There’s diversity, where you have a lot of different types of people, and then there’s places with a high concentration of a minority group

The first one makes people less bigoted, because you can’t avoid dealing with people when they’re everywhere. Your not going to last long in NYC if you don’t want your food touched by them. Either you deal with it and get used to it, or you’ll find it hard to eat

The second one doesn’t force those normal human interactions. Instead, you have exposure. You see them around, but don’t have to treat them like people. You might not interact at all.

So every time you see them, it reinforces the racism

You see it all over the American South, people around the black communities aren’t less racist, they’re giga-racist

When shit hit the fan, they just super calmly looked around, and said “That’s a bit boring.”

Yeah, that could go badly… If people think you’re not taking their emergency seriously, and it turns out it’s not a quick fix, they’re probably not going to be very happy

I do find redirecting them calmly to be even more helpful. Just don’t let their panick infect you, and start working the problem normally

That usually calms people down instantly, because it skips the part where they have to convince you there’s a problem, instead you just skipped to giving them what they actually want

Early on I poked around ml, and it wasn’t so much hate but more like some really… interesting views on how to organize politically

It boiled down to “unite the workers of the world and seize the means of production”, but like… That was it. No answer to how to do that, or what to do next

The most annoying part was honestly just how hard some of them simp for China and Russia, sometimes even North Korea

That’s called tech illiteracy… It’s a bad thing

I’m saying it’s nice to think about how people could be better…

But office workers absolutely do not all know how to touch type. When you find yourself working at an office, your typing speed tends to get faster, but if you don’t already know how to touch type you just peck faster

It’s why I’m so militant about my young relatives learning it. It’s not that hard to learn, but you have to learn it before you actually need it or you never will

And everyone should understand basic science

But they don’t, do they?

My experience has been, I go to a random parking lot somewhere on Saturday morning, there’s like 15 stands selling huge fresh produce with prices like 4 for $1, and then there’s a guy with pigs selling entire fractions of animals for what I assume was a good price

I’ve heard of ones that sound more like county fairs with admission prices and massage booths and such… It kinda seems like at that point they’ve lost the plot

Maybe your farmers markets aren’t just simple direct sales. Do they have to pay real money to set up their stalls? Or worse, is there a bidding process?

Maybe someone is siphoning money there

Really? Sounds like a terrible farmer’s market, I’ve usually found much fresher food generally below grocery store prices, rarely higher. With the exception of chicken and eggs, but there’s reasons for that

Then don’t get Galaxy scale with it, I wasn’t. This has nothing to do with evolution, that’s a myth of capitalism. Capitalism developed organically, not naturally… There’s a huge difference

Throw 50 people into an empty resort for a week with nothing to do. What happens? They play games, they cook together, they go on hikes together, they start projects, they separate and return to the group as needed

This isn’t a hypothetical. Have you never experienced the natural human state? No multi day reunions or weddings? Or living on campus at University? Just any situation where money isn’t really involved and everyone is around with lots of free time

Woz would have been a billionaire if he didn’t sell his shares, which is my entire point. Good billionaires would’ve cashed out long before reaching that crazy level of hoard

Yeah, and those people are destroying the world

If someone has ten million? Good for them. A hundred? Pushing it, but not so much that their mere existence means others must starve

A billion? No, fuck off, your sheer hoard kills people systematically

Now that’s a totally different argument, but it’s bullshit

Being a billionaire means you cease to be a person. Your personal finances are a corporation that does nothing but take

Point to a good billionaire. I’ll point you to a PR firm and probably pictures at Epstein’s Island with half naked children

There are no good billionaires. That’s both prescrive and descriptive, it’s just not a real thing for a whole host of reasons

You literally can’t be a billionaire and give it away. You’d start giving long before that if you ever would part with more than slivers of your dragon hoard

So? The world isn’t fair. I don’t begrudge people who have more than me, frankly I’m way more disturbed that anyone has less than me

It’s fine to be rich. Especially if you actually earned it through your own efforts

It’s not fine to hoard so much it destroys the fucking world, and that’s what it means to be a billionaire

You know who is a good billionaire? Steve Wozniak.

Because he got his, more than he could ever need, and then he decided to stop. Since then he’s lived on his ranch and participated in tech outreach ever since

You could self publish and live in luxury at $100 million. You could keep making music, hell you could do it in complete creative freedom

Why would you want to become an avatar of wealth?

I would assume that would mean either choosing between database profiles or uploading a database export

… Why is the generative llm glyph here? nervous

I mean… You can autosave everything temporarily under a temp filename. The program should treat it as unnamed, and then when you go to save it you then give it a location and a name

It’s probably the best workflow, it’s pretty common for code editors

Of course. Because we’re social creatures, that’s our natural state

Most of humanity’s problems exist not because they’re inherent, it’s because for 1000 generations we’ve been building up self-reinforcing social structures that have entered the end stage. Where everything is squeezed for profit and the real value of it is drained away

We like to do things together. We’re wired for it. With unlimited time and resources, why would we not live near and visit our favorite people? Why would we not explore the world around us? Why would we not work to make life nicer? Why would we not reach out to others who fall through the cracks and find themselves isolated?

I reject the question. That’s not a picture of a floppy disc, that is the glyph that means save

You literally called it the save symbol. And that’s what it is…100 years from now, if we’re still around and still have computers, the save icon will still be some stylized glyph based on the floppy disc

The existence of the floppy disc is already just a bit of trivia about the save icon

It’s like asking what we should change the Bluetooth symbol to? Why do you yearn for the world to burn?

An icon can be any random glyph, but it has to stay recognizable and consistent in meaning, that’s the entire concept here