droopybuns

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Comment · 11 months ago
Hey man- hang in there.

FWIW: I realized this year that there are whole cohorts of management people who have absolutely zero relationship with the words that they speak. Literal tabula rasas who convert their thoughts to new words with no attachment to past statements/goals.

Put another way: Liars exist and operate all around you in the top tier of the FAANGS rn.

Comment · 1 year ago
Cargo cultist stem aficionados write sentences like “Can we fix it back?”
Comment · 2 years ago
Not a compelling argument.

These people are putting their bodies on the line. It is a public protest. I cannot infer anything other than that they’re willing to risk everything, including their privacy to defend their ideas.

Comment · 2 years ago
Captive portal detection is endlessly buggy.
Comment · 4 years ago
Loss of revenue puts people at risk of famine and indentured servitude.

This isn't a cultural thing. Human evolution is ugly. Evolution's filter function is death. If you can't feed yourself, nature will use you for food.

You are coming from a place of extreme privilege lamenting that people get stressed about losing a job. It's not a minor inconvenience if you're working on something you think is important. Button pushers have little to mourn. People working on big projects have to establish new goals for themselves & align themselves with an entirely new professional network. These are not minor things.

Comment · 5 years ago
It does serve a purpose. It announces to everyone in their vicinity that this fragile human is deficient and should only be interacted with via great caution.

edit: I don't understand the downvotes here. Is it considered poor manners to point out that people don't get to control how people perceive them?

Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
This story is like a true crime story written by an unreliable narrator.

“It was dark by now. I was tipsy, but not more so than a regular Saturday night.”

What a strange piece of [fiction || non-fiction].

Comment · 6 years ago
Altspace vr
Comment · 8 years ago
These kinds of sites give me anxiety.

It isn’t good to see large communities of humans burning mental calories to come to the same set of conclusions (I’m on team sandwich because $REASON | I’m on team taco because $REASON). It is a mental D.o.s. directed towards humans that tend towards herding.

Comment · 8 years ago
I’d like some data that supports the claim that the zoning was racist by design.

Minneapolis is a farming transit hub that expanded organically. I don’t understand the underlying claims of racism here.

Comment · 8 years ago
I disagree with something you said:

>>To take a person and alias them into being "good" or "bad" based on an action or a series of actions is to explicitly dehumanize them

The only reliable method for evaluating someone’s values is to assess the choices they make. What values do their actions suggest? Do these choices affect your ability to trust these people?

I fundamentally disagree that it dehumanizes to do this, and I also fundamentally disagree that anyone intends to dehumanize them with this approach. I find it troubling that anyone expresses such a black and white assessment of people trying to determine where others should fit in the herd.

Put another way:

the only way to judge someone’s ethics is by evaluating their action and comparing it against their words.

Comment · 8 years ago
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Comment · 8 years ago
Did you try adding another wifi adapter? I’m not sure I understand your question well- seems like this is easy to resolve.
Comment · 8 years ago
Yeah- I agree. Reconfigure the APN on the network side and you have clearly isolated the source of given traffic.

This is either a government honeypot, or it should be rebranded as “rusty trombone.”

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