blackstampede @ blackstampede @sh.itjust.works

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I've been using italki.com to learn Russian. It's pretty cool.

Russian actually isn't that bad. It takes time, but I've been learning it because my gf is fluent. She calls it an unga-bunga language because literal word-by-word translation sounds like caveman-speak lol

I didn't get the impression that those hoops were artificial. They aren't providing support for it, but that's different from actively obstructing people.

In some cases that's probably true. I'm not sure it applies to things like war, time, etc.

Scope.

Imagine we both live in the US. I show you an article about an immigrant raping someone, and you say something like "well that's just one guy." I show you another, and another, and another. I show you a thousand. I show you ten thousand. Either you eventually admit that immigrants are predominantly rapists, or you look increasingly, ridiculously, obviously, wrong. And stubborn. And irrational.

But you are not wrong. I am wrong.

Because there are 331 million people in the United States, I can find an inexhaustible supply of immigrant-rapist stories.

Now take that inability to grasp large distances, large quantities, long periods of time, and apply it to everything. This is why young earth creationists exist- because a billion years is literally unimaginable. This is why people play the lottery- because you're saying there's a chance, right? This is why we don't react emotionally upon hearing of a genocide, or learning that 70 billion animals are slaughtered each year for meat.

We are not equipped to function at the scale that we are currently working at, as a species. We have been haphazardly constructed by evolutionary pressures to operate in small bands and villages, and we do not have the appropriate intuitions for any scope larger than that.

If someone shoots me in the head while I'm sleeping I wouldn't care or know either.

I'm anti abortion once the fetus is viable. Prior to that point, a woman is refusing to let someone else use her body to survive, and while there are personal moral questions there, I think she should have the right to make that call. After that point, she's attempting to kill someone else to avoid the suffering that a birth would entail.

I still support her right to rid herself of an unwelcome guest, I just don't support abortion as the method.

I'm aware that late term abortions are so vanishingly rare that this is a pointless hair-splitting exercise, but I like to have a consistent moral system as much as I can, whether it's currently relevant or not, and I thought someone might appreciate my .02.

I switch between Jerboa and Boost depending on which one is throwing errors today.

Ah, didn't see that one. My bad.

Get on FetLife and find a local lgbtq-friendly bdsm group. In my experience, the venn diagram of lesbian/bisexuals into bdsm and the occult community in any given area is just a circle. Bring baked goods to the munches and ask about local covens. Once you've established yourself as not a creep, it shouldn't be that hard to put the word out about the grimoires.

I've done about half of this, but I'm not into witchcraft.

Sweet, we need more non-English programming languages. I'm surprised that existing programming languages haven't been translated yet.

Build a flywheel with a bunch of places to stand positioned around the wheel, teleport to the higher platforms as the wheel turns.

Family is very religious and conservative, I'm very atheist and liberal. Got kicked out three times or so, one fight that almost got me charged with domestic assault after they harassed my wife and kid.

It's made me more careful of people in general, because I've realized that it's not just them- most people have things they believe wrapped up in their sense of self, and criticizing or questioning those things will be interpreted as an attack. I've gotten very good at identifying those beliefs and easing the conversation over them lightly without digging into my own opinions on the subject, then moving on to other topics. It's uncomfortable, but luckily I have a partner who has almost no beliefs like that, and who will bluntly and cheerfully argue about basically anything lol

Unless 500 years in the future travel has been so easy for so long that all cultures have merged into one. Then you'll be the only foreigner.

I'm just very tired

Went to a doctor for a twisted ankle, who told me that my feet had exaggerated arches. When asked what that meant (as in- medically, what problems could that cause) he laughed and replied that it meant I had "ugly fucking feet".

All Things Distributed

Rust, hands down.

I agree. I'm adding on to the parent comment to provide an example of a real situation in which people who could generally make ends meet while doing very little work are instead producing the bulk of our new technologies, discoveries, and (as you mention) optimizations.