Belgdore
@Belgdore@lemm.ee
- Comment on Sagan, you look high. 2 days ago:
If you are as smart and educated as Carl Sagan, I’m sure weed isn’t doing the heavy lifting.
- Comment on What is Superman's "kryptonite"? 1 week ago:
No it’s dr who
- Comment on This is why we have a defense budget 1 week ago:
No, those are the drunk drivers, the angry ones specifically.
- Comment on Hotel prices 2 weeks ago:
Look at this photograph
- Comment on Hotel prices 2 weeks ago:
Please go watch Twin Peaks. It’s one of the best TV shows ever!
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 3 weeks ago:
It should be that most people are broken in some way and finding a person who is broken in a way that helps fill in your problems while you fill in there’s is a difficult but not impossible process.
- Comment on Antony Starr is glad ‘The Boys’ is ending: “I don’t like seeing things outstay their welcome” 3 weeks ago:
He is apparently an asshole based on his bar fighting and how he treats his costars.
- Comment on Always guard against living in the world of fantasy rather than undeniable facts 3 weeks ago:
No the point of science is to test theories. Data can confirm or de confirm a theory. So, part of science is data collection. In fact, the data colllection is the most important part, otherwise it’s just theory and philosophizing.
- Comment on Always guard against living in the world of fantasy rather than undeniable facts 3 weeks ago:
But the data will be the same regardless of who is conducting the experiment. Changing the population that you conduct the experiment on is changing variables. Interpretation of the data may change depending on whether the experimenter is athiest or Christian.
- Comment on Always guard against living in the world of fantasy rather than undeniable facts 3 weeks ago:
I already qualified that I meant objective in two different senses and conceded that pure logical objectivity is not attainable through the scientific method.
Objective in the second way means that people performing the same actions will get the same results regardless of cultural or personal biases.
Observer bias refers to the interpretation of the data, and the construction of a model using that data. Bias also exists in the formation of theories which determine which experiments will be done.
However, two people performing the double slit experiment, for example, will find the same results as long as they follow the same methodology. The idea of the double slit experiment and what the data mean are of course up to interpretation and that interpretation will have some amount of bias.
This is the same as saying basketball games have objective scores. The score is what it is regardless of who is reading the number on the scoreboard or who is playing the game. The rules of the game are arbitrary in the same way that an experimental hypothesis and methodology are arbitrary. What the score means is subjective to the fans in the same way that data interpretation is subjective to the observer.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
What does “better” mean in that context?
- Comment on Always guard against living in the world of fantasy rather than undeniable facts 3 weeks ago:
This is true to the extent that science can only prove things through induction and induction is not as good as deduction for logical proofs. Which means that it is not “objective” in the logical senses as it relates to physical reality. But science is “objective” to the extent that experiments are repeatable by any any given person following the same methodology will be the same results.
However the meme image is about interpretation of glyphs used to represent numbers. And the left guy on the bottom is a dumb fuck for not using one of the possible agreed upon options for the interpretation of that glyph.
This is more about interpretation of language and communication than science. Which puts you somewhere between the “9” and “6” guys because you are at least keeping the conversation in the interpretation of data / epistemology arena.
The problem are the people who see this and call it woke or start rambling about a flat earth. Those are the real dumb fucks who aren’t talking about any reasonable interpretation of the thing that is clearly being discussed.
- Comment on I'm just happy you thought it was funny, dear 5 weeks ago:
Long long man youtu.be/6-1Ue0FFrHY
Is a Japanese commercial series
- Comment on The yin and the yang 1 month ago:
It’s called formula front. I played the cap out of our back in the day. You can play it manually, but only having one thumb stick makes it hard.
- Comment on Attempt to motivate people to take the stairs 2 months ago:
It’s important to note that “maintenance calories” are the vast majority of the energy you use on a daily basis. Exercise is just a small portion of the calories you burn.
- Comment on I would do this for just 1.99 2 months ago:
I used the sticky part of a post-it before I had a laptop with a built in slider
- Comment on No good excuse to still be on Xitter 2 months ago:
Some of us are still here since they black out. I haven’t posted or commented on there since.
- Comment on Elder Scrolls creator Ted Peterson is “glad that people are wanting to break away from” watered-down RPGs as he works on an epic Daggerfall successor 2 months ago:
It’s companies acting like people who play games are all middle school aged boys that’s the problem.
- Comment on "The biggest threat to America today is not communism, it's moving America toward a fascist theocracy" - Frank Zappa, 1986 2 months ago:
The laws banning abortion and porn are directly based on the Christian ideology of these people. It may not be your version and they may be hypocrites, but it’s still theocracy.
- Comment on 小红书 2 months ago:
The war on drugs is not a war, the war on terror is not a war. And both of those “campaigns” involved repression of concepts.
- Comment on 小红书 2 months ago:
They may not have called it that but look into the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Both governments are bad. But the fact Chinese and us citizens are interacting face to face is a major positive.
- Comment on POV: It's January 19th 3 months ago:
Why?
- Comment on Welcome 3 months ago:
It’s been the term for well over a decade. Which is when I learned about the term in college. First, second, and third world are western centric ways to talk about the alliances of Cold War countries. First world was the US, Western Europe and their allies. Second world was the communist countries, and third world was the rest of them.
- Comment on Welcome 3 months ago:
Third World is a defunct term. The current nomenclature is “underdeveloped.”
- Comment on Anon buys a TV without researching 3 months ago:
It’s fine for tv, but it causes input delay for video games.
- Comment on My Plan for 2025 3 months ago:
Where is “here?”
- Comment on Longtime buddy of mine just got a gaming PC. What games would make up a good "welcome to PC" care package? 3 months ago:
Skyrim for the mods.
- Comment on My Plan for 2025 3 months ago:
That is true for private locations, that is not true for public locations. Most places definition of public intox includes alcohol or any other drugs.
- Comment on My Plan for 2025 3 months ago:
Whatever definition of “liberal democratic system” you are using is very narrow and not the norm. Marijuana is illegal in most of the world especially for non medical uses. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_cannabis
Just because a thing is common wherever you live doesn’t mean it’s not illegal, and some jack ass cop won’t decide to make you spend a night in jail.
- Comment on F#&k 3 months ago:
That’s usually referred to as the F slur.
