casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer
@casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter 1 day ago:
So Team Fortress 3
- Comment on Anon's sister is a NEET shut-in 3 days ago:
This is behavioral therapy, which you could say is a responsive mode of “parenting” that is highly effective.
- Comment on The second matchup of the tournament 4 days ago:
Well Todd, it looks like Wolf might be the clear winner in today’s matchup but what I think spectators are really want to know is how the next round will fare.
- Comment on The second matchup of the tournament 4 days ago:
They’re inexperienced with them
- Comment on hot dog 6 days ago:
yes.
- Comment on hot dog 6 days ago:
as long as we die between some buns
- Comment on hot dog 6 days ago:
she even got that weiner
- Comment on Hardcore 1 week ago:
I dismiss modern social sciences because they have made it impossible not to dismiss them by making absurd claims that are easily refutable and arguably do nothing to better society-- how the fuck is hiring or granting tuition assistance based on applicant’s identity equate to social progress, when their identity makes up so little of their effectual background?
If race is a social construct, then tell me why the fuck they insist on making things about race more than it ever was before instead of embracing objective equality?
This incongruence is the exact reason extremist groups have no trouble finding new members-- anyone embracing these half-cooked, bad-faith movements is actively driving neutral parties into the arms of the extremists. By treating the neutral party as the enemy, you make them your enemy. I affiliate with no social groups because of how awful they are, but I assure you I will always undermine DEI however I can in my day-to-day job duties simply because those behind the movement threw the first punch.
I see humans as humans. And I don’t give a flying fuck what anyone else says they are. They are humans, they will be treated like humans the same as all other humans are treated, no better, no worse, and their identity means zilch.
- Comment on Hardcore 1 week ago:
commenting before I go to bed to point out you have contributed nothing to this discussion.
- Comment on Hardcore 1 week ago:
This is also ignoring their segregated schooling being underfunded
I attended an underfunded public school system. It was intentionally underfunded by the state because of class/income segregation, not racial segregation. Caucasians were a statistical minority there.
not being welcomed into higher ed unless at specific ‘negro’ universities
I was denied my father’s “transferrable” GI bill by the federal government and received no substantial tuition assistance, had to work full-time through college to pay tuition. The tuition assistance I did receive was specifically established to empower disadvantaged households regardless of race, and was minimal.
their crippled career prospects due to their skin color- why don’t we then measure them on merit?
I am 100% self-taught in all technology and computer topics I’ve mastered. All I had was Google and 5Mbps. My parents did not encourage my exploration, and even dissuaded or hampered it often.
Ignore that if a black man has a novel idea then they must then have the idea reviewed into perpetuity while one of the white reviewers just so happens to come up with the same idea then publishes before the black man [ . . . ] modern publishing is blind in most every respectable journal because of this issue. It is only after being accepted is the author identity revealed to the reviewers.
Am I having a stroke or did you just contradict yourself? Why exactly would a black man’s publication be reviewed “into perpetuity” if the reviewers know nothing of their race? Furthermore, I am clearly arguing that their race means absolutely nothing and therefore would not be considered in review.
- Comment on Hardcore 1 week ago:
Because modern day social scientists have legitimately lost the plot and think it’s more important to for careers to be built by ethnicity rather than merit, and call any alternative a matter of facilitating and furthering “privilege” with no data to back up their claims.
I know people who have been pushed out of labs and bullied into quitting their degree programs just because they were hetero white males. I am unfortunately not kidding, not exaggerating, and the details I am leaving out only make the circumstances worse.
Academics have quietly acknowledged that academia itself is dying because of this and other issues that call the validity of modern science literature into question.
I have a friend who is published in Nature, and I’m very tempted to send them this article. They have already stated that being published in Nature means nothing these days to anyone who actually pays attention to what they publish, and this is just further proof of it.
For all who digress: I welcome all downvotes. I am not trolling, I am not inciting, I am laying out the honest truth as it has been illustrated to me by credible academics over the past five years. I don’t care what you learned in social sciences. I don’t care who published what. You seek to undermine academia by making merit moot and for that I respect you less than I even respect Silicon Valley-- that is to say, dismally little. And idgaf what you label me because if you are on the other side of this, your words mean absolutely nothing to me and never will.
- Comment on Lightning bugs 1 week ago:
There are still some areas where they are common, they’re just more hidden now because the species is adverse to light pollution I’m pretty sure.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like any web browsers 1 week ago:
This does not work with the message I was encountering, which is what originally made me suspect fuckery may be afoot…
- Comment on Stupid sexy skeletal 1 week ago:
How to get teenagers to pay attention to science:
- Comment on Trans community ally 1 week ago:
Don’t look at me, you’re the one that wanted to start playing armchair attorney bud. Don’t get upset just cause you less practiced at this shitty game.
- Comment on Trans community ally 1 week ago:
you assume someone writing a green text is capable of speaking to women, trans or otherwise.
- Comment on Trans community ally 1 week ago:
If we are to interpret explainer text meant to inform the public as word of law such as you have:
The civil harassment laws say “harassment” is:
- Unlawful violence, like assault or battery or stalking, OR
- A credible threat of violence, AND
- The violence or threats seriously scare, annoy, or harass someone and there is no valid reason for it.
Would mean that this is a credible threat of violence that is seriously annoying/scaring the individual, as they specifically mention how brave it is for trans people to show themselves in public, which can credibly be interpreted as a threat when the topic was never initiated by the victim.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like any web browsers 2 weeks ago:
It 100% can break due to updates. I’ve had compatibility get broken out of nowhere before, it’s rare but it does happen. Typically it’s due to some config change or something with security settings that was changed. Idk. But it does happen and it can be very annoying to fix.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like any web browsers 2 weeks ago:
I’m also like 90% sure that “we don’t support it” is artificial, been meaning to test it.
My Firefox install at the office works fine with Teams but will refuse to load at home. I think it might be a version issue, but I’ll try to establish parity to make sure it’s not Microsoft being fucky thinking they can shaft anyone using Firefox/Linux outside of the office.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like any web browsers 2 weeks ago:
You’ve obviously never met a web developer
- Comment on Anon is a person of interest 2 weeks ago:
I have a car made right before that BS and it keeps asking me to take it to the dealer for service on the cellular module. Ha, like fuck am I gonna do that. And if it keeps bitching, I’ll take it to my guy to have him just remove the blood fucking cellular altogether because fuck you the things paid off
- Comment on Anon lives with their parents 2 weeks ago:
I interpret this as you either make less than $60k and live in an absolute shit hole or you make more than $120k and have no right to speak about affordable areas of the country.
- Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era 2 weeks ago:
Just going to leave this here and y’all can do the reading: cnet.com/…/tesla-motors-founders-now-there-are-fi…
- Comment on Has ethernet become illegitimate? A librarian flipped out after spotting me using ethernet 2 weeks ago:
yeah OP needs to provide this detail specifically as it changes everything.
If the Ethernet jack was not on a desk, then it wasn’t there for them to use. If they unplugged a cable to make it accessible, that is unfortunately enough to be considered tampering.
If an Ethernet jack was not expressly provided, unoccupied, at the technology access station then yes the access to Ethernet information facilities was unauthorized and illegitimate and could carry legal ramifications. Say what you want about proprietary wifi drivers, you get the access you are given and any attempts to gain further access without authorization are defined as intrusion attempts and will more likely than not be treated as such to some degree. Because honestly, the libraries aren’t funded enough to have great security and Ethernet security is harder than WiFi security in practice, despite the challenges being characterized by the same principles.
- Comment on Anon is vengeful 2 weeks ago:
I used to have the opinion that people who cheat deserve everything but violence, no revenge being too petty.
I still believe that, but I also realized that the people lame enough to cheat are not worth even being around and that they’ll do a good enough job fucking up their lives without any help. There are exceptions to this rule though, snakes who cheat and lie and steal for sport, whom no form of retaliation would suffice and any amount of pettiness is beyond acceptable-- I can think of one such person who has went out of their way to wrong me like that, out of the two times I’ve been cheated one by different people, and had I the opportunity to destroy their life and have some part in them being locked up, I would do so without missing a beat and smile proudly every time I thought about because I would have truly done the world a favor through careful application of systemic functions rather than violence. If you disagree with this, let me ask you: would you prefer the violence? At the end of the day, all I care about is that they’d be unable to fuck with people’s lives.
- Comment on Anthropology 3 weeks ago:
Fun fact: cats sometimes respond similarly to humans when presented with the middle finger. Without training. And often it with cats that do hate it, it’s that finger specifically and only that specific gesture.
I still have absolutely no idea why, but some cats just naturally react as if it’s an offense towards them. Maybe they equate it to a tail raised straight?
- Comment on Ah, Yes! AI Will Surely Save Us All! 3 weeks ago:
*middle ground
And yes, that is exactly what I expect them to do. I just hope everyone is as wary of it.
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- Comment on Ah, Yes! AI Will Surely Save Us All! 3 weeks ago:
You’re thinking of Doki Doki Literature Club, common mistake. It’s just a coincidence I suppose. DDLG most certainly predates that game and I don’t think their subject matter is at all related.
On the tame side of things, there’s chicks that like to call you “daddy” and want you to call them a “good/naughty little girl” and embrace the praise&punishment aspect of Dominance& Submission. Pretty vanilla stuff. I could get with it, and I reckon most guys may be able to, feels like the daddy thing isn’t too uncommon.
On other end… well, actually, I don’t want to talk about it. Look it up yourself, that way only you are to blame for cursing yourself with the knowledge
- Comment on Ah, Yes! AI Will Surely Save Us All! 3 weeks ago:
Ok good, so we’re on the same page. I just had to disambiguate because it was getting to that “wrongful grouping” territory.
But yeah something 100% needs to be done about the models people are training for celebrity and minor likenesses. I saw one model for the latter gaining popularity and I threw up a little in my mouth because the aesthetic they were going for was not okay and made me very concerned. I want to see these get action’d/desisted, but I also want assurance that they won’t drag us innocent pervs who just want stories and pictures of lewd foxgirls n shit to get caught in the crossfire for no good reason. Same thing all us weebs have been saying for years, just new chapter with heightened risks.
- Comment on Conservatives Quickly Turn Against “Idiot” Marjorie Taylor Greene 3 weeks ago:
LFG, that bitch is the only person in modernity I can safely say deserves a muzzle.