Excrubulent
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- Comment on ParanoidAndroid was the perfect name for a privacy focused android custom rom 3 weeks ago:
I was floored by how perfectly they did the voice, then I looked it up and this song is literally by the original radio play voice actor. Amazing.
- Comment on The Only Raygun Video You Will Ever Need To Watch [from an Australian breaker inside the competitive scene] 5 weeks ago:
You didn’t ask me to explain anything, you said I had the chance. You’re right, I could’ve kept trying, but you didn’t ask, and I don’t owe it to you.
I have spent far too much energy in the past trying to explain to people who aren’t listening to bother with people who are functionally no different to a brick wall. It’s exhausting and pointless.
And on a more simple, practical level, if you don’t tell me what you found confusing about what I said, then I don’t know what you need explained. As I said, the information is there if you want to investigate any of the terms you didn’t understand. If you want my help, you are going to need to express it.
Which is why, when I detect this behaviour, like you showed when you baldly repeated:
“Clickbate” is not a word.
I always stop and ask the person to express literally any curiosity to understand. In my experience people who aren’t listening won’t do this. Like I said, it would cost you nothing to ask if you actually do want to know.
You can express that you are curious to understand what I’m saying, or you can not. That is up to you, but it’s literally free to do, and it’s all I ask.
Do what you want.
- Comment on The Only Raygun Video You Will Ever Need To Watch [from an Australian breaker inside the competitive scene] 5 weeks ago:
What don’t you understand? I gave you the terms to look up to educate yourself if you actually cared, but instead of showing interest or the humility to ask, you literally just declared that you were right again without any reasoning and while saying you were ignorant.
So shall I take this as you not being interested in the information?
- Comment on The Only Raygun Video You Will Ever Need To Watch [from an Australian breaker inside the competitive scene] 5 weeks ago:
Ah yes, the first resort of the prescriptivist: baldly assert that you are correct with absolutely no reasoning behind it.
It’s pretty clear that you don’t understand linguistics or you wouldn’t have declared so confidently that something said on purpose and clearly understood by you to be “not a word”.
Like you literally said that you don’t understand my argument and then declared me wrong anyway. I could explain further but it doesn’t seem like you want to understand.
If you do want to actually learn something here, let me know and I am actually quite happy to help.
- Comment on The Only Raygun Video You Will Ever Need To Watch [from an Australian breaker inside the competitive scene] 5 weeks ago:
I would like you to show me any expert source saying that an eggcorn must achieve widespread adoption before it can be described as such.
The idea that something needs to be in a dictionary before it can be considered a feature of language is something that linguists - including the dictionary authors themselves - disavow.
- Comment on The Only Raygun Video You Will Ever Need To Watch [from an Australian breaker inside the competitive scene] 5 weeks ago:
Usually it’s spelled that way, but this is more like an eggcorn.
I kind of like the idea that it’s clickbating, like the creator is jerking themselves off about how much they love clicks, or how clever they are with their manipulative title.
- Comment on Australians soon facing age checks when viewing adult websites 5 weeks ago:
I forget who said it, but I remember a quote like, “When a bipartisan bill is being introduced that’s when you know the people are getting well and truly fucked.”
- Comment on an incomplete list of fediverse instances scraped by meta to train AI 2 months ago:
We need to implement tarpits: arstechnica.com/…/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap…
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 2 months ago:
Literally anywhere that isn’t lemmygrad or hexbear will usually be better. You could go to an instance with open sign up until you find somewhere else, but they tend to house a lot of closeted reactionaries, I assume because those people like the anonymity. Personally I just looked up instances to see which ones I liked. They’ll have a description of who they are and if sign ups require an application you just say why you want to join their instance. It’s not a huge deal really.
- Comment on A real lifehack 2 months ago:
Then I don’t know what you’re disagreeing with in my first comment.
- Comment on A real lifehack 2 months ago:
Everyone needs calories, if you don’t get them from fats and oils, you’re left with carbs and sugars, both of which have a higher glycemic index.
So yes, it does mean fats are good, because you need energy to live. If you want to tell me there’s some other form of energy that you know about that’s better than any of those three, please let me know.
Until then, perhaps you could show me the science that proves how bad fats supposedly are.
- Comment on A real lifehack 2 months ago:
Those foods won’t make you feel better.
- Comment on A real lifehack 2 months ago:
Every one needs calories. Avoiding fats and oils means you turn to carbohydrates and sugars, both of which have a higher glycemic index.
There’s a reason the US has demonised fat for decades and over those same decades the obesity epidemic has only gotten worse.
Also, the calories in; calories out approach is a myth and probably not good for you long term:
…edu.au/…/its-time-to-bust-the-calories-in-calori…
Bottom line
The “calories in, calories out” formula for weight loss success is a myth because it oversimplifies the complex process of calculating energy intake and expenditure. More importantly, it fails to consider the mechanisms our bodies trigger to counteract a reduction in energy intake.
So while you may achieve short-term weight loss following the formula, you’ll likely regain it.
What’s more, calorie counting can do more harm than good, taking the pleasure out of eating and contributing to developing an unhealthy relationship with food. That can make it even harder to achieve and maintain a healthy weight.
For long term weight loss, it’s important to follow evidence-based programs from health-care professionals and make gradual changes to your lifestyle to ensure you form habits that last a lifetime.
- Comment on A real lifehack 2 months ago:
Yes, exactly this. If you feel buzzed, anxious, jittery, pay attention to what you last ate and see if there’s a pattern.
“Pay attention to how food makes you feel” is the best dieting advice I ever got, because different foods react differently to different people’s systems. There isn’t a single prescriptive diet that can cater to everybody’s needs.
- Comment on A real lifehack 2 months ago:
Fats and oils aren’t bad for you, that’s prapaganda pushed by the sugar industry for decades.
npr.org/…/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-pai…
Eat whataver food you like that makes you feel good after you’ve finished eating, your body knows what’s good for it for the most part.
- Comment on Cheesfull 3 months ago:
You can make cheese sauce with any hard cheese and sodium citrate. For the liquid you can use water, milk, beer or really any beverage you want. Obviously also chillis and hot sauce can be added at any point in the process.
You can also tune the recipe to be thicker or runnier depending on what you use it for.
This is the recipe that I use, they have a specific jalapeno one: cheeseprofessor.com/…/sodium-citrate-cheese-sauce
The important part is the ratio of cheese:liquid:sodium citrate.
- Comment on 3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought 3 months ago:
Yup, Behind the Bastards did an excellent two parter on forensic science in general:
iheart.com/…/part-one-the-bastards-of-forensic-17… iheart.com/…/part-two-the-bastards-of-forensic-17…
They make a good point that real science is involved, but by the time it makes it into the police’s hands it’s mutated into essentially a mechanism to manufacture convictions. Grifters get hold of the science, and cops are like the perfect marks, because they’re just primed for anything that will confirm their existing biases, plus they’ve got massive state budgets to play with, and they’ll happily give the grifters legitimacy.
- Comment on 3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought 3 months ago:
It would be nice if you could post something where we can examine the source.
I found this article: techspot.com/…/108720-hidden-fingerprints-inside-…
There they say that it’s not yet ready to be used in evidence, but the problem with that is that most forensic “science” is generally misapplied and nowhere near as conclusive as the police want us to think. They can usually massage the results to tell a jury what they want to be true. That would be my concern with this kind of technique.
Also, if you’re going to the trouble of making a 3d printed ghost gun that will be used in a crime, you could always hide the toolmarks with a sander. You could also treat the surface with resin which would make the markings practically unrecoverable. I’ve started doing both of these for my prints and I love the results just for the aesthetics, so it’s not such a stretch to imagine a gunsmith doing the same.
- Comment on Some reasons, not all reasons. 3 months ago:
Yeah, this seems like a case of “it’s not my job to interperet my boss’s incomprehensible behaviour on their behalf”.
- Comment on EU says it will continue rolling out AI legislation on schedule 3 months ago:
“We’ll take our ball and go home, and you’ll all miss out on our fabulous AI products!”
“No. Wait. Don’t.”
- Comment on Srsly 3 months ago:
Yeah, that scans for me. It breaks up “getting ready…for a night out”, but I think it works.
I think honestly it’s just a reality that, if brevity is the soul of wit, then a punchy sentence needs to be compact and that means you need to get a bit funky with the grammar, so maybe the audience has to do a little work.
Maybe also “at which” is fine too, and I was just overthinking it.
One thing I won’t bend on is that “to be starting to get ready” is objectively worse in every respect and is the main thing that throws people about the sentence.
- Comment on Srsly 3 months ago:
This is a slightly wacky sentence. It’s not wrong - it does make sense and communicates the idea, it just forces you to do a bit of work to straighten it out in your head.
I think the biggest issue is the way they unnecessarily used present continuous tense with “be starting to get”.
It’s convoluted and adds syllables. You could eliminate the “be” and “to” entirely and change it to “start getting”. That starts with an active verb which feels stronger and more natural.
So then it would be:
“This can’t possibly be the same 9pm I used to start getting ready for a night out at”
That preserves the flow & punch of the delivery but shortens & simplifies it a lot without losing anything imo.
Also ending a sentence with a preposition can be awkward. You read “at” and you need to refer it back to 9pm near the start of the sentence. Plus it comes after another preposition, which itself is not acting as a preposition but as part of the nouned phrase “night out”, so you end up with “out at”. Again, not wrong, but it can be awkward. I think using “at which” can move it closer to the noun but it’s not necessarily better that way.
Make that change and it’s “This can’t possibly be the same 9pm at which I used to start getting ready for a night out”
It’s a little easier to parse, but honestly I think it loses something, because it doesn’t have a casual delivery. “At which” is evidence that the sentence was very deliberately constructed. It adds a syllable and loses some punch. I’d stick with just the first change personally.
- Comment on Socialist megacorps 3 months ago:
I didn’t say you should try or expect to convince them of anything. Just pointing out the error is enough to let anyone curious enough follow up for themselves. I say that about this post because the person seems to have a genuine intuition about the vague idea of collective ownership.
You can’t expect to convince someone in a single argument.
For myself, when I was still in a liberal mindset, I had someone on reddit say “down with democracy!”, and I called them a fascist, because that sounded pretty fashy to me and it was during trump term 1 when those guys were really stretching their assholes and letting the shit flow.
They said actually no, they were a communist, so I just dropped it. I could tell they were being sincere but also I didn’t really want to take the time to unpack their point.
It did flip a switch for me though, that someone was openly declaring to be a communist. It was definitely part of my walk away from vaguely status quo liberalism towards full anarcho communism.
I still think the way they said “down with democracy!” was bad rhetoric, and I understand they probably meant “down with liberal democracy”, or maybe “down with representative democracy”, or maybe they were some sort of weird nazbol and they really did think democracy as a concept was bad. Doesn’t matter, it moved the needle for me.
Anyway, point being a sincere answer whether it’s exaclty right or even very well articulated or correct, is usually better than making up some bullshit in some misguided machiavelian manipulation.
- Comment on Socialist megacorps 3 months ago:
They let fascist propaganda trick them into believing that corporations are socialist because they flew the wrong flags. They would let those same fascists tell them the corporations are their friends now because they fly the right flags. That’s what they’re paying attention to.
The correct response is, “You are describing worker ownership, which is socialist.” They have to learn they’re on the wrong side before they’ll stop listening to the fascists. They have to be educated, and agree to change the flag in their head, because the right is fundamentally domineering. They won’t accidentally make socialism happen, they’ll just smash our shit because they hate our flags.
Sorry for the rant but I see this “joke” take people are making in this thread all the time and there’s a reason it’s a joke.
- Comment on It's a tragedeigh 3 months ago:
Maxwell immediately adopting an unexplained and unflappable admiration for Wealwell is such a Murph thing to do and I love it.
- Comment on It's a tragedeigh 3 months ago:
“Samwell, Blanewell, Roywell, Hatwell, Wealwell, Johnwell”
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 3 months ago:
Thanks, I’ve wanted to gmdo this ages, but I got this current phone before I knew about grapheneos and this issue. Now all I need is to fully switch my main email and I’ll be sigjificantly de-googled.
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 3 months ago:
I was writing a comment that my device is unsupported and all the supported pixel phones are flagship priced. Then I decided to check my work and look it up.
Long story short I have a refurbished pixel 6 on the way, it was cheaper than my current phone was.
- Comment on Finally paid off my Costco hotdog 🙏 4 months ago:
Also my mum brought me some costco hotdogs the other day. It’s hard to get good American food in grocery stores here in Australia but those smokey delicious franks have me considering a membership. So good.
- Comment on Finally paid off my Costco hotdog 🙏 4 months ago:
This has a similar energy to, “Lend me a dollar, but give me fifty cents. Then I’ll owe you fifty cents, and you’ll owe me fifty cents, and we’ll be even.”