midoridensha

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2071.
by midoridensha 4y ago
The west's framework is the best, but it needs to be a more equal alliance between western-aligned nations, rather than being so dominated by the US. The US, Canada, EU, UK, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Aus/NZ, etc. should all be
2072.
by midoridensha 4y ago
Classic whataboutism and pure idiocy. >in USA okay with Iran repression or Putin invasion? they are not bombing there. They aren't bombing Russia because that could start a nuclear war. Are you seriously that stupid to not understa
2073.
by midoridensha 4y ago
Why not? You'd prefer the prosecutors to waste their time trying to prosecute cases where they're most likely to lose? Instead, they either drop those cases, or try to arrange some other settlement before getting to trial. There
2074.
by midoridensha 4y ago
>While I subscribe to the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory, I do not believe the vast majority of people are awful. The vast majority? No, of course not. But a sizeable fraction are, and two things happen because of this: 1) they ruin m
2075.
by midoridensha 4y ago
People don't need to consume resources the wasteful way they do today. People don't need to live like Americans with SUVs and giant McMansions with wasteful yards.
2076.
by midoridensha 4y ago
The guy was an unwitting visionary of a truly utopian future. He didn't even like the world he created, even though in every metric it's a far more desirable world to live in than our own.
2077.
by midoridensha 4y ago
That movie was such a huge disappointment. It had a lot of potential, and some great FX and some great acting talent, but the movie overall was really quite terrible.
2078.
by midoridensha 4y ago
If you want innovation and a human society that's advancing rather than stagnating, you need a large population, not one that's rapidly shrinking. You're not going to get a society where everyone is super-smart and highly pr
2079.
by midoridensha 4y ago
>And will governments "fix" the human depopulation crisis the by growing children in vats and having the state raise them? What's your alternative to this problem? >or even the drive of every living organism to procreat
2080.
by midoridensha 4y ago
We already have government institutions for educating kids, called "schools". We just need to expand these institutions' roles so they including all the parts of housing and raising children until they're adults. It co
2081.
by midoridensha 4y ago
>I simply voiced my opinion, which was simply correctly pointing out that the USA have become a problem for global peace. >I protested against USA war in Iraq 1 So you were OK with Saddam's troops invading Kuwait and raping the w
2082.
by midoridensha 4y ago
What kind of weird social gathering was this? A group of die-hard Linux fanatics? (And I say that as one myself) In most circles, especially "progressive" Americans, Apple is the tech darling. They *all* have iPhones and refus
2083.
by midoridensha 4y ago
You bring up a good point about dogs. The carbon footprint of pet dogs these days is incredible, all so people can virtue signal while they walk around outside picking up fresh poop from the animal they keep in a stroller.
2084.
by midoridensha 4y ago
>I think for it to work, you pretty much need federal regulation to step in and standardize. Which is why it'll never happen.
2085.
by midoridensha 4y ago
I think this should also be a good lesson in why we can't rely too much on any one company's service or assume it'll always be there. All it takes is one big change in management and suddenly the whole thing goes to hell or
2086.
by midoridensha 4y ago
That's cheaper than staying directly in Manhattan, sure. It's still way more expensive than vacationing in Europe. Hotels anywhere in America are absurdly expensive, as are restaurants.
2087.
by midoridensha 4y ago
Because directly-transmitted light from an LCD screen's backlight doesn't scatter the way diffuse, reflected light from a piece of paper does. It's like comparing a laser to a flashlight.
2088.
by midoridensha 4y ago
>Have you considered moving? >Living vicariously through my very rural friend's nextdoor is way better than being on my own urban neighborhoods'. It sounds like you're the one who needs to consider moving.
2089.
by midoridensha 4y ago
Right, and those completely vary from country to country. Trying to get one website to support the common authenticated payment systems worldwide is basically impossible unless that website is Google.com.
2090.
by midoridensha 4y ago
From my experience, people rarely write meaningful commit messages or comments in code, and they expect you to just glean everything you need to know by simply reading the code itself.
2091.
by midoridensha 4y ago
If the doc is on Confluence, you'll probably never find it.
2092.
by midoridensha 4y ago
Putting them on a pseudo-anonymous web forum like Nextdoor shows what these people really think of you.
2093.
by midoridensha 4y ago
So only people with credit cards are allowed to use the forum? That shuts out a lot of people, especially in places where credit cards aren't used.
2094.
by midoridensha 4y ago
Those of us who don't read the news daily, or live in a different country, won't know the answer to that question either.
2095.
by midoridensha 4y ago
It'll shut out anyone that simply doesn't feel like paying for others to read their thoughts. Narcissists with money would probably love it though. The rest of us would simply abandon these forums and go find other things to do
2096.
by midoridensha 4y ago
I guess you haven't heard of a VPN?
2097.
by midoridensha 4y ago
Seriously, have people here not used Nextdoor? Local communities are absolutely full of toxicity.
2098.
by midoridensha 4y ago
>As a matter of fact, none of us know whether the other is a human or even if dang is (!), because it is orthogonal to the contents and discussion. Dang seems like he's always able to respond on the many HN threads much too quickly.
2099.
by midoridensha 4y ago
When I compare the ChatGPT-generated comments to those written by real humans on most web forums, I could easily see myself preferring to only interact with AIs in the future rather than humans, where I have to deal with all kinds of stupid
2100.
by midoridensha 4y ago
From the ChatGPT-generated stuff I've seen just in the last week, I think we're already there. Most humans these days are incredibly stupid.

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