netvor
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- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Man I’m 45 and I don’t blame the youth for any problems now. But maybe I’m just charging my blame lasers so that I can go even harder when I’m 65. Like, “when I was younger I never blamed the youths for problems but NOW, with YOU it’s justified!”.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 2 weeks ago:
Not acting “for free” does not mean zero-sum game.
I am no expert but I don’t think nations need to (or do, in general) operate on a zero-sum game. Actions can benefit both sides.
- Comment on What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence? 2 weeks ago:
I call it a (wo…)manmade organised dogmatic religion. Sure, it might be just with a member of one (which is kinda cool and all and probably makes the organizing part a little bit easier) but it’s still kind of the same thing…
But seriously, it really depends on the details on such belief. It might be anything from harmless cope to superstition to delusion to paranoia. Or a first brave step in escaping a cult–which I would genuinely applaud.
- Comment on What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence? 2 weeks ago:
It loosely reminds everyone of everything because “other planes of existence” is an all-encompassing meaningless term.
Just about every religion or fiction fits this, because they can–and do-- say “oh but it’s in oThEr pLaNeS oF eXiStEnCe!”. Which is a silly excuse because just about only concrete property that “other plane of existence” implies is that things on beings on it can’t affect things or beings on this plane of existence, so any theory (as in “has to make useful, verifiable predictions”) involving interactions between planes of existence is kind of dead on arrival.
- Comment on When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick? 2 weeks ago:
Someone has to teach those little gangstas how extortion is done.
Well at least you tried…
- Comment on When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick? 2 weeks ago:
I see, So that’s what the jack-o-lanterns are for?
So they are actually not lanterns but temporary toilets, but then someone got an idea to put candles in them so that it at least makes the “trick” part kind of uncomfortable. Right?
- Comment on I have no idea what this is about 2 weeks ago:
OT, but the comment under the video is pure gold:
“Sharks have a similar metaphor, ‘swam under the Fonzie’.”
- Comment on When washing, should I turn garments inside out? 2 weeks ago:
I usually dry inside and I make sure to turn stuff inside out before hanging it on the rack but I do it because I believe it dries better when things like pockets can be stretched out.
UV is a great point, I never realized that.
- Comment on When washing, should I turn garments inside out? 2 weeks ago:
So it looks like I’ve been doing it all wrong all the time. Especially with hoodies, there’s always a t-shirt under them, so the “dirtier” side of the hoodie is more likely to be the outside.
With jeans it’s kind of the same, assuming not too much sweating (and proper underwear turnaround).
- Comment on When washing, should I turn garments inside out? 2 weeks ago:
Just about the only thing I remember was that my mom always said that one should zip them up and not leave the zipper open – specifically so that it does not clank around and perhaps scratch the washing machine drum or get its tiny teeth brush and the moving part tangled with other, softer garments.
Turning the hoodie inside out might mitigate that a little bit more, but not much…
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to [deleted] | 28 comments
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 2 weeks ago:
honestly with drawings like that I half expected at least one panel be involving bloodletting
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 2 weeks ago:
wow, so Trump is doing “Liberatem resigno” (“I give up my freedom”) but with rubber shackles.
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 2 weeks ago:
Still, maybe if Zucc did it people would actually find him cool.
(“Cool” as in, like an average politician, which is still way cooler than he is now.)
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 2 weeks ago:
LOL that’s why I will never be a politician. I would be so frustrated by not being allowed to touch my face! The irony of it would just overwhelm me.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 1 month ago:
Too bad we can’t really do that with movies & series. Cinema aside, I basically start at step 4.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 1 month ago:
In order of preference:
- buy flac directly from the label
- buy flac on Bandcamp (or equivalent, although i’m barely aware of any real alternatives)
- buy CD and rip it to flac
- despair
- try to fight it
- give up and get it via torrent.
Streaming services are evil and i wish for them to fail.…but more seriously – I get why streaming services exist. Although I will almost certainly will never use one in my life, in principle it’s fine, I get the point. When I’m online I’m actually OK to stream from an indie radio (eg. soma.fm) or from a RSS based podcast player (eg. Antenna).The problem i have is that, AFAIK, the business models are almost always abusive and hostile to both user and the artist. Some kind of federated system could work better, but I’m not sure it’s doable. As it is, I’m afraid this middle man model just won’t ever work properly without heavy regulation – which is kind of a problem in the globalized world.
- Comment on Who benefits from the "14 Min Read" estimates popping everywhere? 10 months ago:
Or…
…or in 30? That’s how it would work for me since I’m a very slow (distracted!) reader.
I get the point, though. Thanks.
- Comment on Who benefits from the "14 Min Read" estimates popping everywhere? 10 months ago:
Maybe I’m more like a bovine when it comes to digesting.
I graze on stuff, then later I will regurgitate it and slowly chew and process it again. (…and sometimes again, etc… until I suddenly realize that I’ve learned something…) The grazing is separate process, and my greed makes it already unpredictable enough. (The thing with Internet meadows is, there’s always another meadow nearby.)
- Comment on Who benefits from the "14 Min Read" estimates popping everywhere? 10 months ago:
Yeah I have bad attention span but all that means is that even if the article is 5 minute I will be googling every other word and and opening every other link, and THAT’s far more significant than the length of the article.
After all, there’s a reason I did not end up reading the original “14 min article” (which by the way got rated almost an hour by Firefox reader mode, go figure) and went on to post this… :D
- Comment on Who benefits from the "14 Min Read" estimates popping everywhere? 10 months ago:
How does the estimate help you decide?
I don’t get it. If I’m interested in something, I’m interested in it regardless of the length of an article, right?
I mean, maybe I’m not interested in all of it, but then I can just spend, say, 30 seconds evaluating whether the article is any good and whether it spends a paragraph or two on the very topic I’m curious about. Length of the article does not have much bearing on that, it’s more about whether I know the terms I’m looking for and can spot them. (Of course, massive length may hint I will spend more time sifting through, but peeking at scrollbar is enough to realize that.)
If the thing I’m interested in is buried in a massive wall of text, so what? I can ignore the rest of the article as much as I can ignore the rest of the blog (or the internet…)
The real unpredictable thing for me is always that even if I’m looking for topic X, I might actually need to learn about W first, and often I’m underestimating the relevancy of W and its own depth. So I could spend 1 minute reading about X but still find myself unable to use the knowledge. That’s regardless of whether the knowledge was in a 1h long article or 10 min.
- Submitted 10 months ago to [deleted] | 27 comments
- Comment on Anon doesn't wash 10 months ago:
Me
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
raising a child is also work to be valued (which you benefitted from yourself, btw).
This.
And it’s not a binary thing, it’s a scale. Kids who are supported by emotionally stable parents who are able to spend their time together are more likely to succeed in life than kids who are left to their own devices and end up picking up all sorts of insecurities due to the parent being sort of a nerve wreck, and them eventually feeling like a burden all the time.
I will happily support my colleague spending more of his time with his daughters, because then when I’m old, I have higher chance that those daughters being confident, nice and educated adult people who can produce economical value. Only then, part of that value can come back to me in various forms of support, whether it’s pension, better social services or just more options. (Unless they move to another country – but then again, that depends on the relative quality of life in this country, which in turn boils down to the same principle.)
Now, maybe I’m a nice guy here, but none of the above logic requires me to be nice. I could be a totally selfish asshole and still the position works out the same.
- Comment on Happy birthday, peon 11 months ago:
Somehow this room gives me Theme Hospital vibes which I never wanted to admit, hadn’t I seen the real version. (Now I understand why my doctors were always depressed.)
- Comment on Happy birthday, peon 11 months ago:
The more I look into the high-res picture, the more mildly bleak details I notice.
- Torn plastic wrapping of tiny plastic bottles on the chipboard counter.
- His sleeve is mildly dirty.
- The shoes on the shelf seem awkward to access over the chair.
- The whiteboard has permanently marked spots “use me to write” and “use me to clean”, both empty.
- That “pizza” is barely an oversized muffin.
- Fire prohibited.
- The mirror is pretty dirty.
- Corner of the steel cabinet is a bit bent.
- The badly attached sheet of paper hanging from the whiteboard; you can’t read anything.
- On the top shelf of the cupboard, something is kinda balancing there.
- Cheap plates not perfectly aligned.
- ROTATE:
- ROTATE
- ROTATE
- ROTATE
- The pedal on the trash bin is weirdly bent.
Not that any of this really matters, though.
- Comment on Happy birthday, peon 11 months ago:
Most commenters here don’t appreciate how sad the image is: the headset is playing some corporate prefabricated Happy Birthday message, starting and ending with “Loving your work.” company motto accompanied with nothingmusic in background.
- Comment on how badly could a pelican fuck me up in a fight? 11 months ago:
In other words, the beak is a “Short Sword of poison +1”?
- Comment on Happy birthday, peon 11 months ago:
Who needs table when you are truly “Loving your work.”.
- Comment on I hope you don't have any plans this evening. 1 year ago:
RTFB