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- Comment on Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do? 4 days ago:
Maybe a manual dial to cycle through the available nearby vehicles then. The idea is just that there should be a way for it to be clear who you are contacting and where their vehicle is on the road relative to yours.
- Comment on With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil" 5 days ago:
My interpretation of Book of Job is God and Satan are in a toxic relationship where they egg each other on to fuck with people so you shouldn’t trust either of them.
- Comment on Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do? 6 days ago:
I just want a way to save the chicken :(
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- Comment on What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence? 1 week ago:
I don’t know but now I’m wondering, do the Greek gods qualify?
- Comment on Democratic contender for Congress indicted over Chicago ICE protests - Progressive Palestinian American candidate Kat Abughazaleh, 26, decries ‘gross attempt at silencing dissent’ 1 week ago:
This is the stuff candidates for congress should be doing, hopefully Illinois voters see it that way too
- Comment on Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, sure, it’s all about individual success, nevermind the actual population level trends, it’s all on you to figure out some way to afford your life.
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive” 2 weeks ago:
When I see this type of thing my default assumption is the actual source is ChatGPT. The article is attributed to “the editorial team” but that link just goes to a list of other articles and credits no-one. But somehow they’re putting out like 20 a day, all of them similarly lacking sources or authors, and only linking to other articles on the same site.
- Comment on Fml lmao 2 weeks ago:
It’s ok, Bush made sure the government backs a lender’s investment by ensuring those loans are an inescapable weight students can never escape, no need to do risk analysis.
- Comment on Same betting app you can bet on the impacts of climate change, promoting gambling on a collapsing government 2 weeks ago:
it’s in their own interest to not divulge the whole picture.
Could you give an example? Do you mean they will fail to report or falsify the real prices, or something else? I’ll admit I like the idea of actually decentralized betting markets more (wish Augur had gotten big instead of platforms like Polymarket), but something that egregious seems like it would be tough to get away with without people noticing.
- Comment on Should we treat environmental crime more like murder? 2 weeks ago:
What the author seems to be proposing is something like true crime media but for environmental crimes.
And if you’re tempted to turn around and say that environmental crimes don’t happen because of individuals, but because of “the system”, I hear you. Social structures, ideologies and politics have a profound impact on human behaviour. Using this term – the system – can feel like a profound contribution to a difficult discussion, underpinned by the desire not to over simplify. But exactly who, or what, is the system?
A serial killer also lives in a society, and we can blame society for any hardships they may have faced. But if on a true-crime show I were to simply cite “the system” as a motive for murder, people would want me to be more precise. We understand that choices are involved, and motives are personal, not just systemic. Otherwise, wouldn’t we all be criminals?
Seems like a cool idea.
- Comment on Same betting app you can bet on the impacts of climate change, promoting gambling on a collapsing government 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure what you mean, in this case the definition of public would be anyone who can see the state of the market (everyone), and so can see when insider trading visibly moves the price. The idea being that doing the insider trading unavoidably leaks the information in this way, they can’t hide it unless they can manage to actually prevent all insiders from trading on their inside knowledge.
- Comment on New Study: Global Fertility Rate Decline Now Linked Directly to the Commodification of Housing 3 weeks ago:
All of the source links have
?utm_source=chatgpt.com
at the end, pretty sure the article itself is just a LLM bullshitting, especially with how vague it is and never directly cites anything.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
That definitely makes it worse
- Comment on Same betting app you can bet on the impacts of climate change, promoting gambling on a collapsing government 3 weeks ago:
An argument I’ve heard for allowing this is, at least it means the public will have more reliable advance information, since insiders are incentivized to bet on what they know will happen in order to take everyone else’s money, which happens before that information gets into the news.
- Comment on Anyone remember Heroes of Might & Magic 3? A remake is coming 4 weeks ago:
I remember spending a very long time trying to download a demo of that game over dialup, was absolutely worth it
- Comment on Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years 4 weeks ago:
I’m not exactly arguing against that, I am suggesting taking steps to tank their price and discourage using them as a store of wealth.
- Comment on Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years 4 weeks ago:
That’s closer to trying to ban speculative investment. I guess my opinion on this is just that this type of approach won’t work as well, because keeping people from participating in the market isn’t a direct way to move the market. And what needs to happen is, lower housing prices and regular people having greater proportional purchasing power, so the best focus would be to give investors strong incentives to sell, increase supply, and redistribute wealth.
- Comment on Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years 4 weeks ago:
Should 10x property taxes on non-primary-residences, and split the proceeds between subsidizing construction of new housing and being distributed as a UBI. Would be better than trying to ban speculative investment in housing outright, because it would be attacking the underlying market factors instead of telling investors they can’t try to make a profit.
- Comment on VTuber Graduation 4 weeks ago:
Embezzlement/fraud iirc. But it was small proportionally in total viewership: Image
The real comparison would probably be between corporate and independent vtubers overall.
- Comment on For when arguments go off the bottom of The Debate Pyramid 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think the additional levels quite fit. From the original blog post:
The most obvious advantage of classifying the forms of disagreement is that it will help people to evaluate what they read. In particular, it will help them to see through intellectually dishonest arguments. An eloquent speaker or writer can give the impression of vanquishing an opponent merely by using forceful words. In fact that is probably the defining quality of a demagogue. By giving names to the different forms of disagreement, we give critical readers a pin for popping such balloons.
The bottom two aren’t really themselves arguments. They aren’t things you read and then make a decision whether to take seriously, but rather means of controlling what you read to begin with. So while there is reason to criticize these practices, their inclusion muddles the scope of the message. The scope of the message is important, because the ideal of free expression has become more controversial since it was written in 2008, and it’s not itself a defense of free expression, more of a proposed heuristic for getting more out of a debate with the assumption that you are approaching that debate with the intention of improving your rational understanding of something or leading others to a rational understanding.
IMO arguments about censorship and violence need to be made separately, because the value of that approach (as opposed to words being valued mainly as persuasive weapons) is in question and has to be addressed.
- Comment on For when arguments go off the bottom of The Debate Pyramid 5 weeks ago:
Until you physically can’t communicate anymore, it’s always an option to keep trying.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 5 weeks ago:
I am streaming my music but not like that, allow me to flex my custom setup: Image
- Comment on U.S. gov't mulls tariffing devices based on the number of chips used and their estimated value — policy would impact nearly every type of electronic device 5 weeks ago:
One thing that changed is increased powers of state surveillance and record keeping. Taxes used to be a much blunter tool because of limits on reliable and organized information.
- Comment on U.S. gov't mulls tariffing devices based on the number of chips used and their estimated value — policy would impact nearly every type of electronic device 5 weeks ago:
The tariffs might not be the best way to go about it, but is anyone denying that chip manufacturing is an increasingly important factor in geopolitical power? Why would whoever replaces Trump just let those businesses die?
- Comment on So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*? 1 month ago:
So it seems like it’s something about politics but I’m not clear what you mean, like what’s an “arithmetic bubble”?
- Comment on How could I order a package without my parents finding it? 1 month ago:
I have read that this is actually a bad idea because the post office people know which addresses are vacant and know that it’s likely an illegal package because lots of people have that idea.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 1 month ago:
If that’s what’s available I will argue it’s still a better option, because it’s isolated. You can make transactions with QR codes and do nothing with the device except run the wallet app, which removes most options for an attacker, including some that could work on a hardware wallet (ie. more complex transactions where it doesn’t display enough info about what is happening to know not to approve it).
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 1 month ago:
At this point people should not keep substantial amounts of crypto on their main PC anymore. Either get a hardware wallet or an old smartphone or other device to dedicate to that purpose and not install anything else on it.
- Comment on "Pro-life" and "pro-choice" aren't actually opposite positions 1 month ago:
It’s more like a separate consideration than a part of the same spectrum, because these are just priorities that happen to contradict each other. In theory you could be both pro-choice and pro-life and try to optimize for both, making some degree of legal allowances for people to choose abortions but propagandizing against actually doing so and doing things like promoting sex education, the use of birth control, and poverty reduction that would decrease the rate of abortions. Or have a Zardoz esque ideology and be against both.
Of course most of the time pro-life seems to just be a euphemism, since people who are against the right to an abortion tend to not otherwise be concerned with things that make people more likely to choose abortions. They mostly just don’t want women to have an out for what they see as the rightful consequences of having sex.
