henfredemars

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

To a surprising extent you can infer a lot about a person directly from appearances and circumstance. I learned this through people watching when I was in school. It can be a fun hobby realizing how much you can conclude, but there’s a dark side to the skill of judging a book by its cover.

It’s a dangerous and addictive path because it’ll feel like the sheer number of times you’re right outweighs the scarce few when you’re wrong, diminishing the significance of those people who you misjudged. The moment you begin taking actions based on those inferences you must realize there’s a difference between statistical likelihood and fact. Being right 99% of the time is a fascinating skill. Being wrong even once and treating a person based on those assumptions makes you an asshole. Rhetorically speaking, ask me how I know.

Yes, I understand the point of this post is in the gullibility, but I wanted to share anyway because I find it fascinating that it seems simultaneously true that you can judge a book by its cover, but at the same time you can’t because those are still assumptions and not completely infallible.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Fuck I’m old.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

We’ll fund it with OpenCalcCoin which is neither open source nor an excellent investment opportunity.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hi good morning it’s your local congressman. Allow me to demonstrate how government doesn’t work by hardly showing up to my job, and when I do, I still don’t do it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (12 children)

This is certainly an interesting feature, though my one use case has become much less relevant now that systems boot so quickly.

Perhaps if you have long running jobs and no implementation of state saving it could find applications.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Not to minimize this important point, but generally the US healthcare system forces doctors to provide substandard care.

It is however quite effective at forcing people to give up as much money as possible to the predatory system.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Quality content.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Hello can you please direct me to the Internet thank you hugs and kisses.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

That's okay; their supporters also don't believe in the fundamental concept of progress.

You'd think that would be a requirement to hold office, but the desire to improve things is definitely not a requirement.

[–] [email protected] 101 points 1 month ago (7 children)

“This is very clearly a fishing expedition,” Mulfort said. “It is more important than ever for Floridians to reject these authoritarian tactics and vote yes on Amendment 4 in November.”

Couldn't have said it better myself.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

This makes me want to cover my car entirely in retroreflectors.

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