[-] brianary@startrek.website 13 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, and if that's the only issue that matters to you, and you ignore the impact on all those other people, I guess that's fair to say they are the same. But does all that extra suffering serve a purpose? Are you volunteering yourself to bear any of it, or only others?

[-] brianary@startrek.website 12 points 4 months ago

Zero that axis, please.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 12 points 7 months ago

It's the same argument I've heard about the "complexity" of Mastodon: too many choices, which is I guess why people largely stopped going to websites outside the major social networks. Monopoly over competition, it's like everyone is pining for a monarchy.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 13 points 9 months ago

There's a whole book about this: # Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich.

Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you intend to live indoors.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/nickel-and-dimed-20th-anniversary-edition-on-not-getting-by-in-america-barbara-ehrenreich/9836607?ean=9781250808318

[-] brianary@startrek.website 13 points 9 months ago

At first I was annoyed, until I realized "drop" is an antagonym.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 11 points 9 months ago

The risks of sodium aren't universal (some people appear to have immunity), and were exaggerated by the sugar industry.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 12 points 9 months ago

Americans explicitly didn't want a national ID.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 11 points 10 months ago

Don't forget the burned monkey testacles

[-] brianary@startrek.website 11 points 10 months ago

I'm not sure I'd put much stock in modern polling.

A study suggests the debate had very little impact, but even if it didn't, historically, changing candidates this late hasn't worked out.

https://boingboing.net/2024/07/10/impacts-of-the-presidential-debate-far-overestimated.html

[-] brianary@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure they only care about their performative solipsism.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago

It's actually meditation, isn't it?

[-] brianary@startrek.website 14 points 1 year ago

Dismissing entire groups based on stupid labels is ugly.

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