pluralmonad

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by pluralmonad 4mo ago
Why is highly organized/systematized violence preferable?
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by pluralmonad 4mo ago
They obviously want heavy regulation to make sure they do not have to compete long term. This is all just part of the base strategy.
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by pluralmonad 4mo ago
Went down this rabbit hole about "back is best" recommendation for babies. Turns out back is only best for the vanishingly tiny subset of infants prone to SIDS. And appreciably worse for everyone else. "Public health" me
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by pluralmonad 4mo ago
This is exactly what the article touches on, the race to the bottom. It drags everyone's experience down. This appeal to scalability is part of the problem, IMO. Not every experience is or should be scalable. Some kids find blackberry
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by pluralmonad 4mo ago
How come? I find Opus to have better taste and GPT to have more rigor.
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by pluralmonad 4mo ago
There is only one moral answer. And it is not any of the ones that boil down to strangers at a distance controlling the tech in your life.
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by pluralmonad 4mo ago
I use it to keep infra spend low for some systems I built/maintain for a handful of volunteer orgs. These systems have multiple users, dozens to a couple hundred. I just serialize writes in app code. Backup the db files to blob storage
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by pluralmonad 5mo ago
I've never asked anyone's permission to keep my dog. She barks at every car that pulls in my driveway like a good girl.
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by pluralmonad 5mo ago
Because it tastes bad in my mouth. If I could get a 4% productivity boost by drinking a redbull, I would still choose not to drink a redbull.
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by pluralmonad 5mo ago
> enforcement of cooperation That is an oxymoron. I think you probably meant coercion.
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by pluralmonad 5mo ago
All the ersatz food that comprises most of the grocery store shelves may very well be cheaper. This does not make it a better value.
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by pluralmonad 5mo ago
It is trivial for a parent to gather materials for the kids without exposing them to billions of strangers/companies with who knows what intent toward them.
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by pluralmonad 5mo ago
What are the good properties that justify giving kids smart phones?
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by pluralmonad 5mo ago
In this framing, learning is always a liability. The real issue is undertaking the liability while not capitalizing on the opportunity it presents.
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by pluralmonad 5mo ago
One thing I will say has been a personal boon, is Claude picking up the slack for my personal (relative) weaknesses. My project frontends are prettier than before and my sysadmin tasks take much less research time. I don't think it mak
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by pluralmonad 5mo ago
You should definitely follow your instincts here, but wanting researchers to show you how to raise your kids is a fools errand IMO. Put those highly tuned parental instincts to use!
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by pluralmonad 6mo ago
The two biggest ham people I've known both, independently and separated by years, discussed enjoying war driving looking for "pirate" radio signals that they can report to the FCC. Amusing to find this is a cultural aspect of
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by pluralmonad 6mo ago
This sort of surveillance is only possible in civilized societies.
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by pluralmonad 6mo ago
When has infantilizing adults resulted in positive outcomes? What if the group of idiots decide you're the idiot and start making decisions for your own good?
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by pluralmonad 6mo ago
Product confusion definitely seems like an intentional strategy. Fits right in with the mountain of other user-hostile strategies being employed.
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by pluralmonad 7mo ago
Your social circles must be very different from mine if everyone you know uses their microwave for cooking, rather than just reheating leftovers.
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by pluralmonad 7mo ago
Almost anything is better than the destruction of the biomes that support human life. I'm not really sure how there is even a discussion to be had about that. But anyone who claims "coal was great" either doesn't underst
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by pluralmonad 7mo ago
If there is such widespread demand for such mechanisms as some comments suggest, why did it take coercion through law making to bring it to market?
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by pluralmonad 7mo ago
This all seems very confused. I would say you clearly have not thought this through, but that would be fairly rude given the tiny scope of this comment thread. If your definition of better (or perfectly good) is: makes me more comfortable i
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by pluralmonad 7mo ago
What is uncomfortable about Librewolf? I thought it was basically FF without telemetry and UBO already baked in?
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by pluralmonad 7mo ago
I like to think all of my actions are a consequence of my mental conditions.
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by pluralmonad 7mo ago
Never heard this take before. Care to elaborate? It seems like crop failure and disease are the typical causes of food shortages, if not outright human logistical failures. Sounds like saying pouring gasoline on a tiny fire is the only reas
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by pluralmonad 7mo ago
If I've interacted with a specific email address, like support@company.com, my email provider will put them in my inbox.
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by pluralmonad 7mo ago
No, sending marketing from support emails is almost certainly trying to game spam filters. Marketing@company.com would work for the allow replies purpose.
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by pluralmonad 7mo ago
I personally like when you open any office doc, do nothing to it before closing and you get the scary warning asking if you want to save your document (to onedrive) implying all is lost if you select no. I am sure millions of tech unsavvy p

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