odessacubbage

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by odessacubbage 2y ago
even the parks have very restrictive hours in many cases.
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by odessacubbage 2y ago
enjoy having a downtown full of nothing but tweakers & fent zombies i guess. sure beats letting some kid skate the plaza.
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by odessacubbage 2y ago
i mean i get the cops called on me just skating down the street
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by odessacubbage 2y ago
as a parent you have all the control. why does your kid need a tablet? why do they need a smart phone like at all? these devices did not just magically materialize in your home, the tooth fairy didn't put them there. you chose to plo
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by odessacubbage 3y ago
i just want to be able to live in the town i was born in.
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by odessacubbage 3y ago
i felt similarly until i actually ended up homeless and had to deal with shelters. they are shockingly non-viable and since most close early in the day, getting a bed for the night and getting employment so you can stop being homeless end
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by odessacubbage 3y ago
it kind of boils down to a question of who is the actual customer? me or advertisers? if i'm paying a subscription to youtube, then i don't want post-adpocalypse censorship & sanitization.
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by odessacubbage 3y ago
here at least that just leads to ditches and bike paths strewn with shopping carts.
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by odessacubbage 3y ago
more likely they think 'rush hour is awful' or 'traffic is awful', i highly doubt they would prefer to experience the same density of bodies traveling on the bus or train.
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by odessacubbage 3y ago
i would say bike autists equally struggle to imagine what it is like to live anywhere besides the most population-dense, infrastructurally developed 15 square miles on the face of the earth. i have a very good sense of what it is like to li
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by odessacubbage 3y ago
i don't even hate ads or the idea of targeted advertising in theory but 20+ years into the panopticon and the company that has the most information about my purchasing habits, interests and dislikes still has never shown me any adver
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by odessacubbage 3y ago
there is a significant difference between skiing at vail and skiing at jackson hole. we have the tourist-friendly mountains basically.
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by odessacubbage 3y ago
colorado is a resort, most of those other states live or die by resource extraction. if we didn't happen have an amenity that was especially attractive to rich liberals (and geographically discriminating against the poor & working
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by odessacubbage 3y ago
weird how so few of these communities with social pressure are even remotely civil.
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by odessacubbage 3y ago
disposability is like, the main appeal of discord.
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by odessacubbage 3y ago
aishit is a reverse turing test. if you find it's output exciting or impressive you can no longer qualify as human.
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by odessacubbage 3y ago
>It's not clear that any development in AI will be any different than the transition to mechanization in the 19th and early 20th century. so you mean utterly hellish? > https://martyrmade.substack.com/p/martyr
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by odessacubbage 3y ago
i would not say life has become any more car dependent than it was in the 90s, if anything, public transport where i live has improved dramatically.
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by odessacubbage 3y ago
for me the dream would be a competitive game where you could get exercise. like if you could race other people with your peloton online. someone made a jank prototype of this for mario kart. > https://www.youtube.com/watch
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
while true, teenagers in particular have lost a great degree of the agency that was afforded to prior generations. the concept using surveillance devices on your children did not exist 20 years ago and yet you can see threads of HNers discu
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
>We will continue to take efforts to prevent and mitigate a harmful person's ability to cause harm. the channel in question is literally a bot that strings together semi-coherent sentences from chat gpt with little to no object perm
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
>Would it have been OK twitch is a platform where you can stream yourself preforming grotesque acts of murder in the most violent videogames. i could foreseeably mod transgender prostitutes into gta or use the names of notable trans acti
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
i think a big part of what has been lost on people is that for an illustrator in the computer age, copyright is quite literally your product .
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
most news and politics are tacit exercises in emotional manipulation. i'll leave it to you to decide which emotional states are most valued.
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
reflexive shame towards the nation is the only cultural practice americans are still taught. in contrast to japan who have pretty much eroded their past atrocities from the public consciousness, the intelligentsia seem fixated on wallowin
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
i think a big part of it is that they are an industrialized nation that seems to have modernized in a positive way and without losing all of their uniqueness in pursuit of becoming another utterly bland and inoffensive global commerce hub.
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
describing a highly competent, domestically popular & highly trusted government as 'MAGA' is perhaps one of the most pro MAGA statements i have ever heard. the fact that in spite of all of it's problems and what is essent
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
as others have already stated, art history is a pretty wonderful subject and in the pre-modern era was just as much a pursuit of science, technology & esoterica as it was aesthetics. there are also many fascinating characters > http:
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
something to consider is that you can really do most beginner drawing exercises & rudiments with only a fraction of your attention so it is pretty easy to draw while doing other things. if you watch tv/commute/cook meals/
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by odessacubbage 4y ago
i really hope we reach a point where more parents play video games with their children, especially as a teammate rather than a hoverer. it seems like in most homes vidya is usually tolerated as a necessary carrot or a babysitter rather th

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