KittenInABox

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by KittenInABox 7d ago
Learning how to develop a social network independently is a skill. If your partner leaving you collapses your social life, do you live in a small town where the narrative has turned against you, or did you simply rely on them to be the adul
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by KittenInABox 2mo ago
My understanding is that Russia's "full throttle" isn't actually as strong as they had posed...
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How Fascists Construct Scientific Ignorance [video](youtube.com)
9 points by KittenInABox 3mo ago|3 comments
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by KittenInABox 3mo ago
How do you want to measure standards of living here?
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by KittenInABox 3mo ago
The thing I think is underspoken in this space is that LLMs will always hallucinate a bit. How will you know as a 13 year old that an LLM is not conversing truth at you?
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by KittenInABox 3mo ago
I think it depends. The people that I know that have made significant sacrifices to live along their morals are usually people who 1) are intensely bitter when others will not sacrifice as much as them; 2) are completely understanding of pe
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by KittenInABox 3mo ago
What books are you curious for that you're unable to find? I'm really curious about this as I, an avid horror book reader, have never had significant trouble even when buying very niche/indie work.
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by KittenInABox 4mo ago
> Not enough (LE|DA|jail) funding or staffing or space. How is it possible that there isn't enough funding/staffing? Budgets have increased, ballooned beyond inflation in many cases they are the biggest line item in a city&#x27
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by KittenInABox 4mo ago
I am perfectly for less job stability in the US but only if it comes with a strong safety net. Losing your job after a year or six months is whatever broski if you have robust healthcare and are unlikely to go homeless. I see SpaceX and Ant
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by KittenInABox 4mo ago
This may sound condescending but: you sound young, not disabled, and extremely sheltered from being exposed to disabled people. I am in a position to be intimately familiar with illness. I will say that health is a spectrum and the mind is
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by KittenInABox 4mo ago
The fundamental problem with this of course is that every human being is likely more niche and more advanced at the LLM in the things that they find most important, and this realization sours the average user's impression of LLM useful
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by KittenInABox 5mo ago
> Rising productivity would have reduced the average work week regardless. Do you have evidence of this? > consider that the benefits package routinely offered to employees is worth around 40% of their pay Please define "routinel
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by KittenInABox 6mo ago
In my impression the billionaire worship is just another form of fundamental respect and enforcement of hierarchy that has been part of conservative politics forever. We are back to transparently the "right" leaning being wanting
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by KittenInABox 6mo ago
I'm a bit confused by claiming that this is confidential information. I thought contract awards were public? Would someone who is more in this space be willing to explain what actually was leaked here?
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by KittenInABox 6mo ago
Disabled people exist, even temporarily so (e.g. pregnant with a craving, broken ankle and can't drive, etc)! Also, sometimes some meals are arguably not worth the labor of cooking. Making proper pho takes at least a whole day. Pad Tha
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by KittenInABox 6mo ago
Extremely weird cover selection. Books like Stag Dance, Project: Hail Mary, The Emperor of Gladness, etc. None of them have that. Some of the books listed there are several years old (The Death of Vivek Oji was published in 2020). A Map Is
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Science Fiction Is Dying. Long Live Post Sci-Fi?(typebarmagazine.com)
69 points by KittenInABox 6mo ago|112 comments
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by KittenInABox 6mo ago
This is the first time I heard that this is an issue where the brain isn't filtering out noise properly. This explains why I have had tinnitus, the sound of breathing, whooshing in the ears from my heartbeat, etc. audible to me for as
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by KittenInABox 7mo ago
IIRC the relationship between cholesterol and diet is more complicated than eating cholesterol == more cholesterol. Especially in this case you're eating cholesterol with a high-fiber meal which prevents a significant amount of the abs
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by KittenInABox 7mo ago
I see fundamentally human wellbeing as more important. Jobs are just the structure society has built as a gateway for this.
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by KittenInABox 7mo ago
I do mean homo sapiens. Humans are a cooperative species. They will hunt and gather together in loose communities naturally, sharing excess resources even if individuals are not directly contributing to the resource creation due to being
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by KittenInABox 7mo ago
I feel like the idea that X doesn't owe you Y is fundamentally at odds with the fact that humans are a cooperative species and survive the best when they are cooperating. A choir can hold a note together because individuals can stop si
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Gender markers are useless, so why not abolish them?(policyoptions.irpp.org)
4 points by KittenInABox 7mo ago|1 comments
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by KittenInABox 7mo ago
I wouldn't ascribe averages to mean much. I expect there is a small minority that buys everything on amazon (everything meaning groceries, holiday gifts, prescriptions, etc) that would jack up the average significantly.
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by KittenInABox 7mo ago
On the contrary I think Americans are reacting about the same as any other set of people would react. There are always going to be people who, as long as their personal lives are stable, they are not going to do anything to put that stabili
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by KittenInABox 7mo ago
GLP-1 functioning as methodone is fine for me tbh. Medically assisted addiction management is pretty gold-standard for a lot of addictions!
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by KittenInABox 7mo ago
I agree with this in general but with caveats. For example I think reading national-sized news every day sucks. But if you're of a specific demographic it might be useful to keep pretty up to date on nuanced issues, like if you're
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by KittenInABox 7mo ago
I wasn't aware of her political donations. Can you say a little bit more on that?
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by KittenInABox 7mo ago
What is there for Amazon to grow? They're closing their physical fresh stores etc. Is the intention to compete with Walmart and Dollar General?
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The 'boomcession': Why Americans feel left behind by a growing economy(cnbc.com)
5 points by KittenInABox 7mo ago|0 comments

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