And have a valid Apple developer account?

Maybe we could use Javascript to direct a simple robot to set the lever while we remain at a safe distance?

Maybe the real solution to this diagram is to nuke it from orbit.

Oh hey look, it’s a personal attack. That definitely doesn’t make me think that your argument is in bad faith.

Opinions don’t always need to advocate for both sides, presenting a sane and batshit arguments on equal footing is a huge problem in modern media and allowed a lot of Trump’s bullshit arguments to gain ground. I think that making an effort to devil’s advocate in arguments generally makes the argument read stronger but it isn’t required.

At a previous workplace one of my coworkers had an abuse trigger of hearing gum chewed - they didn’t explain in detail (and I didn’t ask) but clearly they’d been through a rough enough time that they asked people sitting near them to refrain from having gum in the office.

I, personally, loathe the specific shade of orange associated with Halloween for my own private reasons.

When we have a strong negative experience, especially if that experience is continuous over a long time. It’s perfectly fair to be triggered emotionally by things you associate with that experience - it’s not fair to others to show them hate for traits they share with the people who gave you those negative experiences but your reaction to those triggers are valid. I want to clarify that last sentence, for some people it’s impossible not to feel strong emotions when exposed to a trigger like that - but you should be rationally aware that people you meet on the street who speak Cantonese are not your family members and did not cause you that pain. If you find yourself in a painful situation you should try to remove yourself from that situation if possible or make people aware of your emotions if possible prior to expressing your emotions on someone unaware. With the triggering action being a language that will be especially difficult since it’s likely to be perceived as xenophobia so I’d stress trying to remove yourself from a situation if you’re feeling strong emotions.

I use arch, btw.

Ah funny, my corpo HQ is down in that neighborhood. I think I’ve only been in NC once in my life though.

Damm, what region are you in, that’s super reasonable.

Holy fuck, that’s about 3x what free range eggs cost in Vancouver.

Between 4.67 (cheapo plain large white) and 10.02 (Golden D Large Hyperorganic) for a dozen near Vancouver.

Costco’s free range 24 pack is 12.49 which I think is probably what most people are getting.

Also, all prices are CAD.

I popped reply onto that comment because I think hard vs. soft determinism is also an important point to ponder - I’d omitted diving into that above because 1) you see how long my comment already is, and 2) I genuinely think it’s a more settled question.

There are many many ways to slice up this problem but a common division of camps is

1. Free Will

2. Hard determinism

3. Soft determinism

Your comment is touching on a lot of the arguments between soft and hard determinism but hard determinism has really fallen out of favor recently due to (imo) a better comprehension of the definition of self.

Hard determinism relied on an understanding that the actor being “forced” into their actions lacked agency and thus any responsibility for their actions (which is a generally internally consistent statement - we don’t consider actors responsible for actions taken under duress for certain values of responsible and duress)… however, that comprehension relied on (imo from here on out) an acceptance that the actor that lived in the deterministic world and the actor we were passing judgement on were in some way distinct - in essence that we are something more than our role in existence. Again imo, that leans into some of the same difficulties most free will models have - that there is something able to effect existence that is itself unaffected (in some significant way) by existence. (I am skimping on why this is important. Feel free to ask me to expand on it)

It seems much more logical that everything in existence can be affected and affect everything else in existence and if that’s the case, much like a defective gear in a simple machine, we may judge an actor to be responsible for the outcomes they materialize.

So in response to your comment I’d stress that living in a deterministic world doesn’t necessarily divorce us from responsibility for our actions and understanding why can actually be quite empowering.

Determinism is extremely comforting to me. I took philosophy in uni and when it came to debating free will and determinism I was absolutely the odd one out.

I think it’d be an awful and arbitrary world if we were held morally responsible (in a cosmic sense - nothing as inaccurate as the legal system or whatever) for actions we could not control. Every expression I’ve ever seen for Free Will tends to include some widget or gear somewhere in that picture that could - in the precise same situation - choose either outcome randomly. If that is how the universe operates then I personally think that it actually divorces us from agency since our decision making can in some cases be reduced to how this die we have no control over happened to be rolled.

To contrast, in a deterministic world there are a lot of actions that may be described to someone casually that are extremely inaccurate - in many legal systems there is a consideration of mental competency as an example… but, again at a cosmic level, the shit you actually do is clearly and incontrovertibly assigned to you. If in scenario X where you could push a button to slap someone in the face and get a hundred bucks (with all other variables constant) your decision on whether to push the button is 100% your decision.

Now, some people are uncomfortable with the prospect of being reduced into something mechanical but it’s important to recognize the absolutely staggering complexity of that machine. I am comfortable being reduced to a simple machine as long as it’s acknowledged that that machine is composed of my entire physical being and every interaction I’ve ever had in my life… and that every one of those interactions are composed of the entire physical being of those actors and all of their interactions… and ditto (it’s turtles all the way down).

Admitting the existence of such a complex system of indecipherably complex links and nodes and then saying “And after all that, I rolled a d6 and it came up 5 so you pushed the button” is actually deeply discomforting to me.

They did… but they initially cast doubt on whether it was a nazi salute leading to a lot of the news stories saying “suggestive gesture” or “nonspecific salute” instead of saying “that’s nazi shit”.

The Musk salute is more accurately described as a nazi salute because it was.

News corps are being cowardly and the ADL is being about as honest as it ever fucking is.

I always read subscribed communities by new.

Good choice. We have the best sex.

Hardtack… very slowly.

Don’t you know? Plugs go in the rear.

I always just search the web for “<symbol> unicode” when I need something obscure. Then again I’m old ;_;

Yea sure - but it doesn’t matter. It could have mattered but his reaction to the reaction means it doesn’t.

If you accidentally do a nazi salute and then someone says “Hey bro, you really shouldn’t do a nazi salute” and another dude says “Hey bro, white power! I’m glad you’re on our side” and your immediate reaction isn’t “Oh fuck guys, I didn’t know that was a nazi salute, I fucking hate nazis” then, well, you did a nazi salute.

1. Elon did a thing.

2. People said “That’s a nazi thing”.

3. Elon didn’t immediately say “No, I didn’t do the nazi thing.”

4. ∴ Elon is a nazi.

It’s also not like the fucker doesn’t have the ability to issue a statement correcting the public perception. He literally owns fucking X and the media salivate over his press releases.