naught101
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- Comment on Is it really possible that the Maggats will keep Mitch McConell on life support until the midterms? Or will they just let him die and try a sympathy vote? 2 days ago:
The job they wanted enough to sacrifice their morals
Not a very big sacrifice in most cases
- Comment on Fingies 2 days ago:
Yeah. It dies (more often after procreating a couple of times). Death is also useful at a species level because it makes space for new (potentially fitter) individuals
- Comment on "I think Kirbati just gave up when it came time to name cities" 3 days ago:
Not quite. There are a few Christmas Islands. This one is one of the larger islands of Kiribati, in the mid Pacific. The one with the soldier crabs is an Australian territory in the Indian ocean.
- Comment on "I think Kirbati just gave up when it came time to name cities" 3 days ago:
Also note: it’s pronounced “Kiribas”, and yes that means the island is pronounced “Kirismas” - Christmas island (for the usual colonial reasons)
- Comment on Fingies 5 days ago:
I mean, I think they also evolved on steppes and open plains, where running fast is not too often super dangerous, so breaking a leg is not common enough to counter balance the advantages of being fast.
- Comment on Fingies 5 days ago:
It’s survival of the genetic line that reproduces enough to stay alive. The weird shit is often related to path dependence, or is just not enough of a detriment to affect evolutionary outcomes.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Do what you want. I think it’s only gonna be difficult if you expect everyone else to do it too. People close to you will likely pick it up and run with it though
- Comment on Why is most music today follow a math cadence? Then add rhyming? Are artist today really that bad they have to resort to that instead of it natural stuff? 1 week ago:
I make music, and I have a maths degree, and I understand this claim (e.g. harmony is ratios, rhythms are time divisions), but it’s not really actually useful. And lots of the best music does a lot of weird stuff that breaks the mathiness (e.g. microrhythms, groove, microtones, borrowed chords, etc. etc.).
- Comment on Why is most music today follow a math cadence? Then add rhyming? Are artist today really that bad they have to resort to that instead of it natural stuff? 1 week ago:
TIL, thanks! Still not that sure how to comprehend OP’s question
- Comment on Why is most music today follow a math cadence? Then add rhyming? Are artist today really that bad they have to resort to that instead of it natural stuff? 1 week ago:
What had math got to do with rhyming?
Did Mozart and Beethoven even write music with lyrics?
- Comment on How do I deal with children following me around in video games? 1 week ago:
Quality comment
- Comment on When somebody mentions Reddit. 2 weeks ago:
Huh, a self preferential meme
- Comment on I'm not sure that talking-point is a winner... 3 weeks ago:
The whole “we need to make it easier for bosses to fire workers” thing also seems like it should have tanked…
- Comment on Anon is a child prodigy 3 weeks ago:
After 30 years on the internet, this might be the absolute nerdiest conversation I have ever seen. I’m impressed.
- Comment on Be The Sunshine ☀️ 4 weeks ago:
Exactly
- Comment on How do I get myself to actually do thing? 5 weeks ago:
Figure out what’s holding you back, and destroy it. I know for me (and many others), its perfectionism, or the taste thing in that Ira Glass quote:
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
The simple solution to this is to commit to making something that’s bad. Make enough bad things and you’ll learn the skills needed to make some decent things.
- Comment on Be The Sunshine ☀️ 5 weeks ago:
Slow down until they do, or even pull over if it’s safe to.
- Comment on Be The Sunshine ☀️ 5 weeks ago:
I just think “dickheads to the front”. I’d rather have bad drivers in front of me, where I can see them and avoid their bad driving.
- Comment on Be The Sunshine ☀️ 5 weeks ago:
You’re correct, but as a schematic the image is also correct.
- Comment on Could we possibly create a new website/software combining mastodon and piefed ? 5 weeks ago:
Those services already do that? They don’t require you to use an app, and there are multiple apps available if (and only if) you want them.
- Comment on How come Mark Wahlberg got a pass for being the crap out of a Vietnamese guy. But Kevin Spacey, Bill Cosby, Weinstein, do not get a pass? Beside the sexual aspect what is the difference? 5 weeks ago:
This culture looks down on sexual assault (rightfully so), but it glorifies violence in many cases.
- Comment on Do people really "need" friends? 1 month ago:
Oh yeah, I must have read that wrong somehow 🤔
- Comment on Do people really "need" friends? 1 month ago:
What are you talking about
- Comment on Do people really "need" friends? 1 month ago:
- Comment on If you managed to create batteries that can last for a century, will charging be redundant? 1 month ago:
I have a friend who had an iPhone 3 until 3g got shut down 18 months ago. You don’t need to buy into the constant update cycle.
- Comment on Can a puzzle with missing pieces be considered complete? 1 month ago:
Who cares? If it matters to her, she’s right. If it matters to you… Why? And what are you gonna do about it?
- Comment on Should people report AI music channels on Youtube? 1 month ago:
Seems unlikely considering who it’s owned by
- Comment on Why Ireland? 1 month ago:
That’s Spain in the top right too?
I’m guessing he didn’t know where any of those countries are, and just asked for a picture of Europe being blown up
- Comment on Prolly won;t word this correctly. But when did the idea of a woman subservient to a man begin? And how come it seems its lasted longer that most relgions? 2 months ago:
Church out the history section of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarchy
Short version seems to be: it’s not older than agriculture.
- Comment on Anon gets scammed 2 months ago:
That’s supposed to be a comma - “Enjoy 30 minutes of ad, free listening”