I am and I'm not willing to pay for that. Love the idea but it seems greedy to charge for freely available text-content. r/daddit acts as a pretty good aggregator of this info already (downside - you have to go on reddit).
If you are medicating for anxiety it's not that simple. What is the persistent cognitive effect of chronic stress/anxiety and is that greater than the effect from cannabis.
I've mostly lost faith in the ability of my country to have an orderly, happy society together at this point. As a recovering agoraphobic I can easily see the same disordered thinking that was once the core of my own mind not only present in other people, but lauded on the news and in mainstream culture.
Here's to hoping things get better, but knowing that the nuts run the nuthouse now.
Bummed I had to scroll this far into the thread to see some reason.
This is horrifying if it did happen but I don't know Yifan and I don't know Jon Pretty nor the trustworthiness of either.
It's disturbing to see HN readers jump to conclusions so quickly without proper evidence. If we continue to reduce our capacity for assessment of a situation to individual anecdotal accounts what kind of world will we live in 5 years from now?
When these things happen, it's often impossible to provide evidence. There is nothing could be proven in the court of law. So we have victims, and no justice in that case, so what are we supposed to tell the victim? Don't get raped? And if they are, and resort to the only form of vindication they have left (openly sharing it), we're supposed to tell them to shut up?
Sharing these things often feels like (and IS) the _only_ thing a victim can do to maintain even a shred of their personhood or agency. If we take that away, we are telling victims of horrific abuse to pick up the pieces of their lives alone, and quietly. That is not how one heals, and it will exacerbate a chilling system of victim shaming that leads to untold anguish.
> There is nothing could be proven in the court of law.
In a court of law it is certainly more straight forward and less risky than on social media: go to the police, make a statement and get a lawyer, then get those people who sent out tweets in support and also came out with similar stories or to coroborate go on record. In this specific case the damage she could (and still can) do to him and get real justice is pretty massive.
What we're certainly not supposed to tell the victim is "hey, you'll love this, I've gotten hundreds of HN commenters to argue about the veracity of your story". I don't see how signal-boosting these kind of accusations on a news aggregator is helpful to anyone in any way.
The larger context, from a 1992 Cypherpunks email:
"Here we are faced with the problems of loss of privacy, creeping computerization, massive databases, more centralization - and [David] Chaum offers a completely different direction to go in, one which puts power into the hands of individuals rather than governments and corporations. The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them."
Now how do I explain to my mom that her conspiracies do occur, the influential wealthy groups do exist and lobby governments, but that they have nothing to do with the independent data mining and data brokering companies which anyone can start right now
I was dissapointed to open the app again - I had been using it frequently when I switched to paper thought-records. When I reopened it I was greeted with a paywall.
Alternatives on iOS exist such as Thought Record that are free. Until there is an obvious value proposition that differs from free alternatives, I see no need to pay merely for a 'quirkier' interface.
I've tried Fish a few times but hard to migrate over from bash/zsh. Does anyone have tips on how to port over a bunch of aliases/scripts/etc. easily?