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settsu commented on What happens when clergy take psilocybin   nautil.us/clergy-blown-aw... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
stickfigure · 2 months ago
The AI overlords call bullshit on that.

The nutshell quote: "Jumping from heights under psychedelics is possible but statistically extraordinary—orders of magnitude rarer than popular mythology suggests."

settsu · 2 months ago
The chances of being struck by lightning are exceedingly slim. But if you're venturing out on a mountain top in early summer your odds skyrocket. So shouldn't we widely inform people who are doing so of the dangers and what to be aware of?

https://www.cdc.gov/lightning/data-research/index.html

settsu commented on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms   apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
apetresc · 3 months ago
I'm not sure what you mean; vaporwave is neither a misnomer nor a jab. Did you think they meant vaporware?

The vaporwave aesthetic is that neon, retro-futuristic, laser-beam-y type look.

settsu · 3 months ago
*facepalm* You're correct. I misread it every time, including the first time I scanned your comment. (A truly strange experience since that is not a common occurrence for me. I simply never saw a "v" there.)
settsu commented on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms   apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
settsu · 3 months ago
I would've loved to have been a fly on the wall throughout the various discussions as this idea made its way across the Apple org.

That this was the dominant topic during the keynote of their annual developer event doesn't seem to bode well for the state of the ecosystem. Especially combined with how cutting the sarcasm was for the new version numbering and new macOS name announcement(s).

settsu commented on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms   apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
throw28198 · 3 months ago
I'll quickly correct you as a zoomer: Gen Z is too young to remember windows vista, but just old enough to have enough fuzzy memories of skeuomorphism to be nostalgic for it (think of it like millenials liking vaporwave despite being very young in the 80s).

This makes far more sense as #2 with a flavor of cashing in on zoomer nostalgia.

settsu · 3 months ago
> millenials liking vaporwave

From context, I'm assuming this is a misnomer and not a jab. XD (Although, admittedly, I'm not sure what the reference is actually to...)

settsu commented on Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment   nytimes.com/2025/05/15/he... · Posted by u/jbredeche
settsu · 4 months ago
You complain about oversimplification, then in the same breath complain about "random political stuff" being included. How is that not hypocritical, at best? This medical breakthrough would literally have not been possible without "politics". Get your head out of the sand. No one should be able to escape learning how their politics affects them or the society they are a part of. And if you want to enjoy the benefits of that society, then you don't get to complain about being reminded of how those benefits were achieved.

Pandering to people's fragile political sensibilities is how the U.S. got to this point where millions of citizens voted against their own self-interest because they thought candidates running on anti-intellectual, anti-science platforms was worth the zero sum "win".

Enjoy your weekends, eight hour workdays, clean air, and clean water—whether you like that those were all political or not!

settsu commented on SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain people   blog.stillgreenmoss.net/s... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
deepsun · 4 months ago
Sounds like discrimination of a broad group of people. Granted, it's not a designated protected group, like by national origin, but I still think they have a good chance in court.
settsu commented on Starcloud   ycombinator.com/companies... · Posted by u/wiley1454
settsu · 4 months ago
I guess since we decided Idiocracy was aspirational, why not Wall-E as well.

/s (kinda but maybe not really...)

settsu commented on Internet in a Box   internet-in-a-box.org/... · Posted by u/homebrewer
jeffhuys · 4 months ago
I think your original comment was mostly parsed as sarcastic.
settsu · 4 months ago
Yes, that's how it read to me.

I.e., interpretation...

katabasis: (Suggests sensible guardrails for children)

fritzo: THOUGHT-POLICE!!

settsu commented on Internet in a Box   internet-in-a-box.org/... · Posted by u/homebrewer
fritzo · 4 months ago
It's exciting seeing grassroots censorship efforts like this.
settsu · 4 months ago
That is entirely not how a healthy society works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

settsu commented on WEIRD – a way to be on the web   a.weird.one... · Posted by u/weinzierl
settsu · 5 months ago
> Weird is a brand new thing, but: Think of it as if WordPress and Notion had a Linktree-shaped baby. That is to say, a WordPress-type website engine with the editing experience of Notion and the simplicity of Linktree.

How many people that understand that, need this?

u/settsu

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