jmp242 @ jmp242 @sopuli.xyz

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I feel like this is similar to being a non drinker, or atheist, or not into clubs, or not into drugs, etc. You will sort of limit your social circle because of what you're not interested in doing. Privacy is the same. The question is - do you want to make new friends who are into those things? If so, then your have to moderate your views and be part of that scene.

I feel like this is similar to being a non drinker, or atheist, or not into clubs, or not into drugs, etc. You will sort of limit your social circle because of what you're not interested in doing. Privacy is the same. The question is - do you want to make new friends who are into those things? If so, then your have to moderate your views and be part of that scene.

Has anyone watched Anime? Like they (and japan?) had the idea to put darn near anything in a vending machine a while ago.

I do like the music, but the great thing about a lot of musicals is you can just listen to the music without needing to watch the show.

I sometimes like commenting on YouTube videos, and reading the comments. The videos I'm on do not seem to have anywhere near as bad as the received wisdom of the comments being a cesspool. but that might just be me.

I mean, to the extent politically we supported the Afganistan and Iraq war, this isn't much different as far as I can tell. Much of the US is pretty pro war for some reason.

I'd say school failings in dealing with bulling and with any student with a special need (even ADHD) is a big part of what's going on. It's not just the parents not trusting the education content - it's often more about the environment at the school preventing education at all, for various reasons. And I don't understand it - we had bulling when I was in school in the 90s, heck I was a "victim", but the school kept it clampt down, and I pretty much got over the minor stuff that still happened. There's plenty of stories about alternative systems like these home school pods and such also not having the same bullying problems either. So what is the issue with public schools? I tend to blame it on the system being rigid, mixed with not enough resources even though we spend so much on the schools.

The only one that doesn't ring true to me (granted now from 25 years ago in the 90s) was the last one.

Hmmm, I've never been in a religious school, but those first 2 were pretty big in my public school in the 90s.

There was also Sisko using bioweapons for a personal vendetta, Odo not fitting in and constantly trying to go with the changelings who are a group of fascist racist violent manipulators, etc.

I haven't seen DS9 since the first run I don't think, so my memory is hazy, but did the show make those things "good things" or were they flaws in the characters?

since it sort of still is Dax, it adds on top of Jadzia’s crap.

Is it though? Isn't that one of the things they deal with a lot with Trill - are different hosts actually "the same person"? I'd argue it's "partially at best" and is one of the interesting things about the concept of personhood over time sci-fi deals with. In a lot of ways, Ezri is at best like a 30 year time difference in the real world, but maybe even more like a sister/cousin at the more extreme side of being different.

I don't know if Star Trek ever had a really strong coherent overarching morality, but it certainly doesn't now. The Disco and newer shows are such a mishmash of different people and a different time that they seem often the opposite of what people thought TOS and TNG might have been. DS9-Enterprise were kind of the "in-between" IMO. So there's at LEAST 3 different sets of sort of framework for what the canon/story/morals even are that it's kind of hard to discuss as a whole coherently.

Then there's always the people who take stuff as "cool" that the show didn't want to portray as "good". There are plenty of media examples of "cool" bad guys. Look at all the Ducat lovers in DS9, he was pretty explicitly intended and they thought portrayed as a villain, but a complex one. The whole last season turning him into a moustache twirling caricature was to try and "fix" this "misunderstanding" by a troubling portion of the fans.

The whole Prime Directive waffling is well known to fans, and generally there to specifically create conversation about the colonial vs anti-colonial ideals starting in TNG and morphed over time to now. I don't think the show in a meta sense promotes the prime directive as a good thing - the amount of character struggles and flat out breaking it makes me pretty sure it's a "no obvious right rule" exemplar.

Disco and on is generally so poorly written that it's hard to say if they have a message to push inside the show. Most of what we know is from Twitter posts and interviews cause it's so hard to tell what's supposed to be the point of the actual show in many cases. With Georgiou I think they're trying to tell an anti-hero redemption story of some sort. Some idea that anyone can change and deserves a new chance (I think it's beyond second here). Take out the extremes for the drama and being a show and this is about as obvious as the prime directive as an ideal. It's not the worst, but I can't say it's always valid either IMO.

I think you get from Star Trek what you decide to take from it - it's entertainment first, not moral education.

I don't actually think economics is a science like physics is a science. I work with world class experimenters in high energy and x-ray physics daily. They have experiments that can be isolated and reproduced, and generate pretty objective data (until you get into the weirder quantum stuff). I don't pretend to understand all of it as Im not a physics PhD but I do get how their lab experiments are obviously different from any attempted economics experiment.

So I kind of doubt you can realistically do a random controlled study on any economics. The best we have is observational studies, which, I'd say are comparably weak. So you're kind of asking for experimental data that doesn't and I'd kind of argue can't exist. We can't have 3 versions of the US economy at the same time and vary one variable and see what happens.

And I think you finally agreed with me, or at least I communicated well enough for you to understand - supply and demand as a concept - an idea - is one part of what's happening in price setting. It's not the only thing, and I don't buy any of the "hydraulic" ideas.

My point of the scalping example was that companies can ignore supply and demand and try and contravene it, but others will step in and make money on the arbitrage. Do you remember what I said in the previous comment about why I think that's worse than the companies capturing that revenue? I was agreeing with you that it's not a "Law" in that companies have to do things that way, it's more that they'll just create secondary markets that bid up the price a la scalpers. The average person doesn't then get access to choose the "company price" or "scalper" supply/demand price - the people making it a business have bought all the tickets / PS5s whatever at the "company price" that's ignoring supply/demand and so the person can either go without or pay the scalper price that did take into account supply/demand.

I think this is another place I just don't get because I never used Adobe seriously - what is a size of library? And why would it affect OSS programs specifically? I just use my file manager (thunar or krusader) or CLI (bash) and both work pretty well with dozens to hundreds of files per folder, and I try to not have thousands of pictures in a given folder because that just means I've got a messed up pile of photos to ever refer back to. My current trip length and amount of photos will mean I need to break it up when I copy them over to my RAID, but I'd want to break up by day / location anyway so I can go back and find them later.

Does it? People misunderstood SSL so badly thr browsers started hiding the lock icon and actual details of the certs.

But your idea still comes down to who you trust. If you trust the NYT then you're going to go to their site they already control to see their images. If you aren't sourcing the images from random third parties then this does nothing. And if you're already trusting random Facebook pages, they can also NFT their posts.

You seem to think no one can certify upload accounts now? But of course they do already.

Fair enough. As I've gotten into photography I have avoided all Adobe products due to how shit they are from a OS clean living point of view, and then being a subscription. But I also don't heavily edit my photos so ART / Rawtherapee and GIMP work ok for me.

I find it pretty easy to want other laptops because I don't use Apple stuff because I dislike their UX. I know I'm weird but if I never have to get close to OSX or iOS I'm pretty happy.

I only compliment people if they've done something impressive in some way. Rarely do I interact with strangers in any situation for that to occur. The limited situations like someone's appearance or clothing beings stylish or something just seems like it would come off creepy to say so I won't do that.

With people I know I tend to be pretty brutally honest so it's rare I compliment them, but when I do they know it means something.

I get what you want, I mostly fail to see how NFTs help there either. If a digital camera is generating the SHA256 or whatever that even links to the video file (and this would only work for the RAW, not even compressed for transmission data), then it's a computer generating the data. I don't really see why you couldn't just have a computer generate a "fake camera" - it's not like you're going to be able to audit all the cameras a news org uses, and it'd be easy for someone to say they "lost" a camera, or it was stolen or whatever. And for the user submitted stuff from smartphones or their video cameras ... etc.

The problem with NFTs is always the link to the actual thing IMO. There's just no cryptographic way to link a physical item or anything that doesn't itself fit on the chain, nor is there a way to verify the original claims input that's outside the blockchain - i.e. it'll verify when the NFT was uploaded to the chain, but not when the video was taken. There's no obvious way for the blockchain to validate the GPS data provided (or not) by the camera that took the video etc.

• Spooks
• Torchwood
• City Homicide
• Life on Mars (UK)
• Stan Lee's Lucky Man (I think this is british)
• Hudson and Rex (early seasons anyway were fun)
• Doctor Who through Peter Capaldi, though the Tenant years were the best IMO.

Probably many others I just don't recall