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except you dont actually say that in the comment i responded to... thats like the definition of being vague

Addressing actual issues by proposing workable solutions like more public transport is actually the only way in the long run to do anything useful. While I agree with the overall sentiment, vaguely gesturing at capitalism is far less actionable and useful and more often than not stifles more useful activism.

Its a common symptom in autism.

Getting mental health conditions properly diagnosed in a clinical environment is absolutely not that simple. I am basing this off of more than a decade of going through the US mental health system at a high level of utilization. I am not saying that OP shouldn't try to get a professional opinion, it can be valuable but its not the end all be all.

People need to absolutely understand that a lot of the time the doctors are just guessing at what is wrong mental health wise and are subject to a lot of biases. Blind faith in the diagnosis of a dr can lead to years of mistreatment, possibly years of psychoactive drug use that is not actually helpful because you don't actually have the thing the dr thinks you do. This isn't hyperbole, it happens quite often. I have heard of countless stories of it happening to other people and has happened to myself included. I am not anti-healthcare or anything, I just recognize that the people working in the industry are human, overworked, and very often don't have enough time per patent and not enough experience to properly evaluate what is happening inside their head.

Hearing what other people online have to say and self evaluating is absolutely still a valuable thing to do and dismissing op by saying "go to a doctor" is actually anti helpful.

There is a good Adam Conover podcast episode where he interviews Corey Robin. In the episode Robin states the main premise of his book, which is that the central underlying ideology of the right is the belief that some people are better than others and deserve to be in power. A lot of the rights' beliefs and ideas evolve over time but they evolve in service of that core idea. It's the one thing that stays consistent over time going back to the french revolutions.

Multiracial, multiethnic, international cooperation, helping the homeless, helping the poor. No matter how you spin it by trying to convince them of the benefits ect, the right will never be on board. They don't believe those groups deserve help or should be helped. They fundamentally believe it is morally good to depower certain groups and empower other groups.

That one idea explains so much of the rights blatant hypocrisy. Welfare disproportionality going to red states is good because it's going to the good people. Rich people getting richer is good because it's going to the good people. Hurting minorities is good because they are the bad people, helping them is bad. Some people are innately worthy and some people are not. Anything the good people do is good, anything the bad people do is bad. The same action can be good or bad depending on who is doing it.

ITT: a lot of undiagnosed sensory issues

Why is it only women in the comparison with a dog?

Probably closer to a Cleric than a Wizard

My goto for easy multi threading is lock free queues. Generate work on one thread and queue it up for another thread to process. Easy message passing and stuff like that. It doesn't solve everything but it can do a lot if you are creative with them. As long as you maintain a single thread ownership of memory and just pass it around the threads via message passing on queues, everything just sorta works out.

How do you know you can't become those past selves again? If you did have that ability imagine what that would be like...

Let's say you want to bring back your middle school self. You would forget everything that came after middle school, you would become that middle schooler again. Not only that, but to truly be your past self, you would have to be in the same situation, place, point in time. Otherwise the change in environment would be reflected in a change in your mind and that change would mean you are a new person, not your past self. To truly become your past self, you would just be back in middle school and the future would still be ahead. If you pressed a button that did that, after you pressed the button you would not and could not know anything happened at all.

Going beyond that, maybe you have the ability to become your future selves as well. Maybe you have both of these abilities and you just don't know, can't know. If you did, you couldn't tell.

For all you know, in between every moment you jump around and become every version of yourself. Maybe every possible version of yourself. Maybe in between every moment you become every person that has ever lived or will ever live. Every saint and murderer, every animal and bug, every rock and star and black hole. Everything and everyone. And in all that jumping around you would eventually land back to this current moment and version of you, except one timestep in the future. And you wouldn't know any of that jumping around happened, because to be you in this moment you can't be anything else.

You are not separate from the universe, you are the universe. Past, present, and future.

I left beehaw a while back, there is way less content there cus they defederated so many instances. It legit feels like a half dead version of lemmy when ever I load it up.

Like I load it up now and not a single post on the all/active page has more than 200 upvotes. Where here on blahaj.zone the all/active page only had 2 posts under 200. Behaw users are honestly missing out.

This list is just in the order that I thought of them, not in the order I think is best quality wise.

• The Caves of Steel - Isaac Asimov
• The Naked Sun - Isaac Asimov
• The Robots of Dawn - Isaac Asimov

All pretty great robot detective novels. Lots of pondering on Asimov's 3 laws of robotics and how they would play out. Pretty good.

• I, Robot - Isaac Asimov

Also pretty good, anthology of short robot stories. Similar kinda vibe as the above 3.

• Foundation - Isaac Asimov
• Foundation and Empire - Isaac Asimov
• Second Foundation - Isaac Asimov
• Foundation's Edge - Isaac Asimov
• Foundation and Earth - Isaac Asimov

What if math could predict the future of civilization. The first 3 are the best.. sorta loses the thread a bit in the last 2. Overall pretty good. Mostly doesn't have any robots like the other Asimov books I listed.

• Ringworld - Larry Niven

A giant ring shaped megastructure around a star, lets go explore. Only the first is any good, some low key sexism in it but bearable. Past the first the sexism ramps up. Nivin like a lot of male sci-fi authors doesn't know how to write women.

• The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells

A half robot half human security robot hacks its own systems. Very good, my interpretation of the series is its an allegory for the autistic experience. Also Martha Wells can write women so that's always a big plus.

• The Three-Body Problem - Liu Cixin
• The Dark Forest - Liu Cixin
• Death's End - Liu Cixin

I see the 3 body problem series recommended a lot in this thread but it has a lot of overt sexism baked into the plot so don't really recommend. Lots of fun sci-fi concepts tho, gets into some pretty surreal concepts that border on mathematical physics.

• Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

Probably already seen the movie, its pretty much the same. The book is pretty good but the author himself kinda sucks, bigtime homophobe. The follow up books are nowhere near as good as the first.

• The Found and the Lost - Ursula K. Le Guin

Every novella by Ursula K. Le Guin. Some of them are not scifi but most of them are, and the ones that are not are still great. I am currently working though this one now. She has a big anthropologist/feminist slant to her writing so highly recommend. Feels very modern when compared to the other sci-fi that was coming out around the same time. I plan on reading her other longer novels after this but I have not gotten there yet.

• Dune - Frank Herbert

Pretty good sci-fi. Has a bit of a "white boy goes and lives with the natives and becomes their savior" vibe that kinda feels a little off to me but I think Herbert had good intentions. It's an allegory for the middle east and oil extraction. Overall worth a read just to check it off the list.

• The Captain - Will Wight
• The Engineer - Will Wight

The Last Horizon Series, wizards in the future in space. Pretty much feels like a dnd campaign where every one is already lv20. Sci-fi+Magic. It's not really very deep but its a fun nonetheless.

• The Martian - Andy Weir
• Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir

Hard science fiction. If you like competency porn or engineering/science then these are for you. Very nerdy stuff.

• We Are Legion (We Are Bob) - Dennis E. Taylor
• For We Are Many - Dennis E. Taylor
• All These Worlds - Dennis E. Taylor
• Heaven's River - Dennis E. Taylor

The writing itself is kinda meh but the stories are fun. The kinda stuff an engineer daydreams about, like von neumann probes and mind uploading and stuff like that. Over all fun series but not very deep.

Great series, I just wish they were longer

It has some fun scifi.. and a lot of sexism... don't really recommend.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHI61GHNGJM

Andewism has a ton of great videos about it I suggest watching more than just this one to get an idea. That video I linked is a good introduction but its 3 years old so some of the more recent videos have a more evolved view on it.

#LOLIsNotPunctuation

You are like those old people who complained "hay is for horses" lol

What are you getting out of policing harmless language

Boomers keep threatening the collapse of the fast food market, "no one wants to work anymore". Like they think anyone is going to miss the absolute shit that is fast food. Why are we supposed to care?

Are the dimensions in the room with us right now?

Carol of the Bells

goes way too hard for a christmas song