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bolexforsoup ,

Addiction isn’t simply “deciding to stop” dude. Congrats you were one of the exceptions but have a little empathy here. This is bootstraps nonsense.

bolexforsoup , (edited )

I think a 63 year old poll needs a tad more context but I’ll get hell for it I’m sure

bolexforsoup ,

I don’t disagree with probably anyone’s politics in this thread.

bolexforsoup ,

Thanks I had no idea that happened.

bolexforsoup ,

Preach. To add to this: My wife and I have a lot of discussions about how to raise our kids as not just race conscious but how to not make marginalized groups teaching lessons for our kids. It’s been interesting to say the least.

bolexforsoup ,

it doesn’t mean “giving the target population special privileges in unrelated fields to make up for it”

Your language overall makes me think you’re fine but I’d be lying if I didn’t say this particular part didn’t catch my attention. Is there a reason you felt the need to say this? In the context of affirmative action being repealed in the US it feels a tad loaded. Giving the benefit of the doubt here truly, but still curious why you felt the need to say this.

bolexforsoup ,

Sure! I’m crashing right now so feel free to follow up but the short answer is proactivity and not worrying about public perception when it doesn’t matter.

For instance: if one of my kids goes “that person is black!” We don’t go “shhh shhh stop stop” and act like it’s the end of the world in public (or in private). We go “yes that man is black. What color skin do I have?” Or “yes that man’s skin is black. Daddy’s skin is white. People have different skin colors! What color is your skin?”

Shaming and acting like observing it is bad teaches them that there’s something wrong with it vs the simple reality that people look different. It’s not different than blond or back hair unless you make it a big deal.

As they get older, we’ll start (this is at least our plan) pointing out things like the race and gender of people in different roles around them. As they get more observant and curious our goal is to slowly introduce the concept of “gender roles” and inequality so that then don’t just internalize what they see with no context.

We don’t have it all figured out but we’re trying our best and we’ll adapt where we can.

Naturally if it any of this puts someone in an uncomfortable position we take it upon ourselves to apologize but we don’t make a massive deal about it to the kids or they get a very mixed message

bolexforsoup ,

Thanks for asking! It’s actually something I like discussing. It helps me organize my thoughts a bit

bolexforsoup ,

Makes sense. Appreciate the elaboration!

bolexforsoup ,

No. I’m responding to your flippant response with the sarcasm it deserves. Stop acting like you’re being generous and helpful. We both know what you did and are doing.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend, I’m not engaging this nonsense further.

bolexforsoup ,

A lot of it is clearly age dependent and about what they did. My kids are very, very young. What the repeat doesn’t yet reflect what they believe. One is barely 2 so they are truly still a parrot lol so reacting big just often confuses them. As they get older no doubt I’ll drop the hammer if I hear something heinous.

bolexforsoup ,

Honestly their link was very insulting and I didn’t appreciate it.

bolexforsoup ,

Well for starters, he played a private show for Amazon execs.

bolexforsoup ,

I have no skin in this game dude, I don’t hate Dave Grohl suddenly. I just think this performance was incredibly tacky. You’re way too defensive about this.

He’s a performer. Who he performs for does matter to some degree. If he played Trump’s inauguration, for instance, people would rightfully judge the decision.

It’s not like he needs the money at this point. He can be a little more discerning.

bolexforsoup ,

The right boycotted bud light because they were being transphobic. We are simply calling attention to the fact that Dave Grohl does not need the money and doing a show for Amazon execs is a decision he didn’t have to make. I’m not boycotting him, I don’t suddenly hate him and want him to die or something. So please do not compare me to the bigots who decided that a few beer cans showing someone who is trans was basically the end of the world.

Many of us are critiquing his decision and some of you are really upset by it for some reason. We have that right and it’s a valid thing to point out. Would you not judge him for playing a trump rally?

bolexforsoup , (edited )

I have a feeling Foo Fighters/Dave Grohl must mean a lot to you and this must be a very difficult discussion for you to have. I’m not really sure I deserve the snipes you are taking at me so I’ll just leave it there. Hopefully you’ll understand the response to it isn’t as binary as your making it out to be, and that you don’t need to be so angry/hostile for people questioning the decision of a successful musician. It’s just a discussion about what we perceive as social responsibility.

bolexforsoup ,

You’re saying everybody else has made a black-and-white, but I am here trying to talk to you about it in a nuanced way, which you responded to by attacking me personally and pushing it back into a more black-and-white discussion. I’m not really sure what you want out of this so I think it’s best we just let it go. You seem quite heightened for somebody who is not emotionally invested in it.

bolexforsoup ,

Nobody is taking anything away from you and you don’t love foo fighters. You’re mad because people are upset at an artist’s decision. You’re projecting a lot on to this man.

You’re saying it’s our loss and it doesn’t matter but you’re also mad that people are saying “I don’t personally support this” as if my feelings on the matter impact you in the slightest. No one is forcing you to do anything.

Go see Dave Grohl perform. Don’t go see Dave grohl perform. Nothing here changes that. That ball is still squarely in your court.

bolexforsoup ,

So somehow if it’s a private performance it’s suddenly morally permissible? I don’t follow.

bolexforsoup ,

Why do you care if an individual boycotts something they don’t want to support? What impact does that have on you?

You also made the distinction of private vs public performance so now I’m more confused. You said because it’s private it doesn’t matter but it also doesn’t make it morally permissible?

bolexforsoup , (edited )

I can articulate it you just aren’t interested in hearing it. You’re outraged at people’s outrage and are shouting us down saying we aren’t allowed to think or feel what we think and feel.

This is a public forum. We are discussing this topic because it’s relevant. What we express or don’t express isn’t threatening to you. It’s just discussion and opinion sharing. Nothing happening here impacts you. If you hate it, leave the thread man.

I mean look at these walls of text you’re dropping over an artist you yourself said you don’t even care about. This is kind of ridiculous.

Anyway I’m done. This has gone on far too long.

bolexforsoup ,

Ahhhh this all makes sense now. You are on a crusade about cancel culture. You want to cancel cancel culture and this is just a proxy battle where you have avoided for several comments actually stating your purpose, but now you are so angry that you can’t resist blurting it out. We could’ve saved a lot of time here but that’s fine. I’m guessing the opacity was on purpose.

This was informative, I’m actually done now. Maybe lay off the CAPSLOCK next time. Later dude.

bolexforsoup ,

Sure but the biggest pushback I’ve really seen tbh was by a dude who eventually revealed he’s just ranting about cancel culture. He doesn’t even like Grohl. So certainly not a liberal lol

bolexforsoup ,

👍

bolexforsoup ,

Yeah this post is pretty cringe lol

bolexforsoup ,

Dude I had a bunch of people tell me to install mint OS on an older intel MacBook Pro and no one told me that out the box your Wi-Fi doesn’t work, the keyboard doesn’t light up, the touch bar doesn’t work, etc. lol

I don’t even like the Touch Bar but I need F keys so…

Then when I asked what to do they all said “well that’s your fault for using a Mac.” Most unhelpful shit ever. One guy said “well use an external keyboard and Ethernet chord then. I’m on a tower what’s the issue here?”

It’s a laptop. Sometimes I move around with it. I travel a fair bit too.

Idk honestly it’s not just a Linux thing. Any technical community you’ll often find a lot of people who hand wave away very reasonable issues instead of either suggesting a solution or, I don’t know, just not saying anything? Like they have to chime in and call you a whiner.

bolexforsoup ,

Not with mint no. I think I’m going to try and boot pop or mint on my wife’s old X1 carbon. Specs aren’t remotely as good but it’ll be sufficient for a Jellyfin server

bolexforsoup ,

🎶At laaaaaaaaast🎶

The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (www.theguardian.com)

Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....

bolexforsoup ,

And the really perverted incentive of crypto is that due to the way difficulty is done, in particular with PoW systems, the more adoption there is the more energy intensive it becomes. Scaling actually leads to more inefficiency by design. I mean it’s totally asinine.

bolexforsoup ,

I agree it does. But that has nothing to do with how energy intensive it currently is. You can see in my other comment that I am an advocate for it in my own work - it has great uses in some industries.

We have to be critical of the resources it takes and the ways it is deployed. It’s the only way to improve it. Yet AI evangelists act like it’s already perfect and anybody who dares question the church of LLM is declared a Luddite.

bolexforsoup ,

As a professional editor (video/audio) AI has drastically altered my work in amazing, productive ways.

I’m still a critic of course. For some industries it’s clearly a solution in search of a problem so they can hype investment. A tool being useful doesn’t mean I’m unable to critique it!

bolexforsoup , (edited )

I did not say AI and crypto are the same. I said the loudest advocates sound the same.

I mined from 2012 to 2015. Then I wisened up. Currently I use AI almost every day in my work. I was using it in my production tools before anyone knew with an LLM was outside of academic circles. Hell i barely understood what I was using at first. I am squarely in favor of AI tools. The inability of tech bros to handle the slightest critique is incredibly familiar and frustrating. They spike the conversation at every turn and immediately attack people’s intelligence.

bolexforsoup , (edited )

You keep responding to a thing I didn’t say.

But I will say now that both are very energy intensive/resource draining and the refusal to have a serious conversation about it - as spearheaded by tech bros/AI evangelists like I’ve described - is incredibly frustrating and makes people like me look down on the entire endeavor as a result.

Intellectually I know there are “responsible” developers and tools being made. But the loudest and most funded are not those people. And we need to consider the impact they have. This includes resource usage.

Edit: this just appeared on my feed https://www.ft.com/content/ddaac44b-e245-4c8a-bf68-c773cc8f4e63

bolexforsoup ,

Crypto bros hate you lol I think you use it the only way it’s actually useful. Drugs and tax evasion/hiding money.

bolexforsoup ,

Yeah “just” Bitcoin which comprises ~50% of the market cap for all of crypto.

bolexforsoup ,

Is that why you use it? Because of your collapsing fiat currency?

bolexforsoup ,

👍

bolexforsoup ,

So you lecture me about a bubble I supposedly live in/a lack of perspective for other groups - you know nothing about me by the way - and then prop up someone else’s theoretical problem/solution to make your point even though as far as you know we are both probably pretty privileged?

I’m not saying you have to only pull from your own lived experience, but you have to understand why this makes me raise an eyebrow given the unwarranted finger pointing happening here. It’s not white knighting so much as using other people’s problems that you don’t experience as a cudgel to win an internet argument between two people who don’t have skin in the game. That doesn’t sit right with me and I don’t want to participate.

bolexforsoup ,

I know what a whataboutism is haha but yes it’s good to see someone else recognize it for what it is.

bolexforsoup ,

I mined crypto for 4 years and have used AI professionally on a daily basis for years but you seem to have a knack for making a lot of assumptions about me so I don’t know why you would stop now.

I am allowed to critique things I use/participate in.

bolexforsoup , (edited )

It’s not obvious. You think it’s obvious. You know very little about me or where I have lived, learned, etc. This patronizing tone is undeserved and frankly, you can go pound sand.

bolexforsoup ,

and held onto it until now

That part of your argument is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

bolexforsoup ,

👍

bolexforsoup ,

Oh it’s you. Enjoy your weekend.

bolexforsoup ,

No no see he has lived among the common people that one spring break, he alone can advocate for their interests. Eat, Pray, Love is basically about him. He is enlightened now.

bolexforsoup , (edited )

Wow you really are just flinging shit at the wall and seeing what sticks aren’t you?

Some of us have actually seen stun grenades go off and had their cameras broken by police officers. Don’t even try to convince me you’ve been there with me. After all, sometimes it’s very obvious when people have lived their lives in very specific environments. Right?

bolexforsoup ,

Don’t try and high road me after all the nasty things you said about me for no reason other than you’re a petty, small person who couldn’t stand seeing the pristine name “crypto” besmirched. You don’t know shit about me or what I’ve been through.

Fuck off. I’m just blocking you. Don’t bother responding. Be a better person.

bolexforsoup ,

Honestly I should’ve known better than to take their bait. I should’ve blocked them the moment they showed up.

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