mental1896

Fallout: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EgJZbFAWAAEelSb.png

"it can't be done any other way" strikes me as pretty thin. Whereas we may not be able to conceive of another way at this point in time, it does no good to imagine that this condition will continue in perpetuity.

If being put out of work could be made to be less of a dire situation for the worker, some of these climate solutions might still be viable.

This article helped me to understand "the game" a little better. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

that's a two-way street

I'd say it's practice

>you should probably leave your job or not take it in the first place

sounds like a decadent rationalization of some kind.

>this must come as a huge transformative movement carried by many people

I believe governmental and industrial interest will follow the example set by these "many people". How do transformative movements start anyhow?

In order to arrive at "the change we need", we have to start somewhere.

We're facing the same general task... just have different ideas about how to approach it.

Wait for it to fall in your lap, or work for it.

It's possible to walk a line that straddles both approaches.

imo personal responsibility and lifestyle adjustments are just the kind of grassroots behavior that could lead humanity out of this. why wait for the industrial/capital machine to see the light and change course?

this approach, however, would have to be widely adopted and it may take generations. it's not a quick fix but i suspect it would be longer lasting, being built on a societal foundation of healty eco-habits.

Depends on your perspective I suppose. As I see it, starting over is a opportunity to try again, this time with all the knowledge you lacked the first time around. You may still encounter many of the pitfalls of the first iteration, but this time, you'll have the advantage of experience.

Or in a great position to start over from scratch.

steel beams 1.0 lol

I agree, although it's not the lines for me but the boundary of the page itself.

Relatively smaller problems are still problems. Rather than diminishing the significance of certain perspectives by calling them "not real", we should be acknowledging issues like this at all strata.

>you're never shielded from inflation

It seems to me that inflation is integral to success of the system. That is to say, without inflation, far fewer people would "win".

You could argue that if the system naturally permits this kind of behavior (insider trading), that there is something fundamentally wrong with the system itself. Judicial band-aids are effective in their own way but they don't get to the heart of the issue.

This is key. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity

I actually can't think of any. Could you give just 1 example?

I am a user and I also hate ads. It is not a false notion.

One might argue that there is plenty of human feeling in this bot-art. After all, it's trained on art with human feelings. Seems like it might be a very effective way to propagate it. It's a sort-of dispassionate third party who finds the thread common to all of the cubist pieces in the training sets.

A lot of people don't anymore.

That was my understanding. I think it tries to capture some of Minecraft's mechanics like freeform building but it's so distilled it's not really fair to compare them.

>I'm trying to explain this stuff to my kids, but the simple truth is they are cognitively capable of getting hooked by this stuff years before they are cognitively capable of understanding the analysis, and then it's another few years of brain development after that when mere intellectual comprehension of what is being fired at them can be transformed into concrete actions to defend themselves.

Don't be too hasty to sell the young-uns short. Just the other day my 9yo was remarking about how addictive his youtube feed is and voluntarily declared that he just has to cut it off at some point in order to do things that he needs to do. I was gobsmacked. Maybe when they grow up with this stuff constantly in their faces, they have a better chance at learning how to deal with it in a healthy way.

Pretty much anything you could ever want in Minecraft you can get for free (perhaps with the assistance of mods). From what little time I've spent playing Fortnite, it seems much more narrowly-scoped and frankly, pretty boring. I'm not even sure why they're being compared here; they're very different games.

It's not a "no worries" situation if you just left one job for another only to find out the culture isn't a good fit.

So all they'd need to do is compel the driver to chalk his own car?

I think it's easier to be a jerk online so it's more prevalent here but, in my opinion, the ways in which people weasel out of their conversational responsibilities are no different than most in-person encounters of the same nature. If I care enough about the person or the cause, it might make sense to stick around and hold their hand. It does get tiresome.

I've started to make a list:

- Firefox -

Any chance you might expand on that idea (for us simpletons)?