Redfox8
@Redfox8@mander.xyz
- Comment on Petrichor 1 day ago:
At 45 i consider myself to have reached Pro-am status.
- Comment on Optimisation is a Slow Process 1 week ago:
I believe the receptor cell responds to a particular part of the molecule in question. Artificial flavourings and scents have identical (or similar enough) parts to trigger the same response, but are otherwise different molecules.
- Comment on WILD 2 weeks ago:
But what came first? The jellyfish or the egg??!!
- Comment on It's the spherical chicken of legend! Somebody get the frictionless vacuum! 4 weeks ago:
So do you
- Comment on Should i be giving a shit about my posture? 1 month ago:
I spend too much time at my pc or driving so get lower back pain. I recently found this workout that’s really good. It’s challenging but really works well! I sometimes have to ease back a little, especially on the last part, but it still helps.
Apologies, I can’t remember how/where to get alternative YT links.
- Comment on Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread 2 months ago:
But then who are the criminals and ‘bad’ people if not those that have rejected the contract? Life is never all or nothing, so there will be times when someone will abide by the contract, for whatever reason, and times when they wont. This discussion centres on the times that they don’t and assumes that is the option taken the majority of the time.
True, a society does demand sacrifice of free will, however it can be argued that there can never be 100% free will even if you’re a hermit in a cave 100s of miles from another human. E.g. “I want to stay in my cave all day today, but I can’t because I’ve run out of food.” Hunger removes the free will for that period of time.
- Comment on Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread 2 months ago:
Ah but is that not peer pressure? You and others don’t want your cars damaged etc and therefore critisise people who leave carts around selfishly. This then creates a scenario where people may feel guilty or wish to avoid said critisism and put the cart away as a result.
I agree that social contracts exist, but only between those who accept them and are willing to make an effort for everyone and anyone. Those that do not return the cart are in effect rejecting that contract.
- Comment on Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread 2 months ago:
I’d argue that doing something because of peer pressure is different to being taught or learning to be considerate, so what looks like considerate behaviour from the outside, may just be e.g. avoidance of guilt/judgement. It doesn’t necessarily equate to being civilized.
- Comment on Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread 2 months ago:
But the ‘test’ is peer pressure, no? Which exists permanently in real life so there will always be a portion of people only returning the cart because of that.
- Comment on Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread 2 months ago:
Well the discussion started off ok before ending in a rabies infested rant against humanity! Talk about going off the rails!
Anyhow, many people return the trolley so they don’t look bad/feel guilty. That doesn’t necessarily make them ‘good’ or ‘civilised’ and therefore fit into the ‘being forced’ category through peer pressure. Does that make them ‘animals’ and ‘savages’ too?
- Comment on Too many looks. 2 months ago:
2024…
- Comment on giving her 🧀 2 months ago:
I need the text highlighted please, I’ve no idea what anyone is talking about…
- Comment on Which one is selected? The "Yes" option or the "No" option? 2 months ago:
I think we need to know what the UI looks like before a selection has been made, or what it looks like when the curser is over each option. The ‘interface’ part is lost by a single screen shot.
- Comment on (US question) If the Presidential race in the USA was between Kamala Harris and Nikki Haley how would the campaigning go and would it be more civilized and less low brow comments on both sides? 2 months ago:
Two women vying against each other? Regardless of political ideology, the men would create a hellstorm of bullshit beyond anything else. The candidates views and speaches would be drowned out by male commentary galore.
It’d be a gargantuan mess and no-one would really know what was actually going on, decades later even.
Yay misogyny.
- Comment on Is there a more Transformers style than Bōsōzoku ? 3 months ago:
Dick Dasterdly approves of this style!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
What exactly are you trying to acheive by studying an instrument? Why did you choose to learn beyond hobby level?
Your approach sounds like you see it akin to training in a skill for a job. Spend the time and money on it and at the end you can play as well as 95% of people. But then you got bored/lost direction as you didn’t go so far as to do this as a new career so there was no end goal. Looking at the kind of money you think you need to spend, that sounds like professional level stuff (hint, a 40k piano will not improve your ability! But must be nice to play!)
It is hard, and not for everyone, to practice so much. I really enjoy playing the piano, but can never find the time or energy or drive to spend the time to learn to even a half decent level. Lessons would help me, but I’ve never found myself in a place to go for it. Which I accept. I’ll never play any Franz Liszt!
I don’t get the impression music is enough of a passion for you to get a lot out of ‘studying’ as you said you dont want to work part time to do so. So my advice would be to keep practicing and push yourself to learn new music as much as you enjoy it and maybe have some lessons to keep you on track . Maybe studying will suit you later in life, but not at this time.
You also don’t sound lazy btw! Like i said, it is hard work, especially alongside a job, but doesn’t quite sound like it’s rewarding enough for you.
- Comment on How did gravity worked on the Death Star? 3 months ago:
Spoilsport! But like you say this is fiction, and entertainment, it is a fantasy world! :)
But yeah, the last one bugs me in soo many films and tv shows. They have super advanced AI robots tech, they can regrow a hand in a day, no more disease and live 257, transport living moving organisations across great distances, have developed telepaths and telekinetics, and can fold space-time, but are fucked if they can shoot straighter than a drunk badger with one ‘arm’, balancing on a log going down a rapids!
- Comment on Prognosis: back pain and general grouchiness 5 months ago:
The comma, the horror! Couldn’t help but focus on that myself!
- Comment on Why does the government of the USA stand by the country of Israel? 6 months ago:
It amazes me that no-one ever seems to say (not that I have seen, at least)…Isreal is a western, democratic state with nuclear weapons in the middle east.
It’s basically a major power base for the west in the predominantly arab part of the world.
Anything else is a side arguement as far as I’m concerned.
