David Perkins

Gay, disabled, curmudgeon, nerd. (he/him)

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@whstancil As an adult I have the perspective to recognize that poverty was not the only cause. However, relief from poverty would have been necessary to address any of them so poverty is still a cause.

Saying that it's not the result of poverty wouldn't be accurate or helpful.

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@whstancil Some of my worst food memories of growing up poor are being told to make a sack of 20 dollar-menu burgers last 3 or 4 days for me and my sibling. 3-day old fast food is not a luxury. I absolutely would have chosen homecooked meals if they had been available.

So, haha I guess?

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@atlanticesque I'm just here to mention that assuming friendship is transitive is one of the geek social fallacies.

Other people have correctly pointed out that your understanding of arrogance is wildly mistaken even if your premises were correct.

But they're so incorrect they get a name.

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@whstancil You're imagining that the comparison is some hypothetical cheaper burrito, and they're imagining that the alternative is no burrito.

People get mad when they feel they're being told to do without. That's not surprising.

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@whstancil It's a mistake to assume that these things can't both be true. If the category is simply "Meals I don't have to cook myself" and, for any reason, people switched from dining out to delivery, then the cost of the category has shot up for them.

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@benryanwriter You know there's homophobia and transphobia in the replies right? People are not wrong to perceive risks in associating the disease with gay men. HIV is the example they have so it is what they use, even where the comparison is lacking.

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@FeministKelly @tlecaque I see no reason to assume that the people in the welcoming line for Harris were the same people protesting at the rally. But regardless, so what?

If I want to claim that I've listened to someone I must show that I understand. Where does she do that?

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@whstancil You're doing the thing that they're reaching to right now, treating higher pay as synonymous with prosperity.

Do you have any awareness of how that can be leveraged to attack the people who are reacting?

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@segfaultvicta I usually say that the JS language is fine and everything else is disaster, but async/await is definitely not fine.

The key that helped me was realizing that it was an anachronism. It's not doing multithreading/IPC at all. It's doing cooperative multitasking.

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@segfaultvicta It's incredibly punitive in ways that it can be hard not to take personally. I hate it and I'm sorry it's happening to you.

It's also a horrible virus that will infect basically all your functions given time.

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@ArmourWint76028 @JewishWonk So when they hear an accusation they don't stop to ask if it involved any actual people or only fictional ones. That's not their job. And furthermore, when they hear that someone _did_ check, it sounds monstrous.

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@ArmourWint76028 @JewishWonk If you'd like an example from a different domain, are you familiar with anti-shipping discourse? Because most people aren't. They don't encounter the vocal sub-community that believes writing or drawing something is morally equivalent to doing or endorsing it...

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@JewishWonk who think any given position is tantamount to calling for the dismantling of Israel.

As long as this lumping is possible, understandable, and tolerated, any discussion is actually illusory.

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@JewishWonk So here's the thing. People who call for the destruction of Israel definitely exist. When someone, especially someone who is Jewish, says that someone is anti-Israel, the reasonable default position is to believe them. However, it's not difficult to find people in power...

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@RollieBear Okay, that's what I thought. Wow, that's shocking in its own way after all this time.

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@RollieBear Wait, I don't want to assume, what's this about?

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@What46HasDone @segfaultvicta You do realize that arguments like this, that imply voting for Biden means you must like him, makes it harder to argue that you can vote for Biden as the best available option without endorsing him personally or all of his positions?

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@segfaultvicta The thing I love the most about this is that the QR codes don't point to anything more useful than the error message itself.

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@FelixirofLife28 This comes up more often than you'd think. The back of the book is the place farthest from the beginning. But if someone says "go back" they mean towards the beginning.

Basically "the back" and "go back" are often opposites, so it's easy to be unclear.