AppleTea
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- Comment on Anon shares a family moment 1 week ago:
call him a square
- Comment on Help. 1 week ago:
Voicing His Own Thoughts Without Prompts
What are you thinking about, baby?
- Comment on Remember to 2FA your kidneys. 1 week ago:
maybe they mean with dialysis?
- Comment on Alpha males 2 weeks ago:
The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens (‘wise man’). In any case it’s an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.
Terry Pratchett
- Comment on Chad NATO 3 weeks ago:
…what…?
- Comment on Hate to see all the suffering 3 weeks ago:
Sure, in a reductive sort of way. Kind of reminds me of native americans who, after being forcibly taken to europe and seeing how the people lived, concluded that no one there was free.
I think that criticism is still fundamentally true. But at the same time, what we have now is different from slavery. People are no longer legally considered property. Yes, labor is still coerced. But that coercion is now baked into the system, rather than an explicit interpersonal relationship of owed and owner.
- Comment on Hate to see all the suffering 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Aliens 3 weeks ago:
But the pyramids required an understanding of mathematics that hadn’t been discovered yet!
Motherfucker, you ever hear of multiple discovery? It’s math. Anyone who’s interested can derive the principles behind it. Which is more likely, aliens? Or an Egyptian person with too much free time and a penchant for staying indoors?
- Comment on Can any scientists confirm this important fact? 3 weeks ago:
I have come to accept the research telephone. Yeah, my understanding of the actual research is filtered through countless interlocking individuals and who knows how many narrative frameworks. The best I can do, without just getting a degree in the field, is to try to sample as many of these narrative interpretations as possible.
When I see the point made that we believe science like a new religion, I cannot help but see the glimmer of truth in that interpretation. Ok, sure, fine by me. I trust the mechanism of passive-aggressive peer review more than any holy text or hierarchy of clergy.
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 4 weeks ago:
actually, they do get to complain
- Comment on Anon thinks about elephants 4 weeks ago:
elephants have an unusually long gestation period (and not just for their size, whales are typically only pregnant for about 12 months) Researchers think its necessary to give their brains time to fully develop, of which they have the outright largest of any land mammal and a body-to-brain ratio that rivals our own.
As for psychosis, I’ve been told that for people it typical lasts about a month from whatever triggers it. Maybe the bigger brain would mean it needs more time for the… psychosis(?)… to work through… whatever it’s doing? Honestly, it’s probably not whats happening with the elephants. They sounded superficially similar, so I made a glib comment about it.
- Comment on Anon thinks about elephants 4 weeks ago:
elephant pregnancy lats 22 months
makes sense that elephant psychosis would last longer too
- Comment on Resources 4 weeks ago:
Most of what the study is proposing would be a modest decrease in living standards in developed countries, for a drastic increase in living standards everywhere else. It’s not asking you to give up luxury, only for the rate of new luxury to decrease slightly as surplus is more evenly distributed.
- Comment on It's not just kind, it's kinder 4 weeks ago:
I kinda think it was made with the intention kids would be exposed to it by mistake.
- Comment on Why doesn't the US fill in the area in the Pacific to connect Alaska, Hawaii, and the mainland? Are they stupid? 4 weeks ago:
take it down one degree of absurdity and you just have Bojack Horseman
- Comment on High quality sticker though 4 weeks ago:
MAKE THE ANIMALS WEAR PANTS! COVER THEIR BUMS!
- Comment on They're completely serious 4 weeks ago:
plenty of sea critters have blue blood
horseshoe crab blood (blue) is even widely used to verify disinfection procedures
- Comment on well? 4 weeks ago:
That’s an easy criticism to make of someone on the other side of the planet. But on this side of the pacific, I can’t help but notice that we make the same excuses for continuing to live under our own government.
- Comment on well? 4 weeks ago:
Liu closed his eyes for a long moment and then said quietly, “This is why I don’t like to talk about subjects like this. The truth is you don’t really—I mean, can’t truly—understand.” He gestured around him. “You’ve lived here, in the U.S., for, what, going on three decades?” The implication was clear: years in the West had brainwashed me. In that moment, in Liu’s mind, I, with my inflexible sense of morality, was the alien.
And so, Liu explained to me, the existing regime made the most sense for today’s China, because to change it would be to invite chaos. “If China were to transform into a democracy, it would be hell on earth,” he said. “I would evacuate tomorrow, to the United States or Europe or—I don’t know.” The irony that the countries he was proposing were democracies seemed to escape his notice. He went on, “Here’s the truth: if you were to become the President of China tomorrow, you would find that you had no other choice than to do exactly as he has done.”
It was an opinion entirely consistent with his systems-level view of human societies, just as mine reflected a belief in democracy and individualism as principles to be upheld regardless of outcomes. I was reminded of something he wrote in his afterword to the English edition of “The Three-Body Problem”: “I cannot escape and leave behind reality, just like I cannot leave behind my shadow. Reality brands each of us with its indelible mark. Every era puts invisible shackles on those who have lived through it, and I can only dance in my chains.”
- Comment on I dont want to enter a contract when consuming your product.. 5 weeks ago:
everyone’s all for enthralling randos on the internet, but as soon as they ask A/S/L suddenly its gone to far
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Glad i’m not. Can you imagine the kind of dumb social edict that would have built up around that?
Retail Employee, on their 10th day in a row with no overtime because the schedule got thrown together at the last minute again: [briefly shining above the infrared before fading back again] Hello sir, is there anything I can help you with today?
Customer [so angry he’s strobing] How dare you! It’s bad customer service to greet me with such pitiful luminescence! I’ve never been so insulted! Where is your manager?
- Comment on the universe about to have a little minty b 5 weeks ago:
Cursed to look into the great mysteries of existence with a mind high tuned for pattern recognition and projecting familiar narratives.
Is that something beyond our current understanding? No, no, it’s just a familiar desktop environment. But fuck you if you project a name and a face into the unknown. That’s backwards and primitive!
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 month ago:
I wish it had a d-pad rather than the left trackpad, but otherwise yeah
If only mine weren’t broken 🥲
- Comment on Drinking solution 1 month ago:
Alberta Premium, nice
- Comment on Anon likes a thing 1 month ago:
I liked the bit at the end where the therapist calls him out.
- Comment on Why does it feel like protesting isn't as "extreme" as it used to be? 1 month ago:
speaking of an unrelated chip on one’s shoulder…
- Comment on One day... 2 months ago:
you’re life decisions aren’t gonna change anything, sometimes you just grow up to be a moth
- Comment on It's not supposed to make sense... 2 months ago:
uh, I’m a total quantum layman, but I’m pretty sure its the detector.
- Comment on Peak male form 2 months ago:
#4 is on the bleeding edge of fashion, while #6 doesn’t give a damn.
- Comment on It's not supposed to make sense... 2 months ago:
My example is more in regards to wave/particle duality as it shows up in variations of the double slit experiment. Putting a detector at one of the slits is an active interaction, giving you the particle-like behavior rather than the interference pattern.
