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by quacked 4y ago
This is sort of like saying that basketball players work out and practice so they can win. Yes, of course, but why do they want to win so badly? https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/04/the_abusive_boyfrien... htt
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by quacked 4y ago
I thought about this for a while and I don't have a coherent answer. I do think it's interesting that the Old Internet was more spontaneous, unorganized, and high-trust than the New Internet. It would be effortless to find counter
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Only if you see "races" as the American-style social construct and not as people in India and Africa see it, which is at a tribal level. I had an hour-long discussion with a Ugandan once that explained to me the major tribes in Ug
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by quacked 4y ago
Few people live in what can reasonably called a "community" any more, so the link between anonymous theft and the erosion of social culture doesn't make sense to everyone. The most remote, homestead-y places will have unatten
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SO much more pleasant to look at than the floating tile-based Figma JS nonsense every web developer is pumping out these days. Great job, bookmarked.
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I had the same problem, and unfortunately continued taking handwritten notes well into college, despite the fact that I literally never referenced my notes. I never knew what the point was, only that if I didn't take notes I'd be
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They certainly are not, but most people learn them when they're young. I've found that motivated healthy, competent young people rarely turn into bitter adults without a major tragedy.
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A mentally healthy person is content to live their own life, is honest, and doesn't hurt people around them. Negative emotions aren't necessarily an indicator of mental unhealthiness; resentment, disgust, rage, anger, etc. are all
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by quacked 4y ago
I agree. I used to feel very jealous whenever hearing superior musicians, but after a while it just becomes exciting, especially when you're often playing with people within the same sphere of talent as you rather than binging YouTube
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It really depends on how long the power is out. Crossbows were a fearsome weapon of war during the time in history when guns still weren't that accurate or easy to come by. If there's a gap between "people using manufactured
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> But I don't feel inspired when I see extraordinary. I feel disappointed, jealous. These are the words of a young person who was trained to see everyone else's success as an implicit criticism of their own ability and effort.
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by quacked 4y ago
That's a smart idea. Cigarettes, condoms, porn, gum, the sorts of things you bribe third-world soldiers with (often people with experience living without power for a long time.) Edit: I saw you added CAD software; I actually think that
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by quacked 4y ago
This is a smart instinct, but the ammunition only lasts so long. Someone deep in the boonies with a good stash will be okay, but anyone within 1-5 day's march near the cities had better be prepared to "stack 'em high' fo
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This is one of those situations where there are no backups, and no one has any plans to make any backups. A power outage disaster-hardened country has a populace that's deeply knowledgeable about self-governance, organized combat, agri
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I'm not sure what you mean.
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Everyone is a foreigner under most frames of reference.
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An "isolationist country" and a "country that ensures that its natural-born citizens are well-provided for before admitting new labor that will compete harder for lower rewards" are not necessarily the same thing.
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It's no use. I agree with you, but most of the people who want to help H-1Bs see it as reductive and archaic to try and promote the welfare of your own citizens over that of foreigners.
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The thing about sports that require advertising is that they don't need to exist in the way they do now. If I could ban advertising, and the consequence is that the highest level of sports is now a less-funded, more localized set of
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by quacked 4y ago
I hate advertising so much. I would ban it immediately if allowed. It makes society so much worse in every possible measure. http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html
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by quacked 4y ago
Don't know if you're still following this thread, but I agree with the responder that the civic structures of society are increasingly replaced by schooling and subscription-based hobbies. I think there are many opportunities to s
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I've never been much of a believer in (stale, traditional) "honor-bound" business, where people are offended by rude behavior and personal slights and everyone has to dress up and speak properly. But my God, I'm starting
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It's so strange that every year that online content gets more addicting and exciting, school gets more and more boring and standardized. When I was in high school, the big issue du jour (this was between 2005-2015) was that all of the
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I worked at NASA JSC for three years in the ISS cargo division; although I never interacted with the JPL teams, I did coordinate with a ton of people across SpaceX, Northop-Grumman, JAXA, ESA, Boeing, etc. I simply cannot explain the level
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by quacked 4y ago
You haven't actually answered my question, which is: what do you do with someone who has done severe, irreparable damage to society and has sociopathic feelings about it? It seems that you don't like continuous internal exile via
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by quacked 4y ago
All right, then take an example. Recently in a town I'm near, a young man kidnapped his girlfriend's adoptive parents with her knowledge, attempted to rob them, took them to a nature preserve and shot them dead. He had a long hist
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I thought about saying it that way, but a lot of biological violence between organisms is outside of morality. I wanted to draw a very specific connection between "civilized society" and "the deliberate application of violenc
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I completely agree with you. As a matter of fact, I often say that if I had to pick one reform issue to support it would be to "make prison safe". Out of the people labelled "criminal" or "legally deviant" in t
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by quacked 4y ago
Oh I completely agree with you. "All laws are enforced at gunpoint". Even if the current US government was somehow reformed into something I didn't find reprehensible evil and incompetent there would still be a necessary arme
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I tried to imply the meaningless of labels by using quotes around "progressives" in this phrase: > The majority of people in the US who bother to care about human rights abuses and exploitation of vulnerable populations are &qu

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