My experience with this film was overwhelmingly positive but cut the other way.

What I saw was a deliberate and not-at-all veiled allegory for classic narcissistic abuse, its victims, and how victimhood can be self-perpetuating until you get help and break free. I would go as far as to say that it’s both affirming, supportive, and informative to that end. There’s even a not-so-subtle explanation as to why you don’t see group therapy for this sort of thing (it’s on purpose and absolutely necessary).

Everything else is fun acting, action scenes, special effects, set dressing, homage to old horror films, you name it, it’s in here. It all serves the story’s core premise brilliantly and keeps an otherwise dreadful topic - perhaps all to real for some of the audience - palatable for the film’s runtime.

Yes. You basically have to keep eating that way and your gut flora adjust to compensate. It’s still a pretty windy diet since you rely on those gut-bugs to break down a lot of the sugars in beans.

We clearly have problems with people not giving a fuck about most other people, that’s easy to see. But I wouldn’t go label a huge swath of the US population that way. Realistically, we’re looking at something like 1-4 percent of the population. Granted, that’s still millions of people, but nowhere near the majority.

What may be the bigger problem is that our society selects for people with sociopathic tendencies in high office, police, and powerful positions in companies. IMO, a kind of modeling effect is more likely how this impacts everyone else.

Exactly. Prompt the other party to exercise the smallest amount of critical thought and you can watch it all unravel. It’s fucking exhausting, but that’s what it takes.

I once heard someone drop some nonsense in a conversation about how “San Francisco is a dirty place.” Not only is “city = dirty” a common right-wing trope, but it had zero place in our conversation. It was just kinda parroted nonsense ham-fisted into our dialogue. I simply replied: “I’ve been to silicon valley and the touristy parts of downtown, and what I saw was a nice clean place; I can’t speak for the rest of it.” The guy stopped for a sec and said “well, I haven’t been there myself so I guess I can’t either.”

Since you’re read up on all this - can you bottom-line this for us? From your perspective, how have we already lost, in what contexts, and to what extent? I’m genuinely curious.

Thanks!

I was thinking the same thing. I feel kind of bad now.

Also: this is what it would look like if Linus wrote a CPM kernel instead.

I’ve found I very much care about the actual creation of the art that I like.

I totally get that. I think it’s like that for a lot of people.

Sad thing is, there’s a bunch of folks out there that aren’t all that deep. So “pretty people doing pretty people things” is about the level of involvement there. There’s probably an escapism/fantasy element there too, which may explain why we have people that are famous for being famous.

before they put coin machines on the weight systems.

WAT. I’ve never heard of this. Is that like a deposit akin to an Aldi shopping-cart, or like an arcade machine?

melting pot

To them, it’s not a melting pot. They see a caste-system of suckitude where every different group exists on the levels beneath wealthy white people. Every reaction, every lie, every diversion, it’s all in service of that one design. The funny part is: the coded speech and dogwhistles mean that they don’t exactly have enough social sway to be full-throated racists about it.

That’s kind of where my head was going. I also had a good chuckle when I imagined a bright turquoise baby-bag with “Makita” on the side. Then again, that’s exactly how you get a refrigerated compartment for milk.

I agree. To me, this is just an amusing fashion choice. If you’re gonna need the gear, so you may as well have fun with it.

Honestly, when it comes to any accessory or tool, it’s going to have an aesthetic. Who cares what that is (as long as it’s not offensive). There’s also a tendency to consider terms like ‘fashion’ to be emasculating, but that’s what this is: fashion. Plus, kiddo isn’t going to care about logos and any gender representation; the only shit they’re giving is in their pants.

Other fashion choices for diaper bags that could be explored:

• Metal (leather/pleather, spikes, denim, band patches)
• Goth (like above, but with less denim and more ankhs and crosses)
• Gamer (cosplay appropriate bags, pokemon that’s also a bag, D&D mimic on a shoulder strap)
• Sports (tons of practical and team-branded merch options here)
• Office (suit material, inoffensive beige, briefcase handles and leather)
• Handyman/tradesman (toolbag or toolbelt aesthetic, tool manufacturer branding)
• EMT/firefighter (first-aid compartment, red/white aesthetic, cheeky “diaper emergency kit” on outside)
• Outdoorsman (gore-tex, tent material, typical REI brands, lots of straps for different carry options)

Edit: not a dad. Some of these may already exist. Point being: it’s all a matter of taste.

There’s also diffusing responsibility across the organization. It’s easy to achieve unethical things, when the individual’s part of the job hardly seems “bad” at all.

Try telling

There’s your problem, right there.

Have a conversation. Ask questions. Live by example. When asked, demonstrate the advantages of doing differently.

Someone with a provable, undeniable, zero stakes in the outcome of publishing said algorithm, while being of such moral fortitude as to be un-corruptable. IMO, if you find such a person, you’re probably better off just putting them in charge.

Best bet is to raise the bar on any coordinated attempt to sabotage things. Multiple algorithms must be made by distinct parties, and the submissions compared against one another, and somehow averaged out (e.g. multiple running algorithms that vote amongst themselves) so that the only way to game the system is a very large and unlikely conspiracy.

This is a hoax account

I hope so. The dissonance and lack of self-awareness in the post was so profound, my head is still ringing.

Writing the tests first, or at least in tandem with your code, is the only way to fly. It’s like publishing a proof along with your code.

it sounds trite: make the tests fit the code. Yes, it’s a little more work to accomplish. The key here is that refactors of any scale become trivial to implement when you have unit-test coverage greater than 80%. This lets you extend your code with ease since that usually requires some refactor on some level.

I agree. The negativity in this forum has utility beyond providing a stupid counterpoint. It also saturates attention and screenspace in long threads of people arguing nonsense. The goal is disruption, and in a space far from corporate control like Reddit, yet somewhat under-moderated, it’s alarmingly effective. At worst, there’s an acutual playbook for this exact thing.

Major civilian disobedience and unionizing is required across the board.

The only way we get there is by getting people out of their houses, away from controlled media, and aware that they’re not alone. Without active, live, out-in-public protest, nobody will feel emboldened to take more radical action; they’ll feel like a lone actor and probably not even start. Civil action en-masse comes first.

I agree. Rather each one of those is rather substantial on its own. Plus the churn of going from framework to framework makes it less useful to compress and bundle all this stuff into fixed versions on a slower schedule (e.g. like Ubuntu packages do). I think that all contributes to bloat.