10% would be overkill. I don’t think we should be aiming to sacrifice our livelihoods to be concrete block stacking addicted energy horarders, but I’m not entirely against that either. It’s hard to look at a solution so tangible and transparent as concrete block stacking before ducking my head into this mangled half-commented test suite.
If a tower crane did not need to be transported, how much would the design change? I’m guessing not much, but curious.
I was imagining there would be no counterweight but just opposing loads, then I realized that might be a safety hazard. But, I really don’t know about these things.
I just love the elegance of this solution and immediately obsessed. I think it just ruined my productivity for the day.
Aspergers is not associated with “not feeling fear.”
If you’re just assuming this from your experiences with these individuals, you’re just assuming this, and might do well to expand your considerations of what different people find fearful.
I’m sure you would find many of them fear people who jump to conclusions before thinking through the various possibilities; or the outcomes of hasty judgements.
It's hard to see how this is the future without experiencing it in some way personally.
Facebook Groups connected me with fans of a particular kind of fringe art about 4 years ago and made leaving Facebook really difficult. This might seem exceedingly anecdotal, and I get that, but you have to realize that, before Facebook, it would have been impossible for any of us to even know this interest existed; much less that there were others also into it. Nothing in the cultural canon quite sufficed, although some trends in music and literature had come close, none of them quite articulated the thing. Finding the thing was a necessary part of a certain stage of my life, and gave me a psychological grounding that something mainstream might never could have. I think admitting so actually devalues the spectacle in question, but I can't deny it. There was a value in the fact that this small group of people spoke this unique language. We became something like a tribe.
Attention economics are strange and only beginning to define our lives. Younger people will depend on fringe engagements to achieve a sense of self-identity that used to be a given. Life experience is going to take a new shape accordingly.
I think early evidence of this is in music scenes, which is haphazardly often the case with forms of sociocultural influence. No conventional wisdom can explain the proliferation of indie music and things like tape labels but these things are massive forces. They just genuinely don't care what you think. They have an audience and it's up to you to be a part.
Mastadon is strangely ahead of the curve and probably doing a poor job of meeting in the middle. I think it would benefit from shoving everyone into Mastadon.social at signup and letting them learn about instances from there. Finding a home is too difficult as it is. But, eventually, it does look like the future.
He says he is a liberal “in the enlightenment sense.” He cites John Locke and John Stuart Mill.
But then he makes a “contrast”:
>In contrast, today’s so-called progressive liberals are often intolerant, calling for official censure against anyone perceived as uttering non-progressive views.
What the author fails to reconcile is that this “progressive liberal” target of his is all but the product of John Stuart Mill’s brand of liberalism that includes many wonderful things but has a certain clause that makes all the difference. Mill’s liberalism defended democratic ideals predominantly in cultural terms. That is, democracy to the extent that it does not interfere with free market capitalism.
Fast forward 150+ years through 2 world wars, the Great Depression, the federal reserve Vietnam, globalization, corporate takeover, etc., etc. and old Mill’s ideas are not looking so spiffy. The instability is anything but defensible, so what can the ole’ liberals do now but hunker down on the culturalism? There you have it.
There is nothing new or complicated about this. Mill and Marx defined the terms way back when.
The youngsters in the US are having trouble working through it because their parents skipped the conversation entirely, but they’ll figure it out. Fool them once.
So, this is not about free speech. The only problem here is this author’s insistence that it’s a contention between old and new. It’s not, of course. It’s a contention between capitalism, it’s glories, and messes it makes.
I think that’s close, but until a technical solution to this comes around, we’ve got to look elsewhere.
An easy target is saying the government is too powerful. That would be a mistake. If Facebook were more powerful than the government, we would no be in any better hands.
The problems with the US government are that it does not work for the people.
It would be painfully short-sighted to say this debacle goes to show the gov and private companies are not too involved with one another. This will be handled with some deal that will deepen the coupling and citizens will not have a say. That’s how most things in our lives get handles. Without regard for us, that is.
Private interests have eroded our state of civility. Citizens voices mean nothing and that is all that’s going on here.
We need our government back. Nothing else is going to solve this, unless of course we can actually address the technical issue that you raised. That would be nice.
A government that was our government would simply not step over this line. It’s possible; not easy, but possible.
Since when was “cashier” a manual labor position? “Stocking staff” might be, and is consistently paid a higher wage because of that. These people are hired as cashiers. The “additional job duties” are where the manual labor comes in.
We are literally talking $8.00/hr. before taxes. This looks inhumane to me.
This was not an act of nature. It was the manager cutting the costs. 80 degrees is not a normal accepted indoor temperature. This is unusual punishment given the context and norms.
Expecting something different from a job outdoors or in a kitchen would, I agree, be a little ridiculous. The wage should of course be adjusted accordingly, but this is just disrespectful.
There is no other way to have a standard Linux distro and Photoshop on the same workstation without some far out hacks.