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- Comment on A Japanese boy noticed his butterflies seemed to recognize him. He spent two years designing an experiment and proved that metamorphosis does not erase memories formed during the caterpillar stage 1 day ago:
New Speedy Fun Way
- Comment on This better be in FF VII Revelation 2 days ago:
So they’re finally here.
- Comment on Deja Vu 1 week ago:
I’m not on the list. Maybe they thought I was a placeholder.
- Comment on Are modern electronic devices (i.e. cell phones) still susceptible to damage from magnets? 1 week ago:
A magnet can absolutely fuck up a color CRT beyond repair by causing an extreme misalignment of the shadow mask or aperture grille that even a degaussing wand can’t fix.
Black and white CRTs are fine, though.
- Comment on Are there any payment aggregators (Like Paypal for instance) that prioritize user privacy? 1 week ago:
Know Your Customer. It’s where the company keeps a record of your personally identifiable information on record and linked to your account.
- Comment on Are there any payment aggregators (Like Paypal for instance) that prioritize user privacy? 1 week ago:
You can use Monero to buy gift cards. I think there’s a way to get a card linked to a Monero wallet, but I’m less sure about that one.
That’s basically your only option for private online payments, other than mailing cash.
- Comment on Are there any payment aggregators (Like Paypal for instance) that prioritize user privacy? 1 week ago:
Worth noting that privacy.com has KYC.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Who’s going to be a more well rounded person? The spoiled rich kid or the kid who had to struggle through life?
- Comment on Palantir CEO Alex Karp predicts he will get 20x richer from AI—but middle-class workers will get left behind 2 weeks ago:
What he needs is to be in prison.
- Comment on How did Voldemort actually die? 2 weeks ago:
Kids read them and/or watched the movies and grew up. They then got nostalgic for the media of their childhood.
- Comment on In a hearing on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a simple question: Have you signed a non-disclosure agreement? Officials refused to answer 3 weeks ago:
Blaming the electorate instead of the system is definitely a choice. These kinds of systemic issues go all the way back to the founding of the country and every attempt to solve those issues have been thwarted using very dirty tactics by the elite.
So what specifically are you advocating for?
- Comment on Why are there so many more mtf trans vs ftm trans people?? 4 weeks ago:
Women aren’t breadwinners? In this economy?
- Comment on Be strong with your piss 5 weeks ago:
I, uh… either agree or disagree… maybe.
- Comment on Be strong with your piss 5 weeks ago:
No, it’s very clearly written in English.
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 1 month ago:
Are those children babies or older? Children are taught to fear the other at an extremely young age. I’d like to see a similar study of newborns seeing a newborn of color for the first time.
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 1 month ago:
All representative democracies are flawed by nature since they all allow for an elite class to exist and likewise allow for corruption to exist. I just use the US as an example since I am the most familiar with US politics, but the US spread its ideas about representative democracy to the entire western world.
The most “qualified” person is not always the right person for the job. Some people take qualified to mean experienced, for instance, which is what many neoliberals in the US touted in their campaigns, but they were experienced in maintaining a corrupt system and serving their donors. The Republicans are experienced in also serving their donors while pushing the needle further right.
Say there was ranked choice or some other system that allowed for more than two parties. As we see in EU countries for example, the elite are still allowed to rule there, and corruption still exists. Denmark isn’t pushing for Chat Control for fun.
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 1 month ago:
I don’t think that premise is sound. Humans evolved from a central location and then spread out from there. There have been humans from back then who have taught their children to be scared of the other.
Nowadays, we see racism/sexism/religion/etc. as tools used by the elite to divide us so that the masses don’t turn against them. It isn’t so hard to believe that at the dawn of civilization, similar ideas spread.
Back in the hunter gatherer days, before civilization, it isn’t so difficult to believe that humans were equally scared of any stranger who they were not already familiar with, regardless of race.
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 1 month ago:
Kids understand what they’re taught. No baby is born racist, but instead, their parents teach that “the other” is dangerous/untrustworthy/“less than”/etc.
Without empathy, humans would not have formed societies. Humans being more social than neanderthals is what made humans “win”, and why neanderthals no longer exist (not counting interbreeding, since there is no modern being that exists that is considered to be a neanderthal). Sociopathy is considered a disorder for a reason, because it is considered to be out of the norm.
Bullies are, very often, if not most of the time, abused at home, or otherwise have a rough home life. That would also fall under the " nurture over nature" category.
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 1 month ago:
Do you know how to run a military?
Does the president know how to run a military? A president (in the US) can legally go to war with any country they’d like for up to 60 days without any congressional approval. Every war the US has entered post-WWII has been disasterous, both for the countries we went to war with, and for the US domestically.
environmental regulations
I’m not saying we should abolish regulatory agencies. We should still have them, and instead of having their leadership be appointed, have them be elected.
in charge of healthcare
What does that even mean? Healthcare should be considered a human right. Public institutions, such as universities or publically funded pharma research institutes would still develop new medicines, and doctors will be able to perscribe whatever the patient needs without mafia insurance corporations getting in the way and without private pharma corporations pushing drugs to be perscribed.
I don’t disagree with the point about a person in control of, say environmental regulation should be qualified in the subject matter. I wouldn’t mind making it a requirement to at the very least have a degree from a university in that subject matter in order to run for the position, so long as higher education is provided to everyone free of charge for anyone who chooses to go down that route and so long as the people who design the cirriculum do not have ulterior motives.
Also, you mentioned requiring ministers actually implement what they promise. How would that be enforced? Would it not be more feasible to just have the ability to vote them out and replace them with someone who would actually do the job they promise, if, that is, the position even needs to exist to begin with and cannot be replaced with a direct, democratic vote.
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 1 month ago:
I watched a video on sortition a while ago. It’s definitely better than the existing system, but it is still ultimately possible to outright rig the process via bribery, rigging the election process directly, etc. and for power-seekers/oligarchs to gain power. It’s just much more difficult to do so.
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 1 month ago:
Representative democracy was specifically designed to have oligarchs be in charge of society and it should be abolished in favor of smaller, direct democracies.
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 1 month ago:
Please elaborate. I’m more of the view that most humans are born as a blank slate and their upbringing shapes who they are as people.
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 1 month ago:
Counter point: David Lynch was famously very pleasant to work with according to the people who have worked with him, and he got some incredible performances throughout his career.
- Comment on AI banners: what owner sees vs what I see 1 month ago:
Fair enough. I just mentioned it to you specifically because you’re the mod over there and also the admin of the instance.
- Comment on AI banners: what owner sees vs what I see 1 month ago:
Why not just open submissions in the communities for user created artwork instead of AI?
- Comment on Steam Controller Review: Now You're Playing with Power - Nerrel 1 month ago:
Probably launched them through Steam to use Steam Input.
- Comment on Well done, all of you! 1 month ago:
Yeah, they put a drug in the water known as DHMO. It drasticly affects your brain and motor functionality.
- Comment on Just me and my cement truck 1 month ago:
What’s your favorite idea?
Mine is being creative.
- Comment on I'd like to change my last name and want suggestions 2 months ago:
') DROP TABLE Names; –
- Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 2 months ago:
No other handhelds have the dual trackpads, symmetrical layout, and capacitive thumbsticks that the Steam Deck has, which are the selling points for me.