A major way that my sense of the world has updated in the past year:
I learned / realized that "class" is a thing. Lots of stuff that I thought was normal, or was the normal background assumption, are basically only normal for the middle class context in which I grew up.
Examples:
[Interestingly, it seems hard to come up with specific examples]
- Generic liberalism in the sense of being in favor of eg Gay marriage
- "School is important"
- "Going to college and getting a job" (I opted out of this one, but it still felt like opting out of the default.)
- "The cops are there to help you"
- When you click "I agree" on a long terms-of-service contract that you didn't read, it'll be fine, because obviously the company would be in big trouble if it regularly screwed people over.
- (I would guess) something about sexual propriety?
- Maybe the trope of teenage romance?
- Conspiracy theories aren't credible, and are cringe.
I bet there's more that I haven't gotten a handle on yet.
What software do people use to add a wepage to their stack of things to read?
I'm looking for something that has the following features
1. Allows me to save pages with one click. 2. When reading (as opposed to collecting), has a button that randomizes the order of the somewhat so that I'm not just going in "order added" or "reverse order added"
3. Directs me to the original page, by default, instead of having me read inside the app. (Websites have unique formatting, and I want that formatting to be part of my reading experience.
One obvious thought is that in order to "do colonialism", you need to be powerful enough to dominate other cultures, and Europe got to a technological / military advantage first.
That is obviously part of the story: Many cultures couldn't have pulled of colonialism, even if they wanted to, because of technological limitations.
I'm under the impression that European colonization was much worse for the colonized territory than, eg being conquered by and becoming a province of the Roman empire.
Is that correct? If so, why was that?
I think I have this intuition because...well, it just seems like European colonization did wreak a lot of damage. It led to the abomination of black slavery in America, and The remnants of the natives of North America are, after many massacres, largely confined to reservations.
In my ignorance, this seems to me to be a different, more lasting kind of harm than your culture being a vassal state to the Romans or the Persians or Alexander, for a bit.
Those cultures didn't like it, but I don't think it was an existential catastrophe for them?
Question: How do I make it natural and yummy to sit down and do programming?
In the same way that it currently feels pretty natural to transition into writing "I have an idea, and I want to write an essay", it feels like it could be natural to "have an idea and transition into implementing it."
One thing is I don't think about "writing" as anything special. It's just a thing that I do sometimes. I think I would need to have a similar attitude to programming?
Even only two tweets in, this is SOOO much less stressful than using twitter directly. Twitter is slightly laggy on my machine, so there's a low grade frustration of typing with a delay + needing to go back and correct typos.
And writing threads this way is much much easier to edit.