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No particular tips, but would love to follow along if you’re blogging about it anywhere!

> plenty of poor people find a way to be at peace with what they have (and even strive to do better w/o being resentful) , have families, etc.

There is a definite floor to this definition of “poor” and a ton of people live below it.

I’ve also been hearing “we have x number of years left to abate catastrophe”. My observation is that X keeps getting smaller

They are implying that Costco's yearly membership fee filters out poor people, who shop at Walmart instead. They consider these people to be undesirable customers because people with money do not like to associate with them.

Why?

Photoshop doesn’t install with a massive directory of other people’s copyrighted works to draw snippets from.

At this point, I find it hard to believe he and his backers purchased it for any reason other than to destroy it.

Speaking for myself, the question is always fairly routine but sometimes people answer genuinely. In almost all those cases I really do care, but the register of the conversation usually only shifts after it’s apparent that the person is looking for more than a routine conversation

I don’t want to read too deeply into your comments, but it may be worth exploring why expressing this need feels like it would damage your relationship. It could be that you both need to adjust your communication patterns to better express yourselves and hear each other.

There’s also a risk management side to this. If my social life is built around my office and then I get laid off, that’s a massive impact on my social life. Decoupling reduces that risk significantly.

Wow, that is a perfect metaphor for what I feel

How are you aggregating in Obsidian? I feel like I haven't cracked the code on this one

Size + market share.

Advocate for racial hierarchies, spread hateful messages about various minorities, promote subjugation for women and violence as purification for men. The usually nazi shit, although the ones with extra brain cells try to be coy about it.

Meta is not your local coffee shop.

Climate change and poor forest management can both contribute to wildfires, but our current mechanisms for political discourse have extremely low bitrates and can't handle discussion of problems with multivariate inputs.

This kind of response, on a society-wide scale, is exactly what allows these things to keep happening. The broad populace gets tired of being outraged and retreats from the public sphere, which gets captured by ghouls. Imagine the difference between public outrage at a story like this in Finland vs Russia. A strong public bulwark against corruption and abuse is the sum of millions of small decisions to not shrug it off with "oh well, just another day in X country"

This looks very cool, although I went to check out their browser extensions and the permissions(!)

> This app can read and change your data on any website

I spent a very fun holiday break methodically working through these with my nephew and documenting how far we could get them to fly. Big takeaway is that simpler is better and the classics are classic for a reason!

Oh get over yourself. You’re little more than a username to me, I don’t give a shit about your kids, other than a general one about how all kids deserve care and respect from their parents. That’s your job, not mine.

My point is that ideology cuts both ways and it’s very easy to lose sight of the sharp edges in your own when you are endlessly focused on your enemy’s. I grew up deep in your ideology and have seen it play all the way out not only in my own life, but in my entire community and communities like mine (and yours). All I’m saying is that force-feeding your own ideas has a way of backfiring in the long run.

Amabo te… quit being a goofball and go have a conversation with your kids instead of threatening strangers on hacker news.

Look man, just pay attention to your kids and don’t prioritize ideology over their needs

You’re a perfect specimen of your type

My point is that there’s a selection bias among homeschool families. If you are talking them, you are talking to people who are very far along a path of commitment escalation who have a host of psychological incentives to validate their own decisions. I’m sure you’ve encountered many detractors. Your fortitude in tuning them out is a poor measure of the rigor of your decision-making.

I will also say, in my experience with homeschool families, the lifestyle attracts a disproportionate number of narcissists, as it offers a high degree of control over a captive audience to people with an inflated sense of their own abilities.

I’m not saying this is the case for you, and I’ve also certainly known many families who were motivated by special circumstances, individual needs, or just a desire for more freedom for kids who didn’t fit well into the public school system.

I would assert that the former is the modal case, and that parents looking to homeschool should critically examine their motivations and abilities. Unfortunately, the people who most need that reflection are usually the least inclined towards it.

Ah don’t sell yourself short, it’s a state of mind as much as anything

Ah, now here are the homeschoolers I know. Cheers, hope your kids still talk to you when they’re grown.

Most countries have a public system to teach physics to teenagers for free. I’d say we’ve made a little progress.

I was home schooled through my freshman year of high school. I have no intention of home schooling my children, but I’m always fascinated to listen to other adults in the process of talking themselves into it, because it gives me small a window into the headspace my parents and their peers were in when they made this consequential decision for their children. Some close friends are headed down this path, and while their reasoning is decidedly more secular, there are lingering echoes of the old Puritan impulse to flee from a fallen world.

If you’re considering home schooling yourself, I would just encourage you to consider that, like any product with a passionate fan base, there is a powerful echo chamber built up to reinforce your decision, so don’t expect to get a full accounting of the pros and cons from people on the inside. I’d also suggest to folks who have never been homeschooled themselves to spend some time reading through the experiences of adults who were homeschooled. Your kids deserve for you to make as clear eyed of a decision as you can about this.

This is an interesting idea. I honestly hadn’t considered that we could contribute to strike funds in these countries. Seems like a thing worth organizing

I’m well aware those groups. I’m asking about solutions here.

What sort of civil society groups are there advocating for this kind of infrastructure in Norway?

I’m always curious how people organize to achieve these outcomes. I live in a medium sized city in the US that is badly in need of better cycling infrastructure. There are a few organizations here, but vision is lacking or has been beaten out of them. I’d love to have some sort of organizing / policy toolkit that factors in experience from successful campaigns for systems like this.