goldenchrome

What’s racist about it?

Ho ho ho the comments here are vitriolic. For anyone missing the point, Not Boring is an experimental studio that creates highly sensory everyday apps like weather and calculator.

It’s functional art.

If you’re doing a lot of layoffs but your company is doing well you need to give a clear reason to your existing employees so they can stay focused.

True for a year or two, but after that your warm up sets get so heavy that you’ll need at least 10 minutes to get up to your working sets.

You may as well wonder why there were railroad barons instead of railroads being public access.

Were the parents on medications and/or obese? “Co-sleeping” is the instinctually normal way to sleep with your defenseless infant.

Don't worry my friend. It's just a teaser trailer. It will be followed by a gameplay trailer, just like movie teasers are followed by longer trailers.

How about if we control for IQ?

Other people can't tell I own Apple products when my phone is in my pocket and I'm not listening to music.

X has a ton of cultural impact today—it’s just that the audience has shifted from neoliberal to classical liberal/libertarian. Lots of politics, philosophy, tech news, and culture thrives. It’s just not happening in your bubble evidently.

Interesting!

When were people on the left de-platformed?

It is, because people’s emotional states are deeper and broader than any particular issue. If I’m upset about one thing I’m upset about everything.

Perhaps you didn’t have controversial views in the past 3 years. Ideas that one was banned for as recently as last year under the umbrella of misinformation are now acceptable and even common knowledge in some cases. That’s real mass suppression of discourse. This has an effect on social networks. (Edit: the suppression continues. The original thread is flagged right now. It said the campaign against “misinformation” led to the crazy situation on Reddit and Twitter that we have today.)

Think of it like a seismograph [0]. A violent swing in one direction is proceeded by a violent swing in the other direction. We’re living through the big swings right now.

I think it’s reductive to blame a single person. The people at the top are usually vessels for the people’s energy anyways. That’s why running these institutions is so hard, because you constantly feel powerless even though you’re responsible for making all the decisions.

We should find ways to settle each other, and I think that starts with setting ourselves and those close to us like our family and friends.

The world is a bit shaky!

[0] https://www.mtu.edu/geo/community/seismology/learn/seismolog...

You want a citation that the strongest relationships that people make are with their family? Ridiculous.

How about placing more emphasis on the family unit? Family bonds are stronger than anything else. If you encourage everyone to work then people may get the misguided idea that careers are more important than families.

I don’t see this happening because it’s usually a better financial proposition to have everyone work all the time.

They don’t want people to leave the app.

Town squares have racists, hedonists, nihilists, globalists, misanthropists, moralists, pacifists, anarchists, theologists and everything else. The only new thing about this town square is that everyone has a megaphone. It’s up to you to find the crowd you want.

Some of the things you don’t tolerate are benign to others. And some of the things you like are cancerous to others.

The town square is for the people who hang out there. It sounds like you don’t hang out there.

Well the question is, do you want a town square or do you want a gated community? Town squares have a lot of filth. To filter it out is to pretend that humanity is something that it isn’t.

You can filter it out in your own Twitter by following people you like.

The public square is still right there. Go tweet, it’s the same as ever.

Ten years on and these threads still get hundreds of comments. This must be the world’s biggest salt mine. Ten years ago, millions of nerds suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly compelled to moan about the loss of their favorite RSS reader for eternity. The volume of the protests are out of alignment with the value that any RSS reader could possibly give, so I assume the nerds are all crying out for the loss of their innocence.

This is more of an indictment of alcoholism than self driving cars. Anyone who’s routinely getting drunk has a big problem that will cloud their judgement.

Why did other religions deem it immoral to charge interest?

I don’t understand how having the opportunity to manage a country’s money supply is oppression. Help me out.

Wow Google’s culture has really gone to the dumps. I think this is a direct consequence of hiring too many people and hoping for the best. There’s no way their quality bar is anywhere near what it was 10 years ago.

Google needs a careful visionary at the helm. A surgeon with a scalpel.

It sounds like you had an interesting observation but it’s not clear to me. Can you state it more plainly? What kind of organization?

I have also noticed FBers have a certain kind of personality. Vaguely utopian but removed from reality with a heavy emphasis on hedonism.

So much preventative process and yet so much violence still occurs. The environment must be truly stressful. The concept of the animal within each of us isn’t metaphor—we are literally animals. Our environment strongly affects what sort of behaviors appear in the aggregate. This isn’t to disparage your character. This is to be aware that we are all capable of evil and we must be aware of it. Process alone cannot snuff out our instincts.

The soldiers who go abroad and commit murder and rape are also taking their civilization with them. Civilization is vital for our species’ continued success but it requires specific conditions to maintain. Each of us is capable of atrocious things.

I didn’t say it was totally fine, I said it was expected. Is the violence in ghettos and prisons the result of bad people or a stressful environment?

Othering these people and calling them psychos is a convenient way to excuse yourself. We are all human and we are all capable of evil. It is the environment that dictates our behavior.