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I'm (apparently) aphantasic, having learned about the concept on a couple of months ago. However unscientific the [VVIQ]( https://aphantasia.com/study/vviq/ ) is, I couldn't answer…

> Maybe every so often a conversation within a podcast episode contains some extraordinary analytical insight not found elsewhere Much like comments written on the internet. > That…

> how is what he’s doing any different than what we always were told reality TV was doing or gameshows do? It's not. Those things are bad too. > My kids watch his videos because th…

What makes me uncomfortable is the elitism running through many of his videos. Put 100 "poors" in a circle so they can fight it out for $500k [1]? It's just another rich person mak…

Let's reductio ad absurdum our way through this, shall we? If what you say is true, then during the run up of Bitcoin, any corporation that didn't lay off all its employees and use…

> My original comment was in agreement with the poster I was replying to, and I was adding nuance and finding common ground in a semi-shared experience. Do you genuinely not see ho…

Being dismissive of the experiences of members of oppressed groups is objectively more harmful than being dismissive of someone not part of a similarly oppressed group.

"My mother died today." "Well, lots of peoples mothers died today." Do you not see how that response is problematic? How it downplays the person's experience?

Hate directed at black people, who have been exploited, oppressed, enslaved, killed, and more for over 400 years has a more significant and problematic impact than hate directed at…

I was not engaging with the argument made by the post I replied to because the poster's argument is completely beside the point. When someone says "I experienced racism because I'm…

> this sounds an awful lot like, "because you're responding to a comment made by a black person, the only acceptable response is one of total agreement" This is clearly a strawman.…

I think you might want to reflect for a minute on why you thought "but do you know how virulent some of those communities were to just about everyone?" was an appropriate response …

> Even so, the apparent protection extended to all age groups. In all, men who averaged 4.6–7 ejaculations a week were 36% less likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer before t…

That all makes sense. I think context matters. Yes, when I have a service that's been up and running for some time, if that service fails, I want my service to restart. But when I'…

Caveats: 1) this may not be what grandparent was trying to do and 2) I have limited experience debugging "regular" Docker, let alone firecracker or whatever Fly.io does. With that …