tripu @tripu@social.cleverlibre.org
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
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Pride and Prejudice is all about the mindset of anachronistic developers who think that the only language they know is the only one that counts (the 'pride') and also that "CSS isn't really a language" (prejudice). See the famous opening: "“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a dev not in possession of a basic knowledge of the foundational languages of the Web, must be in want of a framework and cumbersome
build process.”
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TIL there was no single burning of the historic Great Library of Alexandria. The “single burning” story is just myth.
Instead, the Library of Alexandria was slowly defunded and its librarians, intellectuals purged from Alexandria. Over generations its prominence and scholarship slowly faded away, and the collection was likely slowly lost to corruption, war, plunder, dilapidation, or dispersed across other private and public collections.
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@pluralistic
"The problem with, say, Meta, is only partially that Mark Zuckerberg is personally monumentally unsuited to serving as the unelected, unaccountable, permanent social media czar for 3 billion people. The real problem is that no one should have that job. That job shouldn't exist.
We don't need to find a better Mark Zuckerberg. We need to abolish Mark Zuckerberg."
Cory Doctorow
This!
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Good point. But the fair way to measure that would be to look at QALYs lost (or gained) per time spent practicing each activity, not absolute no. of deaths per sport.
Also, even if more cyclists or runners than fighters died, I suspect all cyclists (pro or amateur) clock way, way more hour×person in a year around the globe than all MMA practitioners do, so the relative risk isn't that clear.
And also, if the worst threat to amateur cyclists is being run over by a car or crashing into a lamplight… well, the gist of the sport is preserved if one cycles on dirt roads, on tracks, or even on a static bike indoors. In that sense, it's not cycling that kills people, but doing so on public roads with traffic and obstacles (you can't say the same about the intrinsic dangers of MMA or F1).
It's unfortunate that roads aren't safer, and I celebrate cyclists like yourself who combine exercise and convenience daily, but those risks feel to me qualitatively different from the risk of being killed by another person who purposefully hit you as fast and as hard as they could.
Again, I'm all for adults doing whatever they want. I just decry the MMA ethos, and maintain there are plenty of activities far healthier and safer for kids.
Where did you find that 5%?
It seems it's even less! 1.9%–3.5%. And that includes freight by plane.
That's “good news”: I thought it was much higher. It's probably best to focus on other actions, as you said.
One real problem is that air travel is the only type of travel for which there is no viable alternative to fossil fuels, because batteries can't pack energy densely enough for takeoff.
https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector#transport-16-2
Qué curioso cómo se ha colado este «ESPAÑA», que nada tiene que ver, en una página de publicidad del #MinisterioDeIgualdad sobre el #016 hoy en #ElPaís…
Interesting, thank you. Yes, it seems we mostly agree.
I had never considered unions in relationship with anti-trust. I guess there's a good argument to be made about a handful of companies with deep pockets potentially having much greater power together than a heterogeneous mass of thousands or millions of workers, and that imbalance justifying anti-trust but not anti-union.
cf _§ 2.5: How do coordination problems justify labor unions and other labor regulation?_ on #ScottAlexander's [Non-Libertarian FAQ](https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/22/repost-the-non-libertarian-faq/). His arguments seemed solid to me when I read that.
La #izquierda en 🇪🇸 #España es tan «extrema», tan «ultra» y tan «radical» como la derecha:
* [Según la opinión pública (CIS 2021)](https://www.cis.es/cis/opencm/ES/1_encuestas/estudios/ver.jsp?estudio=14560), #PabloIglesias es exactamente igual de extremista en sus posturas que #SantiagoAbascal.
* [Pablo Iglesias es comunista](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDEVgIbzURg), por más que en los últimos años dé rodeos para evitar admitirlo.
* #PabloEchenique [es «leninista» y un «gran dirigente comunista»](https://www.europapress.es/nacional/noticia-pablo-iglesias-dice-gracias-virtudes-leninistas-gran-dirigente-comunista-echenique-hay-gobierno-psoe-up-20230205111148.html).
* #AlbertoGarzón [es militante del #PCE y escribió un libro titulado «Por qué soy Comunista»](https://elpais.com/politica/2020/01/05/actualidad/1578258826_106822.html).
* #YolandaDíaz [es militante del #PCE y se declara comunista](https://elpais.com/espana/2021-03-21/una-comunista-para-rebajar-la-tension.html).
“But this is horrible! Thank God at least _it's only for #men_!”
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If a collective working within a free market can't get compensation they deem fair (especially if they're negotiating and acting _collectively_, eg using strikes), then the compensation they seek is just too high.
For special cases, like jobs that are vital to the economy or to public health or defence etc we have special mechanisms.
Supporting actors don't fall within any of those categories.
If the studios and the audience don't notice the difference between meat actors and digital actors, or don't care about the difference (or even prefer the digital ones!), then there's nothing wrong in principle with getting rid of them entirely.
There's a reason we don't have lift operators, copy boys, log drivers, switchboard operators or lamplighters any more. Should we keep those jobs around purposefully?
I guess the study suffers from cultural bias, specifically #WEIRD bias. But I haven't read it in full.
#Actors resisting studios that want to scan their bodies for one day and then use that data as input for #AI engines for the whole scene/film/series/show, or even forever, are resisting History. It's only logical and efficient that fewer and fewer humans are needed for those kinds of jobs. Welcome aboard.
They should simply negotiate their conditions wisely, as everyone else tries to do all the time. And be mindful of the actual value they bring to a production in an AI era: nobody can replace #BradPitt on a film, and so he will be paid accordingly for his scan. But supporting actors and extras? Even people with no acting training or experience will be able to pose for a scan and display a decent range of expressions and movements. It's clear that most of those jobs will be gone.
> _“Many people like eating #meat, but most are reluctant to harm things that have minds. […] This dissonance motivates people to deny minds to animals. […] Animals considered appropriate for human consumption are ascribed diminished mental capacities. […] Meat eaters are motivated to deny minds to food animals when they are reminded of the link between meat and #AnimalSuffering.”_
Just imagine you were used since childhood to eating (puppies of) farmed dogs, cats, dolphins and monkeys. Animals crammed into dark little places, maimed and overfed for the minimum number of days necessary for their meat to be economically viable. Imagine that everyone around you had done so for as long as you can remember. And imagine people kept cute shrimp, hens, goats and sheep as pets, giving them names, taking them to the vet, buying food and toys for them, etc.
Can you see the issue now? Are you willing to break out of that cognitive dissonance?
I explained here the huge difference I see between sports where injuries or pain may occur and are lamented by everybody, and an activity which has injury and pain as its main goal and as such are celebrated:
https://qoto.org/@tripu/109879274672642453
/cc @ImperfectIdea @Pat
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
