widjit

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by widjit 4y ago
Denial/wishful thinking are extremely powerful. That said, body positivity shouldn't be thought of as having anything to say about objective physical health: there is zero reason a person who is obese should necessarily feel bad a
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by widjit 4y ago
at the very least people would stop stealing catalytic converters, that's a win
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by widjit 4y ago
Where does this strawman of art commentating come from? Loud people at parties? Have you ever read a good book on art theory or art history? By whom? Have you ever, as an artist, sat around with someone in the same practice and wanted to ta
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by widjit 4y ago
I would ask if throwing out unfounded opinions normally works well for you in society, but I suspect it probably does. For the record, I reserve rude comments for the internet. I don't want to have a phone call with you about your bori
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by widjit 4y ago
Does it give you pause at all that this is, historically, a common way of thinking among authoritarians and fascists?
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by widjit 4y ago
a slippery slope to significantly reduced gun deaths oh no
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by widjit 4y ago
genuinely doing a bad job and sabotage look very similar
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by widjit 4y ago
the only significant difference I've seen in brand-new devs from bootcamps vs CS programs is the devs from bootcamps are somewhat aware that they have a lot of learning to do
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by widjit 4y ago
"Hell is my own code" still works in my case
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by widjit 4y ago
FB/Google/etc. don't actually need to make correct inferences, they just need to provide infographics that say they are correct so that marketing departments can report to their superiors that they are responsibly spending
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by widjit 4y ago
clearly this article is not meant for you
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by widjit 4y ago
a big chunk of the people who read HN are the exact people responsible for the systems and algorithms that create (and perpetuate) the solipsistic hell-mirror described in the article my least favorite part of engineering is that it is led
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by widjit 4y ago
Discussions involve reading and considering and responding to people, not whatever it is you're doing
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by widjit 4y ago
is there something wrong with that?
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by widjit 4y ago
This is so much easier to read, thank you
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by widjit 4y ago
that sounds very interesting; do you have any idea which book this was?
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by widjit 4y ago
this is literalist, black and white thinking that is one of the foundations of fascism if there is a social conflict (and boy are there social conflicts), not talking about those social problems is tacit support for the dominant position.
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by widjit 4y ago
doubling down I see
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by widjit 4y ago
your refusal to understand politics will not make politics go away
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by widjit 4y ago
when you are part of a dominant social group this can indeed seem to be the case
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by widjit 4y ago
using the word "woke" carries exactly zero weight with anyone other than people with the most basic primate-level understanding of social behavior or more simply: by using that word you sound dumb then again, maybe that's how
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by widjit 4y ago
if you don't mean that, then why use the word "absolute"? if there are exceptions then it isn't absolute
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by widjit 4y ago
Other than your first paragraph, which is reasonable, your name dropping is doing a poor job of hiding your very weak understanding of history, philosophy, and political theory. Get off the internet and talk to an actual human who knows wha
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by widjit 4y ago
The device also supports ssh over USB, which has been more than adequate for my meds
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by widjit 4y ago
It is an official list: a list of airports visited by OpenBSD developers. It's just a bit of culture, don't worry about it so much.
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by widjit 4y ago
The operative word here is "were"
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by widjit 4y ago
Mashed up with recruiting propaganda
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by widjit 4y ago
4. Controlled leaks/misinformation
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by widjit 4y ago
That is impossible to surmise.
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by widjit 4y ago
it's been interesting seeing the steady increase of fascists posting on HN doesn't bode well

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