mellavora · HackerTrans

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

with the exceptions that an intern is (hopefully) going to learn from their mistakes and improve

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

> People will prefer a hermetically sealed building....

where along with being isolated from the natural environment they can be isolated from everyone else and only interact over social media.

Sounds a bit like being in a tomb to me, but then again, I was never fully domesticated.

mellavora

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

(full disclosure: I also was once a child)

you write that your experience as an autistic is that you have "more of a thing for justice" than might be expected from the general population.

I read that as an aspect of autism is to serve as a magnifying lens on on particular aspect of what it means to be human.

So, the trauma you report from being punished might have been felt stronger by you than it would have by someone with a different mental makeup, but that doesn't mean that the other person didn't feel it.

Conclusion: Your hightened awareness allows you to make explicit something which to others is just vaguely troubling. Thus your view is closer to the universal human truth than those who deny it.

mellavora

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

yet there seems to be quite an active scene around restoring aspects of 8-bit games, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiptune https://www.retrogamer.net/top_10/top-ten-atari-8-bit-games/

and I'm sure someone actually into the scene could pump out a long list of much better links than these.

mellavora

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

because traditional methods of food preservation deserved to be abandoned?

Your argument assumes refrigeration is a universal good, and other alternatives were not. Likewise, that the highly centralized food distribution system which became the defacto due to refrigeration is a universal good, while decentralized systems are not.

such as the rich and varied food of Vietnam. https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2017/02/vietnams-low-tech-fe...

mellavora

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

Lead poisoning does have a clear biological mechanism, establishing it as a toxin in a way that social media does not.

However, the liberty of the metaphor is well justified.

Social media is a plausible (not proven, but plausible) factor in a 57% increase in teen suicide between 2008 and 2018 (noting that rates were stable for the years 2000-2008, and that 2006 was the watershed year for smartphones and social media)[1].

I'm not motivated to dig out the numerous resources showing the deleterious influence of social media on teen psychology, but it doesn't take much searching if you are open. There are clear psychological mechanisms, and Facebook especially was clearly and explicitly designed to take advantage of these psychological mechanisms.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr69/NVSR-69-11-508.pdf

mellavora

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

I'm positive to your overall sentiment that we should remember the physical health and comfort which we have achieved.

The Hobbes quote, however, does not apply. Hobbes was comparing life with/without a sufficiently strong Leviathan ('central government') to provide basic protection of property rights, or at least a semblance of such protection.

But the "long way" to which you refer, the physical comfort of modern life, is the fruit of the industrial revolution, roughly 150 years of history.

Hobbes was much earlier, he probably never saw the IR coming.

mellavora

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

Another tip for getting started. Start horizontal, with your feet supported on a box. You are really doing a 'row', not a chin-up, but since part of your body is supported, the weight is less.

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This technique lets you develop power at the low end/start of the pull, which is where you need it most.

The other tips (hang from the bar and slowly lower yourself) are also very good.

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