agamemnonymous
@agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Womp womp womp womp 1 week ago:
“Capitalism breeds innovation”
- Comment on You can count past 1,000 on your fingers by using binary, instead of just 10 2 weeks ago:
I don’t try to put my pinky all the way down, the difference between a 1 and 0 on that finger is about 90°, though it rolls a bit depending on the other fingers. As long as you can tell the difference between up and down, you don’t have to be that strict about the exact positioning
- Comment on You can count past 1,000 on your fingers by using binary, instead of just 10 2 weeks ago:
No? I’ve been counting like this for like 20 years
- Comment on If you record yourself talking to someone and then watch the video... it feels very weird... like a bizzare out-of-body experience... 2 weeks ago:
I feel like usually when I hear about some experiment that changes our perception, the time to adapt is typically about 2 weeks, but that number is almost entirely vibes-based.
- Comment on If you record yourself talking to someone and then watch the video... it feels very weird... like a bizzare out-of-body experience... 2 weeks ago:
I’m talking about editing a backlog, like if you record hours upon hours of content, then spend weeks editing them. Think of those hour-long video essays with animations and stuff. If you live alone and stocked up on groceries, you could easily go quite a while without actually having to leave the house.
Again, a pretty specific scenario, but not exactly hard. Not even that farfetched for some niche video essay creator.
- Comment on If you record yourself talking to someone and then watch the video... it feels very weird... like a bizzare out-of-body experience... 2 weeks ago:
I think it would be an unusual occurrence, but not really “hard”. Imagine a YouTuber who edits their own videos. If they live alone and spend an extended period of time editing their backlog, they might not talk at all and only hear recordings.
- Comment on How do you build revolutionary optimism in these dark times? 2 weeks ago:
I can see that, but you can always focus on meeting in person. Just use tech to vaguely call meetings.
- Comment on How do you build revolutionary optimism in these dark times? 2 weeks ago:
Locally
Civilization is basically just bureaucracy integrated over population. Some people figure out how to game the system via the chasm of abstraction between; that’s a function of any sufficiently complex system, look at the speed running community
But ultimately, civilization is just people. All the bureaucracy placed on top of it is just a collection of systems made by people to coordinate themselves. A lot of the dark theatrics are the result of the population becoming so vast that even at the lowest levels, the bureaucracy is distant and abstract. That abstraction alienates people from one another, so they only really know how to interact through the lens of that bureaucracy
The optimism is that you can engage your community. You can meet your neighbors, learn their trades and share yours, start a group chat. You can organize barter networks, childcare rotations, handyman services, mutual aid.
You can join local political groups. Start local political groups. Go to protests and meet people in neighboring areas. Network.
You can promote candidates for local office, and encourage others in your network to do so. You can run for local office, and encourage others in your network to do so. We’ve seen what the other side is offering so far as administrative competence, you think you’re worse?
Go to local events. Talk to your neighbors. Organize with your neighbors. The big system is very top down in its perspective, but it’s really ultimately dependent on the composite people. You can organize the people from the bottom up, and get your friends in nearby neighborhoods to do the same.
If all the neighborhoods are organized, bloodless revolution slides quite comfortably into the realm of plausible futures.
- Comment on Quite true 3 weeks ago:
I dunno, SpongeBob occupies a sizeable fraction of successful memes
- Comment on If tomato is a fruit then lasagna is a fruit tart. 3 weeks ago:
Y’know, if it had ham in it, it’s closer to a British carbonara
- Comment on How do you "process" hundreds of tabs you haven't gotten a chance to look through? 3 weeks ago:
Bookmark the stuff that warrants a bookmark.
Close the stuff I’m not as interested in as I thought I’d be.
Group remaining tabs by subject (books, articles, products, etc. I have a system).
Close redundant tabs in groups.
- Comment on Tankie 3 weeks ago:
Will, the tanks are replaced with ICE vehicles
- Comment on If it fits... 3 weeks ago:
Clearly they meant Non-Alcoholic
- Comment on Hate it when this happens 4 weeks ago:
By “misspent”, are you referring to those deposits?
- Comment on If God (or any creator of the universe) exists would he be made out of atoms? 4 weeks ago:
Look into the kabbalistic concept of tzimtzum, it’s an interesting take.
- Comment on I know its hard to digest. 4 weeks ago:
Is that why Jews say “la chyme” before they drink, since it’s going into their stomach?
- Comment on Pizza styles 4 weeks ago:
What about Keynesian-style pizza?
- Comment on Belief 4 weeks ago:
Someone want suggested that the rise in belief in human goodness is a function of the rise in belief of human incompetence. When you start recognizing that people frequently do stupid bad things not because they are bad, but because they are stupid, your heart softens a bit with regards to their intent.
Anti-abortion is a great example. The majority of anti-abortion people genuinely believe that a zygote is an innocent human life, and terminating it is literally murder. If that’s what they believe, why wouldn’t they do everything in their power to stop it? People are murdering innocent babies!
The more you get to know people, the more you start believing in Hanlon’s razor. Most of the “bad” people aren’t bad, they’re just good people with stupid beliefs.
- Comment on Off the Rails 4 weeks ago:
At least you save money on shoes
- Comment on Isn't that how you break up? 5 weeks ago:
Maybe there’s a god above
But all I ever learned in love
Was how to spot at someone
Who outdrew ya
- Comment on Do Costcos usually have an ATM machine? 5 weeks ago:
Y’know, if anywhere was going to have an ATM machine, it would probably be Costco
- Comment on Sweet ancestry 5 weeks ago:
It’s the immigrant mongrel thing. Outside America, it isn’t unusual for your ancestry to be that of your home country for dozens of generations, or maybe halves. Inside America, that’s basically only just full blooded Natives, most everyone else is a hodgepodge of several countries.
Is just a way to kinda keep track of all the various ancestries.
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 1 month ago:
SJG has GURPS Lite, a free version of their 4th edition. It’s very simplified, but easily playable.
- Comment on life hack 1 month ago:
Depends on how strict you want to be, the cumulative dietary restrictions would be rough.
- Comment on This bedroom game is weird 1 month ago:
I mean, this but not metaphorically.
Source: Known some puppygirls
- Comment on life hack 1 month ago:
No Gods before Yahweh/Allah (same God). Just make sure he’s the first one.
- Comment on fine dining 1 month ago:
I gotta back them up. I’ve only been to a handful of Buc-ee’s, but every one had multiple signs saying no semis. Maybe it’s a regional thing?
- Comment on There's ads on an apple 1 month ago:
Nothing new, I remember ads on banana stickers 15 years ago
- Comment on More information will be revealed at a later date 1 month ago:
Stfu dude, secret means secret
- Comment on for a better future for ur children 1 month ago:
Correct, but we also have a disproportionate effect on the rest of nature.
Like yes, cancer is human cells, but that doesn’t diminish the damage they do to the rest of the human cells.