deepfield67

Much like American politicians and Supreme Court justices who didn't know their Venmo payments were all public. The most secure systems on the planet are only ever as secure as the dumbest people using them.

This is really sad. I can't overstate the impact Kevin had on my life. The world is suddenly less interesting and less secure and my heart goes out to family and friends. Rest in peace, Kevin.

I guess I'm not sure what I expected. There are few other options besides putting a parachute on them and ejecting them from the aircraft. I don't know the story of who posted the image and why but there's kind of a dangerous idea that anyone can just upload an image without context and remain free of responsibility for the consequences. My first thought was that the restraint was unacceptable because it just looks awful but really I can't imagine what else they're supposed to do if someone is violent and out of control. Any other option seems liable to create more problems than it solves.

This seems true for all social media. Someone recently was complaining about Facebook and I said "If your newsfeed is full of garbage it's kind of your own fault..." It takes some effort to pick and choose what kind of content you want to spend your time with. Of course, you also have to be careful that you don't just build yourself an echo chamber.

You know, I have this exact feeling about the idea of "the meek shall inherit the earth" philosophy expounded in the Sermon on the Mount, but I haven't until now thought of it in terms of stoicism or buddhism. It's definitely important to have some idea of the difference between "fair" inequality that's just the luck of the draw that's unavoidable to some extent, and the "unfair" inequality that's a result of oppression and exploitation. It's almost certainly a bad idea to seek to simply stop comparing anything and be oblivious to all the differences between people. But like a lot of our natural thought processes there's a healthy version and a pathological version, but it's never really clear where exactly one becomes the other. There is a bit of a built in failsafe in Buddhism that is the idea of the "middle way", that indicates any "extreme" position is liable to be unhelpful. I find myself using that a lot, as I tend towards extreme views and am prone to oversimplified, black-and-white thought.

My first thought as well. At a basic level this is the age-old problem of comparing oneself to others, which is at once part and parcel of being a social animal, and has high potential for becoming pathological. My answer to these questions is invariably a philosophical endeavor to look inwards and practice the assessment of one's own inherent value independent of social factors and incidental economic structures. Beyond that I completely agree with other commenters who essentially say that jealousy/envy is merely the dark side of ambition/motivation. But it's a good idea to have a sense of one's own intrinsic value, while being aware that economic failure is not necessarily an indictment of one's talent or skill, just as economic success is not necessarily an indication of superior talent or skill.

I've been using Reddit for over a decade and I don't think I've ever used it to research potential product purchases. It doesn't feel very conducive to this purpose (and the article does outline why it isn't necessarily) but perhaps I'm missing out. This isn't a very useful comment, I'm just curious to how many other Redditors this comes as a surprise, and what about Reddit draws so much of that kind of activity. Is it that it's longer form than most other platforms?