@vantablack Psst, please boost if you already know this: There is no such thing as a disposable vape battery please pass used equipment to the local makerspace so they can reuse it.
One thing that's very frustrating to me about a log of the current debates re the limits of tech is that folks will complain ceaselessly about the behavior of social media but then act powerless to stop using it.
This is: 1) Wrong. 2) Learned helplessneds. 3) capitulation to the capitalist takeover of your social life.
I'm probably just gonna start blocking people who say "I have to stay on Twitter because..." Or "but all my friends are on Facebook so..."
@mattly I posted one of the complaints to lobste.rs just to see what would happen and the replies were as entitled and focused around "value delivery for startups" as one might hope.
@mattly Many of the comments are implicitly about how you need to "grow up" and "think about your consumers" and I think this is a deeply depressing thing.
My background was clj-time, and the decision to violate my license around that code because people found it convenient to use my razor thin wrapper around jodatime, is why I quit open source participation with the understanding at any point in time, the community would come along and bully me and barring that steal from me.
@feld But ultimately I don't think the microplastic problem is nearly so pressing as the oil demand induction problem. So I won't address there too deeply
Quick reminder as you see the news float by today: most 3d printers tend to use specific non-industrial plastics made from agricultural byproducts. These have entirely different characteristics than the industrial plastics you see.
Some 3d printing is done with other plastics, and you should try to avoid buying products made with PET or PETG, ASA, and ABS. These materials are not substantially better than PLA for non-industrial use (e.g., their glass transition is higher but not much).
There are plastics that do not induce demand for oil, can break down in the environment, and have higher glass transition temperatures. But the demand for them is too low, and so they never leave the lab.
We can change that by demanding which plastics are used and rejecting the idea that recycling is a valid solution to the problem.
@mattly Okay, well I mean, if you think that like... people are confused about this and don't understand that starbucks is mostly coffee-flavor-compatible sugary drinks then... I mean I won't deny it if you say that's a thing. I can't help but think that if Dr. Phil said that exact phrase like a decade-ish ago, the message is out there. 😀
@mattly One of the things I am delighted to realize is that categorization is obviously an internal feature of our brain we repurpose a lot, and it appears to be very fundamental to our biology and not an obscure or unique function. That obvious observation has wild implications.
I continue to do a survey of modern apologetics, moving on to what I think is a novel genre: political apologetics. This is what folks like Shapiro and Peterson do: justify why a hegemony around the Abrahamic God is absolutely necessary for society.
And I gotta say, Peterson really lays bare the bizarre "post-skepticism apologetics" genre. He reminds me of folks in the skeptical movement who pushed women out in 2010 and crashed the movement. Big words, obfuscated arguments.
Peterson is a mythologist who will openly tell you he does not believe in biblical literalism, but he'll do so in such a roundabout way, and demand an alleigance to a specifically Abrahamic higher power that will punish you. He goes so far as to argue atheists don't exist, except Stalin.
@mattly that said, I'll fight tooth and nail to let my daughter grow up in one of the few places in the entire United States where someone won't ask her, "No, no, where is your family from."
Even other parts of California are just casually racist to anyone even slightly off white, and near SF is a place where she's actually in the (slight) majority so this doesn't happen.
I really hate how society continues to argue about whether math is invented or discovered because society doesn't have a consistent definition of math. So you can hear someone saying something that makes sense in one frame and is absolutely ridiculous in another frame and they don't even realize that they cross the boundary from sensibility to ridiculousness.
Uninteresting. Genderfluid. No interest in performing for you. Was KirinDave on 🐦. Still KirinDave on YouTube.$megacorp SRE. ML/Art/Software.Not a fan of this capitalism. I am a fan of biocosmism, anarchism, distributed and robust systems, and economics when decoupled from capitalists and oligarchy.ML models must be fully open sourced, including the training data! We deserve the right to audit.