BlackDragon

@BlackDragon@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slay Girl⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re saying that “more babies = more success” is a funny and cute idea when expressed by a cartoon duck, but is extremely harmful when expressed by humans in the real world. I honestly can’t imagine how you reached your interpretation of the comment because it seems to have very little in common with anything they said.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slay Girl⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t tell if you hate ducks or are simply a pro-natalist

  That’s an impressively incorrect reading of the comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨who's gonna tell him?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  McAfee was a perfectly competent programmer in the 80s and 90s. I think by the time most people heard of him he had already fried the part of his brain responsible for programming with copious amounts of every drug.

  I’d still take him over Musk any day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dating⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve gotta take the first step yourself, no one can do that for you.

  Or don’t. Be a shutin. Fear the mailman. Die a virgin. I’m not your boss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨High value⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t get me wrong I’m no stranger to our lord and savior Fargoth, bosmer bussy, or Nords and their secret wives. The Elder Scrolls is fantastic because you can simultaneously take it so seriously and … do whatever it is we lore nerds get up to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨High value⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  CHIM isn’t really meta like that. It is a state of enlightenment achieved after coming to terms with the fact that the Elder Scrolls setting exists within the ‘dream’ of a godhead. The godhead is a mysterious and high order entity, think Lovecraftian gods, which isn’t really sleeping and dreaming in the way we normally think of it.

  Typically when one comes to understand the nature of the dream they inhabit, they vanish, becoming one with the dream in a process known as zero-summing. It essentially means coming to the conclusion that all things within the dream are one and the same, that the individual is an illusion.

  CHIM is achieved by facing this fate and asserting that, though all reality is a dream, your existence as an individual with thoughts and feelings and agency within the dream matters and is valid. Some suggest this state confers great power, such as the ability to reshape the landscape or perform miracles, like when one lucid dreams. However, I find this position poorly supported. Rather, CHIM seems best viewed as one form of enlightenment, a state achieved through great wisdom and insight but which brings with it no particular power. Vivec can be slain, after all, and relies on his connection to the Heart of Lorkhan to exercise divine power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I literally already explained that in the comic you’re replying to. The sea lion should have done something bad to deserve being criticized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That just doesn’t work, because the sea lion’s behavior in the comic is entirely reasonable, and it is the other characters who are being unreasonable. If the point of the comic is that the sea lion’s behavior is bad, they should have actually made the sea lion do something bad instead of call out someone being racist against him

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  not a racist conversation, because sea lions are not sentient beings despite what is about to happen

  sea lions literally are sentient beings in the context of the comic. the only justification the comic gives for why sea lions are bad requires them being sentient beings.

  are you literate

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just obviously not about all the stuff that you seem to think it’s about.

  But it literally is? You’re the one coming up with weird interpretations about “what if it was actually about xyz”

  What is actually happening in the comic is that a character is being racist and the victim of that racism is portrayed as being wrong and annoying for calling out the racism. That’s literally what’s happening in the comic. It doesn’t require any kind of gymnastics or interpretation, that’s the surface level reading of what is occurring in the comic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Racism justifies harassment and home invasion?

  Yeah. Not gonna cry over what the victims of racism do to racists.

  and more about the harassment veiled in false civility as a means of silencing discussion.

  How is the sea lion silencing discussion? The racist lady said a racist thing and the sea lion invited discussion by asking, “Why did you say that racist thing?” and then they refused to actually explain why they’re racist against sea lions, treating it as self-evident that being racist against sea lions is correct and thus that it is unreasonable to question it.

  Pretend he’s not a sea lion, but a conservative

  He can’t choose not to be a sea lion

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I gotta be honest, the sea lion is not the bad guy in this comic. Guy randomly says some racist shit, and a member of the group he’s being racist against calls him out for being racist, so he then uses that as justification for the initial racist statement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Burning Up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like a great time to propose my system of temperature: Super Celsius. I’ll connect it to the freezing and boiling points of water just like Celsius, but while freezing remains at 0, boiling is now 1000. Get ready for a nice mild day of 250 degrees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those poor plants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If the only animal corpses anyone ate was euthanized pet remains and the practice was somehow free of influencing the unnecessary euthanization of more pets, I can’t say I care. Same way I don’t really care if people eat roadkill or animal products from a dumpster. I’m not going to do it, I don’t see these things as food. And I think there’s a minuscule harm done in the proliferation of the perception of these things as food. But that harm is negligible in the face of animal agriculture which is my primary concern.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those poor plants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What part of my reference to it as animal abuse sounds like an endorsement of the practice? I’m not sure about you, but personally I consider animal abuse to be unacceptable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those poor plants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  But then you’re still causing plants pain by farming and eating them. Isn’t that argument no different than saying if you believe that harming animals causes them pain, you should be in favor of eating the ones that are hunted because farming them causes more pain?

  If you insist on animal abuse then you should do it through hunting rather than factory farming precisely because of the diminished amount of suffering caused. But it’s still more suffering than would be caused by just eating plants so I’m not sure I understand your point

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those poor plants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you actually believe harming plants causes them pain and that that is bad, you should be vegan. Animal agriculture harms far, far more plants than any plant agriculture ever could.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those poor plants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not only do you jump to an insane straw man.

  It wasn’t an insane strawman though? It was literally the argument they made. Something has to die for you to eat, therefore it doesn’t matter how many things you kill or how necessary those deaths are. The fact that you must kill something absolves you of any guilt for any amount of killing, is the ridiculous argument the person made (and which carnists often make) which we are making fun of for being obviously evil and wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alas Moths⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Alas! Moths.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy Birthday⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly! In English! Which this person does not know!

  You seem to be getting pretty confused here. We’re talking about the literal meanings, that is to say the ones that someone who doesn’t have a strong grasp of English should know. Metaphors and idioms and so on are famously difficult for those without a strong grasp on the language, but I am arguing that this is not one of those. This is a phrase with a straightforward literal meaning, unlike such phrases as “pulling your leg.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy Birthday⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Or the number of days since their birth? That’s the simpler explanation.

  “Those apples are numbered” = “we know how many apples there are right now”

  No, that does not make equal literal sense to what I said. Because days that are in the past are gone, we don’t have them anymore. We refer to moving through time as “killing” time or as “losing” time, in English we don’t tend to think of the past as something we currently have. The future is something we have or will have, the past is something we had and no longer have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy Birthday⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It means that you can place a specific number on the number of days left in a person’s life? I’m not sure I understand the question because the meaning of this one is pretty easy to see. Normally it is unclear when your death will be, but if someone tells you that your days are numbered they are implying that they possess the exact knowledge of what number of days you have left to live.