WoodScientist
@WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Spoon 6 days ago:
They should have actually engineered the spoons to be even better as drug spoons. Tell everyone they’re engineering them to work poorly with PCP. But in reality, they got a lab full of drug users offering pointers on how to improve the product and people using them and filling out little ratings cards as they go. They only stumbled into this by accident. But imagine what they could have accomplished if they deliberately engineered the perfect PCP spoon!
- Comment on sus 2 weeks ago:
Trust isn’t the issue. Probability is. Even without deception, there’s a chance someone can have an STD without knowing it. And there’s a chance that std won’t show up on testing due to incubation times, dormancy phases, and false negatives.
Imagine there is a 1% chance of your partner having an STD without knowing it. 1% doesn’t sound too bad an odds. But if you have 50 partners in an extended polycule, then the chance that at least one of them unknowingly has one is 1-(.99)^50, or 39%. Probabilities compound.
- Comment on Philosophy moment 3 weeks ago:
That’s the policy at most schools. Actually enforcing that in the face of a classroom of kids who don’t respect the rule? That’s a much bigger problem. They’re a lot more clever at sneaking them out than you would think. Moreover, if the phones are just feet from them, their presence is never out of mind. They’re a constant distraction even in a bag. Phone apps are literally designed to be addictive. Imagine if we had a rule that said “crack pipes are fine in your bag. As long as you don’t take them out and smoke in class, you’re fine.” Even if we lived in a world where crack somehow was legal for minors to have, how effective to you think that rule could be enforced?
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads 3 weeks ago:
“Also, may he be abducted by aliens, whisked away to a distant galaxy, and put on permanent display in an alien zoo as an example of the greed of homo sapiens.”
- Comment on This is so strange! Usually, they wait 15 days to elect a new Pope. We could be seeing history in the making. 3 weeks ago:
After all, nothing more saintly than shooting a man in the back!
- Comment on Should naming your children stupid names be illegal? 4 weeks ago:
I think we shouldn’t even have legal names anymore. Nor legal sex/gender. Why does the government even need to keep track of my name at all? Maybe we just have a number tied to our biometric data. Maybe our profile is just defined facial scans, iris scans, thumb scans, and, for ultimate proof, our DNA profile. The state has a profile number on you that ties you to your biometrics. That sounds scary, but the government already has a profile on you if you have any kind of state-issued ID. And states are already collecting biometric data on their citizens.
We could simply tie all state business to an ID number and biometric data profile. When doing a transaction with some other party, the same biometrics could be used to prove your ID. Buying beer at the store? You hand the cashier a card that has your photo and ID number on it. They can type that number in their computer, query a state database, and return your age. Opening a bank account? Prove your ID with ID card and at least two forms of biometric scan. Signing up for a mortgage? Prove your identity with a DNA test.
We don’t even need legal names. Or legal genders. Let’s just do everything with biometric data, photo IDs, and other methods devoid of all the cultural baggage. Let people call themselves whatever they want. Let others choose how to honor that choice.
You want to change your gender? Have at it, the state doesn’t care about your sex or gender at all. It doesn’t even keep track of it. Give your kid a stupid name? At any time, they can start telling their friends to call them by a different one And that new name will instantly have all the legal power as the one their parents gave them - none whatsoever. The state will no longer tell us what our names are. Our words and character will do that instead.
- Comment on Losing International Students Could Devastate Many Colleges 4 weeks ago:
No joke, this is going to be devastating for the international wood science community.
- Comment on Accurate 4 weeks ago:
Sure. But if civilization collapses in the meantime, then there won’t be anyone enforcing copyright laws. Or copyright could be abolished entirely. IDK what the future holds. Obviously things can radically change between now and then. The best predictions we can make of the future are just extrapolating the present forward.
- Comment on Accurate 4 weeks ago:
Bert and Ernie appeared in the pilot episode of Sesame Street in July of 1969. They will enter the public domain on January 1, 2065. In approximately 40 years, it will then be legal for anyone to create and publish hardcore gay pornos featuring the Bert and Ernie characters.
- Comment on Leaked White House Document Reveals Monster Budget Cut Proposal For Federal Health Agencies 4 weeks ago:
I’m sure that will get the birth rate back up real quick.
- Comment on Anon plays old games 4 weeks ago:
This man isn’t wise, he’s just Grandpa Simpson.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remaster is real - Eurogamer 4 weeks ago:
Yup. I’m pretty sour on Bethesda RPGs after getting burned hard by Starfield. But I have a hard time imagining even they could fuck up a simple remastering of a game I already loved in the past.
- Comment on I hope she found herself 4 weeks ago:
We should start a club. Get 30 people together. Select a house in town at random. Then, we all show up at their door at 2 in the morning on a random weekday. We ring the doorbell until they groggily answer. We tell them we’re here to help them find themselves.
- Comment on I hope she found herself 4 weeks ago:
I mean if i was just chilling in the woods having a good time
That’s my kind of party.
- Comment on I hope she found herself 4 weeks ago:
You sure? Maybe someone stole it without you knowing. :D
- Comment on I hope she found herself 4 weeks ago:
Not all who wander are lost.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remaster is real - Eurogamer 4 weeks ago:
An entire town of dead people. It was hilarious.
I see you also follow the life philosophy of, “if you’re not on at least one watch list, are you even really living?” :D
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remaster is real - Eurogamer 4 weeks ago:
I still remember my first playthrough. Low level character. I save scummed until I could sneak into the tower in the heart of the Imperial City. in the council chamber was a mage with an incredibly powerful staff. I pickpocketed it off of him, again using save scumming. I then traveled to Bravil and entered the castle there. As the Count of Bravil was giving a speech, I pulled out the staff and shot him dead on his throne, right in front the of the whole court. I then got away from the assassination through the brilliant escape plan of running out the front door, murder weapon still in hand.
Damn I loved Oblivion.
Muuuuurrddeeerrr!!!
- Comment on Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2 5 weeks ago:
IDK how to feel about rising video game prices. On the one hand, prices were stagnant for decades. On the other hand, companies can sell far more copies of games than they could back in the 1980s and 1990s. The cost of games is all in the development. The more you sell, the cheaper the price can be. They cost next to nothing to package and distribute (or are distributed digitally.)
On one hand, games are a lot more complex and expansive than they were back in the day. On the other, game devs now have tools the creators of old couldn’t even dream of. No one is hand coding the next Mario game is assembly.
There’s a lot of variables here. And it’s really just hard to make a fair judgment about it.
- Comment on Stuck 5 weeks ago:
I mean, there’s always small beer.
- Comment on Proton 5 weeks ago:
Atomic Nucleus (n): the roiling maelstrom of insanity at the bottom of reality.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 5 weeks ago:
Do you…need a hug?
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 5 weeks ago:
In One Hundred Years of Solitude we see generational cycles of behavior blah blah blah, which characters fit this pattern, which characters do not, and why?
Proceeds to write an essay about Goku.
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 5 weeks ago:
What if the pussy being eaten is one that belongs to a post-op trans woman?
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 5 weeks ago:
I think it’s simply due to stress. Most people care about people other than themselves. They worry about the effect of their actions on others. They worry about not living up to their potential. They worry about letting people they care about down. Narcissists by contrast get to live blissfully ignorant low stress lives. Look at Trump. That bastard has not a care in the world. In his mind, he’s already perfect. Notice how the presidency tends to rapidly age people, but it didn’t seem to affect Trump? This is why.
- Comment on Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production 1 month ago:
There’s radioactive and then there’s radioactive. It beta decays with particles that would only penetrate 5 cm of air or .01 cm of tissue.
You could get a thousand of these batteries, grind them up into a powder, explode them in a crowded place as an improvised dirty bomb…and you would still cause less harm than if you did the same with countless chemicals you can buy at the hardware store.
There are many forms of radiation. Something like this going into a landfill is perfectly safe.
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 1 month ago:
The language of scientific literature is not the same as the language of everyday use. There’s a reason grad programs have entire courses dedicated to scientific communication.
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 1 month ago:
Funny how trans people never have religious rights in these discussions. Or how they refer to “trans ideology” rather than trans religious or philosophical beliefs. If I were to opine on my beliefs of the soul/spirit, I would say I was created with a female spirit in a male body. If I have any religious belief, then it is a religious worldview where such a thing is possible. Yet trans people never seem to have their religious rights acknowledged.
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 1 month ago:
Hell, a business or industry run primarily by men in their fifties and older can be referred to as “a boys club.”
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 1 month ago:
I know, use the worst of all options, “lawyeress.” /s
