> We are far too quick to jump to "this person isn't functioning in society, therefore something must be wrong with them" instead of doing the hard work of adapting our social and economic systems to be more inclusive of different types of human experiences.
Careful saying things like that, someone might accuse you of being a socialist (slight /s)
> They really want to get rid of everything beyond what they consider the default human experience although getting them to agree on that would go about as well as getting them agree on the right kind of Christian.
The term they've been using for the "right" kind of person is "Heritage American", allegedly meaning people whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower. That apparently does not include people whose ancestors came to the Americas via the Bering Land Bridge.
I would not be surprised if the "right" kind of Christian ends up being the one that believes the Prosperity Gospel.
There is no "right" kind. If you asked them to confirm the "right" kind theyd fall to infighting. That was the analogy I was comparing to with the "default human experience"
Agreed, if you talk to members of a random sect then other sects range from explicitly heretical* to simply historically‡ or structurally wrong. And that's not including the political views of various sects§.
*: Mormons & Jehovah's Witnesses from the perspective of sects that follow the Niecene creed
‡: United Methodists from the perspective of Free Methodists
§: Unitarian Universalists are left-aligned, the Southern Baptist Convention is right-aligned
The presence of such spines in open bodies of water just makes nautical routes come out particularly stupid, where the route presented calls for you to immediately go to that spine and travel along it, unnecessarily lengthening the route.
Same problem for pedestrian plaza structures btw.
Though there it's arguably worse as it has a good chance of affecting routing choice not just user presentation.
> 2.) Doing what I wanted would require federal intervention, and the climate has not been ripe for new regulations, let alone governing bodies, in well over a decade.
Unionization could achieve the same end but the propaganda is strong in the US
In a world full of state violence would we even have read Ted's work, would we even know the terrorists's gripes if not for their respective pinpricks of violence?
Yeah, violence is wrong, but were they wrong to choose it, I'm not so sure.
>The present research (N = 1204) explored the implications of overusing the addiction label. In Study 1, a national quota sample of Instagram users (N = 380) overestimated their addiction to the app, and those who perceived themselves as more addicted (but not more habitual) experienced less ability to control their use. We show that the perception of addiction likely arises from popular media’s frequent labeling of social media as addictive (vs. habit forming). Study 2 (N = 824) demonstrated experimentally that framing frequent Instagram use as an addiction has deleterious consequences for user self-efficacy, including reducing perceived control over social media use and increasing self-blame for overuse. In addition, misperceiving excessive social media use as addictive potentially diverts users from effective strategies that could be used to curb overuse habits.
> Framing it as addiction is popular now but it removes user agency:
You can use the same reasoning on smoking too. Or any other drugs.
I am currently trying to get rid of my dependence, almost an addiction on Reddit. And nothing has been working, except blocking Reddit on DNS level in my router for all devices and all browsers equally. And even then I will write "reddit" into address bar several times a day to get no response from browser. Like a gambler pulling a slot machine which is not connected to power.
One strategy that I've found useful for changing my behavior: changing browsers settings to not recommend sites or fill in urls from any source be it history, favorites/bookmarks, search etc. By not having the url auto fill it makes me type urls in manually from memory and this usually involves enough purposeful cognitive effort that I can stop any automatic visiting to sites. I've also uninstalled the browser from my phone (disabled built in browser on lineage and uninstalled firefox). If there is a rare time I really, really need a browser I'll download and install it for a specific task and uninstall it right after.
Parrot “user-agency” all you want. We’ve seen what outsourcing solutions to “user-agency” does.
Over half the population lacks the self stewardship to not eat themselves into being a fat pig. If “user-agency” was any sort of solution, I wouldn’t be paying for the negative externalities of all you fat fucks.
To piggyback[1], agency discussion are orthogonal to affecting outcomes.
Shifting responsibility typically justifies outcomes rather than making meaningful change. It resolves the cognitive dissonance between a negative outcome and inaction.
If one is actually interested in improving the negative result, it doesn't matter what their personal relation to the cause is. The process is simple: make meaningful change to to the system that causally proceeds the outcome.
In your example of obesity, personal responsibility is meaningless if one's goal is to decrease it.
Same with the negative effects of social media. If you care about the consequences, personal responsibility's only effect is to make one ok with inaction.
I’d unironically mandate taking GLP-1s for those who are significantly overweight as a precondition for getting on Medicaid, Medicare, and even private insurance. It’s time society takes a real stand against hambeasts.
this almost sounds like victim-blaming. regardless of user-agency.... if these companies are intentionally engineering addictive products, they deserve to be regulated or eliminated since they cant be "trusted" to do the right thing, which in this particular case is "not addicting children to brainrot clickbait". How does clickbait addiction in any way serve the betterment of society?
Unfortunately Nvidia support mostly depends on Nvidia, they've done their best to keep info about their cards away from the Open Source driver projects.
Careful saying things like that, someone might accuse you of being a socialist (slight /s)
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