agamemnonymous
@agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Physics books are a classic 5 days ago:
Cylinders are the extreme upper limit of a prism
- Comment on Physics books are a classic 5 days ago:
Huh, I’d considered “prism” to be the general and “cylinder” to be specifically circular, but apparently cylinder is general. Go figure.
- Comment on Physics books are a classic 5 days ago:
As opposed to a non-circular cylinder?
- Comment on Homeless? No way! I am living the van life down by the river. 1 week ago:
“just” is a bit reductive, but yeah that wouldn’t hurt
- Comment on Homeless? No way! I am living the van life down by the river. 1 week ago:
Arguably, some degree of food supply uncertainty is most natural, and what our metabolism developed to accommodate. Security is great, morally, but I don’t think our caveman metabolism is adjusting that quickly. I don’t think that should curtail the efforts we make to secure good for all, but it’s worth consideration.
- Comment on Okay, this is getting out of hand 1 week ago:
There we go, that’s more like it
- Comment on Okay, this is getting out of hand 1 week ago:
The Home Depot doesn’t make sense, Shell/Exxon/BP would be more appropriate
- Comment on Ancestry dot com 1 week ago:
“Four individually wrapped varieties” implies each of your grandparents was a separate, distinct nationality
- Comment on [Discussion] Which movie trailers were the most deceptive regarding the actual content of the movie? 1 week ago:
I remember Man of the Year being advertised as a strategy comedy: Robin Williams plays a Jon Stewart type that actually gets elected president, hijinks ensue.
!It pretty quickly turned into a serious thriller. He didn’t even actually get elected, he only won because he entered the race after a program was installed to steal the election for another candidate, and the convoluted conditions wound up favoring him instead. !<
- Comment on Spicy Candy 1 week ago:
Free? Someone’s never had to install the stuff.
- Comment on Hope yall like screaming 1 week ago:
Fitting, since this picture looks like it was taken from inside the Van from the Clown Core album
- Comment on Many workers would take a pay cut to work from home — some would forgo at least 20% of their salary 1 week ago:
Yeah that’s how I interpret it: 20% covers the cost of commuting. Factor in the time of commuting and getting ready, and 20% doesn’t sound that crazy.
- Comment on Keep them guessing 1 week ago:
Zampano’s dead, it was clearly Truant
- Comment on uninvited 2 weeks ago:
Their faces are similar enough
- Comment on uninvited 2 weeks ago:
How? They’d figure out swap before they even started.
- Comment on What do you think of anarchism? 2 weeks ago:
You’ve just a conceded that enforcing said laws don’t actually prevent the crime
Except I didn’t concede that? I said enforcing laws doesn’t totally eliminate crime, in the same way that putting a soda in the fridge doesn’t drop the temperature to 0K. Enforcing laws reduces crime.
I would say enforcement never prevents any crime
I would say you’re demonstrably incorrect.
and enforcement is about punishment not prevention.
Punishment is the method of prevention. Additionally, incarceration is in part about removing law breakers from pole society so they do not continue to break laws. We quarantine the murderers so they don’t keep murdering people.
So when is it worth it?
As with most things in life, we decide on a reasonable compromise. Putting a soda in the fridge is beneficial, putting it in the freezer is too much, and causes more problems than it solves. We decide these things convectively as a society, by electing representatives to draft laws. When they overstep, we elect new representatives to change the laws.
How much abuse and Injustice is necessary to assuage your fears about the other?
What’s abusive and unjust about trying to prevent murderers? Where’s the justice for victims and their families if as a society we just say “Golly, sorry this guy killed your children, but if we punished him we’d be just as bad”? How do you recommend reducing the injustices people enact against each other?
Surely you’re not going to sit here and tell me only fear of punishment is what stops you from murdering people?
Me personally? Of course not. But obviously some people want to do crimes. You can’t build a society based on everyone behaving just like you all the time. Some people are more violent, or greedy, or deceptive. We are barely domesticated apes, jungle impulses course through us all. Some more than others. Without some mechanism to curtail that, consequences that outweigh the benefits of selfish behavior, you wind up back at might-makes-right anyway when the selfish behave selfishly with no recourse.
- Comment on What do you think of anarchism? 2 weeks ago:
That doesn’t prove that not enforcing them would somehow make murder disappear, iust proves that you can’t absolutely eliminate a behavior. Every action has diminishing returns.
I can remove some of the heat from an object by putting it in the fridge; . can remove more by putting it in the freezer, but that requires more energy. I can remove even more by using more and more sophisticated scientific equipment, but I can never reduce the temperature to absolute zero. That doesn’t mean the soda in my fridge isn’t colder than one on the counter.
Perfect results aren’t obtainable except in trivial cases.
- Comment on It's just like it's pulling them from thin air! 2 weeks ago:
I’d be surprised if there were millions in any one facility.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
This whole question rubs me the wrong way, like “Why do we teach women to protect themselves instead of teaching men not to rape?”. There’s not a big control panel somewhere that “society” can use to change everyone’s behavior. People are individuals. Some of them will do bad things to others because it benefits them, no matter what they’re taught. If you want to avoid being victimized, you have to be vigilant against that.
- Comment on Anon questions the KKK 2 weeks ago:
If you ask me they leaned too heavy into the racism, and not heavily enough into theatrics and costumes
You know, I watched my wife work all day gettin’ thirty bags together for you ungrateful sons of bitches! And all I can hear is criticize, criticize, criticize! From now on, don’t ask me or mine for nothin’!
- Comment on It really is like this 3 weeks ago:
China considers themselves socialist because they equivocate the people with the state.
Isn’t that kinda the line between socialism and communism? That communism has no state, but that a socialist state can act as a sort of intermediary.
Not that it’s the only socialist model, mind you; a market economy composed entirely of individual private worker co-ops is another model, for example. Then there’s the issue of implementation, whether the people actually democratically control the government.
But ideologically, while not communist, I don’t see how that structure can’t be considered socialist.
- Comment on What are your favorite board games? I'm looking for games that are satisfying and lead to a sense of accomplishment or fulfillment or connection. 3 weeks ago:
I will always recommend base Catan. It’s simple enough that anyone can learn to play fairly quickly, and moves quickly enough that no one gets that mad if they lose. If anything, I find losing a game usually coincides with people understanding it better and being open to playing another round so they can demonstrate that understanding.
- Comment on An independent voter explains why they chose a moronic, oligarcho-fascist demagogue over Joe Biden (c. November 2020) [Day 58] 3 weeks ago:
What ceasefire? The one that was violated immediately?
- Comment on moms rule 4 weeks ago:
Based on my own genealogical research, the trend I typically saw was 6-8 kids, between 18 and early 30s, about 20% of which died. Plus consider that some of those will be sons, and some daughters never become mothers, 25 is pretty spot on for the average age for a mother-to-mother generational gap.
- Comment on fight fire with napalm 4 weeks ago:
Oh I was speaking less from concern than excitement. I have a brown thumb but I love concords, so if I can’t kill them, that’s a game changer?
- Comment on Hulu quizzing about the ads played 4 weeks ago:
To be fair, the last time I flew the jolly Roger was over a decade ago. Finding a stream/torrent that:
- Wasn’t potato quality
- Had seeders
- Wasn’t shut down since last time
- Wouldn’t give you a virus
- Was actually the thing you were looking for (I did not have sexual relations with that woman)
was a much more time consuming process.
- Comment on Hulu quizzing about the ads played 4 weeks ago:
Back in my day, it was a much more involved process.
Once it’s on the disk it’s fair game.
Do people really rewatch stuff that often?
- Comment on Hulu quizzing about the ads played 4 weeks ago:
Piracy is a hassle, the convenience of streaming made the cost worthwhile. They’ve forgotten this. Once the cost outweighs the convenience, the hassle won’t seem like such a hassle anymore.
- Comment on Anon has cold feet 4 weeks ago:
Unironically, roll them down just over the heel
- Comment on What are some actual good *sour* sour candy? 4 weeks ago:
Slightly different qualifier, but I hate sour powder. It tears up your mouth too much. I love Haribo Twin Snakes because, while they aren’t incredibly sour, it’s the gummy itself that’s sour, no powder involved.