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kibiz0r

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  • Adulting summed up

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  • My thing is: How do people handle stuff that has to be done between 9-5, Mon-Fri?

    I tried to switch ISPs on Friday (which was an hour-long ordeal), got to the part where she said “Okay, I think that’s everything I have for you. I’ve got the disconnect screen pulled up, when would you like to —“ and the call dropped.

    It’s now Tuesday, and I haven’t found a spare hour during the work day to call again.

    I’ve also got a home warranty company telling me to update my claim or they’ll close it, but I need to talk to the receptionist at the plumbers during business hours to get them to resend the invoice.

    And then I get stuck in this loop of:

    • I have to make these calls today
    • I’ll kick butt at work so I have enough time
    • I spent the whole time worrying about those calls and didn’t get enough work done
    • Now I have one less day to make those calls

    Why can’t people handle things over email or a web portal? This is so much unnecessary stress and contortion.

  • What's the difference between black eyed peas and chickpeas?

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  • I’ve heard it as “I’ve never paid to have a garbanzo bean on my face”

  • Anti Facial Recognition DIY

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  • Do not disassemble a CRT on a whim. Even if you’re being careful, it can go wrong. There’s strong magnets, glass under pressure, capacitors that can hold a deadly charge for a long time, and toxic chemicals.

  • We're not so different.

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  • It’s the problem, but also the strength. That fragmentation allows room to experiment.

    It also puts pressure on the underlying protocols/specs to be air-tight. If you have just one implementation to support, you can do whatever. If you have to support 15, all with different goals and constraints, you gotta be pretty damn careful.

    So in the end, we get foundational systems that are able to evolve over time instead of needing a breaking-change, ground-up rewrite every 2 years.

  • Actually have a hard time with this

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  • It looks like I've been using these terms in some bastardized hybrid of Campbell's formulation of the hero's journey and Vogler's (which is the one I learned in school), so don't take this as canonical, this is just what I look for:

    For me, the "meeting with the goddess" moment isn't the kinda trivial "this will be important later" exchange like Frodo meeting Galadriel, but an experience of pure joy in the midst of utter sorrow, so like when Moana's grandma appears as a ghostly manta ray and reignites her determination. In romance stories, this is where the couple gets that perfect date where everything seems effortless and transcendent.

    It can take many forms, but the important thing is just that this is a glimpse of what victory could look like, without having actually achieved it yet. It's a chance for us to see the true, unbridled motivation of the protagonist in a way that doesn't feel contrived like just stating it to the audience, and it usually has a stark contrast to the horrors that are currently going on in the overall arc of the story. It can be one of the most memorable moments outside of the climax of the fight against the "big bad".

    It's usually either right before or right after the "all is lost" moment (well, the first one -- the one before they really form their initial plan to take down the "big bad" and see that initial plan fail and have to pivot to something that incorporates their mastery of their original self into their new mastery of the supernatural world they dove into).

    My take on "atonement with the father" is more conventional. It's that moment where the hero says "I'm going forward with this journey even if you think it's foolish, I've learned to love myself for exactly who I am in a way that you never could". If you imagine a scene where someone says "Don't you dare walk out that door", and the hero does it anyway, that's the atonement with the father.

    It doesn't have to be a literal parent or even parental figure. The important thing is just that it shows the hero recognizing that they had previously accepted some artificial constraint on who they were able to be, or what they were able to do, and they're ready to move past that constraint.

    Sometimes this is linked together with a "temptation" moment, where the nay-saying figure has an appealing offer like "Give this up, come home with me and take over the company like you always wanted" or whatever.

    The most powerful ones, I think, are less about the authority figure and more about confronting something within the hero themself.

    The reason that I like this moment in particular is that it has to be tied to something from their old life, before they started their adventure. So it sets up a contrast for later on, when they'll have to incorporate something positive from their old life in order to defeat the big bad for real. Here, in this moment before the big battle, they're discarding something about their old life -- what will they choose to keep and emphasize later on?

    In Guardians of the Galaxy, Quill rejects the abusive relationship with his father figure Yondu and later on embraces his friendship with his new buddies in order to defeat the big bad. It's a nice little push-and-pull: he's becoming more self-reliant, and careful in his social entanglements... but not to the point where he's forsaking the need for friends and teamwork.

    Anyway, those are the two moments I watch for. One that's a starry-eyed vision of what their journey's victory could look like, just at the moment where they need that boost. And one that's a sober self-evaluation and rejection of past behavior. If they do it right, both of those moments should have some kind of echo in act 3, so most of the time I feel like if they nail those two moments the rest of the story is probably gonna at least be good if not great.

  • Actually have a hard time with this

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  • Idk, I feel like knowing standard story structure is a way to help you get more understanding out of a story. IMO, a good story is predictable in some ways. If knowing the ending takes all the fun out of it, then it probably wasn’t a very good story.

    Also: I generally watch for two specific moments in any movie: the “meeting with the goddess” and the “atonement with the father”. Those two scenes really tell you a lot about what the writer cares about and how they think about their characters.

  • Tech left teens fighting over scraps, and now it wants those too

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  • This is basically what the Luddites were fighting against:

    A world where labor has no opportunity to develop skills or use them, no authority over the machinery which dictates the nature of what is made and how, chasing fewer and fewer jobs for less and less pay.

    Their solution was to take sledgehammers to the factories. The owners, of course, hired thugs to shoot them. And the politicians ruled that the machines were sort of the property of the crown, and therefore destruction of these machines should be punishable by public execution.

    Funny enough, data centers today are considered strategic assets under the protection of DHS. Which is a fancy way of saying: still owned by the crown, still gonna shoot you if you try to negotiate via sledgehammer.

  • "You exist to make money for us"

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  • I think you gotta put more work (hehe) into defining what you mean by “work”.

    Some people think of work as an inherently exploitative activity, where someone who owns the means but lacks the skill to use them loans the means to someone who has the skill, in return for some of (most of) the benefits of the labor.

    I think that arrangement actually strips a lot of fulfillment from life, because the people who do the work don’t get to make decisions and the people who make decisions aren’t forced to understand the real impact of those decisions.

    But if you just mean “doing something useful” or even “doing something meaningful” (since much of what gives life meaning isn’t explicitly useful), I think it would hard to disagree with you.

    I think a lot of people who call themselves “anti-work” aren’t opposed to putting effort towards something meaningful — I think it’s actually because of their sense that their day job is meaningless (and maybe even undermining meaningful pursuits) that they call themselves “anti-work”.

  • A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore computers are a valuable tool for law enforcement and the ruling class.

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  • We shut down companies for it though, and what AI vendors are doing is basically selling the ability to turn job roles into “accountability sinks”, where your true value is in taking the fall for AI when it gets it wrong (…enough that someone successfully sues).

    If you want to put it in gun terms: The AI vendors are selling a gun that automatically shoots at some targets but not others. The targets it recommends are almost always profitable in the short term, but not always legal. You must hire a person to sit next to the gun and stop it from shooting illegal targets. It can shoot 1000 targets per minute.

  • Force of habit

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  • come’s

    Why have people started putting an apostrophe before every s that happen’s to be the last letter in a word?

  • U.S. hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic

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  • $400 check, and $400k in PPP loans that I will totally repay (if I have to)

  • Banana

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  • They attract mosquitoes

  • Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon

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  • AI overlords gettin desperate for more chips

  • Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more

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  • Yeah, they cherry-pick that average income is up vs previous generations, adjusted for inflation.

    Okay, but… cost of living has gone up.

    Not just for the things that existed 40 years ago, but also from the new things that are necessary for maintaining a career, like broadband internet and a smartphone.

    Needing a fucking subscription for your toaster or hair dryer or stairs or whatever. Having to tip your landlord.

    They had a guy in the article that owes 200k in student loans! This is not apples-to-apples.

    And also, so what if it’s up in average? Inequality is the worst it’s ever been. They barely sneak an asterisk in to address that, too.

  • Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more

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  • It is capitalism we’re experiencing, but it’s treating capitalism as the only tool in the toolbox and structuring an entire culture around it.

    Markets work great for some things. Not everything. Currency works great for some things. Not everything.

    Anonymous transferrable shares of ownership, and all of the abstract financial instruments that spin out of that one simple mechanism… are honestly not very good for many things at all, but they’ve become the primary assets that our economy optimizes for.

  • Removed

    History repeating...

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  • The coffee mug. And the chair… my god, the chair.

  • Cisgender Boy Forced to Play on Girls' Sports Team Because of Birth Certificate Error

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  • The medical labs probably don’t walk away from it with a perpetual license to monetize your DNA however they see fit

  • Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots, according to leaked documents

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  • I should be cynical about AI and labor displacement, but…

    Does anyone actually want to wreck their bodies by walking all over a giant warehouse and lifting heavy unwieldy objects?

    Now the robots will do all of that.

    We’ll just need some humans to uh… follow them around the warehouse… and move them when they break down. (This is totally different, you see.)

    And do the original task that glitched it out. And dodge all of the other robots while doing so. And be paid less because we have robots now.

  • Metal bands

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  • Kingslayer85 is an okay name I guess