Umbrias @ Umbrias @beehaw.org

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I doubt it'd be any amount of successful. And yes it'd be caught in the spam filter with the other 95% of total emails sent every day.

Except for the fact that the entire rest of the population would have gotten the emails. This relies on literally nobody talking about it.

Nazis are literally just less common here. There's not much reason to constantly talk about them in a meta sub fashion when they are already so rare I haven't seen one in weeks and are routinely and swiftly banned.

Tankies on the other hand, are not.

Your protest just looks silly and obviously ridiculous. Not talking about the problem of Nazis in online discourse 24/7 isn't an endorsement of them, different spaces have different problems.

While more on the parent side of the age gap of things now, I know at least five offspring personally who do this willingly. It is a nightmare to me, moreso the fact that it's basically impossible or was the last time I looked to find ways to do it that are foss.

But the point is, probably more people do it than you expect. This place is a selection bias, most people genuinely give no rats ass about their privacy, and, to the shock of many, trust their parents and like the safety net.

There are certainly secure privacy focused approaches they retain the agency of both parties which could exist. It's a very real niche.

5e's greatest strength is its' simplicity.

Lol no. That is the last thing 5e has going for it.

D&D has traumatized a whole generation of table top players into thinking it's easier to stay with it than change to any other system that takes a session to pick up to a level that d&d takes months to. It's an abusive relationship.

It's certainly a functional way to model many many systems in evolution, social sciences, economics, etc. But all models are limited at least by how much complexity you can put in.

The fact that humans actually don't behave rationally itself is a huge discovery of game theory. Evolutionary models fundamentally rely on game theory in a way that is hard to overstate. Genes are inherently rational actors, the system is just complex.

I don't doubt there are plenty of misapplications of it like anything else. But I mean, same with statistics, or calculus, or set theory.

game theory is deeply flawed

It's... Not? Applications of it maybe but this is like saying algebra is flawed because it's hard to model rates of change. I don't think you're totally understanding the purpose of game theory as a mathematical model. And believe me, game theory is absolutely verified as mathematically valid. We wouldn't have modern gene theory without it.

A recent study on large scale cooperation shows that the creation of societal norms which help to promote cooperation naturally occurs and that working for the benefit of many is actually more advantageous

Very cool. And exactly what I was talking about. Humans aren't rational actors, to do things exactly line this. Game theory on basic altruisistic systems predicted, as one of the first things that was done with it, that total altruism is more advantageous, but due to the nature of the choices rational actors make, impossible to sustain. If you want to learn more about these systems there are plenty of resources, but as discussed, they are demonstrative, the simple examples are rare and more easily found in genes.

This is interesting, since my perspective on be tragedy has always been from the perspective of game theory. Often the optimal outcome isn't a stable one because in many circumstances a totally altruistic system can be taken advantage of.

Humans of course beat the game theory predicted stability points quite often, because humans are not rational actors and that is an adaptive advantage that lets us beat gave theory often unintentionally, compared to most other animals which do behave rationally.

So the important takeaway I think is that models don't describe everything, all perspectives have limitations. Humans beat the tragedy of the Commons regularly and often there are ways to. But it is a genuine problem that exists in many situations and does need to be solved.

This is not a great argument unless you are very deep into pretending a game company can do no wrong.

There are lots of ways this is silly to claim is fine, it's ridiculous to act like this is expected or acceptable and not just amateurish lack of polish.

But it's okay, you can still enjoy the game. It's okay to enjoy things which have flaws.

And this is why I've never taken much of Linuxs user base seriously when they talk about security. Hilariously bad defense strategy.

It depends on the context. Sometimes plastic is good for that, but in this case I don't believe that it is.

Plastic is not a rigorous term. When discussing specific plastics it's petty much always better to describe specifics, because plastics are too diverse of chemistry to do anything else.

All of these types of plastic you're using as counterexamples are more distinct from each other than they are from biological polymers.

Plastics are a ridiculously diverse group of chemicals, not including naturally occurring polymers is anthropocentric and not always useful.

Plastic as a term only makes sense to not include biological polymers if we define it to only be man-made polymers. It's arbitrary semantics, so I find it's better to be inclusive to help show the chemical quirks than to be exclusive on arbitrary lines.

Chest compressions >> new air

Get a second person to help on breathing

Get a third to make trading roles easier.

Plastics are not rocks in funny shapes. We are made of plastics. They're just unusual compounds which no primary decomposer has developed yet.

That's not to say we shouldn't address the issue, but it's important to understand what the issue actually is. The fact that plastics are familiar yet unfamiliar compounds is actually what causes the problems.

It helps, but also the lack of e2ee is a pretty hard sell..

I don't think you know what apples and oranges means, but if it means you're satisfied with the conversation then happy day.

Use the software that works best for you. If dealing with a database is too much for whatever else you're doing, feel free to use something else.

And both the trilium db and markdown files validate that requirement. So it's not really relevant.

I generally finish thoughts out in sections in a note and if I feel I need a new note I can drop in a link or I can send a section into a new note. I find it actually has cut down on note bloat, my main pain point is quickly writing aliases. If I was a script writer I don't think it would be hard to improve the feel of it tbh.

K. Md files using wikilinks, which don't actually work in mediawiki. Not a great argument for compatibility off the shelf as some universal thing.

You're describing now a larger scope of requirement than whether a file is .md, and which is met in various ways not solely relevant to whether a file is md.

Feel free to check out zettlr if your strictest requirement is that you use plaintext markdown files the entire time you're writing and simply cannot accept exporting or interacting with a database. Or you just prefer it. Do what you like.