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I have never seen so very very many words written to say what sums up to “in hindsight, I wish I hadn’t posted that”.
All of computing reduces to "just ones and zeros." In light of this let's just dispense with the decades of verbosity and libraries' worth of extraneous elaboration.
I don't understand how people who are into their late 20s and 30s have time for all of this online drama If you have to work, manage relationships, and have to cook and clean up after yourself, where is the extra time for it? Not only that, but with what little free time that's left, people would choose to spend it on engaging in online drama instead of doing something actually pleasant It's one of those things that…
And online, those who have cut back on (or are slacking off at) work, relationships, etc. are probably over-represented.
(Yes, their wanting to drama I really don't get. But I'm an old geezer, so...)
I have never seen so very very many words written to say what sums up to “in hindsight, I wish I hadn’t posted that”.
They are just saying the person they are no longer reflects that. Because people are continuously evolving, but posts online are frozen in history without context.
There are things I did in kindergarten that I no longer identify with, but that doesn’t mean they were wrong at that age or for the world at that time.
This book burning vibe is pretty extreme. I wish there were a reliable way for everyone to write pseudonymously. (I don't as a reminder that legal action against an employer could baselessly unprotect the whole team.)
The idea of pseudo-anonymity is interesting. I’m not sure how it sound work, but would love to know if others could identify it.
Only solution I can see is to stop being held accountable for every thought and action we’ve ever had. And while we can’t change society we can at least change how we look at our own past.
I have never seen so very very many words written to say what sums up to “in hindsight, I wish I hadn’t posted that”.
Take comfort in the contributions you have made to projects bigger than yourself will be incorporated into maybe some of humanities greatest works.
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But, this is the drama... you are part of the drama ;P (as am I! and we are both doing this--"instead of doing something actually pleasant"--because, what? FWIW, I can see the argument that it is maybe being justified mentally as "social activism"--for both of us, though in different ways--but I actually think, at least for me, that it is a form of escapism and addiction).
Well as far as drama goes, this community is about as dramatic as a box of cereal On the one hand for me, it's escapism. On the other, there's a lot of novelty available, new things that we'd never encounter irl. Which gives us new ideas for things to try irl. Sort of like the printing press spreading information faster
Think about the drama that was the recent rust for Linux lead resigning. People then have their opinions about it and then it spills into the comments here.
I think you just care less about the social media drama as described in the submission (which is ok).
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> With no representations of yourself on the net, you may as well not exist, and people are free to project anything whatsoever unto the tabula rasa of your nonexistent persona I think this is only as issue if you are a “known” person in some regard. For most of us plebs, receding into anonymous nonexistence is likely a very healthy thing.
Even while writing pseudonymously and innocuously you are at risk of being doxxed and subjected to mob "justice;" as an example of this see Scott Alexander's writings on Slate Star Codex. In light of this the safest recourse is to simply not post anything online at all, for fear of being doxxed at some point in the future (an inevitability given modern standards for and cultural attitudes towards privacy) and subject…
He writes about (sometimes) controversial stuff for a large(ish) and influential audience. He wants to be known and influential. I think he deserves the right to do so pseudonymously, but that’s tangential to my actual point.
Most of us plebs do not want to be famous or influential, and therefore it doesn’t make a ton of sense to leave a trail of possibly regrettable or easily misinterpreted bits of data attached to our real names.
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There are around 6000 waking hours in a year. A full-time job is 1/3 of that. Maybe managing your life is another 1/3. That still leaves 2000 hours, which is plenty for hobbies, vacations, doing silly things, and feeling bored. Some people are busy because they need multiple jobs or have unexpected caretaker responsibilities. But many who feel busy are busy because they choose to be busy. They have made so many commi…
5840 hrs awake, based on 16hours per day. 2080 hrs at work, based on a 40hr work week - of course not counting days off. Math seems to be mathing (mostly) but it feels wrong, work definitely feels like it takes up much more than 1/3rd of our waking hours.
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Anyone who describes themselves as an openly queer activist and microblogger is not really representative of the avg person. Their entire thing is being online all the time. It's not a hobby for them, it's their whole personality. I'll guess you're probably a straight white male due to the odds on this site, like me. We don't have the same struggles perceived or otherwise. It does seem alien to me. But, live and let…
You say “live and let live” but a life spent terminally online is no life at all. I remember when I was in elementary school teachers would talk about minimizing time spent watching tv. Parents would be encouraged to tell their kids to minimize tv watching and spend more time reading. The point wasn’t to never watch tv. But to keep the time spent watching as little as possible. It was well understood that tv is addic…
Most people accomplish nothing. You go playing basketball with guys after work, you will accomplish nothing with it. You sit and read books, you are accomplishing nothing. You tend to your flowers at home and you are not actually accomplishing all that much.
Insisting on accomplishment all the time just leads to mental health problems.
> Just like a life lived like this is no life at all, a personality like this is no personality at all.
Why? Of course it is personality. It is not like the rest of us all had super special valuable personalities either. We just exist.
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> With no representations of yourself on the net, you may as well not exist, and people are free to project anything whatsoever unto the tabula rasa of your nonexistent persona I think this is only as issue if you are a “known” person in some regard. For most of us plebs, receding into anonymous nonexistence is likely a very healthy thing.
Even while writing pseudonymously and innocuously you are at risk of being doxxed and subjected to mob "justice;" as an example of this see Scott Alexander's writings on Slate Star Codex. In light of this the safest recourse is to simply not post anything online at all, for fear of being doxxed at some point in the future (an inevitability given modern standards for and cultural attitudes towards privacy) and subject…