Sloogs

joined 1 year ago
[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 month ago

Not without nepotism you don't

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 2 months ago

When I try to think of things that would sell out quickly, clown shoes were not on my list but here we are.

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Outside of a few small local businesses that actually care about doing right by people, loyalty hasn't mattered for decades dude. Companies don't give a shit about any of us. Why even bother thinking in terms of loyalty, it's completely misaligned with how they operate.

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Damn beat me to it

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Are there modded clients for mobile?

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Lol I can tell you just used Google Lens or some shit and then proceeded to make it sound like you knew what you were talking about by assuming it was Japanese (it's not).

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The more people get into it the less valuable it becomes is the thing. But others pointed out there's a ton of other reasons it's problematic, like the need for those other jobs to exist to actually, like, have a functioning society.

Edit: Also arguably a lot of the low hanging fruit coding positions aren't as lucrative as they once were. People with experience are doing well. New people are having a tougher time getting their foot in the door compared to 5-10 years ago.

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 months ago

My high school never had math competitions so I'll never know how I'd do. :(

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I didn't invent that take if you think it's strange. Ironically these interpretations of liberty originally came from European philosophers, originally Rousseau I think, so take it up with them. 🤷🏻

I don't think they were thinking about in terms of freedom from hate but more like creating social structures that enable freedoms and try to balance out everyone's rights, like the right to exist, in the face of something like hate vs eliminating any social structures and cutting out any middle man that would not allow someone to hate whichever thing and whoever they want to.

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (9 children)

I've heard it the exact opposite. Freedom to is positive freedom which tends to be a more social leftist or social liberal trait. Negative freedom (freedom from) is typically a more modern right wing or libertarian trait. But also you could have libertarian leftists or anarchists that lean more towards negative liberty, as well as fiscal conservatives that lean more towards positive liberty on social issues, so it's not fully a left/right thing.

Basically the difference is enabling people via common social framework that gives people options and social mobility vs complete non-interference by government or any other entity even if it limits options and social mobility for anyone but yourself due to their life circumstances.

Here's a quote from the Wikipedia article on positive liberty that backs up this interpretation of the to/from distinction. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_liberty):

"Erich Fromm sees the distinction between the two types of freedom emerging alongside humanity's evolution away from the instinctual activity that characterizes lower animal forms. This aspect of freedom, he argues, "is here used not in its positive sense of freedom to but in its negative sense of 'freedom from', namely freedom from instinctual determination of his actions."

I don't know that I agree with that premise but it's an example of the to/from dichotomy being used in relation to positive/negative freedom just so you know I'm not making anything up.

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 months ago

I don't know man, I'm not a doctor. They just had a Discord already so I assume they wanted one.

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