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Something similar happened with terrorism when the US started bombing. People joined because they were losing friends and seeked both revenge and solidarity.

I still don't think it's a great idea to find too much solidarity within the two party system, no matter how sweet the revenge could be. That's why I don't consider myself a modern liberal.

Every sub reddit has its golden calf. If you're somewhat left leaning, you're going to end up in places that have leftist golden calfs.

If you're not brain-washed, you'll likely have some amount of critique of every single thing in the world including their golden calf.

So when people say: this is perfect and we're the good guys and they're the bad guys and look how stupid they are, you might say something nuanced or somewhat understanding and now you're a trump supporting, racist, misogynist, nazi incel.

Or, more likely, you'll get downvoted to oblivion and the only people who will comment will have some shit like that to say.

Personally, I've had plenty of reddit users actively tell me I'm a piece of shit for trying to understand what sort of psychological trauma it is that leads to people shooting up schools, or raping, or joining hate groups. Which "humanizes" them too much for most peoples tastes.

Basically: trying to understand "the enemy" or raise awareness about issues in "the plan" are totally off limit topics in most places.

I tried out TikTok for a few nights. It very, very quickly got repetitive. I think the short-form content sphere can only fit so much of an arc in what little time it has. And getting people to sit through it requires being a bit click-baity. And everything was obviously staged, and a lot of times it seemed like...

Okay, so when I was a kid, we made stupid videos too. But we never expected anyone to watch them. And they were often 5-10 minutes long in the end.

On TikTok you can tell that the priority of being filmed is to be seen. They aren't just having fun. It's like TV, and weirds me out.

Very much agree.

I think web-dev, for better or worse, has pioneered a lot of UI concepts and design strategies purely by being more accessible.

Getting those lessons into a more efficient compiled form would be a great step, and I do think TypeScript is slowly approaching a place where it might be able to bridge that gap.

At this point, the OS is the only thing I'm really hooked on.

And ElementaryOS has been coming along fairly well, so I'm hopeful than in ~5 years they'll have something I can fully switch over to for my work computer. Right now, I just use it for my gaming/media pc.

At one point I was working on a project with user locations/distance sharing.

My solution was just to Math.floor both of their lat/lng to be in increments of .25 miles. You could still use the triangulation trick to find that point, but .25 miles seemed like more than enough to obfuscate things.

Had I made the display in increments of miles only, that would have probably been even better.

> our superior differences

Best to get out of this line of thought before our understanding of genetics really takes off. To quote Gattaca "We now have discrimination down to a science."

It's already common to allow the oppression of inferior genes so long as they aren't human. What happens when we can measure human genetic inferiority? Will you be talking about superior differences then? Will you still dismiss the "differences" inferior to yours?

Besides, animal genes might not even be truly inferior anyways. I suspect they have better foundations and potential than we do. It's just not utilized yet. Maybe humans aren't so great, just first to market (and only by ~20k years, which is nothing at all). I personally wouldn't be surprised if humans are actually embarrassingly stupid on the cosmic scale of sentience.

The reason nobody can compete is because of regulations. If it was a free market, there wouldn't be so many regulations, and people would be able to compete.

The unfortunate truth is that anarchy is better than a weak democracy, because weak democracies just become oligarchies with more steps.

Ofc, a strong democracy is better than either, and regulations are extremely important. But in this case, those regulations are more for the oligarchs than the people.

If you really want a great example of anarchy vs oligarchy, take note that the anarchy of the private world ran Trump into the ground repeatedly and called him a loser while our public world gave him all the power it could and started a cult. Anarchy isn't great, but it's better than that.

> simply because the reputation OnlyFans has

Lol. Watching a musician on OF and your friend looks over your shoulder.

Holy cow. An Illegal Pepe is just too good not to have.

I would gladly have a mobile phone full of memes that have been modified to match, just for the lulz. I honestly think every meme should be put through just to have "illegal memes"

Is it possible to host this online as a meme filter?

I think every meme should get pumped through this, just for lulz.

None of these things are related to why the author was convinced of his intelligence.

And while it absolutely is common to call others smart, I think the following comment is rather special:

> "better regarded as hyper-intelligent aliens with a tangential interest in human affairs."

That comment is, IMO, believably earnest. And any person who requires such a comment to build up their ego is believably pretty smart as well.

> Just not on articles commenting Amazon workplace environment and such, as it should not be indeed

I think the distinction between "evil" and "evil genius" is actually kind of important for a world that often anchors its reality to Hollywood narratives. It sets up a more believable antagonist, and makes it clear that -- unlike the grinch -- their heart is not likely to change.

It also sets up the challenge: be smarter. If he was just greedy, it might be a race to the bottom (greed always wins). But in this case it's a race to the top (intelligence seems to win).

I also think the distinction between "greed wins" and "smart wins" extends with a similar lack of mention into other popular "villains" like Elon or THE ZUCK.

At least for me, knowing that the richest person in the world is also considered extremely smart by the smartest people he could pay to work with him... it makes me feel that -- unlike politics -- business is not yet a complete race to the bottom.

This was a really nice read.

I've made a habit lately of "checking out" on having any opinion about anything I can't truly analyze. And this is a great example of why.

I'm surrounded in content telling me why Bezos is a monster, and they make a good argument. But for all that hatred, I've never once heard a single mention of him being smart, let alone intimidatingly smart, let alone "a first class genius" or "better regarded as hyper-intelligent aliens with a tangential interest in human affairs."

This seems like an important character detail to have been left out.

My gut reaction is that it looks a lot like centralization. And centralization almost always wins, and almost always for the worst reasons.

I can easily see peoples questions being buried/deleted/marked as "nofix" or other passive aggressive stuff like that.

I can easily see people who aren't on the project being less likely to have input than they would on SO.

I can also easily see a lot less discovery happening.

But all of these things that make a Q&A into yet another virtual fiefdom are exactly what will make it win out: it will be the developers own little fiefdom; they'll be there more.

The scanning is not done in iCloud.

I really don't see why the scanning would ever be done on the phone instead of on iCloud if it only affects iCloud images.

But I do have guesses why.

> open source maintainers owe you nothing and you should expect nothing of them

I tend not to release projects just because I think people should expect something from me if I do.

On another note, I'm totally down to accept that OSS projects be malleable, but it does irk me when someone:

1. brags a ton about their project just to find it's really not that great or

2. changes things with almost no concern for who it will affect and how or

3. refuse to change things for some ideological reason when tons of people are asking for it ("that's not the right way to do it!" "you don't know my project")

IMO, impatience/bitterness. A lot of people got sold on the idea that big change was coming, then it didn't. Now crypto is in a gross stage, and while it clearly has some future, many people would rather point out how far away that future may still be. Some with far more certainty of it never happening than others.

Orange, yellow, and red are very consistent in having almost no subsets.

I tried it out for a few days, and can see the appeal. But something about the content got really, really repetitive really really quickly.

Like... it was all so staged and television like. It felt like watching TV did, back before I could see through the tropes.

There's only so many forms of arc you can fit into 15 seconds though.

Someone is going to figure out how to make false positives, and then an entire genre of meme will be born from putting regular memes through a false positive machine, just for the lulz.

Someone else could find a way to make every single possible mutation of false positive Goatse/Lemonparty/TubGirl/etc. Then some poor Apple employee has to check those out.

Especially given the tech demos coming out for the next unreal. I forget the name of the system they're using for lighting or texture detail... but it's pretty friggin impressive.

I'm too old for this, but I really wonder what it's going to be like for high-school kids and nudes 10 years on.

I mean, if you get a really good nude from someone you're going to want to keep it. But for how long? Is there now a social rule of how long to keep nudes for? Is 21 too old, and you should delete them? What if you're still with the person?

Personally, I'm glad I don't have to figure it out, but teens sending each-other nudes just has all sorts of confusing ethical quandries to it.

If this was titled "why GDPR fine will be a game changer" and then speculated that Amazon might do it correctly, it wouldn't feel overwhelmingly like an ad to me.

Yup. That's a well organized project right there. Very easy to find the exact code doing whatever it is you want.

I'm a volunteer fire fighter. So, first-responders to most 911 calls are us, unless there's a known violent actor in which case cops are sent.

Realizing that I get to deal with all the thankful people (or tragically heart broken) while cops get to deal with -- frankly -- the biggest assholes around... it doesn't validate shitty police in any way, it just made me understand that the system itself is broken.

The people cops are dealing with (most of the time) should have never gone so long without proper mental/physical health care. Or so little opportunity. Or whatever it is that makes is so you need someone with a gun to show up instead of someone with medical/fire training.

And being American themselves, the cops also don't have proper mental health care. There's just no way for a setup like this to not create a bad situation.

I couldn't find the data on what the stops were "for."

Tbh, I don't even know what kind of things you can get stopped on a bike for except swerving around traffic, so it seems like a good thing to know about.

Is there any data on what the "reasons" were for stopping these different bike riders?

Oh rad. I was just chatting with a friend about how tired we were of having no control over which inboxes gmail has, and what goes into them. This looks like a big step in the right direction.