jimmydddd (u/jimmydddd)

jimmydddd commented on Australian author's erotic novel is child sex abuse material, judge finds bbc.com/news/articles/ckg... · Posted by u/qwefrqwf

Insanity · 17 hours ago

It still restricts access to literature. It is still a ban, and it is a limit of freedom to explore literature.

But I agree with you, different scale of a similar problem.

jimmydddd · 16 hours ago

In high school, I read Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five entirely because it was on a banned list. So it can go both ways.

jimmydddd commented on Why I Joined OpenAI brendangregg.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/SerCe

robby_w_g · 4 days ago

Reminds me of when I was younger and thought of companies like Google and Tesla as a force for good that will create and use technology to make people's lives better. Surely OpenAI and these LLM companies will change the world for the better, right? They wouldn't burn down our planet for short-term monetary gain, right?

I've learned over the years that I was naive and it's a coincidence if the tech giants make people's lives better. That's not their goal.

jimmydddd · 3 days ago

I saw this video where this gen z girl was saying she preferred working for boomers who just wanted her to show up on time, get her work done, and maybe stay a little late from time to time. She said it was exhausting working for millenials who wanted her to think her job was "saving the world."

jimmydddd commented on How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post newyorker.com/news/annals... · Posted by u/thm

simonw · 6 days ago

There's a joke in the news industry that the NYT is a games company with a loss-making news organization attached to it as a side-project.

jimmydddd · 6 days ago

Like Harvard is a hedge fund with a school as a side project.

jimmydddd commented on Ian's Shoelace Site fieggen.com/shoelace/... · Posted by u/righthand

SoftTalker · 9 days ago

I've tried a couple of these "better" shoe tying knots and have never had the patience to learn them to the point they become habitual. So I can spend 2 seconds tying a shoelace the way I learned when I was 5 years old, or I can spend 5 minutes fumbling with some other knot. I go with what works for me. Optimizing the time I spend tying my shoes just isn't anywhere on the radar of things that would have a worthwhile ROI.

jimmydddd · 9 days ago

I've been 100% slip-ons for years.

jimmydddd commented on Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher tha human drivers electrek.co/2026/01/29/te... · Posted by u/breve

zzzeek · 12 days ago

oh hacker news, never change. "crashes 3x as much as human driven cars" but is that REALLY bad? who knows? pure gold

jimmydddd · 12 days ago

Humans driving cars crash more than humans walking on side walks. But is humans driving cars really bad?

jimmydddd commented on Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher tha human drivers electrek.co/2026/01/29/te... · Posted by u/breve

tsimionescu · 12 days ago

Sure, but the 3x comparison is not based on reported incidents, it's based on estimates of incidents that occur. I think it's fair to assume such estimates are based on data about repairs and other such market stats, that don't necessarily depend on reporting. We also have no reason a priori to believe the Tesla reports include every single incident either, especially given their history from FSD incident disclosures.

jimmydddd · 12 days ago

"estimates" (with air quotes)

jimmydddd commented on Ross Stevens Donates $100M to Pay Every US Olympian and Paralympian $200k townandcountrymag.com/lei... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

reactordev · 13 days ago

Check the fine print

jimmydddd · 13 days ago

I remember in the 1980's, some rich guy gave a commencement speech in which he said he would pay for college for the entire graduating class in some high school in NJ. He got great press from this. But then it turned out in the fine print that the kids had to max out student loans, and he would cover the difference for tuition, but not including room and board. :-)

jimmydddd commented on Ross Stevens Donates $100M to Pay Every US Olympian and Paralympian $200k townandcountrymag.com/lei... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

greggh · 13 days ago

The real answer here is that he is mad about people protesting what Israel is doing in Gaza. This $100M donation is being made with funds he had given to UPenn. He has taken it back, via lawyers, because they allowed the protests to go on. He is now just taking that original donation and moving it somewhere else. Not that I am against the Olympians getting paid, just some context.

Sources: https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/donor-pulls-100-mill...https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4348656-upenn-loses-1...https://www.timesnownews.com/world/who-is-ross-stevens-stone... (many more)

jimmydddd · 13 days ago

This answer is correct.

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tclancy · 22 days ago

> I don’t mind the ways in which my job is dysfunctional, because it matches the ways in which I myself am dysfunctional

As a fellow traveller, I offer one caution: learn to turn this down in personal relationships as it can be counterproductive. It took decades for my wife to finally get through and explain not every problem she voices is something that needs a solution. Some times people just want to be heard. It bugs the hell out of me because I tend to need to solve All The Problems before I can do any self-care, but rather than seem heroic, I think this attitude can seem transactional or uncaring as though everyone is just a screw that needed a bit of tightening, etc.

jimmydddd · 22 days ago

I saw a show where the listener asks at the beginning of the interaction: "wait, do you want me to try to solve a problem, or just to listen?"

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ben_w · 23 days ago

They didn't say "think differently", they said "promoting fascism".

If you look at J6 attempted self-coup where people were chanting death threats agaisnt the vice president and had a hangman's noose ready and pipe bombs were found and say "that was a peaceful protest", while also looking at the woman who was shot dead through the side window of her car while departing from a group of ICE officers and call that "self defence againsy attempted vehicular manslaughter", you may have a problem.

If your reaction to "Punish them socially" is to claim "That’s the most facist thing I’ve ever heard." of the person who essentially just said "stop talking to these people, stop inviting them to parties and stuff", when your fellow citizens are dying at the hands of federal officers who are being given defacto immunity, you may have a problem.

The current administration already punishes people for thinking differently with a lot worse than not inviting them to dinner; is the kind of regime that creates refugees and asylum seekers out of its own citizens, who flee from it.

jimmydddd · 23 days ago

The problem is that after years of people crying "facism" for mean tweets, lowering coprorate taxes and eforcing a national border, the term has lost any meaning. Maybe we need a new term?