orcrist
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- Comment on Holocaust Memorial Day Trust | The ten stages of genocide 1 day ago:
It’s clear that Israel has bigger guns. Why would you even mention that? The question here is morality, not munitions.
By the way, how many of the dead actually wished for all Jews to die? Of course most of them didn’t. Of course most of them just wanted to live their lives in peace. Sigh.
- Comment on Holocaust Memorial Day Trust | The ten stages of genocide 1 day ago:
My friend, you can define words however you like, but the numbers of dead bodies won’t change because of it.
- Comment on Mean world syndrome has reacted a fever pitch. 1 week ago:
It’s not just about whether they’re safe for statistically, although of course that’s true, but also to point out that there’s the extra mental burden of keeping track of that safety aspect.
- Comment on Will I ever be seen as truly British? 1 week ago:
The racists and xenophobes will never accept you. There’s no fixing some people’s brains. The good thing is, especially as you get older and able to do various kinds of work, you don’t have to associate with those kinds of jerks very often. It’s your community, it’s your country, and they don’t get to be the gatekeepers of who counts as local, no matter how hard they try.
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 week ago:
“So I guess this is where I tell you what I learned - my conclusion, right? Well, my conclusion is: Hate is baggage. Life’s too short to be pissed off all the time. It’s just not worth it.” ― American History X
“I am not altogether on anybody’s side, because nobody is altogether on my side, if you understand me: nobody cares for the woods as I care for them, not even Elves nowadays.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 week ago:
Liberals are not leftists. You can choose your own definitions, but I would say that many so-called liberals are actually pro-capitalist anti-worker centrists. And the center is not so far from the center-right. So many liberals don’t hate conservatives. On the other hand, many conservatives bundle liberals and leftists together, because complexity is so irritating, making it easy to hate the entire group (even though it’s actually at least two groups).
And quite obviously, many liberals and leftists hate some conservatives. You aren’t alone. That being said, hate is an emotion, and however you feel is totally fine because it’s your life. At the same time, hate itself is not constructive. Many people read and write about politics online because we want to learn about or change our world. If the content you’re creating doesn’t help with either of those goals, some people are going to ignore or down vote it.
Anyway, your community is surely out there, if you keep looking.
- Comment on Why does the government of the USA stand by the country of Israel? 2 weeks ago:
That depends who in the government you’re asking about. Every branch has their own motivation. For example, the military likes conflict happening elsewhere. Politicians want to be reelected. Racists like it when Arabs and Jews kill each other. And so on.
(Of course that’s a vast simplification, but you gotta at least say who you are talking about to get a meaningful answer.)
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 3 weeks ago:
Big businesses are perfectly capable of releasing financial documents indicating what branches are making and losing money. If they don’t do so, there’s a good reason for it. Often that reason involves them doing things that are either shady or lying to the public about what’s actually happening.
We should not give them the benefit of the doubt in situations like this, because we would only be feeding their manipulation tactics.
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 3 weeks ago:
If you’re paying for SMS then it’s only because there are enough people like you. Sending email is free, or using Facebook or Instagram messaging, those are also free. If companies are charging for SMS it’s because they know that people like you are locked in.
And I’m not blaming you, because it’s hard when you have to change how you communicate, especially when a lot of the people around you are set in their ways.
- Comment on XMPP as a Discord alternative for small group? 1 month ago:
Prosody claims to support Message Archive Management and HTTP file sharing, sounds like the feature you want, or at least it is close.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I hear you. At the same time, minimum wage also ties into laws against wage theft. So maybe we shouldn’t take it off the shelf for a good long while, at least until wage theft can be cut to reasonably low levels. Good luck to us on that front, though.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I don’t see any need to abolish minimum wage. The pressures that you’re talking about would allow people to quit those horrible minimum wage jobs, but there’s no strong argument for saying that the minimum wage itself should go away.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
If UBI is pegged to inflation, what you wrote cannot happen. And it ignores the other economic pressure: if people have UBI, they won’t waste their lives on horrible minimum wage jobs, which will lead to exciting goodness for millions.
- Comment on Why don't we hear more about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting? It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, we never found a motive, and it seems no one ever mentions it. 2 months ago:
One life is that much, though.
- Comment on AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants 2 months ago:
This is not “AI”. This is “key word filtering”. It’s been done for decades. Why, tech writers, why must you not use your brains when writing these articles? … We aren’t going to believe a word you write if you can’t get basic facts figured out.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
This is discussed in many places, but you are here, so let’s do it… A heater that consists of a resistance element is turning nearly all of the electricity into heat. Around 100% efficiency. But if it has an LED and fan, then maybe 5% (or less?) of that electricity is used for those, so it’s easy only 95% (or more?) efficient.
That is how those terms are defined in this context. How much heat is produced by a resistance heater using one watt? That’s a known quantity, and we use it to compare against other heating sources.
And it makes sense to use this number if you are comparing to wood or gas or coal or oil heat, where some goes out the chimney, or to heat pumps, where things are a lot more complicated.
- Comment on On social media we have these huge conversations where nobody involved has any actual experience. They're just repeating what other people said. Isn't that literally insane? 2 months ago:
Your explanation is wrong, though. People might have experience, but you don’t know who, because they can lie. And if you think about it, a lot of what we learn is stuff we haven’t experienced directly, for a variety of practical reasons.
- Comment on WSJ lead editor annoyed that they don't control the narrative anymore: "We owned the news" 3 months ago:
Anyone who would actually say that quote out loud in front of a camera clearly means the latter. People who value public trust would never think of saying a sentence like that, because the focus would be on their relationship with the public and not on themselves.
- Comment on WSJ lead editor annoyed that they don't control the narrative anymore: "We owned the news" 3 months ago:
I have zero idea what you mean when you say that it has destroyed society. Can you explain?
- Comment on How I cannot be worry?? 4 months ago:
Of course there are unsolvable problems. This is true in both theory and practice. If your family member has late-stage cancer, let’s suppose.
- Comment on How I cannot be worry?? 4 months ago:
The important point is not to do something, but rather to solve the problem. And some people simply can’t, and it sucks.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 4 months ago:
But I think that’s letting Google off the hook because when I search for things I do get hits, it’s just weird and I get terrible hits. Last week I was looking for something specific and I found five pages in the top 10 that were all variations on each other, to the point that I assume some of them were automatically generated but have no idea which is the actual original source, if any.
And then if I’m searching for something like song lyrics, the top five hits are all sites that require JavaScript to be enabled and AdBlock to be disabled. Of course Google could filter its rankings to bring sites like this out of the top 10.
So I agree with you that capitalism is a huge issue but one specific issue here is that the Google developers don’t care about things that we care about. And other companies such as Apple and Facebook are worse of course.
- Comment on Pick your poison. Dystopian style 4 months ago:
That depends where you are. Many cab services have improved in various cities. Of course tech is a part of this. GPS helps avoid fraud. Uber didn’t invent that, but it helped advance implementation.
- Comment on Pick your poison. Dystopian style 4 months ago:
How is the illegal cab company doing things right? It’s clearly monopolistic and therefore anti-consumer.
- Comment on A cargo plane flew 50 miles with no pilot onboard using a semi-automated system. An aviation expert says the technology could address the pilot shortage. 4 months ago:
“pilot shortage” meaning “pilot salary shortage”. Fixed that.
- Comment on Is it disrespectful to call someone instead of answering their email? 5 months ago:
As mentioned, this sounds like a scam. If a business doesn’t have a working phone number, I would not dream of paying them by email or telephone. If you’re sure it’s real, just be sure to only pay them in person at the stadium.
- Comment on Judge finds evidence that Tesla, Musk knew about Autopilot defect 5 months ago:
Yes yes, we all knew that. But it’s good that the judge decided that his court should match reality.
- Comment on How do poor people in the states give birth without money? 6 months ago:
You’re describing what people used to think “middle class” meant. These days, we all know that health insurance doesn’t cover nearly as much as you want it to. Costs have skyrocketed in the last few years, let alone decades.
- Comment on Honest question: what was Hamas' long-game with respect to kidnapping Israelis? Did they think Israel would just negotiate rather than retaliate? 6 months ago:
As always, motives vary heavily. I think many people have raised great points, and no doubt many of them are accurate enough.
It’s the same for Israel, too, right? I would imagine a two state solution is the only reasonable exit strategy, and Israel could make that happen overnight, but they haven’t. Why? Again, motives vary heavily.
- Comment on Gen Z is cooking more and shopping less as they struggle to achieve financial success 6 months ago:
Correction: “Gen Z is cooking more and shopping less as they get vastly underpaid”