Dogyote
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- Comment on How come nobody does anything about North Korea? 1 day ago:
but to blame the entire state if the country on the bombing campaign of the 1950s is to…
Nobody said that.
- Comment on How come nobody does anything about North Korea? 2 days ago:
If you read the previous comment more closely you’ll realize that the commentor wasn’t comparing today’s NK to Gaza, but Korea during the Korean War to Gaza. That is a reasonable comparison, as nearly every standing structure was bombed.
- Comment on Financially rewarding and you will always have a job 2 days ago:
If they’re proper student loans then interest doesn’t accumulate while you’re a student.
- Comment on Financially rewarding and you will always have a job 4 days ago:
People typically get paid to earn a PhD, so this person’s debt likely came from elsewhere, unless they grossly overpaid for their undergraduate education.
- Comment on How much spacing while stopped at a red light? 1 week ago:
I’ve noticed this as well, first time was Texas in 2020. I’d lived in other places prior and never noticed it. I’ve sinced moved away from Texas, and the bahavior is a lot less common here. I couldn’t figure out why people did it. My theory is, people initially stop at a reasonable distance from the next car and pull out their phone. The next car moves a bit forward for some reason, and the person on their phone doesn’t notice.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I bet if your parents seduced him he’d probably be more open to having sex in their house.
- Comment on A cuppa Jill 3 weeks ago:
Shhhh! Do you want bears? That’s how you get bears. The name was lost, never type it again.
- Comment on A cuppa Jill 3 weeks ago:
Go on…?
- Comment on A cuppa Jill 3 weeks ago:
Water is the nickname. We forgot its real name
- Comment on Anon predicts the future 4 weeks ago:
Simetimes I think the future will resemble the pre-internet era. AI content will be so easy to create that the zone will be flooded with shit, and only a few reputable sources will be trusted, like when there were only a few TV news channels.
- Comment on Candies from US company could damage DNA and increase cancer risk, UK agency warns 4 weeks ago:
So is this a new ingredient, or has it always been in jolly ranchers?
- Comment on Kinda fucked up tbh 1 month ago:
Pssh, those are only the humans we know of.
- Comment on On trees... 1 month ago:
Didn’t those trees become coal, not oil?
- Comment on On trees... 1 month ago:
Trees are like every other plant, ONLY MORE SO
- Comment on Father Whose Son Was Shot by Cincinnati Police Hits Deputy With Car, Killing Him 2 months ago:
Dude, you’re so misinformed. They’re anticapitalist, therefore they’re anti capitalist-police. Police, especially Western police, protect capital. There’s no way a person you’d consider a tankie would support American police. Absolutly no way.
Bootlicking? I do not. Anyone can check my comment history and see that.
- Comment on Father Whose Son Was Shot by Cincinnati Police Hits Deputy With Car, Killing Him 2 months ago:
lol what? That’s such a gross mischaracterization of .ml users it borders on libel. If anything, they’d be in the ACAB camp.
- Comment on Is there a way out? 3 months ago:
True, but I feel like abuse would be fairly obvious and grant panels would know if someone is gaming the system. The panels, at least in my former field, are composed mostly of people who know who’s doing what in their field. If they saw a high citation count they would know if that was legitimate. If anything, faking citations would be shameful and embarrassing for most people.
- Comment on Is there a way out? 3 months ago:
Your peers would know and they’d think you’re pathetic. There’d be nothing to gain.
- Comment on Is there a way out? 3 months ago:
I think so. Journals are only in use today because that’s how scientific reporting was done before the internet. They’re still around because institutions and academics need some way of keeping score. What’s the point of it all if you can’t say you’re better than someone else?
Journals could be replaced with something like Wikipedia, but more sophisticated and editing would be a highly controlled process that requires reproducible data and peer review.
Score could be kept with citations. You’d be required to list the work you built on, as we do today, and the authors would receive credit. No citation would be worth more than another. If you published something useful for a particular field or made a major discovery that opened a new field, then your citation count would reflect it.
Perhaps competing labs could both receive citation credit if their results essentially showed the same thing. If nobody could scoop anyone else’s work, then cooperation may be encouraged over competition.
The entire wiki would be a public good, funded by governments across the world, free for all to read and for those with the relevant credentials to publicly comment on.
Negative results could also be published. “We had this hypothesis, we tried this, it didn’t work out.” It’d probably save time and these works could be cited as well. Imagine making a very important mistake that saves everyone time and effort and being rewarded for it.
I also feel like there is opportunity here to expand a particular field’s community. Since the wiki would be more free and open, academic silos may have more metaphorical doors, allowing more cross-field dialog.
I could go on, but I think the tools we need already exist, but we’re not using them because… tradition. It would be easier, more efficient, and flexible to use some kind of wiki structure than what’s currently happening.
- Comment on a strong beak, of course 4 months ago:
Okay, how then would you generalize this trait? We would expect an intelligent species to be social to some degree? It’s hard to imagine how a species could evolve the capacity to achieve technological advances without cooperation between individuals.
- Comment on a strong beak, of course 4 months ago:
A beak falls under “some kind of appendage”
- Comment on a strong beak, of course 4 months ago:
Yeah… no, I don’t think that can evolve naturally
- Comment on a strong beak, of course 4 months ago:
I understand the sentiment, but there must be some number of common attributes all advanced intelligent species across the universe have. Tool use, for example, would require that the organism have some kind of appendage that can manipulate things.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Super Mario 1 year ago:
That makes a lot of sense. Katamari Damacy is also an excellent game with such a bizarre story. I’m guess I’m a fan of absurdity.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Super Mario 1 year ago:
My favorite game in the series was Super Mario 3. I first played it on the SNES when it was part of the Super Mario All Stars cartridge. I really liked the levels, especially the variety of landscapes and the secrets you could find if you had the right powerup.
Super Mario World is just as good imo. Everything I liked about 3 and more, plus the star road levels, that was a good game.
The most recent game I loved was Yoshi’s Wooly World on the WiiU. Excellent art style and super fun levels, especially the unlockable bonus levels.
Oh and let’s not forget Legend of the Seven Stars. That was a fun and bizarre story.
That being said, does anyone else think the Mario universe is just fucking weird? How did the creators come up with Italian plumbers who can jump really high saving a Princess from an oversized turtle in a fantasy land with walking mushrooms? Who thought that was a good idea? What inspired them? I think the only reason it became popular was because Super Mario on the NES was one of the first decent games, and most players were kids who didn’t care about the game’s universe and narrative beyond saving the princess.
If Mario wasn’t the first popular platformer in the 80s and was instead introduced today, nobody would take it seriously. Since we all grew up with Mario, it’s a thing we accept as is. Of course high jumping Italian plumbers discovered the mushroom kingdom and rescued their princess from Bowser, again and again and again. Of course little dudes with mushroom heads are ruled by a blond haired human. Of course giant pipes are a normal mode of transit. Of course goombas and koopa troopas are the baddies.
Seriously, how did this universe come about?
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 1 year ago:
duckduckgo has been working well imo
- Comment on "We Took a 100+ Hour Greyhound From Boston to Seattle" 1 year ago:
Inflation was caused by a combination of supply chain disruptions (mostly this) and corporate profiteering (less this). It had little to nothing to do with government actions. Read some nonpartisan literature on the topic before you come back.
- Comment on "We Took a 100+ Hour Greyhound From Boston to Seattle" 1 year ago:
Wow what an excellent retort, I must now go back and reconsider my entire belief system and everything I’ve ever learned /s. But on a more serious note, money does practically grow on trees when viewed from the government’s perspective.
- Comment on "We Took a 100+ Hour Greyhound From Boston to Seattle" 1 year ago:
Even if the USA was to start a massive federal level HSR program tomorrow, it would likely be several disconnected networks which may never connect across the Rockies.
So what? You gotta start somewhere
- Comment on "We Took a 100+ Hour Greyhound From Boston to Seattle" 1 year ago:
The “it’s not economical” argument is used very often for numerous topics and it always begs the question: not economical compared to what? Is the purportedly more economical choice accounting for every externality it creates? Is it only economical because it already exists? Are there reasons we should stop doing the economical option? Lastly, what unaccounted for benefits might materialize if the uneconomical choice was pursued anyway?
So in this particular situation, we’re comparing the costs of building and operating high speed rail lines in the US to maintaining highways, hundreds of thousands of vehicles, airports, and planes. We should also account for the externalities created by using this infrastructure, so a shitload of carbon emissions plus the negatives of car culture and flying is just an awful experience.
We should also consider what may happen if high speed rail was built anyway. I bet there would be so much more medium distance travel, people would be going on day trips to cities they wouldn’t have considered before. Previously unknown and forgotten areas of the country may be revitalized. Who knows what cool stuff could happen.
Anyway, it really sucks when people use the “iT,s nOt eCoNoMiCaL” argument because it’s probably not true when everything is taken into account.