Faces and races
kibiz0r
joined 1 year ago
Sir, yes, sir!
We gonna finally get a decent Zen 5 entry?
If you're interested, my comment was basically a sample of this fantastic interview with Anand Giridharadas: https://youarenotsosmart.com/2023/04/02/yanss-256-anand-giridharadas-wants-americans-to-change-their-minds-about-their-ability-change-other-americans-minds/
They're all towers. But the buttons are all pretty shallow with very light actuation force required.
And they all happen to be situated such that the corner which has the button is the corner furthest away from the desk, so when she jumps up onto the PC as a platform to get ready to jump onto the desk, her feet are all grouped up right in that corner.
And you can imagine that if she's crouched down ready to jump, and I put my arm out to prevent her from jumping from the tower to the desk, that's a lot of pressure all applied to her little toe beans.
It's an unfortunate coincidence. But that experience, together with seeing this Mac Mini design, has made me wonder why we tend to put a button with such drastic effects right out in the open like this.
You're catching downvotes, but you're not wrong.
The emotional vibe from the left is: "If you're not enough of a leftist according to my unique standards, you're basically the worst person to ever exist. And don't ask me to explain, cuz it's not my job to educate you."
The emotional vibe from the right is: "Welcome home, you clever protagonist you. You knew the truth all along, you just needed the courage to admit you knew it. Hey, while you're here, I'd like to introduce you to a few other things you might not realize you already believe."
The supreme irony is: The right doesn't believe in democracy. They don't believe you can persuade people and get them on your side and move forward with a cohesive vision of governance. Yet they're doing a better job of persuading people than the left is.
If you complain about a technical thing, you'll end up having to justify every square inch of your existence in order to prove your complaint isn't just user error.
Two examples from yesterday:
I switched to Spacebook
I was using the mobile app.
No, if you have inside knowledge that’s inciter trading.
Because making 400k/yr by sitting on a pile of assets and living a low-cost life in a paid-off small-town cottage is not the same as making 400k/yr as a debt-saddled surgeon renting in a high-cost city center, so targeting income instead of wealth gets us farther from a fairer economy.
Next question.