Semirhage
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Comment · 8 years ago
Maybe it’s just that people tend to use emojis for shallow, often humorous exchanges. If you have to express pain, using an emoji seems like a bizarre way to go about it rather than employing language.
Comment · 8 years ago
"Young Zimbabweans are still tentative about taking advantage of that freedom of speech," Munyati says.
Honestly, I’d still wait a bit myself in their position. Maybe this government really will go in a new direction, but if not then this kind of thing could very easily come back to bite you. Having said that, I respect and admire the dozens of people who overcame decades of fear to speak up.
Comment · 8 years ago
LNT is a theory of ionizing radiation, and while your overall point is salient, the reference to LNT is not. While many things enjoy a similar exposure model, LNT is a specific term.
Comment · 8 years ago
I’m from Italy, and until I lived in America for a while I’d never understood just how massive the US really is. I lived on two coasts, in two states that were both much larger than my entire country! People like to point to Berlin or Paris as model cities, but they’re population centers in countries that could fit inside Texas without making a splash. I’m not saying that US car culture is entirely healthy, or that it couldn’t benefit from more and better public transport in major cities. I’m always annoyed though, to see these conversations on HN ignore the sheer size of the country in question. Of course it’s spread out, it’s enormous!
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Hifamb4LTgQooDBYj/worth-reme...
Comment · 8 years ago
Indirectly federated republic.
Comment · 8 years ago
And that’s how overnight, 2/3rds of WeWork employees became religious/Ill.
Comment · 8 years ago
Another way to look at the Bay is that s previously unique American cultural center has already been irrevocably destroyed by yuppies and big tech firms who felt the need to drop anchor there. Maybe some pressure to spread out the impact of that “economic success” beyond a single city is more valuable than building ArcologySF? The world’s cities don’t need to be aggressively homogenized for the sake of affordable rents for an influx of techies. It’s a big world, stop crowding into one tiny, devastated corner of it.
Comment · 8 years ago
You call it NIMBY’ism, they call it the people who actually live and invest in an area wanting to have the final say, not distant interests which might just be interested in developer kick backs.
Comment · 8 years ago
The title is a clear play on the hashtag.
Comment · 8 years ago
Bacon is cured belly meat, whereas this was apparently pure fat. Fat tends to concentrate flavors, good or bad, and in this case it would have probably be very very gamey.
Edit: I think we have to see a difference between domesticated pigs, bred and raised for purpose, and their cured, seasoned, fat... and some fat hacked off a wild ibex. If you’ve ever had wild game you’ll know what I mean about gamey flavors. I can only imagine that some ice age ibex would be an acquired taste at best. Pig fat is also some of the most delicious, mild fat around, which is why it’s pigs used in that article.
Comment · 8 years ago
#MeToo is a hashtag women are encouraged to use as a way to share personal stories of sexual violence though. I’m not seeing the equivalent here.
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/07/is...
Comment · 8 years ago
...and then we have the issues of “non-standard” accents. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sAz_UvnUeuU
Comment · 8 years ago
When push-button elevators were installed, they worked. Can you imagine if the pitch had been, “sometimes this elevator will kill the odd person, thanks for helping us work out the bugs.” As a bonus, the actual working elevator might not emerge until decades after installation began, and the early models only worked on alternate Wednesday’s.
Comment · 8 years ago
As far as I cannot tell neither are really the driving factor, rather it’s a desire to believe. People who want to believe in X look for stories which confirm X. X can be UFO’s, or Muslim rape gangs, the blood libel, or FEMA detention camps... it doesn’t matter. What matters is that the story reinforces the desired beliefs, then many people won’t think too hard about it, they’ll spread it to like-minded people, and reinforce the belief. The thinking looks lazy, and the person may look partisan, but that isn’t the active ingredient. You see this pattern in everyone from free energy cranks, through anti-vaxxers and hyper-partisan ideologues, to people who simultaneously believe that Princess Diana was murdered, and that she faked her own death and is still alive. Likewise people who believed that Osama Bin Laden was dead before the SEAL raid that killed him, were most likely to believe that he wasn’t killed and is still alive!
https://www.livescience.com/18171-contradicting-conspiracy-t...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5724570/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235449075_Dead_and_...
It’s a breakdown in how humans think and believe, it’s just that. It doesn’t dominate everyone’s thinking, but it dominates enough people to skew elections and online conversations.