andros_rex

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stress⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  She’s a wealthy heiress yes, but her parents did use their wealth to send her to a teenage torture facility. As a survivor of a similar facility, the fact that she is speaking up about those hellholes and might help get them closed down makes her absolutely amazing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is one of the techniques I was taught in a sketching class.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Conspiracy Unmasked⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand the gooner/gamer meltdowns any time a video game has a female character that doesn’t look like a porn model.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s really fascinating is how many of the advice communities for certain sexual practices are run by bona fide rapists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Bethesda released Skyrim today, they would have made it woke⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Morrowind is a basically the thesis of Things Fall Apart in video game form, with a good deal of Dune. It’s an examination of colonialism. Every detail of that game is dripping with politics. The Dunmer are racist and engage in horrific chattel slavery - but does that mean it is right for the Empire to colonize them and take their resources? There’s substantial evidence that your character is a spook sent to “fulfill” an indigenous prophecy to tighten the Empire’s control.

  There’s also a hermaphrodite male presenting god who has had hundreds of children with something quite close to the Devil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit Logging in with Google Accounts Automatically⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The only time that account has ever been used on that computer had been to log into YouTube.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit Logging in with Google Accounts Automatically⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve just never had this happen with any other service. Usually you are expected to click through something to log in with google. The fact that Reddit is looking at every google account your computer is logged into, and then forcibly logging in any that are associated feels like a serious violation of privacy.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have no idea how to react to this.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  [Good thing we’d never do something as awful as mutilate the corpses of black rebels as prizes/lose track of them in the enlightened 20th century.] (theguardian.com/…/move-bombing-black-children-bon…)

  The bones of Black children who died in 1985 after their home was bombed by Philadelphia police in a confrontation with the Black liberation group which was raising them are being used as a “case study” in an online forensic anthropology course presented by an Ivy League professor.

  It has emerged that the physical remains of one, or possibly two, of the children who were killed in the aerial bombing of the Move organization in May 1985 have been guarded over the past 36 years in the anthropological collections of the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have no idea how to react to this.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We have ample evidence of the sexual abuse of enslaved women - you can see that in the skin color of most black folks who live in the US.

  We know they raped their male slaves too, but it doesn’t produce physical evidence. But a lot of the obsession with the size of black men’s penises starts in the mid 1800s.

  The Delectable Negro is a fascinating read about disturbingly erotic cannibalism of enslaved folks. They ate Nat Turner after they put his rebellion down, and the descriptions are just weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Secret calculator hack brings ChatGPT to the TI-84, enabling easy cheating⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I played whatever version was easily accessible on Ubuntu’s repository in 2009, and once managed to get a ton of bitches and effectively infinite money. I have no idea how I did it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  [W]e found a loophole. Their systems were programmed in such a way that you didn’t have to receive 10 books, you only had to order 10 books. So we found an obscure book about lichens that they had in their system but was out of stock. We began ordering the one book we wanted and nine copies of the lichen book. They would ship out the book we needed and a note that said, “Sorry, but we’re out of the lichen book.” One of these days we’re going to get all those lichen books dumped onto our front lawn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s frustrating, because you can tell they spent a lot of time making the words weaselly enough. The one about climate models especially enrages me, because yeah, they’re predictive tools with limitations (which I’ve discussed with students when I’ve taught with climate sims). But I know my old department head (who used to compliment kiddos for forgoing masks in 2020) is going to have those “uncertainties” do a lot of work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the USA have so few legal protections for ordinary people, and how can we change that?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s been deliberate dismantling of social services.

  I was married to a wealthy man. He was controlling and abusive, and had the police remove me from our home. It wasn’t legal, but the police have lost the records of whatever they did that night. I couldn’t get a lawyer to help me, he had access to my bank accounts and emptied them. I reached out to multiple domestic violence agencies - there is no shelter, there are no lawyers, there are maybe one or two therapists if you are lucky. But I’m basically completely helpless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Franklin Standards need to be on everyone’s radar. They don’t want your kids to learn about climate change.

  Explain how and why Earth’s climate changes over time.

  Climate changes continually at all time scales and Earth’s climate has never remained constant.

  The Earth’s climate has varied greatly between glacial advances and retreats that correlate with cyclical oscillations in Earth’s orbit around the Sun (Milankovitch Cycles, precession).

  In addition to being affected by the climate, the biosphere also has a significant effect on the climate, including self-regulation and resiliency (carbon-oxygen cycle, hydrological cycle).

  Humans are just one of the many influences on Earth’s climate (urban heat island effect, wetland drainage, deforestation, agriculture).

  Computer models of climate are simplified simulations of the real world, and make prognostications that are inherently uncertain.

  Global weather forecast models (short term) and climate models (long term) are quite different in their design, their strengths, weaknesses, value, limitations, and uncertainties.

  The wording is subtle, but you can see how they are attacking the idea of anthropogenic climate change. (There’s similar fuckery with evolution and some subtle anti-trans stuff.) Oil and gas companies have a lot of money and can afford a lot of propaganda. No states have adopted these standards yet - we think Florida and Texas will go first, then Oklahoma will follow. But this information warfare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Veggitale facts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Come check out Oklahoma! Where you can be both the Secretary of Transportation and head the Turnpike authority (at least for a year, until the attorney general gets off his ass)! You can opt out of complying with state law (the Open Meetings Act) if you really really want to bulldoze thousands of family homes to build a toll road and don’t like that people have opinions on it.

  There’s no guarantee that your kids teacher is even background checked, much less that they are qualified to teach the subject they are teaching! Thousands of dollars in COVID funds earmarked for education went to buying Christmas trees and TVs. We also are trying to be national leaders in ignoring the first amendment and establishing a religious online charter school!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to use a windows 11 machine for work, and it genuinely surprises me how terrible it is. I don’t understand the opposition to local accounts - if I’m working somewhere with public WiFi/capture portal, I have to use my phone as a hotspot first.

  The PIN log in seems to roll a random number and decide each morning whether it is going to work or not.

  I also got a laptop with 11 on it for gaming. So much spyware I’ve had to uninstall, configuring anything is a nightmare. I was trying to adjust my mouse sensitivity/figure out why the scroll wheel is either 0 or to the moon, but even when you dig into the control panel, half the settings are missing.

  I also had to turn off my WiFi and google commands to make a local account, because otherwise Microsoft accounts are mandatory.

  Every change seems to make the experience actively worse for the user.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok do a good⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The original definition goes back to the 30’s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Close call⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The idea is that if you deliberately fuck up a basic household cleaning task, you won’t be asked to do it again. Loading a washer was itself an interruption of FIFA/most recent Ubisoft game, and that stunt was an attempt to get out of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Close call⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My ex bought FIFA/NBA every year as it came out like clock work. Set the game to the easiest possible settings, but complained about rubber banding and reset the quarter when he lost.

  The one time I got him to do laundry, he threw away half of our socks. He didn’t want to find pairs. My fancy dress socks, my novelty socks - all in the trash when I get home from work.

  Liking certain video games isn’t itself a red flag, it’s that mindless, video games as avoidance/wish fulfillment that’s concerning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ah sweet!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Art project from 2020 - intended to provoke the conversations here for sure. Still involves some animal products in production it looks like.

  I don’t think this could be feasibly upscaled to sustain a dystopia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ah sweet!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Palahnuik has written an auto cannibalism scene. In Haunted, girl passes out, other people decide to eat her (framing story is that it’s a reality tv show, but they all want it to go wrong and kill each other, it is extremely fucked up and is where “Guts” is from if you’ve ever been subjected to that). She wakes up to the smell of her own ass in the microwave.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is prostitution called sometimes world's oldest profession?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve read an argument (I think I can cite this to David Graeber maybe) that women were one of the original forms of property. Early forms of marriage are essentially master/slave, or a form of prostitution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think. The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I live in Oklahoma. Often, I don’t even get to vote for a position, because the only candidate that runs is a Republican.

  And having volunteered on several Dem campaigns, that’s because Oklahoman republicans are allowed to terrorize and harass Dems into not running at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Texas power prices briefly soar 1,600% as a spring heat wave is expected to drive record demand for energy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, if you want a governor abandoning his people, look to Kevin Stitt last year when Tulsa was without power for about a week. Lieutenant Governor was out too, literally no one had any idea who was in charge of the state.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it is fucked. But when we advocate against things that are fucked we have to be precise with the facts or else everything we say gets disregarded. [I speak up against this professionally - I am 100% on your side mate]

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the states? At least in mine, parents have to give permission for the school to paddle. Most districts don’t want the liability or the paperwork. At least in public ed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s hard to get away with “your presentation and profession is shit and you didn’t bother looking into any information other than your first google search” as a peer unfortunately. I did manage some gentle questions about AS’s one autistic board member’s exit….

  It is fascinating that “behavioral health” seems to be just torturing/drugging kids until they get better. I didn’t get ABA, but very similar treatment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox president: Studio closures will ensure 'business is healthy for the long term'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  FO5 is going to be a FO76 tier disaster. With the show there has to be a ton of pressure to crank something out the door. Microsoft’s folks are probably beating down Todd’s door. Bethesda has never really understood the series anyways.

  If TES6 comes out, it’ll have 3 skills and ignore all established lore to turn an interesting and nuanced character into Bad Guy who wants to destroy the world for no reason. Admittedly normies really like this version of the series, so maybe it’ll still be wildly successful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re also remarkable to compare to similar cults that developed around the same time/were inspired by the same ideas. You can trace both Scientology and Mormonism to Millerism and the Great Disappointment with a little bit of work.