Me. I read a lot of documents. Landscape is annoying, and portrait requires constantly scrolling left and right. E-readers are bigger than I feel like carrying everywhere. I want something that fits in my pocket, but I can use to comfortably read PDFs when I’m in a waiting room or something.

On the other hand, I think the flip phones are basically a stupid gimmick and I can’t imagine a valuable use case. But different people have different needs, so let people value the features they value.

Freedom freedom freedom oy!

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Pompeii is actually someplace you probably wouldn’t find one, considering it was packed with brothels.

I unironically believe that robot battles are an immediate win-win for robots and humans. Humans get to slip out of war with the military industrial complex being none the wiser, robots get to iterate over generations of dexterity testing, and they can just hot swap their cortex to boot! When you can just upload into a new body, war is basically playtime.

Now how that manifests long term is a matter of some contention.

He still supports a public option, he just opposes M4A because it would end existing employer-provided healthcare. Not everyone who opposes M4A is right-leaning, sometimes they just don’t think that this particular model is better than other public option models.

The Green New Deal faces lots of opposition from those who agree with the sentiment, citing it as misdirected, expensive, or overly ambitious. He does generally support the move to renewables.

Additionally, he supports expanded drilling, in parallel with a move to renewables, to reduce our oil imports. We can’t just snap our fingers and transition to 100% renewables overnight. It will be a gradual process, and reducing our dependency of oil imports is very possibly a pragmatic step in that process.

Policies are rarely black and white. It would appear most of his positions which seem, superficially, to be negatives are held for relatively nuanced reasons. We could do worse.

Prisons are designed, outside the scope of entrapment, to house, clothe, and feed a dense resident population. The resources spent on security could easily be diverted to quality of life improvements.

The organizations that run private prisons off tax subsidies could easily be retooled, in part, to the logistical administration of homeless shelters. They already have on-site detox programs.

You could even retool the current exploitative work programs into trade training.

Well, the fediverse is largely populated with trans (furry communist) open-source developers. (Not judging btw, just noticing. Live your truth)

Fediverse dating app users are necessarily going to be a subset of fediverse users.

Uh huh, which is why you’re happy letting the enthusiastic-support-for-accelerating-and-expanding-genocide party beat the diplomatic-damage-control-while-we-try-to-stop-genocide party. Since the lesser evil is still bad, may as well let the monstrous evil take control.

Are you listening to yourself? Childish.

Everything black and white. Childish and simplistic.

Yes I’m sure that’s comparable to the elimination of the nations of Palestine and the Ukraine. How selfless.

The rest of us do know how to do the right thing. You’re not doing anything, your lily-white inaction is moral masturbation. Doing the right thing requires considering the suffering of others over your own passive comfort. Often that means making tough decisions. How much will suffering increase because puritanical children refused to sully their hands on anyone who wasn’t perfect? Childish and simplistic.

What a childishly simplistic worldview.

Just remember: cheating isn’t bad because you’re sleeping with other people, cheating is bad because you’re betraying the trust of your partner. If you’re open and honest about everything, you’re not cheating.

I think brainstorming is specifically a group activity. When you do it alone, it’s just called “thinking”. The point of brainstorming is to bring in ideas you thought of individually to co-mingle with the ideas other people thought of individually.

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You’re not wrong, but it comes down to delivery. I’ve said a lot of bizarre, goofy lines in my time, in various stages of social aptitude. The same line comes across very differently based on whether it’s said confidently with a self-assured smile, or muttered while looking at your shoes.

Escalate. Start with early digestible low quality sources (AI chat bots, short YouTube videos, old Reddit threads, etc.) to build a general familiarity with the subject matter space.

Once you grasp the basic vocabulary and concepts, you know well enough what questions to ask to find more nuanced discussions and the right Wikipedia rabbit holes.

If you need more comprehensive understanding than that, use your newfound familiarity to start skimming primary sources.

Once you get more involved than deep dives into primary sources, you start blurring the lines of developing a new area of relative expertise.

This is a time sensitive equation. Dry cereal is too crunchy. Cereal which has been sitting in milk a while is too soggy. You’re supposed to eat it immediately after adding milk, when the cereal is partially softened but still mostly crunchy.

And you don’t need to drown it in milk like it’s a soup, the best ratio requires you to stir the cereal a few times to evenly wet it. If the milk comes more than about halfway up the cereal, you’ve overdone it

The sticking point is that your body acclimates to sleeping at exactly your set nap times. If you miss or delay a nap, you’re screwed. If you have total control of your schedule (i.e. work remote with no meetings, no kids, no other spontaneous responsibilities) you can make it work. Otherwise, not recommended.