jeremyparker

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan anon complains about Google⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honest question: why not? Facebook/Google/Microsoft are up to some disgusting shit, are their Russian counterparts significantly different?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan anon complains about Google⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently the brigade has found you, but i want you to know that i agree (mostly). Obviously it kind of sucks tohavve Russian as the default language on everything you get from there, and there’s some super-obscure music I’ve failed to find on there, but it’s basically my first stop these days, whether it’s Abbot Elementary or CompTIA training videos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan anon complains about Google⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does that mean it should have its time wasted? Anti-robot bigotry is at an all time high and I, for one, think it’s time for change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨High quality channel⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Chicagoan here, chiming in: I saw this guy like 4 times on my way to work this morning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well?? Does it??⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not opposed to the idea but it doesn’t seem like the kind of thing you can just try one time. Isn’t there some kind of preparation phase to be able to handle …“stuff”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people around me tend to increase their responsibility load (i.e. have children, become a manager, do charity, etc.) while I (30M) try to avoid it as much as I can?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t do it for the purpose of increasing responsibility. I mean , I didn’t, maybe other people do. I just really wanted a couple little mini monsters following me around.

  When I was like 30, I was out hiking and I saw some guy with three little kids, the kids were hopping from rock to rock, and the littlest one ran up past the siblings to hold the dad’s hand. It was super cute. My parents were kinda uninterested and afk, so I haven’t seen a lot of examples of dads just having fun with their kids.

  That little family was inspiring, in the sense that it opened my mind to a new way of thinking, but also in the sense of taking in breath, it felt like I had been holding my breath and finally stopped. I realized I didn’t necessarily have to be like them, I could use their bad/mediocre parenting as a “what not to do” list, and still do some of the things that they did that were good. I could go hiking with my kids, I could teach them how to build a campsite out of nothing, or how to build a server, or how to put your thumb on the end of a house so it sprays really far.

  Sure it’s more responsibility but it’s also really fun.

  And, tbh, all the nice things in life are even nicer if you can share it with people. That goes double for kids, because they don’t know how shitty the world is. You just gotta make sure they understand and appreciate the fun stuff and don’t get spoiled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the sensory biology of plants⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hadn’t heard it either until FD Signifier used it in a video. I guess it originally referred to the “in universe” fiction of professional wrestling, but FD took it out of that context and now I use it all the time – well, it doesn’t come up that often, but it’s a concept that’s needed a word for a while now… Especially now that “alternative facts” are becoming so prevalent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the sensory biology of plants⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Y’all mf’ers need to read The Secret Life of Plants. It’s fascinating.

  It’s from the 1970s or 80s, and it talks about this stuff in extreme depth - plant communication, plants understanding their environment… Long range communication & telepathic plants…

  You gotta understand, there’s absolutely zero science to it – TSLoP is richly detailed with unconfirmed anecdotal evidence, some lady said this, a man from Tucson said this other thing, etc. If it was real, it would be world changing, but, at this point, it’s a pretty crazy claim that would need some pretty crazy evidence.

  But it’s still fascinating – both from it’s own kayfabe, like, imagine a world in which this was real – and in terms of “conspiracy theories” – is not a conspiracy but it’s clear bullshit so the who and why of it’s believers is interesting. Because it’s not like most conspiracies, which usually eventually lead back to antisemitic and Christian supremacist stuff. TSLoP is a legit leftist conspiracy, all its own thing.

  So, if you see The Secret Life of Plants at a used bookstore for a couple dollars, pick it up, it’s really neat.