mikelyons

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by mikelyons 5y ago
Is that where "builds character" comes from?
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by mikelyons 6y ago
Independently produce creative work that is of massive value to others. I know it's very general and vague but it seems logical to me.
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by mikelyons 6y ago
It would seem obvious to a layman that you must be "practicing" to be an "entity" that's allowed to "defend" against "infringement" This has an implicit metaphysics that remains un-examined.
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by mikelyons 6y ago
The easy reason is that nobody would know that name and why click on something that doesn't strike your fancy?
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by mikelyons 6y ago
Whatever makes us feel better, right? Reality is essentially unverifiable at this point, so ... nuke Russia? It's not that that's what I want, I just can't find a way to know what's real.
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by mikelyons 6y ago
Where is there to go from non-existence but back into Life?
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by mikelyons 6y ago
Do you feel capable of that level of leadership? I sure don't. One of the chief causes of my perennial suicidal ideation is the inability to even take care of myself, let alone be a leader of an actualized life or anyone else for that
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by mikelyons 6y ago
Mission accomplished? (Accelerating the transition)
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by mikelyons 6y ago
I'm curious about the details of how a trailer in an alley could almost kill you, were you going highway speeds down an alley? How close did you come to colliding with it before your eyes and brain prevented this?
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by mikelyons 6y ago
Doesn't every car come with a, "if you crash from not paying attention, we are not liable" The promise of self driving isn't that you can not pay attention, at least not yet. In fact the user experience of FSD is that yo
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by mikelyons 6y ago
I don't mean to insult or claim you're not thinking thoroughly or clearly, but this appears to me to be gross oversimplification of several deep topics wrt developing new technologies, the mission to advance the advent of sustaina
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by mikelyons 6y ago
When someone is identified with an institution, any criticism of the institution is taken as a direct attack on their identity and so they must defend with the same righteous indignance that they would from someone assassinating their chara
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by mikelyons 6y ago
Well I didn't mention programming skill, I just mean like, the ability to solve one's own computer problems. Knowing how to touch-type, or knowing keyboard shortcuts.
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by mikelyons 6y ago
I don't mean at work, I just mean in my personal life I rarely meet women who even use computers in their own freetime beyond social media. Is it offensive to give an anecdote about having met thousands of woman and only a handful who
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by mikelyons 6y ago
I couldn't figure your email out, but I messaged you on twitter
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by mikelyons 6y ago
I would argue that this is a perspective of someone with power in the job market, and perhaps that perspective is limited to a small portion of workers' experiences. I also find "don't like it, leave" to be a very unawar
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by mikelyons 6y ago
Using conspiracy theories, bunk science, and outright lies to influence the lower-awareness majority _is_ political action, and evidently it is currently one of the more effective strategies.
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by mikelyons 6y ago
Facebook is designed to make you think that when it may not be true, you have to be skeptical of your own mind, and skeptical of your own skepticism.
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by mikelyons 6y ago
Worker's incentives seem more along the "do whatever those with resources say to trade your mind and body and time for survival"
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by mikelyons 6y ago
What's in a name?
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by mikelyons 6y ago
Alarm from Hell === Alarm from Earth
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by mikelyons 6y ago
In what way have they changed the definition of the word inclusive?
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by mikelyons 6y ago
In what way is the net gain not clear here? It seems clear to me that "even factoring in" means that there is a net gain for the employer, at a net loss to employees.
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by mikelyons 6y ago
The incentive structure of unregulated capitalism is "Extract maximum value with minimum expense. As much as possible externalize the costs." The things to extract value from: employees, environment, government policy, tax code, i
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by mikelyons 6y ago
The wildfire smoke has brought that future that we'd feared and daydreamed (daymared?) about; where we can actually see the posibility and impetus for living in self-contained bubbles of breathable atmosphere and livable temperatures.
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by mikelyons 6y ago
What incentive is there?
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by mikelyons 6y ago
I feel the same way and it causes me to think about suicide all the time.
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by mikelyons 6y ago
If safety and longevity weren't concerns I would say: If it's stupid and works it's not stupid. There's a difference between quality, and the perception of quality.
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by mikelyons 6y ago
We need to get in the cultural habit of looking at things for their own being, rather than for how they can be used by humans.
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by mikelyons 6y ago
There's a really good lens for understanding this called Spiral Dynamics, a scientific model of the evolution/development of consciousness which is the work of Clare Graves. If you understand that Trump is at the red/orange l

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