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Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by tasuki »

crazygringo wrote: post #197
tasuki wrote: post #195

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Ok, fair. But you see: not one comment here is neutral. It would be silly to expect a comment to be neutral, such a comment wouldn't be written in the first place. I think the original comment expressed the point while staying as neutral as possible. > So you think the commenter was neutral? Yes, it stated some facts. > No judgment? Yes, it contained no explicit value judgement. Any value judgement we bring into it i…

What you write doesn't make any sense. You say it's "silly to expect a comment to be neutral" but the comment is "as neutral as possible" and then answer if the commenter was neutral with "yes". Those aren't consistent. I don't know what definitions of neutral or value judgment you're using, but I hope you can use this as a learning opportunity. The original comment has the obvious implicit judgment that a greater CO…

> The original comment has the obvious implicit judgment that a greater CO2 footprint is a bad thing.

No it did not contain any judgement. That is your reading and not the comment.

> This is shared context.

The world is a large place and different people share different context.

> The purpose of the comment is clearly to shame the person for having such a high carbon footprint, otherwise there's no purpose in bringing it up.

Informing perhaps?

I wonder what your gripe is: Do you think it's inappropriate to mention the CO2 at all? Or do you think that the poster should have said it in a different way? In what way?

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by [deleted] »

spiderice wrote: post #152
nicbou wrote: post #141

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It's an "all hands on deck" situation, yet everyone seems to think that someone else has to do something. You don't need to be a martyr, just to make an effort. At the very least don't brag about not giving a crap.

I don't give a crap, in the most boastful way possible. Sorry if my zealotry isn't your zealotry.

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Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by [deleted] »

adamtaylor_13 wrote: post #124
dansmith1919 wrote: post #104

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That was my main takeaway as well. How do you do this without any shame? My man is emitting an amount of CO2 on par with an small African country

Most people don't spend a lot of time wistfully considering their CO2 usage, myself included. The religious zeal by which people feel the need to tell me about the ever-warming planet is honestly more off-putting than most actual religions. Of the very few "f*cks" I can give in my life, I prefer to spend mine as I choose rather than being scolded for not giving mine to the pressing issues that others deem important.

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Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by nkrisc »

markh1967 wrote: post #138
nkrisc wrote: post #25

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But you didn’t spend hundreds of hours on it, so when it did happen to be useful it seemed like an outsized benefit. I would wager that for most people, most data about themselves will be useless and not worth collecting. Of course you can’t know what data will be useless or not, so unless the cost of collecting it is minimal or nil (wearing a smart watch, writing down your weight each day/week), it’s probably not wo…

About 9 years ago I had a run-in with stomach cancer. After a few months of chemo and a 7 hour operation I was eventually declared cancer free and have been ever since, but still have to live with the consequences of the treatment and be vigilant for any signs of it returning. I still suffer intermittent stomach aches, especially in the early hours of the morning, and had a terrible time trying to decide if they were…

Sounds like you had a very good reason to be tracking your stomachaches. But almost everyone else aside from you And people In similar situations would be wasting their time doing that, I would imagine.

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by nicbou »

spiderice wrote: post #214
tasuki wrote: post #157

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Thank you for destroying the Earth!

Thank God I'm a single human and don't have nearly that much influence over the Earth.

"No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood."

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by nicbou »

adamtaylor_13 wrote: post #174
nicbou wrote: post #126

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The thing is that everyone alive today and in the future is footing the bill for that indifference. It's nice that you don't care, but it's not something I'd brag about.

I don't feel it's properly engaging in good faith to say that I don't care. I don't specifically care, in the "feeling shame" sense that the GP had mentioned. As I pointed out, we all have a limited number of things we can realistically care about. The fact that I happen to care about other things more than this specific flavor of global catastrophe is morally OK.

The way I see it, "from each according to their ability" is the right approach here. If you can afford 30% less flying, red meat etc, then it's your duty to do it. You don't need to make your cat go vegan; just... do what you can, even if imperfectly.

Shame is not necessary, but callous indifference is not acceptable. There is a middle ground where you treat it like a habit to improve, like a step count.

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by nicbou »

eudamoniac wrote: post #205
dansmith1919 wrote: post #104

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That was my main takeaway as well. How do you do this without any shame? My man is emitting an amount of CO2 on par with an small African country

I refuse to worsen my life for an absolutely minuscule abstract benefit to someone, eventually, maybe. I am going to continue eating meat and flying when I want to, and I don't feel the least bit bad about it. It's unfortunate that climate change is happening, but my personal actions are not meaningfully contributing. My choices do not have cascading effects on others; whatever I do, the climate will change in the sa…

"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."

Instead we're razing the forests and bragging about our indifference.

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by vidarh »

JCattheATM wrote: post #196
vidarh wrote: post #23

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For me it's about managing ADHD-like (never diagnosed, and I don't care to assume) patterns, coupled with self-accountability. I have a self-improving dashboard (it kicks off Claude to propose additions based my positive/negative feedback on past attempts, and then builds them) that feels quite helpful. E.g. one of the things it added was fitbit integration that shoves my step count and resting heart rate in my face…

> managing ADHD-like (never diagnosed, and I don't care to assume) What's the difference here between assuming and saying 'ADHD-like' instead?

The difference is that I know what my "symptoms" are, but I don't know whether the combination of them are sufficient to justify an ADHD diagnosis. I don't like to assume because there's a tendency for a lot people in tech to self-diagnose and in the process sometimes diminish the difficultly others have with them.

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by eudamoniac »

nicbou wrote: post #227
eudamoniac wrote: post #205

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I refuse to worsen my life for an absolutely minuscule abstract benefit to someone, eventually, maybe. I am going to continue eating meat and flying when I want to, and I don't feel the least bit bad about it. It's unfortunate that climate change is happening, but my personal actions are not meaningfully contributing. My choices do not have cascading effects on others; whatever I do, the climate will change in the sa…

"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." Instead we're razing the forests and bragging about our indifference.

Me planting a tree results in a tree existing for progeny. Me skipping a flight results in absolutely no difference for progeny. I pick my battles. I also plant a lot of trees, literally.
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