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- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 13 hours ago:
Who’s arguing against violence? I’m saying don’t dehumanize them. Humans are quite capable of being monstrous and horrible all on their own.
Absolutely fight back against the fascists! My grandad did, and I think he’s a fine example to follow. He didn’t have to treat them as something other than people to do that, though. He just treated them as the enemy they were.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 1 day ago:
I’m not talking about name-calling. Go hog wild with that, it seems fairly effective.
I’m talking about dehumanizing them. Deciding that any means that will end them is justified. Treating them like feral animals. Harvesting their organs for profit, like outhouseperilous suggested further up. That’s what I’m pushing back on.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 1 day ago:
Right - fight them! Resist them! But do not let them push you into being inhuman yourself.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 2 days ago:
At this point, my best guess is these guys just don’t actually read any Punisher material.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 2 days ago:
Man, bit of a tangent, but even as a fast thought experiment, Thanos’s idea was bad. Just his motivation was (debatably) good.
The problem is, the vast majority of species populations can easily double in a generation, given plentiful resources - and plentiful resources was what he was aiming for! Even if everything went exactly as he thought it would, he’s just kicked the can down the road for one generation.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 2 days ago:
Whether they deserve it or not, I won’t dehumanize them; because I don’t want to become someone who dehumanizes others.
- Comment on How often do you take him for a walk? 1 week ago:
Raised properly… to not go exploring every nook and cranny? Personally, I’d rather let them be curious, and take steps to be sure they can explore safely.
Rather than thinking of it as a person on a leash, compare them to strollers. You see kids in strollers all the time; they’re strapped in, don’t really have any control over what’s happening, and kinda have to be passive. And they’re generally pretty happy like that for a while. But, not every kid is alike, and not every parent has the resources and help they should have. A leash lets a kid run around without the stroller, without getting into trouble where their parent can’t immediately see what they’re doing. It’s a step between being strapped into something, and running around freely.
- Comment on Incident 1 week ago:
I’m not sure I agree. 10 or so kids lets them get a lot of practice socializing, with 3-4 caretakers. Without a tool like this, it’s really easy to miss that nobody’s needed to change little Mikey’s diaper today - but that’s information that can be important for them and the parents to know.
- Comment on One Angry Man 2 weeks ago:
According to www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/…/faq0058.html, they can be - if you write that piece as a decimal rather than a fraction of one whole!
- Comment on claw 2 weeks ago:
Wow - I didn’t realize that until I read your post.
Thought they were going for a “lobsters eating your face!” vibe.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 2 weeks ago:
It seems like, if they’re publicly denying responsibility, Steam and Itch now have legal cover to restore everything.
I’m not a lawyer, etc. etc., but don’t public statements from these kinds of entities inform how these clauses are enforced?
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 2 weeks ago:
Which sounds to me like Steam and Itch could restore everything. Unless someone wants to publicly say they can’t?
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 2 weeks ago:
That’s not censorship. That’s just social consequences.
- Comment on Spyhoppin' 3 weeks ago:
Go dunk your head! Seriously, you can see the effect in a pool - look at how well you can see things above and below the surface, go underwater, and open your eyes. Things will be fuzzier.
You’re trying to reason away an effect that people actually see, and that you can verify independently. That’s the opposite of how science works.
For a scientific explanation, my first Google got came up with this - an article about some kids who do seem to see normally underwater. It also includes this explanation for our blurrier experience:
When the eye is immersed in water, which has about the same density as the cornea, we lose the refractive power of the cornea, which is why the image becomes severely blurred
- Comment on Spyhoppin' 3 weeks ago:
…so what happens when you use goggles? Or a camera?
Lakes can be dirty, but you can see the same thing in a pool. Or your bathtub.
- Comment on the eyes have it 3 weeks ago:
I thought it was adorable! I’m hearing Portal’s turret dialogue with these.
“Hello? …are you still there?”
- Comment on ultra high iq 3 weeks ago:
Mesa is a flat hill.
Mensa describes itself as a “High IQ Society”. Essentially, anyone who scores well on an IQ test can join, and they have plaques, membership cards, and such they give out. As far as I know, the whole point of Mensa is to say you’re smart enough to be in Mensa.
- Comment on ultra high iq 3 weeks ago:
At a guess? Smart people like validation too; and are just as vulnerable to manipulation that uses it. Potentially even more vulnerable, in fact.
- Comment on Everything is a problem 4 weeks ago:
Steam works fine for me offline, though I can’t speak to all the games - what are you running into with it?
I hear you on Minecraft, though…
- Comment on Everything is a problem 4 weeks ago:
On Java edition at least, it wants you to be signed in with a Microsoft account. I haven’t dug too far into it, but I know our custom launchers break without a network connection. Once launched they work fine.
Had many a car trip trying to get the kids’ Minecraft session restarted off of a gas station’s WiFi connection…
- Comment on He suffered so we could learn from his mistakes 4 weeks ago:
Android 18’s baby daddy
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 1 month ago:
Okay, I’m not a huge griller, but wouldn’t it be better just to build in a thermostat? Let it maintain its own temperature?
- Comment on It's a tragedeigh 1 month ago:
I rarely have sound in my dreams. I hear fine (when awake), just… don’t bother rendering that part when I’m asleep!
I talk with people in dreams, sure; but there’s no dialogue - I just kind of know what’s been said.
- Comment on How often do you take him for a walk? 2 months ago:
It’s usually for the kid’s safety. Little kids especially run off sometimes; and while it’d be nice to be able to be a continuously attentive parent, sometimes you need to get shit done out and about while they’re with you. Sometimes they’re fine with just being carried or sitting in a shopping cart, but if not, a leash & harness (usually just integrated into a backpack) lets them wander safely while you take care of what you’re there to do.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a kid older than 4 or so in one.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I think it was mostly the fact that if he did go at that point, the other warehouse guys would decide he had indeed sat down to pee.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Used to do IT for a small meat packing plant; would shoot the shit with the warehouse guys whenever they came in for a break. Bunch of 20-something guys slinging 20-60 pound boxes of meat all day.
Power went out one time, and we’re all sitting around waiting to see if the power is going to come back quickly enough that we don’t need to start unloading all the inventory; and one of them expressed a need to use the facilities. I told him the bathroom was right there; it didn’t need power to flush.
There were no windows, and he didn’t want to end up peeing all over the floor.
I pointed out that if he sat down, he wouldn’t need to aim.
“I’m not gonna sit to pee!”
“Dude, it’s not like it’s gonna fall off.”
“It might!”
- Comment on Grieve with me 2 months ago:
Might consider how you’re storing it, too - used to keep my phone upside-down in my pocket (so the charging port was pointing up), because that angled it so it would be upright when I pulled it out. Also let all the gunk fall in and stay in - seems like it takes a lot longer before this happens now that I pocket it with the port facing down!
- Comment on Disney wolves 3 months ago:
Eyelashes!
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 3 months ago:
Everyone is busily selecting a fork, and I’m trying to figure out if the apostrophe was an intentional troll …
- Comment on Dolphins Communicate with ‘Fountains of Pee’ 3 months ago:
Sharks are supposed to be able to smell blood from a mile or more away - that’s why throwing chum in the water is a good way to draw them in.
I hadn’t thought about dolphins smelling though - I wonder if it’s closer to tasting, maybe?