FeepingCreature
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FeepingCreature
10mo ago
All the nerds use old.reddit.com because new.reddit.com is fully focused on centering content rather than comments and spamming page reloads so it can show more ads. (You get like five comments per page load.) Lots of people, me included, would leave the site if old.reddit was ever turned off, it's that bad.
The Reddit app imitates new Reddit. If you want old Reddit experience on a phone, you need an unofficial app. These use the API.
FeepingCreature
1yr ago
Anonymous sources and a lack of corroboration. I think it's plausible, but this article shouldn't shift your belief much.
FeepingCreature
1yr ago
Also literally turning the frogs gay. (Really, turning the frogs trans, but who's counting...) I will never cease to be amazed at the ability of the internet to take Conspiracy Theories Czar Alex Jones and unerringly zero in on the like one thing he ever said that actually has a shred of evidence to it.
(To be clear, that effect has been questioned a bunch, and I have no idea what's actually up with it. But "Alex Jones cites a study that may not hold up" is hardly how you see the claim treated.)
FeepingCreature
10mo ago
Sometimes, if a thing is "needed" and violates the constitution, that means you still shouldn't get to have it. What's the point of principles if you only hold to them on matters that are agreeable anyways?
FeepingCreature
1yr ago
Seems like a link to Neutral vs Conservative is in order.
If even the right reads left-aligned MSM, how is a right-wing equivalent of the MSM ever supposed to get off the ground? It'd be disadvantaged on every axis. Right-wing media is the way it is because it has to compete and win on ideological adherence to get any marketshare at all.
To me, this is a strong argument in favor of burning down institutions in general: sometimes, probably often, you can't build better ones while the old ones still exist. Not because they'd actively prevent you, but because they're already occupying the neutral space.
FeepingCreature
1yr ago
What got me started on programming was fractals. To this day, I greet every new language I learn with a Mandelbrot renderer. But I believe there needs to be a hook. For me, it was pretty pictures. That got me into graphics, OpenGL, raytracing, and I learnt programming almost as a side effect. For other people it will be other things. But there needs to be a thing that you want to make the computer do. That empowering cycle, of "I speak the magic incantation and then the machine does my bidding," is what drives motivation, and motivation is the primary factor of learning programming.
FeepingCreature
13d ago
About halfway through, I completely lost track of what the comment was advocating or even saying.
FeepingCreature
4mo ago
Desecrating any of these
Atheist point of order: you cannot desecrate them, because they are not sacred.
The Invisible Pink Unicorn (possibly made of pink-glazed blown glass, in the style of My Little Pony) as the steed bearing the returning Jesus, depicted as a Super-Saiyan, His head and hair burning white, His eyes like a flame of fire, His feet like fine brass
Honestly, I believe many atheists would consider that "fucking awesome".
FeepingCreature
6mo ago
Please don't abuse the phrasing "listen to what people say" when you actually mean "speculate what people mean". The entire point of "take them at their word" is to take them at their literal word. If you want to use this phrase, please link a video of Greta Thunberg literally advocating Jewish genocide in those exact terms.
FeepingCreature
10mo ago
I don't read this as "hey, can you relinquish your moral claim on this bike and transfer it to me" and more "hey, please relinquish your physical claim on this bike because it is immoral".
Likewise, in an attempt to play devil's advocate, I made a recent comment about the "suffering" of white people in response to the HBD post from @PresterJohnsHerald. It's currently sitting at 10 upvotes, and even more interestingly, there is only one reply!
I can only speak for myself, but I was so bewildered by trying to judge if that comment was even serious, that I just scrolled past without interacting with it in any way.
But also, I'm reminded of a post I read somewhere on the internet about how a lot of good scientific work came from monks, in part, because they had to seriously engage with the heresies of the day in order to figure out how to merge them into a christian worldview, so at a given day some christian would be reading and thinking about a lot more anti-christian or problematic arguments just so he could avoid embarrassing himself in a debate. In that sense, I think the left's increasing tendency to exclude contrasting arguments seriously hurts their ability to hold their own on a heterogenous platform, whether or not they are right. The level of in-depth pushback you can get for progressive arguments in this place is just far above what you'd get elsewhere. And then you either put in a lot of time and research to convince some people that your culture tells you cannot be convinced and should not be listened to, or ... stop engaging.
FeepingCreature
10mo ago
As an aside, when I mentioned I was excited about this disclosure to a deeply Blue family member, they suggested I've shifted right.
This is revolting to me. I could see myself telling a family member "Hey, it's cool you're interested in that, but note that people may perceive that as a Party X aligned topic." I couldn't see myself going "hey, being interested in that makes you party X aligned." To a family member? Do I trust them that little?
The world is full of contradictions and ambiguities. Sometimes one catches your interest and you go off to investigate it. It makes me sick that this good, healthy, praiseworthy act is apparently inseparable from political affiliation.
FeepingCreature
1yr ago
Both of those plans are unactionable, but "convince society to not build culture around" is maybe a bit more unactionable than "convince congress to change copyright." :)
FeepingCreature
1yr ago
Responsible disclosure might look a bit different if blackhats killed hundreds of thousands every year, and patches were unreliable, cost billions, and required worldwide effort.
FeepingCreature
1yr ago
Is that insufficiently or invalidly bad?
Imagine, to pose an unreasonable extreme, everything beautiful in the world becoming ugly and disfigured. That would be a mere aesthetic change, but it would also drive near anyone to suicide. If we are agreed that this should ought to be prevented, we can then begin negotiating degrees.
FeepingCreature
3mo ago
Trans-Exclusive Regular Feminist
FeepingCreature
9mo ago
On one hand I want to say that surely, being able to recognize and admit misconduct is private is better than not being able to do so, so this leak is bad. On the other hand, this is a pretty impressive level of self-delusion even so, and we do want to push back on misconduct when we become aware of it.
But I guess my synthesis would be: if the only way we have of noticing misconduct in a topic as impactful as a world-wide pandemic is a leak of private messages where the scientists involved literally admit to it, then science has much, much bigger problems than these people's misconduct.
FeepingCreature
1yr ago
Once you notice a coincidence, you become sensitized for further coincidences in the same class.
FeepingCreature
1yr ago
Hot take: doxing is still bad actually.
I mean, I think banning all links is going too far, but if you think they're a danger to others, call the police - and if not, I think people should stay out of others' personal life unless explicitly invited.
FeepingCreature
6mo ago
Every open-minded educated person knows the 14 words, "the Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race." Do they remember these words because some recluse killed a few people with mail bombs in the 80s?
Yes, I broadly think this is why they remember them. I mean - how much else of the manifesto do they remember? Maybe I'm arguing too much from my own state of mind here, but I'd wager - nothing. That one sentence is punchy without saying too much that one may disagree with in the specifics, it's universally recognizeable, and most importantly, it's spicy, in no small part because of its association with terror. This all combines to make it a memetic winner.
FeepingCreature
10mo ago
Like half the point of book term limits is to allow round-robin lending. If you're swiping the book, you're defecting against the person who wants to re-loan it, but that person is defecting against the library system.
"No human being is illegal" as a phrase against "illegal immigration" is a fully general argument against calling any activity illegal.
It's a good argument against the term 'illegal immigrant', I guess, but I'm not sure if "irregular immigrant" is an improvement.
FeepingCreature
1yr ago
One person says "X will never happen". Another person says something that may be interpreted as "When X happens, you bigots will deserve it." This means nothing, unless you fall to the old temptation of treating the statements of all outgroup members as being coordinated.
When One refuses to notice the existence of Another or treats you as crazy for believing that Another said something that may be considered representative, it's a mite insulting.
FeepingCreature
1yr ago
However, it seems difficult to explain lack of girls' participation in an all-girl coding camp by any form of male behavior. In that sense, code camp intervention has not been tested, but has been attempted, which is itself a test. Of course, motte = "patriarchy is fully general and can be hosted on female brains", bailey = "men are sexist and that's why women don't code".
If we take this entirely seriously, dismantling patriarchy here would require forcing girls to go to code camp.
In any other economic sector the reaction to "we build more and more demand appears!" would be "that's absolutely amazing, I love it, build even more."
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