agamemnonymous
@agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Male Mar-a-Lago face 4 days ago:
The Week called the “look” a “must-have accessory” for the inner circle of President Donald Trump. […] Matthew J. Nykiel, a board-certified surgeon, stated the appearance is modeled after Ivanka Trump’s appearance.
Holy shit.
- Comment on To the slough, I belooonng 1 week ago:
To the baaaank of a poooond.
- Comment on Same... 1 week ago:
Thank you! That interpretation in nonsense, nothing can’t be turned into a mushroom.
- Comment on How can I learn to estimate the likelihood of real-world events? 1 week ago:
Ignoring the AI part, since it doesn’t even know it’s gaslighting you.
Maybe read some Buckminster Fuller. He opined to some length about trends in real-world changes.
Isaac Asimov as well, just for a general sense of the approach.
But overall probabilities are kinda arbitrary when applied to specific events. They work fine for a whole lot of similar events (e.g. pulling colored marbles out of a bag) but they don’t really have any tangible meaning for unique events. Either you guess wrong or you guess right.
If you want to predict future events, you need to have a good grasp on current events, past events, and systemic behavior in general. There isn’t one methodology that yields results generally. You need to tailor your approach to suit each prediction.
That’s not something you can learn from one book, course, or series of exercises. It relies on broad scholarship.
- Comment on I'm not saying that I agree with it, but it's understandable. 1 week ago:
“from” being the operative word.
Bruce Springsteen’s breakout hit was about getting out of Jersey ASAP.
- Comment on A brick a day keeps the pigs away. 1 week ago:
These should be cans of soup. You can put more force behind a can of soup, and you can also use it to feed your family.
- Comment on Banana 2 weeks ago:
Rebound from a viral pandemic, RIP Gros Michel
- Comment on I'm too stupid for this 2 weeks ago:
I’ve tutored calculus, and probably the biggest example I’ve seen of this is the difference quotient. The formula is exceedingly obvious once you understand it, but it takes a lot of people some time for it to “click”.
- Comment on yo: sup? 2 weeks ago:
Who’s on first?
- Comment on yo: sup? 2 weeks ago:
Kid named Gurt
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 2 weeks ago:
I was going to bring it up if no one else did
- Comment on I'm not paying $8 for a pack of Skittles 2 weeks ago:
Yeah my big flatscreen in my tiny TV room takes up most of my field of vision from the couch. The difference in quality is almost negligible, but I can pause to grab food, rewind if I missed something, and there’s no one else there on their phone or just making noise.
I’ll see a movie in the theater every once in a while if it’s like a grand spectacle, but most movies are just fine at home, if not better.
- Comment on I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time 3 weeks ago:
I kinda liked the bleak. It felt like an ending. Drove home a fairly central theme
Never read Colfer’s continuation, I read some of the Artemis Fowl books when I was younger and I didn’t really expect him to match Adams’ particular style.
I did listen to the radio adaptation though, and if it’s true to the source then it was… okay? I’m not sure it added much.
- Comment on I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time 3 weeks ago:
As always, there’s a relevant xkcd
- Comment on Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines? 4 weeks ago:
Guillotines are too tame for modern audiences. Wood chippers are fresh and exciting.
- Comment on Based on the OG "So I tried to catch fog" version 4 weeks ago:
Terrible joke, I sentence you to exile.
- Comment on Remember the past 4 weeks ago:
Damn Daniel? That was like 10 years after all the rest.
- Comment on Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out. 5 weeks ago:
Common misconception. Not all of them, just the ones that change colors around radiation.
- Comment on ... 1 month ago:
I’ve got some martial arts training, but only did like a month of BJJ with no other real grappling training. A girl-jock friend of mine, super active in BJJ and pretty big and buff for a girl, wanted to do a little playful sparring.
I pinned her so fast, with so little effort, it wasn’t even funny. She’d been training for years, and she was in great shape for it, but my amateur ass absolutely destroyed her.
Also, I did do some powerlifting for a while, and everyone who actually lifts heavy looks like a chubby farm boy.
- Comment on Don’t Be a Sucker (1947) U.S. anti-fascist short film 1 month ago:
I watched it a couple days ago, it resonated with me particularly strongly. The contemporary casual domestic intolerance you’re talking about is why it was easier with a foreign fascist to speak out against.
- Comment on *A clean colon is like driving on a country road on a sunny day...* 1 month ago:
- Comment on Don’t Be a Sucker (1947) U.S. anti-fascist short film 1 month ago:
Fascism is a siren song for the simpleminded. Back then, we were fighting foreign fascist powers that dared to attack us, so it was easy to oppose. Most of the people who remember that are dead though, and new generations of simpletons have taken their place.
- Comment on The level of discourse in the US right now 1 month ago:
How so?
- Comment on The level of discourse in the US right now 1 month ago:
I wonder why they can’t see that?
My guess is that everyone who thinks being gay is a choice regularly feels homosexual attraction, that they have to choose to repress. They think that’s normal, they feel that way therefore everyone else must too.
- Comment on Anon is exploited 1 month ago:
If you want to live a bronze age life, you can work a bronze age schedule. Sell your possessions, buy a couple acres in Bumfuck, NW, build a log cabin, and live off the land.
A huge chunk of that 8hr workday finances the difference in lifestyle between then and now. You live in a home free of pests, insulated and climate controlled, with unlimited clean water at your fingertips, and wires that fuel unfathomable feats of automation and communication. We’re talking to each other on boxes of minerals painstakingly engineered to fulfill countless purposes.
Get rid of the phones, computers, video games, televisions, air conditioners, water heaters, dish and clothes washers, other various appliances, transportation, medicine, manufactured textiles, infrastructure, entertainment, food and other sundry services, etc., and you don’t have to work all that long to cover your nut.
I’m a Marxist in that I don’t think Capitalism is the end of human progress, and the time is nigh. I’m also a Marxist in that I think capitalism is basically an improvement on what came before. It’s run its course, and will hopefully be displaced soon, but that doesn’t mean I’m not getting a better return on effort than my ancestors.
- Comment on Anon is exploited 1 month ago:
I didn’t say it was? I don’t recall using the term “free time” at all. I said it could be used productively. Just because the use of certain stretches of time are limited doesn’t mean there aren’t fulfilling uses.
- Comment on Anon is exploited 1 month ago:
that is still 1h spend doing things to distract you from an environment you don’t want to be in
Not really. Are you not interested in things?
My commute isn’t very long, but I still queue up recommended songs. I enjoy discovering new music, that’s the sort of thing anon is saying we didn’t have time for. I listened to the original H2G2 radio series mowing the yard this summer. Everyone has to spend time doing boring things, but when those things become routine you can multitask.
- Comment on Anon is exploited 1 month ago:
Not really, no? Originally we had to micromanage our day to secure calories and shelter, and defend ourselves. I’m fine with trading that uncertainty for reliability.
Would I prefer fully automated luxury gay space communism? Obviously. But that sort of thing takes time. The current arrangement is pretty darn swanky on the evolutionary timescale. It was barely a century ago that we bargained down to 8 hours, 5 days a week.
I can yearn , and fight, for better while acknowledging that what I’ve got is about the best humans have had it. Too much inequality, obviously, but still most of my ancestors would be jealous.
- Comment on Anon is exploited 1 month ago:
I get the point, but this is a bit self defeatist.
First of all, 1hr seems a bit excessive for showering and getting dressed, that’s like 30 minutes tops for me, I could maybe see an hour if I’m going to a black tie event and I’ve been doing yardwork all day. If it takes an entire hour to get showered and dressed every single day, personal grooming and wardrobe is one of your hobbies.
Then that 1hr commute can be audiobooks, hobby podcasts, music discovery, etc. With public transportation, it can be physical books, chatting with friends, researching new things, or anything you can do from your phone. You can even knock out some of that mindless scrolling early.
Personally, my “mindless” scrolling is through platforms that I’ve curated for content relevant to my hobbies and interests. So it doesn’t really stay mindless for long, it starts to hit those fulfilling notes. And most of the jobs I’ve had have had lulls in that 8hr block where I could not-so-mindlessly scroll here and there.
Also 1hr unpaid overtime every day? Um what? They specified wagie so not salaried, anon has a slam dunk labor rights case.
So we found 30min in the morning, those 2hrs of commute are usable, say another 30min of scrolling at work (probably higher, but I’m assuming a more demanding job to be conservative), and fuck off 1hr unpaid work. That’s an extra 4hrs of potentially fulfilling time if you use it.
Like yeah, wagie life is draining, don’t get me wrong. But you have the power to reclaim some of that.
- Comment on Shh 1 month ago:
Where do you think the river goes?
