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- Comment on I always hope for a horsey 1 week ago:
In theory some configurations have stronger or weaker first mover advantage. This is known as white privilege.
- Comment on You mean it gets worse? 2 weeks ago:
All this is just saying that you personally put more weight on the things that are better about later adulthood than early adulthood or adolescence. And that can be your choice, but it doesn’t have to be everyone’s choice.
You acknowledge that the health and friendships piece gets harder with age but push back against the idea that it inevitably gets worse. But averaged among all people, things will tend to get worse, and some people who actually experience that deterioration will conclude (as is their right) that things were better when health and friendships were easier.
But we also make new relationships as we get older. Is life better when you have a grandparent? Or when you have a grandchild?
These aren’t symmetrical. When you are a young person who loves your grandparents, you haven’t actually mourned a loss of a grandchild you personally knew. On the flip side, when you have a grandchild you might also view that relationship through the lens of a lost relationship with a deceased grandparent. In other words, only one of those experiences is 100% good, rather than a bittersweet mix of good and sad.
Not to mention, plenty of people will never have grandchildren. To them, the mourned loss of a grandparent is the end of that road. There’s no replacement on its way.
Put it this way: if given the opportunity to wake up 10 years in the past, in your body of 10 years ago, how positive or negative would you view that? Plenty of people would vote on different sides of that, and that’s OK to have different views based on one’s own experiences.
- Comment on You mean it gets worse? 2 weeks ago:
I interpret it to be more about the weight given to different pros and cons about different stages in life.
Some people really, really prize autonomy, and don’t get to experience that until pretty late in life. For these people, the stifling limits of adolescence, without their own money or independence from parents, can be miserable.
Some people really, really prize being free of responsibilities. To this group, sometimes adulthood comes with too many challenges and responsibilities that they find independence to be stifling.
Some care about physical health, which may correlate with younger ages.
Some love the ease of friendships in adolescence and early adulthood, and long for that dynamic when they realize that making new friends or maintaining existing friendships gets harder after 30, and even more so after 40.
Some feel very strongly about the loved ones they’ve lost since their childhood, and wish they could’ve appreciated those shared experiences more in the moment.
And we all have different experiences. I have no idea if my best years are ahead of me or behind me, but I could see an argument in either direction.
- Comment on You mean it gets worse? 2 weeks ago:
This all or nothing thinking often just turns into an excuse for doing nothing.
I can make a better world by making things better in my immediate vicinity, without dying for it. I can help one person at a time, and it might not scale to some kind of globally noticeable improvement, but it can still a difference to each of those people, and was worth whatever effort or sacrifice involved.
- Comment on Gives a mom a reason to live 5/5 2 weeks ago:
The arm is lit up from the bottom, totally doesn’t fit the rest of the lighting in the picture.
- Comment on So close! 2 weeks ago:
This is such a snore-gasm.
- Comment on buddy of mine is in a horrible mood 2 weeks ago:
any male born after 2003 can’t date… all they know is 4chan , lift they weights, goon, be incel , eat hot tendie & lie
- Comment on MEGA PENGUIN 2 weeks ago:
Dude don’t you have a department of health and human services to run?
- Comment on Anon measures up 2 weeks ago:
The proper way to use it in a sentence is “stigma dick in your mouth.” Trust me, I’ve got a really good vocabulary.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 2 weeks ago:
I’m just gonna eat this burrito though.
But pray tell doth the burrito quality as a sandwich
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 2 weeks ago:
But most people who are invested in small talk will be giving the signals they think the other person wants, making it less useful than not talking at all.
I don’t think this is true. When I engage in small talk, I don’t see it as me bending flexibly to the conversation partner’s wants. I’m testing to see if there are common overlaps that we can talk about, and talking for the sake of being entertained. If the other person turns out not to be a good conversation partner for me in that moment, I don’t think anything of just moving on. I’m not trying to please them, I’m trying to enjoy myself.
I can’t imagine I’m in the minority here.
- Comment on Anon measures up 2 weeks ago:
There was an OkCupid analysis about this in 2010, with a mostly bell shaped distribution of self reported heights slightly skewed taller than the real world, with an an interesting stretch of a larger portion of people willing to stretch slightly more to a self-reported 6 feet tall.
- Comment on Anon measures up 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on SUNS OUT GUNS OUT 2 weeks ago:
The result is insane in my opinion, it means any sensible math system with basic arithmetic has a proposition that you cannot prove.
Stated more precisely, it has true propositions that you cannot prove to be true. Obviously it has false propositions that can’t be proven, too, but that’s not interesting.
- Comment on SUNS OUT GUNS OUT 3 weeks ago:
with a rigorous, needlessly convoluted proof.
Again, Goedel’s theorem was in direct response to Russell and Whitehead spending literally decades trying to axiomize mathematics. Russell’s proof that 1+1=2 was 300 pages long. It was non-trivial to disprove the idea that with enough formality and rigor all of mathematics could be defined and proven. Instead of the back and forth that had already taken place (Russell proposes an axiomatic system, critics show an error or incompleteness in it, Russell comes back and adds some more painstaking formality, critics come back and do it again), Goedel came along and smashed the whole thing by definitively proving that there’s nothing Russell can do to revive the major project he had been working on (which had previously hit a major setback when Russell himself proved Russell’s paradox).
how about:
x = 2
2x = 3,000
omg! they’re inconsistent!You didn’t define x, the equals sign, the digit 2, 3, or 0, or the convention that a real constant in front of a variable implies multiplication, or define a number base we’re working in. So that statement proves nothing in itself.
And no matter how many examples of incomplete or contradictory systems you come up with, you haven’t proven that all systems are either incomplete or contradictory. No matter how many times you bring out a new white swan, you haven’t actually proven that all swans are white.
And formal logic and set theory may have seemed like masturbatory discipline with limited practical use, but it also laid the foundation for Alan Turing and what would become computer science, which indisputably turned into useful academic disciplines that changed the world.
- Comment on Weapons trafficking 3 weeks ago:
but I feel like people in union jobs making enough of a salary to buy a comfortable home is going to drive up wages for everyone
Even if that is an effect where increased unionized non-supervisor wages push up supervisor salaries, my point is that there are simply fewer middle managers to benefit from that effect.
Plus the second order effects of a hollowed out middle choking out the pipeline for promoting and training future business leaders, so that it’s a small number of big corporate executives overseeing jobs they’ve never had instead of the older system of a lot more small and medium sized business leaders supervising jobs they used to personally work.
- Comment on SUNS OUT GUNS OUT 3 weeks ago:
It was a response to philosophers who were trying to come up with a robust axiomatic system for explaining math. Russell and Whitehead’s Principia Mathematica attempted to formalize everything in math, and Goedel proved it was impossible.
So yes, it’s a bit of a circlejerk, but it was a necessary one to break up another circlejerk.
- Comment on Weapons trafficking 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think the McAllisters were in union jobs. I think they were pretty high up the tier of management.
People talk about union jobs going away, but don’t forget, non-unionized middle management has totally been gutted by outside consultants over the same time period. So the changes in the workforce have hurt the earning power of both the line workers and the middle managers who used to make up the middle class.
- Comment on What a wonderful world we live in! 3 weeks ago:
Up in horsey heaven, here’s the thing
You trade your legs for angels wings
And once we’ve all said good-bye
You take a running leap and you learn to fly - Comment on Unholy curses 3 weeks ago:
Why no, I am not a vampire
Oh and you probably don’t want us driving wooden stakes through your heart either, huh?
- Comment on New Posters for ‘Superman’ 3 weeks ago:
Probably where AI learned that sheen from.
- Comment on It's bad man 4 weeks ago:
every hole is a goal
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- Comment on It's bad man 4 weeks ago:
25-35 is a great time. I moved cities and changed careers in my late 20’s, and pivoted again in my early 30’s, and it was a good reset to build on lessons learned and undoing past mistakes, while having the youth and energy to really enjoy myself and actually choose a path I was going to have fun with.
I’m enjoying my 40’s a lot, but I look back fondly on that 25-35 period as being both fun in itself and setting me up for a good 30’s and 40’s (and possibly further).
- Comment on The joy of a family that values education celebrating the graduation of their son 4 weeks ago:
IT’S A BEAR DANCE
- Comment on Krysten Ritter Officially Returning as Jessica Jones for ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2 4 weeks ago:
Definitely one of the best villains ever put on screen. He killed it.
- Comment on Why is coal and fossil fuels still used? 5 weeks ago:
Lazard is a pretty respected analyst for energy costs. Here’s their report from June 2024.
In the U.S., peaker gas plants that are only fired up between 5-20% of the time, the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) is between $110 to $230 per MWh. The levelized cost of storage for utility scale 4-hour storage ranges from $124-$226 per MWh, after subsidies. Before subsidies, that 4-hour storage costs $170-$296.
Residential storage, on the other hand, doesn’t come close. That’s $882 to $1101 before subsidies, or $653 to $855 after subsidies.
So in other words, utility scale storage has dropped down to around the same price as gas peaker plants, in the U.S., after subsidies.
- Comment on butt mogged these zoomers today 5 weeks ago:
It’s just that I don’t have any expectation of the girls in the picture being shocked
That’s the joke.
- Comment on Why is coal and fossil fuels still used? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, people are working on it.
The EIA estimates that there’s about 30 GW of battery capacity in the U.S., mostly in storage systems that are designed to store about 1-4 hours worth.
That’s in comparison to 1,200 GW of generation capacity, or 400 times as much as there is storage.
It’s coming along, but the orders of magnitude difference between real-time supply and demand and our capacity for shifting some of the power just a few hours isn’t quite ready for load balancing across a whole 24 hour day, much less for days-long weather patterns or even seasonality across the year. We’re probably gonna need to see another few years of exponential growth before it starts actually making a big impact to generation activity.
- Comment on butt mogged these zoomers today 5 weeks ago:
I’ve heard of nigging but I’ve never heard of this.
Um I hope you mean negging
- Comment on butt mogged these zoomers today 5 weeks ago:
“Mogging” as a term originated in the early 2000’s and went mainstream-ish in the late 2000’s when the “pickup artist” community started getting attention in places like the New York Times. The people who originated it are probably like 45-50 years old now.
Quick etymology: comes from these pseudoscientific douchebags trying to name the phenomenon where a man tries to subtly belittle another man in front of women, establishing that he’s the AMOG (alpha male of group), eventually became a verb amogging or mogging, and then various specific types of this behavior earned prefixes: heightmogging, etc.
The fact that it has this kind of staying power, 20 years later, is the surprising part.
