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- Comment on Maybe the trauma you experienced is actually just you being bored and thrill-seeking in an immersive VR story, and you'll wake up and everything will be fine... right? ... Right? 3 days ago:
Was my joke so bad?
But seriously, everything will be fine.
Have you tried letting go of your attachments?
- Comment on Haste/Impatience should have been one of the deadly sins. 5 days ago:
and as a way of interacting with thoughts.
Better?
But then, are numbers real?
- Comment on Haste/Impatience should have been one of the deadly sins. 6 days ago:
No, not that summary.
(Please excuse that quip)
There is a difference between the usage of the story as explanation of the physical reality and as a way of interacting with the spiritual reality.
Law works because we assume free will while there is not much room for it. Similarly, a society can be constructed by telling more elaborate stories. Those stories don’t have to be true but they can be formed by many hours of critical thought.
- Comment on If the protests in Iran win/topple the government what will it look like immediately afterwards? Also what would be the good or bad about installing a monarchy again? 6 days ago:
My guess is that it is about establishing this supply line for a war with China and Russia.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Anglo-Soviet_invasion_of_Iran
I can’t imagine that the protests succeed. If they do there would be a power vacuum which should allow for the independence of the Kurdish and Azerbaijani regions and maybe also of smaller regions of other minorities. Contested land, e.g. with Qatar or Iraq could also be taken.
- Comment on we need more users 6 days ago:
I would do it myself but I can’t get an AI to code apps
Ask the app devs. They know how to easily set a default. There can still be an option to change the account and server deep down in a menu.
Their win is that if that modified app becomes popular it essentially still is their app and they will attract new developers and support.
- Comment on Haste/Impatience should have been one of the deadly sins. 6 days ago:
www.lesswrong.com/w/chesterton-s-fence
Very little critical thought went in to the construction of that belief system.
What’s your argument for that?
- Comment on Self-hosting in 2025 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure 1 week ago:
The Connection: Use Tailscale.
Be prepared that this can be shut down.
There is no way around talking with politicians and other citizens to make sure that human rights and democracy is not further abandoned.
- Comment on 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space 1 week ago:
3.5" were peak tactile feedback
I hear you
- Comment on Unquestionably high class 1 week ago:
Not the real king’s hands without chocolate glazing.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination 1 week ago:
things look differently…
… to the masses. That’s why we are getting chat control.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination 1 week ago:
Would you have $100 for your future? The population could bring the bribes.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination 1 week ago:
But many things are quietly changing around the world while Americans
But many things are quietly changing around the world by Americans
Trump is not a lone mad man. Consider that the US can have coordinated their steps with western elites. E.g. why else would they have reacted indifferent to Venezuela?
- Comment on Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination 1 week ago:
We need to realise that the status quo is not what we had two years ago
We need to realise that the status quo is what we had two years ago!
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 week ago:
That would be a straight up declaration of war
That nobody fights because at least the German military is going to rely on Google servers.
- Comment on Insider trading, but make it worse 1 week ago:
Till Jan 5th or earlier would have been suspicious. Jan 31 is the safe bet. The US had sent a carrier group and some people mentioned that the costs dictate that they had to act within one month.
- Comment on Insider trading, but make it worse 1 week ago:
That’s the point of those platforms, to bribe the people with that knowledge to reveal it.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 2 weeks ago:
It can be solved if we acknowledge the wet spots in front of public urinals. Too many men can’t aim and should sit anyway.
- Comment on Deeper babe 2 weeks ago:
Read up about Atlantis. There is no excuse for not knowing.
- Comment on Belief 2 weeks ago:
That’s what I mean. Somebody made them do it, one way or the other.
- Comment on Belief 2 weeks ago:
In the same way that adults knowing what they do should rise. Some people really know how to manipulate the masses.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 2 weeks ago:
I can’t believe that a madman could decide to remake global economic relations on his own.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 2 weeks ago:
Only that chances are that it’s the other way round. Trump was installed to sell the tariffs to the world.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 2 weeks ago:
Trump using tariffs to balance trade of goods is out in the open. That should end exceptionalism. But they ignore services so it’s not entirely even.
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 2 weeks ago:
1971:
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 2 weeks ago:
All the graphs:
- Comment on The ID_10_ts 3 weeks ago:
Weren’t there 1000 FBI agents working on those files? Shouldn’t at least one of them know?
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 4 weeks ago:
There exist some horror stories about the code but I have no idea how to find them.
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 4 weeks ago:
This is written as if a taskbar were a complex piece of software.
Google for stories about how it is configured or built. The old taskbar was endlessly complex.
- Comment on Of course there is. 4 weeks ago:
Have you thought about restarting it here?
- Comment on Of course there is. 4 weeks ago:
Reverse it:
What’s the worst for meth addicts? Tolerance.