barneypiccolo
@barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
- Comment on George R. R. Martin's New Announcement Has Finally Made Me Accept He's Never Finishing The Winds Of Winter 14 hours ago:
He’s got “Concepts of a Plan.”
- Comment on New Posters for ‘Superman’ 14 hours ago:
Why do they have to reboot the exact same stories every decade or so?
- Comment on 7 for me 4 days ago:
I get 5, I’ve known a lot of women who wear just a giant T-shirt to bed. 15 is the weird one. I’ve never known a woman to wear a bra to bed, and certainly nothing except a bra. Maybe they have giant, unruly breasts that need to be strapped down.
- Comment on Chris Parnell still doesn't know why he was fired and rehired at 'SNL' 5 days ago:
I was a fan from the beginning, I saw the very first episode. The cliche ”Its no good anymore," started in the second season, in response to Chevy Chase not returning, and it’s been repeated continuously ever since.
It’s had its ups and downs (the late 80s, oof), but it has still been basically the same throughout - every episode has good sketches, weak sketches, and hopefully at least one home run.
Lorne has said that everyone thinks that the best era of SNL were their high school years.
- Comment on Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal. 1 week ago:
Theil holds Vance’s leash, tightly. If Vance becomes president, Theil becomes president.
- Comment on Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal. 1 week ago:
H1B Visa workforce is the wave of the future. The Sociopathic Oligarchs are angling to create “Freedom Zones” where they will build their new facilities, complete with living facilities for their foreign workers. They will operate independent of government regulations of any kind. Skum is already working on it.
It’s literally how they use foreign workers in Arab countries. They usually use Indians or Filipinos, barely pay them, and strictly limit their personal agency. It’s literally slavery.
It’s coming to America. We can always pick fruit.
- Comment on Something something far-left 1 week ago:
They are trying to get us to accept the the new American Economic Paradigm that ALL households require at least two paychecks to exist, and 3 or 4 if you want to get ahead.
Of course, employers want us to be enslaved to them for our entire schedule, so they don’t like us working second jobs or side hustle.
Time for Robin Hood economics (take from the rich, give to the poor).
- Comment on Something something far-left 1 week ago:
Starting pay at many office jobs isn’t much more than minimum wage, but at least young workers can tell their parents that they work in an office instead of running a cash register, and they wear a tie instead of an apron. That’s supposed to be worth a lifetime of student loan debt.
- Comment on quick health tip 1 week ago:
I recently read an article about soy sauce being the secret ingredient for a lot of top chefs. They put it in everything.
- Comment on Understanding your target audience when marketing 1 week ago:
Giggity
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
We need more active guitar forums, but it’s still better than Reddit has become.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Filter out the politics, and join a bunch of other forums instead.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Especially now.
- Comment on We'll have plenty of camps to have them sent to by then. 1 week ago:
It’s going to have to be different this time. We let them slide after the Revolution, the Civil War, and WWII, and it has led directly to the mess we are in now.
If we survive this, it will be imperative that there are harsh punishments for ALL leaders, and all middle management. Street level traitors may not end up in prison, but they should be forced to go to political remediation classes, where they will be properly taught about the Constitution, American History, and Critical Thinking Skills. Recalcitrant “students” can have their sentences commuted to long prison sentences if they’d prefer.
- Comment on Good ol' Reddit, at it again (and again, and again, and...). 1 week ago:
What? You don’t miss scrolling through dozens of puns to reach the actual discussion with bots, trolls, Russian Propaganda Farmers, 4 Chan refugees, MAGA Nazi Traitors, etc.?
- Comment on I need a cheap part to fix a bread machine that's under warranty. "We can send you a new machine." 1 week ago:
And who is going to do the repairs? If there were a network of official repair dealerships, they could have some confidence that the stored parts would eventually be used, but nobody gets anything repaired anymore, and even fewer are willing to try it themselves. So realistically, how many are they actually going to sell?
- Comment on Is it weird to juggle in the park? 2 weeks ago:
Who cares what others think? Live your life.
- Comment on Is it weird to juggle in the park? 2 weeks ago:
Too many people think they are the center of the universe, and everybody is watching them, so they never figure out the people they think are watching, think they are the center of their universe, too, and everyone is watching them.
- Comment on Want happier employees? Start with a 32-hour workweek – and 4 weeks vacation. 2 weeks ago:
Your premise is flawed in the first sentence - “Want happier employees?” No American employer cares about that in the least. Being happy at being allowed to keep their job and keep showing up to collect your meager pay is about all you can expect.
- Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking? 2 weeks ago:
nobody ever changes their behavior on the strength of the evidence alone.
Simply not true, at all. People change behavior based on evidence all the time.
Critical Thinking requires a totally objective perspective, and emotion has no place in it.
- Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking? 2 weeks ago:
The Scientific Method includes a step in which you state your Hypothesis - an educated guess, based on information you already know. There is nothing wrong with that, because it means you are already familiar the established science.
The issue comes when the experiment uncovers unexpected data and/or conclusions. The proper scientific response is to adjust, or even reject, the hypothesis based on the new data. Someone with good Critical Thinking Skills would have no problem doing that, because a subjective approach, coming up with a truthful conclusion, supported by the data, is always the objective.
Unfortunately, too many people have a personal desire to make their original hypothesis the truth, either because of their ego, or because they have some sort of personal or economic investment in that hypothesis, etc. These are people who are only using the promise of Critical Thinking to add credibility to their conclusions, when in reality, they were always looking to confirm their own bias.
And sometimes the research DOES confirm your hypothesis. That’s not necessarily confirmation bias, as long as your hypothesis was always based on accepted scientific principles. Scientists often have a pretty good idea of the outcome of an experiment. A person looking for confirmation bias goes into an experiment hoping to prove their hypothesis correct, while a true scientist goes in hoping that something unexpected will happen, because that gives them something new and interesting to study.
- Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking? 2 weeks ago:
Back in the 70s, I had one if those subversive high school English teachers - longish hair, no tie, wore bell bottoms, arranged the desks in his classroom in a circle, etc. His name was Mr. Clark.
Mr. Clark had an unusual teaching style that I really responded to. Much more Socratic, making us defend our ideas, but be willing to change our minds if someone had a better one. I liked his teaching so much, i took his classes 3 years in a row, including 2 Shakespeare classes.
It wasn’t until years after college, that i realized he wasnt really teaching us Shakespeare, he was teaching us to think, using Shakespeare as a vehicle. We were practicing Critical Thinking Skills every day for three years, without even realizing it.
It became so ingrained in me to question assertions and allegations without sources, and view everything subjectively before drawing a conclusion, that I found it very easy to resist propaganda. When Rush Limbaugh came on the radio in the late 80s, I was shocked that anyone was buying into his obvious bullshit, but my well-honed Critical Thinking Skills saw through his “logic” instantly.
At some point, I tried to look up Mr Clark, so I could thank him for being the most influential teacher in my life, but he had passed away about 5 years before. He literally taught me how to think.
- Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking? 2 weeks ago:
Then they arent using critical thinking skills, they just think they are. With proper use of critical thinking, the conclusion arises from the evidence, it doesnt confirm “pre conceived notions.”
- Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking? 2 weeks ago:
That’s not critical thinking at all. Critical thinking is process that questions assertions and sources, and approaches them subjectively. If it is ultimately just confirming your own bias, you haven’t used critical thinking.
- Comment on Please, guys. Call the staff. 3 weeks ago:
How you doin’?
- Comment on Dick Van Dyke Wants to Make Cameo on 'A Man on the Inside' with Ted Danson 3 weeks ago:
Great show. Better start shooting season 2 right away!
- Comment on Trump, in blue, sleeping at Pope Francis' finera;l 3 weeks ago:
Biden was a couple of rows behind him, and I was really hoping he’d reach forward and flick HitlerPig’s ear and then sit up straight and look innocent.
- Comment on Trump, in blue, sleeping at Pope Francis' finera;l 3 weeks ago:
Ever hear people say they don’t trust atheists because without God, they have no moral compass?
Well, I don’t trust people whose only reason to not rape, pillage, and plunder is because they believe in a fairy tale that says they’ll burn in Hell if they submit to their dark fantasies. That’s a person who is inherently bad, but resisting it, and ine day, they may stop resisting. I prefer people who are inherently good, and dont need fear motivation to behave properly in society.
- Comment on Minecraft confuses me 4 weeks ago:
Hey! Get those cows out of your brother’s Minehouse, okay buddy? And tell your brother you’re sorry! And don’t do it again! Leave your brother’s Minehouse alone, got it?
Yeah, Minecraft, whatever, just knock it off.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I help my elderly parents fill out their mail-in ballots, but they are always sitting with me, and I read off each vote, and we discuss it, and I check it off for them. If any of us don’t understand something (like the issues and judge votes), I Google it and we figure it out.
We dont always agree, but I always out down the vote they want, because I have ethics, and respect the voting process.