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- Comment on Interesting 4 days ago:
The idea that our nervous system is the true “us” that pilots an inanimate and disposable body is the same dualism concept as a “soul”. Except it lacks the divinity of religion or the accuracy of biology; worst of both worlds. Science-fiction-scripture.
- Comment on Star Wars is an ode to the stupidest use of battle lasers 1 week ago:
Pictured are space-bombers. They drop gravity bombs… in space. Please stop talking about scientific accuracy in Star Wars.
- Comment on Ever think of the inconsistency of airlines weighing luggage? 2 weeks ago:
I wrote on a magnitude English better quality than 90% of the world.
- Comment on No need for blue tooth 3 weeks ago:
The biggest difference between transistor radios and BT hardware is that BT will never give you a prize for being the 9th caller.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks ago:
I’m just starting “blasphemous” and “inscription”. I just completed “Axiom Verge”.
- Comment on Millions of websites to get 'game-changing' AI bot blocker 3 weeks ago:
This is not about stopping bot-scrapers, it’s about charging them.
- Comment on double kill! 4 weeks ago:
No recoil, but you might feel a little sting.
- Comment on Finally someone who can pronunce it 4 weeks ago:
This is the first one of these I’ve upvoted.
- Comment on I have searched far and wide 4 weeks ago:
Your search has still only turned up a forgery.
- Comment on Brand awareness 4 weeks ago:
This is a real thing. They’ve got a website, a facebook, and a youtube.
- Comment on A simple experiment to demonstrate that Astrology does not work is to keep a detailed journal of events, and periodically check past horoscopes for accuracy.* 4 weeks ago:
What’s the deal with people hating on astrology? DAE get the vibe that there’s more to this than “astrology doesn’t work”?
The thing is that even in the James Randy world of people taking advantage of the credulous, astrology is still a pretty small fish. The skeptic doth protest too much.
- Comment on Orthodoxal jews occasionally make something right 4 weeks ago:
I love all the little ways observant Jews try to lawyer their way out of the inconvenience of their own religious observance.
For example, some elevators in NYC run continuously on Shabbat, stopping at every floor so nobody has to push any buttons.
I just love the contradiction of an all powerful, omniscient God that can be so easily tricked, delightful.
- Comment on Oh lord, Oh no 5 weeks ago:
I swear baby, this is my first early access. This has never happened to me before.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 5 weeks ago:
Crush patriarchy. That’s the system that’s failed these men after all. It wasn’t progressive values that promised them women to dispose of. It wasn’t feminism that promised them easy success and automatic status.
It’s the promise of patriarchy that has “been stolen from us”. And it’s the restoration of patriarchy these men are clamoring for. Men want their privilege back and the Left can accommodate them for the low low price of jettisoning feminist values from the movement.
This is really the most Democrat bullshit ever. Left politics is getting more support than ever, but we’re going to get obsessed with pleasing the groups that hate and oppose us instead of championing the issues of those who support us.
- Comment on Reappraisal of the Geologic Time Scale: Evidence for a 6,001-year-old Earth 5 weeks ago:
I was tired of being a Darwinist. Now I follow the writings of Dickens; I’m a Dickhead.
- Comment on The New Digg’s Plan to Use AI for Community Moderation 5 weeks ago:
Capitalists are so fucking innovative that they’re trying to replace unpaid human labor with robots that are worse and cost money.
- Comment on Microsoft accidentally swapped Windows 11’s startup sound with Vista’s 5 weeks ago:
Your argument is more out of date than Vista. Windows is not the default because people like their software, or would choose it over anything else. It’s because they’ve positioned themselves as the default monopoly since the goddamn 1980s.
To see what happens when Microsoft has to compete on quality of software, just ask yourself why Copilot and Recall aren’t being rolled out on Windows phones.
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 5 weeks ago:
If you think about it, almost all computer-technology is radio. Wifi, bluetooth, GPS, radar, and cellular are literally radio. Meanwhile everything else runs on transistor tech developed and refined… for radios.
Our modern economy couldn’t exist if people like Hertz and Maxwell didn’t get to toy with their useless hobbies. But we can’t rely on the curiosity of the leisure class anymore. Basic research is expensive, necessary, and a public good. I’m afraid that the Trump regime has already spoiled the secret sauce that makes America the technology leader of the world.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 5 weeks ago:
You conflate being Asian (a resident of a continent) with Slavic (a cultural group). So what is race? A coordinate, or a cuisine?
Race is so unreal that you can’t even keep the lore straight in your own head.
- Comment on Is empathy based on a financial bell curve? 5 weeks ago:
Spaces like 8cun and kiwifarms are very welcoming to regular type dudes with centrist politics and mainstream opinions. They’re not nasty, unreasonable, and deranged like us. They’ll never challenge a man who identifies as normal.
- Comment on Is empathy based on a financial bell curve? 5 weeks ago:
It’s really hard to hurt another person when you feel their pain.
Consider the sadist. How can you enjoy someone’s suffering if you can’t recognize it?
The most wicked people are advanced empaths.
- Comment on Coming Back From Fascism 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on What would happen if the Earth was sucked into a black hole? 1 month ago:
We don’t know. Forces in and near black holes break physics. There is tons of speculation, but speculation is all there is.
- Comment on Sheeple 1 month ago:
- Comment on Due to American politics I'm afraid of using high speed rail in Germany 1 month ago:
- Comment on More like a bacterial infection imo 1 month ago:
A large contributor to Irish suffering were the British corn laws, a tariff that kept the price of barley, wheat, and oats artificially high. So when potato crops failed, the poor Irish couldn’t afford substitutes. Ironically, American maze was exempt from the corn laws, so much of that was imported to Ireland.
Tariffs: never any externalities or unintended consequences; you will certainly not regret imposing tariffs.
- Comment on YSK Trump is doing a rally at Ft Bragg and you can register online 1 month ago:
People in the Confederacy would have been embarrassed that Braxton Bragg got a base named after him. By the end of the war, Bragg held the title of General in name only and had no authority over anyone. His only talent was being friends with Jefferson Davis.
- Comment on An earnest question about the AI/LLM hate 1 month ago:
It’s a tool that has gone from interesting (GPT3) to terrifying (Veo 3)
It’s ironic that you describe your impression of LLMs in emotional terms.
- Comment on Should I apologize to this person? 1 month ago:
If someone cuts contact with you, it’s up to them to reestablish. You don’t need this person’s acknowledgement to deal with your regret.
- Comment on HIGH ON LIFE 2 Official Trailer 1 month ago:
it’s interesting that the guns were silent throughout the trailer.
