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  1. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

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    Edit: Ohhhhh, 404 pages. Not "the webpage on Goodreads is giving me a 404 error". Ignore me, haha! Works okay for me? But in case that link doesn't work for you, here's the summary they have: It's...

    Edit: Ohhhhh, 404 pages. Not "the webpage on Goodreads is giving me a 404 error". Ignore me, haha!

    Works okay for me?

    But in case that link doesn't work for you, here's the summary they have:

    From the author of The Postmortal and The Hike comes his most deliriously entertaining novel yet. Point B is the story of one clever and occasionally determined young woman seeking both love and vengeance, but hardly ready for those two missions to intersect. It takes you to Vietnam, Hollywood, Singapore, Tokyo, inland Mexico, Oxford, the Maldives, Cuba, the coast of Northeast Australia, and ALL points beyond. You will find yourself plunged into a borderless, chaotic, oddly miraculous world that is ruled by a single bloodless corporation, and by a family determined to keep it that way. But PortSys never expected Anna Huff, and Anna Huff never expected love to make her this daring.

    It's got a 3.7 star rating and 150 reviews.

    1 vote

  2. Comment on Where does your username come from? (Following up on last year's thread) in ~tildes

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    I was rehearsing for a school play and the drama teacher kept getting on my case for not keeping my back straight during some of the dance moves. I actually had really severe scoliosis and was...

    I was rehearsing for a school play and the drama teacher kept getting on my case for not keeping my back straight during some of the dance moves. I actually had really severe scoliosis and was scheduled to have surgery at the end of that school year and was not physically capable of keeping my back straight the way she wanted. She called me lazy, some other kids were sticking up for me and trying to tell her about my scoliosis, and I said "I'm not being lazy, I'm genuinely crooked". I needed to make an email account for something later that day, so I used that, and I've been using it ever since. It was a pretty funny moment for me, and it's been a nice memory.

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  3. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

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    Point B by Drew Magary is some pretty good queer sci-fi. I'm not sure how many pages, though.

    Point B by Drew Magary is some pretty good queer sci-fi. I'm not sure how many pages, though.

  4. Comment on Satire publication The Onion buys Alex Jones' Infowars at auction with help from Sandy Hook families in ~society

  5. Comment on Satire publication The Onion buys Alex Jones' Infowars at auction with help from Sandy Hook families in ~society

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    I hope tomorrow's Knowledge Fight hasn't been recorded yet. If it has, then Monday's is gonna be gooooood.

    I hope tomorrow's Knowledge Fight hasn't been recorded yet. If it has, then Monday's is gonna be gooooood.

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  6. Comment on Is ADHD really that debilitating? in ~health.mental

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    I wonder if I could get a little motion activated audio player that would say something like "please, I'm dying of starvation. I need to eat your pocket trash" whenever he opens the closet door.

    I wonder if I could get a little motion activated audio player that would say something like "please, I'm dying of starvation. I need to eat your pocket trash" whenever he opens the closet door.

    1 vote

  7. Comment on Is ADHD really that debilitating? in ~health.mental

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    That would be perfect! That would work for months!

    That would be perfect! That would work for months!

    1 vote

  8. Comment on The man problem | “Why are men moving right?” in ~life.men

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    I personally know people who supported Bernie Sanders and are fairly racist. Those are not mutually exclusive things at all.

    I personally know people who supported Bernie Sanders and are fairly racist. Those are not mutually exclusive things at all.

    5 votes

  9. Comment on Is ADHD really that debilitating? in ~health.mental

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    That just gave me a brilliant idea. I need to find a small, hollow animal figure with an open mouth.

    That just gave me a brilliant idea. I need to find a small, hollow animal figure with an open mouth.

    2 votes

  10. Comment on Is ADHD really that debilitating? in ~health.mental

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    Haha, it's not tall enough to be able to see the googly eyes. Making it funny helps for a little while, but eventually anything that stays in the same place for long enough becomes invisible.

    Haha, it's not tall enough to be able to see the googly eyes. Making it funny helps for a little while, but eventually anything that stays in the same place for long enough becomes invisible.

    3 votes

  11. Comment on Is ADHD really that debilitating? in ~health.mental

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    The time when this information can be used against you, as of right now, is if you need an abortion. If you keep the information physically, you can destroy it as soon as you realize that you...

    The time when this information can be used against you, as of right now, is if you need an abortion. If you keep the information physically, you can destroy it as soon as you realize that you might need one, before the law could even possibly be involved, and you can be certain that all traces and evidence that it ever existed are gone completely. I know very little about data storage, so I may be wrong about this, but I think if you keep a digital record there may be evidence that you had data at one point to be deleted, even after you've deleted it. Also if there's evidence of when it was deleted, that could be used as evidence in and of itself. The ashes of a notebook that you've flushed down the drain definitely can't be dated in any way useful to this type of investigation. It's also much more difficult for users to be certain that their data has been deleted, especially if they aren't tech-savvy.

    It seems to me like both have their ups and downs depending on what the user is comfortable with and their own capabilities, and the best solution is to offer as clear and comprehensive a guide as possible to the benefits and drawbacks of each method.

    3 votes

  12. Comment on The man problem | “Why are men moving right?” in ~life.men

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    That's fair enough. I've heard her name but I'm not familiar with her work, it's very possible that she does address solutions in her other videos.

    That's fair enough. I've heard her name but I'm not familiar with her work, it's very possible that she does address solutions in her other videos.

    3 votes

  13. Comment on The man problem | “Why are men moving right?” in ~life.men

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    I'm sympathetic to the idea that men, especially young men who are feeling blamed for more privilege than they will actually experience, feel alienated, lonely, and underserved. I recognize that...

    I'm sympathetic to the idea that men, especially young men who are feeling blamed for more privilege than they will actually experience, feel alienated, lonely, and underserved. I recognize that there are problems that men, especially young men, are facing right now that are difficult to solve, and that not nearly enough effort is going into trying. That said, I have no idea how anyone is supposed to compete with the Republican messaging of "we're going to give you back all of the power and privilege" without...offering to give them back all of the power and privilege? Which, as a non-man, I would rather society did not do.

    I'm having a hard time figuring out what exactly it is that this creator wants the dems to do? I've paused at time code 16:04 right now, so over half the video, but I'm going to watch the rest before I hit "post". She's complaining about the messaging that Tim Walz took a supporting "cheerleader" and "backseat" role to his running mate, which sounds unappealing compared to the Republican messaging where society will return to the "good 'ol days" where men were in charge. Yes, if I was a young man, I probably would prefer the latter to the former, but what is the alternative? We never have women run for president, so that we never have to have a man be supportive to a woman rather than in charge himself? We're back to the question, "how can we maintain the gains that we've made for equality while appealing to men more than the people who plan to throw equality in the garbage so they can give that power back to men?"

    I get the "DON'T do this" message for a lot of the cringier stuff, and I don't disagree with most of it+, but what should the democrats have done? It's easy to criticize people struggling to accomplish an impossible task. I'd be more impressed with any actual suggestions. The only one she's given for directly addressing men is to go on Joe Rogan's podcast. That might have helped, but it would have been at the expense of other things, and we don't know that it would have helped. It really depends on what Harris would have been able to say, and again, we still haven't come up with anything that can compete with "you know Mad Men? We're gonna let you live like that again".

    Next she moves on to embracing left-wing populism, which I absolutely agree that the dems should have done, but that would have been messaging and policy that targets and benefits everyone besides the uber-wealthy, regardless of gender. I've been criticized for suggesting that's one way to be clear that they'll benefit men without harming non-men, and I can't hold this creator responsible for a separate person criticizing me, but I still feel that this can't really be counted as a suggestion for how to court men specifically.

    Finally she says it will take decades of work. How? Doing what? Again, I agree with most of what not to do, but unless going on JRE is a magic bullet that would make the left make sense to young men, I'm not seeing any actual suggestions for messaging to them here.

    +I disagree that the ad about republican's banning porn was a bad move. I think it's a good thing to let people know about and I think men would have had different complaints but just as many if the masturbator in the ad had been a woman, or much worse, non-binary. I also think that ads that point out that it's unattractive to vote in ways that will hurt the people that you want to be attractive to can be useful, although I do agree that the media environment was not really conducive to it and they weren't done in a productive way.

    19 votes

  14. Comment on Is ADHD really that debilitating? in ~health.mental

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    My understanding is that this legislation already exists in the form of a search warrant. If you are in a state where abortion is not under threat and you don't spend any time in states that are,...

    There does remain the possibility that Republicans might introduce legislation or regulations that force Apple and other companies to make menstrual data available to the government and law enforcement.

    My understanding is that this legislation already exists in the form of a search warrant. If you are in a state where abortion is not under threat and you don't spend any time in states that are, you'd probably know before that changes, but lots of people who can get pregnant are currently living in a situation where this danger already exists.

    4 votes

  15. Comment on Is ADHD really that debilitating? in ~health.mental

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    Combining it with the thing that needs doing also doesn't always work. I put a little cardboard basket in the laundry basket that says "please feed me pocket trash" and my husband still forgets to...

    Combining it with the thing that needs doing also doesn't always work. I put a little cardboard basket in the laundry basket that says "please feed me pocket trash" and my husband still forgets to rake the receipts out of his pockets and I end up picking little bits of paper off of all of our clothes.

    I try too be chill about it because I know he really can't help it but it's genuinely super annoying.

    5 votes

  16. Comment on Who is allowed to practice identity politics? in ~society

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    You know, I had never really thought about that. That's fair enough. I've never actually heard anyone complain about the term before. I have heard people complain about Latinx before. In fact,...

    So to go from that to BIPOC, where it explicitly separates out two groups as being special and distinct, feels like a step backwards.

    You know, I had never really thought about that. That's fair enough. I've never actually heard anyone complain about the term before. I have heard people complain about Latinx before. In fact, I've rarely heard it used in any other context.

    8 votes

  17. Comment on How self-driving cars will destroy cities in ~transport

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    I didn't see that. Was it in this thread? I didn't mean to ask you to watch the video multiple times and respond point by point. A much less granular discussion would have been just fine. Since...

    well I explained it already from multiple angles (legal, logistical, physical).

    I didn't see that. Was it in this thread?

    I didn't mean to ask you to watch the video multiple times and respond point by point. A much less granular discussion would have been just fine. Since you have though, I owe you a respinse to your response.

    Some context that you couldn't possibly know, I don't live in the US. I'm a recent immigrant to Sweden. So i can't vote on anything that happens in the town or country that I live in just yet. I do worry about whether or not AVs and infrastructure changes would be popular here. It's a very techy area with some nearby suburbs, I could see it being popular. That seems quite negative to me.

    I think it glosses over the benefits (you don't need to live within a few miles of your work to work, and the rise of suburban areas to make more land viable and valuable)

    Those seem like mostly bad things to me. Being able to live far away from work is enjoyable to the individuals that can use it, but this means more sprawl, more car usage generally which means more pollution, and higher property values which means things become less affordable. I don't want any of those things, I want my walkable, affordable city.

    "is this something that's considered a universal bad thing amongst the people"?

    It's considered a universal bad thing among me, who was the person complaining and worrying. I don't really care if other people like it when my town gets worse?

    There will still be some environmental impact, but is the issue with wheels and roads and toxins really so bad to balance out as being as bad as ICE cars? (I'm genuinly asking. I don't think so, but I haven't researched deeply into it). is the tire noise from fast cars worse than a revving ICE?

    Cars don't have to be autonomous to be electric. Being autonomous is not a proven part of reducing environmental impact. It is quite likely to reduce the usage of public transport and bikes and good old fashioned legs, though, which I consider to be a significant negative.

    I don't really see anything here that alleviates my concerns? I feel like we're having cery separate conversations. I'm sorry you felt you had to spend all this time and I didn't have much to give back, but that's where we are.

    5 votes

  18. Comment on How self-driving cars will destroy cities in ~transport

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    What makes you say that? I suppose it's what's not in your comment that I find troubling. You mention the cars going much faster and don't address the video's points about the (non-accident...

    It could, but I'm doubtful.

    What makes you say that?

    I suppose it's what's not in your comment that I find troubling. You mention the cars going much faster and don't address the video's points about the (non-accident related) problems that can cause. You also don't address any of the other issues of induced demand. Potential infrastructure changes, the problems that car companies will be able to cause if they're allowed to get their way as they have in the past. Things like that.

    1 vote

  19. Comment on How self-driving cars will destroy cities in ~transport

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    Sure, but my town is already much, much, much safer than the average American freeway, and American roadways in general. It could become a lot more dangerous and still be safer for pedestrians...

    Self driving cars will be much safer than the average American freeway.

    Sure, but my town is already much, much, much safer than the average American freeway, and American roadways in general. It could become a lot more dangerous and still be safer for pedestrians than the vast majority of America. I don't want it to get more dangerous at all.

    For the sake of conversational clarity, did you watch the video? A lot of your comment is addressed by it, and you don't seem to be rebutting any of the points in it, just restating things that it addressed. It's okay if you didn't, but the video addresses your points better than I can, so I'll consider myself to be doing you a disservice if I try to paraphrase it here. If you're interested in the topic and time is an issue, I watched it on double speed while cleaning my house and I don't feel I missed much by not catching most of the visuals.

    3 votes

  20. Comment on How self-driving cars will destroy cities in ~transport

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    I'm taking the video at its word that due to the fact that self-driving cars are trained in America, they will drive like Americans - specifically they will drive as though they are the default...

    I'm taking the video at its word that due to the fact that self-driving cars are trained in America, they will drive like Americans - specifically they will drive as though they are the default and most important form of transportation.

    You could, theoretically, move to a walkable city, but I understand that's unfeasible for a lot of people, especially if you want to stay in America.

    2 votes