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New comment by _bfhp in "What are third places? How do I find one?"

_bfhp — Sat, 11 May 2024 18:11:51 +0000

> At their very best, third places allow people of differing backgrounds to cross paths — to develop what are known as bridging ties. As opposed to our closest connections, bridging social networks encompass people who have varying identities, social and economic resources, and knowledge. “Studies have shown that just having a diversity of folks in your life … more informal and infrequent and unplanned, can be really protective for health and well-being,” Finlay says.

What is intrinsically valuable then: third spaces, diversity, or individual health? It feels like the first has the most value in service of the second, which is really just a supplement for the third. Almost like we stopped believing we can convince people to get on the same page about anything that looks like a shared value...

Also much respect to the persistence of patronizing Vox-speak in 2024: "to develop what are known as bridging ties" Known to who? "Studies have shown that" Studies where?

New comment by _bfhp in "The Library of Consciousness – Alan Watts"

_bfhp — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 14:22:01 +0000

i'm not alt-right but this comment just makes me want to read alan watts more

Luck be a Landlord is now banned in 13 countries on the Google Play Store

_bfhp — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 19:12:44 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.trampolinetales.com/luck-be-a-landlord-is-now-banned-in-13-countries-on-the-google-play-store/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37152133

Points: 116

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New comment by _bfhp in "Exiting the Vampire Castle (2013)"

_bfhp — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 05:05:11 +0000

A great essay (also check out "The Left is Not a Church" by Benjamin Studebaker) but by 2013, feminist bloggers online had made all these same sort of urgent, crucial observations about female solidarity. Eventually, I'm sure they will be seen as the original canaries in the coal mine of the post-Bush internet-enabled progressive-political holding pattern.

New comment by _bfhp in "Where Online Hate Speech Can Bring the Police to Your Door"

_bfhp — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 06:02:36 +0000

If you think your law enforcement should decide which political speech is terrorism, you have many home countries to choose from -- from the U.K. to Saudi Arabia -- but the U.S. is not one of them. Best of luck!

New comment by _bfhp in "Where Online Hate Speech Can Bring the Police to Your Door"

_bfhp — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 01:41:18 +0000

"The social benefits of adopting it outweigh the theoretical unfairness" of war and torture. Would you agree?

New comment by _bfhp in "Where Online Hate Speech Can Bring the Police to Your Door"

_bfhp — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 01:40:24 +0000

> speech doesn’t have unlimited degrees of freedom in the United States.

Thanks -- Nobody said it does or should. I asked the person above me for the source of their statement.

New comment by _bfhp in "The Gentleperson's Guide To Forum Spies (2012)"

_bfhp — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 01:36:37 +0000

As in many other areas, the younger generation raised on Web 2.0 are far beyond the Web 1.0 crowd in regards to industriousness and psyche. Nobody writes or reads stuff like this anymore. They just install Shinigami Eyes and move on with their day

New comment by _bfhp in "Where Online Hate Speech Can Bring the Police to Your Door"

_bfhp — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 20:46:10 +0000

Is the BDS movement an example of stochastic terrorism? Someone told me they exist to inspire hate crimes against Jewish and Israeli citizens.

Are hasbara organizations stochastic terrorist in nature? Someone told me they exist to distract from settler-colonial violence against Palestinians.

Who should get to decide which warrants investigation?

New comment by _bfhp in "Where Online Hate Speech Can Bring the Police to Your Door"

_bfhp — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 20:40:07 +0000

Are you ok with BDS and all other Palestinian human-rights advocacy being nuked off the face of the internet for "anti-Semitism" within moments of handing the anti-"stochastic terrorism" powers to the government ? What about any video of IDF doing anything wrong? Even the recent articles about the killed Palestinian journalist could be used for Nefarious Purposes

New comment by _bfhp in "Where Online Hate Speech Can Bring the Police to Your Door"

_bfhp — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 20:32:18 +0000

Source in U.S law?

New comment by _bfhp in "Where Online Hate Speech Can Bring the Police to Your Door"

_bfhp — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 20:31:48 +0000

Yes, they say all this about war and torture as well (curious your thoughts on those?)

New comment by _bfhp in "Where Online Hate Speech Can Bring the Police to Your Door"

_bfhp — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 20:29:37 +0000

The solutions are to convince the center, succeed at reform through protest and politics, and maybe, as necessary, go further through grassroots action. Just like the women who won the ability to vote, for example. Actual activism still works, although it requires doing a little more than sitting on your couch crying to the government to make the bad ideas go away

New comment by _bfhp in "Botanists are disappearing – just when the world needs them most"

_bfhp — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 20:45:15 +0000

My point was that framing the problem as an individual pathology that afflicts at random rather than a cultural, communal sickness inevitable under capitalism is absolutely absurd

New comment by _bfhp in "Botanists are disappearing – just when the world needs them most"

_bfhp — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 14:56:42 +0000

> Most people suffer from what is commonly known as “plant blindness”, a term coined by US botanists Elisabeth Schussler and James Wandersee. They described it as “the inability to see or notice the plants in one’s own environment”. Unless taught, people don’t tend to see plants – despite the fact that at any given moment, there is likely to be a plant – or something made by plants – nearby.

But there are also proteins nearby -- isn't it worrying how people don't notice those too? With COVID and monkeypox raging around the world, isn't "protein blindness" an even more dire issue? I think the author might be suffering from "protein-blindness blindness," a term coined by US biochemists Elisabeth Simoneer and James Widdershins. In our recent study...

New comment by _bfhp in "Emerging evidence that mindfulness can sometimes increase selfish tendencies"

_bfhp — Sun, 08 May 2022 20:35:39 +0000

What a comment. A feast for the inner reply guy:

> The traditional way is to seek a guru

"The" way? According to whom? Did you do it?

> Some even leave everything and go to forest or mountains to practice for years.

Except the Buddha and his stories explicitly advised against asceticism...

> they should practice "Raja Yoga" which is also a spiritual path where one raises their spiritual plane

Again, according to who? Why not Jesus? Or Scientology? What's your personal experience?

> However simple breathing exercises still work for the body and can be easily incorporated into every day lives.

Well this is out of nowhere. It doesn't connect to anything that's been said. Do you do this?

> When one goes to discover/amplify their inner core

Inner core is new. What's that and who asked? Is it the same as a True Self?

I'd say let's just focus on this: "Meditation is a part of ones spiritual journey." That's correct and all this issue needs. MBSR and the other sanitized, faith-cleansed scientifically quantifiable practices are not synonymous with mindfulness, meditation, or Buddhism. They're tangential, and for some they are nice greeters at the door to a path of spirituality.

New comment by _bfhp in "Feeling uncomfortable when leaving phone at home shouldn't be normal"

_bfhp — Sun, 08 May 2022 18:21:34 +0000

This is what meditation is about, but replace "phones" with "everything"!

New comment by _bfhp in "TurboTax to pay $141M in agreement reached by all 50 states"

_bfhp — Wed, 04 May 2022 19:59:09 +0000

$1.41 parking ticket

New comment by _bfhp in "What are your most used self-hosted applications?"

_bfhp — Wed, 04 May 2022 18:58:39 +0000

For work, Vimflowy has been great as a todo list scratchpad. I have Markdown New Tab in the browser as a general scratchpad, but Vimflowy as a pinned tab for todo lists.

New comment by _bfhp in "Ask HN: If you were God, which problem would you remove from the world?"

_bfhp — Tue, 03 May 2022 20:14:36 +0000

I forgot about Amber Heard, responsible for a nontrivial amount of world-wide violence that we have statistics for