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New comment by notnaut in "Rejection Sensitivity in Gifted and Twice-Exceptional Children"

notnaut — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:28:24 +0000

Very interesting. I’m in the same boat with a little more hyperactive and a little less autism. I never learned the filtering thing and I feel nearly as sensitive and doubtful as I did as a kid. It leaves me to dwell on everything and rarely make firm decisions, so I have the opposite problem.

New comment by notnaut in "Transit rewards"

notnaut — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:23:22 +0000

Fair point. I likely never encountered truly bad public transit since it was never pointed to as viable.

New comment by notnaut in "Transit rewards"

notnaut — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:04:39 +0000

“Tolerate” is doing a lot of lifting here. You responded to someone saying treatment and support make addiction manageable. In the United States we had drug companies devising as many ways to make a profit off pain pills for years, so there’s tolerance, but when people started losing their jobs and their minds in mass due to the poison these companies were knowingly getting their customers addicted to, there was no plan or inclination for treatment or support.

New comment by notnaut in "Transit rewards"

notnaut — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:00:10 +0000

Even when a transit system is bad, you often find people use it anyway in situations where large events make driving a fool’s errand. There’s a hard incentive and comfort hurdle we’re decades from alleviating via impossible fuel prices for your average Joe

New comment by notnaut in "Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America?"

notnaut — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 06:14:22 +0000

Please don’t tell me this is just the beginning…..

New comment by notnaut in "Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk"

notnaut — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:10:57 +0000

Why though? There’s nothing inherent about speeding production up, producing more at once, or increasing profits that makes things cleaner or safer, and the obvious argument is the opposite. If the regulations that force cleanliness and safety get peeled back too far, you could be left with all of the conditions for worst case scenarios because of how much more efficient the thing has become.

New comment by notnaut in "Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk"

notnaut — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:58:41 +0000

I would much rather rely on data on this kind of question over vibes. Efficiency means things move quicker and cheaper, and a few people get richer. It does not by any means inherently increase safety. The effects of a fuckup in a hugely efficientized industry often scale directly with just how much efficiency was mined away from caution and human-interaction.

Bubba flipping burgers getting his dirty hands on your meal might make you sick, but Bobba inspecting the meatslop production line with constant pressure from upper management to be as efficient as possible according to whatever recent regulations were stripped back might accidentally spray the horse-meat product decontaminizer on the pig-meat product, generating a national pandemic.

New comment by notnaut in "Understanding is the new bottleneck"

notnaut — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:26:08 +0000

That would be a massive improvement. “I don’t know, maybe these other smarter more expensive models with more recent training data might… here are some questions you could ask them:…”

New comment by notnaut in "Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench"

notnaut — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:22:02 +0000

“Coding” can be more like communing with an otherworldly presence via esoteric gesturing nowadays than ever. Superstition leads countries and companies.

New comment by notnaut in "Israeli spyware vans infiltrate American streets and your phones"

notnaut — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:46:00 +0000

The outcry has RAPIDLY changed in the last few years and the corpses being propped up in our government buildings by deep-seated corrupted interests have long gone deaf.

New comment by notnaut in "Texas Police Spent $4.5M on Four Chevy Tahoes"

notnaut — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:43:06 +0000

lol yes. IF something like that were to happen, the US military is and always has been ready and willing to respond to attacks and that has been the case LONG before our CIVILIAN police started arming up to the teeth, like they’re ready for war.

The cartels have long been wary of US armed response to their actions, and the militarization of the police in the US, while certainly a further deterrent, is much closer to a deterrent against CIVILIAN misconduct and works insanely well as a chilling effect against protestors and unruly gatherings. Yay America!!!!

New comment by notnaut in "What does privatization of the US Postal Service mean?"

notnaut — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 01:17:33 +0000

If the USPS were fully privatized without strict government subsidies or mandates, rural and remote Americans would likely face exorbitant delivery surcharges or lose service entirely.

Once again… the United States is very large.

New comment by notnaut in "Most arguments are about ego, not ideas"

notnaut — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:03:31 +0000

Language is a flawed vessel for conveying truth and the more people accept that they will never truly (like at a deep, fundamental level - not just truth-like via utility) be understood or understand, the more humility they might approach difficult discussions with, potentially facilitating the cooperation and coordination that language can be great for, rather than the dharma-combat people’s egos have them fighting every time they perceive a verbal slight or challenge.

New comment by notnaut in "Claude Sonnet 5"

notnaut — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:35:23 +0000

The disconnect between the reality of and the consumer sentiment of this particular realm of products seems to be one of the most dramatic and widespread I’ve personally ever seen.

New comment by notnaut in "Woman with Alzheimer's starts conversing again after taking psilocybin"

notnaut — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 06:27:48 +0000

They’re not hard to grow…. We can just let granny stay in wonderland…

New comment by notnaut in "Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says"

notnaut — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:18:10 +0000

I know traditional munitions aren’t exactly “clean” but isn’t nuclear fallout still a unique concern?

New comment by notnaut in "Meta pauses AI training program tracking employee keystrokes after internal leak"

notnaut — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:12:20 +0000

20% of the people will always just agree with the guy with the microphone.

New comment by notnaut in "Epidurals are a miracle technology"

notnaut — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:50:17 +0000

Medicare for all fixes a lot of the problems with the US health system!

New comment by notnaut in "Why Is Claude Turning into an a**Hole?"

notnaut — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:33:20 +0000

It surprises me it isn’t more assholish in nature given how much they’re all apparently trained on internet interactions…

New comment by notnaut in "Claude Fable 5"

notnaut — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:00:31 +0000

It reminds me of FIRMLY telling my cat to stop jumping up on the counter