jsomae
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- Comment on Interesting logic 4 days ago:
you may define life however you like; the thing I said still makes sense.
- Comment on Interesting logic 5 days ago:
My experience with random processes: on large scales, things either happen 0 times or many times. So I find the idea that life exists in only one place pretty implausible.
- Comment on Proton 1 week ago:
Here’s the tweet. It was not a policy but the appointment of Gail Slater.
- Comment on Proton 1 week ago:
I heard he tweeted in favour of one of the policy’s the GOP implemented. What else has he done?
- Comment on Anon finds a hut 1 week ago:
I do not believe that “belief in aliens” almost universally means believing that aliens have visited earth. If you believe people mean this, I think you have a distorted perception because you have only listened to people talk about crazy people. I have asked many of my friends about if they think aliens exist – some said yes, some said no; the ones who said yes all made reference to drake’s equation and similar.
- Comment on Anon finds a hut 1 week ago:
You don’t need to signal to people that you dislike reddit by saying r-word. It’s a given that anybody on lemmy dislikes reddit.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed 2 weeks ago:
I think I’m going to hack my switch 1 now, and put some custom mario kart tracks on it
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed 2 weeks ago:
That asshole company everyone* cares about. My hatred of Nintendo runs deep. But I still watched the direct. I’m so excited for the innovative new features, and the new Mario Kart looks sick. I am disgusted that they will use the money to go after fans. I need help
- Comment on 'Doctor Who' Star Varada Sethu Fires Back at 'Woke' Critics: 'It Means We’re Doing the Right Thing' 2 weeks ago:
I recall Martha operating the Tardis at one point, though she didn’t know what she was doing. That might have been Rose though. Anyway, this is all pedantry lol. The new companion looks cool. Sadly the show is just so hard to watch at this point; I probably will watch one or two episodes with her anyway.
- Comment on I love to send the most absurd messages I can think of to steam scammers 2 weeks ago:
Your mockery of republicans is indistinguishable from actual republicans. You are serving only to swell their ranks.
- Comment on I love to send the most absurd messages I can think of to steam scammers 2 weeks ago:
:(
- Comment on 'Doctor Who' Star Varada Sethu Fires Back at 'Woke' Critics: 'It Means We’re Doing the Right Thing' 2 weeks ago:
“ Sethu and Gatwa’s pairing means that two people of color will pilot the Tardis for the first time in Doctor Who’s history. “Ncuti was like, ‘Look at us. We get to be in the Tardis. We’re going to piss off so many people’,” she said.
I know he what he means, but to be pedantic, this is not the first time a person of colour person has been in the Tardis. There have been several black companions (Mickey, Martha, Bill Potts); there have even been two people of colour as companions at the same time (Ryan and Yaz). You could even say that Martha was the first black doctor to pilot the Tardis. :P
I’m happy to see a POC Doctor and companion though.
- Comment on 'Doctor Who' Star Varada Sethu Fires Back at 'Woke' Critics: 'It Means We’re Doing the Right Thing' 2 weeks ago:
2.6k views only. I search youtube for “woke star wars” and I see acolyte, acolyte, star wars, acolyte, disney; all with 10x or 100x the views. if these videos mention andor they’re not putting it front and center that’s for sure.
- Comment on 'Doctor Who' Star Varada Sethu Fires Back at 'Woke' Critics: 'It Means We’re Doing the Right Thing' 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t found anyone complaining Andor is woke from a quick google search. I’m sure there are some people saying that but it’s really nothing compared to other media being accused of being woke. People who use the term woke this way somehow can’t reconcile diversity with intelligent writing.
If someone says something is “woke” at this point you can pretty much safely disregard them as utter shitheads
Well yeah, that can go without saying lol.
- Comment on 'Doctor Who' Star Varada Sethu Fires Back at 'Woke' Critics: 'It Means We’re Doing the Right Thing' 2 weeks ago:
That probably has contributed, but I remember people complaining about woke media by any other name 10 years ago. A lot.
- Comment on 'Doctor Who' Star Varada Sethu Fires Back at 'Woke' Critics: 'It Means We’re Doing the Right Thing' 2 weeks ago:
bad
- Comment on 'Doctor Who' Star Varada Sethu Fires Back at 'Woke' Critics: 'It Means We’re Doing the Right Thing' 2 weeks ago:
This reinforces my perspective that when people complain about “woke” media they are complaining about badly written media (which parenthetically features minorities). The 2005 reboot of Doctor Who has always strongly featured minorities, but the quality has gradually declined season after season. Nobody complained about the bisexual Jack Harkness, who got his own spin-off. Different people gave up at different times – IMO it was a dumpster fire by season 4 already, but others held on through the Matt Smith era or even the Capaldi era. (Not denying there were good episodes still now and then.) Series 11 was unwatchably bad – but not because the Doctor was portrayed by a woman.
Similarly, Star Wars: Andor, has a lot of diversity in the cast! It’s a great show, best Star Wars media since Episode V in my opinion. But it’s Star Wars: The Adept people are calling woke, since it’s trash.
- Comment on Live-action League of Legends series reportedly underway; Vietnam considered as a filming location 2 weeks ago:
the last episode of arcane season 1 had various tropes like the villain monologuing to himself and someone overhearing an important detail. It was a bit of a weak conclusion.
- Comment on Depart, men of education. 3 weeks ago:
is this a reference to something
- Comment on Depart, men of education. 3 weeks ago:
and women
- Comment on Least extreme biophysics phd 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s a different implementation. One has an escape hatch for the wealthy; the other doesn’t.
- Comment on frenly warnin 4 weeks ago:
I do feel bad for people born in the year 1488 though, their usernames look really suspicious.
- Comment on Least extreme biophysics phd 4 weeks ago:
I don’t really see a strong difference ultimately between “heavily disincentivizing” and banning. Heavy disincentivization basically means the rule only applies to poor people. If it’s eugenics, it’s probably still eugenics even when limited to the poor, since most eugenicists would broadly consider wealthy people to likely have good genes.
Anyway, there are times when we should attempt to lower birth rates as a society. In my country it’s not needed, since the birth rate is so low.
- Comment on Least extreme biophysics phd 4 weeks ago:
What do you mean? What did I get wrong?
- Comment on Least extreme biophysics phd 4 weeks ago:
Why is that surprising?
- Comment on Least extreme biophysics phd 4 weeks ago:
“Illegal experiments on babies” is a user-provided note, and is not really an accurate label. For one thing, no experiments were done on babies.
- Comment on Least extreme biophysics phd 4 weeks ago:
Then why isn’t the speed limit 0 everywhere? Speed limits are a balance between two opposing concerns.
In this case, ethics is holding back life-saving treatments. Ethics boards should approve gene editing more than they currently do.
- Comment on Least extreme biophysics phd 4 weeks ago:
you have my upvote
and my axe
- Comment on Least extreme biophysics phd 4 weeks ago:
Can you explain what Unit 731 has to do with Dr. He?
- Comment on Least extreme biophysics phd 4 weeks ago:
Okay, I do relate to this argument. It’s the ethics review board’s decision and not his to make. Fair enough. In this case, I am disappointed by the ethic review board’s decision, which is why I sympathize with the doctor.
