fooperdupes's comments

fooperdupes | 4 years ago | on: Facebook loses users for the first time

lol classist

fooperdupes | 4 years ago | on: Cosmic inflation preceded the Big Bang

Please no more economic news...

fooperdupes | 4 years ago | on: Macaques at Japan reserve get first alpha female in 70-year history

True progress is the freedom for everyone to be an asshole.

fooperdupes | 4 years ago | on: I Would Rather Die Than Let Facebook Monitor My Heart Rate

I would rather die than be more dependent on technocrats than medieval peasants were on their lords. Quantity != quality.

fooperdupes | 4 years ago | on: How Long Can We Live?

In my experience this reflexive "more is better" attitude only leads to unhappiness. the more I've abandoned this kind of thinking, the better my quality of life has become.

fooperdupes | 5 years ago | on: Facebook Down?

Love to see it. I hate this company.

fooperdupes | 5 years ago | on: Surveillance company harassed female employees using its own facial recognition

Pushing emotions (your own or others) into the right/wrong binary is what is worth avoiding.

fooperdupes | 5 years ago | on: Surveillance company harassed female employees using its own facial recognition

I think the argument is not that other people's emotions are wrong or nonexistant, but that different cultures assume different behaviors in regards to those emotions. Responses to the different emotions are culturally coded, hence there is no "correct" way to respond to an emotion. Just because someone feels a certain way does not imply or entitle them to a certain kind of treatment.

I'm not trying to apologize for ultra-masculine culture, but this epistemic argument about the presence or absence of emotions boils down to "their culture is not my culture" and just increases the divisions between those cultures and accelerates the culture war.

In the end - if what you actually cared about was people being uncomfortable you'd think through the economic, social and technical structures that make them feel uncomfortable. IMO, it has overwhelmingly to do with naive adoption of technology, with PC culture being a way for those who benefit from this adoption to cope with the negative results of that adoption.