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Salad with grilled chicken and mandarin orange supremes. Some sort of nuts, like toasted pine nuts or something that isn't hella expensive.
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I would be interested in some good data on how liberalizing the internet is. We like to think of nerds as tending towards very libertarian viewpoints, but anecdotally, I've found that in most of the online communities I've participated in they all take a very strong leftward push over time. I know a lot of us here who started out highly conservative or downright Randian and had their views radically changed over time. Even those who are still conservative tend to soften or at least grow more sophisticated in their viewpoints over time when there's an equally strong pressure to just dig in and double down. Personally, I think every aspect of my beliefs has been immensely altered by the internet (when I was very young I was deeply religious, pro-life, conservative, anti-feminist), and you can almost track the development of my beliefs to the amount of internet access I had. While I have had a necessarily extremely limited exposure to the variety of different internet communities out there, Penny Arcade, reddit, somethingawful, and tumblr all seem to track excessively liberal. Even 4chan is now far more liberal than ever (for what it's worth).
Yes, the internet allows bastions of like-minded people to simply generate cut-off echo chambers, but that's no different than the world without the internet. What I finds happens is that these sorts of communities are seldom left alone, nor do people shy away from exposing themselves to opposing viewpoints (even if they are taking them from a position of ridicule). People love to argue on the internet, they just can't get enough of debating. And the more people have argued on the internet the more sophisticated their tactics are forced to become. We regularly casually embroils ourselves in arguments that require citing sources and avoiding rhetorical fallacies and taking good-faith measures if we want to be taken seriously. This is absurdly far beyond the level of discussion you will ever have with a stranger on the street, but the trend in discussion forums across the board has been towards a straight-up academic level of debate with random strangers from half-way across the world. It's not merely an arena of ideas, it is a thunderdome.
i wanna solve for [X]
where [X] * [A] = [C] and [A] and [C] are known
how do?
potato
MAYBE radish
first, select your pistol
then, select your matrix
On the other hand...
well that changes everything
Ginger root
what do you have for food? I will give you a good idea.
I'm going to the store in a bit so
I should specify not chicken
do you think, as a white male, you can truly understand the struggle of cooking healthy?
it's not out yet. they have get lucky on there so I suppose it will be when it's out?
I am going to have brown rice, broccoli, and tilapia when I get home from my run later tonight.
ronya you were furrit before you were agginnit.
How do you plead??
You'll pardon me if I respectfully disagree.
bah
That was a silly, forced idea that belied why the internet is even beneficial. It tried to over-simplify an issue for mass consumption to make it an easy sell.
The real benefit of the internet comes from the level of intellectual engagement people will just glom onto organically.
If we really wanted to stop Kony, we just need to give more Ugandan's internet access.
I can't make this (literal) shit up.
Granted, it's a pointless argument to have without real data. For us now it's just a matter of perception. I do think I would like to dig up research on it, though.
Of course for the good things the internet does, there are bad things.
I don't think the internet makes us better people. It is just used by people to do good or harm as they would otherwise; with the added reach that the internet gives them.
i thought of this last night and blew my own mind
is Discovery named that because its... disco
did you already know this
I feel like the title is now the fedex logo and I can't stop seeing the arrow
never thought of that
I think you may have too many unknowns. Matrix multiplication says C11 = X11*A11 + X12*A21 + X13*A31 and so on and so forth. It might shake out that there's a unique solution but I'm not sure.
Actually, speaking strictly for myself, I would say that the Internet has certainly made me a better academic (to whatever extent I fit in that category). Like I can't imagine a time before Google Scholar or JSTOR or Wikipedia (for source aggregation!). I can't imagine having to actually try to glean information from Books, like some kind of Savage.
that was the republican candidate, right?
mitch kony?
I'm gonna take your degree away.
Don't get me wrong, I acknowledge that the internet is not like some unambiguous force for good or something.
Rather, I'm arguing that even with all the extremely negative ways these kinds of information technology can be used, they will cause us to tend naturally towards a more intelligent and empathetic populace over time.
don't you use [A]^-1 or A^T (the transpose matrix) and use that to bump [A] out of [X]*[A]
You say this like sources on the internet aren't 5,000 times better than sources in your library.
If I wanted to know information about the gene ID4 I look it up on wikipedia. There isn't a book in the whole fucking library that would be half as helpful.
I just don't think that's accurate given the evidence we see.
Antivaxxers have gotten more powerful, sad and angry people have gotten more of an audience, pedophiles have more ways to hide and act out their wishes, and SE++ still exists.
Over time the human race becomes more intelligent as a matter of course, the internet is just a tool. There isn't anything about it that is making us "better". We're still on the same trajectory. It's just a tool I guess.
*shrug*