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by smeej 6y ago
I didn't even get this far. I wonder if it's related to my aspie, literal brain wiring. In my head, it read like, "Symbol for monkey emoji. New symbol. Symbol for banana emoji with new symbol below it, and to the right."
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by smeej 6y ago
This makes tulpamancy sound like a voluntary version of what happens when multiple personalities form due to childhood trauma, but that wasn't how the original article made it sound. From what I understand, recognizing each of the pers
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by smeej 6y ago
I recently bought the Onyx Boox Poke 2 Color. [0] I love the little guy. Lighter than any paperback I've ever owned. Fits in a large pocket. Displays in color! Which lets me highlight in color! And runs Android 9.0 with Google Play Ser
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by smeej 6y ago
That's my point. Things have to be designed with the understanding that "people who won't read the instructions" are the rule, not the exception. That has to be the expectation if anything is ever going to improve. Unles
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by smeej 6y ago
The question wasn't about whether a "consumer group" would be legal. It was about whether a union would. Those are different. I don't know whether there is any such possibility of legal recognition of a "union"
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by smeej 6y ago
Even if it were theoretically possible or legally possible, it would remain practically impossible. You'd never even be able to get enough awareness of it for people to know about it, much less convince people to care. You'll neve
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by smeej 6y ago
I've spent more than a decade in customer/user-facing roles, and that class of users is actually "almost all of them." But it's worse than that. Most people do not have the reading fluency to read more than a few wo
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by smeej 6y ago
Do you appreciate the vulnerability of the other stance? As in, do you know how absurdly lucky it is that people with a controlling stake in these payment processing companies happen to agree with you and aren't in Trump's pocke
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by smeej 6y ago
Yes, I very much do. And I want it to be recorded right out in public, on a bright, shiny public blockchain where everybody can see it, recognize them for the violent crazies they are, and dissociate from them. If you are EXTREMELY knowledg
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by smeej 6y ago
There's an entire ecosystem of decentralized money that has been invented and has been growing for the last 13 years to combat precisely this problem. The value of the units of those currencies are exploding right now, in part for this
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by smeej 6y ago
It doesn't have to change with the Doctor. Having it just be from 13's Doctor even after she leaves doesn't make it less cool or engaging. It's not like anybody stopped loving David Tennant or buying related toys when Ma
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by smeej 6y ago
What job do you think they would be doing instead? And why do you think they aren't doing that job now? I ask this sincerely. I've worked gig-economy jobs when and only when they were what I judged to be my best option at the time
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by smeej 6y ago
Cross Examined Life; Radical Personal Finance; David Tennant Does a Podcast With Have to get out of my tech head sometimes!
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by smeej 6y ago
Sure, there are arguments for how it's different from the outside. From the inside? Who knows? No empirical evidence there. Not a testable hypothesis. But I'm not the one betting. I'll find out in due time. The fear that ther
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by smeej 6y ago
Sincere question: If you already die every night and wake up with the dead guy's memories, why do you think dying this slightly different way would lead to a meaningfully different outcome? Maybe you just wake up somewhere else, with t
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by smeej 6y ago
I thought this for the longest time, and then when I actually went through the kind of thing people offer "thoughts and prayers" for and people offered them to me personally (as opposed to generically on the internet), it actual
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by smeej 6y ago
For some of us, it's not about changing your mind. You're right--life isn't for everyone. Death comes for everyone, one way or another, at some point. Normally we don't pick when, but maybe you're right and this is