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jtrek

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  • Rule Breaker

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  • "This orange sucks. I can't just bite into it and enjoy it like an apple." That's not a sensible assessment of the orange. That's applying the desired attributes of an apple to an orange.

  • ICE Should Show It Hasn’t Been “Infiltrated by Violent Extremists,” Senator Urges

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  • I think that part of our problems come from people being too polite. Someone will say something completely stupid, and people don't want to make a fuss so they let it slide. Peer pressure is like the only thing that changes minds.

  • Rule Breaker

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  • The most reasonable interpretation is that you cannot use the standards of apples on oranges, nor the other way around.

    You wouldn't fault an apple because it doesn't have a thick skin that needs peeling.

  • FCC to end Biden-era rule that forces ISPs to list all their fees

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  • Many people are sad, cruel, little monsters that are happy those people are being hurt.

    It's really hard to change people like that so they're better. You gotta get them to see you as in-group, and slowly re-socialize them. Lot of work. Might not even succeed. But it's also apparently a whole bunch of crimes to round up the maga-hats and lock them in an underground vault somewhere.

  • Organized team sports should be very low cost or free.

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  • Do you mean, like, for kids to play? For adults socially? Or like professional sports like the world cup?

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    Peter Andreas Thiel and Elon Reeve Musk

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  • If I saw a dude pop out of a time machine and shoot both of these fucks dead, I'd be like "yeah that makes sense".

  • Microsoft Needs Windows Lite, No telemetry, no spying, no ads, no AI, no .NET, to retain gamers and developers

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  • Microsoft will continue on inertia for years. but it's basically a walking corpse full of parasites at this point.

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  • I've seen a couple games that have the high res textures as a free separate download. That'd be nice. I'm not playing in 4k so I don't need all that extra crap.

  • Your Social Security benefits could be cut by a quarter in 2032. Here’s what to know

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  • The fact that rich people stop paying into it is so stupid.

    It should be progressive. The first $x you make aren't taxed at all, then the next bucket at a small percent, then a larger percent, and so on.

    Instead if you're income-rich you just get a bump to your take home pay partway through the year.

  • Netflix Viewers Are Abandoning Shows After One Season

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  • Meh. I'm not going to pay for Netflix. Free media heck yeah or bust. My free public library has many options.

  • If you can't explain why the rule matters, then I won't follow it.

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  • Fine. Consider your point made. I'll use some other metaphor or allusion to express "don't willy-nilly change systems you don't understand". Many people just do that, out of ignorance, stupidity, or hubris. I've seen a lot of software people delete "useless" code that caused problems later.

  • Poll Names Trump as Worst American in History, Republicans Say He’s Greatest

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  • Humans are social creatures. Facts don't matter. Emotions and social belonging matter. So people who are just immersed in trump-stuff are going to think it's all normal and good, and reject contrary facts from the out group.

    This is part of why right wing media is so dangerous. It feeds the in-group solidarity

  • Microsoft caves after Teams AI backlash, will let you turn off Copilot, Facilitator and Recap mid-meeting

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  • Good. Now fire the people who said it was a good idea and promote the internal people who said it was bad

  • Gender ruleassignment

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  • I assumed it was a counter to the implicit idea that Israel is eternal and timeless and just a fact of life, rather than something that started in living memory

  • If you can't explain why the rule matters, then I won't follow it.

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  • I'm reminded of that meme of the cartoon girl going "this sign won't stop me because I can't read"

    I've had coworkers that changed some code, then just deleted the tests that started failing. Then they get annoyed their PR is blocked by more attentive coworkers.

  • If you can't explain why the rule matters, then I won't follow it.

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  • If we switch the argument to being about diverting a watercourse, or regrading land, it suddenly falls apart because it becomes clear that these things do not exist for intelligent reasons.

    This is not a compelling analogy. Many things in nature may not exist for an intelligent reason, but their presence matters in ways that may not be obvious. Diverting a waterway may cause tremendous damage to the ecosystem and other downstream (pun intended) things. That is an excellent example of why you should understand the current system before attempting to change it.

    I don’t think it’s a bad idea to try and understand the world or to mitigate risks when making changes. I think chesterton’s fence is a shite argument because it implies that everything which exists has a planned purpose and favours the status quo which may be intoler

    I don't think the implied plan purpose is necessary for the argument to make sense. The point of the story is it's not always clear what things are load bearing, nor what loads they bear.

    If the chesteron origin is distracting to you, let's discard it. I think we agree that changing a complex system without attempting to understand it first is foolish.

  • If you can't explain why the rule matters, then I won't follow it.

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  • It's not a bad argument to try to understand an existing system before changing it.

    I've seen a lot of "why is this like this? I'm changing it" blow up in software. The clearest memory was not realizing that user names could be null, even though that looked impossible by tracing the registration route. Turns out there was another, stupider, way of registering.

    It's especially a good argument when the person evaluating the system has no domain knowledge or expertise.

  • Republican Suggests Americans Who Can’t Afford Steak and Lobster for July 4th ‘Don’t Work as Hard as I Do’

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  • I remain surprised no Italian plumbers have visited high ranking Republicans. They're the worst people.

  • If you can't explain why the rule matters, then I won't follow it.

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  • One should keep Chesterton's Fence in mind.

    Idiots like Musk will see a system they don't understand and tear it down, and then people die.