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- Comment on GOG Has Had To Hire Private Investigators To Track Down IP Rights Holders 22 hours ago:
That is simply a generic way of referring to the concept of private investigators, as I’ve also just done in this sentence.
- Comment on Grab your pitchforks 2 days ago:
Yeah, I have no problems if you honestly give something a try and don’t like it. But the people who judge without trying are acting like small children. I’m not sure why anybody gives their uninformed opinions the time of day.
- Comment on don't look up :) 1 week ago:
Does it have to do with the way that they cropped out the artist’s signature? Maybe it’s due to a lawsuit.
- Comment on What kind of locomotion is that? What is the evolutionary advantage? 1 week ago:
What is the evolutionary advantage?
Preservation of energy. Anti-parasite behavior.
- Comment on Could we survive eating only humans? 2 weeks ago:
Strangely, the question is “How long could the human race survive on only cannibalism?” A pretty specific question.
But the video is titled “Could we survive eating only humans?” Which is a completely different question, because it allows the interpretation that the humans “we” are eating can eat whatever. It brings to mind the humans of Ringworld that had to fill in all of the niches of other animals.
- Comment on Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out. 2 weeks ago:
I’ve seen people who treat their cats like they are little stupid humans.
- Comment on Become irresistible to women 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, he dodged a bullet. Imagine a taxonomist who wants to date another taxonomist. It’s virtually guaranteed that their relationship would be non-stop fighting.
- Comment on PhDebaters 2 weeks ago:
truth
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 3 weeks ago:
When I went to grade school, I think it really depended on the local school district. I was lucky enough to grow up in a nice area with well-funded schools, and I have relatively few complaints about the education I received. However, in doing school activities, I had the opportunity to see schools in poorer districts, and there was a distinct difference.
At the time, I didn’t think too much about the difference, except that I didn’t feel as safe in some schools.
But looking back… Now I know why parents always shop around for better school districts, because there are some places where it would have been far more difficult to get a decent education.
That’s my knowledge from many decades ago. Maybe it’s gotten worse since then.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 3 weeks ago:
The “brainwashed” thing is somewhat true, at least from the perspective of an outsider, not due to a racial thing, but there is a cultural aspect in addition to the tendency for all sides to be brainwashed by their own propaganda.
But the Japanese propaganda told their soldiers to fight to the death, because if the Americans captured you, it would be worse than death. So, from the outside, they did appear to be brainwashed in that regard. Of course, Americans had similar propaganda making Japanese seem as evil as possible, often in the most racist way.
Also, culturally, I think American culture emphasizes each person more, while Japanese emphasizes community more, which means things like kamikaze are easier to sell. And that sort of thing also appears like brainwashing to the outside.
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 3 weeks ago:
The train tracks are extra support to keep Florida from floating away.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t recall specifically being taught that, but I do recall believing that was a fact at the time, so it is very likely that I was taught that in class.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there were a couple of slaves like that, but even so, it’s a misleading statement. I actually think that using the truth to lie is a worse sin than just outright lying, because it’s easier to mislead more people like that.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 3 weeks ago:
The one that immediately springs to mind doesn’t exactly fit the criteria, because it wasn’t even true at the time that I was taught it in public school in Texas. But my history teacher taught me that no real historian called it the “American Civil War,” and that it was correctly called “The War of Northern Aggression.” And, of course, although the Confederacy did want to keep slavery legal, their actual central reason for seceding was “states rights.”
Like I said, both of those are simply lies. Only propagandists call it “The War of Northern Aggression”, and it was always explicitly about slavery.
The sad thing is that I believed and repeated these lies for years after that. Note that, like most people, I didn’t have access to the internet to easily check things myself. Since at the time I had zero interest in reading about history, it was difficult to correct my knowledge.
It has demonstrated, to me at least, the importance of keeping propaganda away from children. The more you lie to children, the harder it will be for them to become functioning adults.
- Comment on proof of wormholes 3 weeks ago:
Ah, of course. When, as you said, the doctor addressed “the family” and told “them” that stuff, of course, I assumed that you, being “a friend” wouldn’t have been there, or at least would have said “us” instead of “them.”
But of course, you were actually there and heard the words directly with the family. Cool.
- Comment on proof of wormholes 3 weeks ago:
She was a hardcore alcoholic, and this is an alcoholic saying that. Doctor addressed the family and told them alcohol wasn’t the factor, the liver failure was 100% down to Tylenol.
That doesn’t sound realistic, that a hardcore alcoholic’s liver failure was 0% from alcohol abuse. I suspect that the information changed at some point in the process of relating it to you.
It was probably just that the Tylenol overdose was the immediate cause, and somebody took that to mean that alcoholism was not a factor.
- Comment on Unable to Edit Post 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Unable to Edit Post 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been experiencing the same thing. The web page UI immediately fails when trying to submit comment updates.
I’ll try editing this comment and post the results.
- Comment on Somebody call a doctor! 4 weeks ago:
Eugene, I think I’m having a stroke.
A backstroke.
- Comment on observes your slit 5 weeks ago:
Oh I see I was overthinking it.
- Comment on observes your slit 5 weeks ago:
I don’t get it. Don’t both top and bottom show interference patterns, or is this about something else?
- Comment on Look at that plumage, bro. 5 weeks ago:
Realistically, most of those birds probably look like food to the owl.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 5 weeks ago:
I know that I was completely wrong in this regard. You know, like how Mark Twain said something like travel was anathema to bigotry.
So, I thought that the reason bigotry existed was that people are afraid of the unknown, so if you forced people together, they’d have to realize that we’re all the same.
But now I realize that the main reason bigotry exists is that people are staying in contact with other bigots. The part about meeting diverse people is important, but far less important than pulling people out of their comfort zone to combat bigotry. So, the internet amplifies bigotry, because they’ll never be out-of-contact with their local bigots, even if they travel away from them.
- Comment on The Woofstream 1 month ago:
I hate, hate, hate when a reporter interviews a scientist about something, and the interview is going fine, then the reporter inevitably asks, “How could this be used?” And suddenly, the scientist has to start bullshitting. You get to hear a completely respectable scientist start making all sorts of dubious claims, because they aren’t allowed to tell the truth, that its use is up to the future. There have been uncountable experimental results that didn’t seem to have a use at the time, only to be regarded as essential in the future.
If they were trying to invent some product, they’d be called an engineer instead of a scientist.
But in this case, the scientist wouldn’t even have to bullshit. “We’ve already learned a lot about aerodynamics by looking at other animals in wind tunnels. There’s no reason to think we might not learn anything useful here about aerodynamic shapes.”
In my book, that makes this guy who said “absolutely no one” in the meme an anti-intellectual.
- Comment on Vampire Survivors - Open beta test for Online mode, with free roaming! 1 month ago:
Is this the release where they add vampires?
- Comment on redwoods 1 month ago:
I have this strange suspicion that this will not be the last time I am told this joke.
- Comment on 2hot2handle 1 month ago:
“Autistic” doesn’t mean what you think it means. I’d characterize your use of the word as discriminatory and offensive.
- Comment on 2hot2handle 1 month ago:
One of the things that “spontaneous” doesn’t mean is “without cause”. Also, the astronaut doesn’t mention the water in the picture. She mentions water generally.
- Comment on how do you slice it?? 1 month ago:
Then again, do they know how large a giraffe is?
Just today, I learned a handy way of visualizing the size of a giraffe. If you took that asteroid that struck off the coast of Iceland, and made a copy of it and put the two of them together, that’s about the size of a giraffe.
- Comment on makes more sense than this shit 1 month ago:
Also, this says it was in 2016. We were already super fucked by then. I’d be more inclined to believe that we live in a giant simulation that got fucked by the millennium bug.
Not that things were great in 2000, but the point is that 2016 is way too late. It’s like looking at water that’s just starting to boil, and then being surprised when it becomes a rolling boil.
- Comment on 🤡 We've all been played for fools. 🤡 1 month ago:
I’ve said it before, but one reason I didn’t pursue a PhD is that there appeared to be an element of hazing in the entire thing.
Several of the PhD students I knew were languishing for years trying to get their thesis together, in what can only be described as poverty.
Meanwhile, half of the professors were miserable, and if they made good money, it was because they were very focused on how to make money. The happiest postgrad I knew was a senior lecturer who had given up on becoming a professor.
The best you can hope for is that your personal area of interest happens to have a lot of funding.
Yet these people almost universally seemed to think, “Well, that’s just how it is. The nice thing is that if you can get an academic position, it sucks less than being a PhD student.”