antiSingularity

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by antiSingularity 5y ago
Oddly enough, microwaving frozen mice was one of the very first non-radar applications of the microwave magnetron. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tdiKTSdE9Y
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by antiSingularity 5y ago
Sorry, what "moral high ground" did it ever have? SV is just a place for smart people to create interesting new toys, and has developed an incredibly predatory and monopolistic VC-funded business practice in the process. For some
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by antiSingularity 5y ago
Does blaming the declining mental and physical state of previously healthy people on "lockdowns" also get vaguely political? My wife and I did not come near to breakdowns as we tried to care for our young family through the lockdo
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by antiSingularity 5y ago
In my opinion, blaming it on the pandemic is misleading, and hides the true cause of our problems. As I said, supply chains are disrupted because everyone was confined to their houses and completely changed their consumer and business spend
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by antiSingularity 5y ago
They also released vidoes of people literally dropping in the street "with Covid".
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by antiSingularity 5y ago
You've got that mixed up. The reason that supply chains are in disarray are because of the enormous disruption caused by Covid restrictions and lockdowns, not because people were literally dying of Covid on the job. You could infer tha
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by antiSingularity 5y ago
A parent suffers from a genetic condition, which makes that an accurate description of their lives when symptoms are bad. Very sadly, their response to the AZ vaccine has made that a daily occurance for the past 6 months.
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by antiSingularity 5y ago
I too have a long term view of this whole situation, and based on what I see of the never-ending impositions on our every day lives that have removed all trace of many things that made life pleasant, easier, and civilized, have taken steps
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by antiSingularity 5y ago
And how exactly does me getting vaccinated protect someone else? I understand that you will probably be outraged by me even asking this question, but I am for real. The official messaging here in the UK has recently removed the vague sugges
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by antiSingularity 5y ago
How can I imagine such a thing? Being a parent makes you do superhuman things. It's just not an option to "not feel like getting out of bed" - for all I know, the extra motivation of needing to care for my young family made m
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by antiSingularity 5y ago
My immune system would definitely be better if I hadn't been confined to my house for months, and banned from seeing anyone for months after that.
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by antiSingularity 5y ago
And who gets to define my anecdote as "disinformation"? Surely you can't be saying that any story that runs counter to a particular given narrative must be false? (FWIW, it is completely true). How do you know the disease wou
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by antiSingularity 5y ago
It happens, when the kids bring back a particularly nasty disease from nursery. We recently had RSV, and that lasted a month for me.
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by antiSingularity 5y ago
Just goes to show the validity of anecdotes thrown around anonymously online, right?
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by antiSingularity 5y ago
As a parent of two small kids, I would struggle to notice if I had "Long Covid". Most of the symptoms sound like my every day experience! ps. In my subjective opinion, Long Covid is completely overblown. I know even fewer people t
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by antiSingularity 5y ago
If we're going to throw anecdotes around, a very close relative of mine has had a severe reaction to the Covid Vaccine (AZ, I believe), and has been off work for 6 months and counting with a variety of health issues.
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by antiSingularity 5y ago
I am not going to spend my time watching videos of other people in VR. You're seriously disconnected from what young people are doing. Search "dirt jumps" on youtube.
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by antiSingularity 5y ago
Hard to tell if you're serious. If so, the "VR Metaverse" will only exist for a select few techno-elites, and I'm not really sure what they would say to each other. Probably end up just scrolling on their phones in VR.
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by antiSingularity 5y ago
>To where? Who knows, but I imagine people will have a choice of multiple services instead of one or two big behemoths (i.e Facebook & Twitter). Hopefully, they will re-discover the joys and challenges of in-person communication and
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by antiSingularity 5y ago
It's well known that Zuckerburg won't let his young kids use any FB products. Obviously - dealers don't get high off their supply, and definitely don't give it to their own kids. >“Congresswoman, My daughters are five
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by antiSingularity 5y ago
Everyone now knows upper management of FB (the company) are awful human beings. FB as a website / app is dead. Instagram is becoming much more widely known as a source of terrible online addiction problems for young people. It's r
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by antiSingularity 5y ago
You only killed several hundred other plants (in the form of resource extraction and refining) to do this!
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by antiSingularity 5y ago
And these are precisely the people we just shut down the global economy (and culture, and inter-personal connection) to apparently "protect".
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by antiSingularity 5y ago
"Is this the best tool for the job" is a very simple statement that should be universally applied. Somehow, people have been convinced that "tech", now re-defined as "the latest and greatest internet-connected widge
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by antiSingularity 5y ago
>I know, we hear much talk about transformation -- about the coming Great Singularity, the Omega Point, the emergence of a new global consciousness. I have an alternative theory, something like an Anti-Singularity. Or maybe the Peter Pri