cthulha

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by cthulha 7mo ago
There's an great photo of Pam Bondi avoiding looking at all the Epstein victims when they raise their hands to indicate that they have not been contacted by the Justice Department to follow up their complaints, it is only a day or two
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by cthulha 10mo ago
I also just read the timeline of followed accounts, and even a list of 'must-reads' for the high-value people, but I'm also aware that this isn't the way other people liked to use Twitter/Mastodon. Maybe that's
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by cthulha 11mo ago
Society can't function when people aren't allowed to make their own choices. Why can't they choose political activism? What on earth binds them to a corporate entity and over-rides their agency? If you want to step up and be
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by cthulha 1y ago
It's token prediction, not reasoning. You can simulate reasoning, but it's not the same thing - there is not an internal representation of reality in there anywhere
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by cthulha 2y ago
You used to be able (specific countries only) get an automatic visa on entry. There were people active in the San Francisco startup scene from multiple countries who would go for a 'holiday' nearby (mexico, canada, etc) for a week
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by cthulha 3y ago
HN1: "Let people enjoy whatever they enjoy" HN2-100: <Enjoys the disastrous hubris when people who oppose regulation discover how unsafe life is without rules which prevent unsafe behaviour> HN1: "Not like that"
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by cthulha 3y ago
No government has a money burning problem. They have expensive service delivery problems. I mean, if you're upset about government spending on tech, you better sit down before someone tells you what goes on in the large corporate secto
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by cthulha 3y ago
It's a useful shared illusion, but not 'real' once you reach a certain level of meditative concentration. If you look at a bicycle wheel in motion, you don't see the spokes. If you and everyone you knew had only ever see
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by cthulha 4y ago
The question nobody else has been able to answer is "What is a satisfactory analysis for these purposes?" The closest I've seen to an answer is to remove accidental deaths (eg, hit by a car, firearms fatality, etc) but there&
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by cthulha 4y ago
Not necessarily. You're joining 'mutual action to protect workers' with 'minutiae of internal processes are done the same as other unionized industries did them 50 years ago'. It's possible to have one without
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by cthulha 4y ago
From my experience, I can highly recommend: * daily meditation practice, with a serious meditation tradition. * fortnightly therapist appointment, weekly if you're running hot at any point * meditation retreat every six months When I s
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by cthulha 4y ago
How about: “Actors in this geopolitical region are killing people and destroying infrastructure, and I am going to do everything in my power to disrupt them” “If more people stood up like this, then either bad actors would have to abandon o
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by cthulha 5y ago
KiwiFarms users: We look for people to harass online until they kill themselves Anti-online harassment activists: KiwiFarms users look for people to harass online until they kill themselves. Near: KiwiFarms users harassed me until I killed
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by cthulha 6y ago
Three books that you should read, and why they will help you at this point: 1. High Output Management, Andy Grove - Explains management from first principles in a very engineering mindset. You'll understand the value of meetings, one-o
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by cthulha 7y ago
You can disagree with Apple's policies, or the principles and reasoning of others. And I'm sure some of those people are these mythical, awful virtue-signalling hypocrites that people seem to hate so much. But what makes this virt
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by cthulha 7y ago
> Everyone has some moral right to the position they're in. The question is how much They have some kind of right without any obligations? Care to expand? > It seems to me that he probably believed he didn't do anything wro
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by cthulha 7y ago
This is such a weird and obtuse way to look at human relations, and as a dog person it's so weird to see this alien take on a pretty common part of culture. I'm guessing 'certain forums' is code for the PUA community? Yo
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by cthulha 7y ago
You have an implicit model of how radicalization works which is out of sync with the model others are applying. The counterexample is that, when racist/fascist/white supremacist content became easier to access through online unmod
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by cthulha 7y ago
> Cloudflare would have been in a better position to actually change 8chan if they had kept them on and pressured them I call bullshit. What plan do you have in mind for _Cloudflare_ to create a culture change on _8chan_? How does this f
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by cthulha 8y ago
There's a few issues in play: (1) the content of the story, (2) the presentation of the story, (3) the intent to mislead. You've focused on 1 and then used 2 against critics: 'smear people for telling the truth'. But
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by cthulha 8y ago
Could you define what you mean by "fringe", "globalist" and "progressive" here?
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by cthulha 8y ago
> This happens all the time. That doesn't make it less scary or dysfunctional. It undermines the health of politics and society when this is acceptable behaviour.
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by cthulha 8y ago
That's a cynical position, and tends to be correct! A real one does have a _huge_ effect on the culture of the organisation, above and beyond what is achievable otherwise. I've seen one be transformative at a former workplace. I h
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by cthulha 8y ago
Do you know _anything_ about the Australian political system and public engagement with politics? Australian here, if you want to actually find out. Your assumptions about how it works are definitely not true in practice, and it's an i
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by cthulha 8y ago
You're wrong at a couple of points: - GoDaddy isn't a transparent utility service, it's a for-profit business - You seem to think GoDaddy needs a reasonable claim on their jurisdiction... customers agree to their TOS, which u
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by cthulha 8y ago
This seems like a psychological defence against anxiety/depression rather than an actual foundation for real action. You're looking at big, broad patterns and assuming they will work out on the huge scales necessary for civilisati
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by cthulha 8y ago
What would win over republicans? I mean, if the survival of human civilisation isn't enough, what can you propose?
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by cthulha 8y ago
Who wants to tell simula67 about Trump's relationship to reality?
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by cthulha 9y ago
I'd politely disagree with the assumptions underlying the question. Changing the physical proportions is a very big deal when you look at the long term impact on the development and app ecosystem. iOS developers can test their design o
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by cthulha 9y ago
Take a deep breath. I understand you would like to live somewhere that context does not matter and documents are self-contained. Until you live in that world, please consider that there is an external world relevant to what an author's

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