Tar_alcaran
@Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Anon questions nature 4 hours ago:
Wait. Is that last one historical? I’d never heard it, but it seems just as accurate as “I can’t have a meal, but meals are eaten in the rectory and prepared in the kitchen. So if I take something from the pantry and eat it in my room, it’s not a meal and bacon is OK”
- Comment on Anon questions nature 1 day ago:
And beavers and swans are, of course, also fish
- Comment on I was the only one who thought this of Erica Ortega was non-binary or trans? 1 day ago:
Gender swamping sounds like some kind of agender thing I’m too old to understand and will just nod along with.
- Comment on I was the only one who thought this of Erica Ortega was non-binary or trans? 1 day ago:
They both have VERY strong Camina Drummer energy.
- Comment on Most onomatopoetic town name 1 day ago:
Language fact of the day:
“Klank” is the Dutch word for “sound”
- Comment on Health Experts ‘Stunned’ by Trump Officials’ Strict Quarantine Measures 1 day ago:
Hint: it’s not healthcare, it’s xenophobia
- Comment on Even the worst among us sacrifice 2 days ago:
The only Amaroks I’ve ever seen here in the Netherlands were military camo green.
- Comment on Sex Education 3 days ago:
Is it that time again already?
- Comment on Carnists be like... 6 days ago:
with the current format of the meme no combination of words exists for them to compare and contrast humans to animals, other than “females.”
Thats… Incredibly superficial and shows zero cultural awareness.
One half of the meme is an abortion rights campaign phrase, which is a badly needed campaign because women don’t have that right in many places around the world. And it’s majorly opposed by conservative men. Those same men also use the term “females” to refer to women in a derogatory way.
only when you get to the end of the text do you realise it exists for 1 messaging purpose
This is ALSO a very common method for that exact same group to pretend their misogynist messaging is covered up when pointed out. They go “it’s not about dehumanizing women, it’s about veganism bro!” Or “that’s not the point, you’re digging too deep, keep being triggered lol”.
This is a common method to dogwhistle their in-group.
they could have, I suppose, opened with a woman saying “I’m sure glad I’m not artificially inseminated every nine months so milk can be harvested from my body!” Then cut to a picture of a cow in the second panel. It’s essentially the same thing.
It’s the same surface level message. But using their misogynist worldview to carry the surface level message ALSO reinforces that worldview.
The more you also support that framework, the more the framework is normalized. The more the framework is normalized, the easier it becomes to dehumanize and degrade women.
And arguing about it in bad faith, which they have to, is also what happens a lot. Because when someone points out a dogwhistle, it becomes less effective.
Everything is malformed messaging to increase it’s viral-spread quality.
Exactly. But the viral load isn’t on the surface. Using a framework to convey normal information supports that framework. The framework is the point, the surface information is a cover.
And using the surface info that appeals to “the enemy” is doubly effective, because it makes your enemy look deranged, scoring you a double win.
- Comment on Carnists be like... 6 days ago:
Not all of them. Just OOP
- Comment on Carnists be like... 6 days ago:
Cows aren’t people … Duh … So that justifies the described actions?
Correct. As we teach all 3 year olds, different things can go into different groups.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
Yeah, but in WC3, especially in multiplayer, it was a super hard requirement. 80% of your time would be hero micro
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
Let’s hide some nebulous lore in item descriptions so youtubers can sell their head cannon as “the story”
Don’t you know, every item comes with a little laminated card to give you some mostly-irrelevant quote!
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
I hate the RTS+hero game in all its forms. It started with WC3, but so many are doing it now.
But I love RTS, and I quite enjoy moba-like games. It’s just that I absolutely fucking hate the community.
- Comment on They're somehow always baffled that their cakes are melting 1 week ago:
baked into the format
- Comment on I was a husky boy and look how I turned out 2 weeks ago:
The obesity rate in the 60s was 13%. Now it’s 43%.
- Comment on 🫡🫡🫡 2 weeks ago:
All the losers are having sudden flare-ups of their persecution complex and are desperately using something that will never happen to create a feeling of power in their sad empty lives.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It’s not Reddit. I know quite a few people who seem to think anyone will agree with them if they just explain it properly.
Because it is entirely impossible for someone to disagree with them, so if you don’t hold the same opinion, it’s because you don’t understand things well enough.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Unless you ran to a farm to milk a cow, then to a different farm to pick the fruit and back home, it’s very unlikely to be close to break even.
- Comment on I love this, they are so deep in their own bubble 2 weeks ago:
It hugely depends on what their fields are. But it’s always acceptable to boo AI boosters.
- Comment on *mleb mleb mleb* 3 weeks ago:
What is this adoringly derpy brown egg?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Of course. We teleport the poop out of our bodies, but we still need to flush it. Don’t be disgusting.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Her underarm hair was visible?!
Only if zoom in to basically be 10cm from her armpit. So for all normal, sane purposes, no it wasn’t.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
If she takes a massive shit in the red carpet, I will cheer. But I would feel a little conflicted.
- Comment on chad 3 weeks ago:
If my mom masturbated next to me, that would probably have suppressed my sexdrive well into my 80s.
- Comment on Ursula von der Leyen’s Grandfather Was a Esoteric Nazi Academic Obsessed with Eugenics 3 weeks ago:
My mother in law thinks knives don’t belong on the dinner table because they’re dangerous.
Or are we not sharing random weird family stories?
- Comment on The Global Oil Crisis Seems to Be Helping One Industry: Renewable Energy 3 weeks ago:
The oil crisis is helping the oil industry, or at least all the production that isn’t locked behind Iran’s blockade.
The market price went WAY up, and the production didn’t go down anywhere but the Middle East.
Fun fact: guess who the biggest oil producer outside the Middle East is? If you said the US, you get a cookie.
- Comment on Spicy Air ☢️ 3 weeks ago:
So let me counter ask you a very similar question: how much radioactive material (weight or volume, your choice) do you think was spread in Chernobyl,
Some 60 tons of reactor fuel were expelled “locally”. That wasn’t easy to Google, but easily to convert back from the radiation released. I might be a bit high due to iodine being released which isn’t part of the fuel.
Thanks for once again proving my point. As soon as I point out how nuclear waste isn’t actually a real problem, opponents of nuclear power tend to immediately move the goalposts, without actually answering the question too.
But the preemptively adress your moved goalpost:
That might be flippant, but does this matter at all? You might as well say solar panels are deadly because some idiot didn’t tie his safety line while installing rooftop solar panels. Or some DIYer wired the electrics wrong and burned their house down. People have died from solar panels, so using your logic, solar panels might at any moment strike and kill someone!
It doesn’t work like that. Solar panels are entirely safe when used properly. Nuclear is entirely safe when you don’t intentionally build a gigantic bombs and then intentionally push it past all limits and override all safeties. No electricity reactor before or after Chernobyl has been capable of failing this way, it was literally uniquely terrible.
- Comment on Spicy Air ☢️ 3 weeks ago:
Solar is cheaper, even at high latitudes like in northern europe, even for baseload application with big battery buffers right next to the solar farm.
Honestly, that sounds extremely unlikely. I don’t live that far north in europe, and while I manage about 0kWh on my residental panels on a yearly basis. Thanks to seasonal changes, I would either need 5 more rooftops to keep the power on during january, or I would need to bank something like 700kWh to make it through 3 winter months. That’s not counting the electric car, or heating. Heating would roughly quadruple the numbers (being almost entirely clustered when solar isn’t producing), and the car would add roughly another house on top (assuming 50% is charged away from home).
Quick maths that I did because I wanted to try going off-grid: I would need ~100m2 of solar panels, and 2500kWh of battery storage. Or on a national level, 63 TWh of storage as well as just under a 1000km2 of solar panels if everyone lived as low-footprint as we do. And that’s just housing, it doesn’t include commercial buildings or industry.
- Comment on Spicy Air ☢️ 3 weeks ago:
Because of the long build-time, you can buy the batteries 10 years from now, comparing to a nuclear plant that starts construction today.
Sure, but that’s a shitty comparison, because I can also build 20 nuclear powerplants, and bring costs WAY down. And that’s the thing. These comparisons are always “If we keep boosting X, and supressing Y, then X will perform better!”. Yes. Duh.
Look at what China is doing. They’ve built dozens of plants in the past years, and have >30 under construction right now, with ~150 planned. They’re building them for a fraction of the cost, because they’re not completely reinventing them every single time.
It’s not like I am saying we should scrap ongoing constructions.
Fair, we shouldn’t. But my worry is that even in 10 years, we’re still going to be using lots of fossil fuels, and that will always be lower if we ALSO build nuclear. Or at the very least stop heavily opposing it.