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- Comment on Mamdani housing czar called ‘White, middle-class homeowners’ a ‘huge problem' during 2021 podcast appearance 4 days ago:
White middle class homeowners are a huge problem, at least in areas where they vote to restrict the supply of new housing. It is deeply immoral to vote to line your own pockets at the expense of the welfare of the next generation.
- Comment on Tender chicken 5 days ago:
Who says it has to be evil or cruel? I make a mean dish. It’s about average.
- Comment on Zootopia 1 week ago:
If you’re looking to get into the scrap metal business, I could sell you the Eiffel Tower.
- Comment on I Don't See How You Can Defend This 1 week ago:
Easy. Be Nazi scum.
- Comment on Wats the legal test for consumation? 1 week ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
A bunch of retroreflectors. Something like this. Hang them from strings in your windows. Retroreflectors reflect back light to their source. Don’t shine your own bright lights, just return some of the photos to the people that made them. And if by some miracle the cops do complain, say that they’re just decorative and meant to prevent birds from hitting your windows.
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 1 week ago:
All grass based crops encouraged group cooperation. Plants like potatoes remain safe in the ground until you need them. But all cereal crops require harvesting at a specific time. You can’t just harvest enough wheat as you need it. This means you inevitably have to have a stockpile of grain to get through the year. And a stockpile of already harvested and prepared grain makes you an instant target for raids by opposing groups.
Cereal crops of all forms necessitate cooperation.
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 2 weeks ago:
That’s simply not true.
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 2 weeks ago:
We actually got a full set of wedding china, and we got married in 2018. We’re elder Millennials. While I tell people that they should probably skip the hina, I actually enjoy it. Growing up my parents had a set of china that only came out for company and holidays, and it had a certain charm to it. And I’ve found our set serves a similar role. I actually keep it in the very same cabinet my mom had when I was a kid (she’s long since used a fancier cabinet that matches their dining set.)
But even in 2025, it can be nice to have a set of China. There’s just something special about having people over, either for social occasions or holidays, and being able to offer them a really nice place setting that isn’t part of your normal repertoire. I do got out of my way to use it though. You could just be stopping by my house for a chat, and if I offer you coffee, I’ll probably give it to you in fine china.
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 3 weeks ago:
“In my perfect ideal world, that we have no path to achieving, we could sustain our large population indefinitely.”
- Comment on Of course there is. 4 weeks ago:
I mean, how else are you going to try and march across the damn Soviet Union?
- Comment on OP has a realization 4 weeks ago:
Exactly. The Earth is actually shaped like a banana.
- Comment on OP has a realization 4 weeks ago:
Aliens, at least highly advanced ones, actually function very similar to angels, gods, demons, etc philosophically. Imagine an alien species that evolved a hundred million years before we did. Unless we’re already close to some upper limit to science and technology, such aliens would be as gods to us.
Alien visitors thus end up functioning very similarly, philosophically speaking, to gods and angels. Traditionally unknown natural phenomena would be attributed to gods. But aliens can serve the same function. See something strange in the sky? No matter how strange, super advanced aliens might be responsible. We have no idea what they’re capable of. Astronomers discover a star behaving really oddly? Could be aliens. Strange comet flying through the solar system? Could be an alien space ship.
We cannot begin to predict the capabilities of a species millions of years more advanced than ourselves. Thus, just like the gods of old, advanced aliens can be used to explain any unknown natural phenomena. Instead of god of the gaps, you get aliens of the gaps.
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 5 weeks ago:
You can get home Internet for $40-$50/month.
That’s more like $100/month once the temporary pricing ends and the bullshit fees are applied.
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 5 weeks ago:
We have one. A small one that came with this little countertop ceramic honey pot we found at a pottery shop. We actually tried using it, but the ants got to the literal honey pot very quickly.
- Comment on Anyone in tech confirm? 5 weeks ago:
Exactly. There’s a huge difference between being a hobby farmer and actually trying to make a living as a farmer or rancher. Without needing to support yourself off of it, you can raise only a small number of animals you can comfortably care for, grow what you want without concern for market prices, etc. It’s the difference between coding for a hobby and coding for a job.
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- Comment on Women would rather do drugs than go to therapy 5 weeks ago:
I really wonder about what people thought of that then. Did people really think it was a medical thing, or was this just a socialy respectable way for a man who couldn’t get his wife off to pass the task on to someone who could perform the task with an air of medical respectability?
- Comment on Amazon develops methods for inserting ads onto any flat surface in an existing video 5 weeks ago:
When these get deployed, they’ll finally implement eyeball tracking into the ads. Some smart TVs have in built cameras, and this could easily be one the norm. The companies so far have been too afraid to use it, but the tech has existed for years at this point. Technically, there’s nothing stopping YouTube from just requiring users to have an iris tracking camera enabled. And this would defeat a smart glasses AI ad filter. I suppose you could maybe have a screen on the front that projected fake eyeballs towards the camera, but maybe they could then defeat that.
Or, more likely, they’ll just lobby Congress to ban ad blockers and and blocking devices.
- Comment on Amazon develops methods for inserting ads onto any flat surface in an existing video 5 weeks ago:
What’s worse is this even makes attending the game in person miserable. I know many very passionate college football fans who show up hours before the game to hang out with friends, and then more times then not end up leaving the game itself early. Why? Because the game itself is a drag. If a game is televised, they add extra breaks to the game to accommodate ads. The game gets stretched out from something of reasonable length to some absurd 3-4 hour long slog. People then only stick around if the winner remains unclear. If the games were a more reasonable 2 hour length, with more engaging and constant action, then most folks would stay to the end.
- Comment on Happy DB Cooper Day to those who celebrate! 1 month ago:
No no no. You want WoodsScientist. I’m WoodScientist.
- Comment on Happy DB Cooper Day to those who celebrate! 1 month ago:
Some of those areas are really remote. He could have easily died, and his body was then torn apart and scattered by scavengers before anyone could find it.
People frequently get lost in remote areas, die, and never have their bodies found. All that has to happen is that the animals get to the body before search parties do.
Or he could have simply landed in a stream or river, and his body was devoured by fish as it tumbled its way into the sea.
There are plenty of ways for nature to destroy a corpse.
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 1 month ago:
IDK. I’ve been unironically referring to LLMs as “the Devil’s machine” or simply “The Devil” lately. :D
I mean, if you use them, they do steal your soul, so it checks out.
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 1 month ago:
Are you asking leading questions?
- Comment on Would you date someone that uses a hammer? 1 month ago:
If hammers were only useful for hurting people, yes, yes I would.
- Comment on Anon has a bully 1 month ago:
My head canon is like this. Sword guy is hanging out in his room, sitting in a lotus position, sword displayed on a wooden stand in front of him, candles arranged around him, sword guy deep in meditation.
All of a sudden, from the floor below, sword guy hears the unmistakable sound of someone breaking into his home. He does not fear. He does not panic. He stands up, grabs his katana, and calmly says, “at last, my time has come…”
- Comment on Clicks, Eyeballs, Engagement 1 month ago:
Not like this…
- Comment on Anon has a bully 1 month ago:
In 2009, a John Hopkins University sword guy used a katana to kill an intruder.
- Comment on How has there not yet been a leak of the Epstein files? Surely there is someone with access to them that could have been subject to worldwide pressure to let something out. 2 months ago:
Reality Winner
- Comment on How has there not yet been a leak of the Epstein files? Surely there is someone with access to them that could have been subject to worldwide pressure to let something out. 2 months ago:
Reality Winner