popalchemist

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by popalchemist 2mo ago
Whether his point is valid or not does not change the fact that I do not want to hear from him. A broken clock is right twice a day and a screaming edge lord teenager will occasionally say something insightful, it doesn't mean I should
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by popalchemist 2mo ago
Instant yawn and instant dismissal; I don't want advice from a psychologically stunted man-child.
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by popalchemist 2mo ago
More of this. Yes.
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by popalchemist 2mo ago
the same amount of matter can be arranged into arbitrary dimensions.
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by popalchemist 2mo ago
It's not a matter of luck, it's a function of the degree to which one's psyche is fragmented. The default in my industry is exactly as you describe. The only reason it isn't so for me is because I refused to give over my
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by popalchemist 2mo ago
That's really not true. You can have complete ownership of your creative process even if you work toward a brief/goal specified by someone else. I say this as someone who has edited movie trailers for major motion pictures for 20
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by popalchemist 2mo ago
marxist alienation (or even debord/situationist alienation) is a spot-on analysis of this mode of neurosis. kudos.
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by popalchemist 2mo ago
what now
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by popalchemist 2mo ago
because it's actively aiding fascism and the literal extrajudicial kidnapping, murder, and sex trafficking of children, women, and minorities at the behest of big brother who in the current administration are enacting literal fascist,
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by popalchemist 2mo ago
you're not anti-car just because you don't oppose those cameras with the same vitriol. Flock is orders of magnitude more evil.
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by popalchemist 2mo ago
The possibility of that content ever being accessed by someone beside you.
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by popalchemist 2mo ago
no signup is almost sure to end in disaster (bots)
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by popalchemist 2mo ago
Rather a nonsequitur when Elon did the Nazi salute twice put a literal fascist in office, and continues to attempt to in other democracies.
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by popalchemist 2mo ago
Scientist are hyper specialized and generally can only do their one thing really well, with an inversely proportionate effect on all their other abilities, including common sense.
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by popalchemist 2mo ago
https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-new-ai-growth-playboo... worth the listen. They hit profitability because of their power users, who are a mixed bag of complete novices and expert SWE's, both of whom spend 1
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by popalchemist 2mo ago
There's a bell curve. Infancy is the left, age 4+ is the right. The swell is toddler age.
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by popalchemist 2mo ago
For people without children, yes; with children, often, the opposite.
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by popalchemist 2mo ago
Grams don't measure size.
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by popalchemist 2mo ago
I think it's super obvious you aren't at all familiar with the concepts you're arguing about. You're the classic armchair expert who knows nothing and thinks himself superior for it. Here are some relevant quotes that il
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by popalchemist 2mo ago
Preventing one apocalypse is good but it doesn't absolve another.
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by popalchemist 2mo ago
It's the who, not the what.
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by popalchemist 2mo ago
the short answer is that you internalize the gaze of your oppressor, which means you install a self-censorship mechanism (to prevent what you come to perceive as the negative consequences of using your will, which comes with repeated punish
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by popalchemist 2mo ago
If it were a human predator doing the same thing, it would be very obviously illegal, no questions. So to spend hundreds of millions to build a tech that does it at scale is objectively ALSO evil - transitive property here, because it is th
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by popalchemist 2mo ago
Being in a union isn't about being at one job for life. I'm a member of IATSE (the huge mega-union behind thousands of technical job titles/positions in the entertainment industry, such as film editors, sound mixers, etc; rea
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by popalchemist 2mo ago
Perhaps you should read about the topic before refuting it.
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by popalchemist 2mo ago
While your statement may be true, you're clearly failing to grasp the concept; it isn't just about privacy, but about psychic sovereignty. The crippling of the will is a prerequisite for living any kind of meaningful or fulfilling
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by popalchemist 2mo ago
They are not mutually exclusive. Read up on the concept of a panopticon, it is just a form of prison that maximizes the oppression by surveillance by extending it into your own mind as a paranoid knowing that you are almost certainly seen a
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by popalchemist 2mo ago
Gag inducing on multiple levels. Not only the self-indulgent and incoherent writing, but the very notion that an author or authors would call their undertaking Panoptica. A panopticon is the ultimate and most inhumane prison. Idiots.
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by popalchemist 2mo ago
There are tons of projects with "supa" as the prefix, both related and unrelated. If Supabase were going to take legal action on this, they would have already.
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by popalchemist 2mo ago
Super slick site. I'd love to see a video editing demo added to it.

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