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- Comment on Transliterated country names into Chinese Language use pre-existing characters that already has its own meaning, therefore native Chinese speakers have a subconcious impression based on country names. 3 days ago:
Nah fam you should probably wait until Trump dies, which won’t be much longer.
My point was only that a lot of the news is a little hyperbolic, you should check other sources to see exactly what people in your situation are facing, I ain’t passing out financial or travel advice, just providing perspective.
- Comment on Transliterated country names into Chinese Language use pre-existing characters that already has its own meaning, therefore native Chinese speakers have a subconcious impression based on country names. 3 days ago:
A couple points that media routinely skips right past because the current drama is great for clicks and views.
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The current “escalation” of immigration hostility is only slightly more aggressive than it’s always been.
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And that percentage of bad cases and horror stories against tourists is very, very small to begin with. At least compared to the HUGE number of people flowing in and out of the country every hour. This is why the whole spectacle being played out by this administration is so ludicrous and pointless. More people were still deported under Biden. More people still stay in the country illegally just by overstaying their permits or travel visas.
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- Comment on It will trickle down any second now 3 days ago:
about to blow.
about to
It’s not. Speaking from decades of living under this, it’s always framed this way, but there are no international financial cops, there’s nobody with American held debt that dares try to collect, we are the biggest, bloated monster with the biggest, baddest bloated military.
At the end of the day, the one with the biggest stick wins. Until that collapses, USA will continue to have an economic hegemony.
- Comment on It will trickle down any second now 3 days ago:
Not shown: the innumerable corporate wars fought to create and expand these borders.
This is already happening guys, this IS going to be our medium-term future.
- Comment on Transliterated country names into Chinese Language use pre-existing characters that already has its own meaning, therefore native Chinese speakers have a subconcious impression based on country names. 4 days ago:
If you can separate out the politics, America really is a beautiful country. So is China, I’ve been to both. Everyone should see both at least once.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 4 days ago:
I’m not policing shit, but it paints an impression that you might not be aware of if you care about people’s impressions.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 4 days ago:
I can’t imagine using the word “normie” unironically in 2025.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 4 days ago:
A lot of people get called “idiots” but that doesn’t mean I can’t actually differentiate who’s really an idiot.
(There is a subtle subtext in this reply, see if you can catch it.)
- Comment on Skyrim on Switch 2 ships with severe input lag and a huge 53GB file size despite being capped at 30FPS 4 days ago:
The year is 2064. The world outside is fire and riots.
A new life is brought into the world, the hospital lights flicker. The doctor, dirty and worn out, pushes the new parents a form on a battered clipboard.
“Congratulations to you both, now please sign this release to bring your baby home, but not before you designate which formats of Skyrim your child will inherit, please understand this is not optional, and we no longer take Bitcoin to pay the mandatory $60 Skyrim Fee, so please use cash, credit or ration cards to pay.”
- Comment on After Black Ops 7's weaker launch, Call of Duty will no longer do back-to-back releases in the same series 5 days ago:
Go buy Vein on Steam.
Yah it’s nothing like CoD Zombies, but it IS a zombie game, and it’s made by just two people trying to make a quality survival game and it’s obviously a work of passion worth supporting.
I haven’t bought a big company release in years at this point. There are so, so many good indie games being made right now, this will be a nostalgia point for kids someday, back when there were was a flood of games and half were huge, bloated AAA wastes of money that nobody liked, and the other half were amazing, weird, experimental concept ideas produced in low fidelity and released for $5 - $20.
- Comment on That's interesting 5 days ago:
When it’s a few hundred people now and then, we have potential for natural selection.
When it’s hundreds of millions of people who run our businesses, our hospitals, our food delivery network, our power stations and all the vast support systems that make those systems work, then we have a much, much bigger problem than a few people putting their baby in the freezer because chatGTP doesn’t actually have a concept of how the world works.
And this is just how it is right now, still a brand new technology. What’s it going to be like when it can predict all our behavior patterns, all our thoughts and wants and be able to find all our emotional backdoors and hack our brains like hypnotizing a chicken by drawing a line in front of its beak?
- Comment on That's interesting 5 days ago:
Sam at home: “In the oven? Are you SURE?”
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 6 days ago:
Every country is worried about their currency collapsing because all economies are deeply connected.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 6 days ago:
There are a lot of delusional people in here posting about their personal shower-fantasies of what they would do in the apocalypse. You can safely discard all that. If it gets so bad you need guns and tools and… blacksmithing supplies? you are so utterly fucked that gold and bartering will be the last of your concerns. People will be fucking eating each other.
Read some Cormac McCarthy for a more realistic view of the end of the world. (Then have a therapist on hand for the after-effects.)
For a financial collapse, gold would probably retain value, a society still needs something to base the value of its trading on, we can’t just all carry around sacks of grain. How much value gold will retain is very hard to predict, but people have been using it for so long that it’s already survived several widespread disasters and is still in use.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 6 days ago:
If it gets so bad that you need tools for building shelter, you are absolutely fucked unless you already have farmland and can defend it. People are massively ignorant about how difficult it is to live off the land if you don’t have experience in it and a lot of supplies and knowledge accumulated. It takes acres of crops and animals to support a couple people. It takes months or even years to make that land productive enough to keep you barely alive. Then if you have hard winters you better hope you have a stockpile.
Financial collapse is one thing, but a total societal/technological collapse would be bad in orders of magnitude that I don’t even know how to describe it.
Source: work in logistics.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 6 days ago:
Why? It’s not inherently valuable beyond a handful of industrial/electronic uses.
It has the precedent of societal agreement going back thousands of years longer than literally anything else besides food and prostitution. If the world started over from the stone-age, people would be using precious metals to represent value all over again. You don’t need it to make sense, you just need a social agreement, and that doesn’t happen with just anything that can fall apart or decay or be found easily.
- Comment on People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts 1 week ago:
I do have a problem with morons saying that buttholes are the cleanest part of your body and then suggesting to eat ass.
You are unhinged, possibly insane and cannot converse like an adult. Have a good one. I’ll never see your comments again.
- Comment on People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts 1 week ago:
There’s no such thing as a part of your body that “won’t get clean no matter how much you clean it” you have to understand that is an irrational statement and if you don’t understand that, you’re going to have a lot of issues in life with understanding how hygiene works and what “clean” even means.
I implore you to understand how the world works a little deeper or you’re going to be that insufferable partner who bases their ideas of what’s “pure” or not by vibes and tradition.
- Comment on People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts 1 week ago:
it’s not a clean location, no matter how much you clean it.
This is irrational, you may be on an OCD spectrum and I don’t say that to be a snark but many people learn they have issues from exchanges like this when they realize the stories they write for themselves to explain things aren’t normal or rational.
- Comment on People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts 1 week ago:
How the hell is poop getting everywhere if your fucking BUTTHOLE IS CLEAN???
You’re really not going to like to learn what happens when you flush your toilet. Or have pets. Or open your door. Or walk inside with shoes or clothes you’ve worn in a bathroom or near other people.
You’re really not going to like learning what’s in your salad.
- Comment on People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts 1 week ago:
Organic molecules aren’t dangerous or infectious in any way. They might have smells but they are chemically identical to other sources of the same particles.
If particles bother you, you are gonna have a hard time.
You’re getting downvoted because you’re trying to make a somewhat scientific argument about a thing that is completely a subjective feeling of disgust. It’s totally valid and honest to say you have that feeling, we all have irrational feelings about things. But many of our problems in the world come from people trying to write stories to explain their irrational feelings rather than shrugging and saying “It’s just how I feel, I know it doesn’t make sense.”
- Comment on People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts 1 week ago:
I think if the average person had fecal-vision they would either have a nervous breakdown at the amount of personal body fluids and materials that coat everything we see and touch, or they would have to get over squeamishness immediately in order to keep functioning.
I promise your phone, right now, has bacteria that are produced in the bowels of a person. It’s also on every surface of your bathroom, on your keyboard, shoes and hands and probably everything else.
Your body is constantly seeking equilibrium with your microbiome. You wouldn’t want to get rid of that bacteria or you would die.
If you have good hygiene and don’t let shit dry in your ass cheeks, those areas are actually more likely to be in equilibrium than other parts of your body, because they don’t get sterilized or handle sources of foreign bacteria. Meaning there isn’t a harmful imbalance of one kind of bacteria versus another.
It’s very easy to test. You take a swab of your ass, your hands and your mouth and let it grow. Can you guess what petri dish is more likely to look like the opening credits to The Last of Us?
- Comment on People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts 1 week ago:
Or stop leaving them out when guests come over. And also, get new friends.
- Comment on This, a pen, and coffee 1 week ago:
I don’t even know where they spread his ashes so that’s a real accomplishment.
- Comment on This, a pen, and coffee 1 week ago:
these games
If you’re talking about the skyrim/oblivion franchise in particular, it has a wide open feel that many players connect with the first times games gave them real freedom to explore a world and not just throw them on rails to go from place to place. I do think a lot of it is nostalgia.
Elden Ring was an action/adventure game closer to “adult zelda” but also had that feeling of freedom that players liked, and Witcher 3 was just all of that but with a different style and different focus. Witcher 3 was a product of these kinds of games and evolved from them, so it’s expected that they would have figured out a few extra tricks to get you to connect, I do agree there was a lot more work that went into Witcher 3 in terms of making a world that felt convincing and solid. Not everyone wants that all the time though.
Also, Witcher was about a dude in a grittier world. Skyrim was about your view of sparkling mushroom caves and dragons from behind a bow. They both try different ways to engage you and they both appeal to different types of players.
- Comment on This, a pen, and coffee 1 week ago:
Butt stuff I assume.
- Comment on The Fuck Jar 1 week ago:
The science behind all this is pretty simple honestly.
When you shout you have to inhale first, and that act of inhaling gives you a burst of muscle power. But when you also combine that with a loud exclamation or a shout or curse, you actually startle yourself on some level. Your brain listens to you, always remember that. So when your brain hears you shout or scream, it drops everything and goes into survival mode. IE: a burst of adrenaline.
When you combine adrenaline and oxygen you can do almost super-human things like smash cinderblocks with your bare hands and lift cars off trapped people.
If you want to try charging your muscles for something strenuous like opening a tight jar lid, you can skip the cursing and shouting and just take three deep breaths, and on the last breath draw it in as fast and hard as you can and hold it for a moment as you try to exert the force, it will feel astonishingly easier.
- Comment on The Fuck Jar 1 week ago:
Taught martial arts for many years, yes shouting does boost energy in specific circumstances. There’s a whole art to it, and really it amounts to raising adrenaline levels in yourself (shouting startles yourself) and the inhaling before the shout charges your muscles.
In fact, you can get a fantastic demonstration of this without the shouting or cursing. Next time you have a jar lid or anything that you need to manually move that’s just slightly more difficult than your muscle power can comfortably move, take three very deep breaths, then on the last breath inhale as hard as you can and hold it for a moment as you try to open the jar or turn the thing, you will have a very noticeable burst of muscle power.
- Comment on The Sensory Biology of Plants 1 week ago:
It depends on if you think consciousness is something that emerges from information exchange systems or some higher level “thing” we don’t understand yet, and I lean towards the idea that consciousness emerges from information exchange systems. If that’s the case, then the universe, while containing massive areas of complexity, isn’t entirely exchanging information, only in isolated areas that are borrowing energy even as entropy broadly decreases. I would be more open the idea of some possibility of consciousness occurring in the hyper-low entropy state of the very early universe when everything was much closer together and there was enough energy to connect a whole universe worth of information.
- Comment on The Sensory Biology of Plants 1 week ago:
The foundational idea behind what the user is talking about is called panpsychism, it’s the idea that consciousness or awareness is actually a fundamental quality of the universe like fields or forces, in that it’s in everything, but only complex systems have actual thoughts.
The theory(?) states that even a single electron or proton has a state of awareness, but without any functional way to remember any information or think it’s just like some kind of flash of experience like if you suddenly developed perpetual amnesia about literally everything… while you were hurtling through the universe at high speed.
I get the concept, but I don’t get the usefulness of it. It feels too close to people wishing The Force was real.
Guys. You are not getting your light sabers this way.