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dumpsterlidon The Rise of the Non-Working Class

Wow this needs to be a way higher comment.

"Independent Women’s Forum President Sabrina Schaefer offered to help American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) legislators “sell” corporate-backed alternatives to paid sick leave, equal pay, quality childcare, and workplace flexibility in their home states in a meeting with ALEC in July.[2]"

^ Well this makes the whole narrative reasoning for going on about people not working pretty clear doesn't it?

dumpsterlidon The Rise of the Non-Working Class

You could look to the fact that most americans support policies like medicare for all when asked in a way that doesn't divide people purposefully (i.e. calling legislation obamacare), most elected politicians and the corporate media considers that extremist lol

dumpsterlidon The Rise of the Non-Working Class

The only difference between the poorest parts of the US and "3rd world countries" is that a (domestic) war upending peoples lives is less likely.

Otherwise? Poverty in the US gets intense real fast

dumpsterlidon The New Smoking (2021)

Yah the thing is weed smokers know a small bit of weed smoke is nearly harmless compared to an equivalent bit of smoke from a tobacco smoker. It is absolutely still inconsiderate but as far as I know there is little evidence that second hand weed smoke inhalation is much of a threat to anyone. Vehicular exhuast is most definitely far more of a health threat

dumpsterlidon Red meat is not a health risk. New study slams years of shoddy research

I really really have a grudge against being born in a country that is so car-centric/surburban. It reduces my quality of life in soooooo many ways.

dumpsterlidon Jack Dorsey Unveils Bluesky Social, the Decentralized Twitter

The key here is mastodon isn't a business, so moderation isn't entirely focused on being cheap. Mastodon, correctly in my opinion, identifies social networks as community resources not as entities to extraft profit from.

dumpsterlidon Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

The extreme right is literally the fundamental problem. People keep saying "both sides" in this thread and honestly in most places in the world (especially US, Europe and as mentioned on this thread often, Brazil) the extreme right IS the problem. We don't need to invent scary leftist groups that threaten to overthrow the US government by storming the US capitol with nooses, we can just admit that it is the far right doing this on mass not the left and drop this stupid need to portray these global changes as a political radicalization on both sides rather than white nationalism becoming more openly violent and extreme.

Far right extremists are the problem, keep "both sides" out of this.

dumpsterlidon Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

People havent forgotten anything. People are generally the same as they have always been except perhaps on average they are more educated at a global level.

dumpsterlidon The Many Branches of the Fediverse

A raspberry pi is only like $40 also

dumpsterlidon The Many Branches of the Fediverse

Exactly, this is just our boiler plate response to new things and we should ignore it. There are definitely criticisms and conversations to have about the fediverse but you are completely right, this is just an unintentional distraction.

dumpsterlidon The Many Branches of the Fediverse

This is honestly an embarassingly bad argument/response

dumpsterlidon The Many Branches of the Fediverse

Yah "just ignore them" really means "it doesnt effect me and I am uninterested in hearing how it actually effects you"

dumpsterlidon Productivity has fallen, and experts are puzzled. I’m not. We’re all just tired

I love not being able to be self sufficient in my 30s because I get paid shit and then being told by the fed that inflation is being caused by people like me getting paid too much. I almost ended my life 2 years ago because of feeling hopeless about ever being able to earn enough money to have a decent quality of life that I could provide myself, I hate centrist democrats (i.e. republican-lite)

dumpsterlidon Productivity has fallen, and experts are puzzled. I’m not. We’re all just tired

"I wonder where all that increased productivity was wasted and by who."

By the same people telling us inflation is happening because wages were going up/workers had more leverage, not price gouging by oil companies and such.

dumpsterlidon Intel and the $1.5T chip industry meltdown

Yah great point, the US culturally seems to really struggle with the idea that the business is just an arbitrary conception, what is important is the workers. We really have a disturbing sense that arbitraries collections of capital and legalese are more important than humans with passions and skills and it honestly scares me.

dumpsterlidon Oakland cops hope to arm robots with lethal shotguns

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..... do you honestly think that if you give police remote control vehicles with shotguns attached to them that they WONT use them for violence and killing? These are police we are talking about here, they come from a culture of violence and extreme fear.

dumpsterlidon Why Is The Guitar Tuned Like It Is?

" I've always wondered about that kink between the G and B string, a major 3rd gap, when all the other strings are spaced perfect fourth. It bothers me because it's an anomaly that breaks the symmetry and increases the number of shapes to keep in mind."

One of the deeply beautiful things about the guitar is this "ugly" asymmetry. People with analytical minds that desire order always get bothered by this 3rd, why not go to all 4ths and be more elegant???

Because art and music arent always about being elegant! Tuning a guitar in all 4ths lets you play like a snooty stuck up jazz musician, but ultimately there are so many richer bar chords available with that 3rd in there that who cares if it is "ugly" to have the 3rd. People forget a plain jane normal guitar chord like a G chord or something is tonally actually very complex. It isn't like a basic g chord on a piano G B D. The "basic" G chord on guitar spans many octaves and has a non-obvious combination of notes. The 3rd in there for guitar tuning allows you to explore all those complexities with the given limitations of the human hand best.

dumpsterlidon Why Is The Guitar Tuned Like It Is?

Yah, music theory is an instrument of conservatism.

Most people just make what sounds good to them and that creates a massive power potential to extract by labelling some of that "good" and some of that "bad" in the eyes of an arbitrary system.

dumpsterlidon Mastodon.technology Shutdown

Exactly. I use mastodon daily, I follow tons of people that do as well. Mastodon doesnt need to be massive or fulfill whatever growth expectations armchair tech entrepeneurs expect of social media platforms here. It just has to be reasonably easy to maintain and actually play an important role in people's lives and it is absolutely doing that.

Also, I put content warnings when I blab on about some tech thing because not everyone is a techy there. I am friends with lots of people there who will roll their eyes and walk away if you start blowing their timeline up with that kind of topic and you arent conscientious. It isn't just techies all hanging out with no reason to be there other then the tech novelty of it, it is a lot of peoples' home.

dumpsterlidon Mastodon.technology Shutdown

You also dont have to look very hard for large communities that absolutely will not tolerate racists.

The difference between the fediverse and most other online places for manyyyyyy fediverse users who use it day to day is that if a bunch of racists show up and start making things shitty then somebody (mods) will ACTUALLY do something about it whereas every other online platform just didnt really care or defend the vulnerable.

Are there large communities of racists on isolated parts of the fediverse? Sure. It is an open source software, even Trump's shitstick social network tried to steal and use mastodon.

dumpsterlidon Mastodon.technology Shutdown

"and Discord servers"

vomits in my mouth a bit

dumpsterlidon Notes against note-taking systems

Org mode is so incredibly powerful but also so painfully beautiful in it's simplicity if you dont go overboard with it

dumpsterlidon Why Craigslist still looks the same after 25 years

I love craigslist, people who make craigslists ads are generally no bullshit serious about selling and every experience I have had was... fun, it honestly has been great fun meeting the people of craigslist lol.

I think the fact that craigslist hasnt changed look in 25 years or whatever attracts a certain kind of seller/buyer and that certain kind of seller/buyer is overall a really decent person who isn't trying to rip anyone off.

dumpsterlidon Patagonia founder gives away the company

spits out drink

What universe do you live in???

dumpsterlidon Ask HN: What's the best source code you've read?

Sounds like the codebase really was a living thing in a sense

dumpsterlidon The Hiker’s Dilemma

If you agree to hike in a group, become the pace setter in front, and don't let the slower people in the group take a good rest after you rest to let them catch up you look like and ARE functionally an asshole. All it takes is a little self-awareness to treat group hiking as a group activity instead of an activity where you get to as fast as you possibly can go.

This article is a dumpsterfire

dumpsterlidon Mastodon still can’t replace Twitter

Happily so!

dumpsterlidon Why are Pakistan’s floods so extreme this year?

A glacier is defined by the valley/valleys it inhabits, it has a locality and flows like a river does. It seems odd to give it a name, but it is no more odd than naming a river.

dumpsterlidon Mastodon still can’t replace Twitter

My favorite part about Mastodon/The Fediverse is people like you think it is dead and hopeless and don't come there

dumpsterlidon Stable Diffusion Is the Most Important AI Art Model Ever

"It's entirely pointless. Humans are vastly superior in their ability to subvert and corrupt. Even if you were able to catch regular "harmful" images humans would create a new categories of imagery which people would experience as "harmful", employ allusions, illusions, proxies, irony etc. It's endless."

This is employing a fallacy that people have infinite amounts of energy and motivation to devote to being hateful. I have been on countless online communities in video games and elsewhere and when the chat in them doesnt allow you to say toxic, hateful stuff... guess what a whole lot less of that shit is said. Are there people who get around it by changing out characters to ones that look the same that dont trigger the censor or by using slang or by mispelling? Of course but the fact is I think if you talk to someone who runs communities like this they would laugh in your face if you said a degree of censorship of hate speech wasn't fundamentally beneficial.

A big aspect has got to do with the fact that if everybody agrees to be part of a community, part of that agreement is a social contract not to use hate speech and if someone flaunts that they are bypassing it.. in the obvious flaunting of the social contract established (it is obvious they had to purposely mispell the word) these people are alienating themselves by underlining the fact that the 99% of the community finds their behavior pathetic and unacceptable.