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by zwkrt 5y ago
Since the beginning of covid i I have been living with 2 friends in a shared house. The house is 1600 square feet, 105 years old, only has one bathroom. And you know what? We get along great, with a yard, space to play music, and shared coo
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by zwkrt 5y ago
When authoritarianism comes around, it wont just be surveiling. An a11n regime needs the buy-in of private leadership because the goal is to turn the state into an all-encompasing master of peoples lives, and work is a large part of peoples
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I’m an amateur musician (29years old, for reference). I can play the piano and the guitar and sing, but ever since I was a child my most innate musical talent was whistling. Something I have noticed about the old radio hits from the 50s-70s
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The vast majority of people in the US don’t use a 3rd party app for messaging. Why this is I can only speculate. My guess is that we were marketed SMS as a “killer feature” of phones and phone plans during the pre-internet days of cell phon
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by zwkrt 5y ago
Hot take: all these body tracking apps do almost nothing to actually help you be healthy or improve your life, and the only reason that people feel a need to use them is because advertising has convinced them that it is “part of a healthy d
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Well it is true that weirdness is more of a mental illness over time. The more society becomes rigid and codified and dense, the less room for weirdness to exist, as there are more ways to be transgressive and more people to transgress agai
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by zwkrt 5y ago
Web 2.0 and 3.0 are not directly comparable just because they have similar names, a fallacy of equivocation. Web2.0 might have had a silly name, but the idea of the web as something that the average user and company could contribute back to
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by zwkrt 5y ago
An old mentor of mine once said some thing I found very profound: “Learning is like eating; you can choose what you consume. But knowing is like digesting; it will happen regardless, and in its own time. You only have control over eating, s
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by zwkrt 5y ago
“The sound of the rain needs no translation”
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I love how every quote by the mathematician clearly states that this does not bring us appreciably closer to the Riemann hypothesis, or that it is very unlikely, while the bulk of the article seems to imply otherwise.
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by zwkrt 5y ago
Assuaging peoples concerns about the present by promising a better future is ok in the short term, but I tend to see it as a long-term pattern of some managers. Stringing people along for a nonexistent promotion, letting on-call remain bad
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by zwkrt 5y ago
Your boss sounds like a narcissist. Abusing your time before you even begin, saying he’ll “take care of you”, confident but uneducated. The comment about vacation is especially telling; by company standards it shouldn’t be a big deal to tak
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by zwkrt 5y ago
Well it’s a less fancy version, considering that a notary public can legally notarize a binding contract between two parties. The analogy I have been using with my artist friend (who is interested in their use for selling digital art) is a
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“Your honor, I claim that the real culprit here is the laws of physics and the initial conditions of the universe at the Big Bang.”
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In what sense!? From what god is Rationalty (TM) handed down? Which parts of society are Rational? Which of the sentences of mine is Rational? Ostensibly Rational just means “with reasons” or “calculated” but there are many different calcul
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by zwkrt 5y ago
In psychology and social services there is a push to use terms like “person with Autism” or “person with autistic traits” as opposed to “autistic person” as many people seem to enjoy not being primarily labeled by something that only makes
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by zwkrt 5y ago
You can normally find Pentel Twist-Erase pencils in office supply stores; they aren't as well balanced as the Graphgear but I prefer them because they come with the equivalent of ~10 pencil erasers attached, and I do a lot of erasing b
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by zwkrt 5y ago
That’s naive. If you have a Facebook account they know every website you go to that has affiliate advertisement or a like button on it. I’m sure they also broker data from other companies and mine it from public sources. My uninformed guess
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by zwkrt 5y ago
Per capita? I find that really surprising!
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Everyone should be paid enough to eat reasonable food. If you think this is already the case you live in a bubble.
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Agreed. I think that TFA's major arcana reinterpretations are pretty good, if not fleshed out. But Tarot when you really get into it is an entire framework for thinking about all aspects of existence, so you have to be pretty crafty to
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by zwkrt 5y ago
Yeah, but who would be fighting who? How would warfare break out? A bunch of right-republicans taking over buildings and then being demolished by the largest and strongest military force in the world? A coup in the military to fight unarmed
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by zwkrt 5y ago
> Sometimes it's a competition. Either you will help your partner out or your partner will destroy you. I read this from after following a few links from a post the other day, and it was a real eye-opener regarding this very feeling
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And it’s even more local than that. In the WA area you will find completely different mushrooms and have to be good at different positive idenfication techniques depending on what type of forest you are in
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I love his attitude that people talk in the same kind of compulsive way that a squirrel stores nuts for the winter. Not to say it is mindless but that it isn’t rooted in philosophical consistency. Asking again and again “why” like Socrates
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It’s also helpful that everyone wishes that they were more focused in their life. To paraphrase Dostoyevsky in The Idiot: “after his mock execution did he spend his days as if every day was his last? ‘No, quite the opposite, he was still a
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I don’t understand the cognitive dissonance. If you believe that they are not serving you, what point is there in keeping them around? It sounds like a smoker who thinks that by not having a pack of cigarettes in her pocket and constantly d
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by zwkrt 5y ago
Saying things about blockchain technologies that paint them in a bad light is taboo for people making money (or imagining making money) on them.
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I’m a big ol’ hippie but one sticking point I always have with my friends is that to have upward mobility there must also be the chance for downward mobility. There can be no success without a chance for failure. And I don’t mean this in a
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I assume the ellipsis implies you do not appreciate the pronoun chosen.

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