jjjalljs

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Every night he jumps onto the computer keyboard until it beeps. I tried turning the computer off and he turned it on somehow.

I don't know why. It's after I've fed him. I always pick him up and bring him to the bedroom after.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

You might enjoy this 1964 essay "the paranoid style in American politics" : https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/

American politics has often been an arena for angry minds. In recent years we have seen angry minds at work mainly among extreme right-wingers, who have now demonstrated in the Goldwater movement how much political leverage can be got out of the animosities and passions of a small minority. But behind this I believe there is a style of mind that is far from new and that is not necessarily right-wing. I call it the paranoid style simply because no other word adequately evokes the sense of heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy that I have in mind.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Many people are bad at delayed gratification and long term thinking.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Supposed to go to a party this weekend. Last time I went to one with this crowd, it was pretty okay and I made a new guy-i-text-sometimes-friend.

Though the time before that was really dull, so who knows.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

But those bots don't have any intersection with my network, so their trust score is low.

If they do connect via one of my idiot friends, that friend loses credit, too, and the system can trust his connections less.

The trust level is from my perspective, not global.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Sometimes people's priorities, needs, and desires are bad.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (7 children)

The way I imagine it working is if I notice a bot in my web, I flag it, and then everyone involved in approving the bot loses some credibility. So a bad actor will get flushed out. And so will your idiot friend that keeps trusting bots, so their recommendations are then mostly ignored.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah if I take photo/video I put the camera in front of my face or chest so no one behind me can see it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

rpg.net is pretty good, but I don't post there anymore. I may have eaten a large ban in a stupid argument about accessibility. I still don't think being able to unilaterally change the rules of the game in your favor in a multiplayer game falls under accessibility, but apparently some people do!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah I think it's impossible to treat people with dignity and respect indefinitely while also hoarding wealth like a dragon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I remember seeing memes about this. I think it was the "boss throws guy out the window" template.

  • "How can we keep our guards loyal? Drug them? Bomb collars?"
  • "Maybe you could pay them and treat them with dignity and respect"

Personally I think we should start a campaign of jury nullification and "if you're an EMT, and they're a billionaire, let them die", but I'm just one guy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Oh yeah I think I read about Zucker building a bunker in hawaii. Hopefully he dies before he can enjoy it.

view more: next ›