muddi

Depends on the metric. "Efficient" in pressuring companies to perform or perish for lack of profit because someone else is doing it already or better.

Capitalist metrics always ground in profit. Never directly the inputs (eg labor, resources), outputs (eg commodities themselves), or side-effects (eg pollution, industrial development, social benefit)

Any of these seeming to improve is an afterthought of profit-seeking

LOK is a travesty but the original series was fairly lib too. The Tibetan monks being the nation of peace and the Da Li secret police was anti-China

On the cultural-philosophical side it was somewhat chauvinist too: the concept of an avatar in Indian religions is a divine being taking on a responsibility which often involves justified violence against evil. Rejecting this with some "both sides" nonsense felt like a slap in the face to me as an Indian and socialist. Ofc we need to put some people to the wall, fuck those ideals of self purity

this is just humans

Are you familiar with the concept of alienation?

Thesis: thinking hard about ideas will change the material world

Antithesis: not thinking hard about ideas also changes the material world?

Synthesis: maybe like, if I stop thinking so hard, I won't be as anxious and screw up things or my retrospective perception of things

Sorry, no snark intended also I know this isn't a real dialectic lol. I have a similar issue where I overthink and thus ruin things for myself. It took a perspective shift to break out of thinking in terms of luck etc.

Not just the genre of fantasy, or any one genre of media for that matter. All narrative-oriented phenomena are the manifest arms of ideology: novels, movies, games, religion, advertisements, propaganda, etc. Their actual form is not what is important, but more how they fit into the bigger picture of social communication -- like how the same concept can be indicated with many different words within a language and across languages.

The circular reasoning I got after proposing to use a code formatter:

• Why are you nitpicking on PRs? Let's use a linter instead
• Yes we already have a linter for compliance sake
• Oh it's turned off though. I don't like it.
• No we can't use it actually, it's a third party one and it's not compliant.
• We can't use the first party one. It's not extensive enough.
• No we shouldn't extend it with our own custom rules. It's too much maintenance.
• I refuse to use any IDE formatting shortcuts or plugins, and will commit my code as I feel. The problem is not how I write my code.
• Why are you still discussing this? Didn't you figure out how to use a linter yet?

We're still at square one with this after a year or so

Same , but in my experience this can backfire even worse because the other person thinks you are trying to show off as well as make them look bad. But the problem is less with you and me, and more with this type of person

I've seen this type of comment in scifi threads. It was about that one planet-consciousness in the Foundation series, some guy thought it would be hell to lose his individuality. But I think that people are confusing privacy or autonomy with individuality.

Also the fact that individuality is already illusory to begin with -- we are social animals, and if we truly tried to be absolutely individual, we'd end up as a feral child or some bizarre hermit. And ironically we live in an age where we are so alienated not just from others but our own selves, and our very species-essence as well

Was the whole fantasy race thing ever gonna turn out good? They're effectively walking metaphors for real world races or other slices of humanity, exaggerated for physical and behavioral traits for this reason.

It's not like people stereotype based on the art and philosophy of a people

I wonder if it's all those variables named with single letter and abbreviations, so annoying to code review

I'm afraid to see interpretations of "cannonball" now

He's gotten better in his recent videos but he's still only analyzing fictional universes for this sort of thing. At least it's not only ATLA he's citing