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  • I'd reinforce point one with consideration of cost/benefits. Purchase, install, maintenance, replacement, and compliance with legal requirements are all going to have a cost. Most people don't feel like they're getting their money's worth out of having an HOA in the first place, much less want to pay more for essentially no benefit. Since the primary benefit of security cameras (if not being professionally monitored) is deterrence, maybe you could get the benefit without the invasion or cost with some dummy cams. <10% of the cost for 99% of the benefit.

  • There has been a fair amount of analysis of the social role of 'true crime' as a genre. To boil it way, way down, it's about creating a representation of human evil to let people feel essentially righteous. It is peak centrism, uplifting the status quo by placing it as opposition to the unquestionedly heinous, and with it, current structures, like cops as law enforcement.

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  • Ah. Okay then. Sometimes looking at yourself from the perspective of the other can help you see things that are more visible from outside.

    For example: you could 'hear' yourself make a joke in your head about not wanting to go home and, because you have the perspective granted by being both the joker and the listener, you might be able to read that as the sort of joke someone might make when in an abusive relationship. Same goes for a joke about suicide, paranoiac explanations, etc. Finding a way to give yourself enough emotional distance from your own thoughts to judge them objectively is actually a part of certain styles of therapy. OP is essentially describing a certain kind of epiphany that can come from introspection, whether alone or guided by a therapist.

  • Dead internet theory is not just a hypothesis anymore. It's an intentional business model. Enjoy what's left of online human interaction. Soon, it will all be just LLMs siloing each user individually.

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  • The idea is not that the conversation is illness, but that one might 'hear' what was said by the objectified self inside their head and recognize it as the sort of thing they'd more easily recognise as a sign of mental illness if said by someone else.

  • I have to wonder if this neologism comes from something like either their parents not taking any vacations and so they never got the examples ('Wait, you spend time with your kids?') or from a cultural aversion to taking time off for oneself. ('Taking time off? Sounds like someone's not really committed to the success of the company.')

  • I heard a discussion of the concept of an RPG setting where the world never made the jump to digital. The idea was to explore that alternative now based on a changed history. It included the idea of aliens that we'd only meet by having developed new technologies in the analog space, sapient, benevolent AI that only exist because of some different interpretation of intelligence in an analog space, etc.

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