zarkanian
@zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on histories mysteries 1 week ago:
That’s a d12. Clearly, the Romans were using it to play D&D.
- Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US 2 weeks ago:
if you go on /mu/ it’s gonna be no more toxic than basically any other forum you could go on.
I used to go on /mu/, and yes, it’s unbelievably toxic. I’m glad I don’t use 4chan anymore.
And this was long before all the QAnon shit happened.
- Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US 2 weeks ago:
Why would China want Biden to lose?
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 2 weeks ago:
There should be viable mass transit. This is a systemic problem.
- Comment on Reddit embracing all out enshittification 2 weeks ago:
And yet…
- Comment on TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out 2 weeks ago:
Why do people keep bringing up Palestine when talking about TikTok? Is this some CCP astroturfing?
- Comment on TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out 2 weeks ago:
How do you run a business on TikTok?
- Comment on TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out 2 weeks ago:
Champing at the bit (not “chomping”)
- Comment on TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out 2 weeks ago:
Zuck and Google have been spying on users for decades.
Also not Chinese companies.
- Comment on 'Women Who Code' Shuts Down Unexpectedly 3 weeks ago:
Ladies of code
Ah, yes. That one sounds more genteel, anyway.
doffs fedora
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 3 weeks ago:
For some (few) users, it’s required for work. The rest are addicts or Musk fans.
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 3 weeks ago:
I’m done wasting my life for other people.
I do enough of that at work as it is. I’ll be fucked if I do it during my downtime, too.
- Comment on clearly aliens 4 weeks ago:
I think it comes from the Bible. If you believe that everything in the Bible is true, and the Bible says that the pyramids were built by slaves…then they were built by slaves, dammit! You aren’t going to let some fancy-pants “professor” with their “science” tell you that the word of God is wrong, are you?!
- Comment on X’s Premium users can no longer hide their blue checks 4 weeks ago:
UwUayland?
- Comment on oc based on a true story 1 month ago:
I thought it was My Attorney Got Arrested.
- Comment on oc based on a true story 1 month ago:
Oof. That’s scary to think about. One hard knock on the head, and you’re a totally different person.
- Comment on oc based on a true story 1 month ago:
I knew a guy who was a philosophy major and his friend group was a bunch of atheist skeptics, so he knew all about logical fallacies and so on. He took a hard right turn into Pizzagate territory once Trump took office and now believes everything short of Flat Earth. (And maybe that, too. We haven’t talked in a loooooong time.)
The only way it makes sense to me is to think that if you have no moral compass, you’ll go whichever way the wind blows. Humans like to think that we’re rational, logical beings (even if nobody else is), but the truth is that we’re all driven by emotion. Strong values, such as a love of truth and hatred of bigotry, are what keep people from descending into this nonsense, not mere logic.
- Comment on oc based on a true story 1 month ago:
Did he attempt to Make America Great Again and fail? Or did he make it great, it immediately stopped being great once Biden took office, and now it has to be made great again?
- Comment on Hey, I'm new to GitHub! 2 months ago:
Git isn’t properly taught. I’ve studied programming both in college and in a boot camp, and both times they rushed right over git, showing only the bare essentials. This left me unprepared for the real world. I didn’t know how to do basic stuff like exclude files or even undo changes.
It’s so complex, they really should have a separate class for it.
- Comment on OpenAI boss Sam Altman wants $7tn. For all our sakes, pray he doesn’t get it 2 months ago:
I have no patience for things I’m not interested in: parties, most people. When someone examines a photo and says, ‘Oh, he’s feeling this and this and this,’ all these subtle emotions, I look on with alien intrigue.
Is he describing sociopathy?
- Comment on Why were so many people believers in the conspiracy that 9/11 was an inside job 2 months ago:
I think you need to reassess these people you respect a lot. Belief in 9-11 conspiracy theories is not common.
- Comment on Why were so many people believers in the conspiracy that 9/11 was an inside job 2 months ago:
Reports of pools of melting iron which allegedly can only be caused by thermite.
You can only melt iron with thermite? What?!
Thermite would also be the reason why there was so much dust
Yeah, why else would there be dust…around a gigantic building that collapsed.
- Comment on POV: Health Misinformation Is Rampant on Social Media 2 months ago:
At least it’s used correctly, in this case.
- Comment on POV: Health Misinformation Is Rampant on Social Media 2 months ago:
No, I understood that. Do you know about herd immunity?
- Comment on POV: Health Misinformation Is Rampant on Social Media 2 months ago:
What do you mean? Worth to whom?
Also, these people aren’t just harming themselves; they’re harming everyone around them. A vaccine isn’t like a seat belt. It doesn’t just protect you. It also protects the people around you. Additionally, by having a weaker immune system, these people are making their bodies breeding grounds for viruses which can mutate into new forms.
- Comment on POV: Health Misinformation Is Rampant on Social Media 2 months ago:
Right after they take a bunch of other people with them.
- Comment on FLOSS communities right now 2 months ago:
I just think it’s a bad argument. Telling somebody to use web forums instead of Discord is ignorant of why people use Discord in the first place.
- Comment on FLOSS communities right now 2 months ago:
You can’t search an IRC channel for previous conversations, though? Isn’t that what we were talking about?
- Comment on FLOSS communities right now 2 months ago:
How so?
- Comment on FLOSS communities right now 2 months ago:
Why compare Discord to web forums when it’s more like IRC? What’s the searchability and discoverability of that?