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- Comment on absolutely everything is meaningless so just do what you want 1 week ago:
Meaning in that sense is an ill-defined term which on careful inspection has no sensical quality. Saying life is or isn’t meaningful is like saying “life is/isn’t blwodjtnfyhc”
- Comment on Murderer of Henry Nowak shown in new footage lying about facing racist attack 2 weeks ago:
The fact that this story is true is really going to do so much harm to political discourse and I hate it
- Comment on and what?! 2 weeks ago:
I think it pretty accurately hits the vibe of government secret projects in that it simultaneously sounds harmless and a little silly, while also being vague and unusual enough to have a certain foreboding to it. E.g “the gadget”
- Comment on Team Snapchat still shows up in my notifications even though I have them blocked 2 weeks ago:
Definitely an annoying situation, I guess maybe you could try posting about the problems that you see with Snapchat, like with articles and whatnot, whenever you have a chance, and maybe just trying to get them to change their stance on it. For me personally, leaving Snapchat was a privacy and ethics choice - and anyone who wouldn’t respect that, good riddance. I only really have two friends myself. I enjoy it usually. I get to spend lots more time with them, and an exchange have a deeper connection. Its not for everyone though.
- Comment on Team Snapchat still shows up in my notifications even though I have them blocked 2 weeks ago:
Maybe you could keep talking them on Snapchat, but also on the other platform too. Are they really just completely unwilling to get on something like signal? you don’t even need to make an account really
- Comment on Team Snapchat still shows up in my notifications even though I have them blocked 2 weeks ago:
I was in the same situation as you. Just message them elsewhere and delete it. Everyone who wasn’t willing to message me on a better platform turned out to not be that worth interacting with. All the real ones did what they could to keep talking to me without hesitation and respected my reasoning
- Comment on Femality is stored in the nipples 2 weeks ago:
basically the entire anime and vtuber “cultures” have been nothing but horny bait for years now. What really gets me is how it pretends not to be
- Comment on Capcom says shifting from auteur-driven development to team-led development is what transformed the company and allowed flagship IPs to survive for so long - AUTOMATON WEST 3 weeks ago:
Yeah this and the other rebuttals people posted are all good points. I was exaggerating too much
- Comment on Capcom says shifting from auteur-driven development to team-led development is what transformed the company and allowed flagship IPs to survive for so long - AUTOMATON WEST 3 weeks ago:
By making products less artistic and more designed-by-committee, they were able to make products that are just barely purchase-worthy to hundreds of millions of players, rather than products that merely millions truly love. It doesn’t surprise me, this is exactly what Hollywood figured out long ago. Games industry sure is maturing alright…
- Comment on WOMEN. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I think it could definitely be done, but unfortunately it would be completely not worth the time since you wouldn’t have any degree.
- Comment on WOMEN. 3 weeks ago:
I guess, but nothing about this really pertains to gendered strength or weaknesses. At least not in reality.
- Comment on why I post the way I do🫶 3 weeks ago:
Wisdom is when I say two interesting words and then reverse the order of them in a second clause
- Comment on Help needed: Selfhosted website only reachable through http, not https 1 month ago:
Yup caddy is what I use and I personally found it at least 3 times easier than nginx for my admittedly humble purposes.
- Comment on Help needed: Selfhosted website only reachable through http, not https 1 month ago:
Maybe I’m not understanding something, but isn’t this only an issue regarding setting up certs on your server? Https isn’t working because you have no SSL certs installed. Unless that was supposed to happen automatically with one of those other tools?
- Comment on I only date virgins 1 month ago:
Problem with this is the kind of guy this is intended to diss would totally endorse logic that says virgins have bigger dicks
- Comment on Honestly impressive how pharmacies are able to find a new type of problem every time I go to pick up my meds 2 months ago:
Blaming pharmacists for things they have no control over, nice. Biggest brain
- Comment on Met gala 2 months ago:
NooOoOO fashion is only for shallow dummies that aren’t like meeeeeeeee
- Comment on Traffic cameras have caught a white RAM 1500 pickup truck driving above the speed limit or running red lights more than 547 times since 2022. It belongs to an NYPD cop. 2 months ago:
This is comedically on the nose, absolutely ridiculous. How is reality so heavy-handed in its lessons
- Comment on Man on a mission 2 months ago:
If I’m not mistaken they are both dead. One by OD and be got hit by a car
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
NOOO its a shitppstttt that means nobody should habe anything to say or think about it!! You just don’t get it… Its not that serious man
- Comment on Hungry 2 months ago:
Bro but its crazy to just pick the animal you specifically have a connection to. What if I had grown up watching that heron? What if I have twice as many kids as you and they all love the heron? Does that tip the scale so that now we should be angry at the fish for trying to kill my heron by starvation? Little fish bastards, why can’t they just my heron be?
Of course the real truth is that nature is at odds with itself and there’s no way around that. If you can say “yeah I just like the fish cos that’s what I like, I don’t care that it doesn’t make sense”, then that’s respectable enough. You’re just out for your own well-being, just like the fish and the heron both. But getting so heated at the heron for trying to be alive, which is also what your fish try to do, and then extending your hatred to all heronkind is just hilarious
- Comment on Starfield PS5 players demand refunds, reporting widespread bugs and glitches that leave the game "unplayable" 2 months ago:
Maybe they should get a more powerful PS5
- Comment on Sent this to my friends flexing a "top 65%" score. The site didn't make it clear that's not a good thing. 2 months ago:
A range can’t be an average
- Comment on Where can I get cursed like that? Asking for a friend. 2 months ago:
Hah, whoops, I edited this in before I saw your response! Same research!
- Comment on Where can I get cursed like that? Asking for a friend. 2 months ago:
So jokes aside, why is it titled this way? Or is the title actually a joke?
- Comment on When did Saturday Night Live get so cringe? 2 months ago:
Proud to say I never enjoyed SNL at any point in my life
- Comment on cool cool cool 2 months ago:
Doesn’t this leave out the more likely possibility of just continuing to not having any experience?
- Comment on why does almost nobody live here? 2 months ago:
It has been blocked off by a ring of lava
- Comment on "Trippy" Reality 2 months ago:
Yes that’s true, and I did think about this, but really this just makes the image even dumber, because we can see atoms nowadays too, and even if we couldn’t, all our knowledge of them would still come from what this comic implies is our hallucination 🤔 kinda crazy to say that if you just zoom in on a hallucination it suddenly becomes real
- Comment on "Trippy" Reality 2 months ago:
I also have read quite a bit of philosophy! So this should be fun to discuss.
First, I agree that 100% certainty is virtually impossible. However, there comes a point when we say we’re “certain”, depending on the severity of the outcome and the probability of it.
For instance, if I offered for you to play a game where we spin a big spinner, and 99.9999999999999% of the wheel is red, which means you pay me ten thousand dollars, and the rest of it means I pay you ten thousand dollars…you’d probably not say “I might win ten thousand dollars!” You’d probably say “this forces me to give you ten thousand dollars”. And if I said “whaaaat, no, we can’t be certain of that!”, you’d probably think I was being nonsensical.
So let’s acknowledge that while Descartes’ arguments for solipsism are indeed basically undefeated on a first order logic basis, we really should be evaluating the claim on a probabilistic or statistical basis instead, since the argument is fundamentally about our degree of sureness in something.
You’re correct that ultimately my senses alone are my only exposure to the world. However, there are some interesting things I can notice. If I lock 1000 people in a room with an undetectable poison gas, then they all will die - even though none of them had any sensory awareness of the gas! If it was just one person in the room, maybe we could argue that reality isn’t consistent, but the fact that all 1000 people due suggests that the gas affects everyone the same consistent way. Similarly, a blood clot in my leg can kill me even if I’m not aware of it.
Acknowledging now that things can certainly affect things regardless of their sensory awareness of each other, the only way to preserve our radical doubt of our senses is to suspect that perhaps the 1000 people in my room are actually not really people, but instead something me and my senses have imagined. If we suppose (against all other evidence, mind you, and purely on the basis of being able to achieve an impossible100% certainty to the contrary), that my senses really do deceive me at every turn, then we have other situations that will puzzle us:
For example, I’m studying math as a 7 year old and coke across a fancy integral equation, which I absolutely cannot make sense of, and I don’t even know what the symbols mean. Later in life, in my 20s, I have learned enough math to understand the equation, and remarkably, I see that it made sense all along. The equation was always right, even before I had the mental capacity to understand it. How could this be, if my perception of the world was not mapping to some consistent reality? These are things that we must come up with strange explanations for, like claiming that my consciousness actually fully understands all workings and states of the universe, and I’m only playing a game with myself where I pretend to forget about it, or something like that.
And if we were to make such a fantastical interpretation for the world as that, what would be our evidence for that interpretation as opposed to the “default” one that the world is self consistent and maps consistently to the our sensory interpretation? Our evidence could only be “we can’t prove with 100% certainty that this isn’t the case”! But if that’s a good reason to believe things, I could just as well say that we can’t prove with 100% certainty that my default interpretation isn’t the case either, and now our claims (and any claim) are on equal footing - since nothing can be 100% certain. All that this really does is show to us that this justification is completely useless, as it makes all claims equally viable and negates itself.