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- Comment on McDonald’s CEO is grappling with a ‘two-tier economy’ as he slashes prices on value meals—and signals backing for a minimum wage increase 1 week ago:
It is, but putting a hot thing next to other cold things also warms them, and can allow bacterial growth to start if it’s a large enough heat source. Letting it cool some first avoids that.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO is grappling with a ‘two-tier economy’ as he slashes prices on value meals—and signals backing for a minimum wage increase 1 week ago:
…might let it cool first, then freeze it!
- Comment on That's an impressive drop. Any ideas why? 2 weeks ago:
Ah, okay, I didn’t see that from the comment tree. I don’t think that’s gender specific though; if anything, women seem even more likely to be rejected due to age than men. And there’s also other confounding factors with age: as your cohort ages, they get paired off, and have less time to devote to dating, and do have a somewhat decreased sex drive pushing them out there. So the dating pool is quite a bit smaller - even if your looks didn’t diminish, it likely won’t carry you as far as your dating pool ages regardless of economic factors.
- Comment on That's an impressive drop. Any ideas why? 2 weeks ago:
Ever heard about STD rates in nursing homes? There may be a factor that’s correlated with age, but age itself doesn’t stop sex, or even slow it down that much.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I feel like regular patrol cars might work like this already - who’s going to blow past a cop driving down the road?
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 3 weeks ago:
Okay, that’s the disconnect - you do not need to dehumanize someone to consider them an enemy. Police and militaries often do so, because it makes people easier to shoot; but it is not necessary. And the cognitive dissonance of dehumanizing their targets leads to a lot of the issues soldiers face later on. (And oh, hey - look who’s become rife with fascists!)
Fascism absolutely needs stopped. It and the people supporting it are an existential threat. But the way that fascism starts out is by treating some people as less than human, as something other. And if you have to make an enemy a nonperson to beat them, then the groundwork is already laid for fascism to return with the next generation - after all, you’ve just shown dehumanizing people can get the results you need, right? Why not make a habit of it?
- Comment on Not stealing 3 weeks ago:
I think that really depends on the kid too. I’ve had one behave like that fairly regularly until he grew out of it; the other will get upset rarely, and never in public.
The post read to me as the dad cracking a dry joke, not actually making an excuse.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Right - fight them! Resist them! But do not let them push you into being inhuman yourself.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 4 weeks ago:
At this point, my best guess is these guys just don’t actually read any Punisher material.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
That’s not censorship. That’s just social consequences.
- Comment on Spyhoppin' 1 month 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' 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Android 18’s baby daddy
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 2 months 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 2 months 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.