mostly_lurks

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by mostly_lurks 2y ago
I'm (apparently) aphantasic, having learned about the concept on a couple of months ago. However unscientific the [VVIQ]( https://aphantasia.com/study/vviq/ ) is, I couldn't answer a single question with a
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by mostly_lurks 3y ago
> Maybe every so often a conversation within a podcast episode contains some extraordinary analytical insight not found elsewhere Much like comments written on the internet. > That being said, it is probably correct to ignore most of
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by mostly_lurks 3y ago
> how is what he’s doing any different than what we always were told reality TV was doing or gameshows do? It's not. Those things are bad too. > My kids watch his videos because the algorithm feeds it to them and from what I’ve s
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by mostly_lurks 3y ago
What makes me uncomfortable is the elitism running through many of his videos. Put 100 "poors" in a circle so they can fight it out for $500k [1]? It's just another rich person making poor people do demeaning things for his e
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by mostly_lurks 3y ago
Let's reductio ad absurdum our way through this, shall we? If what you say is true, then during the run up of Bitcoin, any corporation that didn't lay off all its employees and use the money to buy as much Bitcoin as possible was
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by mostly_lurks 4y ago
> My original comment was in agreement with the poster I was replying to, and I was adding nuance and finding common ground in a semi-shared experience. Do you genuinely not see how "adding nuance" to a "semi-shared experi
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by mostly_lurks 4y ago
Being dismissive of the experiences of members of oppressed groups is objectively more harmful than being dismissive of someone not part of a similarly oppressed group.
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by mostly_lurks 4y ago
"My mother died today." "Well, lots of peoples mothers died today." Do you not see how that response is problematic? How it downplays the person's experience?
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by mostly_lurks 4y ago
Hate directed at black people, who have been exploited, oppressed, enslaved, killed, and more for over 400 years has a more significant and problematic impact than hate directed at other, more privileged groups. Recentering the conversation
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by mostly_lurks 4y ago
I was not engaging with the argument made by the post I replied to because the poster's argument is completely beside the point. When someone says "I experienced racism because I'm black," the appropriate response is not
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by mostly_lurks 4y ago
> this sounds an awful lot like, "because you're responding to a comment made by a black person, the only acceptable response is one of total agreement" This is clearly a strawman. I wrote nothing remotely like what you&#x
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by mostly_lurks 4y ago
I think you might want to reflect for a minute on why you thought "but do you know how virulent some of those communities were to just about everyone?" was an appropriate response to a black person talking about their experience o
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by mostly_lurks 4y ago
> Even so, the apparent protection extended to all age groups. In all, men who averaged 4.6–7 ejaculations a week were 36% less likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer before the age of 70 than men who ejaculated less than 2.3 times
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by mostly_lurks 4y ago
That all makes sense. I think context matters. Yes, when I have a service that's been up and running for some time, if that service fails, I want my service to restart. But when I'm trying to get a service running for the first ti
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by mostly_lurks 4y ago
Caveats: 1) this may not be what grandparent was trying to do and 2) I have limited experience debugging "regular" Docker, let alone firecracker or whatever Fly.io does. With that said, I succesfully deployed a simple Rust/Ac