xthexder

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oh man⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree that it’s possible to arrive at the conclusion “pain is bad” as an individual, but I guess what I’m arguing is that there’s no absolute hard line on what is and isn’t ethical. Each individual person might have their own personal line, but there is no guarantee that line will be the same as another person’s. Case-in-point, a psychopath is someone with reduced or no empathy for others. They may very well not consider pain in others bad at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oh man⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How does that study account for the fact a high income individual is significantly more likely to have access to a doctor to diagnose them with a personality disorder?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oh man⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Statement #3 is hearsay. I would argue the only thing you can know is that you personally do not like pain. There is no absolute good or bad, only what aligns or doesn’t with your passions.

  The Golden Rule of “treating others as one would want to be treated”, is a logical conclusion that comes from experiencing the world and seeing that there’s a high probability that others will return actions in kind. It’s not perfect since everyone has different preferences (just look at the variety of sexualities and kinks out there).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oh man⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Something I’ve come to realize recently is that everyone has selfish motivations, some people are just a lot more careful about how those motivations effect others. Personally I worry quite a bit about how I might be inconveniencing others with my actions, and tend to stay rather isolated as a result.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oh man⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like I’m learning a decent amount from this thread. I definitely consider myself a (overly) rational person. I haven’t really thought about it before, but obviously I’ve still got some passions driving things.

  If I was to put it into words, I’d probably say I’m passionate about learning how things work and finding elegant simple solutions to problems. Which is generally tied to my selfish goal of having more free time to just experience the world without responsibilities.

  Thanks for inspiring me to think about this, maybe I should go read some more philosophy…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bestchem club⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s cleary only one Oxygen, it should be formatted C10 H14 O Or better yet, C~10~H~14~O

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electric Cars Could Last Much Longer Than You Think - Rather than having a shorter lifespan than internal combustion engines, EV batteries are lasting way longer than expected⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a bit difficult than MTBF like on harddrives. Batteries are usually warrantied to 80% capacity because it’s a wear thing, not a random chance of complete failure. A battery isn’t going to last twice as long as another one by chance, this is all about determining the average or worst-case operating range the battery will be in and using that to figure out a warranty period where they think all cars will fall within.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why the fuck does an oven have a touch screen? That’s a horrible idea. Good luck cleaning your kitchen without accidentally hitting “buttons” on the oven! And heaven forbid food splatter turns on your oven broiler.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just the essentials⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did not use a calculator the first time, but I don’t think I was that far off.

  This calculator says that if you live in California making $400k a year, your takehome pay is $238k

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just the essentials⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You pay like 40% tax at that salary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just the essentials⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s like 400k a year pre-tax salary. If they’re making that much and still can’t afford a nice meal, they’ve got some serious problems with budgeting and restraint.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True horsepower⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely lots of hate for touchscreens and modern featuresspyware.

  I haven’t seen as much hate for driving in general like fuckcars has, but I’m definitely still in agreement that most cities are too car dependent. I actually enjoy driving for fun, but HAVING to drive to go anywhere sucks. I miss living downtown in a walkable city.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bottom of the Ocean⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also the majority of it has been recovered and brought back up. The hull and billionaire bits are back on shore somewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But yes.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely dangerous, but I’m less scared of that one. I’ve got detectors for that, and that’s more of a “go peacefully in your sleep” kind of danger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But yes.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, now this is on my list of invisible things that scare me:

  • Radiation
  • Methanol fires
  • Supercritical steam jets
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  babe

  Neat libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?398:13

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trick OR Treat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I had to double-take since in Python a common alternative to trick ? treat : notreat is (trick and treat) or notreat

  But I don’t think this translates to overlapping circles very well. “trick implies treat” is only defined inside the trick circle, outside is undefined if treat is true or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think we have a fundamental disagreement on what counts as science, and that’s okay.

  Your methodology seems to imply a valid scientific experiment must be sufficiently rigorous as to improve on the current scientific consensus. And I do partially agree, it’s a waste of time collecting data that’s just going to be worse than previously collected, more controlled experiments.

  By my philosophy is a lot looser. To quote Adam Savage: “The only difference between screwing around and science, is writing it down”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m explicitly arguing that you can separate the two. I can perform a completely independent experiments in my house. For example:

  I make a hypothesis that my stove can boil 1L of water in 10 minutes. I then measure how long my stove takes to boil that water. I can then record these results to inform my future cooking and water boiling experiments. I don’t have to publish the results anywhere or even talk with another person, yet I’ve still used the scientific method. I’m not a professional scientist, but I am an amateur one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d agree for the result to be useful to society, the science should be published. But science can still be useful to an individual without sharing. I use the scientific method regularly in my daily life for mundane things, and often it’s just not worth the time to communicate to others because the situation is unique to me. I write it down for myself later, which doesn’t make the science any less valid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d argue the scientific method does not have to include multiple people at all. All it is, is the process of coming up with a hypothesis, designing an experiment to check that hypothesis, and then repeating while trying to control for external factors (like your own personal bias). You can absolutely do science on your own.

  The broader field of academia and getting scientific papers published is more of a governance thing than science. You can come up with better hypotheses by reviewing other people’s science, but that doesn’t mean when a flat earther ignores all current consensus and does their own tests that it isn’t still science.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hard to argue with⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you look at how Gorillas kind of walk around on their fists, it definitely makes sense that there’s some evolutionary benefit to the knuckle shape. It doesn’t have to be related to hitting things either. It’s easiest to support yourself with a straight wrist, like if you’re holding a branch, vs putting your palm flat is a lot more stress on your wrist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A decline in arable land⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck farming. It’s a dirty industry.

  That’s kind of a wild takeaway… Personally I like not having to grow my own food. And a huge amount of efficiency is gained with large scale farming compared to small farms or personal growing.

  Unsustainable subsidies aren’t okay, and we should strive for more environmentally friendly farms, but farming itself is not one of our problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to impress the honey⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The first computers took up entire rooms and they could only do about as much as a calculator. There was a point in time that having a computer do multiplication and long division for you saved you hours of time because the alternative was have 2 or 3 people do it by hand and then compare to check for mistakes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨a few centuries⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “large”… If only. Barely a drop in the bucket.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a prompt⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If the cat thought you had nothing to offer, they wouldn’t be coming to you. I’m pretty sure most house cats have been trained to think humans are magic food dispensers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ol switcharoo⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t wait for ChatGPT and AI search results to pick this up as the definitive answer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seriously.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Let me just shorten this down 8 feet

  welds on an extra 2 feet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explosions in the Sky⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If only this was a response AI could give. I think it would solve a lot of the problems

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just Average⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How likely are you to recommend Comcast to a friend?

  Bitch, you’re a monopoly, I would leave if I could.