to child birth and rearing For example, overturning Roe v Wade I'm kind of curious what the Clarence Thomas has cooking next
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by matrix87 3y ago
> but their birth rates are as bad or worse than Japan when excluding migrants Source on this?
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by matrix87 3y ago
Japan isn't like the USA where you can just import people of a different culture en masse and expect shit to not catch on fire
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by matrix87 3y ago
So because those Zionist arguments exist, calling for the murder of Jewish people (not metaphorically, the question was a hypothetical) is something where "nuance" matters now? You acknowledge the arguments as bad faith, then turn
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by matrix87 3y ago
> Instead I have a MBP M2 because Thinkpad just ain't Thinkpad anymore and that is sad. I'm torn on this, I've been a longtime Mac user and am due to upgrade my old mbp to something. Imo the current line of mbp is objectiv
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by matrix87 3y ago
I dropped out of my swe job and replaced it with gig work, currently looking for a job as a prompt engineer. I think I'm going to go back to uni and get a degree in prompt engineering. The future is AI driven, whether people want to ac
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by matrix87 3y ago
> The researchers then analyzed data from surveys conducted over a 55-year period that had asked participants to report on various aspects of current morality. The results indicated that people’s assessments of the current morality of th
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by matrix87 3y ago
Why are they a monopoly in this sector? What's stopping people from just switching to Bing if their product goes to shit? Doing that literally takes like two seconds
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by matrix87 3y ago
If there's one thing I've learned from technology, it's that people put way too much faith in technology People want to believe that the tech is good enough to build this advertising simulacrum the guy in the video refers to.
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by matrix87 3y ago
> Every byte of information, if it actually "informs", contains with it an implicit agenda and context What about math? You think that has an agenda?
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by matrix87 3y ago
> do you really feel that google is the place to go to find things these days? Uhh yeah? Search isn't a trivial thing to implement and they still have the best product Maybe the results are less relevant now because of AI spam, but
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by matrix87 3y ago
> Most of the decisions people make in the US around careers has more to do with image than it does with financial sense. I've thought the same thing about this, it's kind of depressing. It's like science and tech are both
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by matrix87 3y ago
This isn't bad timing really, we just had a year of layoffs and have a federal election just around the corner. The people who are interested should read up on Trump's previous immigration policy, which looks to be considerably mo
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by matrix87 3y ago
> The US Immigration system exudes a sense of American exceptionalism because voters say "Love it or leave it". But the people who leave end up becoming successful, but still angry at how much effort and stress was expended for
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by matrix87 3y ago
> Relatedly, a tight labor market has made it harder for meat processors, farms, roofing contractors and other employers to find workers willing to do physically taxing, often low-paying work. So pay more then? Instead of trapping childr
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by matrix87 3y ago
> Even if they were a 'cult of sexuality' - what exactly is the harm here? Because advertising a fetish in public is considered unacceptable by most people? Shouldn't that be obvious to them? If they go around in public co
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by matrix87 3y ago
Exactly, then you can broaden the scope of "harm" to be whatever is politically convenient. For example, I could turn your same argument around and use it to suppress any discussion of abortion whatsoever because the life of the e
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by matrix87 3y ago
> Humanity has come to the point it is now, not by following “common sense” but by following science What do you mean by "following science" here? As in, making your own observations, testing your own hypotheses? I'm not a
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by matrix87 3y ago
> We do know that stricter sentencing doesn't work "Doesn't work" in what sense? In a rehabilitative sense? Is everyone in agreement that this is its intended purpose? Also: for what types of crimes? Kind of hard to b
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by matrix87 3y ago
The question isn't whether it is or isn't rising, but what voters consider acceptable. If voters find the current level of crime unacceptable, it doesn't matter what the broader trend is. I personally find the concept of open
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by matrix87 3y ago
No, I'm pretty sure gp means drawing conclusions based off of lived experience instead of more general statistics. Or at least, not putting so much faith in statistics to allow them to cancel personal experiences which are opposed to t
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by matrix87 3y ago
The irony is part of what makes this article so fun to read. It's like she understands the underlying problem, but the way that she goes about trying to solve it shows why it's a problem in the first place It reminds me of this Ca
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Fun is Dead(washingtonpost.com)
31 points by matrix87 3y ago|35 comments
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by matrix87 3y ago
> It ends up messing with the local housing market, as the Californians come in with a ton of money for housing (as housing is so expensive where they're from) and all the prices are super low in the new location. Since they have en

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