agamemnonymous

@agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're trying to charge Luigi with terrorism! Imagine that!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  On the plus side, maybe this will actually result in some kind of reasonable gun legislation that will trickle down to a reduction of general gun violence. Maybe. Hopefully. Sometimes all it takes is showing the leopard party that their faces are also in danger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Glorious⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ben Franklin could almost be considered something like a shadow leader, with very little direct power but a significant amount of political influence. I haven’t played newer Civ, if a Ben Franklin play purely buffs soft power, trade/research agreements, etc, I could see this working. He was still an actual statesman though, so even still he’s on paper a better choice. But he’s not a great choice if the build isn’t based on soft political influence. But Tubman just wasn’t that kind of leader, what she did was amazing, but it wasn’t really leadership of a civilization.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Motivational, inspiring⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I see an “am” but no “I”. This has to be missing words

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a white hat hacker⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “How do I know you won’t use my techniques to become bad hackerman to hack your competitors? Sorry, I’m a professional”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oh man⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So? Just because someone chooses not to follow the reason, that doesn’t make the reason invalid. If anything you’re only proving the failures of a passion-driven ethical model, if the psychopath’s passion is inflicting pain there’s nothing to keep them from behaving unethically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oh man⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It is the logical extension of noticing the similarities between yourself and others, and noticing that you do not enjoy pain. It’s certainly not mathematically rigorous, but it follows from simple reasoning nonetheless. If you wanted to be rigorous, you can’t even claim that you don’t like pain, only that you haven’t liked specific instances of pain in the past. Some estimations are necessary for a functioning framework of any kind, including ethics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oh man⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  1. I am a sentient creature that feels pain and pleasure

  2. Others appear to be sentient creatures that feel pain and pleasure

  3. Pain is bad, so I should avoid inflicting it

  You don’t need empathy as an axiom to derive it rationally

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oh man⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree. Reason can take you there by virtue of justice or equality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oh man⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No? Once reason restricts passion, the hierarchy collapses. An action that causes yourself mild pain, but pleasure of greater extent to others, is preferable to an action that causes many others pain even if it gives you pleasure personally. Reason demands you restrain yourself from the passions that would harm others. That’s not unilateral fealty. Axioms must be assumed, but the most powerful systems assume as few as possible, and leave most of the legwork to reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how badly could a pelican fuck me up in a fight?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  how badly could a pelican fuck me up in a fight?

  DISCLAIMER - I am not planning on fighting a pelican.

  there’s a brown pelican that hangs out…

  Poetry.

  Actually, wait…

  how badly could a

  pelican fuck me up in

  a fight? DISCLAIMER

  .

  I am not planning

  on fighting a pelican.

  There’s a brown peli-

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oh man⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Bentham developed hedonistic calculus. The foundation is a multivariate ethical vector space. He rationalized hedonism to the extreme. The passions are explicitly tempered for a calculated greater good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they interviewed people in his circles, and I think a friend flippantly noticed it was kinda ironic that they played Among Us with someone who went on to actually assassinate sometime, and now the media is twisting that into the standard “video games cause violence” bugbear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A scientific discovery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Still, different angle of attack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A scientific discovery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In space, you are the bracing surface.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A scientific discovery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  False. Leg position is different, one allows additional bracing. NASA virgins caught red handed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to be attractive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just in case

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This weird AI-generated engagement bait⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Based on the group name, it might be a satirical take on the engagement bait trend? It wouldn’t be the first time I’ve seen this kind of lampooning of vapid social media fads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This weird AI-generated engagement bait⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A sett of anatomical tables, with explanations, and an abridgment, of the practice of midwifery, William Smellie, Table 32

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This weird AI-generated engagement bait⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are we sure it’s AI? It looks like an old medical illustration for delivering twins entangled in the womb.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Log by bolb⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I assumed that verb is “questioning”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don’t more people start profit-sharing companies or co-ops?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Starting a business requires resources and coordination. It is easier for one individual with many resources to get the ball rolling than for many people with few resources to do the same. Even if you need to take out a loan, it’s simpler to do as an individual than as a group. Most people who front at the resources for a business are going to want creative control over the structure and operation, and consequentially to the profit. It’s much easier, logistically, for one person to roll existing capital into a new business than to coordinate a board of founders. Democracies are much slower at making decisions than dictatorships, obviously.

  I am 100% pro co-op. I’d love to see credit unions offering start-up loans to groups of founding members, specifically designed to develop co-ops. It’s just currently uncommon, so the infrastructure isn’t there. Without that financial infrastructure, you’re relying in everyone fronting a portion of the start-up funding.

  So, in short: it’s more complicated, financially and logistically. I’m all for it, but before we see co-ops carve out a must significant market share, we’ll need to see some chipping away at thesr barriers to entry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some great games that require you to bust out a notebook and pen?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exile was pretty good, minus the pixel hunting on the forest level, but I’d say overall quality dropped off pretty quickly after that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon dates a clown⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not on, he got creampied.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney's Snow White | Official Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a regional story. If it was an African, or Asian, or Latin American, or American Indian story, would it be okay to make the characters European so long as the story is good?

  If your answer is “Yes”, then okay at least you’re consistent, but a lot of people would disagree.

  If your answer is “No, because white people are disproportionately represented in media”, that’s exactly why we should prefer making media based on other cultures and regions, rather than endlessly remaking the same European stories so Disney can protect their IP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Carcinisation?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Self driving taxis aren’t an awful solution for last-mile transport. Trains can’t take you door to door, and walking isn’t always a good option (people with mobility issues, inclement weather, etc).

  Key word being “taxis”. They don’t need to be in every individual’s garage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Carcinisation?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Trains only move forward and back. Crabs only move side to side. It only makes sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨precious memories 💖⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are we implying that cats aren’t, generally speaking, raging narcissists?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another geography lesson⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had myself a nice giggle last time I saw an Österreich-Turkiye soccer game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life imitates art?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you ever had a communion wafer? It’s not far off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨alpha⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t “alpha males”, as they describe themselves, typically prefer submissive women?