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by slowin 2mo ago
No one has ever used it. It's one of those NeXTSTEP things that was copied over. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Services_menu
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by slowin 2mo ago
DHH, Tobi Lutke, Elon Musk... this new "movement" of tech leaders being vocally vile and openly 4chan inspired, is very interesting and terrifying. Are they trying to build some kind of movement? Certainly, conventional wisdom has
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by slowin 2mo ago
The only Apple products that I can think of that haven't degraded in quality over time are the iPods and maybe the Apple Watch.
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by slowin 2mo ago
I would say the artist formerly known as OS X has never been good. It literally started its life as a half-assed NeXT attempt and has only gone downhill from there. There's still a "Services" entry in the file menu. .DS_Sto
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by slowin 2mo ago
9 to 5 is such a great song. Adding it as I don't see it linked here. Strong pro-worker message too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbxUSsFXYo4
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by slowin 2mo ago
Very insightful given that hands do have massive over representation in our brains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortical_homunculus
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by slowin 2mo ago
Octopus is the only animal I've ever stopped eating due to ethical concerns (not that I'm against examining my relationship with other animals). That being said, it's really delicious if you get it fresh. It just so happens t
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by slowin 2mo ago
> But the Protestant work ethic is good! I don't agree, it's a one way ticket to exploitation. All of the richest people I know (and I mean really rich, like over $100M in net worth) are from rich families and have inherite
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by slowin 2mo ago
Not if you're in the US. Social security is ~22% https://govbase.com/blog/where-your-tax-dollars-go
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by slowin 2mo ago
Your tax dollars go to all kinds of things far worse than helping people survive. The Protestant work ethic cannot die soon enough. Never once have I cared if someone is "lazy". A rich person may work very hard exploiting others,
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by slowin 2mo ago
The majority of voters agree with me thankfully.
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by slowin 2mo ago
> Wounded animals, car accidents, health emergencies, etc etc etc. People with guns should not be handling any of these jobs. Invest in healthcare, animal control... great use of the defunded police budget! > You seem to think that
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Claude "warning" users about language and defending business influencers(twitter.com)
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by slowin 2mo ago
You actually started the meta discussion and they were just replying to you: > One problem in these discussions is that it's virtually impossible to have a conversation or to explore the topic in any depth because every single comm
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by slowin 2mo ago
> If you want to make the argument that all cameras are problematic Yes I think all cameras are problematic. I don't want to be recorded in public, especially by the state and it's commercial "partners". It's p
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by slowin 2mo ago
Is it obvious that regulation will fix this? I never want to be filmed in public constantly. Ever. There's no reason that would justify that.
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by slowin 2mo ago
How are they not Flock issues? If Flock cameras didn't exist, they wouldn't have happened. Flocks (and all other mass surveillance cameras) allow many parties to violate your rights and generally behave sociopathically. This is
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by slowin 2mo ago
Poverty absolutely causes crime. Much crime is committed by the homeless for instance. People growing up in poverty also have many situations that can cause them to develop mental health issues.
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by slowin 2mo ago
I don't think Pi is tiny because it's written in typescript and requires a javascript runtime. I definitely want a "tiny" compiled agent with no runtime requirements. I don't think Zig is that great of a language fo
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by slowin 2mo ago
It's worth being very honest with yourself about what you're feeling. If going into the office fills a void, you should realize that you are now handing a load bearing portion of your life and psyche to your employer. If you are l
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by slowin 2mo ago
This is when you find a new WFH position. Imagine how bad it would be working in an office with sociopaths that want all of those things?
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by slowin 2mo ago
That's not what defund the police means. It means cutting most or all funding from police departments and redirecting it toward crime lowering initiatives like universal childcare. It's 100% not "higher pay per-cop" or e
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by slowin 2mo ago
> Sure, but it wasn't just one side losing homes. Yes, actually it was. > There never was a final peace deal and only Israel ever made concrete final settlement offers. 80 years of ethnic cleansing is genocide.
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by slowin 2mo ago
> The Nakba is not genocide, it might be considered ethnic cleansing but that's not remotely the same as genocide It was absolutely an ethnic cleansing and the killing never stopped. Israel has been murdering Palestinians (and it&
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by slowin 2mo ago
Israel is very open about manipulating public opinion in the US. They call it hasbara and they just vastly increased their budget for doing it. You don't need the Quincy Institute (not that there's anything wrong with them!) to le
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by slowin 2mo ago
Israel was literally created through ethnically cleansing the indigenous Palestinians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba
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by slowin 2mo ago
> Do you attribute Palestinian support for extremism to a similar root cause? Defending your home and against genocide is not "extremism". Anyone who's familiar with the history of Palestine will understand why they fig
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by slowin 2mo ago
Agreed, also with the people claiming foreign influence or fake accounts. I like AI, I use it a lot for work. I do not think people opposed to data centers are under foreign influence. It's pretty obvious why someone wouldn't wa
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by slowin 2mo ago
Making Bill Gates richer seems like an anti-problem for society. Centralizing land ownership under him however is a huge problem.
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by slowin 2mo ago
The argument for defunding the police (that I agree with) is that crime goes down when you address the root cause: poverty. The money spent on policing could more effectively lower crime by being used for building healthier communities.

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