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4d ago
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Should. You should be in the habit of doing it and it isn't like doing it has a downside.
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Should. Though stopping at a timed red light and then proceeding when you know it is clear is fine in the middle of the night for example. Very little downside compared to a small chance of a very high downside.
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No. Speed limits around here are 55-60 but driving less than 70 is actively dangerous due to other drivers.
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This one genuinely confuses me and makes no sense. Interstates around here are normally 2 lanes wide, there is always traffic, and there are frequent cloverleafs with on ramps and offramps right next to each other. If people only utilized the left lane for passing traffic would be much worse because of less throughput on the roads and slowdowns due to contention merging on and off the interstate. If anything the opposite would be a better system (the right lane is only for merging on and off the interstate and passing).
Often I will be in the left lane going 70-75 and matching pace with the car ahead of me. Some moron comes up behind me and instantly tailgates me. I put on my turn signal and try to merge to let him pass, but there generally isn't room in the right hand lane to do so without cutting someone off. They get impatient and then either pass on the left using the shoulder or will change lanes in places were there are barely more than one car gaps and cut you off. They are now basically one more car length ahead of where they are before and stuck behind someone that is doing the same exact speed I was. Bravo, you endangered the lives of a dozen people to move a dozen feet. Basically my mental model of anyone that says this is "the left lane is only for me and I have no considerations at all for other people". They don't even agree with their own statement because they exclusively use the left lane. -
No and if you think this I seriously doubt your cognitive abilities.
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Obviously not.
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There is a large line on cars trying to get off at an offramp or merging. Instead of cooperating and getting in line behind them you defect, drive to the last possible merge point and force your way in because "zipper merges are more efficient". (I disagree personally, but if we could solve the coordination problem I would prefer zipper merges. Since we can't you are just being an asshole and negatively effecting everyone else for your own personal gain.)
Basically all of my thoughts are based on the fact that driving is especially dangerous and probably the most dangerous thing people regularly do. People don't give it anywhere the respect they should. It doesn't make any sense to drive aggressively and unsafely to save 30 seconds on your 15 minute+ commute.
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12d ago
Destiny has been banned from twitch for a long time. No one knows why. Best guess is he called some people trying to cancel him that happened be trans "sub-human".
He streams on youtube and Kick.
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30d ago
I recently watched a video of a guy making penicillin. Unless I'm really missing something I don't see how you could safely produce it at any sort of reasonable scale without countless advancements in in dozens of fields from glassmaking, chemistry, genetics, germ theory, etc. Even with the knowledge of the 1930s it took them two decades from discovery to use it effectively.
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1mo ago
I think your thesis is is worthless because it is both wrong and vapid. Any LARP that doesn't amount to anything? Well they just weren't determined enough to do it longer. It is completely unfalsifiable in the same way as a conspiracy theory normally is. And it doesn't matter how determined and for how long the cargo cults worship John Frum--the cargo is not coming back and it hasn't turned into something more.
Though I think if I take the essence of the idea it can still be applied in some cases. I'm thinking more of the transformations of the norms of communities though. Take for example both Something Awful's forums and 4chan (years ago). Both were places where being edgy and transgressive through things like being as offensive as possible was the norm as a form of counter-culture of contrarianism. Then on SA some people started being meta-contrarian (contrarian to the prevailing board culture), but were probably not being really sincere. Then other people that were not in on the joke followed along and eventually it turned into the neo-puritan society complete with witchhunts that was completely ideologically opposed to the site that the forum is based off of and the entire rest of the forums. Then this spread to /r/srs and snowballed further and further and now the modal progressive on Bluesky would be absolutely horrified that the origins of their ideology was incubated on a site that made fun of JeffK.
4chan had a similar culture and was initially made up of Something Awful diaspora. However, instead of the contraposition becoming the dominate culture the racism-as-shibboleth attracted enough honest racists that were not in on the joke. Eventually, it became enough of a problem that they were quarantined to /pol/, but this obviously did not contain them. And in a very similar way you can still see the echoes of this in various parts of the online right, but I don't think they are particularly ashamed of it.
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1yr ago
The Endocrine Society's guildelines and WPATH's guidelines are the most cited and beloved by most activist groups.
Both of them also use GRADE.
The Endocrine Society's clearly indicate the strength of evidence for each of their guidelines and nearly all of them are listed as "very low quality evidence" or "low quality evidence". In the evidence sections they often clearly mention and discuss the studied that support their findings
WPATH is a lot less transparent in their evaluations. They say that anything listed as "we recommend" has high quality evidence and nearly all of their statements are "we recommend". Most of the time things are just mentioned and then they list various citations, without any actual discussion of the specific study. Nevertheless, they say they are evaluating them an adapted GRADE approach.
Neither of them spend much time justifying their use of GRADE.
I have never seen either of these criticized for using GRADE. It is only when the Cass review also uses GRADE, but has conclusions different than those that someone already agreed with is it called into question. This is clearly motivated reasoning and tendentious.
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2yr ago
HN has always been anti-woke. There are certainly woke-affiliated people that post and complain about the "orange hellsite" like tqbf, but they've never had a majority holding.
I think you would be hard-pressed to find any thread that has significant interaction being largely pro-woke.
As such, I don't understand your assertion that a community reacting the same way it has always reacted signals a shift in the zeitgeist.
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2yr ago
In the volunteer workflow there is a link to the rules, but the target is localhost/rules which obviously is useless.
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2yr ago
I hated American Factory. They could have made a decent documentary, but instead made a profoundly stupid circlejerk.
This town is completely devastated because of the loss of manufacturing jobs. Factory starts up and offers decent pay, but not as good as before when labour was worth a premium because it was scarce. People still have financial trouble because of debt/medical issues. Somehow this is the factory's fault. Very unironic Cophenhagen ethics. We'll mention that the factory cost billions of dollars that have yet to be paid off and is operating at a loss every month once and somehow never actually internalize what that means. They are just greedy businessmen that aren't paying the workers what they are worth.
They intersperse interviews with mainland China workers that have conditions 10x worse than the American ones, but have zero empathy for their plight. Chinese guy talks about how he has worked 996 and never seen his family for 5 years. American guy complaining that he only gets $25 an hour. American guy talking about how they only get an 8 minute break every hour out of some really hot place in a factory, cut to Chinese guy saying they have 12 hour shifts in the hot area where they aren't allowed to leave at all.
They start getting into the union organizing/busting bit. They paid these consultants $200k to come in and do some union busting. It would have cost less to give everyone that worked there $.50 more an hour for a single month. No, I don't understand the difference between a one-time cost and increasing a recurring cost like labour. I will repeat this same argument ten times throughout the movie because I clearly think it is a slamdunk.
They actually give everyone modest pay raises and other concessions that people were pushing for ahead of the union vote. This clearly means they are evil because what the workers truly need is not better conditions and pay, but a union.
It is really awful because you could have taken what they had and made a good movie, but instead made something that only appeals to someone that already agrees with all of their positions. Hell, I'm on board with 90% of what they want and hated it still.
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2yr ago
I think you should look into what ARBCOM is.
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They have absolutely zero influence on the Wikimedia Foundation or any of their funding decisions. As much as possible they are not involved in the substance of any editing decisions and are all about behavior. Even if the entire committee was ideologically aligned with you they would not accomplish any of the things you think they have the ability to.
This is like saying we should make sure Catholic umpires are hired by the MLB so a salary cap can be implemented.
It seems like what you actually care about is Board elections which happened a few months ago.
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2yr ago
I think you have an extremely warped perception of the Twin Galaxies situation. Most people in high score/speedrun communities knew the site was a total joke for over a decade. Countless people tried to have clearly fraudulent scores/times removed, but most of the time the administration was unwilling to budge. There were a few successful cases where people got things corrected, but they largely gave up. Also, for them to even let you challenge any score you had to have one submitted yourself which meant you had to pay them money and send them a run recorded on VHS and only VHS when people had long since moved on to DVD recorders or a Dazzle.
Here is a SDA thread about TG from 2007
"When twin galaxies repeatedly goes out of its way to explain how they are the official authority on gaming records, they are definately attacking every other game records site. I think that alienates a lot of people (me included). And it annoys me that they have really really shitty records (some of their arcade/console score attacks are laughable), and empty tables of records."
"I wouldn't worry about TG. It seems people who know about speedrunning and high-scoring know better than to go to TG for anything "official.""
"The last time I looked at TG, they said the fastest time in Metroid Prime was 5 minutes. Doesn't sound that official to me." The current record is 44 minutes game time, 1 hour:4 minutes real time. These times have a decade's worth more of optimization and glitches found and the Twin Galaxies rulesets disallow all glitches.
The nerdy people did know it was bullshit.
My state just has (fairly new) laws that say that if you are going slower than the flow of traffic you have to be in the right-most lane and that if you are in the left lane and someone wants to overtake you that you must move over when it is safe to do so. Our signs are like "Slower traffic keep right". Other states have stricter laws.
Like here is a bit from Texas's handbook "Watch for signs on Texas multi-lane highways that read “Left Lane For Passing Only.” These signs let you know that the left lane on a divided highway is not a “fast” lane. It is a passing lane. After you pass someone, move back into the right lane once you’ve safely cleared the vehicle. Impeding the flow of traffic by continuing to drive in the left lane is punishable by a fine of up to $200."
That seems pretty clear about only using the left hand lane for actively passing someone and to move back immediately and not just you can use the left lane as long as you are going faster. If you are going 65 mph and there are 10 cars ahead of you spaced 10 car lengths apart it prescribes that you are in the right lane, then move to the left lane, pass the first car, move to the right lane, catch up to the next car, move to the left lane, pass the car, move to the right lane... in a bizarre game of leapfrog that is incredibly unsafe.
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