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- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 3 hours ago:
Disappointing but not surprising that the chosen solution to increasing swaths of the population no longer being supported by our economy is concentration camps. I honestly don’t think it’s that far fetched that the endgame here is they literally kill us all while acting like it’s our own fault, and the America of the future is just robots and genetic clones of billionaires.
- Comment on well? 3 days ago:
What’s wrong about it? It seems like the obvious assumption that running into intelligent alien civilizations would be extremely dangerous.
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 3 days ago:
What are the criticisms? Genuinely curious, have no idea what problems anyone might have with it, other than some quotes from the Ubisoft exec trying to act like implementing user run servers is borderline impossible
- Comment on Types of Smart People 1 week ago:
Someone can lack education but be pretty mentally sharp in some cognitive tasks regardless
There is absolutely a difference between education and being smart.
These statements aren’t in disagreement
- Comment on "Quell your rage" must be lesson 1 in how to internet 2 weeks ago:
Never read the article—why bother when the title is all you need to fuel your righteous fury?
Unfortunately you can’t even really blame people when it’s all paywalled and you have to know the extra steps (or be rich and subscribe to 100 online newspapers) to be able to actually obtain the text.
- Comment on YSK about StopICE.net to send and receive alerts about ICE raids in your area 2 weeks ago:
Does this website have an onion mirror?
- Comment on This column does not express support for Palestine Action – here’s why 2 weeks ago:
This is why, as a legal principle, freedom of speech can’t be contingent on things like the definition of terrorism. Governments must be prohibited from shutting up protestors.
- Comment on YSK Texas Officials Feared Flood Risk to Youth Camps but Rejected Warning System 2 weeks ago:
Also we’re talking about a life-critical system here. What kind of testing and certification are offered by this software. What about the assembly of the hardware?
All irrelevant if the alternative is nothing at all.
- Comment on YSK Texas Officials Feared Flood Risk to Youth Camps but Rejected Warning System 2 weeks ago:
Even then I don’t see why something like this wouldn’t work. If not, you could spend 100x more money and still be nowhere close to a million.
- Comment on YSK Texas Officials Feared Flood Risk to Youth Camps but Rejected Warning System 2 weeks ago:
flood warning systems are often simple networks of rain gauges or stream gauges that are triggered when rain or floodwaters exceed a certain level.
The gauges can then be used to warn those at risk of flooding, whether by text message, which may not be effective in areas with spotty cellphone service; notifications broadcast on TV and radio; or sometimes through a series of sirens.
It doesn’t seem like a basic solution should even cost nearly that much.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 2 weeks ago:
Sure, but this is more addressed to the people who do not intend to go vegan, but are considering replacing the red meat in their diet with other meat for ethical reasons.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 2 weeks ago:
the conditions of meat chickens living in cages is the reason why bird flu spread so much
There is actually a bad epidemic in wild birds recently, and there is a big risk of it transferring from them to chicken flocks when they have access to the same space.
One cow with a low quality of life imo is less ethical than a bunch of chickens with a decent quality of life, even if we consider numbers.
I guess that makes sense, if you can make an animal’s life good overall, in that situation maybe it wouldn’t be a net negative to farm more of them. Though realistically I think it’s going to be very difficult to have any confidence you’re buying such meat at the grocery (if you can even afford the stuff claiming to be more ethical) and you’d probably have to raise the animals yourself for that.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 2 weeks ago:
but it’s a lot easier to have free range chickens than it is to have cows doing the same.
I don’t know about that, it’s pretty difficult to keep (what I would consider) genuinely free range chickens because of predators and various other factors, and the commercial definition of free range doesn’t necessarily guarantee a good quality of life. There’s also how meat chickens are mostly all a specific type of crossbreed that is perpetually hungry, prone to cannibalism and health problems, and not meant to live longer than a few months.
But even if you could say that the average chicken raised for meat is better off than the average cow raised for meat, there’s still how you need vastly more of them for the same amount of meat, so if their lives are still a net negative and you’re weighing it by sum of individual experiences, it could be considered worse from a utilitarian perspective because of the numbers.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 2 weeks ago:
I personally don’t eat red meat, and I agree it’s worse for climate change, but I’ve heard the argument that meat from larger animals is more ethical, because to get the same amount of meat from smaller animals means a much larger number of them have to die, and I’m not sure how to weigh that against the climate, assuming that someone isn’t going to give up meat entirely.
- Comment on If I found voter irregularities in my home district do I have to hire a lawyer to prove it.? Or just let it go and the Florida Orange win? 2 weeks ago:
Could this be done such that a person cannot prove that they voted a certain way (the source of the problems people mention, like vote selling becoming viable)?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Well what I’m seeing in this thread is two metrics, BLS and LISEP, with the argument being that the distinction between them doesn’t matter because unemployment is right now historically low by both measures (I don’t really know the difference between them myself, or whether these are the only meaningful ways to measure it). And you’re reiterating that there exists some measure where it is high, but I think for that to be a convincing counterargument you would need to say more about what that measure is, show that unemployment is high by that measure, and make an argument why that way of measuring things is more relevant than the other ones.
- Comment on Micro-retirement 2 weeks ago:
Why not a one to two year break?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
The comments you’re responding to are not making that kind of general argument though, they are only talking about whether a specific claim makes sense.
- Comment on US debt is now $37trn – should we be worried? 2 weeks ago:
You kind of need it for some programs (traditional roguelikes, some media players adjust the volume with numpad keys) so I wouldn’t want to go without it myself, but to each their own I suppose
- Comment on US debt is now $37trn – should we be worried? 2 weeks ago:
The lack of a numpad on that keyboard is what sticks out to me
- Comment on Everybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing. 3 weeks ago:
I think a lot of the time “beliefs” are more about social signaling than actual worldview. Most people aren’t going to do anything to go against the grain for the sake of their beliefs, so one belief or another isn’t going to make a difference for anything that matters.
- Comment on Having the ability to lie and manipulate with no remorse will get you much further in this world than having morals and being correct 3 weeks ago:
Your other comments in this thread seem to contradict that a little, at least the idea that these harms or benefits would be visible enough to you to evaluate, since you claim to have switched positions when they started becoming more visible and something you would have had to engage with directly. For software in particular, you empower your users to do whatever they happen to choose to do with it.
Which isn’t to say you’re doing the wrong thing. I just see the economy as a whole as an inherently cannibalistic system we have little choice but to be a contributing part of one way or another, with the main form of meaningful available agency being to minimize involvement rather than choosing how to be involved.
- Comment on Having the ability to lie and manipulate with no remorse will get you much further in this world than having morals and being correct 3 weeks ago:
I feel like that has got to be pretty difficult unless you include jobs where you are personally isolated from and ignorant of the harmful things the company you contribute to is doing
- Comment on Is WW3 more likely to accelerate or slow down anthropogenic climate change? 3 weeks ago:
Yes, but the opposite way you might be thinking since mass death from war and other catastrophe is strongly correlated with very high birth rates. We’re on track for the global population to stabilize around 10 billion right now, but if billions die in a world war we will probably go exponential again for a long time.
- Comment on So if we're just good with careening into fascism 2.0 what does the future look like? 3 weeks ago:
I would like that to be true, but I don’t think the numbers really support it, at least for the approval rating:
Last updated on July 2nd 2025
He was 6th lowest approved president ever for his first term, but that was with an approval rating of 34%, which is lower than it is currently. Top 3 are Truman, Nixon, and Bush, with 22,24,25% respectively.
- Comment on China is cracking down on young women who write gay erotica 3 weeks ago:
The article makes the argument that it is overtly anti queer:
The law targets “explicit descriptions of gay sex or other sexual perversions”. Heterosexual depictions often have more leeway - works by acclaimed Chinese authors, including Nobel Laureate Mo Yan, have graphic sexual scenes, but are widely available.
Although authors of heterosexual erotica have been jailed in China, observers say the genre is subjected to far less censorship. Gay erotica, which is more subversive, seems to bother authorities more. Volunteers in a support group for the Haitang writers told the BBC police even questioned some readers.
- Comment on Wealth of Global 1% Has Skyrocketed by Over $33 Trillion Since 2015: Report 4 weeks ago:
It’s more that the squeeze is done on your behalf, than that it is not required
- Comment on Dreamsettler, the follow-up to early internet inspired browser game Hypnospace Outlaw, has been cancelled 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 4 weeks ago:
This is a multiplayer freemium game though, I don’t think there are any cracked servers for it, and supposedly there are options for Epic users to retain their accounts with things they’ve bought (the game is also apparently kind of p2w).
- Comment on Researchers create method for converting urine into high-value bio-implant material 5 weeks ago:
that converts urine from wastewater
[into]…
a $3.5 billion industry
Wait so they’re just going to steal our pee and not even pay us for it
