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FTFY 😛
I still miss my old Trinitron CRTs. Although, contrary to the image, I typically ran them at 85Hz to eliminate the high pitched whine and flicker. Took a while to get used to an IPS panel. Also RIP 16:10 and CCFL backlighting.
This outrage post. Knew I’d found the one.
What have you been doing to express your creativity recently?
This is such a motivational question. Because what have I been doing that’s creative lately? Not a lot! I’ve basically been consuming things. After I got a job again (very good thing) I was super busy. I thought I’d get back into my projects once the job stabilized, but that hasn’t happened. And it’s not going to happen unless I actively start making some changes.
So here are some plans:
- Been wanting to do more with AI, both art and text. Bought a new GPU so that’s a start. It’s something that has fascinated me ever since I ran ELIZA as a kid. Also, I’m hoping this will help me express myself more clearly.
- I was having a lot of fun writing simple calculator apps and games. It was a creative challenge to produce something on such a limited platform. My goal is to dedicate some time on Sundays for this.
Couple of things in that conversation:
Drawn child porn
I can just imagine those words being spoken by a prosecutor to a jury and things not going well for the defendant. Kinda scary how far removed my thoughts seem to be from the average person on this.
instances that allow abusive content is a red line for me.
Yeah, those poor GPUs being abused.
Always nice to be wanted.
I fundamentally question the claim that wealth inequality is bad in and of itself. It doesn’t really harm me that there exist individuals with significantly higher standards of living, or that there exist individuals more capable of effecting large-scale change than me.
I agree with you in the broader context. Individually, it shouldn’t matter how much money a specific other person has. And I’m not a big fan of wealth redistribution (I tend to think of it as theft). However, when there is a limited resource that everyone needs, it can cause problems for those with less money.
For example, many workers in Silicon Valley make good money, and they need housing, of which there is a shortage (the reasons for the shortage are important, as well as attempted fixes, etc, but I’ll skip over those so I don’t descend too much into politics). So the price of housing goes up due to limited supply and high demand. And of course sellers want to maximize their sales or rent price, so they charge what the market can bear. Because people there have money, they can pay a lot and so the price goes up. This is fine if everyone is making around the same amount of money. However, those who do not have well paying jobs (income inequality) cannot easily afford housing and are priced out of the market. So the inequality means they can’t easily afford housing. And that’s just income inequality.
One could certainly argue that the income inequality isn’t the only cause, rather the artificially limited housing supply. But, regardless of the cause of the housing crisis there, or potential solutions, I think it provides an example of how inequality can have a negative effect on someone.
EDIT: cleaned up some terminology.
Voyager is the best Star Trek series.
Not only that, but many therapists will not take pedophile clients due to lack of training, some might report them to police because they assume every pedophile is a child molester, and so they report them in order to protect themselves in the face of mandatory reporting laws, and others might take them, but only have training dealing with offending pedophiles. This makes it difficult and risky for a nonoffending pedophile to get a therapist, and even if they do, the therapist may not actually be able to help them. So, ironically, the current pedophile panic could actually be increasing risk to children.