ChairmanMeow
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- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 5 days ago:
According to Krafton’s statement the remaining employees are getting their bonus though.
- Comment on is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal 1 week ago:
I made it up.
- Comment on is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal 1 week ago:
“Turns out all we needed to travel forwards in time is to burn homophobes!”
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week ago:
That’s not specific to having a constitution. Judges in the Netherlands for example also cannot do a judicial review to determine the constitutionality of any passed laws. And that’s with a written constitution. There’s also no supreme court. The closest thing is the Raad van State (the “state council”), which evaluates all laws on proportionality, constitutionality, and executability, and then advises the government what to do with a law. It’s convention that that advice is followed, but it’s not required.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week ago:
There’s still a judicial challenge happening. And just because the UK doesn’t have written constitution doesn’t mean there’s no constitution at all. Most of it is even written down, just not in one place.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week ago:
Not sure that matters too much, frogs in the US are boiling fine too. The constitution can be brushed aside just as easily.
- Comment on After Israel and USA's bombing, wouldn't any supposed nuclear bombs go off if there were any? 3 weeks ago:
Also, since they’ve been bombing nuclear facilities I can guarantee you that they have boat loads of very shitty (radioactive) chemicals laying around there which with these bombings now will also be spread around everywhere
So far no radiation was detected, so perhaps it was stored more securely (or somewhere else).
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 5 weeks ago:
Because the UK (and the US and Russia) agreed to protect Ukrainian sovereignty after Ukraine willingly had the Soviet nuclear arsenal dismantled after the Soviet Union dissolved.
In 1994, Ukraine agreed to transfer these weapons to Russia for dismantlement and became a party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, in exchange for economic compensation and assurances from Russia, the United States and the United Kingdom to respect Ukrainian independence and sovereignty within its existing borders.
See en.wikipedia.org/…/Ukraine_and_weapons_of_mass_de…
The other reason is basically the same reason why the UK got involved on the side of Poland in 1939.
- Comment on Anon watches a romance movie 5 weeks ago:
I mean, you could only read it like that if you ignore the post’s context, as well as the next sentence that clearly talks about the movies.
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 5 weeks ago:
At the time the prevalent belief initially was that the mighty British empire, together with the French, would beat back the Germans and Italians. Remember that these countries had fought a destructive war already which an at the time more powerful German empire lost. US sentiment also was against direct involvement in the war, and many in cabinet were more concerned with the rising threat to their west: Japan.
That’s not to say the US did nothing. The US supplied China via the Burma road agains the Japanese, supplied the Allies with arms and they also did the destroyers-for-bases deal. The US also held their first peacetime draft in 1940, well before it officially entered the war.
At the time, the belief was that the US would have to defend the west (against Japan) and that the UK could defeat the Germans. It’s why the US moves the fleet to Hawaii, to hopefully pressure the Japanese into backing down.
The US had both domestic and geopolitical reasons to not declare war immediately. It’s fair to criticize that, but to characterize the US as doing nothing in that time is just a falsification of history.
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 5 weeks ago:
The UK could, if Russia would stop interfering with Ukraine.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Perhaps a slightly less doom-and-gloomy scenario (because not all muslims hate women): in many muslim cultures it’s expected that a relationship turns into a marriage quickly. A non-muslim colleague of mine started dating a muslim girl and her family was totally supportive of the relationship, but he did have to marry her within just a couple months of dating. They were both happy to do so but they’re a fair bit older than you are. Your girlfriend might not feel ready for such a thing.
Talk to her about it, and ask if she’s worried about her family’s reaction, what she expects and why. Don’t pressure her into introducing you to the family, but clarify that you’d just like to know why. You can express you’d like to meet them of course, but just remember that her decision should be final in all this. That will help your relationship going forward, and once she is ready for it you’ll get to meet them.
- Comment on Reform UK to accept donations via bitcoin, Nigel Farage says 1 month ago:
On Thursday the Reform website was updated to accept cryptocurrency donations. There was a disclaimer stating that all donations were subject to Electoral Commission rules and that anonymous donations were not permissible.
They don’t accept anonymous donations. So that doesn’t appear to be a concern at least.
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 1 month ago:
Gender dysphoria is a mental problem, in the sense that it causes mental distress to be in the wrong body. The treatment is not therapy, it’s surgery to correct the body to fit the mind. A therapist can help identify the cause of the distress, but if the cause is the body then that therapist will recommend surgery.
I recall seeing research suggesting that trans people’s brainwaves more closely match that of their “desired” gender than that of their sex. It reinforces the idea that being transgender isn’t a mental issue, it’s a physical issue that causes mental distress.
A trans man isn’t a woman who merely thinks she’s a man, it’s actually a man inside that skull. Only the body underneath it is wrong. It’s as if tomorrow you woke up in the body of the opposite gender. That will (after the novelty wears off) start distressing you. Trans people didn’t wake up like that, they were born with that feeling.
- Comment on Reform UK to accept donations via bitcoin, Nigel Farage says 1 month ago:
Why did the Guardian even bother to write this article? It isn’t really newsworthy imo.
- Comment on ChatGPT's o3 Model Found Remote Zeroday in Linux Kernel Code 1 month ago:
I think the point is that even if LLMs suck at task A, they might be really good at task B. Just because code written by LLMs is often riddled with security flaws, doesn’t mean LLMs also suck at identifying those flaws.
- Comment on White House Health Report Included Fake Citations 1 month ago:
So scientific fraud then. Will anyone be punished for it though?
- Comment on Dammit dad 1 month ago:
Goldilocks no?
- Comment on Mario Kart 64 got finally decompiled! 1 month ago:
It will read a dump from the ROM. The project obviously can’t be held responsible for how you may have obtained that ROM.
- Comment on Mario Kart 64 got finally decompiled! 1 month ago:
Those are the references to where the assets are located in the original ROM (that’s the data inside those json files). There’s no actual asset in there.
- Comment on Mario Kart 64 got finally decompiled! 1 month ago:
You can’t do what you say, because the original ROM is required to get the assets. Just this repo gets you nowhere w. running the game.
- Comment on Mario Kart 64 got finally decompiled! 1 month ago:
Decomps are legal because no copyrighted material is being distributed. They typically require the original ROM to run (eg for assets).
- Comment on Ye song glorifying Hitler gets millions of views on X while other platforms struggle to remove it 2 months ago:
I’m not saying all schizophrenics are prone to be Nazis, don’t put words in my mouth. I’m well aware of what the Nazis did.
I’m saying that West’s schizophrenia is likely making him prone to Nazi sympathies, evidenced by his apparent lack of those sympathies when he is on his meds. In his case these two are very strongly correlated. Schizophrenia is a very complex mental disease that manifests differently in different people. We don’t know exactly what goes on in his head, but we know he isn’t sound of mind. Hitler is theorized to have had a form of paranoid schizophrenia too. West specifically seems to believe that black people are “the real jews” and that Hitler was therefore right to kill the “imposters” or something stupid. The reasoning he presents does fit with paranoid schizophrenia.
To be clear, schizophrenia is a disease that we know how to manage, and most schizophrenics do so just fine. West in particular is an idiot for not taking his meds. And of course his diagnosis doesn’t absolve him from the responsibility of his actions. But they are clearly related in his case.
He is also egotistical and seems to have some kind of messiah-complex. That does appear to just be him being a piece of shit.
- Comment on Ye song glorifying Hitler gets millions of views on X while other platforms struggle to remove it 2 months ago:
Oh no it is. West has iirc quite severe schizophrenia, and he’s not taking his meds for them due to paranoia (the meds are “stifling his creativity” you know).
He wasn’t a Nazi before. Since he’s off his meds, he turned total Nazi. And iirc in the brief time where he started taking his meds again he apologised for some of the Nazi stuff. And now he’s off them again so it’s Nazi o’ clock.
Seems very causally related tbh.
- Comment on Ye song glorifying Hitler gets millions of views on X while other platforms struggle to remove it 2 months ago:
He has genuine and severe mental illnesses. He’s off his meds at the moment due to his paranoia about them.
It’s incredibly clear when he’s off his meds, as when he’s on them he turns a lot more reasonable and not Nazi at all.
- Comment on doctors 2 months ago:
The reason for that is that surgeons are rated based on their success percentages meaning they’ll recommend against risky surgeries.
The upside of this is that surgeons aren’t operating willy-nilly on people and will make a proper risk assessment. The downside is that overweight people have an inherently higher risk of complications from surgery, so some surgeons will pass.
It’s not because they think these people don’t need it, it’s because they think it’s too risky. They’re usually not wrong about that, you just need to find a surgeon willing to take the risk or, if possible, reduce the risk by losing weight.
- Comment on Marvel Officially Retitles Thunderbolts as The New Avengers 2 months ago:
Rumor has it that Marvel was worried it would bomb, and naming it “New Avengers” would put them in an awkward position moving forward. Thunderbolts was the backup-insurance-title basically.
Now that the movie seems to be doing well, it’s getting its proper title.
- Comment on Half-Life 3 is reportedly playable in its entirety and could be announced this year 2 months ago:
No, HL:Alyx functions as a sort-of prequel. The ending of it does provide a stepping stone from which HL3 could pick up again.
- Comment on John Lithgow Says He Was Surprised by Backlash Over Joining ‘Harry Potter’ Series 2 months ago:
Not the guy you replied to, but:
In 1983, he announced in the New Statesman that Hitler had his reasons for exterminating six million men, women and children. “There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity,” he said. “I mean, there’s always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.”
That’s… pretty fucking anti-semitic ngl. He’s basically victim-blaming Jewish people for the Holocaust. Also “picking on them” is quite a eufemism for “industrially genociding”.
That’s got nothing to do with zionism or being anti-Israel.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 2 months ago:
You might have a bad time with all the plagues that have gone extinct since then.