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New comment by odessacubbage in "Homebound: The Long-Term Rise in Time Spent at Home Among U.S. Adults"

odessacubbage — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 14:30:15 +0000

even the parks have very restrictive hours in many cases.

New comment by odessacubbage in "Skateboarding's Latest Trick: Reviving Cities"

odessacubbage — Fri, 10 May 2024 00:56:06 +0000

enjoy having a downtown full of nothing but tweakers & fent zombies i guess. sure beats letting some kid skate the plaza.

New comment by odessacubbage in "Skateboarding's Latest Trick: Reviving Cities"

odessacubbage — Thu, 09 May 2024 23:03:00 +0000

i mean i get the cops called on me just skating down the street

New comment by odessacubbage in "Florida's DeSantis signs law restricting social media for people under 16"

odessacubbage — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:14:16 +0000

as a parent you have all the control. why does your kid need a tablet? why do they need a smart phone like at all? these devices did not just magically materialize in your home, the tooth fairy didn't put them there. you chose to plop your toddler in front of a screen because electronic vicodin was easier than parenting and then you chose not to lock down their devices with the abundant parental controls you are given and then you decided you couldn't be assed to teach them basic internet safety habits or how to develop healthy skepticism and that seeing isn't always believing. really the only thing your children have been '''exposed to''' is your own laziness and utter unwillingness to offer them direction. the world will continue to exist whether we like it or not, and some day our kids will have to live in it just like we do. we can either prepare them for what's really there, warts and all or we can hide them away only toss them to the wolves when they turn 18 with the delusion that this somehow preserved their innocence. i personally believe giving them the grace of a childhood to learn how to deal with the bumpy parts of life is a much kinder option.

New comment by odessacubbage in "A rent-stabilized 1 bedroom apartment for $1,100 In NYC? broker's fee is $15K"

odessacubbage — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 17:55:26 +0000

i just want to be able to live in the town i was born in.

New comment by odessacubbage in "To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use"

odessacubbage — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 21:32:18 +0000

i felt similarly until i actually ended up homeless and had to deal with shelters. they are shockingly non-viable and since most close early in the day, getting a bed for the night and getting employment so you can stop being homeless end up as mutually exclusive propositions.

New comment by odessacubbage in "YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers"

odessacubbage — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 11:09:20 +0000

it kind of boils down to a question of who is the actual customer? me or advertisers? if i'm paying a subscription to youtube, then i don't want post-adpocalypse censorship & sanitization.

New comment by odessacubbage in "How to quit cars"

odessacubbage — Fri, 19 May 2023 01:38:31 +0000

here at least that just leads to ditches and bike paths strewn with shopping carts.

New comment by odessacubbage in "How to quit cars"

odessacubbage — Fri, 19 May 2023 01:32:54 +0000

more likely they think 'rush hour is awful' or 'traffic is awful', i highly doubt they would prefer to experience the same density of bodies traveling on the bus or train.

New comment by odessacubbage in "How to quit cars"

odessacubbage — Fri, 19 May 2023 00:12:35 +0000

i would say bike autists equally struggle to imagine what it is like to live anywhere besides the most population-dense, infrastructurally developed 15 square miles on the face of the earth. i have a very good sense of what it is like to live without a car as i did so for 20 years and it fucking sucks. i have no desire to have to bike 10 miles in 80+ degree heat with a saxophone in one hand and a guitar in the other ever again. i have no desire to experience the vibrant living of being packed into an 11pm vomit comet ever again. i have no desire to have to pad every commute & outing with an extra 45 to 60 minutes of stops ever again.

New comment by odessacubbage in "YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers"

odessacubbage — Wed, 10 May 2023 23:17:32 +0000

i don't even hate ads or the idea of targeted advertising in theory but 20+ years into the panopticon and the company that has the most information about my purchasing habits, interests and dislikes still has never shown me any advertising that was even remotely relevant to my life. i still have better odds of seeing something i actually want to buy just by flipping through the paper and those adverts don't demand that i put my life on pause just because corporation x spent a whole lot of money on a branding campaign that is annoying, unfunny and makes me hate them and their products.

New comment by odessacubbage in "Colorado kills law that made it harder for cities to offer Internet service"

odessacubbage — Thu, 04 May 2023 21:19:49 +0000

there is a significant difference between skiing at vail and skiing at jackson hole. we have the tourist-friendly mountains basically.

New comment by odessacubbage in "Colorado kills law that made it harder for cities to offer Internet service"

odessacubbage — Thu, 04 May 2023 21:13:02 +0000

colorado is a resort, most of those other states live or die by resource extraction. if we didn't happen have an amenity that was especially attractive to rich liberals (and geographically discriminating against the poor & working class) then co's politics would be no different than arizona's.

New comment by odessacubbage in "Discord plans to make everyone change their username"

odessacubbage — Thu, 04 May 2023 21:01:58 +0000

weird how so few of these communities with social pressure are even remotely civil.

New comment by odessacubbage in "Discord plans to make everyone change their username"

odessacubbage — Thu, 04 May 2023 20:56:01 +0000

disposability is like, the main appeal of discord.

New comment by odessacubbage in "I used Stable Diffusion and Dreambooth to create an art portrait of my dog"

odessacubbage — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 01:43:54 +0000

aishit is a reverse turing test. if you find it's output exciting or impressive you can no longer qualify as human.

New comment by odessacubbage in "We need a more sophisticated debate about AI"

odessacubbage — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 06:09:58 +0000

>It's not clear that any development in AI will be any different than the transition to mechanization in the 19th and early 20th century.

so you mean utterly hellish?

>https://martyrmade.substack.com/p/martyrmade-22-whose-americ...

New comment by odessacubbage in "Giving kids no autonomy at all has become a parenting norm"

odessacubbage — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 14:36:06 +0000

i would not say life has become any more car dependent than it was in the 90s, if anything, public transport where i live has improved dramatically.

New comment by odessacubbage in "The rise and rise of e-sports"

odessacubbage — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 14:13:05 +0000

for me the dream would be a competitive game where you could get exercise. like if you could race other people with your peloton online. someone made a jank prototype of this for mario kart. >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN6iYyGgqmA

New comment by odessacubbage in "The teen mental illness epidemic began around 2012"

odessacubbage — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 23:05:37 +0000

while true, teenagers in particular have lost a great degree of the agency that was afforded to prior generations. the concept using surveillance devices on your children did not exist 20 years ago and yet you can see threads of HNers discussing how they or their schools monitor their children quite regularly.