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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • People have the right to do as they please, even if it means choosing a path toward their own demise.

    People aren’t unaware of climate change. Everyone knows about it. What you’re seeing is a manifestation of the average human’s ranking of climate change in their own list of things to be concerned about.

    You have no right to tell someone that climate change is more important than the things they choose to focus on instead.

    If you think they’re mistaken about what’s on the table, like they underestimate the danger or something like that, then the right move is to inform them. All this protest activity is implicitly based on the assumption people just sort of … forgot about climate change.

    They didn’t. They just don’t prioritize it over the other problems in their lives. Which is their right.




  • Each individual is facing the following choice in life:

    • sacrifice to save the planet, and fail
    • or not

    People want to immediately jump to “if everyone would just …”

    Nobody is looking at an “everyone does X” button. People only have their “I do X” button available.

    So that is literally the answer to your question. Very few people would sacrifice the civilization to eat a cheeseburger. But nobody has that choice or that power in their hands. Their choice is eat the cheeseburger or not, and the survival of civilization stays rigidly the same between those two choices.


  • Men can’t reproduce. The fear of never getting a woman to love us is fucking scary to men because our feelings evolved around a total dependence on women to propagate our genes.

    For a man, the relationship to a woman is just as valuable as his own body, in terms of viability of his genes. The types of fear we feel reflect this biological fact. We fear death yes, because death means our genes don’t reproduce. We also fear rejection for the same reason.


  • The main thing for me is to remember it’s not personal. When a stranger treats me as a potential threat, it is not an insult to my character.

    Being treated as a threat by someone who knows my character, is an insult to my character.

    But when a stranger models me as a stranger, it’s not personal at all. It’s not about me. Not a reflection of who I am.




  • A “package” goes beyond library or app, basically by being part of a package management system:

    • I has a version number in a standardized format, which package managers can use to reason about dependencies
    • It declares its own dependencies, with version constraints. It will have entries like “In order to run I need a copy of jsonReader version at least 0.12.1”

    I think that might be it.

    Just in the same way both rice and bread come in a package at the grocery store, and both of their packaging has nutrition info, UPC barcode, and net weight printed on it. The packaging itself allows these goods to be distributed through a particular system.

    The barcode is part of the packaging standard, and then the “package management” processes of retail use that barcode for their own inventory management, checkout, etc.