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2 > 1 > 9 Laptop ergonomics are generally quite bad too. The only fix is laptop on a riser with a keyboard which is effectively 1 again.

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I will also say that I adore Steph, and so I like promoting and supporting Obsidian for that reason alone

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Yeah I respect that. It’s what drew me to Obsidian as well, which I’ve used a lot, but I’m shifting my perspective a bit to, whatever you will use the most is what’s best. I’m on Mac 99% of the time, and a great, easy to jump into and out of app with support for Apple Pencil on iPad and markdown with search and backlinking is great. We’ll see if I stay on it or go back to obsidian but for a few days now I’m pretty hooked.

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You’re on obsidian now? Something else? For bear, did use Mac exclusively or iPad (with pencil) too? I like that it supports both markdown and pencil.

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I never hear people talk about Bear, but it's such a solid app. Super polished apple ecosystem markdown app with lots of great features. I'm a big fan of Obsidian, of which this is very reminiscent in terms of workflow, but there are little things about it that I find too cumbersome at times. So far Bear hasn't irked me once. It's pretty, charming, and dead simple. Does anyone here use it? https://bear.app/

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RIP. I’ve written two pieces over the past year about the importance of peer-to-peer tech like torrents, and owe a debt of gratitude to the folks at TPB and elsewhere who’ve helped enable this tech.

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if(cranberryJuice) { getUTI = false; } else { requireAntibiotics }

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Would you look at that, it’s a Trojan horse for Reagan-era conservative politics

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Democrats plan nationwide blitz of telling republicans that progressives and leftists are dummies and that if conservatives vote for them, they promise not to give trans people or people of colour any rights and to continue expansionist military policy, and inhumane treatment of migrants.

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Yeah we’re certainly entering the metaphysical at this point. Let’s pick back up at a future date

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You could argue that it’s not that “we” need these things, but that society as it is currently structured requires fast, final (or secured, as in the case of credit), payments. To pull your argument to the extreme, we don’t need money, but we’d have to submit ourselves to the restructuring of commerce as we know it, without.

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One might argue that we do need stable assets because many people won’t make non-essential trades where they gain an asset that loses value quickly or lose an asset that gains value quickly. Stability aids tremendously in the ability to transact, on a psychological level.

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Fair but typically when people say direct democracy, they mean that *all* stakeholders have *equal* voting power (even if it’s not on everything, it’s hard to define “everyone” or even “not everyone”). While I’m strongly in favour of this it is something that can be hard to implement, especially in a low friction environment like social networks that can be filled with bots and alts. Curious to see someone propose implementation beyond the (good) suggestions you made above.

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Who would vote? Users who have been active more than X% in the past 90 days?

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You and 85% percent of Mexican voters. She has one of the highest approval ratings of any president anywhere ever

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Not to mention that absolutely ridiculous, heinous, and explicity bigoted assumption that code by people from marginalized groups is just inherently going to be worse.

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The idea that X fixed cancel culture is entirely fiction. It’s just the right doing all the cancelling now and the left is deamplified such that straight up rapists and nazis don’t see any of their critics. Dunking is still constant though. Additionally, as the left (especially center left) is always very active online, Bluesky as the upstart platform is noisy with progressive liberal (and some leftist) content but it’s pretty easy to find all sorts of content there, just as it is easy to find dunking and quote tweeting on X. tl;dr:

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