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by arrrg 7d ago
My perspective on this is that it’s fine to not like things and bounce off them. I also bounced off NMS, no big deal. It just isn’t for me and that’s fine. All I know is that they worked hard on this game and found plenty of people who enjo
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by arrrg 8d ago
Why? I wanted to point out the significant overlap in the views of Adorno and the ones expressed by the poster. Also, that essay is a real banger.
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by arrrg 9d ago
Your rant seems confused from an art history point of view. I think we should talk about the Bauhaus and where they were coming from. Industrial mass production allowed for cheaply mass produced ornaments during Historicism. To me it is eas
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by arrrg 14d ago
You might be able to hide like a hundred drones in your backyard. Enough to kill a couple hundred people, maybe. You cannot and will never be able to hide millions of drones in your backyard. That’s the relevant difference here. And that is
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by arrrg 14d ago
This is an incredibly dumb scenario that belongs in a cheap sci-fi novel because it hand waves away human motivations (Who should do this and to what end? What is there to achieve with something like this that cannot be achieved some other
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by arrrg 15d ago
Why do you claim that? There is no reason why there has to be a negative effect of text watermarking.
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by arrrg 21d ago
The ultimate goal might be some political aim and in that sense cruelty is not the ultimate point but what is usually meant by this phrase is that the cruelty is not an unintentional oversight, an unintentional side effect. It is intentiona
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by arrrg 29d ago
I totally get your thought process, especially with the dry exercise description in the comment you responded to. That’s maybe an approach for some people but it also doesn’t seem that sustainable. My view on exercise is that it should give
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by arrrg 1mo ago
Good and best is doing a lot of heavy lifting in your comment. What are you talking about when you speak of good/best outcomes? I think especially when it comes to talking about fitness it is important to be explicit about outcomes bec
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by arrrg 1mo ago
Reads more like a toy/pet (think Kirby) to me, so it could actually not be a competitor at all to those. Whether that’s a viable product I don’t know.
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by arrrg 1mo ago
Millions fewer people will die. That’s the difference. It’s just a sliding death scale, not a binary one. Sure, there might be steps, it might not all be linear, but still: doesn’t mean at some point doing something is pointless.
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by arrrg 1mo ago
I think that’s an interesting point and one I did actually think about while writing my comment but ultimately didn’t address. The interaction between individual behavior changes and political changes is interesting and to my mind where lot
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by arrrg 1mo ago
That’s pointless. Political change is needed to achieve any of this. Changing your individual behavior or even the individual behavior of everyone you know – while certainly not wrong! – won’t solve this. This is like trying to abolish slav
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by arrrg 1mo ago
Limiting temperature change by every additional 0.1°C is still worthwhile from a human welfare perspective. In that sense it is never to late. We can always do something to limit the damage. It’s just that it gets harder and harder and some
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by arrrg 1mo ago
Things are changing. Look at starting points and direction, not just things as they currently are. That said, renewable sources are so cheap and consequently economically appealing that not even the incredibly dumb Trump admin can stop them
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by arrrg 1mo ago
You don’t know the difference between tactics and strategy. The US has been consistently tactically excellent. Strategically this is a blundering loss. If you strategically aim your awesome unmatched powers the wrong way you can still lose.
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by arrrg 2mo ago
That’s a wildly uncharitable read. Empirical evidence through observation or self-reporting, sampling in some meaningful way, would obviously be preferable but is also often just not practical. Guessing at numbers to check whether your thes
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by arrrg 2mo ago
Even the worst music videos I have seen aren’t as incoherent as this mess. This is actually mostly down to constraints: even if you suck you will suck in some coherent consistent way that will give your music videos more structure than this
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by arrrg 2mo ago
This tech isn’t steerable enough when it comes to creative output. Maybe there are some nooks and crannies where this tech can be employed and actually save time/budget. Maybe. But what does not work is to just take the output and use
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by arrrg 2mo ago
ID cards aren’t exactly super standardized inside the EU. German ID cards have a RFID chip which basically contains all the same info that’s printed on the outside (PIN protected). Smartphones can read that chip and the state as well as pri
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by arrrg 2mo ago
Changing your own behavior is certainly not wrong but also not a solution. Policy changes are needed to address this problem. It’s a political problem that needs a political solution.
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by arrrg 2mo ago
Lack of consistency seems entirely normal to me for a blog post. At a certain point the information is simply redundant. The meaning of the naked number can and will easily be inferred from context. You don’t even notice it. Both while writ
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by arrrg 3mo ago
That’s not universally the case, no. For example in Germany, splitting the bill is pretty normal, to the point where restaurants are adapted to it. Since this process adds some friction it is, however, also the case that someone will pay fo
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by arrrg 3mo ago
In Germany (where this happens frequently and many people expect to be able to pay separately – I don’t like it and we generally don’t handle it that way with friends, but when I’m in the restaurant with coworkers even I wouldn’t dare to st
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by arrrg 3mo ago
This is such a sad perspective. The only path for workers to have leverage against capital is if they work together in solidarity. There is no other path. Unions are a path towards achieving that. Doing a job at a lower wage is giving up le
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by arrrg 3mo ago
It‘s the exact opposite of selfish. It’s solidarity and efforts to denigrate solidarity and lift up stories about selfishness as the only important thing are the thing that keeps unions down. Workers working together in solidarity is the ri
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by arrrg 3mo ago
The current admin has been embarrassingly bad at wielding the awesome powers of the US in a meaningful way. Of course the US are the all-powerful juggernaut with many levers to pull to use their power. Winning battles is easy. Winning the m
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by arrrg 3mo ago
That’s wrong. Wearing headphones is not banned. Isolating yourself to a degree where you cannot hear warning signals (emergency vehicles, car horns) is (10 € fine), though that’s not the same as being able to hear all traffic sounds (which
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by arrrg 3mo ago
At least with social networks the network effect is a powerful force. Foregrounding regulatory burden in that context is nonsensical. (That does not apply in the same way to models.)
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by arrrg 3mo ago
It seems to me that demonstrated leverage actually is different from theoretical leverage. I do think that is a crucial difference.

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