It's not unreasonable for a person instigating something through negative posts to receive negative reactions in return. That seems self evident.
Readit Newsbeepboopbeep commented on 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers cybernews.com/news/70tb-o... · Posted by u/joiguru
beepboopbeep commented on The demographic and cultural roots of the midlife crisis royalsocietypublishing.or... · Posted by u/mayiplease
It’s the many lives theory! Taked about 7 years to focus on a thing effectively, leading to roughly 11 lives for most of us.
This is a great perspective on it, thank you! I'll be sending this around to a few folks
beepboopbeep commented on The demographic and cultural roots of the midlife crisis royalsocietypublishing.or... · Posted by u/mayiplease
I have a personal theory that we enter into a "crisis" of some sort roughly every 5 years. Essentially 1-2 years of definition/growth/change, 2 years-ish of normalcy post change, 1-2 years of redefinition as things become old and others become new/interesting.
A perpetual cycle of shifting identity as we change internally and externally. I think it's a good thing to have and understand, but can be overwhelming as well.
I have zero evidence of this, it's just kind of based on my own observations. It's helped me to not be so hard on my self though when I find my tastes, interests, and identity changing over time.
beepboopbeep commented on Should There Be Limits on Persuasive Technologies? schneier.com/blog/archive... · Posted by u/zdw
I think there's a clear case for limiting the tactics currently employed by social media. They are using a clear strategy and deploying it to millions/billions through the use of algos. There are multiple ways to attack that and I encourage it before the world collectively loses its mind.
This, in my opinion, overlays very well with doom scrolling partisan entertainment on facebook/instagram. No one enjoys it, but the intensity drives them back.
There's nothing wrong with this. I'm glad they're doing it. I've seen too many people go feral and insane over misinformation. Good riddance.
They drew guns on her and her kids.
I'd say we should be outraged, but we're awash in outrage because the rule of law has become a one sided bludgeoning instrument for the government to suppress dissent.
I can't wait to get out of here. To hell with this place any more.
beepboopbeep commented on EU pushes for 'right to disconnect' from work at home m.dw.com/en/eu-pushes-for... · Posted by u/CapitalistCartr
What a stark contrast to America. A country of "Personal freedom" that utterly entraps you to work and shames you as a socialist for asking for support from your government. Ironically, the cut throat work environment that has trained me to always keep an eye out for a better deal is drawing me to immigrating away from this country to the EU.
(This is a throw away comment to vent my personal frustrations. I'm quite afraid of the terrible responses this will draw from my fellow Americans so pardon me if I skip out form here.)
beepboopbeep commented on The Most Common Errors in Undergraduate Mathematics (2009) math.vanderbilt.edu/schec... · Posted by u/free0ne
Bad handwriting.
At age 40 I started taking a masters in stats and had situations where I had exponents on exponents. This lead me to buy a higher resolution tablet for reading pdf's with tiny math.
I also bought a finer point pen and this helped me improve my handwriting a lot. Closing loops on "o's" or backtracing the upward line of a cursive "t" to not make a loop. With the finer point, I was able to see my imprecision and improve it.
I used to rewrite my finished work in undergrad and now my writing was improved to the point where the first draft was entirely legible.
This right here was such an infuriating discovery for me. Math never made sense to me until I had a kindly old teacher who insisted she watch me write out every step of a problem (in community college). She pointed out that the logic was fine, I was just being sloppy with my notes which led to errors.
It was like a dam broke over night. Everything clicked and I was so pissed off that it took so long to find such a stupid issue. Better late than never I suppose...
Abandon this thread, all ye who enter.