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If a person hits your face with a hammer, do you practice empathy toward the hammer?

If a person writes code that is disruptive, do you emphasise with the code?


“You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’ But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.

The hammer had no intention to harm you, there's no need to seek vengeance against it, or disrespect it


> do not resist an evil person.

Ehm.


> If a person hits your face with a hammer, do you practice empathy toward the hammer?

Yes if the hammer is designed with A(G)I

All hail our A(G)I overlords


Wouldn’t want to live without it

Nuke it from orbit

Mostly the best of times

Hey, lots of us 39 year olds who played Warcraft 2!

I had a pirated version on a zip drive

people wax poetic about betamax and laserdisk but never heard anyone mention zip drive, in a good or bad way, lol

Before cd-rs, it felt like magic. Like a floppy but 100 times bigger!

It was magical for about 2 years, then USB drives came along and made it look quaint.

I was the kid with the backpack Zip drive and Zip disks, like a weird Santa Claus of game piracy. Duke3d, Descent, Quake, you name it. All of it was in service of modem dueling each other. Wild times!

IOMagic Zip Drive?

38 even!

Feynman is known for being a very social guy, though.

Having some random vote is hardly direct democracy, though.

Parts of the US is mature enough to implement a similar system as Switzerland, which has a superior form of democracy.


It’s working fantastic here in Switzerland.

There is nothing g to “disagree” about. Of course systemic changes are required. But if the individual improve their actions it will have a meaningful impact too

Without systemic change the impact of individuals wont be meaningful. Maybe on a spiritual level but they won’t contribute meaningfully to the climate change (or non-change)

It won’t and believing it will is part of ensuring nothing changes. All energy you spend on personally changing should be instead spent lobbying, organizing, and otherwise working politically to effect systemic change. There is no value in individual change. It’s worse than doing nothing.

Not everyone is glued to their computer.

I don’t owe an explanation to anyone.


> Not everyone is glued to their computer.

That’s what out-of-office automatic replies are for, which will include information on what business day you will be back, and often will also specify who is your substitute while you’re away.

It’s standard practice for B2B communication.


It’s standard practice for people who aren’t out of office 350 days a year…

"Out of office" just means that you don't access your work email. If that's the case for 350 days a year for you, then the discussion is pretty moot anyway.

I do access it, I just don’t have time to reply to non-urgent email within 24 hours…

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