rambling_lunatic

@rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A boycott or strike with an end date is seldom effective.

  See for instance Reddit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U good, fam?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Life is like a fairy tale. Unfortunately it was written by Germans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says | Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Another day of thanking my past self for leaving

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He protecc⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet they cannot survive a snail

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feral Science⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The expedition was not real. I was alluding to Lovecraft without naming him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feral Science⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There were some geologists (field work by my reckoning) from Massachusetts who went mad after an expedition to the Antarctic. The survivors came back mumbling something about a horrible thing from beyond the mountains.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The great outdoors⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, fellow worker

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The great outdoors⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can someone please explain? I don’t get it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cognitive Biases⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Counterpoint: the replication crisis

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cognitive Biases⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In a vacuum, appealing to authority is fallacious. An idea must stand up on its own merits.

  IRL, things get fuzzy. No one has the expertise and time to derive everything from first principles and redo every experiment ever performed. Thus we sadly have to have some level of trust in people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Absolute Units⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Would this mean that the coming Age of Fire will result in smaller whales as global warming screws with the krill spawn rates?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A friend and I were recently discussing how spineless modern boycotts are.

  We set a goddamn deadline for when the Reddit boycott ended. No wonder Spez just waited. Most people then just continued using the website. What a disgrace.

  Imagine if after one week of the genocide in Gaza, the BDS efforts just stopped. A boycott must be indefinite. It should go on until demands are met.