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- Comment on Alpha 2 months ago:
Yeah, but a satirical one, not one to be taken literally.
- Comment on How many squirrels do you think you could take in a fight to the death? 2 months ago:
Whoever dies first loses.
- Comment on Is he cheating on just me or with the Second Law of Thermodynamics? 3 months ago:
No reason. It’s just that when there wasn’t anything to experience it, nobody asked themselves that question.
So the question is a consequence of our existence, and that’s the answer
- Comment on "Hey Google, Turn my balls off" 4 months ago:
What? Why would you permanently compress it?
- Comment on Benny 😍😍😍 4 months ago:
I don’t see been Shapiro as an “opponent”. His weapongs-grade bad takes aimed at nothing but you stoke the fires of a culture war simple are vile.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like fireworks are a complete waste of money and a ridiculous amount of unnecessary Pollution? 4 months ago:
Try spending a new year’s eve in e.g. Germany.
everybody above the age of 15 can and will start fireworks in close vicinity to everyone else doing it. You do not feel safe.
- Comment on My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore 4 months ago:
Doesn’t apply to the author here, so I don’t understand why you brought it up?
- Comment on J.K. Rowling Blasts “Gender Taliban” David Tennant After ‘Harry Potter’ Actor Said “Whinging” Trans Critics Are On “Wrong Side Of History” 4 months ago:
We could maybe give people like her a glimpse into the sheer defiance that nature has against all attempts to fit into tiny categorical boxes.
It’s not just the topics that she doesn’t understand (especially the intersection of gender with endocrinology and neurology), but everything.
If you are a biologist and think you have found a rule that applies to some part of biology, you will feel deeply uncomfortable until the inevitable exceptions start cropping up that tell you that while the theory is still statistically sound, it’s not unnaturally strict and therefore plausible.
Obviously trans people exist and are valid. Thinking otherwise would be ignoring mountains of biological patterns and data that tell us that every binary in biology isn’t actually clean-cut.
- Comment on J.K. Rowling Blasts “Gender Taliban” David Tennant After ‘Harry Potter’ Actor Said “Whinging” Trans Critics Are On “Wrong Side Of History” 4 months ago:
As a biologist, your statement would amuse me if there wasn’t so much harm being done to trans and gender non-conforming people.
TERFs invoke half-remembered high-school level biology as if it was mathematical fact. In actual biological reality, nothing is binary or absolute.
- Comment on J.K. Rowling Blasts “Gender Taliban” David Tennant After ‘Harry Potter’ Actor Said “Whinging” Trans Critics Are On “Wrong Side Of History” 4 months ago:
How about being a compassionate human being who tries to understand the conversation partner’s fears without bowing down to misinformation? If that’s not enough for them because they see debunking their bunk as personal attack, I don’t think anyone in their cult is an acceptable conversation partner for them.
- Comment on Shower thoughts are wasting water. 4 months ago:
It’s how dishwashers work: more cycles = more rinsing, then later rinse it all off
- Comment on NASA finds humanity would totally fumble asteroid defense 4 months ago:
That’s the last three words of the article. The author didn’t miss the connection either.
I always wonder when people repeat something from the article or ask a question that’s answered in the article: did you not read it or did you just want to start a discussion about this connection and are somehow constrained in the number of words you can write per day?
- Comment on RIP Twitter Dot Com: Elon Musk Moves Social Network to X Web Address 5 months ago:
Twitter (now “X”)
- Comment on I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun 6 months ago:
I hope things like this will take off: cooltech.zone/tangara/
- Comment on my humps 6 months ago:
I mean, hippos are one of the most dangerous big animals
- Comment on Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO 6 months ago:
It’s not magic, but there will never be a life saving treatment that ruins you financially here. And travel insurance is dirt cheap here as well.
- Comment on Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO 6 months ago:
Because you emigrated and get this live saving essential service for free?
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 7 months ago:
Yeah, a measurement cup is half a pint. They are defined volumes
- Comment on Eric S. Raymond / autodafe · Tools for freeing your project from the clammy grip of autotools. 7 months ago:
My point was that packagers should use straight up VCS and run all build tools instead of relying on partially pre-built tarballs uploaded by the upstream maintainers.
- Comment on Eric S. Raymond / autodafe · Tools for freeing your project from the clammy grip of autotools. 7 months ago:
It does? I guess I never looked inside that build directory.
- Comment on Eric S. Raymond / autodafe · Tools for freeing your project from the clammy grip of autotools. 7 months ago:
Why compile to a Makefile? You’d end up with automake gunk all over again. Just use cmake or so, where the declarative language replaces the Makefile entirely
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 8 months ago:
Ah yes, as we all know, family, friends, and poverty doesn’t exist. So everyone is either complicit or will immediately move to whatever perfect country you think exists.
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 8 months ago:
So you’re calling me a vassal, you dork.
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 8 months ago:
So “ig” means “inhabitant”?
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 8 months ago:
WTF are you calling me?
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 8 months ago:
I’m from the EU, where there’s laws in place for some industries to put EU user data exclusively on servers that are in the EU. I’m assuming that the US doesn’t have that kind of law applying to TikTok, and that the US servers are an infrastructure decision by Tiktok’s owner company. If I’m right, then that’s your answer. If I’m wrong then they really don’t need to ban them.
For the record, please keep in mind that I’m not defending any party here. I’m very aware of post cold war yellow/red scare stories, I just don’t see how this inevitably has to be the consequence of one.
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 8 months ago:
Why is it racist if you want to reduce the number of governments spying on you?
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 8 months ago:
They already have control over Xitter and Facebook/Instagram.
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 8 months ago:
I think Europe recently forced the matter, but I think you can’t in the US.
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 8 months ago:
I don’t get why you draw parallels here. The reactionaries are against veneer-of-spooky pieces of media because of moral outrage bullshit. Media literacy is a thing. Nobody is going to believe in dragons or Satan.
The US government is against big China-controlled media platforms with loads of US users because platforms can control which kind of content users see. You can exert a lot of control over people if you show them only one point of view.
I think the US has enough of a problem with home grown radicalized conspiracy nuts, but banning a China owned TikTok is still a very different move than banning D&D would have been.