LukeZaz's recent activity
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Comment on How would you rate adulthood? in ~life
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Comment on How would you rate adulthood? in ~life
LukeZaz Awful. My adulthood has seen a smorgasbord of mental issues crop up right off the heels of discovering a lifelong disability, followed by a steadily worsening quality-of-life. Much of the last few...Awful. My adulthood has seen a smorgasbord of mental issues crop up right off the heels of discovering a lifelong disability, followed by a steadily worsening quality-of-life. Much of the last few years of my life have been the worst I've yet experienced.
I have more problems than ever, more responsibility than I can possibly handle, more stress than I previously imagined, and have lost almost all my ambition wholesale.
I have extremely little hope for the future.
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Comment on The ugly truth about Spotify is finally revealed in ~music
LukeZaz Seconding Pandora, for what it's worth. It's not stellar, and definitely does not have as many artists, but if it's vaguely popular it'll still be there and that's been more than good enough for me.Seconding Pandora, for what it's worth. It's not stellar, and definitely does not have as many artists, but if it's vaguely popular it'll still be there and that's been more than good enough for me.
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Comment on Daniel Penny jury deadlocked on manslaughter charge in subway chokehold case in ~news
LukeZaz Doesn't sound like you know cfabbro very well.Doesn't sound like you know cfabbro very well.
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Comment on Man suspected of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO is ordered held without bail after brief court appearance in Pennsylvania in ~news
LukeZaz Ah, I think I misunderstood what you were saying, then. I thought you were saying "bad for society," not "bad for the gunman personally."Ah, I think I misunderstood what you were saying, then. I thought you were saying "bad for society," not "bad for the gunman personally."
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Comment on Man suspected of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO is ordered held without bail after brief court appearance in Pennsylvania in ~news
LukeZaz Could you elaborate on your reasoning for this?Seems like all the likely endings are bad.
Could you elaborate on your reasoning for this?
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Comment on Man suspected of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO is ordered held without bail after brief court appearance in Pennsylvania in ~news
LukeZaz I'm hesitant to buy this for reasons others have already elaborated, but at the same time I'm acutely familiar with policing's tendency towards both incompetence and malice, so I end up finding it...I'm hesitant to buy this for reasons others have already elaborated, but at the same time I'm acutely familiar with policing's tendency towards both incompetence and malice, so I end up finding it believable nonetheless.
Maybe time will tell.
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Comment on How do you build strong online communities? in ~talk
LukeZaz I know you're probably referring to the second-to-last sentence, but I've gotta say that the rest of it is one area where I feel Tildes falls very short. Moderation is quite opaque here. I've both...Moderation needs to be visible, otherwise people will not know it is happening and why it is happening. This does not mean having an open modlog. Moderation needs to be visible where it is applied and explain why it is applied. For example a comment stating "X was removed of Y". But also regular announcements, responding to feedback, etc. Something Deimos does a lot on Tildes as well.
I know you're probably referring to the second-to-last sentence, but I've gotta say that the rest of it is one area where I feel Tildes falls very short. Moderation is quite opaque here.
I've both had and seen comments get removed where absolutely no explanation was provided, and the reasoning for the actions taken were not intuitive. I once posted a heated comment here and got a month-long ban for it, which might suggest that the comment in question was not my first screw-up, but nevertheless I don't actually know that because absolutely nothing was said to me. The whole thing left me feeling extremely unwelcome and I very nearly quit the site entirely. Without getting into further examples, I've also seen long-time, friendly users get permanently banned for reasons I just can't explain.
I do very much agree that transparency and understanding in moderator action is important; people have to learn from their mistakes somehow. I just wish Tildes did that. I have my suspicions as to why it doesn't, and they are kind ones. I in turn would have suggestions to fix it, but I don't feel as though Tildes is very receptive to criticism of moderation generally, and even if it were this thread probably isn't the place for it.
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Comment on Weekly Middle East war megathread - week of October 21 in ~news
LukeZaz And Iran can now claim they have justification to escalate even further and attack again. This is not how de-escalation works, and thus, this is not how safety works either.And Iran can now claim they have justification to escalate even further and attack again. This is not how de-escalation works, and thus, this is not how safety works either.
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Comment on Weekly Middle East war megathread - week of October 21 in ~news
LukeZaz (edited )Link ParentYou sound like someone who doesn't believe Israel has done anything wrong the last year. I don't really want to talk about this with someone who believes that, especially after all that's happened...You sound like someone who doesn't believe Israel has done anything wrong the last year. I don't really want to talk about this with someone who believes that, especially after all that's happened as a result of the IDF. So I won't.
I will, however, speak to others reading this on one thing:
A lack of escalation is absolutely beneficial to Israeli citizenry. A lack of escalation means less likelihood of regional wars, which tend to have negative impacts on local populaces. It does nobody in Israel any favors to be in open war with their neighbors, save perhaps for warmongers who seek a casus belli.
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Comment on Weekly Middle East war megathread - week of October 21 in ~news
LukeZaz Not the person you replied to, but it could be considered that it's the escalation itself that is unreasonable, not that it is a particularly unreasonable form of escalation. We want wars to end,...Why do you think this is an unreasonable escalation?
Not the person you replied to, but it could be considered that it's the escalation itself that is unreasonable, not that it is a particularly unreasonable form of escalation.
We want wars to end, after all. If your opponent says "This was the last attack, and we're stopping now," and you have reason to believe them,1 it's beneficial to everybody to not fire back over a desire for chest-thumping revenge.
1. Whether or not this was the case is up to you.
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Comment on Lawsuit: City cameras make it impossible to drive anywhere without being tracked | "Every passing car is captured," says 4th Amendment lawsuit against Norfolk, VA in ~tech
LukeZaz (edited )Link ParentA slippery slope that has time and again been proven to be a very real thing that happens when more cameras are added in more places. Suburbia in much of the U.S. has already become a surveillance...A slippery slope that has time and again been proven to be a very real thing that happens when more cameras are added in more places. Suburbia in much of the U.S. has already become a surveillance state due to nearly ubiquitous doorbell cameras that cops are freely allowed to check whenever they want without a warrant.
I can't even leave my house without being on one of these cameras. And you want there to be even more of them. If both our arguments rely on hypotheticals, then at least mine's trying to advocate for kind solutions rather than an honest-to-god police state.
I'm out.
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Comment on Lawsuit: City cameras make it impossible to drive anywhere without being tracked | "Every passing car is captured," says 4th Amendment lawsuit against Norfolk, VA in ~tech
LukeZaz An expensive solution that takes time is still better than one that solves a problem by creating a bigger one, and if we're going to start arguing for preferred answers based on what people hate,...An expensive solution that takes time is still better than one that solves a problem by creating a bigger one, and if we're going to start arguing for preferred answers based on what people hate, then there sure is a lot to be said on speeding tickets.
But it all boils back down to the fact that you are stating preference for an option that works by hurting people and imagining an idealized version of it that would never occur, all while writing off safer and kinder options just because they're not as easy to slap down in a short time.
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Comment on Lawsuit: City cameras make it impossible to drive anywhere without being tracked | "Every passing car is captured," says 4th Amendment lawsuit against Norfolk, VA in ~tech
LukeZaz The crime is hypothetical because you are not talking about any specific instance of it, but instead the general idea that speeding will occur, and then using it to justify furthering a...Speeding isn't a hypothetical crime lol. Traffic cameras have huge amounts of experimental evidence showing they effectively reduce speeding and save lives by making people drive safer.
The crime is hypothetical because you are not talking about any specific instance of it, but instead the general idea that speeding will occur, and then using it to justify furthering a surveillance state. Other techniques, such as traffic calming or public transportation, reduce dangerous driving far more effectively and need neither aggressive punishment nor the treating of drivers as inevitable criminals.
For privacy concerns, it'd be relatively easy to configure them to only point at license plates and keep no other records (there are problems with this approach, but it's possible).
Tools like these are practically guaranteed to be abused, so you can expect the probability of responsible usage like this to be approximately zero.
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Comment on Lawsuit: City cameras make it impossible to drive anywhere without being tracked | "Every passing car is captured," says 4th Amendment lawsuit against Norfolk, VA in ~tech
LukeZaz To justify invasive and harmful policy like this by way of fearmongering about hypothetical crime would be to make for a society that treats people as evil by default.To justify invasive and harmful policy like this by way of fearmongering about hypothetical crime would be to make for a society that treats people as evil by default.
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Comment on Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of September 30 in ~news
LukeZaz I don't mean to restart discussion of it (the lock was justified, I feel), but is this still being considered? It's been a while.I don't mean to restart discussion of it (the lock was justified, I feel), but is this still being considered? It's been a while.
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Comment on Up to a quarter of US rental inflation could be due to price-fixing in ~finance
LukeZaz Says who? I'd really appreciate if you could back this up with something, because it doesn't make the least bit of sense to me. What good is it to sell a house you own when you plan to spend your...Your parents' concerns make sense though many homeowners don't think like that.
Says who? I'd really appreciate if you could back this up with something, because it doesn't make the least bit of sense to me. What good is it to sell a house you own when you plan to spend your life in it? You'd end up with a big influx of cash, but a worse living situation. It's not like you can move to a better house, because that house's price probably went up too.
The only scenarios in which selling your only home is a truly beneficial option are niche ones that I can't imagine most people preferring.
That's why proposition 13 is so popular in California since it limits property taxes,
I rather suspect this is more to do with the preferences of landlords than the preferences of the common man.
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Comment on Up to a quarter of US rental inflation could be due to price-fixing in ~finance
LukeZaz From the Wikipedia article on U.S. homeownership: Combine this with what OBLIVIATER has mentioned with regard to homeowners who intend to live in their houses not particularly benefiting from...You have to remember about 65% of American households own their home,
From the Wikipedia article on U.S. homeownership:
The name "homeownership rate" can be misleading. As defined by the US Census Bureau, it is the percentage of homes that are occupied by the owner. It is not the percentage of adults that own their own home. This latter percentage will be significantly lower than the homeownership rate. Many households that are owner-occupied contain adult relatives (often young adults, descendants of the owner) who do not own their own home. Single building multi-bedroom rental units can contain more than one adult, all of whom do not own a home.
The term "homeownership rate" can also be misleading because it includes households that owe on a mortgage, which means they do not fully own the equity in the home they are said to "own." According to ATTOM Data Research, only "34 percent of all American homeowners have 100 percent equity in their properties — they’ve either paid off their entire mortgage debt or they never had a mortgage."[10]
Combine this with what OBLIVIATER has mentioned with regard to homeowners who intend to live in their houses not particularly benefiting from rising housing prices (since they don't exactly want to sell) and the idea that homeownership rates are the biggest contributor to housing prices doesn't hold up so well.
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Comment on Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of September 16 in ~news
LukeZaz Of course. It'd generally be frowned upon to, say, murder people, as some at Jan 6th came to try and do. But that's not what we're talking about, here. These students weren't protesting their...Of course. It'd generally be frowned upon to, say, murder people, as some at Jan 6th came to try and do.
But that's not what we're talking about, here. These students weren't protesting their wannabe-dictator losing an election, they were protesting a genocide. And I rather consider barricading a lecture hall to be significantly less of a concern than anything that happened at January 6th.
We're not talking about protesters hurting people, here. We're talking about protesters being hurt because the way they protested made things too inconvenient for a select few.
A few. I've gotten a better understanding of my mental health alongside the problems I've gotten, and some family members of mine have managed to recently make some huge strides for themselves. It's just not been a good time overall by any stretch.