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- Comment on The Matrix 16 hours ago:
I’ve heard this too, but even this has an issue. It’s circular. Why imprison humans so their brains can be used to run the matrix which is designed to imprison them?
- Comment on The Matrix 22 hours ago:
Yes well it’s an explicit theme of the movie that for better or worse, real is real and fake is fake and there’s no substitute for the truth, however grim it is.
- Comment on The Matrix 22 hours ago:
It’s been said a million times that the human battery thing makes no sense in terms of energy production. But the other huge sin the Matrix commits is having humans block out the sun so robots can’t get solar power. That is ridiculously stupid. Humans need to grow crops. I rest my case. It’s stupid. I love these movies, but that part is just plain stupid.
- Comment on This place is a prison 22 hours ago:
Of course. But for gods sake - no seltzers!
- Comment on 3 days ago:
nothing has happened
Right, which is why it’s not some hero-swaggers-triumphantly maneuver. That’s the ridiculous part.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
But the banks is worth $10 billion less.
- Comment on Anyone get this? 4 days ago:
Ah so it was the rizz. All I could say for sure was that it was not Steve.
- Comment on Anyone get this? 5 days ago:
‘serious’ default look
This is definitely not wrong.
- Comment on Anyone get this? 5 days ago:
Also his father steered him into philanthropy.
But he did make the turn and has followed up and lived it. I think it’s perfectly fine to give the man some credit.
He certainly stole intellectual property and made substandard software to build his fortune, but when I compare this to someone like Andrew Carnegie these look like pretty minor crimes.
- Comment on Anyone get this? 5 days ago:
Of all the billionaires to worry about, Mark Cuban is way down the list. If we put him under a microscope, we can find things to complain about, but there are so many other better places to direct our wary eye.
- Comment on Anyone get this? 5 days ago:
I’ve met a number of people in life who seem to have been raised in nearly perfect circumstances: intelligent, loving parents who gave them the right about of support and structure.
They’re not idiots but they aren’t afraid to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. You might think they must get taken advantage of left and right, but most of these people are also pretty privileged so not traveling in very dangerous circles.
I’ve watched them give someone WAY more trust than I think is wise. Sometimes I turn out to be the idiot and realize they were making a good investment all along.
And in those cases where I turn out to be right, they just realize “oh, this is a bad person,” and they pivot away and move on with their lives.
It’s hard to build friendships, relationships, and even things like business partnerships without trust, and these people have a lot of that to give. Sometimes they even inspire people to be better by giving that trust. In the end I think most of them have pretty full lives with a rich tapestry of people in them.
It really makes you think twice about whether it really is the safest and wisest course of action to be so highly critical and suspicious. Is that really what leads to safety and wellness for us? I think no. And it’s not even meant to - it’s just a way to try to avoid the absolute worst outcomes. And only people who’ve had a taste of that “worst” think like this. It truly is very damaging for them and that’s the saddest part: whatever abuse or wrongdoing they suffered limits them forever.
- Comment on Anyone get this? 5 days ago:
Aren’t you going to tell us how you slipped past her radar?
- Comment on Anyone get this? 5 days ago:
Not judging quickly is harder than most of us realize. Our brains are built to judge quickly. We aren’t scientific and logical by nature, slowly building evidence until we reach a conclusion. Our brains are shortcut machines and will leap straight to what they think is the likeliest answer. And throughout evolution this served us well because big brains are very resource intensive so they literally can’t brute force everything. Intuition and shortcuts are the name of the game, and judgments just have to be “good enough” not complete, accurate, and fair.
- Comment on Anyone get this? 5 days ago:
The reality is that most of us are not perfect and someone highly suspicious can always hold us under a microscope and find flaws, which may be taken as evidence of malfeasance.
About 1% of the people I meet seem to immediately dislike me and interpret everything I do in some negative way. Most of the time I don’t even know about it because I’m not doing anything overt which they will confront me about. But they harbor a secret hatred until finally some mutual friend tells me about it. “That guy really hates your guts - I don’t know why.”
I’ve just accepted that this is a thing that happens. Something in their first impression strikes them wrong and every single thing to follow that is stained by it. There’s room for interpretation in all things.
I wouldn’t say I’m very good looking but I think I’ve been lucky with where I landed on the attractiveness spectrum. And this helps with most people’s impressions. But for some, it’s an immediate strike. You can say any little thing and because they perceive you as a “pretty boy” they will perceive you as arrogant / full of yourself, speaking with too much confidence and not even saying anything that brilliant. Others who don’t have this weird lens will just nod at what you say and this person will think “look how he’s fooled them all!”
It all depends on whether you’re looking at the person in a positive way, neutral way, or negative way. Go looking for things to hate and you will find them.
- Comment on Anyone get this? 5 days ago:
So basically years ago Newsom gave you a momentary vibe which matches the way Trump has actually spent two presidencies.
Now let’s all talk about how much we hate Newsom.
- Comment on vacation 1 week ago:
Your logic is perfect as long as therapy is perfect, which it is not. Before you judge anyone on this, you need to allow for the fact that psychology is still a very inexact science and has also done a fair amount of harm over its history.
“No muscle for self-improvement” is not synonymous with “I don’t go to therapy.”
I would cautiously agree with you that it’s also not healthy to be totally against therapy. However in this tweet some men enjoyed a nice break from society and this tweet immediately went to making fun of them for not attending therapy.
THAT is a very big LEAP.
- Comment on New mrbeast video is dark 1 week ago:
Yeah some of them are little moral parables and some are just setups for a thrill/shock twist.
This “button” episode was actually from the 80s reboot of TZ, not the Rod Serling original.
- Comment on New mrbeast video is dark 1 week ago:
$200,000 - which if you consider that it was 1980s money, makes Mr. Beast’s $10,000 look very small.
By “originally meant to” I think you are referring to the short story it was based on ending that way.
A despondent Norma asks the stranger why her husband was the one who was killed. The stranger replies, “Do you really think you knew your husband?” strongly disapproved of the Twilight Zone version, especially the new ending
Frankly I find the twilight zone ending more chilling and suspenseful. The “do you think you really knew your husband” line is kinda sad trombone.
- Comment on New mrbeast video is dark 1 week ago:
I believe the idea is that if you push the button, it goes on to someone else. If they DON’T push the button, they get skipped. It goes to someone else besides them. And so on, until SOMEONE does push the button. And at that point, the last person who pushed the button gets iced.
And so in that way, every person who pushes the button inevitably gets killed, removing selfish people from the world while morally upright people get passed over.
- Comment on New mrbeast video is dark 1 week ago:
There’s this cool thing called linking, too.
- Comment on New mrbeast video is dark 1 week ago:
Yes it was clear that someone somewhere in the world “who you don’t even know” would die. The characters have a debate:
“Maybe it’ll be just some Chinese peasant.”
“What if it’s someone’s newborn baby!”
More than anything I’m shocked at the casual dismissal of the Chinese peasant. WTF?
Anyway at the very end of the show the same guy who brought them this dilemma comes to collect the device and he very pointedly uses the same language to say “now it will go to someone new that you don’t even know.”
- Comment on New mrbeast video is dark 1 week ago:
This is an old twilight zone episode.
They decide the push the button, and then someone comes to collect the button device, saying that it will be taken to someone else now for the same challenge. Someone you don’t know, somewhere in the world.
- Comment on vacation 1 week ago:
It has nonzero value for many but that doesn’t elevate it to the status that we should shake our heads at people who don’t go. Like this tweet does.
- Comment on vacation 1 week ago:
But we have to find a way to blame the men for something. I mean… they’re men.
- Comment on Don't fuck them 2 weeks ago:
Oh man… but if we let all the people who don’t have books just fuck each other instead of us… isn’t that how we get Idiocracy / this timeline?
- Comment on Don't fuck them 2 weeks ago:
If you want a movie of his that’s very accessible, I recommend Pecker. The stuff he’s most known for was just a bit too out there for my tastes.
- Comment on Modern lies 3 weeks ago:
No one likes a flake
- Comment on Modern lies 3 weeks ago:
We usually only talk about stage 3 of enshittification but in stage 1 the product is amazing and affordable.
- Comment on Close enough 5 weeks ago:
Well unfortunately most of these are.
- Comment on Close enough 5 weeks ago:
If they’d made it “pedophiles and racists” it would be more complete description of the US and Europe and then Canada would also fit.