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yofuckreddit
2m ago
Bro come on. At some point a parent has to take responsibility here. Why would anyone let their kids just hop onto these websites without doing basic due diligence or educating them on the reality of predators?
If a platform provides robust parental controls then they've done enough, full stop. The baton of responsibility is passed.
Primaprimaprima
I am trying so hard not to say the MBTI type of everyone I reply to
4m ago
Empirical psychology has little interest in characterizing phenomenological states in general, especially phenomenological states that have no relevance to any identifiable and treatable medical condition, so it's unsurprising that the vocabulary for describing these states remains underdeveloped. This is a task that has traditionally been left to philosophy.
Heidegger's Being and Time explores these themes in depth (both the experience of "everydayness" and the ways in which this experience is modified by anxiety), if you found the topic so interesting that you were inspired to approach such a mammoth tome.
I've recently been reflecting on this very topic for my own independent reasons. Although I've certainly never had anything as dramatic as a "disassociative episode", I can relate to a general feeling of being... never entirely present for things. Almost entirely present, at times. But rarely entirely so. And I'm curious about the extent to which this represents a real distinction between the experience of different individuals, or if people might just be talking past each other (since we cannot directly become another person to verify the nature of their experience).
Just out of curiosity faceh, how vivid and comprehensive would you say that your memory (of personal events) is in general?
PropagandaOfTheDude
8m ago
All-in would not fall under "boring". I'm pretty much looking for different ways to manage sequence-of-returns risks, before I pull the trigger on retirement.
JarJarJedi
9m ago
Coinbase accounts are custodial accounts, which means they hold they keys and you just see the numbers on the website. You don't actually own any crypto, you just trust them to own it for you. Which may be ok for many people, but if that bothers you then you should get a real crypto wallet and hold your own keys. The danger here is that if you mess it up you could either lose the coins completely or get them stolen from you. Coinbase Wallet is one example of non-custodial wallet, though I am not sure how good it is (I personally prefer offline hardware wallets).
JarJarJedi
14m ago
What is the boring approach do that
Dollar cost averaging. Takes time though (and of course the time to start were like 10 years ago :) You can either buy regular BTC (combined with cold-wallet storage, that protects you from certain third-party risks, remember - not you keys means not your coins) or if you're only interested on hedging and not owning actual BTC, then ETFs of course. There's a bunch of them from reputable providers now (I don't use them but I've heard about them). Look at the feeds - some ETFs for some reason have insane fees, over 1%, which is totally not warranted given they don't do anything but holding BTC. I see no reason to use those, use cheaper ones instead.
PropagandaOfTheDude
15m ago
I view the custody concern only in terms of "my financial advisor stole everything and disappeared". At the scale of those ETFs, I don't see the bitcoin assets being significantly different from any other assets under management. That page looks helpful, thank you.
Tanista
20m ago
Canada’s constitutional system and political deadlock make major reform of human rights law that would allow for mass deportations (which would require packing the Supreme Court, which has rules about who can be elevated that limit it to the almost entirely progressive judiciary) effectively impossible.
The government can bypass the Courts even on issues of fundamental rights. Poilevre threatened this as a way to get round judges blocking penalties for criminals.
So, theoretically, a Canadian PM could come in and just hit ignore every time the judiciary tries to interfere with their immigration law. But this has never happened and I don't even know how people would react if it did.
JarJarJedi
20m ago
Has anyone discovered a way to let it be openly known that you don’t agree with the group problematizing social norm, while still being accepted into the group
This is literally impossible. Not going to happen. If they are into culture where you know what your running club members thing about current politics, and on top of that that they belong to a totalitarizing purity-obsessed ideology, you are not going to change their minds. You can either suck it up and learn to make a mysterious face if you don't feel comfortable openly lying, or you find another group to run with. There wouldn't be "just running" with them.
If you can't find any group that is not infected, the only advice I can have for you is to move. There's a lot of life outside of woke clusters, and a lot of very nice, interesting and different people. You are not going to change the culture but you can choose which culture you're part of.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
21m ago
Do we have to guarantee that absolutely zero contact with children of any kind is had by that person to be reasonably sure they don't have opportunities to diddle them?
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
25m ago
The problem being that except for a fairly small number of jobs, there’s no way to prevent this person from having contact with children. Warehouses might be about the only low-skill job available where you could guarantee that at no time is he in contact with a child. As far as professionals, most of them are public contact jobs, so again he’ll be able to contact children.
JarJarJedi
28m ago
I've been to LA recently and I wonder if anybody here knows the answer to this: one thing I noticed there is a lot of people selling clothes (and other things but mostly clothes and shoes) on the street. And I mean right on a random street (maybe not random, but looked random to me), not even a tent, nothing, just some hangers or tarps and clothes and shoes on them. A lot of those.
Who are they? Why are they doing it on the street? Where these clothes come from - are they stolen? I have hard time imagining legit wholesaler giving people their goods to just sell randomly on the street - but maybe I'm wrong? What is the basis for this business, how that works? How people wouldn't just steal all the clothes if they steal massively from regular retail shops - are the criminals providing security for them? Or maybe corrupt cops? No regular cops for sure since I haven't seen a single policeman around for all the time I've been in LA.
I've never seen such a thing in any other major city that I can remember. I've seen kinda grey marketplaces or genuine street markets, but those are always in certain designated places and usually have at least some infrastructure, not just randomly deployed on the street. Why this is specifically in LA?
GBRK
37m ago
Building a wall is a little silly. I'm pro-immigration, but in this case that l means I think the amerian military should immigrate into ottowa and annex it. Canadians are very aware that they aren't a real country-- this is the obvious solution to that.
faceh
58m ago
lol there are a lot of potential scifi analogues.
Like the MeSeeks from Rick and Morty.
But I'd reiterate my point. The ethical issues mostly arise when you assume that their mental conditioning is NOT 100% effective and that it might occur to them to do something different.
If you've got a creature in front of you that WANTS to do taxes, enjoys doing taxes, wants to want to do taxes, and doesn't ever think there's anything wrong with that... and isn't otherwise causing itself harm due to some secondary effect of the programming, I don't think you're obligated to do anything other than facilitate their ability to keep doing taxes as long as that is relevant.
But I do think that's where we're starting to lose the analogy to AI, since we kind of know less about their individual internals than we do about human's.
Hyperreality, I think. The opposite of derealization, which is part of a dissociative disorder.
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