andros_rex
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- Comment on The Woke Veggie Tale Leftists Won't Tell You About This One 11 hours ago:
That idea comes from James Ussher, an Irish religious leader, based on his interpretation of the biblical genealogies.
- Comment on This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄 5 days ago:
Iirc they let you say something has 0 grams of trans fat if it’s less than 5 grams per serving.
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 1 week ago:
I just got a full time job and health insurance, after being without for a while.
My mental health is spectacular now. From the day I got my offer, I’ve felt cool as a cucumber. My dumbass ex also accidentally transferred me several thousand dollars, so just the feeling of having a nest egg and safety is like the world being lifted off my shoulders. Therapy never did anything even close.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
Germany had a program where they gave foster children to pedophiles, up into the 1980’s, because they thought that the creeps would take care of the children if they could fuck them.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
I think there’s a particular problem with “piracy” when it involves people’s naked bodies. There are a ton of consequences to having naked photos or videos of you having sex posted publicly.
Most of the major porn websites (Pornhub, Brazzers, etc) are owned by the same mega corp (MindGeek? I forget, they’ve changed their names multiple times. Also have connections to Canadian organized crime…) That mega corp has been sued multiple times for hosting both revenge porn and CSAM.
Like, when you are watching porn, how do you know that the person consented to it being recorded and uploaded to that website? How do you know that someone didn’t upload private videos of their ex or an older looking child?
I don’t really have a problem with cartoon porn because it doesn’t have those risks. When people draw cartoon porn they’re drawing it to share. It does concern me that kids searching for their favorite cartoon characters are likely to encounter porn, but that’s a different issue.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
Watching porn is morally problematic.
Most people aren’t paying for their porn. They’re watching stuff uploaded, for free/pirated, often without the involvement or approval of the people involved.
Porn also normalizes extreme acts - things like choking, which is more dangerous than actually whipping someone.
- Comment on This Meme Is For Da Bois Heh Heh 1 week ago:
Baculum? I hardly knew him!
- Comment on BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just introduced the Guaranteed Paid Vacation Act — a bill to guarantee at least two weeks of paid vacation to every full-time worker in America. Over 90 other members of Cong… 1 week ago:
Yep! So instead of one full time job you had to juggle multiple part time jobs because a lot of business watch your hours like a hawk.
- Comment on New level of capitalist hell unlocked: Companies are relying on AI to pinpoint exactly how desperate job seekers are in the hopes they can pay them as little as possible. 2 weeks ago:
Uber uses an algorithm to determine its prices.
There was an article I read a couple years ago, but cannot find, where it talked about Uber essentially profiling different drivers. People who did Uber casually were more likely to get better pay, people who were clearly dependent on Uber to pay their bills got lower offers.
- Comment on dookie donnie 2 weeks ago:
Chick tracts are great schlocky fun. I love the little gay demons in this one
And of course, every DND fan should learn about the dangers of roleplaying games from Dark Dungeons.
- Comment on It'll be ok. Nobody's going to judge you. 2 weeks ago:
The big thing is that vectors seem to be the kind of “shoved into the end of the semester if there’s time after testing” from what I’ve seen. Most of the time, even when I work with calculus students they have no idea what a vector is.
A big thing to is getting them to understand what square roots even really mean. I’ve noticed a lot of students struggle with getting sqrt(x) * sqrt(x) = x, so even just the simple “hey, can you get a negative by taking a number and multiplying by itself?” is often a hurdle cognitively. (A lot of this I suspect has to do with not understanding what multiplication or division really “are” - I usually remediate with the area model)
- Comment on It'll be ok. Nobody's going to judge you. 2 weeks ago:
Imaginary numbers are typically introduced in a high school “algebra 2” course in my neck of the woods, like junior year unless you are accelerated or held back. I feel like it’s really common for them to not be taught well - the naming is something that occasionally trips up the teachers.
The teaching of them is something that really interests me - they’re the kind of thing that triggers the “when am I ever going to use this?”/rants about not learning how to do taxes. You can talk about the relevance to electronics, but DC electronics is already hard enough for most to comprehend.
I like to connect it to rotation. Show them the pattern of powers of i with physical movement - quarter turns.
- Comment on dookie donnie 2 weeks ago:
This is the kind of thing one thinks after injecting quite a bit of THC, but a conspiracy theory I half-believe in is that shit like Left Behind was a plot to mislead people so they wouldn’t recognize him when he showed up.
So much of what your average white fundie/evangelical Christian believes about eschatology is not really in the Bible. It’s all mostly based on a Bible edition from 1917 plus John Bircher stuff - see the obsession with the United Nations. It can sorta be an anti Catholic church thing too, but fundiengelicals have mostly had a truce with Catholics since they formed their anti abortion coalition in the 70s (in the Left Behind series, the original pope does get raptured, but most media has the pope as either the anti-Christ or an eager collaborator)
This is how they imagine the end of the world
The Antichrist is a lefty who promises peace and tolerance and good things, so there’s nothing wrong with building a statue to this great guy, almost as persecuted and powerful as Jesus himself. Global warming is fake, really the sign of the end of the world is litter boxes for furries at school.
- Comment on Boys will be boys 3 weeks ago:
Male puberty as an adult. Being that level of “eat an entire pizza” hungry and being able to sate it is one of the greatest feelings in the world. Best parts of college were splitting a pitcher of beer with a bro and eating the kind of pizza that leaves a snail trail.
- Comment on 📡📡📡 3 weeks ago:
Do you think someone who had weird websites dedicated to counting down when she was 18 might have reasons to say something like that?
- Comment on This Is Why I Sit Down To Pee Pee 3 weeks ago:
As a trans guy, I prefer male bathroom culture. I want to do my business and get the fuck out. It was so weird in high school to hang out in the girls restroom and being expected to socialize while trying to shit.
I guess the cultural difference is that women sometimes might need to ask each other for a tampon or something, while men are terrified of being thought to be gay. Have to make absolutely sure you aren’t even getting a side eye at another guys dick.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
You’re right, but to the suits: what makes the profit is the drinks and the popcorn. Selling popcorn to a higher percentage of customers will make them more money, even if they sell less tickets, because the tickets don’t make money. Hell, sell less tickets with a higher proportion of popcorn sales and you can probably schedule less people/save on labor.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
What we really need is an app that uses the Ghanaian movie posters.
- Comment on the Pope uses his teeth to eat food 3 weeks ago:
Do you know the Clothes On song?
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- Comment on Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games 3 weeks ago:
fully fresh start.
Technically, Nethack will let you encounter your own graves from previous runs, so you can pick up your gear from last time (although usually it’s mostly cursed).
- Comment on he did live in a pineapple… 4 weeks ago:
You’re the one calling yourself an “object” …
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- Comment on Alternative medicine 4 weeks ago:
Effectiveness is independent of mechanism. As an example, to my knowledge SSRIs don’t really make sense but mostly outperform placebo.
- Comment on A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry 4 weeks ago:
If the RIAA could get millions from kids downloading songs on Napster, wouldn’t it be reasonable to expect that AI companies pay for the intellectual property that they have stolen from anyone who has ever posted anything on the internet?
Maybe AI companies can exist as long as they fund universal basic income.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 4 weeks ago:
“Proof of effectiveness” means a placebo controlled trial. Preferably multiple, with sample sizes substantial enough for sufficient statistical power.
- Comment on Me this morning 5 weeks ago:
It makes you complacent.
Sometimes that’s good.
I quit for a while to try to get a government job. My dream job. They offered, then rescinded because of trans/Trump’s EO.
Now I don’t give a fuck. I’m sober for work, but otherwise when I’m home I’m high.
Like I can’t do anything about climate change/the fact that the president is a rapist, but I can get stoned, enjoy food that feels like it’s making love to my taste buds, make art that my fucked up brain tells me is a masterpiece and have mind blowing sex that means I don’t have to engage with conscious thought at all.
- Comment on Apu sitting in the corner out of picture 5 weeks ago:
Probably better to remember the trope and discuss it rather than bury it.
I think the way to do that is have it called out on the show. Model that kind of good bystander behavior.
Like, right now we have a president that has raped multiple women and children. His appointees and cronies have also raped women and children. It’s critical to be talking to kids about consent.
- Comment on I agree with don 5 weeks ago:
Appreciate the offer g - I think my big thing right now is finding a bag/system that I like. I really struggle with getting them to stay on! It’s hotter than heck outside and I sweat like a stuck pig/am reluctant to shave my belly hair.
- Comment on Apu sitting in the corner out of picture 5 weeks ago:
Imagine being a little girl growing up watching that. The message is that someone sexually harassing you and refusing to take a “no” is common and normal. Just an annoyance.
