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njordomir

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  • What's something you know about philosophy?

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  • I majored in PHIL and took significant personal interest in it before that. I also deconstructed my faith in the 5 years prior to that. Philosophy asks all the questions, not just the ones that have immediate practical meaning or application or serve the will of those in power. Beyond that, it helps us develop better question asking and reasoning skills that are applicable to many other topics and pursuits. In some ways, philosophy is what education should be. It encourages you to discover and try to understand rather than just flip open your noggin on a hinge for someone to shovel in a bunch of junk for you to mindlessly repeat. If every school aged kid was introduced to philosophy the world would be a better place.

  • If you had to choose one place in the world to start from nothing and survive solo, where would you pick, and why?

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  • It's a good answer. Hawaii came to mind for me too but then I saw Costco guy's comment. Hawaii is warm enough day and night, Winter and Summer. There's an abundance of biodiversity and you could probably hunt and gather yourself some food pretty easily. The part that's difficult is starting from nothing and being so remote because to reach any opportunity outside Hawaii you would have to scrounge up several hundred dollars for a flight, or if "solo" means you're the last person on earth, you'd have to get a boat or plane.

    It looks like Maui, Oahu, and the Big Island all have Costco, so it seems it was all a false dichotomy. There's one for each of us and an extra just in case!

  • What is your favourite hobby and what do you value it for?

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  • Bicycling and partner dancing. I spend time in front of the computer for work and for fun, so I need some active hobbies to balance that out. Biking combines the thrill of exploration with the ritual of gear preparation and the endorphins and physical effects of exercise. Dancing is deeply perceptive on both auditory and physical levels. It encourages me to be social and approach people I don't know. Together, it's about the balance for me. If I loaded cases of beer onto trucks all day I'd probably be a professional hammock-er when I got home.

  • Who does the algorithm(s) think you are?

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  • I don't see a ton of ads, but when they get through, it's often something I recently purchased. I'm pretty sure my bank or the merchants are selling my transaction info but why they want to advertise to someone who already made a purchase I don't know. It's not even necessarily expensive purchases I would research online (though it can be). I had it happen with a 50ml bottle of Vodka. I bought it and when I got home the ad-overlords started spamming me with ads for the brand.

  • All Cars Sold in the EU Now Require a Camera Aimed at Your Face. It’s Still Not Clear Where That Data Goes

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  • Agreed, the privacy costs of driving modern cars are absurd.

    I was doing okay before AI replaced me. I wouldn't have bought anything I couldn't have paid for on the day of purchase but I'm glad that I didn't because unemployed me has to drive even less than work-from-home me did. Pouring $3k into my car would hurt, but not as much as buying a $40k mobile babysitting device that's going to surveil me everywhere I go.

  • All Cars Sold in the EU Now Require a Camera Aimed at Your Face. It’s Still Not Clear Where That Data Goes

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  • Worth noting, at least for those in the USA, your local chain auto parts store may lend out tools. The one around the corner from me used to.

    My fan clutch seized up (it's supposed to let go when it cools down so the fan isn't always spinning at full speed). I needed a very wide wrench to get it off; even my biggest crescent wrench was way too small. They had a tool that fit perfectly and since DIYers buy their parts from them, it makes perfect sense that they'd happily lend these tools out as long as people bring them back. They put a hold on my card for the borrowed tool, but dropped it when I brought it back.

    The broken fan clutch took my fuel economy (this was a late 90s vehicle) from 15-17mpg to 7-8mpg, but it roared like cross between a very angry hippo and a lion when that fan was pegged at 100%. I was a little sad when it was fixed... but my wallet was happy and the vehicle had a little power again instead of just sounding powerful.

  • All Cars Sold in the EU Now Require a Camera Aimed at Your Face. It’s Still Not Clear Where That Data Goes

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  • I lean left, but I have similar frustrations. There's an authoritarian wing to both parties who think they can make rules for everyone else, but won't subject themselves to the same rules. Will the data be collected from these politicians car cams the same way they want to spy on you and me? This is clearly about data and power and our leaders have shown time and time again that they'll make moves to enrich themselves and then wrap the approval in something like climate change, save the kids, or some other cause that it barely touches on. I need my leaders to lead by example and live openly and honestly in a way most people don't.

    The politicians are the ones the cameras should always be pointed at.

  • What laws (if any) should exist around recreational drugs?

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  • If they are allowed to advertise, it should be 100% fact based in it's approach. No more camels wearing sunglasses while smoking or sexy actors at a rooftop party drinking alcohol in front of a magnificent night panorama of skyscrapers while smiling and laughing together. No happy people skipping through the sunflowers after shooting up black tar heroin. No partner advertising between the movie TRON and hallucinagen sellers. Sellers could basically only list their cost per quantity, info about the manufacturing process, and any purity measurements with no emotional appeals, bandwagoning, colorful cartoon characters, etc. With something potentially addictive and harmful, we have a moral duty not to allow anyone who sells using logical falacies and dark patterns to have a platform.

    Warning lables should be super clear and the package should be otherwise 100% plain. Some substances may still warrant a ban, I'm undecided, but if they are allowed, they should probably not be advertised. People who want them, will be able to find them.

  • Apple Plans to Defeat RAM Prices by Letting You Lease a Mac

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  • On a practical note: we need to mock this to the point that anyone who actually does it will instantly be a social pariah. This needs to be so embarrassingly stupid that the companies who offer it literally blush, something non-human entities typically can't do. Gamers Nexus had a good video about NZXT doing this and broke down the math for the numerically challenged.

    Any other ideas for making this fail in a country where the consumer protection agencies are often worse than nobody paying attention at all?

  • US data center protests go national as backlash grows

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  • Only because hyperscale AI Data Centers and the kind of data centers we already had got conflated. That was almost certainly intentional.

  • Do you treat the yard as a room of your house?

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  • My yard looks just as messy as my house, though I would like both to be neat and orderly. Those perfectly mowed crisscross lines in the grass give me goosebumps!

  • What do you do when you have a song stuck in your head?

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  • I listen for a bit, then I listen to some tunes with a similar BPM, style, or key. I think, though I'm not certain, that it's my brain telling me that I need to stimulate it by going new places, hearing new things, doing new stuff, etc. It usually stops when I find something else cool enough to hold my interest.

    May I ask, what song you have stuck? I had "Golden" from Kpop Demonhunters such in my head for a few weeks recently but my earworms come from an genres.

  • Did you attend your high school reunion? Why or Why not?

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  • I looked for info about my 20 year reunion and couldn't find anything, so I didn't go and I'm not bothered one way or the other. I guess it might be cool to see some folks again, but no guarantee they come.

  • Who have you gotten an autograph of?

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  • Afroman. We were watching the trial on the news and I asked myself "Does this dude still tour?". Coincidentally, when I looked it up, he was going to be in the same tiny Midwest town we were visiting in only a few days, so I bought tickets. The guy is a born entertainer!

  • The Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media

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  • Germans call them "Flachspüler" (flat washer). I appreciate that the falling dookie doesn't splash water onto your ass. A fine feat of engineering and VERY off-topic. 🤣

  • All Cars Sold in the EU Now Require a Camera Aimed at Your Face. It’s Still Not Clear Where That Data Goes

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  • Seriously, the way things are going I'd be happy pouring more cash into a bucket of bolts than it's worth just to keep it running. Mine is only a 2015 but I'm gonna keep up the maintenance because it was one of the last model years not to have an upgraded radio with the newer round of anti-features and spyware. I drive all of 20-40 miles a week. Not really worth buying a $50k car, is it?

  • If you had to start today, would start collecting CDs or Vinyls?

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  • Very true. Many hobbies have rituals. Cyclists assemble their gear, clean their chain, and choose their wardrobe before their ride. Card collectors and collectors of all kinds of things often have detailed ritualistic organization of their collection. Potheads might pack and burn their bowl the exact same super optimized way every time. Gardeners might walk meditative paths and talk to their plants. Those descriptions are outside observations of people and their hobby rituals that anyone can make. OP has given us an inside look into their hobby, which is pretty damn cool and insightful!

  • Just Curious - What's Everyone's Profession Here???

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  • I was in tech, both IT and business enablement roles. I got replaced by AI so now I'm a professional curmudgeon.

  • Bending Spoons bought Vimeo, Evernote, and AOL instead of chasing AI, it just had a $25.7 billion IPO

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  • I was on Evernote in the distant past and remember their pricing strategy pushing everyone out. If companies want to fail that bad, don't let us stop you. It was a loss though because, at the time, Ever note was one of the most functional mainstream connected note apps.