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It feels like real dairy is being listed as a necessary casualty to technological/industrial progress at scale and the solutions, such as those that you're introducing, disrupt this sort of progress and its intended benefits. This sort of frustrates me (the theoretical demise of real dairy). I'm picky about my dairy selection as is, but I don't find any comfort in fake dairy (I'm not referring plant, or oat, or nut milk per se, rather lab grown ingredients and anything else that is fermented, stabilized, etc.). I have my own gripes with the dairy industry, but the mere thought of synthetic alternatives becoming the norm irritates me.
How all of this is made to become appealing only upsets me further. I want to get off of this ride!
Please, start a blog or something. I mean you don't have to...but, yeah. Thanks.
I think what I’m getting out for myself is more so a UX issue? I’m not sure. It’s not a matter of attention span with me specifically. But the look and feel of certain Apple devices as a whole makes me feel like someone who I’d hate to become. I could still see myself using an iPad or a Mac mini or something like that, because I’ve taking a liking for some of the things those devices have to offer for specific tasks.
But I would love for my phone to just be a concrete brick that can spit out thermal printed slips of paper with messages on it as text messaging and emails. And if only voice calls were a distributed mesh of Solo cups and strings.
As a business model I understand what Apple is doing and can register the strategy as calculated. As an Apple consumer, I am not that interested.
Sometime after inheriting a pair of AirPod Pros and an Apple Watch I started to feel strange. Then I booted OpenBSD on my own hardware for the first time the other day, straight into the shell and I feel changed by how brutal (as in architecture, aesthetics) the experience was. I find it distracting even to use my MacBook now. The colors, the textures, etc. I just feel different now.
Apple is offering a lot of convenience, apparently. The watch is convenient. The AirPods that dig into my ear canals and make me mistake audiobooks and podcasts for my own thoughts are…disturbing…but convenient as a Bluetooth headset?
As a consumer and user of these devices I just feel somewhere between recognizing these new conveniences but being disturbed by them and distracted even after some time.
Personally I find myself more likely to read articles with a tight measure, long paragraphs and an average font size (16-18px, even 14px on ScienceDaily works for me) than something with short paragraphs, a large font and lots of space in between paragraph lines. This is a recent realization.
In other words, the properties of that which is uncreated would need to be defined so they can be distinguished from something that is created. These properties have to be understood and accepted as an exclusive set that cannot be "distributed" or "shared" among other beings; in order to dispel the notion that there can be multiple uncreated beings or beings that are created that share attributes with The Creator.
1. Are there legitimate safe spaces for people who like friction? Or are they only for people who LARP as Don Draper and Jordan Belfort?
2. How was/is cheating in this sense addressed in print advertisements?
3. This makes sense, but I think the alternative would call for more friction and ethical data collection/sharing on behalf of personalization.
4. The last sentence was the most helpful. Who is the "network" in question?
(Now for my disclosure: If you can't tell I need to sit down and figure out how the online ad business actually works, I likely can count on my hands many times I've ever clicked an ad online and I've definitely purchased something in that manner far less if ever).
Thank you!
All of this has nothing to do with the software, which looks really interesting and may be quite successful in the future. But it's worth noting and there's nothing wrong with pointing these things out. ralusek's post should not be so grey.
The discussion around this post confuses me. Because in practice it doesn't sound that bad, but the comments seem to be against it. A person pays a subscription to "consume content" [1] and the author is paid for it. But why do I need a wallet? What is this ledger business all about? What's the meta tag for? In reality how is this even better than Patreon or "Buy me a Coffee" or GitHub Sponsors. I'm beginning to understand the other comments now.
As far as advertisements go, what's stopping people from just selling ad space themselves? Why do I need Google? You sell cast iron skillets, I'm a food blogger. You want some ad space. Email me and send me a check.
[1] i.e. to read, watch and listen to things on the internet. "consuming content" sounds so impersonal, if that's the best word to describe it.
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Black Lives Matter has been on the national stage for almost 6(!) years and has accumulated hundreds of millions of dollars, affecting zero change or influence in Black communities.
A film was recently released about Fred Hampton of the Black Panther Party (strangely enough, from what I gather, glorifying the man who coordinated his assassination). I bring this up to say, millions of dollars collected by Black Lives Matter and I have not even heard about them even frying a dang omelette and handing it to a Black person, let alone a Black male (whose bodies the movement continually uses as a springboard to notoriety).
Nonetheless, funding alone will not solve the issues at hand in the Black community. But a few omelettes a day at least would be a better start than whatever else is going on.
One last question – any book recommendations?
Anyway, I loved your critique. With all of this being said, from at least a visual perspective, how do you feel about the work inspired by Bauhaus? What sort of design do you feel appreciates the human psychology of the issues/environment it intends to involve itself with?
But your logo is spectacular and Saga reminds me of an app I use called Notenik that's also written in Swift and can be used as a static site generator. I don't have any familiarity with the language but it seems relatively un-intimidating to manage. I hope to read the articles associated with its development sometime soon.
Intense stuff, mate.
New Orleans (also Baton Rouge), like Baltimore and other American cities will presumably eat themselves alive before the invisible hand of cloud computing and technocracy shows them any love.
For one, the school is at fault because this isn't an isolated incident, the entire school is (statistically) dumb as the box that holds the bricks that are as dumb as what's generally implied. What alarm was sounded in that particular school and every school that is like it (there's no way that this is the only place that this is happening) before this story broke out. How long has this even been taking place (unqualified students being promoted to the next class and having to essentially start from their freshman year again if they intend to graduate)? How many kids on the streets in Baltimore (young men especially) are victims of this system?
The community is at fault, for blindly getting behind anyone with black skin that waves a blue flag because clearly they have been no help. The trends of social media unfortunately champion these people when the communities themselves have no idea as to what they're motives even are.
The culture of the community should be brought into question, because I can suspect with confidence that a majority of these students at these schools are being brought up in broken homes (either single-parent households, mom/dad is "shacking up" with a girlfriend/boyfriend who contributes nil to the household from a moral standpoint or if the child's parents are married, then the struggle to keep things afloat deters the nurturing of a healthy environment). Most of Hacker News is getting through their one, relatively plush job by the skin of their teeth without having to micro-dose MDMA to prevent themselves from shoving their garden hose in their car exhaust...so sit for a moment...put yourself in this black woman's shoes, with three children (who knows how old the remaining two are), potentially no spouse, three jobs and little social mobility. Much respect to this woman for actually speaking out, because I bet a lot of people in her community share the same sentiment as her son – they're embarrassed. It's an embarrassment on many levels! Most people in these situations lack the willpower to even stay abreast on what's going on their own house, so it's likely even more difficult for the community as a whole to muster up the courage and strength to address these multiple issues head-on and stay steadfast on them without being manipulated by politicians or celebrities once their efforts pick up steam.
It's easy to blame the student(s) and their parent(s) if this was happneing somewhere else or to someone else. But in this particular case it's lazy and the greater effects of the environment as a whole are disregarded. Some of you have enough trouble juggling between sitting your own children in front of a computer screen for the afternoon and brown-nosing a superior who's one "Me Too" tweet away from the whole company having to fold and you being forced to spend 7 months baking sourdough bread and "finding yourself" while you wait for the next "Who Wants to be Hired?" post on Hacker News.
It's unfair and repulsive to sit and read people turn into armchair critical theorist when the line between your ignorance and whichever blameworthy party that you can point a finger at is about as thin as Jeff Bezos' eyebrows. It's unfortunate because some of the top comments actually have compassionate observations, but everything in between (including the replies to these comments) is pathetic.
Thots.