Do you have a source for this? My understanding was only credit card balances mattered.

I am legitimately confused about how none of the cops involved in that have not been vigilante’d.

I also think about this a lot. There’s like a mass shooting every day but it’s never cops, politicians, billionaires.

Seems fine.

I wonder if we can also teach people delayed gratification. People’s inability to do that is I think a root of a lot of problems.

I’m not aware of any harms from using a no-fee credit card that you pay off in full each month. You get 1% - 5% back, and it’s easier to deal with fraudulent charges.

I bet a chunk of those republicans are mad that the court is “too liberal”

Republicans are the worst

The first paragraph on the wikipedia page linked says

"The statement “When I hear the word culture, I reach for my gun”, variously misattributed to Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Göring, was in fact a corrupted version of a line in his play Schlageter. "

So no, I don’t think so.

“When I hear the word culture, I reach for my gun”

Seems that’s a slight mangling of the line, but it’s a common Nazi trope

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanns_Johst

Suburbs are expensive, inefficient, and bad for the environment

This is what I’m always saying! Car-centric spaces are also bad socially. They’re dehumanizing. You want people walking around if you want a community, and having a strong community is good in many ways.

Using AI seems extremely excessive compared to a regular interface or human.

I’m pretty sure rejecting facts based on partisanship, political ideology, religion, of cultural values can easily qualify you for being stupid.

On the other hand, the us has done idiotic things to tarnish it’s reputation in the past.

Many people are ideologically opposed to taxes and cooperation.

Reminds me of when right-wingers accidentally reinvent like buses or socialized health care under a different name.

In short, people are emotion driven and many of them are stupid on top of that.

https://www.404media.co/remote-amazonian-tribes-new-york-times-starlink-have-been-using-the-internet-for-a-long-time/ is also a pretty good article about this

Yes. However, it’s an assumption they honor those requests and don’t try to track you anyway.

Plus Google isn’t the only company trying to do individualized targeted advertising.

First, individually targeted advertisement should be illegal. Instead of trying to figure out who I am and serving me ads based on that, they should only be able to look at server side facts. What is the video? This is how television and radio ads have worked for ages. You have a video about SomePopBand, you advertise concert tickets. You have a video about bikes, you advertise bike stuff. You don’t know who I am. Suddenly, the motivation for most of the privacy invading, stalking, nonsense is gutted.

Some people would still block those static ads. If they showed some restraint, I think more people would accept them. But that’s a sad joke- no profit driven org is going to show restraint.

Secondly, if they can’t ethically run the business at a profit, the business probably doesn’t deserve to exist. That or it’s a loss leader to get people into the ecosystem.

I already barely watch YouTube. It’s mostly for music videos. Google can fuck itself to death.

Thanks. I’ve heard of locus of control before (as opposed to locust of control, which sounds rather metal).

My mother was always late for work. She’d say it was because of the traffic lights, or the coffee took too long to make, or whatever. I’d be like “just start getting ready for work 15 minutes earlier” and she’d act like I was a crazy asshole. She has a very external locus of control. Things happen to her for no reason, and nothing she’s done has any connection. Drives me crazy.

I do struggle with empathy but I’m working on it.

Maybe we’re not talking about quite the same thing, or I communicated badly?

There was a forum I liked and used every day, but then for reasons that aren’t important I decided to not use it anymore. For weeks I still thought about the site and would accidentally start typing the URL sometimes. But I’d committed to leaving, so I left.

It sucked but it wasn’t hard in the same way that running a mile or doing calculus is hard.

Or like when a family member was a huge asshole I really wanted to just let them have it. But I didn’t, because that would’ve made things worse. But I guess I understand how you might decide to just let loose there.

So I guess I do understand it better than my previous post.

Maybe the problem for me is not really getting it when it’s about, like, doing the dishes. Or going to work on time. Things that seem so easy to me they don’t even register as a self control check.

I don’t really understand addiction. I’m not denying it exists, but I haven’t experienced it firsthand so I struggle to imagine what it’s like.

I feel like I’m in charge of my decisions and I can’t imagine otherwise. Is it like you black out and suddenly you’re outside with a smoke?

I don’t really understand poor self control, but I concede it exists and many people have it.

I can’t really imagine what it’s like to decide to do a thing and then just… don’t. Not like “I decided to run a mile and discovered I physically couldn’t”, but “I decided to uninstall the app and then I just didn’t”

Who’s in charge? What’s happening in there?

Targeted, individualized, advertising should be illegal. This will gut a lot of the motivations for the privacy invasions and data harvesting. This is how advertising worked for thousands of years. I think it could continue to be just fine.

The amount of resources humanity is spending on targeted advertising is extremely depressing when you consider the opportunity cost. There are thousands of engineers and product managers that spend all day on this stuff instead of anything useful.