i’d say your comment is well-thought-through, and my comment was also kinda provocative.

Of course i’m aware that the world cannot be purely understood by the material objects around us. I was, however, raised under the assumption that it can be understood that way. I guess i just wanted to hear somebody else confirm my own suspicion that that’s not true, after all.

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This, of course, especially goes in the US where some people seem to have the idea that if a child sees a boob, they will be mentally damaged for the rest of their lives

Especially considering that many states have “open carry” laws for guns, but not for boobs.

I have been thinking about this for a long time. Why is it that it bothers people if others see them naked?

According to the scientific worldview starting from 1800, the world is real. That means that things you can touch, exist. And things that can not be measured don’t exist. Also the things of interest in the world are those that are “conserved quantities”, like if a hypothetical variable jumps around randomly, it’s not a good data source because it’s volatile and random. The things that matter are masses in space and time, because those are continuous and don’t jump around rapidly. Masses in space and time can only be modified if you work on them (and that requires effort), and no significant change can be brought to masses by purely thinking about them (no “spooky action at a distance”, no “telekinesis”) or wishing for their change (“wishful thinking” is seen as ineffective).

That makes me wonder: Why do people freak out so much if i think about them? If i think lewd thoughts about somebody who didn’t consent to this, why do people not like that? What difference does it make to them if i think about them? What difference does it make if i look at a picture of them naked? By purely thinking about them, i can not change anything meaningful about reality, therefore it shouldn’t matter, right?

i find it helps finding interesting people to talk to :D

TBF accounts coming from “Nigeria” and “Bangladesh” are probably not actually foreigners sitting there and writing english messages on social media one-by-one. It’s either bots behind VPNs, or people behind VPNs. And they could absolutely be within the US.

i’ve said before that we’re faced with two options:

• either introduce a system that can tell you what account is run by an actual human being and which account is not. that could be done in an anonymity-preserving way with codes that you have to get in person (like, from a local library) and then use as a cryptographic signature for online accounts. it’s a bit techy, but doable.
• or we accept that machines casually pass the Turing Test and we’re probably talking to AIs online.

so did youtube

Yeah, i think the correct response to planned obsolescence from the side of computer manufacturers is to exclusively buy products from companies who have produced long-living machines in the past.

That gives manufacturers an incentive to make the machines they produce last longer, instead of shorter to sell newer products more frequently.

You can have a 12G text file, logs, suppose, you are going to load the entire file into memory?

That’s actually done via journalctl today, most of the time. Which extracts the logs out from a database instead of a text file. It has some useful features, such as slicing a specific time interval from the logs.

No, I dont want to buy your 2014 1TB drive for 25€ + shipping.

well damn that’s a steal. I’d buy it.

This is really about how much abstraction you have in your thinking. I’ve seen people be very heavily on the #1 side when i was a kid, and it was always baffling to me that people seem to be unable to talk about objects if they don’t have very detailed descriptions of superficial details that seemed completely irrelevant to me.

Some people also don’t have an internal monologue.

I have an internal dialogue.

Nigeria and Bangladesh sound like VPN locations, honestly, not actual user locations though.

“if you can make it to orbit, you’re halfway to anywhere”

it’s a famous quote but i forgot who said it. it means that the most challenging part in building a rocket and flying anywhere, is building the rocket. like, once you have a functioning rocket, it doesn’t make much difference whether you use it to achieve orbit around Earth or whether you use it to fly to another planet. That’s why Earth’s orbit is actually a pretty useful target destination for testing whether the rocket works.

mars is gonna be the next america. it’s gonna be hypercapitalistic and pay no respects to the poor. be glad you don’t experience it.

turns out we already got nuclear fusion, we just have to learn to harness it effectively. :D

aaaaaaaaaaaaah i got it (i think)

This is why you can’t walk on lava, even when you’ve poured water over it to cool it down and turn it into stone, because it’s still hella hot and you’d burn your feet, unlike in computer games like minecraft.