solsangraal
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- Comment on Give an inch take an inch 23 hours ago:
so many reasons to ditch chrome and google altogether…
- Comment on Things are getting really crazy. 1 day ago:
it’s like that south park episode where prof chaos is trying to come up with an evil plan for world domination, but can’t because the simpsons already did it
except it’s real life
- Comment on Why does it seem like everyone is so good looking and beautiful nowadays? 1 week ago:
believe it or not, there is such a thing as looking “good enough” in any situation. spending this much time comparing yourself to everyone else-- you’re in for an exhausting life
- Comment on Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads 3 weeks ago:
“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
-Vonnegut
- Comment on 7th-inning stretch 1 month ago:
i’ll never not think “hey, fallout!” when i see that flag
- Comment on So jussi 1 month ago:
um what…jussi is my favorite kind of pussi
- Comment on The System Shock 2 remaster comes out June 26th 1 month ago:
lol i share the unpopular opinion, as well as the downright hated opinion of despising infinite. everyone fell in love with elizabeth while i was thinking “this is the most annoying npc in history.” aside from that the game was meh af
- Comment on The System Shock 2 remaster comes out June 26th 1 month ago:
amazing game. bioshock was supposed to surpass it but none of them did imo. prey came close much much later. funny though, how the wrench is pretty much the best weapon in all of them
- Comment on Remember the good old days? 1 month ago:
more info: www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/…/index.html#mi…
OP photo near the bottom
- Comment on The chair 1 month ago:
hey, the same shit happens to me! i thought i was the only one…
- Comment on The chair 1 month ago:
its like getting text messages from that friend you don’t remember making when you were blackout drunk last night
- Comment on this is art 1 month ago:
- Comment on Every morning when I read the latest news 1 month ago:
do yourself a favor, take a week off (at least) from the news. you can safely assume it’s going to be bad and there’s nothing being done about it, but you’ll notice an improvement in your mental health. nothing in the world changes when you stop doomscrolling, only changes in yourself
- Comment on Day 231 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots 2 months ago:
i’m still amazed every time i see shots of this game from 2018. everything else, even other great games, seem halfass by comparison
- Comment on Classical Meme 2 months ago:
pretty much if a 4 panel grid seems nonsense/incomprehensible…it’s usually loss
- Comment on gigachad 2 months ago:
everyone is free to play whatever they want, but everyone is also free to call your opinion dumb. which it is.
- Comment on Harry Potter and... fits into everything 2 months ago:
it’s not just me
theconversation.com/snobbery-in-the-academy-is-al…
www.beyondphdcoaching.com/…/academic-arrogance/
…com.pk/…/hidden-barrier-to-intellectual-growth
hell, someone actually wrote a fucking paper on it
- Comment on Trump’s Funding Freezes Bruise a Core Constituency: Farmers 2 months ago:
i sleep better knowing trump voters are suffering. i hope it gets worse for them
- Comment on Harry Potter and... fits into everything 2 months ago:
this sort of comment is exactly what i’m talking about. taking a blatantly metaphoric (cliched even) statement literally, and arguing against that, and then asking me to explain how private personal relationships might affect one’s general overall attitude? really?
but seriously, if you’re just trolling–keep practicing. if not, then thanks for illustrating my point.
- Comment on Harry Potter and... fits into everything 2 months ago:
how good human nature can be that academia is still working on such a collaborative and communicative basis despite capitalist and neoliberal pressures.
you mean all the dozens of prestigious unis who completely buckled like an accordion to obey in advance and defenestrate their DEI policies because…trump?
to be fair, the cultural anti intellectual takeover of the country is basically complete-- that, added to the college age population cliff, and fascism means higher education’s days are numbered anyway. unless you’re a STEM hotshot and are willing to sign a “i love trump and i hate DEI” pledge, then you should start thinking about plans B, C, and D
- Comment on Harry Potter and... fits into everything 2 months ago:
academia would be a much better place if every pompous ass my-shit-don’t-stink scholar had a spouse to regularly bust them down a peg and make them stop taking themselves so seriously to the point of cringe
- Comment on What Refutes Science... 2 months ago:
the problem is that AI can generate a million bogus “research papers” for every single legit paper. and for the general public (ie science writers, bloggers, news reporters, etc.) they are indistinguishable from each other. so unless you have literally done the research on a particular hypothesis yourself (good luck with that, with all the funding cuts), then everything is suspect
so the question of “are we better off with AI?” as of right now, is absolutely fucking not
- Comment on What Refutes Science... 2 months ago:
don’t worry, science as conclusions derived from research will soon be replaced by bullshit psuedo-research-AI-word-vomit derived from equally bullshit pre-determined conclusions
- Comment on Sounds like a fun place to work 2 months ago:
are we supposed to take breaks for that? TIL
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
that person sounds like an insufferable “i’m entitled to the world and everything in it” manbaby narcissist. no amount of money is worth having zero time away from work and destroying your mental health. fuck that
- Comment on The new Hulu Subscriber agreement just dropped - Don't like ads too bad. 2 months ago:
what the fuck are people actually paying for at this point
- Comment on What are your favorite games for killing nazis? 2 months ago:
holy shit i was playing the fuck out of supreme commander 1; never heard of the game, only played it because it came with my new GPU for free. i had been waiting for starcraft 2 for years and years and when it finally came out i was like wow…supreme commander was better…
- Comment on What are your favorite games for killing nazis? 2 months ago:
+1 for both new wolfensteins. so rare for both the action and the story in a game to be top notch
- Comment on What are your favorite games for killing nazis? 2 months ago:
i just started another playthrough of company of heroes 1; timeless nazi smashing RTS that’s aged surprisingly well
- Comment on Costs to thee, but none for me! 3 months ago:
fun fact: the academic publishing business model was invented by robert maxwell. you’ve probably heard the name maxwell before, due to his daughter, ghislaine