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- Comment on [Tom Warren] The PS5 Pro still hasn’t sold out in the US or UK. Looks like the $700 price point will mean this console will be readily available this holiday 1 month ago:
Compared to what I’m used to regarding storage upgrades on other highly integrated devices like smartphones for example, the storage upgrade costs of the steamdeck seem much better and almost fair.
- Comment on Nintendo and Pokémon are suing Palworld maker Pocketpair 1 month ago:
Ah I see. Thanks for clearing that up!
- Comment on Nintendo and Pokémon are suing Palworld maker Pocketpair 1 month ago:
I said “patents infringed”. Or what do you mean?
- Comment on Nintendo and Pokémon are suing Palworld maker Pocketpair 2 months ago:
If it’s about those pretty similar character models like those linked in the article, then I can understand Nintendo better.
But if it’s just about the concept of “collecting monsters” and using them in battles somehow, then they can go fuck themselves. I’m eager to learn where they see their patents infringed. - Comment on Bees 2 months ago:
There are a lot of different species which serve as pollinators besides bees. Afaik, some are more specialised into specific flowers/plants than others and without them, these plants wouldn’t be able to reproduce. (Yucca moths for example.)
- Comment on Hero 5 months ago:
Sadly not just the USA.
- Comment on Lots of times the restaurants won't even have milk 5 months ago:
Moderate drinking is not a problem.
From a health perspective, it certainly is.
No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health.And it does assist with socializing
Which is a cultural thing. If people grow up seeing how alcohol is a social catalysator, they don’t learn that it’s perfectly possible to socialize without alcohol.
which seems like it would be beneficial for most people on here.
Idk, if that comes from a well-meant place, but it sounds kinda condescending.
The idea that people here are afraid of/resistant to drinking, yet will use cannabis and other materials seems very strange.
There are not just two kinds of people. From my experience those, who use cannabis or other drugs, are inclined towards alcohol use as well.
- Comment on Big Science 5 months ago:
Critical thinking courses would indeed be very great to have.
Mere factual knowledge transfer is not effective in forming mature and responsible minds if critical thinking is not a focus of education as well.
- Comment on Big Science 5 months ago:
What is “dumb”? What is “intelligence”?
I think, as long as people have normally functioning brains, it is possible for them to understand. And I think nurturing critical thinking is an important aspect of how to approach this.
You can absolutely present a complicated topic to someone who isn’t educated in that field, or even has low education at all, if you are being humble about how you explain it and try to meet them at eye-level.
You don’t need to give definitive answers, you may give recommendations, but you can always explain a bit and note that there is also a lot more to it than what you explained and that one must take care before making some further conclusions.
Interested people in your audience then have some first basis and grasp of a topic and can take it up on themselves to dive deeper; for example, by asking questions or finding further sources (you might refer them to these). - Comment on Big Science 5 months ago:
Sometimes a common error, as people just have a rather ordinary interpretation on the meaning of the word “theory” and sometimes it’s an intentional attempt of discrediting.
Words can mean different things in different contexts. A scientific theory is not the same as the general or ordinary every-day meaning of “theory”.
Classic example and mistake by followers of creationist religions: “evolution is just a theory”.
Well, what if I told you, that, for example, our modern electronic means of communication are part of the wide field of “information theory”?
- Comment on Lots of times the restaurants won't even have milk 5 months ago:
Socially or ethically, I think I know what you mean.
I am being pedantic now and say that it can even be bad socially and ethically as a consequence of that or as a consequence of health concerns.
- Comment on Lots of times the restaurants won't even have milk 5 months ago:
There’s a loneliness epidemic and low alcohol consumption rates are a contributor to that
Are they? Sincere question, haven’t read a report or something like that on that topic.
Regarding the remaining part, I understand how you see that. Seems logical. However, I would claim that this is more of a problem in societies mindset itself and less one tied to alcohol consumption. If people are raised in a way that they learn how alcohol is necessary, and don’t learn other ways, if it’s even incorporated in the particular culture of a society, then it’s not surprising that those people have a hard time finding new friends.
There are plenty of counter examples, e.g., look at other cultures where alcohol is even forbidden or at least its consumption clearly discouraged. Even in western cultures there are plenty of people who found and prefer other ways. But sure, may of course not be the majority yet.Regarding a loneliless epidemic, I guess there is also a lot more to it than alcohol consumption alone. For example I have picked up on smartphone usage / social media consumption as related on that. (Which is a very superficial statement now, I haven’t read up on that.)
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 5 months ago:
Compared to other religions, I understand that take, if we neglect stuff like not living up to their own doctrine of, e.g., equal rights between women and men, or the Khalistan movement, which has caused death and abused human rights on several occasions, also by killing civilians.
Still, as most organized religions, it became emergent as a tool of mass control and subjugation. Moral behaviour is not formed by critical thought and self-reflection, but by devotion to some mysterious higher power. Which is and always has been a core issue of problematic behaviour we can so often observe today with religious people. A side-effect is that it has the danger of hindering progress and societal evolution by having a creationism as one of it’s core teachings, as far as I know.
A further form of subjugation, hindering freedom of individual human (and harmless) expression, can be found among the Kakkars. For example the “dress-code” with having uncut hair, cotton undergarments etc…
I could go on. So to make it short, no, religions are usually detrimental for the long term constructive development of humanity and Sikhism is no exception.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 5 months ago:
Or are they local?
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 5 months ago:
Religion is usually bad, so I don’t have an issue lumping them all together.
- Comment on Lots of times the restaurants won't even have milk 5 months ago:
In case you are sincerely wondering:
It has become common to show sarcasm or mockery through that random capitalisation of letters in text.
It was originally popularised by the mocking spongebob meme but its use can be traced back evenmearlier, according to Wikipedia.
- Comment on Lots of times the restaurants won't even have milk 5 months ago:
Please keep it civil. :) The discussion was fine so far. What made you react so angry?
- Comment on Lots of times the restaurants won't even have milk 5 months ago:
There is lactose free cow water. Also, plant based milk doesn’t have lactose.
- Comment on Lots of times the restaurants won't even have milk 5 months ago:
Which is cool
I disagree for health and a bunch of other reasons.
- Comment on Lots of times the restaurants won't even have milk 5 months ago:
Alcohol isn’t that bad, obviously, if bad at all,
Depends on what you understand by “bad”. Regarding health, it certainly is.
- Comment on Solve a puzzle for me 6 months ago:
ChatGPT is, in it’s core, a sequence predictor/generator. Give it some context and it will produce most probable results.
Having the context of man, boat and river is very likely to match this “how does the man get the goat on the other side of the river” riddle, which is probably very predominantly present in the data set ChatGPT was trained on.
That’s why ChatGPT can be helpful for lots of different purposes, but shouldn’t be taken literally. Errors are very likely to happen. It can give important hints, but always check the results thouroughly.
- Comment on A bad influence 7 months ago:
Because it’s “not official” and is therefore seen as a security risk.
- Comment on A bad influence 7 months ago:
(which you’re not allowed to use, depending on company policy)