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popdu··on Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility
> For the rest, we sre just adults, we should know what to do.

We should. Yet a significant portion of mental health issues would be solved if psychiatry provided mother as a service: Teach interpersonal skills and to take care of yourself. They don't teach that stuff in school and parenting is a hit-or-miss.

The world indeed is what it is and your diagnosis is spot on: Most people didn't become adults as defined by being able to make consistently good decisions without support. Can either let them hang themselves or infantilize just a bit to let most dodge the worst pitfalls.

Don't really have a strong personal opinion on where the pragmatic optimum is, but surely a long way before banning porn. Tangentially it'd be far more ideal if that pragmatic optimum could cater to the ideal adult without catastrophic social consequences, but that'd literally be a generational effort.

popdu··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
Sorry to hear that, but your experiences aren't universal. Absolutism is a sensible option especially if there's been problems in the family. It's not the only sensible option for everyone.
popdu··on OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM says
Nukes. Early tests carried out without absolute confidence of what would set out apocalyptic chain reaction.

Could argue we knew it was dangerous, but pursued it anyway. Could argue it's not much different than now: Unknown unknowns, potentially apocalyptic consequences, hopefully not.

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Moral of the story: Don't run planning poker :)
popdu··on Exceptions should not be handled – they should be aggregated
No worries, no harm no foul. Thanks for being an inspiration/springboard for my strawman larp at the article. It amused me greatly, hopefully amuses someone else as well. All in good fun.
popdu··on Exceptions should not be handled – they should be aggregated
Working under a simple structure to expect the best of people I am mandated to presume you read the article leaving me confused as to how your comment relates to social sciences. This causes me great discomfort and although objectively irrational, leads me to wish that the authors soon conclude their future work on exception aggregation to resolve the situation. This also reinforces my past evaluation that the Japanese sure are an interesting bunch.