Between the crypto wallet I didn't ask for and their CEOs pretending like his brainrot ideals don't influence the company after sharing them on company social media, I'm glad I got rid of Proton. It was a hassle as I'd just moved there to get off Google. I'm on Tuta now.
I've never paid attention to Porkbun but I won't be checking them out. Fuck fascists and people who sympathize with them if it's good for their bank account.
When I was a teen I worked for a credit card company doing outbound balance transfer sales, it was awful. But the day I put in my two weeks was when my sup pulled a call of mine to review and asked me what I had done wrong.
In it, a very very old woman who never used her card anymore, hadn't had a balance in some time, barely remembered she had it, was not interested in the balance transfer. My requirement in addition to the balance transfer was to also offer the product that came up for the account. The product was an account protection that basically froze your payments if you were unable to make them.
She asked if I thought that was something she really needed, I said no, you don't run a balance so it'd likely not be worthwhile if she planned to continue not using it. The sups issue with the call was that I said she didn't need the product. He wanted me to swindle that lady.
I didn't walk out or anything I just said this is my 2 weeks this isn't for me. Anyway, at some point people make these things okay, we can stop it.
And it's a very different situation for different income brackets. Celebrity or wealthy person is on drugs and manages to get to rehab - because they have the means to dip in and out of rehab - and they're a heart warming story, if you're poor you're not a person, you're just a drug addict.
Nothing drove that home for me more than hearing someone, during the George Floyd trial, cut someone off who referred to him as a man with "He was a drug addict"
The whole social phenomenon surrounding George Floyd's veneration and martyrdom is very interesting. He was literally a convicted felon for multiple crimes, one of which was home invasion where he held a gun up to a pregnant woman's stomach. The day of the incident he was passing counterfeit bills and acting erratic which prompted the call. The toxicology report showed he had fentanyl and meth in his system. The body cam footage started with him in the driver's seat of an SUV without ID, acting erratic and resisting arrest, and when first put into the back seat of the police car Floyd said he couldn't breath. Odds are he was probably already having a heart attack from the drugs, and then Chauvin's maximum restraint technique pushed him over the edge.
Objectively speaking, Floyd was a miscreant at best and almost certainly a net-negative in terms of benefiting society. A fair trial would have classified the incident as manslaughter, but since cities were literally burning and the jurors were publicly known, they were not at liberty to judge the case impartially. The transformation of Floyd into a martyr and the violent quasi-religious movement that followed will be a good case study for future historians.
You have that entirely backwards. People don't generally sit around waiting for the perfect martyr. A martyr is a symptom of social unrest, not a cause. Dwelling on the specifics of the individual, instead of what they represent, is an obstacle to actually understanding the issue.
No such thing as a true innocent for avowed racists anyways, these are people that celebrate the murder of children like Emmett Till, George Stinney, and Tamir Rice.
Sometimes they do. Rosa Parks wasn't the first to resist racial segregation on the bus, but a sex worker did the same but that wouldn't have played as well in the media so she went un-rallied around.
Manslaughter??? No, that requires a lack of intent. Once you engage in felony violence against the person an inadvertent kill carries the intent of the original felony. Murder, not manslaughter.
The cops engaged in a bit of street justice. Usually they get away with it, but since it resulted in death on camera they were caught. This is not to say that Floyd wasn't a criminal--he certainly was.
According to the toxicology report on Floyd, fentanyl and methamphetamine were present in his system but not at levels that indicated use the day he was killed.
Jury selection for the trial of Derek Chauvin started in December 2020 and the trial itself took place the following March - many months after rioting had ended. Get your facts straight.
I feel like SCRUM and anything like it is an attempt to formula and process-ify a thing that dies when you do exactly that. At my company we waste a ton of time on this stuff but we also have a ton of people with jobs that really only tie in to it so they will always defend it. Bureaucracy serves itself etc.
Mushrooms have had a profound positive impact on my life so I'm drawn read anything in the orbit of psychedelics, but I'm even more interested after this interview! I pre-ordered a copy.
It was cool to see your mention of Ginsberg and the Beats, my wife and I just stopped through City Lights and the small, but pretty neat, Beat museum that's nearby.
Anyway, congrats on the book, I look forward to reading it!
I think it's pretty clear if we cared much about anything we'd be doing a lot of things. But instead, we have this: We have a conversation like this one, I had it with my sister. We agree on this statement you've made in that conversation. Sister goes and buys a new gigantic SUV that gets 20 mpg. Understands we were just talking about how bad that is, but make a thousand excuses as to why she using the bad thing is an exception to the rule.
We're a few billion exceptions to the rules walking around, very few people want to give up their fun. I've had this conversation with gun owners, oversized truck owners, people interested in public transit it always comes down to something they want everybody else to have to do but not them.
We're not going to give up our toys til we're dead.
Many people struggle to motivate themselves to do their part on huge collective action problems like climate change. That's why national and international political action is needed, and in turn needs smaller groups of individuals to put in effort supporting campaigns for such action. That said lots of people do care in their daily lives and also put that care into practical individual action - and have a fun and meaningful time doing so. In my experience not owning a SUV or any car at all doesn't feel like "not having fun". It feels sensible and what I have good reason to do and it feels purposeful, a part of doing what I can to cause less harm in this world, from the lucky situation life has dealt me. I understand that some people really need a car for work, especially in car centric regions. But almost everyone has a range of other things where they can do their part and act to improve things.
Phasing out oil and coal production would be great, but that's a task for politics. It is still a collective action problem though since any such agenda needs to gain popular support in a democracy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_action_problem
As individuals we can both take some actions to reduce climate impact in our daily lives and also support movements and campaigns for actions on the political level. No contradiction there.
Or you could actually make those things more important in your life. And realise you don't necessarily need to acquire more material things all the time to live a satisfied life. And you can be an example and inspiration to other people. Life is not just about toys.
It just seems like a stupid move this late in the ad game when people are starting to figure out they hate it a lot. I've never heard more techno-laymen talking about privacy and advertising than now and MS is just hopping on the train.
It's like they're drug dealers adding fentanyl as if it's a sales perk after everyone's learned about it killing the users.
Very few people have ever paid for Windows in a way that was visible to them. The majority of Windows users have always just used the Windows that was pre-installed on a computer that they bought.
The cost of the Windows license was part of the overall laptop cost. So buying a new laptop with Windows installed means Microsoft gets some profit from that.
Those signs are usually accompanied by a few other slogans that should tip you off that they're a response to certain cultural force in the world that lauds ignorance and hate - they're not trying to say they're intellectuals, they just listen to their doctors and do their best to take a kind and informed approach.
It strikes me as a response to a trend callousness and deliberate ignorance.
Those signs are just as guilty of pushing ignorance and hate as the cultural force you're alluding to—you perceive them to be different because their ignorance overlaps with yours and they hate the things you hate.
Signs like these take a strawman version of "the other side" and define the residents of the home in opposition to that strawman. It's evidence that the person who put it up views themselves as part of the culture war, not evidence that they strive to be kind to and understanding of people who are different than them.
I have the same feeling. I was sad to see Tom be done, but I'd also prefer that to watching his quality decline, and as you say - I have a lot of Tom Scotts that come up in my feed. Tom's excellent, but there's other people, and no doubt some new people inspired by Tom will enter the space.
I do worry that too many garbage aisles might mean people choose the garbage and never make it beyond, pushing non-garbage into a greater and greater minority.
I don't know what to say really. By the time I was born the Smothers Brothers were already legendary and their influence was huge. Steve Martin, Super Dave, there's really no point in making list, it'd go on too long and then branch out too far. What a cultural force.
I've never paid attention to Porkbun but I won't be checking them out. Fuck fascists and people who sympathize with them if it's good for their bank account.
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