agamemnonymous
@agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time 5 days 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 6 days ago:
As always, there’s a relevant xkcd
- Comment on Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines? 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Terrible joke, I sentence you to exile.
- Comment on Remember the past 2 weeks ago:
Damn Daniel? That was like 10 years after all the rest.
- Comment on Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out. 2 weeks ago:
Common misconception. Not all of them, just the ones that change colors around radiation.
- Comment on ... 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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...* 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Don’t Be a Sucker (1947) U.S. anti-fascist short film 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
How so?
- Comment on The level of discourse in the US right now 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Where do you think the river goes?
- Comment on Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Myst V: End of Ages 3 weeks ago:
Yeah Exile was fine except for the pixel-hunting bullshit in the forest world. Riven is still the best though.
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 4 weeks ago:
The funny thing is, thanks to fever, this “cold war” is both literally and figuratively a hot war.
- Comment on Four arrested after photo of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle 4 weeks ago:
I see you know your goose-step well
- Comment on Do you think conservative feel the same need to burn it all down as everyone else felt when trump won again? 4 weeks ago:
In other words, before a change can be made in the name of Progress, it needs to be demonstrated that the change actually is Progress. To progressives, this feels like standing in the way of Progress. To a conservative, this is safeguarding Progress, the Progress previous generations achieved, from changes that, again, are more likely to be bad than good.
That’s not what we see with Conservatism with, and is much more in line with 20th century Progressivism (i.e. leveraging empirical knowledge to moderate political change).
Conservativism in practice, as I’ve seen it almost invariably, says new is always bad, traditional is always good. It’s a bicycle that’s all brakes and no pedals.
Sometimes a system that took centuries to build, like chattel slavery, should be destroyed in months or years, and inaction does more bad than good. Progressivism took off after the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution because empirical data showed that traditional structures were ill-suited for the quickly evolving world.
Conservativism in the modern era is akin to trying to fill your gas tank with oats and hay. Cars aren’t horses, and the longer you drag your feet in updating your policies, the more damage you’re going to do to your engine.
Conservatism holds that if things are pretty good, most changes are likely to make things worse and not better
The problem is that things aren’t pretty good for most people. The system is in shambles and most suggested changes probably would make things better for everyone who isn’t a millionaire.
- Comment on Aged like milk 5 weeks ago:
The most respectful thing we can do is honor his beliefs:
“I think it’s worth it. I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.” - Charlie Kirk
"“I think empathy is a made up New Age term that has done a lot of damage” - Charlie Kirk
“Guns save lives” - Charlie Kirk
- Comment on What are some franchises with characters that personify countries? 5 weeks ago:
Jean Pierre Polnareff for me.
- Comment on Found my spirit animal 5 weeks ago:
The picture looks unusually HD, and the font looks like a common AI font. Seems like there actually is a particularly fat bear named Otis though, so idk. Maybe it’s a real, high quality image with an unfortunate font choice, maybe it’s a fake image inspired by the real bear, who knows.
- Comment on 'Godfather of AI' says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — 'that is the capitalist system' 5 weeks ago:
They generate a lot less bullshit when deliberately trained on a specific dataset, and they’re only getting better with time.
- Comment on 'Godfather of AI' says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — 'that is the capitalist system' 5 weeks ago:
Exactly. Fewer juniors means fewer seniors in the future.
- Comment on 'Godfather of AI' says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — 'that is the capitalist system' 5 weeks ago:
The next quarterly report is literally the only thing in the world that matters
- Comment on 'Godfather of AI' says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — 'that is the capitalist system' 5 weeks ago:
There are tasks that are necessary but tedious. These are tasks that either consume the time of experienced professionals, or are offloaded to inexperienced professionals when payroll allows.
Tedious tasks are perfect candidates for automation, especially when the result is much easier to verify than to find. This frees the experienced professional to do interesting work.
- Comment on How to poop outdoors in a way that won’t harm the environment and other hikers 5 weeks ago:
DO NOT use a bag of holding for this, you will regret it.
