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“each time you roll 1d6 and if you come up with a 1 you get organ damage, cognitive impairment, and chronic fatigue lasting for years” So he’s claiming long COVID (what ever its definition) has 16.7% chance of organ damage etc. Except that’s not supported by the data at all.
Regarding politics, information overflow, and general increase in lunacy. To put it simply, it was expected the level of noise and sensation will rise after smartphones emerged. Loud lunacy seems to be a great way to catch public attention currently and this is well understood by both the media, politicians and vegabonds of wealth. Sensational journalism was always a problem, now add to that billions of people able t…
> But there's good news. I cannot stress enough that it's entirely possible to control the level of exposure to said digital noise. You don't have to follow news, politics and social media intensely. You can just opt out. This is good news in the same sense that it's good news that you can do your bit for the climate crisis by walking everywhere, switching to vegetarianism and wearing only hand-crocheted hemp clothin…
That's a democracy. Not a problem.
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>yeaahhhh sorrrryyyy, i just see basically zero attempts to build systems that do better. Then you haven't been looking very hard. Sites have tried just about every conceivable means of moderation from user-based moderation to charging money per account or post to karma to forcing real-name accounts. It isn't a systems problem, it's a people problem - described by the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory, and you can't ju…
This is pushing into far off frontier territory, but I see few real options about it, so I'll lay down my cards. We need social web protocols[1], as a groundwork for innovation, for trying different things, for different folk making ongoing progress towards their own success. That diversity is the only hope we have of revealing greater wider paths. It doesn't have to be these particular protocols cited, but open, interoperable social is the basis where we can start to formulate ideas of moderation & response. You've made a lot of gesticulartion that we've tried a lot, but frankly, I have a hard time pinning down any of your various "we've tried this, it's no good" naysaying shitthrowing to any particular sites, and just one site failing seems to mean a lot to you, but it means very little to me. I don't see that you have even the faintest remotest appreciation for how much exploration & possibility is open. This attitude that connectivity is all a-priori doomed to fail is shit, is weak, is cowardice. Fuck this x1000. I don't think we've started to try, your protests give me no evidence to the counter.
(editor note: why you got downvoted on your last reply is shit. downvoting is such a stupid plague. nothing you've said is bad or wrong.)
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Its a shit rubbish reality that the only moderation option is infinite, is forever. Sever ties. End it. Write someone off as garbage. Your comment is way way too cancel culture for me. It hurts a lot having one bad exchange & having the door slammed in your face. Especially if it's some topic you feel strongly about, that you were trying to engage in. You may be right that it's a better tact than engaging. It's a shi…
Why does anyone owe you their eyes and ears? If somebody doesn’t want to read what you have to say, it’s fine that they block you. It’s fine. Stop worrying about it, it’s not “cancel culture”, it’s just human beings being overwhelmed by the number of people that piss them off.
It's remarkable how callouslness & cruelty, how "fuck these people why should i give them any slack" options like you present run roughshod over civility. It's beyond words to me that such absolutely dejectable, hostile, negative, piss-off-and-die fucking-you attitude as you present is allowed to ride so high & mighty, that we believe that tension & disagreement, that some occasional fuckery means all those fuckers can all just fuck off and die. This is never going to beget a rising up, a better society. It will lead only to tension. And it's built in, at the deepest technical layers: an increased amplification of tension & pissery.
It is cancel culture. And it's amplified enormously by technical systems which don't have options like digital juries, don't have options for justice to be enacted, which afford only digital death to the other. Fuck this times a million. This is callous bullshit we exist in, and the enormousness of people being bad online isn't some weak-kneed shit ass justification for being bastards to one another like you claim: it's part of the fucking problem, and it is cancel culture. 100%. Saying that the fucker deserved it, that there's so many fuckers about, doesn't make it less so.
We do need defense. But fucking a!!! Not like this.
Do the rich, a ka "the klept" as he calls them, really suffer the most from unchecked immigration? It seems rather doubtful to me, as presumably immigrants would compete with and provide cheap labor?
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That's the point, isn't it: all those things aren't exactly equal. You likely don't even really have to worry about selling your house now...worst case you loose equity and move someplace else. Personally traumatic & unpleasant, but not exactly the end of the world. Here in the US, I expect people in Miami and Boston and NYC to be partying right up until the point the water laps up against their front door, and then…
So global warming solved by nuclear winter?
“each time you roll 1d6 and if you come up with a 1 you get organ damage, cognitive impairment, and chronic fatigue lasting for years” So he’s claiming long COVID (what ever its definition) has 16.7% chance of organ damage etc. Except that’s not supported by the data at all.
The author is talking about the aforementioned omega strain not covid strains.
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Question: How is starlink going to be a game changer in ways publicly funded infrastructure (either traditional cables or cables + 5G towers) aren’t? Your anecdote doesn’t really cover “game changer” since land outside of suburbia is pretty either scarce, big and expensive, underdeveloped, etc. and not many people want to live there (and I doubt fast broadband is the only thing holding people back). I honestly don’t…
Our experience differs from your view. We recently moved from the Bay Area to the Sierra Foothills, near Sonora. There is plenty of land with homes already in place, as well as land suitable for new construction. Land is available in sizes from 10,000 sq. ft. lots to 1,200 acres and everywhere in between. Electricity, propane, and water are commonly available. As a rule of thumb, prices are ~0.25xthe Bay Area. Althou…
If you move your comment threads off of being rendered by the server, that old Athlon will handle this traffic no issues: https://wordpress.org/plugins/fastcomments/ (Shameless plug - I created fastcomments) We have a SSR solution coming this week, too, so JS won't be required. Just reach out if you sign up and I'll give you a custom package between the two tiers we have today (the ability to do this yourself is comi…
YMMV, but feels to me that cstross's Cassandra pessimism has increased rapidly each year, with good reason, but some of these pieces are overly-sensationalist. I still remember his whole bit in 2017 about how Hurricane Harvey was going to destroy Houston - how'd that turn out? http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2017/08/houston-... But I will say his 2015 piece, "A different cluetrain", still holds up with gr…
The trouble with blogs like antipope is that more often than not they read like GPT-3, or a more advanced GPT-4, where every sentence seems coherently linked with every surrounding sentence but there’s something that doesn’t seem quite right upon reflection. And so quite a lot of readers think there is some super duper smart guy offering this cool hidden insight that they can easily use, only to forget it by the next…