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by psyc 4y ago
I would, but big tech is outpacing them in power and influence. Most people seemed to see Don’t Look Up as a warning about climate change, and it is, but I resonated far more strongly with its warning about Silicon Valley.
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by psyc 4y ago
No. Procrastinating is mostly a function of whether I want to do the thing.
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by psyc 4y ago
That’s how it was for the first few years, and it was glorious. Something of immense value (to inclusionists) was surely lost. The deletionists traded it all away for credit in the straight world.
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by psyc 4y ago
Paul, Solomon, and a few prophets weren’t too keen on wine. Jesus, the only omniscient one in the bunch, clearly anticipated this very thread: “The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a
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by psyc 4y ago
I don't have much to add except this article is amazing. As an aspiring painter, I used to stare at parts of paintings without moving, for an hour, until I decided I'd learned all I could from staring at that part of the painting
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by psyc 4y ago
Ha! This video is what I needed right now for a few reasons. Thanks. Yes, I am on the spectrum, and so is my brother, and so is my father. I wasn't diagnosed until my late 30s, but 1) I had plenty of other things to blame, and 2) I mor
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by psyc 4y ago
This is weird for me to read because years ago I met someone like this, and it always puzzled me. He just came up to me downtown one night and started chatting. He struck me as a little out there, kind of hippy-dippy. Seemed in good spirits
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by psyc 4y ago
That's because "integral" would be understating it. Catholics consider the Eucharist the most important sacrament, at the very center of Christian life. Quite seriously the one sacrament to rule them all and bind them. https
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by psyc 4y ago
Sure, sure. Obviously. My frustrations with Wikipedia stem from having begun editing and delighting in it in 2001, and having ragequit circa 2006. I'm well aware that I definitively "lost" my side of that battle well over a d
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by psyc 4y ago
I have a friend and former boss who has a Wikipedia article. He has two careers in which he is about equally Notable, but the article is all about one of them, and contains not one sentence about the other. To someone who knows him, it&#x27
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by psyc 4y ago
The magic of Wikipedia is that anyone can... oh no, no we didn't mean you .
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by psyc 4y ago
https://www.navalgazing.net/About Surely part of the ruse!
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by psyc 4y ago
I'm in my forties and have known exactly what this was for years (ever since Hatsune Miku), but still had to look up the term "VTuber", which I did not recognize.
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by psyc 5y ago
Some of us are just naturally curious, and cats be damned.
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by psyc 5y ago
I assume they mean herding cats.
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by psyc 5y ago
I just want to know what happened to the iconic melodic intro. Light My Fire, Baba O’Riley, Sweet Child o’ Mine… What came after that?
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by psyc 5y ago
You could say everything we do is behavior, but it's still useful to make a distinction between one thing and another. Maybe you'd like a different term, but I really think everybody understands what is meant by distinguishing wor
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by psyc 5y ago
For me it was SE Asia. No rules of the road, only the rules of a school of fish.
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by psyc 5y ago
I think it's a lot harder to explain this to people after they've had it hammered into them that "victim blaming" is really bad, and you must never do it or appear to be doing it. There's a context in which it is. B
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by psyc 5y ago
I truly don't understand this business of thinking everything shitty needs to be banned and denied as a right. Like, I take a pretty dim view of hookup culture, but I'm still going to denounce any attempt to make it illegal or dep
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by psyc 5y ago
I guess people will tell you you’re a paranoid old person with a selective memory. But FWIW I hear you and feel your pain on all points. I have but one upvote to give.
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by psyc 5y ago
I knew you were talking about Allston before I got to the Allston part. Also a running subplot in the show Shameless.
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by psyc 5y ago
I would most of all hope it would solve the problem of people asking such questions, by making them perfectly moot. Folks would be forced to settle for wistful speculation about what the world might have been had the thing not been created.
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by psyc 5y ago
That doesn’t break my vision. It’s not the whole Internet, it’s just one bulletin board. People can not go there at all if they don’t want to. If Twitter’s moderation was chosen by each user, for themselves, we wouldn’t have this conversati
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by psyc 5y ago
Not even close. 4chan was vulnerable to censorship from day one, and succumbed to it completely over Gamergate, of all things.
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by psyc 5y ago
I have this recurring fantasy in which some Satoshi figure creates a decentralized global bulletin board, such that anybody can post and view anything anonymously and untraceably, and nobody - not the U.S. government, nor the CCP, nor the M
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by psyc 5y ago
Oops. I meant to write “could NOT consider or conceive of it.”
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by psyc 5y ago
Oh yes, my parents were extremely earnest about trying to be good parents. They just couldn’t do it, and it was really sad. I think trying to give them credit for their intentions and what they were able to do for us helped me. When I was a
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by psyc 5y ago
I had the exact same relationship with my parents for the same reason. A family therapist once even specifically told this to my siblings and I using the term “Adult Children.” However, I somehow managed to develop some affection and a “fee
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by psyc 5y ago
I don’t think I’m an exception. But to the extent that I am, I think it has more to do with people believing that they need a CS degree. They believe they need one, people tell them they need one, so they get one. I didn’t go to college, an

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