fancybouncy

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if I may give you a piece of advice, ask yourself whether you can guarantee that your kid will be happy to have been forced to come to life, or if you are selfishly taking a bet at someone else's expense.

fancybouncy

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aka fanatically telling yourself fairy tales until you blind yourself to reality

fancybouncy

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> have let themselves go and have nothing "going for them"

that is, they fell ill with depression because of lack of relationships, entering a loop of ever-furthering isolation and depression, which made them bitter and undesirable.

Some "ugly, socially awkward nerds" somehow find meaningful relationships and get saved. Others don't, and go down the nasty road.

A little bit of empathy wouldn't hurt.

fancybouncy

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writers not from colonialist regimes don't make it to HN because most of us never heard of them at school, which focuses on western writers. are you aware that most wealthy countries are or have been colonialist regimes? this includes much of Europe, North America, Japan and China.

fancybouncy

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except for the date api... it took me a couple days to understand the silly idiosyncratic magic string to format dates.

fancybouncy

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if it's full winter before heating was highly available, i'd guess so

fancybouncy

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who decides who the good guys are? if you get a good anthropology book, you'll find plenty of societies that value violence (to varying degrees). in fact, you don't even need an anthropology book, just open the old testament.

fancybouncy

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i remember reading something similar, but it was a huge slap rather than water (seems too much to throw people in water back when colds were lethal)

fancybouncy

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i disagree that it was against the guidelines - after all, it did generate some interesting intellectual comments.

either way, your home your rules, so whatever. (which, ironically, confirms my original point...)

fancybouncy

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you seem to assume that we won't go extinct...

fancybouncy

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i believe that flagging my comment was not an attempt to avoid flamewars, but plain censorship of a honest intellectual question that any society taking a stance, against or in favor of multiculturalism (that is, hosting non-integrated completely different cultures within its borders), must confront sooner of later when things like this lecturer's ordeal start happening.

The article was a concrete instance of the abstract dilemma i posed in my comment, so it was on-topic and necessary imho.

fancybouncy

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the goal is to end suffering if you believe that suicide won't work because you'll just get reincarnated. their real goal is to end reincarnation. if you don't believe in reincarnation, buddhism is useless.

fancybouncy

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fancybouncy

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fancybouncy

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tell that to white people in Kenya or South Africa... I don't have the link handy right now, but I read they are routinely in danger of rape/murder because of anti-white hate.

fancybouncy

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Look at this other prompt: https://www.learngpt.com/prompts/write-the-first-page-of-a-c...

this is absolutely terrifying. the future is getting bleaker and bleaker.

fancybouncy

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I live near a lake and feel miserable every day because of noise pollution from motorboats etc. What a load of bull.

fancybouncy

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and this is bad how?

fancybouncy

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I've been using it for small edits over the past few months, it's not that bad.

It would take very little to make it very good:

- a quick shortcut to open the file at current line in a pager

- perhaps redesign it to work without having to hit enter after you give a command

fancybouncy

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Isn't most of India's population very young (half of it is under 15)? I'm skeptical that the "vulnerable elderly people" had much impact on India's covid story.

Either way, the elderly have already lived their life, isn't it better to focus on the younger people when a choice must be made?