AppleTea
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- Comment on Chad NATO 4 hours ago:
…what…?
- Comment on Hate to see all the suffering 4 days 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 4 days ago:
- Comment on Aliens 4 days 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? 5 days 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 1 week ago:
actually, they do get to complain
- Comment on Anon thinks about elephants 1 week 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 1 week ago:
elephant pregnancy lats 22 months
makes sense that elephant psychosis would last longer too
- Comment on Resources 1 week 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 1 week 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? 1 week ago:
take it down one degree of absurdity and you just have Bojack Horseman
- Comment on High quality sticker though 1 week ago:
MAKE THE ANIMALS WEAR PANTS! COVER THEIR BUMS!
- Comment on They're completely serious 1 week ago:
plenty of sea critters have blue blood
horseshoe crab blood (blue) is even widely used to verify disinfection procedures
- Comment on well? 1 week 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? 1 week 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.. 2 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 2 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 2 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Alberta Premium, nice
- Comment on Anon likes a thing 4 weeks 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? 5 weeks ago:
speaking of an unrelated chip on one’s shoulder…
- Comment on One day... 1 month 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... 1 month ago:
uh, I’m a total quantum layman, but I’m pretty sure its the detector.
- Comment on Peak male form 1 month 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... 1 month 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.
- Comment on 2025 be vibin' 1 month ago:
wooo! comp-sci dropout! I heard way too many of you describe the kind of code that gets written under deadlines and client demands. Programming is fun, why would I want to ruin it by turning it into work?
- Comment on Deez peets 1 month ago:
skittering around on your fingertips
what a vile existence, I cannot stop imaging it
- Comment on It's not supposed to make sense... 1 month ago:
When researchers say “observe” they actually mean “measure”. And when you’re working with sub-atomic particles, “measure” isn’t some passive activity. It’s an active thing. When you measure small particles you are applying some force upon them, changing them in some way from how they would otherwise act.
Imagine if you were tasked with measuring traffic on the other side of the planet, but you had no cameras. The only tool you had was a gigantic 30 ton, satellite-networked pendulum swinging across the highway. The only way you know if there are cars on the highway is if the pendulum thwacks into one of them. That’s quantum particle physics… I think.
- Comment on A simple solution, really 1 month ago:
Just think! I could have a new Nintendo and a whole 1.42 games to play on it!
