wussboy

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by wussboy 5y ago
#whataboutism
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by wussboy 5y ago
Is there any effective remedy to this? Would be interested to hear your opinion (which sounds like it’s as lot closer to the action than mine is).
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by wussboy 5y ago
Perhaps. Although I do think it’s interesting that we’re now saying things like “framers get hurt all the time” and not things like “framers get killed all the time”, which would have been much more common in ages past.
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by wussboy 5y ago
I agree that it’s time we started putting COVID risks in to perspective. Yes, the Delta variant is more transmissible that regular. But to a fully vaccinated person, is it more or less of a concern now than automobile accidents or other vir
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by wussboy 5y ago
I think you’re talking past each other. Is the virus still with us (your point)? Yes. Do we have a potent and effective vaccine which, for vaccinated persons means the virus is no longer a threat (the other person’s point)? Yes.
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by wussboy 5y ago
Probably approaching zero. But how are people going to find you. That's the problem YouTube solves.
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by wussboy 5y ago
Taste is such a funny thing. I generally like ambient and electronica, Monolake, Tim Hecker, etc. I hated every second of the playlist you posted! :). Anyway, thanks for putting it out there. When I program I listen to a lot of bird song&#x
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by wussboy 5y ago
I would agree with you if humans were good at fact checking and then changing their minds based on those facts. But humans do not work that way and never will. Even you yourself don't work that way because you won't check to see i
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by wussboy 5y ago
Just to add to my other post, I like what you're getting at. I think getting money out of politics would make a huge difference. Let's make a voluntary and auditable pledge that politicians could make before they are elected where
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by wussboy 5y ago
Allowing people to vote on issues they care about would be a disaster. We'd have the death penalty back in a week, and abortion/immigration/drugs outlawed in a month. Democracy doesn't work because the masses are smart a
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by wussboy 5y ago
Your last paragraph is a huge source of frustration for me. Such a boner move.
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by wussboy 5y ago
What is the obvious conservative alternative?
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by wussboy 5y ago
Jonathan Haidt’s “The Righteous Mind”, any of Dan Ariely’s work.
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by wussboy 5y ago
There is an idea in human culture that we make decisions by looking at the evidence and then changing our minds to coincide with the truth. In this world unlimited Free Speech makes sense. But humans do not do this. We make decisions based
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by wussboy 5y ago
Agreed. I’m no software historian, but Smalltalk has always fascinated me. I even spent a fair amount of time in the Pharo community as I was learning to code. Eventually I left for Python and Django and the robust communities they have.
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by wussboy 5y ago
Google translate says: "I don't work for free for small multinationals. Your cheap and spare credentials can be filed wherever it suits you. I don't know if this is the answer you were waiting for."
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by wussboy 5y ago
I think Stripe's opinion is that their current business is already a privacy nightmare (being a payments processor) and that they've learned a bit about it through the years so they feel they have the experience to do this right.
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by wussboy 5y ago
The worst offender for this is opening Bing when I mistype something in the Windows Start menu. I can't help but think this accounts for a large percentage of claimed traffic for Edge and Bing. It certainly is the only time I use them
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by wussboy 5y ago
There's not a single thing we can do? Where do China's products get sold? Here. So it seems to me like there's lots we can do.
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by wussboy 5y ago
Interesting. I had the opposite experience to this. Even though all I ever wanted to know about was what was happening to my friend's kids, my feed was taken over with political and social justice outrage. Outrage sells.
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by wussboy 5y ago
Not if we delete that account too....
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by wussboy 5y ago
That feels like the least charitable way to interpret what I said. I only want them flagged so that I can open them in Private Browsing. The real problems are that his videos are associated with much hatred and that the platform I need to a
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by wussboy 5y ago
I feel like links to Jordan Peterson videos should be flagged. Watching just one will fill your You Tube recommendations with the worst sorts of hatred and idiocy. That doesn’t mean the Jordan is wrong. But it does show what the people who
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by wussboy 5y ago
I went back just to try that out. Such fun!
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by wussboy 5y ago
I admire your restraint.
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by wussboy 5y ago
He did say "most", which isn't everyone. He still may be incorrect, however. I've never seen any data in this.
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by wussboy 5y ago
Yup, everyone's different. I like both reading and audiobooks, but I audiobook more because I can do it when I'm driving or walking the dog. Killer feature.
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by wussboy 5y ago
I understand what you're thinking and I suspect you're correct. What I find baffling is that they feel they need to "protect" they're border at all. From whom? For why? Are the Germans going to suddenly roll their t
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by wussboy 5y ago
Thanks, dang. It's like Christmas came early!
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by wussboy 5y ago
To its "demand" perhaps, but not it's value.

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