agamemnonymous
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- Comment on The song that never ends announces what it is in the first line, then expects us to believe some people started singing it without knowing what it was 8 hours ago:
Yeah but that’s from curiosity, not ignorance
- Comment on Do you think conservative feel the same need to burn it all down as everyone else felt when trump won again? 22 hours ago:
In other words, before a change can be made in the name of Progress, it needs to be demonstrated that the change actually is Progress. To progressives, this feels like standing in the way of Progress. To a conservative, this is safeguarding Progress, the Progress previous generations achieved, from changes that, again, are more likely to be bad than good.
That’s not what we see with Conservatism with, and is much more in line with 20th century Progressivism (i.e. leveraging empirical knowledge to moderate political change).
Conservativism in practice, as I’ve seen it almost invariably, says new is always bad, traditional is always good. It’s a bicycle that’s all brakes and no pedals.
Sometimes a system that took centuries to build, like chattel slavery, should be destroyed in months or years, and inaction does more bad than good. Progressivism took off after the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution because empirical data showed that traditional structures were ill-suited for the quickly evolving world.
Conservativism in the modern era is akin to trying to fill your gas tank with oats and hay. Cars aren’t horses, and the longer you drag your feet in updating your policies, the more damage you’re going to do to your engine.
Conservatism holds that if things are pretty good, most changes are likely to make things worse and not better
The problem is that things aren’t pretty good for most people. The system is in shambles and most suggested changes probably would make things better for everyone who isn’t a millionaire.
- Comment on Aged like milk 6 days ago:
The most respectful thing we can do is honor his beliefs:
“I think it’s worth it. I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.” - Charlie Kirk
"“I think empathy is a made up New Age term that has done a lot of damage” - Charlie Kirk
“Guns save lives” - Charlie Kirk
- Comment on What are some franchises with characters that personify countries? 1 week ago:
Jean Pierre Polnareff for me.
- Comment on Found my spirit animal 1 week ago:
The picture looks unusually HD, and the font looks like a common AI font. Seems like there actually is a particularly fat bear named Otis though, so idk. Maybe it’s a real, high quality image with an unfortunate font choice, maybe it’s a fake image inspired by the real bear, who knows.
- Comment on 'Godfather of AI' says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — 'that is the capitalist system' 1 week ago:
They generate a lot less bullshit when deliberately trained on a specific dataset, and they’re only getting better with time.
- Comment on 'Godfather of AI' says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — 'that is the capitalist system' 1 week ago:
Exactly. Fewer juniors means fewer seniors in the future.
- Comment on 'Godfather of AI' says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — 'that is the capitalist system' 1 week ago:
The next quarterly report is literally the only thing in the world that matters
- Comment on 'Godfather of AI' says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — 'that is the capitalist system' 1 week ago:
There are tasks that are necessary but tedious. These are tasks that either consume the time of experienced professionals, or are offloaded to inexperienced professionals when payroll allows.
Tedious tasks are perfect candidates for automation, especially when the result is much easier to verify than to find. This frees the experienced professional to do interesting work.
- Comment on How to poop outdoors in a way that won’t harm the environment and other hikers 1 week ago:
DO NOT use a bag of holding for this, you will regret it.
- Comment on Trump invites world leaders to put money in his pocket 1 week ago:
No thanks. I’d rather a sequence of debilitating strokes that leave him even more mentally and physically impaired. I’d prefer he lives a long life in misery and impotence.
- Comment on 'Godfather of AI' says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — 'that is the capitalist system' 1 week ago:
The main threat is to junior professionals. AI won’t replace “actual” jobs, but it certainly has the potential to reduce them by giving one person the ability to do the work of multiple people. This is almost certain to primarily affect junior positions whose grunt-work is offloaded to AI, thus reducing the number of qualified senior professionals in the future.
- Comment on xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure 1 week ago:
Unfinished 2x4s are actually 2in x 4in, which originally you would trim on all sides to get a nicer surface getting down to the “modern” dimensions. Nowadays, you pretty much only see pre-trimmed lumber.
- Comment on Lawyer caught using AI-generated false citations in court case penalised in Australian first 1 week ago:
Totally. However, I think so long as you manually verify, it should really be fine. It takes ages to find a case that establishes precedence, but confirming the details of the case once you’ve found it is relatively quick.
If you skip the manual verification, yeah you deserve what you get.
- Comment on 4th dimension doesn't exist because even 1D or 2D themselves are not real. 1 week ago:
Just like every “2D” object has thickness, every “3D” object has a temporal duration. Without duration, it wouldn’t exist.
So everything is at least 4D, 3D doesn’t exist.
- Comment on Why solar power is the only viable power source in the long run 1 week ago:
Ultimately every energy source is the product of solar energy, so might as well cut out the middleman.
- Comment on No brainer 2 weeks ago:
You’re going to need a bobcat to find your front door.
I forgot that was a brand of front loaders for a second, and my brain went on a whole trip trying to figure why you’d need a bobcat.
- Comment on Malicious compliance 2 weeks ago:
Looks more like a stray markup made while editing.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I would prefer a mix: keep the Senate composed of actual legal experts, but stock the House by sortition (also expand it to equalize the ratio of representatives to constituents).
- Comment on Make it make sense 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Out of 10. Be specific! 2 weeks ago:
3.145183813819291837 isn’t the beginning of π, it’s just some random number that happens to also start with 3.14
- Comment on Not stealing 3 weeks ago:
Don’t forget leverage. Shorter limbs get more “strength” from their muscles.
- Comment on xkcd #3133: Dual Roomba 3 weeks ago:
I saw this at a club called The Closet
- Comment on Out of 10. Be specific! 3 weeks ago:
That is a rational number
- Comment on Not stealing 3 weeks ago:
Kinda reminds me of when I was using dating apps, and women would ask how they knew I wasn’t a serial killer. “If I was a serial killer, it would be pretty stupid to leave a bunch of digital records of me being the last person my victim talked to, I’d get caught immediately.”
- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 3 weeks ago:
I want biological kids, and I’m right about the point in my life where it would make the most sense to have them. But whenever family asks about it, I tell them I’m not raising children in this kind of administration. They try to suggest that it’s not that bad and I stand firm that they’re not seeing grandbabies until the government stops being so fashy.
Actually, millennials could probably hold our hypothetical babies hostage, see what’s more important to them.
- Comment on Trump set a trap and the corporate media will make you believe youre the one falling for it. 3 weeks ago:
Wherever it comes from, you need to secure it before striking
- Comment on Trump set a trap and the corporate media will make you believe youre the one falling for it. 3 weeks ago:
A general strike without an appropriately sized general fund is a recipe for a laughably short strike.
- Comment on What is a perfect anime? 3 weeks ago:
Mine is the drill that will pierce the heavens ☝️
- Comment on Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong? 4 weeks ago:
I think reasonable people can disagree on this point, on whether not tipping constitutes a secondary exploitation.
No, they cannot. Disagreement here is not reasoned, it is just another example of clever people using their cleverness to justify unreasonable prior beliefs.
You can boycott a business, and write them to express that your boycott is based on their tipping policy. That would be a reasonable strategy to support the workers.
By still giving the business owners money, knowing they pay their staff sub-minimum wages based on the convention of tipping, and then not tipping, you have not communicated any disapproval to management. You have in fact directly supported the business owner exploiting their workers, and joined that exploitation for personal benefit. That’s the opposite of supporting the worker.
