CapstanRoller

"Faster than expected" is the standard phrase of /r/collapse

Anyone who is paying attention can feel what's happening. The polycrisis grows every day.

To extend your examples: why aren't we coupling this to incentives? Car crashes are much more debilitating than bicycle crashes, and most bicycling in the world is done for transport, yet we heavily incentivize car culture.

As a casual bicycle user, you're far more likely to have a serious bicycle collision from being hit by a car driver.

What happens when someone in the building decides who DOESN'T know what they're doing turns you into the next Ghost Ship[0] type fire?

No, we need massive zoning & code reform but not a total free-for-all. You may be resourceful enough to build a safe habitat but there's a good chance all your work will be destroyed because someone decided to build an indoor slum out of pallets and space heaters.

All safety regulations are written in blood.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Ship_warehouse_fire

>you probably have to adjust your sense of "habitable" as well and put in some work.

eat bugs and live in pods? that's no way to live

In what country? Here in Washington State USA any place that's remotely habitable is either very expensive or gets snatched up immediately.

Must be nice to have enough money to simply buy a house.

"Mudlarking" is the act of looking for historical artifacts (uncharitably: old garbage) from the river Thames when the tide goes out

https://www.frommers.com/slideshows/848024-mudlarking-in-the...

Cities give tax breaks to corporations and compete over who gets to host their campuses for a reason. If wealthy tech workers abandon the city, it kills the businesses that they patronize. It also lowers the demand for real estate in the city.

Neither the words "housing" nor "cost" appear anywhere in this writeup. It reads like "just buy a house and have a community, bro!"

It's like the author never considered that the reason people might be isolated is because any community ties get ripped up and scattered to the winds with every rent hike or eviction or job change. After a few cycles of this, why bother making connections? You'll probably never see your neighbors again 12 months from now.

or change it to display the analog clock instead

Tool restoration videos are another big thing related to this.

>As millenials age into the system, the government will start to more closely reflect their world views.

By what mechanism?

The reason those in government fail to represent the views of their constituents is due to class warfare and wealth.

Millennials are already reaching 40, yet the wealth of the Millennial generation is a tiny fraction of what Baby Boomers had in their 20s. To put it bluntly: it's too damn late!

It's not that those in power are simply out of touch, it's that they intentionally pulled the ladder up behind them.

So far the USA has robbed 3 generations in order to feed the capitalist class, and Boomers cheered it on because they also reap the rewards of this large-scale sacrifice.

Moloch smiles on the Baby Boomer generation.

https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.c...

Railfans in high places?

By that logic, so is ammonia.

Care to take a big huff off a farmer's anhydrous ammonia tank?

Do you use a particular JS library for the visualizations? They look great!

Side question: is there a recommended method to prototype such UI demos and examples as seen on this page? Some kind of library?

I've seen a number of similar things in the past and wondered if there was a way to quickly test a UI idea using helpful building blocks.

>Is there a possibility that online dating has a bias for women that are “choosy”

Worse: online dating apps create choosy daters. It is less like "dating" and more like online shopping. People who use such apps are incentivized to drill down using increasingly-specific filters hoping to find the perfect mate, but in reality find themselves with no suitable matches at all. Worse yet, if they do find someone, the false sense of being able to continue refining toward a more perfect mate often drives them away from actually-existing relationships and back to the apps where they fruitlessly search for an "upgrade"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice

https://www.salecycle.com/blog/strategies/is-choice-paralysi...

>Men's ratings of women follow the same principle.

OKCupid data shows otherwise: https://0x0.st/HOJB.png

https://web.archive.org/web/20131205025323/https://blog.okcu...

Also, here is an archived OKC blog about how race affects rated attractiveness:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170227025819/https://theblog.o...

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37574915

>I talked to a friend of mine who had a sense of attractiveness so strict that she literally could not find someone she found physically appealing within a hundred mile radius

I found this tool to be very illuminating: https://igotstandardsbro.com/

(Please ignore the misogynistic verbiage)

zsh is derived from bash and much of the syntax and behavior is identical.

Also there are plugins like https://github.com/chrissicool/zsh-bash

Why is the author so concerned about having to compete with AI girlfriends?

The men who would resort to such virtual companions don't have a chance with most women anyway, nor do most women want them. These men are better off enjoying a virtual companion than dumping money into apps like Tinder and growing embittered and angry.

Ultimately, isn't this a good thing? The "undesirables" (short, poor, overweight, autistic, etc.) will voluntarily leave the dating scene altogether, and women can be happy swiping through all the remaining attractive men they truly desire. Sounds like a win-win situation.

Given all the hand-wringing about "incels", I don't see what the problem is. Let the lonely men have their AI waifus. What's the harm?

The article has the same energy as a Michelin-star restauranteur panicking about the existence of Top Ramen.

>Americans are some of the world's richest people

Taking national wealth or GDP and implying it's shared equally amongst its citizens would be an absurdly disingenuous argument.

You're not doing that, are you?

Capitalism! So successful at delivering productive happy societies that they need to stage coups worldwide to keep people from attempting to try alternatives and fund death squads to secure profits. Great idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Massacre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contras

>And MacOS. Sheesh. Gotta do this: chsh -s /bin/bash

What's wrong with zsh?

It's very disingenuous to conflate suicide (something done by someone) with violence (something done to someone else).

Suicide is an act of bodily autonomy.

By that logic we should ban anything remotely pleasurable.

> It's weird that we allow that.

Many states already prohibit exposing children to secondhand smoke.

Nicotine by itself is about as addictive as caffeine. Tobacco is very addictive due to the MAOI substances it contains.

Same thing would happen if he got fired, or needed to take a leave of absence. What happens next is not his responsibility.

The workload is determined by the employer, not the workers.