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In plain English: when people go to the doctor, they want someone who behaves like a doctor.

Partly agree. I agree that what makes old tech good is agency, but I find it strange that you offer as an example "handing a 5yo a phone with a documentary". Phones give you no agency, other than play and stop. They don't work for you, they work for their master (Google or apple).

It's not controversial, I've heard the same for about 10 years now. I still thinking they're wrong - people who need control cant really on social network apps. People who are just "consumers", sure, but those already don't know what a browser is, so it's not really a prediction about the future it's a statement about the present.

In this thread, people learn about capitalism.

Big tech in schools is just an attempt to get their users hooked young.

Why is almost all euro+tech so shitty? I want to love cryptpad but the UI is so fucking clunky.

Tuta is ok.

Does tape array replace castor? Just from the names it sounds like tape array is the actual storage, and castor is an abstraction that automatically decides what's kept on disk and what's kept on tape

I didn't start by criticizing Israel, but my previous comment was criticism of Israel, when I said that yes, many Christian evangelicals are Zionists and there are more of them, as you like to say in order to muddle the water, but but I was saying that they weren't the originators of Zionism, Jews were. You were claiming that because there's more Christian evangelicals somehow that means something about Jews not being at fault? Complete nonsense.

That's another aspect of Zionism, which is that it's really not about defending Jews, it's about defending Israel. Even Jews like myself, when they criticize Israel they're immediately labeled Nazis. Really crazy stuff.

I'm happy with tutanota.

It's extremely minimal though. I think it's just mail, contacts and calendar.

There's a causation that you're missing. Zionism was originally an exclusively Jewish movement. Christian evangelicals were pulled in latter on as useful idiots. So yes, Zionism is not exclusively a Jewish movement nowadays, because the Jewish element is doing a good job with their plan of finding and creating allies.

We agree on the facts. Christians outnumber etcetc. But the stereotype is that Jews control the media, not that Christians evangelicals do.

It's very simple: The fact most Jews support the Israeli lobby matches the stereotype. That fact that many (but many Christian evangelicals also support the Israeli lobby) is orthogonal to the stereotype. They might or might not, the stereotype doesn't say anything about it.

Again, you're confused.

I'm saying that P(supports Israel | is Jewish) is large, and you're saying no, because P(is Christian evangelical | supports israel) is large (because there's so many more). In fact both might be true and are true, but your statement has no connection to the stereotype.

Screens aren't inherently bad. It's about the quality. I think your instincts are 100% spot on, keep trusting them.

But quality/distractions aside, there are other dimensions to consider. For example, reading does take more effort than most videogames, and that's brain exercise that will make a difference in aggregate (the assumption being that books and videogames are both entertainment, they compete against each other to some degree, and doing a lot of one means you'll do less of the other). So in short, playing videogames a lot isn't bad in itself, depends on the videogames. But on the other hand books have additional positive sideffects on top of the primary effect which is entertainment.

However, if you actually read any of these papers, they make it quite clear that is impossible to fully separate screen effects from family environment, and effect sizes are often modest.

The "does smoking caused cancer" question took about 20 years to be settled, I believe between 1950 and 70 or something like that. And yet, a lot of people already knew already in the 20s that smoking does all sort of weird things to your throat. So the common sense take got to the right answer much faster than scientists.

Likewise with screens. Common sense tells us that 1) we FEEL the distractions and the addictions, common sense says that children will too, 2) we KNOW that the companies building these products have an interested in distracting us, common sense says that they will act on it.

But then we have takes like "akshually if you read the papers".

I looked into this a year or so ago. My take away was that at some point someone published a very long piece which quotes stallman and step by step concludes "this is bad". And then people started quoting the piece conclusion. However I remember reading the originals from stallman and not finding anything wrong with them. (If someone wants to disagree please cite stallman, not someone else's conclusion about stallman.)

My original point was about whether tne Israeli lobby has an undue influence in the media. I didn't say anything about the Israeli gov.

Pretty sure there are more self-professed Christian zionists living in America than Jewish zionists too.

All you're saying is that there are more Christians than Jews.

In the context of "you're conflating Jews with Israel" what actually matters if you want to compare with Christians is P(support Israel|Jew) Vs P(support Israel|Christian). Stop being disengenuous.

No they shouldn't, because American Koreans are for the most part very anti-DPRK and American Chinese are very anti-CPP.

American Jews are very pro-Israel and donate heavily to politicians promoted by the Israeli lobby so it's less of a stretch to suggest that they might be aligned.

If I were a user, knowing that the maintainers just let Claude lose on rsync would be bad for my stress levels.

In any case, I hate rsync owing to how easy it is to accidentally deleting everything. From my pov I don't care if it disappears.

You're right, the Israeli lobby does not equal Jews, but support for Israel is almost universal amongst Jews. It doesn't equal but it's strongly connected.

The Irish have been selling the EU short by proving US companies the legal mechanisms to avoid taxes. In exchange for that, they got to have the highest GDP per capita in the world if you exclude bullshit countries like Monaco (go check, it's wild).

I don't really empathize if they're the victims this time around.

T is the new B.

Like what? The stereotype that black people are more criminal has a grain of truth? I wouldn't say that at all. Can you give us an example?

I have never until now wondered that a negative stereotype of people has a grain of truth. If you believe that's commonplace, maybe you're the racist and are projecting?

No, it's not. It's just social. No media. I mean I realize there's links, don't I don't follow them, so to me it's just social without the media.

Besides, the actual point which is that I have no profile, still stands.

Oh no my wrist is in a weird position. Instead of letting go I'll summersault into the ground.

If you don't throw yourself, your wrist/elbow/shoulder/whatever will be dislocated or broken."

Or, you know, you can just let go...

These Ais can drive from a parking lot in new York to a parking lot in California now

The only cases of white collar crime I've seen get prosecuted is securities fraud and that's rich people stealing from other rich people.

I was trying to popularize the phrase "the only thing which is illegal in America is defrauding investors" but I have no social media presence. Feel free to take it.

Regardless I agree with you on capitalism, but my take on securities fraud is less cynical. In late stage capitalism it makes _perfect sense_ that the only crime is to steal from investors - that's capitalism protecting itself.

Are you saying that china is releasing great open weights model because they want to get into the GPU business? Which institution do you imagine is coordinating this?