wussboy

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by wussboy 4y ago
I'm not convinced that, for 99.9% of use cases, anonymity is a feature. I think it's far more likely that the easy anonymity that has been the default for much of the existence of the Internet has harmed society. I get downvoted w
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by wussboy 4y ago
I had a significant tic, and found profound relief through Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). I strongly recommend "Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life".
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I am so done with algorithms.
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Because appeasement worked out so well!
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I love Sidebery, but only recently discovered the tab grouping feature, and I love it. I also us multi-account containers and would love to find a way to make the little ribbon of color on the edge more prominent.
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You'd think a little bit of forethought would cause you to have done that at any point in the last few weeks since this shit-show started, just in case.
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Any idea of significance has subtlety and complexity, both of which are anathema to Twitter. Rage, on the other hand, can be perfectly encapsulated in a few characters.
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And your compensation choices are valuable information to Shopify and indicative of your "buy-in" to what they are doing....and therefore could be used against you.
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by wussboy 4y ago
I want to hear more about how advertising is a doomed business model. We've had advertising for centuries... But I'd love to know it was going away...
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The people who decide bringing new life into this world is unethical will quickly be replaced those who think it _is_ ethical. I understand your reasoning, but "don't have kids" can never be the answer.
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Just because we can imagine it going wrong doesn't mean it will go wrong or it must go wrong. The role of science fiction is to explore possible futures, not to make the future taboo. Do we need to be way more careful with how we desig
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Bang on. To add fuel to the fire (heh), the fire mentioned by parent wasn’t perceived as deadly and then suddenly was safe. It was and is deadly unless the precautions our society has spent thousands of years developing are carefully follow
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That link didn’t work for me. But I would like to read it. Can you please confirm?
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Yup. My slavish devotion to “personal responsibility” means I can’t even understand how decisions made at a corporation, insulated from the very personal responsibility I care so much about and powered by unlimited piles of cash can run hum
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by wussboy 4y ago
I remember playing around with the Serious Sam level editor. A buddy of mine made a map that was just a small hut in the middle and monster generators scattered over the next hill. Endless mindless hordes of monsters came over that hill and
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by wussboy 4y ago
People do change their mind, but almost never because of adversarial debate. So, "come with proof" seldom works. Unfortunately, you (and I) also never change our minds because of adversarial debate. It's easy to tell other pe
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by wussboy 4y ago
> Face-to-face is only applicable with you small social network. That is my point precisely. And I will point out here that small social networks are our historical environment. I believe not only can we return to them and flourish, but
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by wussboy 4y ago
I think we will get to a point where trust will only come from face-to-face physical meetings. We won't be able to believe in Zoom calls, phone calls, nothing except face-to-face. Just like it was for millions of years before now.
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by wussboy 4y ago
Yup. Search reveals two or three relevant videos but from that point on the search results are indistinguishable from the regular feed. And I get the same video recommended to me all the time. Sometimes back to back!
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All that geographically relevant advertising could go back to how it was before Facebook/Google became the only way to do it. It seem an easy-enough solution to me.
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> What replaces it? People aren't going to host content for free. Perhaps. But I for one would like to try this just to see what that Internet would look like. I think it would be a refreshing change from the Internet we currently h
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by wussboy 4y ago
I said “statistically significant” to make it clear that “not everyone”.
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It discounts no such thing. Your unfortunate experience (for which I truly feel sympathy) has nothing to do with how evolution or socio-biology work or the significance of our ancestral environments or the statistically significant fact tha
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by wussboy 4y ago
In a non automobile culture you absolutely did know the people around you, Industrial Age or not. And if you think the people around you being family would somehow make it easier, I think you need a little more family. :)
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They have social anxiety because they never went outside. “Outside” and “with other people” are our ancestral environment. Social media is abnormal and makes abnormal people.
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Thanks for this "other side". I'm a technician (I build bots!) but I like to think there is a sense of art to what I do.
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Strong does not mean good. Those are two separate goals. The most important developments of the next 100 years will be in determining ways to make strong and good communities that scale.
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I don't understand what you're getting at. Are you saying that, if we could choose, we should choose free speech over civil society?
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Free speech is a good, but it is not the highest good. We do not need to throw civil society away because it might infringe on free speech.
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I agree. Screens are the problem, not the solution.

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