widjit

Denial/wishful thinking are extremely powerful.

That said, body positivity shouldn't be thought of as having anything to say about objective physical health: there is zero reason a person who is obese should necessarily feel bad about themselves. Shame is a useless or detrimental approach to changing behavior; shame is oftentimes the reason people engage in unhealthy behaviors like overeating in the first place. Being overweight is an obvious health danger, but it does not make you a bad person.

Somewhere in the idiot echo chamber of social media the idea of a healthy sense of self worth got conflated with a healthy body.

at the very least people would stop stealing catalytic converters, that's a win

Where does this strawman of art commentating come from? Loud people at parties?

Have you ever read a good book on art theory or art history? By whom? Have you ever, as an artist, sat around with someone in the same practice and wanted to talk about the meat of what it is you're doing? 'I like the colour' is a fine thing to say, but anyone who is even slightly curious will follow it up with I wonder why? or I wonder if there are any colors I don't like or any of a million other questions. Letting it sit at 'I like the colour' is kind of lame.

Or maybe all discussion of art is 'a gussied up version of "I like the colour";' in that case, then all software engineering is making colored lights blink in patterns--see how useless it is to ignore complexity?

I would ask if throwing out unfounded opinions normally works well for you in society, but I suspect it probably does. For the record, I reserve rude comments for the internet.

I don't want to have a phone call with you about your boring, detrimental attitudes towards art and other people's appreciation of it. I go out of my way to inject myself into discussions exactly like this one because, as I said, I repeatedly see engineering-brained people (who have a lot of sway) going out of their way to deride Other People's Good Time, and I want you to stop doing it.

Let people enjoy things, it doesn't hurt you. Leave them alone.

Does it give you pause at all that this is, historically, a common way of thinking among authoritarians and fascists?

a slippery slope to significantly reduced gun deaths

oh no

genuinely doing a bad job and sabotage look very similar

the only significant difference I've seen in brand-new devs from bootcamps vs CS programs is the devs from bootcamps are somewhat aware that they have a lot of learning to do

"Hell is my own code" still works in my case

FB/Google/etc. don't actually need to make correct inferences, they just need to provide infographics that say they are correct so that marketing departments can report to their superiors that they are responsibly spending advertising dollars and getting "impressions" from the right people

it's a multi-tier confidence game

clearly this article is not meant for you

a big chunk of the people who read HN are the exact people responsible for the systems and algorithms that create (and perpetuate) the solipsistic hell-mirror described in the article

my least favorite part of engineering is that it is led by smart, capable humans who diligently build systems to destroy the best things about being a human

Discussions involve reading and considering and responding to people, not whatever it is you're doing

is there something wrong with that?

This is so much easier to read, thank you

that sounds very interesting; do you have any idea which book this was?

this is literalist, black and white thinking that is one of the foundations of fascism

if there is a social conflict (and boy are there social conflicts), not talking about those social problems is tacit support for the dominant position. pretending that one's work life can be neatly compartmentalized and has no bearing on the rest of the world is a fantasy of those who value their own comfort over the well being of others

doubling down I see

your refusal to understand politics will not make politics go away

when you are part of a dominant social group this can indeed seem to be the case

using the word "woke" carries exactly zero weight with anyone other than people with the most basic primate-level understanding of social behavior

or more simply: by using that word you sound dumb

then again, maybe that's how you want to identify. who am I to say

if you don't mean that, then why use the word "absolute"?

if there are exceptions then it isn't absolute

Other than your first paragraph, which is reasonable, your name dropping is doing a poor job of hiding your very weak understanding of history, philosophy, and political theory.

Get off the internet and talk to an actual human who knows what they're talking about.

The device also supports ssh over USB, which has been more than adequate for my meds

It is an official list: a list of airports visited by OpenBSD developers.

It's just a bit of culture, don't worry about it so much.

The operative word here is "were"

Mashed up with recruiting propaganda

4. Controlled leaks/misinformation

That is impossible to surmise.

it's been interesting seeing the steady increase of fascists posting on HN

doesn't bode well