[-] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Outside of a few small local businesses that actually care about doing right by people, loyalty hasn't mattered for decades dude. Companies don't give a shit about any of us. Why even bother thinking in terms of loyalty, it's completely misaligned with how they operate.

[-] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 month ago

Lol I can tell you just used Google Lens or some shit and then proceeded to make it sound like you knew what you were talking about by assuming it was Japanese (it's not).

[-] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I've heard it the exact opposite. Freedom to is positive freedom which tends to be a more social leftist or social liberal trait. Negative freedom (freedom from) is typically a more modern right wing or libertarian trait. But also you could have libertarian leftists or anarchists that lean more towards negative liberty, as well as fiscal conservatives that lean more towards positive liberty on social issues, so it's not fully a left/right thing.

Basically the difference is enabling people via common social framework that gives people options and social mobility vs complete non-interference by government or any other entity even if it limits options and social mobility for anyone but yourself due to their life circumstances.

Here's a quote from the Wikipedia article on positive liberty that backs up this interpretation of the to/from distinction. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_liberty):

"Erich Fromm sees the distinction between the two types of freedom emerging alongside humanity's evolution away from the instinctual activity that characterizes lower animal forms. This aspect of freedom, he argues, "is here used not in its positive sense of freedom to but in its negative sense of 'freedom from', namely freedom from instinctual determination of his actions."

I don't know that I agree with that premise but it's an example of the to/from dichotomy being used in relation to positive/negative freedom just so you know I'm not making anything up.

[-] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 2 months ago

Yeah, and a Matrix instance

[-] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 months ago

You'll call a Phillips a Phillips but not a Robertson a Robertson or an Allen an Allen, smh

[-] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I think I heard about it actually, it's the issue where people make up shit on the spot online to confirm their biases

[-] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That's one of the reasons wrestling fans prefer the term scripted or staged as opposed to fake. It still requires tons of athleticism, and lots of wrestlers are still taking very real hits and injuries despite trying to minimize the impacts of them.

[-] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's simultaneously possible to realize that something is useful while also recognizing the damage that its trend is causing from a sustainability standpoint, and that neither realization particularly demonstrates a lack of understanding about AI.

[-] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Surely there has to be a cost to the infrastructure of publishing and curation though. And possibly all the work of setting up and organizing the peer review process. So they probably charge the institutions or authors submitting the paper instead of their readers. But perhaps we should treat scientific journals as a public good, like libraries, or at least have a publicly funded option. Or have universities and institutions fund it for the public good.

[-] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"Return to work". Motherfuckers, they were already employed. 🙄 I bet CNBC is one of the companies that had a controversial RTO policy. I utterly resent these attempts at trying to normalize deceptive language for return to office schemes subconsciously, like people that don't want to return to office aren't working somehow and it's somehow their fault it's a problem, and not the fault of an inflexible employer.

[-] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Even knowing this, I'm still both in awe and jealous of talented people. Some people I know who can practice so much that they become exceptional at something seem to be immune to burnout on their passions for long periods of time, or seem to have a brain chemistry that remains resilient in the face of it, and that ain't me. I've suspected I have ADHD but it's hard to get a diagnosis and my doctor said he's hesitant to diagnose his patients even though he thinks it's possible (and I'm in Canada where I'm lucky to even have an assigned family doctor so I can't really get a good second opinion on that). Programming just happens to be one of the few things that I get burned out on the least compared to everything else and even then it's hard to sustain interest in it for long periods.

[-] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 9 months ago

Brb moving to Denmark

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