pstuart

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by pstuart 6d ago
> Is self-harm morally ok? Is self-harm ok? What could be considered good about it?
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by pstuart 6d ago
It's beyond shameful how the US squandered its investments in science and technology and let the crony capitalists strip mine our economy instead. But hey, it's ok because we have plenty of beautiful, clean coal. /s
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by pstuart 9d ago
Sorry, but alcohol prohibition did not work and was instrumental in fueling the rise of organized crime (does that ring any bells?). I happen to believe the War on Drugs (prohibition v2) is an even bigger mistake than the first one, which a
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by pstuart 9d ago
I was playing fast and loose with the word, but you know what I meant. I'm all for individuals to choose their own paths and mistakes and don't want a true nanny state, so I'd be ok with banning advertising of those service
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by pstuart 10d ago
Pretty much agree. But even then, the state should not be incentivizing its use (looking you, CA lottery and friends). Gambling is a drug, and should be recognized as such.
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by pstuart 10d ago
Yeah, that drives me bonkers. Just set up a separate CI/CD for the images themselves that update daily as needed.
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by pstuart 10d ago
My politics are based on secular humanism and that we all effectively live in a commons. I'm rabidly anti-partisan but align with Dems because they are the least worst option. > gets trapped into criticizing other on the left by con
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by pstuart 10d ago
I've been called a "shrill far leftist" and a "fascist appeaser" so does that make me a centrist? Any labeling I may apply to myself is for convenience of packaged assumptions about my values. > moderates who thi
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by pstuart 11d ago
The culture wars are explicitly a tool of the right to provoke fear, anger, and hate against others. The left gets trapped in it because every single culture war issue (LGBQT+, racism, feminism, reproductive rights, freedom from religion, e
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by pstuart 11d ago
There's a lot of development in leveraging fracking tech, Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS), as well as some other wild shit like using masers: https://newatlas.com/energy/quaise-newberry-volcano-marble-f... There
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by pstuart 11d ago
The increased use of coal was, uhum, dictated by the Trump administration. They are rabidly anti-renewals (too woke), and all in on fossil fuels. And loosening pollution rules "because AI needs more power" should lead to torch
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by pstuart 11d ago
Geothermal needs to enter the chat as well. I'm not anti-nuclear (if it's "done right"), but the economics of it are not very competitive. I think it's a technology we should not abandon (I'd love to see SMRs f
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by pstuart 11d ago
I've had dreams where I was "there" and it felt like being present in a scene in a very real way (for a dream). But ask me to close my eyes and visualize a blue table with a red apple on it and its nothing but phosphenes at b
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by pstuart 11d ago
I always assumed that when people say "imagine this image..." that it was about the contextual nature of it. Only several months ago did I learn that aphantasia is a thing and I'm among the ~4% of the population in this group
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by pstuart 12d ago
If the AI wanted to wipe humans out it would have to have a sizable fleet of capable robots, as keeping the lights on over time is not just about calling APIs.
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by pstuart 13d ago
That rock got lifted up 10 years ago and they are now comfortable sunning themselves. Overton Window has shifted hard right.
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by pstuart 14d ago
Meanwhile my at home treatment used Braun 250mg lozenges, which probably cost ~ $4 a pop (wholesale) and for many 2-3 are enough for a treatment session. It's not like it's a novel drug -- the gatekeeping is ridiculous. Fuck the D
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by pstuart 14d ago
Add beauty pageants to that list. It's gross, and a lot of people are ok with it.
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by pstuart 14d ago
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that having a tuned LLM would probably be able to eliminate the need for a full time DBA query analyst. Disclaimer: I've never managed a ClickHouse cluster, let alone one of this size.
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by pstuart 14d ago
I have zero doubt that it was done intentionally to help their "friends" launder money.
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by pstuart 14d ago
I just heard this last night: buried in the "support for small business" was the repeal (or effectively neuteringO of the Corporate Transparency Act's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. https://www.wbur.org&#x
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by pstuart 16d ago
The irony here is that the origins of Silicon Valley have deep ties to the military as well, and it was the successful commercialization of those technologies that turned it more into a consumer / b2b space. But yeah, the tech bro elit
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by pstuart 16d ago
Phew, now I feel better. The Roberts court has been a paragon of impartial justice and I know they will make the right call for the people /s
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by pstuart 16d ago
Congress has been intentionally neutered to cede power to the republican executive branch. This November will be interesting...
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by pstuart 16d ago
War profiteering in the name of "national security". I guess Marc's pursuit of NFTs as the next frontier of "monetizing art" was not what he promised it would be: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/
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by pstuart 17d ago
Yes, it was entirely sarcasm. The DEA should be abolished, period. Not only is the War on Drugs a war of oppression on the citizenry, it has funded the cartels and promoted crime throughout the world. Secondly, the DEA controls what my doct
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by pstuart 17d ago
It's for a good cause! This has enabled the DEA to keep all dangerous drugs out of the country and avoid any sort of drug abuse epidemics! Think of the children!
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by pstuart 17d ago
Well how else are you expected to do en pointe whilst grounding oneself?
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by pstuart 17d ago
I have yet to read 1491, but yes I imagine that it would have been much more challenging without that first strike. But the weapons capabilities of the europeans were also going to make it happen one way or another.
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by pstuart 18d ago
Another appropriate word for the colonization of America is genocide. I'm old enough to remember being taught how America was settled by expanding into the vast wilderness of the continent, and that sometimes they had skirmishes with

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