I don’t have any recommendations for you. A big part of the problem is that heavy moderation is necessary to keep forums from devolving into the slop that stands in for discourse these days. For example, even when there’s a fairly good question posted on reddit, the comments are just a string of one liners, snide quips, and snark. Few people know how to engage in thoughtful discussion anymore.
Readit Newsbaubino commented on I miss the old Internet of 10-20 years ago · Posted by u/morpheos137
baubino commented on Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union rockpapershotgun.com/id-s... · Posted by u/simjue
Would you mind explaining the difference between industrial vs trade union? Would something like the janitorial staff of a building owned by a gaming company be covered in an industrial union?
Industrial unions organize by shop; craft unions organize by trade. Industrial unions have much greater leverage because they can (theoretically) change conditions for the entire workplace, not just for one group of workers in the workplace. Historically, this meant, for example, organizing everyone in the auto factory in one union as “auto workers” instead of having machinists in one union, engravers in another union, mechanics in another, etc.
baubino commented on Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode old.reddit.com/r/LegalAdv... · Posted by u/hliyan
Time to ban all adverts everywhere. I'm not the only one who is fed up with ads.
I don't see ads, thanks to ad blocking tech in browsers and smartphones. Any time that happens to fail and I get to endure an ad, I am amazed that regular people without ad blocking tech can endure this onslaught.
The time to negotiate a "middle ground" is long past. Let's not even entertain that idea.
An acceptable middle ground could have been designated areas for ads, which you have to seek out to see them. Think of the Yellow Pages.
Ad companies need to be reined in. They cannot control themselves. They are lobbying against all limits and controls. The only solution is to eradicate ads entirely and to make sure that anyone who gets that idea will never get it again.
A simpler solution is to allow the device owner to turn off ads. Ads on purchased devices should be opt-in, not default and not mandatory.
Global poverty at 100-year lows, US murder rate half the 90s, you’re more likely to die from obesity than starvation or violence. Objectively the cushiest moment in human history.
Yet “mental illness is the only rational response.”
Happiness = Reality − Expectations
Most of material Reality is fine. The part of Reality that’s broken is spiritual/emotional. The expectations causing unhappiness aren’t for more money or stuff, they’re subconscious, millions of years deep, baked into the species of tribe, offspring, transcendence, cosmic order.
Leftism spent half a century screaming that those instincts are bigotry, that family is oppression, that religion is a mental illness, that wanting roots or rituals or a legacy is fascism.
You can’t propagandize the human soul out of its own operating system. The subconscious still demands what it demanded in 200,000 BC. We just demolished every institution that used to answer the call and replaced them with therapy, porn, and corporate pride slogans.
That’s the real insanity. Not climate change or late-stage capitalism. The soul shows up for duty and the building’s condemned.
> Global poverty at 100-year lows, US murder rate half the 90s, you’re more likely to die from obesity than starvation or violence. Objectively the cushiest moment in human history.
Averages are just that - averages. They say nothing about any given individual’s experience. And probabilities aren’t assurances of a particular outcome. Just because the average person is more likely to face obesity than starvation doesn’t mean that there aren’t millions of people facing starvation in the world. Your argument is based on an incorrect use of statistics.
baubino commented on Ask HN: What's Been Your Experience Implementing Web Accessibility? · Posted by u/lalithaar
I would love some kind of accessibility library. Especially as a mostly solo dev working on a medium-size project, ensuring the application is accessible means having to constantly relearn standards whenever anything needs to be updated. Which means parts of the site just don’t meet accessibility standards.
baubino commented on Ask HN: If the US loses, what do you think the world will look like in 15 years? · Posted by u/keepamovin
If the question is „what happens if/when the US loses its global power?“, my first impulse is to point out that losing global power doesn’t mean becoming powerless. The US will lose global power but will remain the dominant power in the Americas. Recent activity in relation to Venezuela has suggested that that is in fact the plan — to cede global power in order to assert authoritarian control over the Americas.
On the global scale, naturally China and Russia jockey for a dominant position but clearly China has the economic and political advantage. I see Europe being preoccupied with stemming Russian incursions while China gradually expands their economic reach until they serve the global economic role that the US once did. China’s continuous investment in Africa means that African nations (Nigeria in particular) might start to play a bigger role on the world stage.
I think the west vs the rest divisions that have structured the geopolitical world since WWII might be significantly reorganized with China at the helm. What that means for us normies out here just trying to live life, I have no idea.
baubino commented on Show HN: Meetinghouse.cc – a place to find and be found meetinghouse.cc... · Posted by u/simonsarris
baubino commented on Show HN: Meetinghouse.cc, a site to find and be found meetinghouse.cc... · Posted by u/simonsarris
crazy enough since I was discussing it on Twitter for so long, I didn't think of that. I just added one to the site.
Thanks. I don‘t have twitter so can‘t login but I like the idea. I firmly believe that creating ways for people to connect in real life is (or should be) the next big tech/business opportunity. People are desperate for connection and most current tech works directly against this.
baubino commented on Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages with Your Employer forbes.com/sites/zakdoffm... · Posted by u/healsdata
> This applies to work-managed devices and doesn’t affect personal devices.
If I don’t own the device, I assume that anything and everything on it is fair game because that’s what it says in every employment agreement I’ve ever signed.
Agreed but a problem is when employers require installing software on personal devices (like phones) in order to access fully work-managed devices. How does one know that the 2FA software is not sending out other data? This is my concern because many work places seem to expect employees to use their personal phones in this way.
baubino commented on Show HN: Meetinghouse.cc, a site to find and be found meetinghouse.cc... · Posted by u/simonsarris
Why doesn’t the landing page have some kind of explanation about what this even is?