Not_Alec_Baldwin

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Not_Alec_Baldwin,

Nobody has the right to not be offended.

If we gave people that right, everything in civilization would grind to a halt.

Choosing whether or not to offend a small number of people for the sake of expressing something is an individual decision.

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

It’s ouroboros.

People don’t leave which means there is an audience so people try to stay and capitalize on the audience that stayed.

Seriously, fuck Twitter. It needs to die. That might mean that a lot of people need to change a lot of things to make their lives work.

If you’re successful you can pivot. If you’re barely making ends meet and rely on Twitter to keep you afloat, I’m sorry to say this, but you’re not successful yet.

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

I want to dual boot because I prefer Linux for everything but some niche games. Just never got around to it. This is pretty motivating.

The Fairphone 5 released, is the sleekest repairable phone yet (www.androidpolice.com)

Two years after the Fairphone 4 and following the release of some audio products like the Fairbuds XL, the Dutch company is back with a new repairable phone: the Fairphone 5. It looks and feels a lot like the Fairphone 4, but it adds choice upgrades across the board, making it the most modular and also most modern-looking...

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

I feel the same way about the OLED screen.

The are too many static elements on a phone screen. Notification bar, keyboard, etc. I just expect burnin to be a huge problem within a couple years.

Not_Alec_Baldwin, (edited )

The crime happened in the past when the children were abused. This is some weird amalgam of criminal trolling.

Edit: yeah yeah I get that csam is criminal, that’s why I called it an amalgam. It’s both trolling and criminal.

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

People like people like them.

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

Don’t forget the incessant lobbying for charter schools even though nobody wants them and there’s no research to suggest they are better than the public system.

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

My wife and I hope to be in a similar situation in a few years.

I’ve stopped mentioning it because there was so much negative reaction and I’m tired of explaining. I usually just blurt out whatever is on my mind but this is now among the things I treat as taboo.

What people need to realize is that there are different kinds of people. All kinds of people. There are greedy, corrupt, evil business owners, landlords, politicians, lawyers, cops, etc. But it’s not the job that is the problem. It’s the people.

The only thing that makes the world better is when better people go into those professions. And the only way that happens is if we appropriately respect the importance of the role.

We aren’t interested in price gouging some struggling family that is having trouble making ends meet. We just want to cover maintenance and taxes. If you treat us and our home with respect we will treat you with respect.

I feel like that’s how it should be.

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

‘Abolish ownership’ is a pretty simple talking point, how would you make it work in a legal sense?

Who determines what is your responsibility vs the neighbor vs the city? How do you establish legal boundaries for purposes of theft, vandalism, or trespassing?

Laws might seem cold (because they are) or inhumane (because they are) but they are also the thing that keeps society organized. And that makes them one of the most important human inventions. Rights are the result of laws.

If you’re concerned about land prices, or people being ‘priced out’ of things, there are important alternate solutions to that kind of problem. Things like social services, improving education, breaking up super corporations, promoting healthy neighborhood design and small business, etc.

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

TIL Oreos are vegan.

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

Apparently depending on your brand of vegan, some sugar doesn’t make the cut. I don’t know the ins and outs I literally just googled it.

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

“The cloud is just someone else’s computer.”

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

I legitimately did, I stopped pirating except for old obscure stuff that I couldn’t find anywhere.

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

F YouTube premium, I just use an ad blocker and NewPipe.

YouTube literally can’t make the company work without premium. 2022 revenue was 30 billion. YouTube has almost 3 billion users, and only 80 million premium subscribers.

At $12/month, 12 months/year, that’s almost 12 billion of their revenue coming from premium subs… Meaning that the other 2.92 billion people account for only 18 billion, around $6/user/year.

Their whole business model is to keep making the experience of YouTube shitter so that they can charge a premium fee for what should be the default version of the site.

I hope the whole business fails.

Not_Alec_Baldwin, (edited )

Great point. I greatly* prefer the convenience of having my steam library.

On the flip side I pirated most of the old nes/SNES games that are harder to emulate well.

Joe Biden’s DOJ Is Claiming “There Is No Constitutional Right to a Stable Climate” (jacobin.com)

In the same week large swaths of the US were under extreme heat warnings, Joe Biden’s Justice Department filed its most recent motion to dismiss a landmark climate case by arguing that nothing in the Constitution guarantees the right to a secure climate.

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

While we’re at it let’s give everyone a right to world peace.

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

Hallelujah!

If a few million more of us do this maybe the industry will improve…

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

They treat your subscription as a promise of continued business. You’re literally funding them trying to continue monetizing you and dominating your attention.

Fuck Spotify, fuck Netflix, fuck all of them.

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

I had the same question, and found the answer in the thread.

It would be like if Steve from GN was detained during a fab visit by the Chinese government. That would be tech news regardless of whether or not they mentioned GN.

She’s been meaningful to the community both as an engineer/designer and as a public figure.

You really don’t deserve down votes for not knowing that, but I think a lot of people were just triggered by the way you asked the question.

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

…but I paid full price for D4 and still got a half baked game with an invasive in-game shop.

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

Not to X, but…

[Proceeds to X]

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

The shop had an un-clearable red alert notification any time they released a new skin for your character chat.

The only way to clear it was to open the shop and scroll to find the new item and click on it, opening the store page. Then when you backed out it would go away.

You had to do this for every single item that was released.

Maybe I’m neurotic or autistic or OCD or all three but those stupid red alerts trigger me and I need to clear them all to keep playing the game.

I don’t even want the fucking store in my game. Give me an option to turn it off for fuck’s sake.

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

Ironically I’m less concerned with battle passes as long as they don’t sell power. The actual mtx itself doesn’t bother me, I’ve easily spent hundreds in path of exile. But I prefer to enjoy the game first, and then at some point decide that I want to support the devs, and then maybe I buy something.

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

Gentrification comes from the root word “Gentry” referring to the upper or ruling class.

It’s literally the upper class moving in, displacing the lower or middle class. The word is classist by definition.

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

So does any single streaming service.

Not_Alec_Baldwin, (edited )

You need to earn my trust if you want me to pay.

Many of these legacy media outlets are demanding Netflix-level fees for fanfic-level content.

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

Streisand effect.

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

I’ve started going down this rabbit hole. The takeaway is that if we define intelligence as “ability to solve problems”, we’ve already created artificial intelligence. It’s not flawless, but it’s remarkable.

There’s the concept of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) or Artificial Consciousness which people are somewhat obsessed with, that we’ll create an artificial mind that thinks like a human mind does.

But that’s not really how we do things. Think about how we walk, and then look at a bicycle. A car. A train. A plane. The things we make look and work nothing like we do, and they do the things we do significantly better than we do them.

I expect AI to be a very similar monster.

If you’re curious about this kind of conversation I’d highly recommend looking for books or podcasts by Joscha Bach, he did 3 amazing episodes with Lex.

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

It’s not just the material, it’s the specific weave too I think?

I’m not originally heat tolerant, personally, so when I visited Cuba I brought a lot of linen clothes and they did wonders. Just pants and tunics, and a brimmed hat. I looked like a drug lord but never overheated.

What's a 'dirty word' that you hate hearing when it's used to describe something or someone?

I hate the word ‘Consumer’ or I mockingly call it ‘CONSOOMER’. Because that’s to imply everyone in the world is just cattle, but with wallets. We’re no longer customers. We’re consumers now. And a consumer’s purpose is to consume shit, whatever is put out there. Got money? Shut up and consume, it’s what...

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

I agree that people throw terms like smart/intelligent around incorrectly, and often try to “sound smart”, and I cringe at those things too.

…but you’re also asserting that intellectual capacity doesn’t exist and that is incorrect, or at least incomplete.

–TL;DR–

Intelligence is valuable and varies between people but it seems like everyone has the ability to be intelligent given the right conditions. The taboo around intelligence prevents us from getting underperforming kids the help they need.

The important truth is that we don’t fully understand what contributes to intelligence.

We know that motivation is enormously important. The difference between being offered $1 and $10 explains something wild like >10 points on an IQ test. www.science.org/…/what-does-iq-really-measure

We also know that mental health and emotional state makes a big difference. So everything impacting mental health would contribute. …biomedcentral.com/…/s40359-020-0372-2

These factors alone mean that our intellectual performance can change from moment to moment.

Another important distinction is that there are two kinds of intelligence, fluid and crystalized. Fluid intelligence is our ability to solve moment-to-moment interactions, and new and novel problems. Crystalized intelligence is the ability to take foundational principles that we’ve already been exposed to and use those to solve secondary, abstract, or complex problems. …wikipedia.org/…/Fluid_and_crystallized_intellige…

That second one is almost entirely based on the types of problems we’ve been exposed to in our lives, meaning that it’s impacted by our previous behavior and our circumstances (which are largely out of our control).

We have no reason to believe that intelligence is some kind of immutable genetic trait that some have and some don’t - in fact that’s largely been debunked as far as I know.

However, the controversial field of behavioral genetics has demonstrated that a large percentage is our personalities and behaviors are impacted by our genetics. This would be an indirect factor. psychologytoday.com/…/what-behaviors-do-we-inheri…

Where does this leave us?

A person may be more genetically predisposed to being hard working (trait conscientiousness), which may make them more likely to apply themselves to work and education, meaning that they have a higher intellectual capacity. Or, they may just follow instructions without thinking and have a lower intellectual capacity.

A person may experience an event that makes them highly value health, motivating them to become a doctor. Or they may behind afraid of medicine and avoid the subject altogether.

Similarly, a person may be told that they are stupid and that they will never amount to anything. They may believe it and give up, and never apply themselves. Or they may defy it and work harder to prove it untrue.

Your genetics and your circumstances don’t determine what you will be capable of. However, they do have an impact. Ignoring that would be an enormous mistake.

Having two mentally healthy parents in a stable home with many books and many adults that care about you in your community will give you a better chance at scoring higher on IQ tests.

Having a single parent that’s drug addicted and bouncing from home to home with no books and no caring adults in your community gives you a lower chance of scoring higher on IQ tests.

Higher IQ is correlated with a whole bunch of benefits, like having higher income and life expectancy.

The original implementation of IQ was to identify which school children needed intervention to help them succeed. It was never supposed to be an indicator of human value. That we’ve done that to it is a shame. It’s basically the best tool that we have to figure out which kids need the most help.

I haven’t found research that confirms raising IQ improves outcomes. But I have a hard time believing that helping kids learn (if they wanted the help, at least) would hurt their outcomes.

End rant.

Edit: oh, and the belief in intelligence as an immutable genetic trait is only social darwinism if higher intelligence makes people more likely to reproduce, which it doesn’t. That’s the premise behind Idiocracy. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25131282/

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

Yo, this is amazing. Yep I was completely wrong about social darwinism. I either made up the definition myself based on my understanding of Darwin, or had someone explain it to me wrong and never questioned it.

Thanks for the correction!

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

I mean, to be fair, it’s also a business strategy on the Internet.

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

Signal killing text support killed Signal for me. Sadge.

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

I don’t know if you’re understanding that that’s his point.

If Google can reproduce the key it’s not fully “end to end” unless one of the "end"s is Google.

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

Anyone that looks at a symbol and assumes what it means to you is an asshole.

People can look at your symbol and be offended, or be reminded of traumatic events (swastika), but humans are fascinating, deep, beautiful and awful creatures and it’s always a bad idea to assume you know why someone else is doing what they are doing.

I DO believe that there’s a correlation between hyper-patriotism and hyper-aggression here right now, but I hope it’s a passing trend.

When the fuck did a mobile hotspot become something you have to pay extra for?

It’s my goddamn motherfucking mobile data and MY PHONE. I should be able to use it however I want. My wifi went down because the greedy, cunt-faced shitbags at Comcast stole taxpayer subsidies to enrich themselves instead of actually providing the service we’re paying for. I tried to switch to a mobile hotspot and my phone...

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

Graphene is amazing. I regret not getting into it sooner.

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

This is the way to think about it.

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

As I get older I begin to realize that people love to work.

However people hate being treated like shit.

Treating people like shit or building an environment that supports shitty behavior poisons the well and will absolutely make people leave, even for a pay cut.

If you just respect people and properly value them and their contributions to your organization, you’ll never have trouble keeping them.

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

If there’s a driving lane and a turning lane (or offramp/onramp) get in the back of the line.

If there’s two MERGING LANES, merge at the last moment (zipper style).

Don’t confuse these or you’re the asshole.

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

Advertising is 100% an arms race. It’s probably one of the most destructive things to the social fabric and goodwill in society right now.

Proactive truth, honesty, and disclosure should be the priority of companies when reaching the market. Instead we get entertainment, vague claims and absurd lies.

Not_Alec_Baldwin,

When people successfully live off the grid they do it by essentially making their own grid.

People’s obsession with “off grid” really demonstrates a lack of gratitude for everything that society provides.

It’s essentially the modern adult version of running away as a child.

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