kuramitropolis

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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
Welp, so much commenting for me then.
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
Guilty as charged! Turning 30 soon, just shed the last remnants of my prior organically grown social circle, having judged so many people for their emotional callousness, sloppy thinking, and lazy ethics. Most of these days I don't eve
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
Spot on.
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
>narcissistic idiots who are intolerable to be around >want to hang out all the time and have lots of sex and everyone will oblige you Same people.
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
>The end product isn't what you walk away with; it's the time you spend enjoying doing something. Well, good luck enjoying anything when you're surrounded by environmental feedback that points to its futility. Picking up h
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
You make valid points - but I don't think the author of the post that I was replying to would be able to appreciate the nuance. By bringing up the Karen White example, aren't you basically saying it would somehow be less appaling
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
Nice to see they're keeping the pronunciation ambiguity!
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
Each piece of content's full semantic structure (think https://xkcd.com/657/ but 10x-1000x more elaborate) should be published in a machine-readable format; then in your personal content blocker you can define as
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
What stake do you have in either of the debates that you're referencing? When was the last time a politician's family member or a trans person did anything good or bad for you, personally? If you didn't allow social media to
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
What I'm looking for is a standalone frontend for servers that speak the ActivityPub protocol.
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Ask HN: Where are the standalone ActivityPub clients?
6 points by kuramitropolis 4y ago|5 comments
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
Still no standalone ActivityPub client anywhere. Strange.
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
I've noticed that the same kind of person to make the "would choose to be alive argument" would also make the "but you can't choose your parents" argument. It's completely insane.
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
Parents must be above reproach.
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
I once saw a Facebook group with the cutesy name "life is a stockholm syndrome and I want my money back". That's spot on. Happiness is preferable to suffering. Suffering is a natural part of life. So is happiness. Suffering i
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
Well said.
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
>How is it harsh to point out that this child will grow up almost to their teens without a mother around? In this particular case I think the absence of the mother is a net positive for the child. Would you want to have been raised by El
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
That it's common does not make it right. We just hit the 8 billion mark, and unimaginable numbers of people across all social strata really don't do anything much but make each other miserable. Do they have the right to live and h
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
>The baby would choose to be alive in any case This struck a nerve. Maybe you've never experienced what it's like to wish to have never been born, but having fucked up parents makes it very likely for a person to end in a situa
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
Unless you go full self-hosted, your website is also under the control of your hosting provider and DNS registry. You implicitly trust those, until you don't. (See the Linode/Itch.io gaffe from the other day.) And what if your use
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
By anyone who uses them as the loaded terms that they are. Oh, how I would hope that "positivity" and "negativity" would be understood as relating to position and negation, like in your example! But in practical usage (a
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
Spot on. The terms "negativity" and "positivity" are basically tools for abuse.
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
>What can I say that prevents you from saying something? Any syntactially correct but illogical thing, basically. The textbook example is "have you stopped beating your wife? yes or no, asshole". Most humans aren't very go
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
>Publish those documents wherever you want And where would one publish such documents, so that they would not be under the control of any single party?
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
I mean the Web.
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
So was the Internet during the dotcom boom. And now the Internet is part of the problem. The Gartner cycle is an epicycle.
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
>Keybase did it by not truly doing it, And got effectively assassinated for it.
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
>they require native minted tokens of speculative value to operate. Well, so does the rest of industry and civilization (fiat money). What's the distinction there?
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
In Windows 1.0 there was no X button.
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
>sports teams like Miami Heat or Mercedes F1 actually advertised them. Also stadium sponsorships. If you're trying to buy credibility by sponsoring spectator sports, well that's a huge red flag right there.

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