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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Presumably because of the 100-fold increase in communication? The parent comment's point is that the term freedom doesn't mean "the optimal balance of restrictions", it means "fewer restrictions". It may be t
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If you're looking for ethnic explanations, the evidence deosnt match the claim that Borderers drive the American homicide rate to any real degree. While the White American murder rate is higher than Britain's, it's less than
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> We have quite a few studies that show the damages of specific kinds of social media and specific practices by social media. Hell a genocide happened because Facebook fell asleep at the wheel. Do we actually have these, or are you infer
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I don't know a lot about the mechanics of unions, but are the salaries not paid out of employee dues?
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Sure, I'm not suggesting there's 0% signal. I'm suggesting that the SNR of "someone said something crazy" is so close to zero as to be useless. Hell, crying wolf about it isnt just useless, it's counterproducti
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I understand your concern that discussing this incident will prevent anyone from talking or thinking about the abortion ban. But you'll be thrilled to hear that HN actually supports sharing and discussing more than one link! In fact, a
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Yup, and the common excuse that you don't have time to check everything out is nonsense too. You're not required to have an opinion on everything, and you shouldn't have an opinion on anything you haven't bothered to inf
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
A lot of ills are laid at social media's door, but I think this is a warranted one. Journalists were/are the beating heart of Twitter's userbase, giving it outsize influence through years of a minuscule userbase (eg there was
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I'm 100% with your premise. When I first got exposure to the world of blogs, I had to quickly learn the skill of rejecting the parts of a piece that are ill-supported while pulling insight from the well-considered[1] parts. This doesn&
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> I’d cut them some slack, because we’re all bad at that, It's really not that difficult a skill to build though. The trick is not to get perfect at detecting sarcasm or trolls but to realize that if you're talking about an ind
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
The parent comment says "were the people reacting to it actually in on the joke". He's not asking whether the tweet exists, but whether it was ironic.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Todoist, asana, Evernote, trello, etc etc. For a certain segment of society, services like these are perennially in demand, and there's always a new one promising a new twist that will actually keep you using it and transform your life
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I think that for-profit organizations actually mesh quite perfectly with the "security economics" perspective. Ie, they care about security to the extent that they see it affecting their own utility function. In ideal circumstanc
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
There's a novel twist on this particular selection too. Glorifying violence and being callous about its consequences is even more abhorrent from a position where you're guaranteed not to suffer the direct consequences.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
You said "breaking lockdown rules", not "breaking blackout rules", specifically when contrasting policies that heretofore in the conversation were described as "blackout" and "lockdown". Though it sou
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Yea of course, but it's trivial to just ban returning without quarantine. This policy also has the advantage of not potentially violating international law
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> . "I thought we were rational people in a free society There is no polity in the world in which "rational people" drove covid policy (or individual behavior) to any significant degree. Whether we're talking about Fl
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> I have friends who have been unable to leave the country to see dying parents. Im somewhat neutral on most of Australia's restrictions: my opinion is that theyre unnecessarily draconian, and that some of them are not in accordanc
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I'm familiar with Clovis (the Frankish king) and Coriolanus (the Shakespearean Roman), but I don't follow the connection you're trying to draw
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> Your opinion is not factually supported. A million people were prosecuted for breaking lockdown laws in the UK. That's his point. He's drawing a contrast to blackout laws,by claiming that an individual sees direct benefit fro
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
This is a tangential interesting point, not a disagreement with your comment. But despite the mental health costs of the pandemic and associated policy, there's a growing body of evidence indicating that suicides do not appear to have
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
The parent comment clarified in response to my original question that they were referring to "heavy duty" mental health advice, of serious issues. The premise of my pushing back against privacy concerns was mental health advice of
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> I'd trust Wikimedia's privacy policy a hell of a lot more than I'd trust TikTok's Yes, of course. I wasn't clear, but I was referring to going through a search engine, not going directly to Wikipedia. > Pres
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> I honestly don't know what this "de-growth" thing is about, it sounds suspiciously like a slur invented to label any sustainable economy advocate so they stop messing up industry with rules about how much energy or resou
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Many (most?) people value conformity and loyalty oaths over honest understanding of the world, regardless of the damage that this does. What you're describing isn't any weirder than Biblical literalists ignoring "eye-rollingl
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
That's an extremely expansive definition of "two-way", to the point of meaninglessness. If you were to bite this bullet, you'd also preclude the type of extremely basic work to get informed that any patient should be doi
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> It was apparent in the group chat I was in that these guys were replacing heavy-duty mental healthcare with tips provided by unverified sources on TikTok Gotcha, thanks for clarifying!
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
You've mixed together two-way (discussion) and one-way (advice) mental health communication. Your point only applies to discussion, and the tiktok example only involves advice. Concretely, what privacy concern do you see in watching a
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
What do you think the word democracy means? None of that is incompatible with being a democracy. That's not a defense of those actions, but there's an incredibly bizarre trend these days to act as if words don't have any actu
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> I stepped back from a group chat because the fellows in it swore by “Mental Health TikTok,” where therapists give mental health advice. This is concerning to me What's concerning about this? I don't mean this rhetorically: I&

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