My friend from Korea once said “I think most American men’s entire personality is built around trying to prove to everyone they’re not gay”. Pretty much sums it up.

Shrooms often “enhance” your mind. They don’t necessarily make you more open minded. If you were already an open minded person they will likely enhance that. If you were a right wing Nazi they’re most likely going to enhance that too.

People act like drugs are some mind opening experience. And to an extent they are. But, they don’t reveal something to you like a message from God. They allow your mind to be revealed without restrictions. To learn things about your mind that it was hiding.

This can be a positive or negative experience depending on who you are.

Yeah. If he just stayed with pot I think we’d be better off. Whatever other cocktail he is on is really not helping anyone. But I think if he drops it he’s going to do something insane with the withdrawals.

I can’t live without VIM keybinds. Maybe I’m a boomer. I do use it as a note taking or “collect my thoughts” app. Or just a place to paste shit when I’m working. Very useful for that. Though only when I’m forced to be on Windows.

I’m convinced a lot of the “AI tools” in general are just the same old tool with data collection tacked onto it. I really hope some of the things I see labeled as “AI” in tech these days are not actually running some model on a GPU somewhere. I pray they aren’t at least.

If the file is just a class I usually put example usage with some default arguments in that block by itself. There is no reason for a “main” function. It’s a nice obvious block that doesn’t run when someone imports the class but if they’re looking at the class there is a really obvious place to see the class usage. No confusion about what “main()” is meant to do.

if __name__ == '__main__':
    # MyClass example Usage
    my_object = MyClass()
    my_object.my_method()

The data on these things is completely unreliable. Wallets are opened and dumped at will. I don’t think that you’re really wrong. It is likely very concentrated. But I know that there is no reliable way of actually coming to this statistic.

Decentralized currencies will only actually make sense when the material incentives of our economic system would benefit from them. Capitalism is literally all about concentrating the control of capital and the means by which we produce things. Sadly, decentralized currencies will never be allowed to decouple themselves from these economic systems. There is too much material power to prevent that. And by material power I mean literally the enforcement of these concentrations of wealth through the use of violence.

The tech is cool. But it doesn’t magically solve the problem by simply being invented. It’s why no one is actually paying with these cryptocurrencies on anything but an extremely small scale.

A currency that cannot be manipulated by capitalist for their benefit has no place in our world. So, it will never reach any meaningful real use until those structures are dismantled. It will just continue to be a speculative asset that rich people dump their extra wealth into and poor people play as the lottery.

That’s like saying a HDD is bad because someone can put CP on it.

Edit: CP rhymes with “Mild Corn”.

This sadly excludes the majority of bad UX decisions that are done entirely to maximize users time inside of the app as well as display advertising.

So many functional apps are destroyed by these incentives. There is literally a “skill issue” but in the opposite direction. The design is either purposely malicious in a subtle way with “dark patterns” (something Amazon is insanely guilty of. Literally just go try and return and item.) or is purposely annoying trying to ensure the user purchases the “free trial” to actually make the app functional. Knowing a lot of users will be charged at least once for the free trial.

I guess my point is that there is so so so so much wrong with UX design today. But for the majority of people that’s not because of a bad programmer with no design knowledge. It’s on purpose in most cases.

Glad to hear I’m not alone. I can notice subtle things very well. But big colors and buttons I’m basically trained to ignore. I complain about app/web UI design to a massive degree too. We need more autism coated people approving these things.

Ok. So I’m not even sure if I’m autistic. ADHD for sure and I know those often go hand in hand. But this post made me think of something that I find kind of disabling. Wondering if anyone else has this problem.

Ads. Ads have ruined my brain. I have become so good at completely ignoring ads and very “eye catching” signs and graphics. My brain usually looks for useful information “in-between” those lines. It’s very helpful for filtering through bull shit.

But a side effect of this is that my brain will literally filter out important warning signs. Signs that are meant to be very very obvious so you follow them. “Do not enter” type of signs.

I find myself missing really really obvious signs like this in public and it’s often embarrassing. I finally realized it was because of how I’ve trained my brain to ignore advertising. These “obvious” things I have taught my brain are not useful information in 99% of cases since they are usually advertising.

Does anyone else have this problem?

The degree of involvement of a non combatant is effective only in the public understanding of that position.

Luigi as an example. The public clearly understands that material impact even though that CEO isn’t directly killing people. We all know why he did it.

Anyone taking action “politically” and not just “emotionally” would understand this. I don’t advocate for vigilante justice. But I will make a judgement on when it’s done.

Luigi shifted public opinion in favor of his cause. This killing is only hurtful to the cause. There is no positive shift here. Especially in the positions and power of the targets.

All we can do now, is push back in the disgusting use of pro Israel people that are salivating at this incident in order to further justify starving Gaza.

That’s too much credit in my opinion. This is bound to happen statically. Israel just had to wait and capitalize on it. It’s amazing it took this long. We didn’t seem to care when a landlord killed a Palestinian child who was his tenant. They didn’t seem to care when a Zionist shot two Arab Jews that they mistook for Palestinians.

Sorry. I’ve been advocating for Palestine since I first learned about the conflict truly as a young kid in 2015: as an ignorant college kid that visited my first major city of Chicago on an internship. Spoke with a Palestinian women and gave her a nod and an “ok” as she desperately tried to connect with me on what was being done to her family. She is was just holding a sign alone as I passed through the city. I was an ignorant idiot then. But even though I treated her like a random panhandler, what she said still stuck.

I’ll never know exactly what she said to me. But I know it’s when I started to care. I have definitely become cynical and frustrated, and tired since that time. But, I do really appreciate your reply.

I just only hope my own frustration or “snark” is heard in the same way.

People that get to this stage aren’t often thinking clearly. They are looking for place to release the anger and pain.

It’s why Luigi was such a unique case of vigilante justice. He was actually thinking clearly, and agree with him or not, he hit a target that most of the country thought “well, yeah that was bound to happen eventually”.

Allegedly obviously. Luigi allegedly did this. I still think they got the wrong guy.

Sincerely, what else could be meant by what they said?

When a child is murdered in Gaza those advocating for Palestinians point to it as a reason to end the bloodshed. Hundreds of children were murdered by Israel just this week. No one in the media has spoken there names or talked about their hopes and dreams.

When an Israeli diplomat is murdered those advocating for Israel use it as a reason why they need to continue to murder said children. The diplomat is treated like a human. Their names are known. The media tells us the sad story of their hopes and dreams that were stolen from them.

Palestinians are not treated as humans. Their deaths are statistics. Israeli deaths are treated as tragedies.

It’s a reason why this genocide continues. You have to dehumanize a population to the masses. And Israeli has succeeded in dehumanizing Palestinians, at least to the Western world.

The deaths of their own diplomats are simply tools to continue to justify their genocide. They don’t care about their diplomats anymore than they do their hostages in Gaza.

If we had one public social media platform that would be the best way. It would force people to filter and learn how to interact with technology. But in our world people are lazy and a platform that picks the best value of X automatically for the most people will win. Even if it’s not actually how people want to see things.

Nowhere. Because it’s already allowed. Don’t need to make something legal that’s already legal. 14th amendment literally allows for slave labor in the case of “criminals”. Why do you think they keep trying to label everyone a criminal or terrorist? We’ve been using slaves to fight fires for a long time.

When you do 100 horrible things every week a lot of it gets missed. They know most of their base won’t find out about this until it hurts them personally. And also they don’t care either.