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efd6821b commented on Volunteer.gov: Discover volunteer opportunities around the country   volunteer.gov/s/... · Posted by u/KoftaBob
circuit · 2 years ago
Quite a few of these "opportunities" are asking a LOT of volunteers, implicitly asking for unpaid labor. These are not your typical "volunteer a few hours a week helping fix up a school/sorting at a food bank/helping the homeless" to give back to your community.

Look at this[1] particular ask:

> Applicants must be available to work a minimum of 32 hours per week.

> [minimum 3 month commitment with possibility to extend to a year] ... Weekend and holiday work is required.

> shovel snow for extended periods of time, hike-ski-snowshoe in extreme weather conditions with a 35-pound backpack at 7,000ft, live in remote locations with regularly snow packed roads.

> Groceries and shopping facilities are approximately 60 miles away; reliable personal transportation is required.

[1] https://www.volunteer.gov/s/volunteer-opportunity/a093d00000...

efd6821b · 2 years ago
Don't worry about it, son; you're not the kind that the National Park Service nor Search and Rescue is looking for.
efd6821b commented on Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and 16k context   phind.com/phindmodelhn... · Posted by u/rushingcreek
efd6821b · 2 years ago
Wait, can't you use this to develop chemical weapons? Where's your 20-person government-mandated safety team?
efd6821b commented on Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form of education   washingtonpost.com/educat... · Posted by u/cs702
verisimi · 2 years ago
> religious indoctrination

indoctrination is a given. Do you prefer your secular type, the religious type or the government type?

efd6821b · 2 years ago
All education is intertwined with indoctrination. At least religious indoctrination is a known quantity, unlike other less self-aware forms.
efd6821b commented on 'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love with dating apps   theguardian.com/lifeandst... · Posted by u/mindracer
chongli · 2 years ago
The story is about how Tinder and Bumble are in decline. The superficial model isn’t working anymore.

I think the issues are much more fundamental than you suggest. They’re societal and they’re subcultural within the apps. For one, people are much pickier now than they’ve ever been. On the other hand, the dating apps have this filtration problem: those who successfully form a relationship quit the app, possibly for life.

Unfortunately, it’s not random when people form successful relationships. Some people are just much better at it than others. This is where the filtration problem arises: over time, the concentration of people who aren’t good at forming relationships increases, as these are the folks who stay in the apps the longest. This makes it harder and harder to find a relationship through the apps, and frustration ensues.

efd6821b · 2 years ago
Match Group embraced, enshittified, and extinguished the entire online dating industry.
efd6821b commented on I2P: End-to-end encrypted and anonymous internet   github.com/PurpleI2P/i2pd... · Posted by u/keepamovin
Scion9066 · 2 years ago
Couldn't that be the Mullvad Browser which is based on the Tor Browser?
efd6821b · 2 years ago
I'm thinking Gemini on I2P on a Rust unikernel VM, not some insecurable swiss cheese made out of C++/HTML5/CSS/Javascript running on Windows ;).
efd6821b commented on I2P: End-to-end encrypted and anonymous internet   github.com/PurpleI2P/i2pd... · Posted by u/keepamovin
efd6821b · 2 years ago
Tor Browser is Tor's killer app. I2P needs a secure simplified fingerprint-free browser that only does basic HTML, otherwise you're just asking for trouble.

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KarmaCake day8October 26, 2023View Original