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Trainguyrom

@ Trainguyrom @reddthat.com

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  • Not the person you asked, but you and everyone reading your comment know that's not a good faith argument.

    The reason incest is frowned upon and often illegal is because of the danger it poses to any potential offspring. Many genetic diseases rely on recessive traits that require both parents to carry the recessive trait in order for it to be exposed. If two biological siblings have a child, that child would therefore have a massive amount of recessive traits exposed since both parents would share a massive amount of DNA

    At a population scale, genetic diversity is critical to survival of a population, and a collapse of genetic diversity through too much inbreeding tends to lead to a very unhealthy population that can be easily wiped out through disease. This is much less of a risk with random incest today thanks to how much humans move around these days, but the flip side is that there is some risk of this from so called "super surrogates" who have genetically fathered hundreds or thousands of kids. The likelyhood of these kids meeting and reproducing can be quite high, which can therefore noticably reduce genetic diversity in a population, and ultimately reduce the health of a population

  • Decisions, decisions...

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  • Kinda how I see it, I just look at the numbers to make sure I can retire at some point and that's it. Until a better system is available, I just have to play within the system that exists or I ruin my future while making no meaningful dent in these companies' futures

  • Decisions, decisions...

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  • Developers generally rely heavily on loans for building new homes, and America is short some 8 million affordable homes currently (and the gap keeps growing)

  • Pentagon puts Scouts 'on notice' over DEI and girl-centered policies

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  • Gender mixing might cause boys to develope healthy relationships with women!

  • AI tool OpenClaw wipes the inbox of Meta's AI Alignment director despite repeated commands to stop — executive had to manually terminate the AI to stop the bot from continuing to erase data

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  • Yeah at work I had a realization recently that power automate and similar systems with AI steps are going to be really powerful. Since you have a bunch of deterministic steps you can just have the AI do the one text manipulation bit where you don't need deterministic output (handy for non-deterministic inputs for example)

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    How you spend your time

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  • I think the difference is historically hobbies involved making things (woodworking, model building, sewing, playing music, drawing, writing, scrapbooking, etc.) or were purely physical (hiking, playing sports, shooting things, etc.) partly out of necessity due to home media being practically nonexistent outside of books and magazines which require literacy (a high bar up to about the 20th century)

    Within about one generation we went from books and magazines being the only mass market home media to suddenly having access to more home media than we could ever consume. My grandmother has told me about her family getting their first TV and how she imagined it would be like a radio with a little screen you could walk up to and see a static image depicting what's being described when you wanted to but would otherwise listen to like radio

    People are now by default consumers, where even just 50 years ago it was still the default for people to make stuff, fix stuff, etc. at home. Boredom drove skill building, now boredom just drives consumption. To make matters worse, mass digitization ultimately came in the form of smartphones with apps powered by addictive algorithms, so people (myself included) are addicted to the cheap dopamine that these screens of colorful lights provide us. This is the crux of the matter, and there's a growing trend (partly driven by enshitification) of de-digitizing as people realize how bad these screens are for our mental health

  • Me while waiting for a passable alternative

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  • Yeah back on the days of analogue telephone lines every phone number ultimately required 2 copper wires going all the way from the nearest local exchange to the telephone handset in the home or business, so many smaller towns and rural areas got party lines as a way to save on copper and switching costs. Instead of a dedicated pair of copper wires to every house with a phone, all of the houses on a given block were on one line (all on one electrical circuit), so you'd pick up the phone and be able to talk to (or listen to) your other neighbors without dialing.

    Edit to add: in some rural areas they'd even use the barbed wire fences already at farms as a wire for delivering telephone service instead of running new phone lines, sometimes even using Single Wire Earth Return to further reduce copper requirements

  • Discord Alternatives, Ranked

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  • Yeah back in the day my friend group was on Skype as well as jumping onto whatever vc server was setup for whatever Minecraft server we were on. Skype was too bloated and bogged the system down especially if trying to do a voice call while playing a game on my old single core Pentium circa 2010ish

  • Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

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  • Is preventing teens' access to pornography worth sacrificing the ability for every adult to have privacy online?

    This is a society level value judgement that has to be made, I'm not necessarily looking for hard answers

  • Discord Alternatives, Ranked

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  • TeamSpeak is basically what Discord replaced in many gaming communities/servers/groups. Before discord, most gaming groups would have a TeamSpeak, Ventrillo or Mumble server. These were self hosted (or hosted in a VPS) and generally worked better than Skype. TeamSpeak was the most polished, Ventrillo was kinda dated looking but worked well and Mumble was the free software that was getting started and is now pretty good

  • Discord Alternatives, Ranked

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  • I mean, mumble has gotten super good at audio, but I don't know about other features

  • Andrew Tate is ’too smart to read’ and says books are for ‘slow brains’

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  • I mean one side has literal Nazis, is building detention facilities while sending a poorly militia into cities to arrest and attempt to disappear people without any charges, the other side just wants a half-assed European social democracy (because you know the Democratic party is currently captured and unwilling to make any meaningful change that isn't incremental and trivial to reverse)

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  • Oh yeah I'm sure if I struggled through I'd eventually find the value to toggle, it's just a royal pain and I don't wanna!

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  • Any kind of required age verification has significant privacy and security implications. Honestly I think the best approach is the pinky promise we've generally had until now, where by default the platform will not display explicit content until the user actively consents and asserts that they are of legal age.

    Why exactly do we need to be verifying age? Any kind of legal/government documents and agreements are already covered by purjory laws, physical deliveries and purchases are already handled by photo ID checks, and porn is of course harmful to teens/preteens but they've always been finding ways to access porn even before the home computer era (and honestly this would be better handled through education by schools and parents than forceful legislation)

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  • But, the publishing company can sue them for damages related to lost income based on TPB’s distribution of content.

    Wasn't the argument supposed to be that because they only link to torrents but don't host the content that the torrents link to themselves they're not a disributor just a link aggregator?

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  • I've had some difficulty with the parental controls preventing my kid from joining my server on the same network. Microsoft's parental controls are so overly granular yet incredibly unclear in the specifics, there isn't feature parity between the mobile app and the web interface forcing one to download their shitty app to toggle certain settings, and it seems like even their documentation authors and support are unclear on how to set it up exactly

  • Pentagon warns Scouts: Ban girls or we will pull your funding

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  • opefully the org will have a more phoenix style burn and rise form the ashes renewed and better

    As someone who was in Scouts not long before they started imploding from the scandals and now has a kid in Scouts, I really do get the feeling that the modernization they've been tackling has been very much akin to this. Just feels like a much healthier organization which isn't actively trying to pretend its still the 1960s

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  • I was attending the informational sessions from both GirlScouts and Scouts while trying to make the call for our daughter and the tone shift was jarring, where GirlScouts it was all "we're going to sell cookies and learn important things you need to know as a girl" and became honestly kinda sexist and just tried to badmouth Scouts when I asked how it compares. Meanwhile Scouts it was just "look we're going to go hiking and camping and make a race car to race and have fun!" (and had the exact same answer when I asked how Scouts compares to GirlScouts)

    So yeah we ultimately went with the more inclusive option that didn't recoil at the idea of her wanting her brother who she adores to join and didn't turn to badmouthing the alternative when asked how they compare. And guess what, she's having a blast and it feels weird that it was ever a gendered thing in the first place!

  • Someone got tired of hallucinated reports

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  • Especially when the maintainer gets upset about answering the same questions repeatedly in Discord but doesn't offer a non-discord support stream

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  • Scouts does do a really good job of preparing kids for the military if they so choose. Many of the hard and soft skills it teaches are very military-esque. Or put another way, I was chatting with another parent who's oldest just joined the military at 18 and they said the training is just like scouts and credited scouts with preparing them well for the military