intensely_human
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- Comment on Gabe Newell, the Man Behind Steam, Is Working on a Brain-Computer Interface 1 day ago:
Just so we’re clear here, it’s the game marketplace called Steam. Not just, you know, steam.
- Comment on "X": Far-right conspiracy theorists have returned in droves after Elon Musk took over the former Twitter, new study says 1 day ago:
Given I’ve been described as a right with conspiracy theorist for saying that capitalist countries experience less starvation than socialist ones, I’m going to have to take this assessment with a grain of salt.
Maybe it’s more like right wingers in general are coming back in droves after finding an online community that won’t ban them for their political affiliation.
- Comment on 224 Injured After Glitchy Diabetes App Drains Insulin Pump Batteries 2 days ago:
Everyone involved is to blame. Writing code that fails causing death is on whoever wrote that code.
- Comment on Anon has a realization 3 days ago:
There should be some kind of mechanic where you can put the thing somewhere and retrieve it later. Sort of like a ender chest, but with multiple, mutually-exclusive repositories.
For example, you could sell the item to a particular NPC, and someone else from the NPC’s same guild in a different city might have the item, but only if you ask about unusual items. “Oh yeah I bought this the other day from my counterpart in Lombard: <the item you sold>”
Some way to free up inventory, and take a chance the item will still be in your world later.
- Comment on Anon has a realization 3 days ago:
I say this as an old timer: use the stuff you get. That’s why you have the urge now. You won’t get more, I promise.
- Comment on Never Forget 3 days ago:
Assuming this is actually by the guy, here is what the linked article says about child porn:
In the US, it is illegal to possess or distribute child pornography, apparently because doing so will encourage people to sexually abuse children.
This is absurd logic. Child pornography is not necessarily abuse. Even if it was, preventing the distribution or posession of the evidence won’t make the abuse go away. We don’t arrest everyone with videotapes of murders, or make it illegal for TV stations to show people being killed.
Wired has an article on how these laws destroy honest people’s lives.
- Comment on Never Forget 3 days ago:
Well now I’ve got two competing claims, and I can’t believe either one until I see the authoritative history on it
- Comment on Never Forget 3 days ago:
Well killing oneself is always one’s own choice, but it’s terrible that he was given such a ridiculous sentence for no more than a copyright issue. Not even sure if he made money on the material, but even if he did he should have gotten maybe a fine, and imprisonment is just insane.
- Comment on World record drone light show: More than 5,000 drones showcased - YouTube 3 days ago:
We’re all stars now. In the drone show.
- Comment on 224 Injured After Glitchy Diabetes App Drains Insulin Pump Batteries 3 days ago:
I fucking hate when people write safety-critical code with the same level of sloppiness they write social media popup horseshit.
- Comment on This Doctor Won’t Take Health Insurance - and Charges Just $35 a Visit | AJ+ (5:46) 3 days ago:
Let me guess: he’s facing some kind go resistance from the powers that be, trying to force him to stop this?
- Comment on Xbox president: Studio closures will ensure 'business is healthy for the long term' 3 days ago:
Yup, that’s what qyron is presupposing with his argument. Read it again if you misunderstood.
- Comment on Xbox president: Studio closures will ensure 'business is healthy for the long term' 3 days ago:
If I ever run a successful company, I am never taking it public, and I hope that I will never accept a sum of money that more than doubles our assets.
I’ve worked in the startup world and seen too many companies fail in all but name when they receive investment money. It really sucks the soul out of a company.
- Comment on Xbox president: Studio closures will ensure 'business is healthy for the long term' 3 days ago:
Right, because a healthy business consists of a sort of zombie corpse leech, not a symbiosis.
The little diner down the street where everyone has a good time every day? That’s not a healthy business.
It is very important that we twist the definition of every word to ensure people understand how bad capitalism is. Language and the ability to think is secondary to the great Revolution Take 25!
- Comment on Grocery stores promoting gas discounts are not helping the transition away from gas vehicles 4 days ago:
We know that global warming is taking that livable environment away
No we do not. You’re claiming that you are going to die, unless you take away my freedom.
Can you show me the evidence of a model that’s predicting humans being unable to live here due to global warming? I doubt that you can.
- Comment on Grocery stores promoting gas discounts are not helping the transition away from gas vehicles 5 days ago:
breathable air and livable environments are something we all need in common. You have no right to take that from the rest of us
And based on this logic, you only get the right to take my freedom when can prove that I’m taking your livable environment away.
- Comment on Grocery stores promoting gas discounts are not helping the transition away from gas vehicles 6 days ago:
The bitterness toward those with gas cars isn’t helping either. I drive an electric now and I like it, but I hate how we’re working so hard to force people. It’s not right. Freedom is important.
- Comment on Dashcam footage clears man of felony charge after showing constable injuring himself 6 days ago:
The reason it doesn’t seem like a problem isn’t just ignorance, but also form factor. If someone were to start putting stickers that look like staring eyes on ring cameras, it might drive the point home more viscerally.
- Comment on Dashcam footage clears man of felony charge after showing constable injuring himself 6 days ago:
Yes. This is like opening a random door and discovering an axe murder in progress. It makes you wonder what’s going on behind all the doors that didn’t get opened.
One of the worst states a society can be in is one where it seems normal on the surface, but there’s massive hidden injustice happening under the surface. With something like the Battle of Britain, they truly were all in it together. But with the way our policing system works, people are getting horribly treated and their stories just aren’t known.
A society based on human sacrifice is invalid. If there’s a monster eating people, we need to all be aware of it. Currently the monster is eating people and getting away with it, because we have a cultural assumption that anyone talking about the monster is to be avoided and shunned.
It’s horror.
- Comment on 2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Nominal size is supposed to be 1.5 6 days ago:
Unfortunately I can’t time travel. The fact has changed.
- Comment on The way my daughter's middle school health class classifies drugs is insane. 1 week ago:
Seems mostly correct to me. What’s the problem with it?
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 week ago:
But they do? All the conservatives I listen to or hang out with don’t say a word of hate about liberals. But all the liberals I hang out with hate (as in actively, as in take time out of conversations to spend words and energy and time doing this), they actively hate conservatives.
They complain about conservatives. They say they’re evil and inhuman and ascribe all sorts of evil intent. They express the desire to purge them from the neighborhood, to disenfranchise them. I’ve seen calls for blood, many times.
When I hang out with conservatives, we don’t even talk politics. We talk about cars or whatever. There’s no time spent on hating anyone or anything. We talk about problems facing us, how the week went, etc.
Maybe the liberals I know just happen to be extremists, I don’t know. But that’s my experience. Liberals sit around and talk politics and how bad conservatives are. Conservatives sit around and talk about all sorts of stuff, and almost never mention liberals.
- Comment on 2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Nominal size is supposed to be 1.5 1 week ago:
Come to think of it I think we were modeling it as 3/4 on each side, because I seem to remember the 3.5” 2x4 stud becoming a full integer thickness with drywall on both sides
- Comment on 2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Nominal size is supposed to be 1.5 1 week ago:
I worked construction in the early 2000s and there was no variation in lumber dimensions.
- Comment on 2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Nominal size is supposed to be 1.5 1 week ago:
I’d say it’s degradation of the market’s quality after all the forced cuts we took in 2020
- Comment on 2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Nominal size is supposed to be 1.5 1 week ago:
but there’s no reason to force whatever archaic or industry system onto a consumer
Sure there is. Look up the concept of a “standard” if you don’t understand the reasons.
Standards only work when they don’t change
- Comment on 2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Nominal size is supposed to be 1.5 1 week ago:
I’ve not really encountered this wood expanding and contracting thing. Are you sure?
- Comment on 2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Nominal size is supposed to be 1.5 1 week ago:
Wall finished vary in thickness wildly
When I was designing kitchens, I and literally everyone in the construction industry around me all assumed that drywall was 1/2”
- Comment on what is this game 1 week ago:
That’s Pac Man 2024
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 1 week ago:
Ultimately, our system has evolved over millions of years and our culture builds on top of the basic instincts. Optimal sexual strategy for humanity has long been that men push as hard as fuck even if it means a lot of us don’t make it. We can do this because male sperm is cheap and plentiful.
So civilization has adopted cultural standards that are extremely harsh on men to the point of destroying some of us. To make an analogy, our culture has a grading curve for men that is designed to fail 60% of us.
This is called “male disposability” and while MRAs take it as a grievance, it’s really just a fact of the world. It’s right up there with childbirth and externally-kickable balls as one of the facts of life.
Why am I talking about culture being a gauntlet in this way? Because men often complain about how our cultural rules not making it possible to mate without breaking any of the rules. Like in this thread: “I’m damned if I make a move on her because then I’m a creep, and I’m damned if I don’t because women expect men to take the initiative. So what the fuck?”
Well, culture isn’t a video game that’s balanced to ensure players have a way to win. That’s what I’m saying. Culture is a game, a game that evolved to win wars against nature and other human settlements. And it is a game that’s been balanced.
Unfortunately for those who cut their teeth on video games, culture is not balanced to be playable. It’s balanced to eliminate 60% of the players.
And one of the ways that extremely difficult “weed-out” mechanic works is that a man who plays by all the rules he is given, loses. If he does everything he is told to do, he loses the game. That is by design. Probably because some great unconscious information processing mechanism that selects our rules to win wars and survive into the future, knows that men who are perfectly obedient are poison to the group’s long-term survival.
Basically what the whole interface is telling you, is that what we need you to be is capable of doing the right thing based on your own judgment, not based on minimizing the degree to which you get in trouble or get chastised by people.
So we’ve made a game you can’t win, unless you’re willing to stop trying to stay out of trouble. Because if that’s all you’ve got — following orders and avoiding conflict — the next generation doesn’t need your genes.