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people who don't entertain any thoughts of poking their consciousness in some way are missing the point of life. If you don't ask "why am I here" or "what's this all about" then things get pretty bland pretty quickly.

I didn't get anything "spiritual" out of them. If anything, it made me realize that spirituality is a complete sham

Hot take, the "spiritual" reason for doing psychedelics is this: they hate their own lives and think that some "transcendental experience" will change that

There's only one legit reason for doing them: to get high. The "spirituality" reason is just a bunch of BS. The people who buy into it are the last ones who should be doing them

What I don't get, sorry for my own reductive attitude, is that if you volunteer for one of these projects you're working for free. If you don't like terms of project, just don't work for free?

Kind of like reddit moderator situation atm

But stability deteriorated elsewhere. Striking workers in Greece, pension protests in France and deadly clashes in Israel and Peru reduced scores in those countries.

???

Who is this list meant for? Seems kind of odd to penalize France because of pension protests

Am an American so might be lacking details, but my understanding is that Macron decided to raise the retirement age which was highly unpopular, and people were pissed off because of it? How do those protests make France "less livable"? If anything, it makes it more livable by my book.

Seems like Economist is just airing political grievances. Usually whenever I see these lists (e.g. "livability index", "democracy index", etc), the list maker shuffles around the top 10-20 countries in order to grind some political axe

I love how you hardcore Marxists only take the good parts of what you say while conveniently leaving out the guy that's gonna be wallowing in the ditch for you

Uhh no? I just think that the people working in ditches should be compensated a living wage, preferably through forcing the ultra rich to pay their fair share in taxes and redistributing

More like, a concerted media effort to nudge people to churn out kids. People can chill on the rat race, so long as they churn out kids so that the wheels keep turning

Just acknowledging the trend as I see it

What do you think society would look like if you just did away with all the modern conveniences and the "ruling class".

You're drawing an association the ruling class and modern conveniences. Those are two incredibly different things.

I have a really hard time believing that because a small group of people have a disgusting amount of wealth, somehow modern conveniences are "divined" from that

Would not do this, current job market is not favorable, you're most likely better off working towards degree (assuming it's undergrad)

but got put in “10x developer” expectation projects where I’d churn something out, get a big shiny star sticker for it, and then 2 years later it would be abandoned

I feel like I've fallen into this hole at my current gig, where I just churn shit out to solve a problem as quickly as possible

I get away with it just bc general code quality was already not good to begin with

Biggest mistake was going fast the first time, now I'm getting assigned way more shit

Word of advice to readers: don't make the same mistake I made. You'll just get taken advantage of

When we tried to decline testing, we were threatened with a CPS case and the removal of our just-born child.

Pretty sure that test is voluntary in a bunch of states?

The bottom line us that these 3 businesses make money. Billions per quarter. It's coming in so fast they quite literally dont know what to do with it all.

Revenue might be going up, but are they actually providing additional value to users? Or just gutting them more thoroughly?

I look at the amount of utility that Google's products provided back in 2013, and I look at how much they provide now. Can't say the improvement has been anywhere close to stock price

A weird thing with this article and others: they shit on Google and Facebook, but they never shit on Apple?

Why? Is Apple just a serious company in comparison? At least, with Apple I get the impression that some of their products (e.g. mbp) are leaps and bounds ahead of the competition. I can't say the same for any Google or Facebook product

This is true for me. Been making a lot of soups and soup like dishes, most have a similar profile:

1. Saute aromatic base (like onion, garlic, pepper, celery etc)

2. Deglaze

3. Add meats, non aromatic vegetables (e.g. carrot, potato)

4. Add broth, simmer

5. Garnish

Something I read like a day or two ago:

“The FBI and other 3 letter agencies contact these unhinged mentally ill kids and convince them to do mass shootings,” Airman Teixeira wrote in an online chat group, sharing a debunked conspiracy theory after a gunman killed three people at a mall in Indiana last summer. The gunman, he claimed, was one of many mass shooters groomed by the government as part of a secret plot “to make people vote for” gun control.

Kind of strange to see the NYT prematurely assert something as "debunked" without evidence. And not even in an opinion article, but in a regular article? It seems like when the US govt is involved, any sort of journalistic standard gets thrown out

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/18/us/politics/airman-jack-t...

The fact of the matter is you do not have any leverage at all

You do have leverage though, that's a point that this article makes. It costs time and money to onboard people. Also you can unionize, and acquire even more leverage

You're making a pretty strong claim and just assert it to be "the fact of the matter", reminiscent of an opinion column from a newspaper

All employment is “at will” in Tech, you can be fired for any reason

Wrong. The reason cannot be discriminatory

An important distinction to make, one that can cost a great deal if not made

Just something I've noticed here on this site: the sentiment is highly "pro-employer" (kinda like the wsj). It makes sense really, considering who finances the infra for this website. Not surprised this article was flagged

The post connects two things I didn't consider before: collective action and internal tooling

Something that I've seen: management mandates that everyone use shitty tooling. Using collective action to challenge this and put a fire under management's ass to make internal tooling not shit isn't a bad idea imo

Really, I'm just happy I see an article here that speaks positively about organized labor and the adversarial relationship between employer and employee. The only flaw with this article is that it spends too much time talking about HR and not enough about litigation

When they don't force you to go through a shitty gui

Every time I see one of these threads, there's always a bunch of baggage in the comments. There's also a bunch of stereotyping I see, e.g. men "preferring" hookup culture

Also on top of this, whenever there's talk about a so called "masculinity crisis", there's a bunch of tacit demands on how other people should live. This is regardless of whichever political camp the talk originates from

It's gotten to a point that whenever I figure out a discussion or article is "directed" at men, I stop reading because I already know it's going to start telling me what I "need" to care about as a man

I'm honestly fed up with it at this point. If someone has something to say to me as a person, go ahead. But if someone has something to say to me as a man, I'd prefer it if they'd take their bullshit elsewhere

Since there are few male teachers, the boys without a strong father figure at home never get taught how to channel their masculine energy in a healthy way

I'll give an alternative perspective: people who talk this way try to shame men into traditional "masculine" roles

I'm not just talking about hetero vs queer either. More like, pressuring men to "care about" the marriage -> kids -> nuclear family life track. Or pressuring men to (implicitly) see women as sex objects

Something I've realized: whenever someone talks about this "crisis", they're always making some implicit demand on how other people should live

What makes people defect from the secular centers back to religious communities on the border? Just the opposite trade off -- less money, freedom, power. But you'll be more grounded and connected to a community, which can be immensely satisfying. And it's easier to raise kids

I feel like this is a more recent trend than vice versa

Another thing that the "religious" parts provide is population, some of which will flow to urban centers. Which will probably be exacerbated in the US in coming decades because of growing cultural divide between different states

If you create data anywhere, assume some govt will eventually get a copy

I have a hunch that we've been giving these agencies too much credit this whole time

Every time there's an unmitigated act of terror makes me think: the intelligence community is either malicious (a crazy rabbit hole to go down) or incompetent

And also there's the problem of searching, like finding a needle in an ocean

LF Celine's Journey. He writes about WW1 and gives a first person experience of the propaganda

It's something I think about often: what does it take to convince millions of people to walk into a graveyard? It just completely flies in the face of self preservation, kind of like the Aztec sacrifices

It's hard to think about this and not turn into a cynic

You could do emacs org-mode with auto encryption

Or even better: could just make a little self hosted web app that does this for you

Or another idea (most useful for me): self host an instance of mediawiki and use it as a personal knowledge base

Binary people are funny. Everything is always 1 or 0, nothing is ever undefined and the idea to have different levels of certainty never occurs to them.

Not what I was conveying. There's a place for nuance, but from my experience in practice, being able to be decisive is more useful than contemplating and questioning. Not to say I avoid the latter (what are we doing right now?) or that it isn't useful, but the times at which it's really needed are few and far between

reject what would challenge your beliefs and would make them weaker.

Most unresolved disagreements I know of are because the groups disagree on some unprovable underlying assumption. Switching positions on it doesn't make the beliefs stronger or weaker

Being able to believe something and stick to it, regardless of challenges from competing interests or forms of coercion: that's more valuable in practice than being more reconciliatory

We are supposed to love each other, not idolize dolls on a screen. If you can't see how that's sick then I can't help you.

I mean, yeah, but you're sort of just taking one mental image and assuming that's the rule and not the exception

It's a thing lol

The other day I saw some gym bro in the IG comment section trying to flex on people with "do you even know what backpropagation is?"

American primacy

Why talk about this like it's an end in itself? There's an opportunity cost involved

Other NATO countries combined spend less than the US. At what point is it enough?

It's just that now, we have a sick society where most men don't have some girl in their town they'd go to war to impress.

What's sick about that? Feelings are temporary, death is permanent. Your definition of a "not sick" society is a sick one by my book

This article comes to mind https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/11/us/jrotc-schools-mandator...

Tl;dr they're trying to pressure high schoolers into JROTC with stuff like automatic enrollment