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New comment by settsu in "What happens when clergy take psilocybin"

settsu — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 15:40:14 +0000

The chances of being struck by lightning are exceedingly slim. But if you're venturing out on a mountain top in early summer your odds skyrocket. So shouldn't we widely inform people who are doing so of the dangers and what to be aware of?

https://www.cdc.gov/lightning/data-research/index.html

New comment by settsu in "Apple introduces a universal design across platforms"

settsu — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 19:10:19 +0000

*facepalm* You're correct. I misread it every time, including the first time I scanned your comment. (A truly strange experience since that is not a common occurrence for me. I simply never saw a "v" there.)

New comment by settsu in "Apple introduces a universal design across platforms"

settsu — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 16:31:33 +0000

I would've loved to have been a fly on the wall throughout the various discussions as this idea made its way across the Apple org.

That this was the dominant topic during the keynote of their annual developer event doesn't seem to bode well for the state of the ecosystem. Especially combined with how cutting the sarcasm was for the new version numbering and new macOS name announcement(s).

New comment by settsu in "Apple introduces a universal design across platforms"

settsu — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 16:22:07 +0000

> millenials liking vaporwave

From context, I'm assuming this is a misnomer and not a jab. XD (Although, admittedly, I'm not sure what the reference is actually to...)

New comment by settsu in "Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment"

settsu — Thu, 15 May 2025 19:45:20 +0000

You complain about oversimplification, then in the same breath complain about "random political stuff" being included. How is that not hypocritical, at best? This medical breakthrough would literally have not been possible without "politics". Get your head out of the sand. No one should be able to escape learning how their politics affects them or the society they are a part of. And if you want to enjoy the benefits of that society, then you don't get to complain about being reminded of how those benefits were achieved.

Pandering to people's fragile political sensibilities is how the U.S. got to this point where millions of citizens voted against their own self-interest because they thought candidates running on anti-intellectual, anti-science platforms was worth the zero sum "win".

Enjoy your weekends, eight hour workdays, clean air, and clean water—whether you like that those were all political or not!

New comment by settsu in "SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain people"

settsu — Wed, 14 May 2025 16:06:08 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

New comment by settsu in "Starcloud"

settsu — Tue, 13 May 2025 22:23:55 +0000

I guess since we decided Idiocracy was aspirational, why not Wall-E as well.

/s (kinda but maybe not really...)

New comment by settsu in "Internet in a Box"

settsu — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 21:14:39 +0000

Yes, that's how it read to me.

I.e., interpretation...

katabasis: (Suggests sensible guardrails for children)

fritzo: THOUGHT-POLICE!!

New comment by settsu in "Internet in a Box"

settsu — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 15:17:31 +0000

That is entirely not how a healthy society works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

New comment by settsu in "WEIRD – a way to be on the web"

settsu — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 16:35:48 +0000

> Weird is a brand new thing, but: Think of it as if WordPress and Notion had a Linktree-shaped baby. That is to say, a WordPress-type website engine with the editing experience of Notion and the simplicity of Linktree.

How many people that understand that, need this?

New comment by settsu in "The great Hobby Lobby artifact heist"

settsu — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 17:53:33 +0000

One person's "disparagement" is another's valid criticism. You can see this come up constantly in lawsuits.

All I'm saying is it's a random site on the internet for a person who is a "Certified Bonafide Expert of Miscellanea"—no one is asking you to "trust the source material". If you think that aspects of the post bring into question the validity of the point being made, that's your right. I just think it's a weird expectation. The author even speaks to that: https://substack.com/@meghanboilard/note/c-102976235

New comment by settsu in "The great Hobby Lobby artifact heist"

settsu — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 16:21:12 +0000

> Aside from what I called out in my sibling comment these two are pretty snide to me

- "Snide" is subjective. - It's a blog post not a news article or scholarly report. - The topic is a business run by people who ostensibly make decisions based on their faith to justify actions which cause various harm to others. Taking a critical view of those actions and the motivations is reasonable.

New comment by settsu in "Show HN: FlakeUI"

settsu — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 18:47:34 +0000

This reminds me of the time a few years ago when mind mapping sites and apps exploded into popularity among the... "technorati" and sort of slightly seep into the wider online awareness but then seemingly, just as quickly, disappear into the background noise of the internet (I'm terminally online to a degree, especially when it comes to tech news—and have a pretty decent general awareness of pop culture trends—and can't recall having seen the topic referenced since the trend faded. But perhaps I'm just not in the right circles?)

New comment by settsu in "The Oldest "Map of America" Is Mysteriously Accurate"

settsu — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 18:33:59 +0000

The design of the page is really poor and I find it highly distracting, approaching anxiety-inducing. Even in reader mode the structure is not good.

New comment by settsu in "DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data"

settsu — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:40:47 +0000

> trusting Donald Trumps judgement

Ha! Well there's your first problem.

New comment by settsu in "Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website"

settsu — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 22:23:47 +0000

And remove any suggestion that there was forethought. It's pure, unfettered trolling. He's desperate for attention from anyone.

Fascinating—if unfortunate—to see the world's 2 most powerful men basically functioning as walking test cases for classic outcomes when a child is not given appropriate attention/affection and also zero boundaries for socially-appropriate behavior.

New comment by settsu in "What if Eye...?"

settsu — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 17:53:47 +0000

https://s8-hzde.freeconvert.com/task/67af828674bf6ba8db63d11...

New comment by settsu in "Federal workers say they increasingly distrust platforms like Facebook"

settsu — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:40:17 +0000

I completely understand the frustration and the conclusion you arrived at. The problem is echo chambers existed before the advent of online social media. Safe to say they have existed since nearly the dawn of human consciousness.

The difference is that once algorithms could be optimized for "engagement", a company simply can't resist amping up the dopamine hits. Because the ultimate goal of those networks is persistent, unrelenting attention. They are for-profit businesses whose primary income is ads (upwards of 98% of Facebook/Meta revenue.)

So the more attention you can drum up, and the longer you can maintain it, the faster the money printer can go brrrr.

New comment by settsu in "Federal workers say they increasingly distrust platforms like Facebook"

settsu — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:24:08 +0000

The fact that you see corporate layoffs and what Elon Musk is doing in the U.S. government as in any way remotely comparable is... troubling.

New comment by settsu in "Storytelling lessons I learned from Steve Jobs (2022)"

settsu — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 18:58:28 +0000

It can also serve as a helpful reference point for "what am I (still) doing here?" so that you can judge when you perhaps should not be.