Jerkface (any/all)

So, Google before the IPO.

A dozen eggs cost one individual two weeks of their life spent experiencing atrocity.

Freshly ground flax seed soaked in water creates an egg white replacement.

Self hosting your email server, are you? How many hours a month does that take?

I’m still having an argument with a particular Peter Sinclair (aka synclap) about the relative merits of the Atari ST vs his App Mac Classic that began circa 1990.

Yes. It’s fun. Fun is secondary to survival. When you have paid your bills, you are free to program for fun! Or, you can forsake your most marketable skill where you have spent the bulk of your character points and compromise your ability to survive for the sake of … fun.

Play is itself a means to an end. It makes you interested in doing things that you can learn from. Play can be rewarding in itself, but hedonism is a trap.

What are the concrete risks that you are afraid of happening as a result of these technical differences? I understand that they are not LITERALLY the same thing. I don’t see how the risk profile is significantly different.

Uploading an image of your face to the internet is a less specific action than uploading an image of your face to Facebook. But in the latter case (kind of moving the goal posts, but we can still discuss it), the horse is already out of the barn! You’ve already surrendered your actual social network, your interests, the most intimate things about yourself to Facebook, if only by your browsing habits. It seems dumb to worry about having images on Facebook, WHILE BEING AN ACTIVE USER OF FACEBOOK. Surely the latter is far worse.

I would advocate that no one use Facebook for anything. And not sweat it if their face appears on the Internet.

Care to elaborate? I’m not seeing whatever it is I’m meant to see that says it’s meaningfully different.

Would you rather have a hobby, or food and shelter? Having a love of programming made you good at programming. But programming is a means to an end. It’s enjoyable, but if you don’t produce anything, you’re just masturbating. Once you are good at it, you don’t have to enjoy anymore.

People selling their labour is an aspect of capitalism, but in that situation, you’re not the capitalist.

how is it different than walking around with your face uncovered in 2025

Please post the answer when you find out.

Putting it on the moon is just a distraction. It doesn’t matter if the rod is 1m long or 100,000km.

Do you consume non-human animals? Then you are probably psychologically dependent on ignoring all the ways they are the same as we are. You probably believe there are lots of things that distinguish us, as long as you never think too closely about it, that make it morally permissible or even morally encouraged to exploit their bodies and pretend that they don’t have a mind fundamentally like yours.

Being an animal means having animus. But we act as though we are the only creature having it; the only with interests, with thoughts and feelings, with desires and goals, that uses reason, that struggles with everything within us to live.

Do you actually have anything to say beyond, “I disagree”, or are you (like most carnists) just psychologically required to obstruct your own inconvenient thoughts whenever they arise?

We don’t pretend we are not animals. We pretend we are the ONLY animals, and all others are merely objects.