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by quacked 5y ago
I think you're missing a golden opportunity here. You can take all the people who agree with the commenter you're talking to and put them in giant Tokyo-style megacities, with ultra high-speed rail, blazing-fast internet, free hou
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by quacked 5y ago
Old UIs were like woodshops, with brightly-colored tools stored in a series of labelled tool chests. Everything got reorganized once every other year, which was annoying but understandable. New UIs are like shoe stores, with off-white shoes
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by quacked 5y ago
I should have been more specific: > Most property crime transfers wealth to poorer people, making them less poor and reducing poverty. This is the part that I think is unequivocally false. If you live in poverty and you steal property, y
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by quacked 5y ago
> Most property crime transfers wealth to poorer people, making them less poor and reducing poverty. Convicting and imprisoning criminals increases poverty. Yes, if you move into a nice neighborhood and start sticking up the local reside
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by quacked 5y ago
Ditto! How long did you live there for? I was only there for a year and a half, and then I moved to Seabrook for another two years.
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by quacked 5y ago
I used to live in an apartment complex across the street from a gas station in Houston, TX. It was owned by an older subcontinental Asian (Nepali?) man and his family. I'd go in about once every two weeks. One day, I came in and that f
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by quacked 5y ago
"Nerds idea of a hero" is a perfect way to represent it. Heroes thought up for nerds are non-threatening and approachable, unlike ancient heroes, who are threatening, great leaders of men, and often openly flaunt their "noble
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by quacked 5y ago
I don't mean to criticize you, because I have the same dream. You can certainly do that yourself, but your country would still run on phoned-in people--the same way that the hobbits and Tom Bombadil relied on Gondor. When you say &quot
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by quacked 5y ago
The groceries thing is funny, but it's really just "what's the likelihood that in X years of living in the same place, your random 5 minutes out of the week are the same as your neighbor's random 5 minutes of the week&qu
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by quacked 5y ago
Hmm, perhaps not. We may be agreeing with each other. I have no desire to punish people for their crimes, only to remove them from society. I thought your point was that the concept of prison as "a place where you are removed from soci
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by quacked 5y ago
I think you're missing a huge part of the point of prison; prisons aren't designed for the prisoner's benefit, but for society's benefit. Somehow who shoots his wife and lover in bed, or someone who deals drugs, or someo
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by quacked 5y ago
I understand their frustration, but I think it's a win-win situation to provide a nice life in prison. They get out of society so we don't have to deal with them and they also aren't subject to torturous conditions.
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by quacked 5y ago
I agree with you, I just think it would take a lot more money and effort to provide this environment.
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by quacked 5y ago
If this is indeed true, it is yet another piece of evidence in the case for prison reform. Prisoners are universally bored, yet in many cases insufficiently protected from one another. Read accounts of any long-time convict's time in p
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by quacked 5y ago
That's a great point, and I've wanted to read SLaS before, I guess this settles it. I think that might explain why people think huts are interesting and HVACs are boring. There's technology that exists at the human scale, lik
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by quacked 5y ago
Phenomenally interesting; it reminds me of how hard reading a regular map is (cartesian N-S E-W) to someone who's never done it before, because I cannot visualize direction in Tupaia's map at all and would need hours of practice t
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by quacked 5y ago
I think the biggest problem with authoritarian thinking about math is that math is not a discovered set of authoritarian principles, but rather a colossal project to make up weird relationships that satisfy the rules of the weird relationsh
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by quacked 5y ago
I don't want to disregard any healthy interaction skills, just the notion that those can only be learned in school or daycare. I agree with everything else you say. The fact that teenagers only have a hyper-competitive useless social
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by quacked 5y ago
Good catch, living post-depression is definitely not harder than living pre-depression and wasn't trying to imply that it is. Updated my wording. "Harder" is also subjective; is it harder to feel like you want to die, or hard
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by quacked 5y ago
That's most of the reason, yes. Just be careful not to make the dual mistake of (a) assuming that the way that schoolchildren are "socialized" is "better" than they way that you were socialized and (b) school and da
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by quacked 5y ago
Hilarious analogy. "Nuclear power vs. acorns". How's the computing power of a squirrel's brain compared to our best AI in terms of "number of system states"? I'm not in the field, so I'll elaborate my
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by quacked 5y ago
That's a great question. The only author I've ever read that I think comes close to answering your question is a pseudonymous author called "Alone", who wrote the blog The Last Psychiatrist. Here is one article relevant
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by quacked 5y ago
I argue both of those points, and that's why I specifically choose loaded words. I am spreading my own version of propaganda, because I want people to hold a certain set of political beliefs. You could say "Fox News is a conglomer
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by quacked 5y ago
Are there any examples of these radio and TV programs that are openly controlled by a propaganda arm of the government?
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by quacked 5y ago
I don't think there's any difference in most entertainment and propaganda. The "official" definition of "propaganda" is: > Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publici
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by quacked 5y ago
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/please-just-fucking-tel...
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by quacked 5y ago
Fox News in the US. I agree mostly with your point that the film industry and the majority of print and cable news falls in line with progressive/leftist/"woke" talking points, but Fox is an absolutely massive propaganda
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by quacked 5y ago
Hilarious. "... Okay, but this is more like if instead of on a cruise ship in Borneo, the monkey is a guy at an engineering interview who only has JavaScript on his resume, and the recruiter is making him implement linked lists in C.&q
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by quacked 5y ago
You don't know any Russians then, haha
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by quacked 5y ago
How long ago were you working there? I noticed this trend only in the past five years.

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