theneverfox
@theneverfox@pawb.social
- Comment on 2hot2handle 4 hours ago:
It happens, I’m not denying that.
But the cure is worse than the poison. The term primes people to see it where it isn’t there, and that’s extraordinarily toxic.
Call them a misogynist and be done with it. I know it when I see it. You know it when you see it.
It’s like man spreading. It’s ok to be comfortable. It’s not ok to push into other people’s personal space. If you’re alone on a bench, who gives a fuck. If you want to signal “I’d prefer no one sit next to me”, that’s fine until someone sits next to you. Then you’re an asshole or you’re not, we don’t need extra words to gender niche behaviors
Words are perception. Labeling a thing primes you to see it. These overly specific, gender based labels are harmful
It literally makes the world worse for everyone involved to create subcategories of asshole behavior based on gender dynamics
- Comment on 2hot2handle 8 hours ago:
No… Unless you start using the word and it catches on. Which is easier to do than it sounds, but the meaning tends to drift by the time you hear it in the wild
- Comment on 2hot2handle 1 day ago:
Okay, but do you not realize how big a problem being discharitable to others is?
The fucking fabric of society is falling apart. I’m sorry women get underestimated, like I do. It’s very annoying, believe me, I deal with it constantly
But you suck it up, listen, and make them feel foolish with your response.
The alternative is a further breakdown of communication. You can’t be primed to see others as bad actors, it’s so incredibly damaging
No one is the villain in their own story. No one knows how smart they are, only if others are higher or lower.
Listening to people tell you things you already know is inevitable. It’s social hygiene. It sucks, but it’s the social contract
- Comment on 2hot2handle 1 day ago:
What happened to Ken M?
- Comment on 2hot2handle 1 day ago:
There genuinely isn’t a word, beyond maybe being patronizing
At least not in common English
- Comment on 2hot2handle 1 day ago:
Counterpoint - explaining things the other party knows is how you get on the same page.
I don’t give a shit about your degree or your gender, it tells me nothing about where you’re at. Most people are fucking idiots who have no idea how anything works, and that includes doctors and probably astronauts
And I say this as someone constantly underestimated. Yeah, it’s annoying to hear things you already know at a basic level. I ask people if they know about things and take them at their word
But this is just normal communication. I don’t know what you know, you don’t know what I know. I probably understand how your mind and body work better than you do, because most people don’t know how their mind and body work beyond a 4th grade level
Explaining things the other person knows is undesirable. It’s also how most people reach the starting line for a dialogue
- Comment on 2hot2handle 1 day ago:
That’s a great way to put it.
- Comment on 2hot2handle 1 day ago:
No he’s making a specific type of joke, but if he were wrong then say that instead
And if you want more of that type of joke, look up not ken m
- Comment on 2hot2handle 2 days ago:
I hate the mansplaining accusation, especially in this context
Fucking let ideas compete. Call him out for being pedantic. If you have to bring gender into nearly any conversation about science, you’ve already lost
Just shame them with better science
- Comment on Call 1-888-GOT-GUNK NOW! 6 days ago:
I’m genuinely disturbed that people would even consider this
We have running water and paper towels, why would you dirty the puppy?!??
- Comment on What If A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This? 2 weeks ago:
I think that’s true, but also missing the point… We’ve hit the peak of AI until the next transformative breakthrough
They’re still fucking magic. They’re really cool and useful, when you use them correctly.
But chat gpt 5 isn’t much better than 3.5. It’s a bit better, it requires less prompt engineering to get good results, it gives more consistent results… But it’s still unreliable. And weirdly likes to talk down to you now, as if I don’t know more than it…I am still the expert here, it’s a light speed intern, it doesn’t know what’s going on
- Comment on US | Net neutrality advocates won’t appeal loss, say they don’t trust Supreme Court 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s why we have to sweep the field with progressives
- Comment on ‘It speaks to me in brain rot’: Theorising ‘brain rot’ as a genre of participation among teenagers 3 weeks ago:
Are teenagers animals we don’t understand to be studied?
Genuinely, yes. They’re the stage where humans stretch boundaries and react to the society they’ve been raised in
Teenagers want autonomy and support, but beyond that? To understand them you have to study constantly emerging culture, constantly changing language, endless subcultures and remixes
- Comment on New Shoes Blues 3 weeks ago:
I guess that’s fair, I’m not into shoes but I could spot running shoes at a glance
- Comment on New Shoes Blues 3 weeks ago:
Come now, there are legitimately shoe designs that can give you 15+% speed increase.
It’s not all intuitive, there’s some pretty wild physics going on in some shoes
- Comment on Anon starts to believe 4 weeks ago:
OMG… Are you saying nature has better solutions than chemical companies?
Blasphemy.
- Comment on Substack’s “Nazi problem” won’t go away after push notification apology 4 weeks ago:
If you haven’t noticed, there’s a lot of platforms both quietly and openly tweaking the algorithm to boost Nazi content
This isn’t just normal algorithm stuff, this is something darker. It goes hand in hand with censorship, the Internet is being shaped into a tool of control right in front of our eyes
- Comment on Anon thinks about elephants 4 weeks ago:
Oh no, he was always a weird psycho and certified idiot. But musk before and meeting Trump in the Whitehouse is night and day
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 4 weeks ago:
No duh. I don’t care if a few people got slammed into the ceiling
I care that two planes almost collided and killed everyone
Why even consider the seat belts? They’re not the real issue here
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think you get what I’m saying.
If you build your house in a flood zone… Well, I feel for you. That sucks, but I’m not going to lose sleep over it
If the state is cutting taxes to incentize building in a flood plain (which is a thing that has happened), in going to be very upset
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 4 weeks ago:
At any time, you can expect at least 2-6 people out of their seats if the fasten seatbelts sign isn’t on. But I don’t really care about that part, shit happens
Planes shouldn’t be dodging each other in the first place… That’s the actual problem here. I don’t blame the pilot either, they avoided a collision, so as far as I’m concerned they did what they had to do
The situation itself never should have happened
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 4 weeks ago:
It applies to everyone - you’ve had an event this year too. I should have said our governments
Air traffic control is just not an individual thing. Not even an individual country thing.
And I’m aware of unexpected turbulence…I just don’t see getting banged about that big a deal. Shit happens. Wrong place, wrong time… Sure, put on your seatbelt when you’re sitting down, but even if you don’t you’re probably not going to die from it
But planes nearly colliding? Actually colliding? That should never happen… It’s a 3D arena, the sky is huge. Planes should neither fall apart nor be anywhere near each other without coordination
We made air travel very safe with old technology, for a long time too. This is a very recent problem, and totally unacceptable
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 4 weeks ago:
Fair, but it has gotten very noticably worse based on Trump’s deregulation catching up on the aircrafts and the latest round of forcing out air traffic control
Also, I didn’t know you could just say “all pronouns”. I like that a lot, I’m really uncomfortable putting myself in boxes and that describes my preferences very succinctly
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’ll keep you from getting slammed on the ceiling…in a situation that should never, ever happen. Which I’d over a midair collision, in which case you’re just screwed no matter what you do
I don’t blame the pilot either, they did their job properly. It was the military that failed to coordinate with the civilian air control tower, which also could have been avoided if the civilian tower had radar
What should you do? Demand better. Not think “I would have been fine, they must’ve been stupid”
You can’t protect against every freak event, what you can do is be one drop in the wave that demands competence from our government
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 4 weeks ago:
And airplanes shouldn’t be in each other’s airspace
I don’t know what you’re trying to say, the airplanes nearly running into each other is the clear problem
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 4 weeks ago:
Which time? In January or in Trump’s last term?
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, but people are still going to be using the bathrooms and such, even if you assume everyone actually obeys the rules
- Comment on Anon thinks about elephants 4 weeks ago:
He was doing really well before he met Trump in the white house for the first time. He was still an idiot, and apparently a Nazi, but he was very quiet about being a Nazi, and he was good at getting people excited for electric cars and space travel
- Comment on do they hate money now for some reason?? 5 weeks ago:
Why do they care? They’re in the debt game, and they get 2% of like half of all purchases too
They won capitalism, they’ve stacked the barriers to entry up high and taken economy activity hostage.
Now a group is pressuring them to reach further with that power… Why not normalize overreaching when they’re being invited to? They’re probably giggling at the opportunity, if it goes badly they can reverse course and blame collective shout
Hell, if this keeps happening they might as well open up a protection racket
- Comment on bad board games 5 weeks ago:
Only countries where the local rich or the government bought up enough that when the real capitol arrived, they said “not for sale”
Oh yeah, and also had a military strong enough to make it too risky to send in the private armies that companies used to have