verylittlemeat

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by verylittlemeat 5y ago
It's a reality check for anyone who makes a better goodreads and doesn't understand why it never gains traction. It's on par with complaining about facebook and creating your own better version of facebook while completely ig
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by verylittlemeat 5y ago
Goodreads will always win simply because it's where all the users are. Like reddit or any huge site its usefulness isn't in the presented top layer (recommendations/front page/popular list of x) it's the depth of mi
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by verylittlemeat 5y ago
OP is suggesting a starting place for people who feel unmoored. It's an anecdote giving him a formula to try on for size. The kind of person who has strong feelings about their sense of style (for example dressing more feminine) alread
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by verylittlemeat 5y ago
thread is pretty dead at this point but interesting comment thanks for typing it all out
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
It's psychologically comforting and you don't need to be an expat for it to be realistic. I agree that most people underestimate the value of creating a sustainable low stress life in their home country. Many people I know in the
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
I use Axiom to do basic ffmpeg stuff on a regular basis and it's never let me down. https://axiomui.github.io/
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
I think people underestimate how much of the spirit of the old internet still exists. For example, many twitch channels have an active offline chat that isn't advertised or even sanctioned by the actual streamer. I lurk/idle in th
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
Some people might find this video interesting. Family that fled into the siberian taiga for 70 years to avoid religious persecution. One thing that stands out in my memory is how they said their main form of entertainment was sharing and an
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
I'm reading the wiki on them (admittedly not the best or most unbiased source) and I don't really buy that they're white supremacists since among other things their leader is afro-cuban. But fascistic sure, I could see that.
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
Proud boys are literal nazis?
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
Unfortunately much like the hysteria of "communists" being lost on McCarthyites in the 50s the same is likely for the "far right" on the left now. They're literal Nazis, don'tcha know.
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
It's really everywhere due to the election. I lurk on a meme video forum that leans conservative and they have started deleting and clamping down on any political content. Some people really enjoy stirring up and having political debat
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
I don't buy that they're trying to communicate in good faith. I remember very clearly sources like this* in 2016. There was so much hubris and minimizing of Trump that him having a 30% chance to win was like an irrelevant footnot
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
That seems outrageously obtuse. The electoral college is fundamental to predicting the US presidential election. The idea that 538 got it right but just didn't factor in the electoral college is a real stretch. If they screwed up polls
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
You're being downvoted but you're right. I'm starting to believe that sites like 538 feed off of the general public not understanding that a 20% chance to win is 1 in 5. Endless ink has been spilled about how the public does
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
I feel like everyone right now should be watching the 1995 movie Safe. It is THE movie about ominous psychosomatic illness. Julianne Moore is amazing in it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_(1995_film) It starts off
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
I don't think this whole conversation needs to be so dramatic. I live in NYC and do projects like this chair all the time. I talk to my neighbors and ask them when they wont be home or when would be a good time to do X hours of work. M
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
"You're invulnerable to coronavirus" is not a summary of that quote let alone a fair one.
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
There should be an Internet Forum Law where any sufficiently large forum just becomes about current events and politics. There are already endless places on the internet to talk about those things, I'm glad I share this place with user
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
What's the point of being one of the useful ten million if you don't have a bigger superfluous population to lord over.
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
I think the prognostications of fear, uncertainty and doubt will end up wrong. Twenty years ago we had a controversial close election that had to be decided by the supreme court. Plenty of people did not want to see Bush in the white house
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
Honestly the media hating on Rogan isn't more complicated than getting eyeballs and ad revenue. "How X makes you fat" or "Why X is more dangerous than you think" where X is something common and popular. In this case
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
Whenever I read about Joe Rogan on HN I wonder how many people have actually listened to one of his podcasts or are just mad/concerned he had X crackpot on his show. You should check it out one day. It's not nearly as controversia
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
Isn't the self help section one of the largest in the bookstore? I don't see any great mystery - cults of personality, money, power, genius - aspirational culture. As far as we know haven't those things always been part of h
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
It's hard to define "a lot" for 2 reasons: 1. The human population is very large so even the smallest fraction is a sensational number. 2. Any death is a tragedy for someone, not the least the person who died. This creates a
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
Doesn't Tesla alone moving from CA to TX refute that considering they could probably afford to operate anywhere they want?
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
The parent did say editorial board but I would suggest that a criticism of the NYTimes in the same spirit that actually warrants attention is its board of directors. Many if not all of them are wealthy lifelong democrats. I'm not tryin
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
I just finished a great book called "All the Shah's Men" about the history of the Iranian revolution. To have everything that happened in Iran boiled down to "countries invaded by, bombed by or had coups instigated by th
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
Originally I was more in favor of phpbb style forums and anti likes/favorites/upvotes but I've abandoned that attitude. I really think it's the same as it ever was. If you want to find quality you need to start with your
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
I get your general breakdown but my issue is somewhere in between. I never use the tiktok meme machine part of reddit anymore. As you mentioned I do have a bunch of smaller hobby subreddits that I only visit on my locked down oldreddit RES

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