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by sandspar 2y ago
Slumming it, basically. You can leave whenever you want, the people around you are stuck there.
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by sandspar 2y ago
Did he really use lowercase? The status-seeking, high status lowercase mixed with the "outside looking in" account of working class people written for the benefit of other rich high status people, Jesus.
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by sandspar 2y ago
Guy who makes $200,000 a year is aghast that some people actually work at McDonald's
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by sandspar 2y ago
Nice design
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by sandspar 2y ago
A mother cat teaches her kittens to hunt by demonstrating it on a dead mouse. Fiction works the same way: by showing it on a dummy. In real life things are small and overlapped. Fiction makes them big and separate. Once you've seen it
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by sandspar 2y ago
"Maybe this'll work" engineering
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by sandspar 2y ago
Hot and cold mediums. TV is hotter than novels, colder mediums require more effortful cognition. A novel is more of a blank slate that you project your own experience on, thereby making it more meaningful for you. A TV show has already been
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by sandspar 2y ago
What's the meta of writing articles like this? It's obviously not meant to be taken at face value. "See, US senators, we're concerned - don't regulate us!" Is that it?
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by sandspar 2y ago
If you listen carefully, you can hear the rumble of the hordes of people rushing to post "I have this".
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by sandspar 2y ago
>dynamite psychology result with far reaching conclusions fails to replicate No way?
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by sandspar 2y ago
It's always nice when Europeans play free with their comments on America as if they understand it.
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by sandspar 2y ago
With a source like Jacobin you can be sure you're getting the full story.
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by sandspar 2y ago
You can guess before opening the article.
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by sandspar 2y ago
A remarkably tough-sounding statement that means nothing.
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by sandspar 2y ago
I assume you see yourself as one of the special few, much better than those average Joe's.
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by sandspar 2y ago
Perhaps the majority of Taiwanese want to remain independent, but many reasonable Taiwanese would like to rejoin China.
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by sandspar 2y ago
From ChatGPT: Normalcy bias is when people underestimate the possibility and impact of a disaster, believing things will always stay the same. It leads to inaction and unpreparedness during emergencies.
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by sandspar 2y ago
>Perhaps as effective as Rogaine Sounds like a long shot to have something that's as good as something you can pay $50 for for a three month supply.
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by sandspar 2y ago
Many small harms to our quality of life, in other words.
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by sandspar 2y ago
To what degree does it make one vulnerable to social hacking? Cult recruitment tactics may work best on "narrative" people, for example.
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by sandspar 2y ago
16Personalities, a Myers Briggs website, includes neuroticism on their test. They refer to it as Turbulence and Assertiveness, as in high neuroticism and low neuroticism.
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by sandspar 2y ago
There are different kinds of writing. They have unique requirements. James Joyce was a novelist. The article is about writing essays. Paul Graham is one of our leading essayists. Measured by impact on "builders" he's probably
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by sandspar 2y ago
So bizarre to intentionally subject young American men to a highly addictive and dangerous substance. It's like if video game companies decided that from now on, you can only play video games while you're smoking a cigarette. Mone
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by sandspar 2y ago
Reminds me of the joke that if scientists discover oil on Mars, the US military would be sending a rocket ship there by tomorrow afternoon. Sometimes the juice really is worth the squeeze.
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by sandspar 2y ago
Thanks for your response. I'm reminded of the old adage that the quickest way to learn something online is to say something controversial and wrong, because someone wiser than you will quickly jump in to correct you.
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by sandspar 2y ago
The article is shallow and offers nothing new. It reads like a very well written freshman essay. If you're impressed by offhand references to Derrida then you might enjoy it. The author also bizarrely says that AI can "only"
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by sandspar 2y ago
>Older gamers... older gamers... older gamers... older gamers... I'm sure the research findings were once interesting, but in the linked post it's hard to determine where the research starts and where the SEO stuffing ends.
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by sandspar 2y ago
The article compares CEO's and calculators. If the job of a CEO can be automated, then we each have a CEO in our pocket. Just like we each have a calculator in our pocket. What interesting things would you do if you had Steve Jobs in y
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by sandspar 2y ago
Then why did the CEO's in the survey agree with the premise?
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by sandspar 2y ago
Another way to put it is that the most gentle among us are attracted to industries run by the most brutal among us.

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