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- Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft? 8 hours ago:
He did say Americans, but anyway it’s a valid question for other countries too.
In Denmark we just introduced the draft for women too. I’m not sure what my girls are going to choose when they get old enough. We do have to the option to deny it simply by claiming to be pacifist, so I’m not worried, just curious on what they’ll choose.
- Comment on FADED. 🥴 23 hours ago:
Charlie Kirk didn’t kill himself.
But almost.
- Comment on Fascism bad. 1 day ago:
They are so afraid that they pretend to ignore diseases all together.
- Comment on Why are people like my grandpa so against seeing the whole world and learning a different language? 1 day ago:
Some people and especially old people have a lot of experience in not doing anything. They like to reaffirm their decision.
If he suddenly changed his mind, he’d also have to acknowledge that he had lived most of his life with a narrow mind in all the situations where he chose not to take a chance. It’s the sunken cost fallacy.
It’s not just old people. It happens all the time in all kinds of ways when someone doesn’t want to rigorously investigate their options in a situation and simply go with what they already have. They’ll make up excuses for their (lack of) choice afterwards. It could be chosing a restaurant, buying a car, settling in a certain neighborhood or anything really.
- Comment on War. War never changes. 2 days ago:
Yes, it’s probably good fun, but he just made an excellent example of how “gun safety” is often thrown around as an oxymoron by people who don’t actually practice actual gun safety.
In my ears it sounds like “I’m a good driver when I’m drunk”.
- Comment on War. War never changes. 2 days ago:
I don’t remember ever actually not knowing basic firearms safety, handling and operation
Many weekends I recall spending in middle of nowhere West Virginia getting hammered on weird chemicals that had just been invented 4 days prior with fully automatic weapon
Yes, I am looking at you weirdly.
- Comment on Also how do I know if it works? 5 days ago:
The primary function of most umbrellas is marketing.
If you want an umbrella that works better on (slightly) windy days you’re going to want one with a dome that covers further down over your head and is transparent, so you can see through it. These don’t break as easily in the wind, but of course any umbrella works like a sail.
- Comment on the world 6 days ago:
Sons of Anarchy. There’s a season ender where some Irish bloke kidnaps a child and sails away. They had to make an entire season in Ireland because these knobheads of criminal but also mechanics can’t figure out to follow the kidnapper on water, even of they’re standing on a pier with hundreds of boats.
- Comment on Looks fine to me 6 days ago:
Yeah there’s too much stuff to restore.
Every time anyone wants to do anything new in my city, there’s a choir of old people moaning about the removal of old stuff.
Seriously… if they want to keep that shit, put it in a museum. We don’t need your old railways in the center of the city for memorials. We don’t use them. You don’t use them. They haven’t been used for 70 years. The same kind of shit is present in each and every city throughout Europe. It has no preservation value. We can remember your great grand uncle’s achievement in other ways. Take a photo and look at it as fondly as much as you want.
It’s apparently wildly surprising that humans were all over Europe thousands of years ago. Come on. They had feet, of course they shat in the shrubbery where we live. We do not have to preserve all of it.
I surely don’t hope future generations dig out the shit I’ve posted online.
When they invented LIDAR scanning and flew over Germany, they found a lot of old stuff in the dense forests that had never even been investigated. It was silently decided not to even attempt to dig all that shit out. Good call Germany. We don’t need any more stone axeheads in the museum. They’re not that different, and I don’t care if you can trace your lineage to the man who made it. We’re not keeping that rock.
People should have a right to be forgotten.
Ötzi never asked to be dug up. People made stories about how he died of cold. Other people say it was sacrificial. The latest I’ve read was that he a tumor in the ass.
Have some decency. Leave that shit alone. The wearing of time is prettier than restoration anyway. It’s a solid reminder. Restoration of artifacts is like botox to a 70 years old… you’re gonna look like shit either way.
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 1 week ago:
You have to consider: Do you actually want to meet a young woman who hangs out in bars, restaurants and airports? Spend all night talking about her Gucci bag from Dubai or some shit?
If those are the options you have, I’d choose the old married lesbian any day.
- Comment on Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS 1 week ago:
I don’t understand why I would want to buy a new computer so their OS can have their AI do that stuff that they want.
Why don’t they just do it themselves then? I never asked for any of that shit.
- Comment on Just one more square bro 1 week ago:
It’s not just primes.
- Comment on Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes 1 week ago:
“I ain’t never said no such thing” - Albert Einstein
- Comment on Pissing in the shower is better in every way than pissing in the toilet. 1 week ago:
It’s better to piss in the shower than to shower in the piss.
It’s better to shit in the sink than to sink in the shit.
- Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles 1 week ago:
Fuck cars alright, but as long as I’m dependant on a car, my no.1 reason to get an EV is that I hate the oil industry even more. Fuck their oil and money and pollution and fuck their wars and politics.
- Comment on A product of his environment 1 week ago:
Of course there are home owners associations in Europe. They’re just not crazy.
- Comment on Sell your RAM, and quickly go from COD to the real world. 1 week ago:
Skill issue.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 1 week ago:
I’m not going to rule out the possibility of something existing that we don’t know of yet.
However, if we’re supposed to look for anything in any way, we first need to know what we’re looking for. So, what’s a ghost? Is a a soul, and if so, what’s a soul?
I think that’s an interesting question with or without ghost.
People who believe in souls, should attempt to explain what a soul is and how they experience their existence. Is it an emergent feature of the electrons or brainwaves that can travel in other dimensions that our normal physics can’t detect or something completely unknown?
People who have experiences with ghosts and souls should be investigated. How do they detect their observations? Are they somehow able to sense things that happen in other dimensions? That’d be really cool, and I still won’t rule it out. The human mind can do weird stuff. For instance echo localization like bats do, seeing more colours than normal or even just perfect pitch. Stuff like that is provable and shows that our senses can be expanded by training. Perhaps we even have dormant senses like seeing magnetic fields like birds do.
So let’s say some people can see ghosts but we just can’t measure it currently, because we don’t know how it works. We can still make an experiment where we compare the observations from these special skills and see if they align. If it turns out that the people who can see ghosts agree, then we should definitely investigate it further and find out what happens in their heads when they see ghosts. Where does the brain impulses come from? That’ll teach us about the special sense, which could then prove the existence of ghosts.
I doubt their observations match up in a controlled environment. It’s a shame because it would be really easy to prove the existence of ghosts.
- Comment on The State of the Union 2 weeks ago:
Rabbit Hole:
- Comment on restraint 2 weeks ago:
It’s lice. You get 300 million lice.
Now, can you build the potato clocked, huh?
- Comment on You know you wanna 2 weeks ago:
Maybe this is the 1st. iteration still being copied because nobody bothers making a new design.
People also still say “hello” when they answer the telephone. That’s even older.
- Comment on whatever tf this is 2 weeks ago:
They used muzzle loaded cannons at his time, so it makes sense. It’s not only for direction, but for faster rate of fire.
- Comment on You know you wanna 2 weeks ago:
No, you’re not. The internet is unsurprisingly full of people being annoyed with just that.
The most valid explanation is that quotation marks used to mean something else. Before we had bold and italics and underscores, typographers would sometimes use quotation marks for emphasis. This kind of ancient mark-up language can be seen in advertising up until the 1950s or so. It is considered to be wrong now.
- Comment on Always there, just waiting. 2 weeks ago:
Try it, but don’t get disappointed if it doesn’t match your childhood memories at first try.
The ones my parents had in the garden wouldn’t be found in a store. They’re honestly just plain bad, but they’re the ones I remember most fondly.
- Comment on Always there, just waiting. 2 weeks ago:
Apples are much more useful in cooking, except for desserts, where pears are better.
- Comment on Always there, just waiting. 2 weeks ago:
How come?
- Comment on Furniture for sale 2 weeks ago:
Using the gift of knitwear. It’s so hip.
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- Comment on I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes 2 weeks ago:
I believe it’s called data poisoning, which theoretically could be used to hack something in some theoretical situation.
It’s not the case here. He simply left a turd on the sidewalk and then the AI picked it up.
- Comment on Talents leave AI companies: "They are putting profits over sanity and safety" 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think they even care about profits anymore.
Billionaires live in the balance sheet, not the P/L statements.
