losvedir's recent activity
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Comment on #GenerationLockdown: Two Australians shake up America with viral anti-gun ad in ~misc
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Comment on What do you *dislike* about current trends in leftism? in ~talk
losvedir Link ParentI'm sympathetic to this perspective but honestly don't know how those identities map to the modern world. What jobs these days map to those categories? At the quintessential Marxian ideal of the...I'm sympathetic to this perspective but honestly don't know how those identities map to the modern world. What jobs these days map to those categories? At the quintessential Marxian ideal of the factory: we have the factory director, production manager, process engineer, mechanic, operator, etc? Who's in what category? The actual owners of the factory are police officers, school teachers, and doctors who own shares in Proctor & Gamble in their pensions and 401ks. The mechanics who keep it running make more than the managers.
Ultimately, I support a safety net for the economically disadvantaged and think that should be the number one priority of leftists, but I don't think "proles" and the bourgeoisie are useful semantic categories anymore.
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Comment on 69-year-old Dutch man seeks to change his legal age to forty-nine in ~life
losvedir Link ParentHmm, I don't buy that it's all that different. A staunch anti-trans person would probably say that sex on the birth certificate is established by science, and time is similarly measured, by visual...Hmm, I don't buy that it's all that different. A staunch anti-trans person would probably say that sex on the birth certificate is established by science, and time is similarly measured, by visual inspection of a clock. Changing sex on the birth certificate doesn't mean, "the doctor didn't actually see a penis", it means "as a society we've decided to let people change their sex and so we should update this legal document to be consistent".
In other words, I don't think there's a strong principle you can derive here, and if millions of people really did have age dysphoria and suffered immense distress from it, it's plausible to me that we would allow amending their birth certificates as well.
That said, I don't think there are (many?) such people, so it seems fine to me to say, "yes, they're analogous situations but we'll allow people to change their sex but not their age."
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Comment on This is the most beautiful song I've ever heard - and it's country in ~music
losvedir LinkHm, gotta take the opportunity to plug my favorite country song, River Take Me by Darrell Scott: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=svS6MwQ5mBY . It's got great lyrics and virtuoso guitar playing, and...Hm, gotta take the opportunity to plug my favorite country song, River Take Me by Darrell Scott: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=svS6MwQ5mBY . It's got great lyrics and virtuoso guitar playing, and I can listen to it all day.
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Comment on What interesting, uncommon mechanic would you like to see more commonly in video games? in ~games
losvedir LinkI enjoy AR-type games (Pokemon Go, Ingress) and would love to see games expand on the mechanic of traveling in the real world to travel in the game world. Maybe something like an RPG where you...I enjoy AR-type games (Pokemon Go, Ingress) and would love to see games expand on the mechanic of traveling in the real world to travel in the game world. Maybe something like an RPG where you have to walk around the real world? Minecraft meets AR? Etc.
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Comment on missouri blues in ~creative
losvedir LinkWow! Saw this on the front page and clicked the link even though I'm not really into poetry or blues, since I used to live in Missouri and the title caught my eye. I think this is incredible! Good...Wow! Saw this on the front page and clicked the link even though I'm not really into poetry or blues, since I used to live in Missouri and the title caught my eye.
I think this is incredible! Good job, man. I couldn't stop once I started reading it.
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Comment on Calling prophet Muhammad a pedophile does not fall within freedom of speech: European court in ~humanities
losvedir Link ParentOffhand, there was that blogger in Singapore who was arrested and fined for accusing the government of corruption, and that UK guy who went to jail for teaching his cat to heil Hitler. In the US...Offhand, there was that blogger in Singapore who was arrested and fined for accusing the government of corruption, and that UK guy who went to jail for teaching his cat to heil Hitler.
In the US we've also had to deal with Scientology which is a horrible, litigious cult, and I believe they would do a lot more damage if our free speech laws were weaker.
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Comment on Calling prophet Muhammad a pedophile does not fall within freedom of speech: European court in ~humanities
losvedir Link ParentIn the US that certainly would fall within freedom of speech.In the US that certainly would fall within freedom of speech.
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Comment on Calling prophet Muhammad a pedophile does not fall within freedom of speech: European court in ~humanities
losvedir Link ParentIn the EU, sure, but in the US her speech absolutely would have been considered protected. You can denigrate religions and their followers here all you want. Hate speech is allowed. This only came...In the EU, sure, but in the US her speech absolutely would have been considered protected. You can denigrate religions and their followers here all you want. Hate speech is allowed.
This only came out this way because Austria doesn't have as strong of free speech protections and does have blasphemy laws (which the US doesn't have). I disagree with those laws, but if you have them it does seem only fair to apply them to this case.
I love the US's extreme stance on freedom of speech and it saddens me that the public is starting to chip away at it as of late.
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Comment on Does anyone here share a passion for spiritual development, the occult, metaphysics, or fringe science/academia? in ~humanities
losvedir LinkMaybe this is too boring for you, but I dabble with Catholicism. That is, I'm not sure I believe it, but I enjoy going to church. I find the ritual a good time to reflect. I used to be hardcore...Maybe this is too boring for you, but I dabble with Catholicism. That is, I'm not sure I believe it, but I enjoy going to church. I find the ritual a good time to reflect.
I used to be hardcore atheist/materialist, but have softened on that lately. I keep thinking of the Louis CK bit on Conan about how people take flying in airplanes for granted when really you've achieved the miracle of human flight and you're sitting in a chair in the sky and people should be gripping their armrests and going "Woooooow! Oh my God oh my God oh my God" the whole time. Existence is kind of like that for me. Easy to take for granted but really awe inspiring when you stop and think about it.
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Comment on A novel way to prevent email overload in ~life
losvedir LinkBill Gates talked about this idea in his book The Road Ahead 20 years ago, and I always thought it was a shame it didn't take off. Also, interestingly, a system like this was one of Satoshi's...Bill Gates talked about this idea in his book The Road Ahead 20 years ago, and I always thought it was a shame it didn't take off.
Also, interestingly, a system like this was one of Satoshi's inspirations for Bitcoin. The original idea of "proof of work" was as an email spam deterrent. The idea was that you'd repeatedly hash your email with a nonce until the hash started with a bunch of zeroes (like mining Bitcoin) and then send the email, the nonce, and the hash. The recipient could trivially check it, but it would take the sender some non-negligible amount of time to construct it, making it economically infeasible for spammers.
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Comment on New user here, I love this about tildes! in ~tildes
losvedir LinkI use the uMatrix to browse the web and I generally have the setting of only allowing Javascript to execute from the domain of the site that I'm visiting. 3rd party Javascript is usually some sort...I use the uMatrix to browse the web and I generally have the setting of only allowing Javascript to execute from the domain of the site that I'm visiting. 3rd party Javascript is usually some sort of tracking code and is a huge surface area for a malware attack!
But almost always these days I can't browse normal sites without enabling some third party assets, and I'm always picking and choosing through dozens of requests to dozens of different domains.
I love that tildes.net works out of the box and is only serving assets of its own!
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New user here, I love this about tildes!
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I don't think these lockdown drills are good to do. They traumatize children in and of themselvecs and the chance of it, first: mattering, and second: helping a given child are so minuscule, the cost/benefit doesn't seem there. I was in high school when Columbine happened and I remember being shocked like everyone else that this terrible thing happened "over there" somewhere. But my school didn't do anything in particular about it, and I wasn't any less safe because of it.