blackbelt352
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- Comment on We were there monkeys all along 54 minutes ago:
Not just hamlet but the entire body of works accredited to Shakespeare
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 2 weeks ago:
Control of the house, senate, presidency and Judiciary.
- Comment on Ahoy me hearties 4 weeks ago:
Def email the researchers, so many of them would gladly give you access to their research papers because they also hate the science publishing industry.
- Comment on This moon decoration my wife got 1 month ago:
Then the half eclipse would be wrong, 50% eclipse wouldn’t be a straight line across the diameter. An eclipse is two circles intersecting, not shadow sweeping across a sphere.
- Comment on Effort require Effort 1 month ago:
Oh I get it, you’re either just a moron, or your being purposefully dense and wasting all of our time responding to your drivel.
- Comment on Effort require Effort 1 month ago:
That sounds a lot like the k-8 class I grew up with from 1999 to 2007. We were rowdy, constantly got in trouble, constantly interrupting class. We got in trouble so often that for our 8th grade year we lost both our New York and Washington DC field trips. Ours is the only class that either of those trips were taken away. Substitute teachers always reported back horror stories of what we did while the teacher was away. Desks and seat assignments were constantly moved around to separate the disruptive problem groups to little success.
- Comment on Effort require Effort 1 month ago:
I’ll admit I certainly came off a bit more sarcastic than I was intending, and it’s been a good while since I’ve been in grade school, but times of entire classes of students just fully misbehaving have existed before and will likely exist again. I remember even back in the early to mid 2000s the class I was in caused a lot of major problems for my teachers throughout the years to the point that in our 8th grade year, our class was the only one in in years to lose the privilege of going on our New York and Washington DC school trips and the only one in years after to lose those class trips.
Many of the kids were flat out obnoxious jerks and we didn’t have an excuse of “we had multiple years of virtual learning to stunt our development” to lean on.
Believe me I feel sympathy for these kids going through one of the many recent once-in-a-lifetime mass human tragedy events. They’re in a tough circumstance, with teachers trying to do their best in a criminally underfunded education system, after living through the collective trauma that was the pandemic
My intention, albeit sarcastically, was pointing out that our hard wired desire to be social is generally a good thing and what has given us a huge advantage over other creatures. For as much as teachers want to and do make a huge difference in kids lives, the overarching structure is not actually geared to help teachers do their jobs best. There is so much administrative bloat and inefficiency and funding that goes to the top of the structure that gets in the way of teachers being able to focus on teaching their students and provide them with the tools and material necessary to educated kids.
- Comment on Effort require Effort 1 month ago:
Shocking that the offspring of a species that became the dominant species on this planet exactly because we evolved nearly effortless communication and social traits would be included to be social with other people.
Not saying you’re a bad teacher, you just fighting an uphill battle against our natural instinct to be social creatures in an education system that does everything it can to ignore that kids generally do like and actuall do need to be social for healthy development.
- Comment on I always get them confused. 1 month ago:
Might want to qualify that as if there’s a magic/ special sword.
- Comment on I always get them confused. 1 month ago:
Counter point Star Wars. Magic powers, magic swords, rescuing princesses, chosen one prophesies.
- Comment on I don't understand why underbaked borderline raw cookies are such a popular trend. 1 month ago:
Yup the flour is very likely to contain e coli. The eggs are still a risk with salmonella but the e coli is a much greater and more potent risk
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Terrorism is actually a pretty simple but specific definition. Terrorists use unlawful violence and threats of violence to influence the government or an international governmental organisation, or to intimidate the public. They do this in pursuit of a political, religious, racial or ideological cause.
It doesn’t take much money or many resources to engage in violence or even make threats. Certainly having money and resources at your disposal make you more effective but it’s a rather low but still specific bar to cross to be considered a terrorist.
- Comment on Could I patent harmful technology to prevent it from being put on the market? 2 months ago:
If you’re not going to take the effort type “can a government use patents” into Google and look at the top link. It took me less than a minute to find that government using a patent is just baked into the patent system. There’s not additional law around it. So it might be better to go the WD 40 route and never actually file a patent to the formula to avoid sharing the formula publicly.
- Comment on Could I patent harmful technology to prevent it from being put on the market? 2 months ago:
That’s… not how eminent domain works…? Like it’s scope only applied to stuff like building sidewalks, roads, bridges, and other infrastructure.
- Comment on Could I patent harmful technology to prevent it from being put on the market? 2 months ago:
Because it’s a lot easier for Disney to churn out mickey mouse cartoons than it is for General Electric to come up with an entirely new rotating joint for the helicopter mounted motorized minigun
- Comment on I just want to make cookies :( 2 months ago:
For using volume measurements (weighs are still superior tho) flour shouldn’t be packed in but spooned into the measuring device and leveled with the back of a knife but brown sugar should be packed into the measuring device.
In recipes, they’ll call for a heaped teaspoon or tablespoon, everything else is implied to be leveled, especially leavening agents like baking powder/soda. There’s also an understanding that certain things don’t need as much precision, like adding in flavoring extracts.
- Comment on I'm so sorry 2 months ago:
Why must you bestow this cursed knowledge upon us?
- Comment on Never store gerbils up your ass, we went over this! 2 months ago:
You’re asking an age old question about humanity that there is no answer beyond “humans are horny motherfuckers.”
- Comment on Never store gerbils up your ass, we went over this! 2 months ago:
There’s a lot more that Buttplug.io supports. It’s an entire open source framework that others can build stuff onto to control sex toys. As for why these? Eh why not? Single player games don’t exactly require the consent of other players if you’re getting your rocks off to game controlled sex toys, and multi-player games should only be used if you do actually have consent.
Specifically for ultrakill’s officially supported mod, that’s just the kind of thing they’d do. They also made body pillow covers of Gabriel and V1 as official merch. And yes they are in those kinds of poses.
- Comment on Never store gerbils up your ass, we went over this! 2 months ago:
Yup and Ultrakill has an officially released mod that integrates with Buttplug.io.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
You’re a little confused but you got the right spirit, this is surplus value extraction. Wage theft is simply a company refusing to pay contractually agreed upon wages for performed labor.
I agree with the message but we have to use our words carefully and correctly, so that definitions of these don’t become exceedingly broad and useless.
- Comment on Roblox gets banned indefinitely in Turkey over “child exploitation” 3 months ago:
The video is an explanation, none of us want to regurgitate multiple 30-45 minute videos that already explain exactly what your asking.
- Comment on We all know it's true 4 months ago:
That’s the way it is with every platform, you only have a comparatively small proportion of people who do a huge share of the posting.
Reddit has the advantage of being absolutely massive that the power posters is also still a huge number. I’d imagine even the biggest of entire Lemmy instances is smaller than some of the major subreddits, which personally I’m fine with. This emmy instance isn’t some major corporation beholden to growing value for shareholders at all costs, but on the other end it still doesn’t mean the admins can do everything without monetary or labor support from us.
- Comment on Energy drink can used for scale, yet fruit used as unit of measurement 5 months ago:
It’s not that it’s hard to learn, it’s that we don’t have a strong intuition. It’s not that difficult to know there are 12 inches in a foot and 3 feet in a yard or that metric is entirely based around factos of 10. But its the intuition of what an inch looks like, what a pound feels like to hold in you hand. Most people wouldn’t be able to pick up an object and say, “that weighs about a pound” or look at an object and say “that’s about 3 feet long” but a lot of people do have an intuition what an energy drink can looks and feels like and can imagine getting hit by one, a lot of people have picked up a pineapple at the grocery story, people have the intuition of how big a football field is or how big a city bus is.
- Comment on Energy drink can used for scale, yet fruit used as unit of measurement 5 months ago:
We do such a shit job at teaching our own actual measuring system that nobody has an intuition what a pound feels like, what an inch and a foot look like and how to scale those up. So we resort to objects and comparisons instead of actual measurements.
- Comment on Destiny 2: The Final Shape | Launch Trailer 5 months ago:
Yeah that’s been a thing since the Witness was first revealed in With Queen just over 2 years ago.
- Comment on If all humans died, when would the last light go out? 5 months ago:
Depends, a lot of satellites are close enough to Earth that there’s still barely enough atmosphere to cause drag and deorbit the satellites given enough time, and they all need some flavor of orbital maintenance. Although there are the various probes we’ve sent out and the rovers too, possibly with some flavor of blinky light on them.
- Comment on Just catching up now, but apparently this is the source material for most Generation A cultural milieu. 5 months ago:
Basically the skibidi toilets take over and start a war in a city, the cameramen form a resistance group to fight against the skibidi toilets. Both sides keep escalating coming up with new counters to gain the upper hand. The cameramen also team up with speakermen and the tv people in their fight against the skibidi toilets.
- Comment on Overthrow a Government and Install a Puppet Dictator? The CIA will do it for Bananas! 5 months ago:
Because our perception of ninja is based around kabuki theater and not historical accuracy. Kabuki theater stage hands were always dressed in black to blend into the background. When an ninja assassination would happen in a show, the “stage hand” would do the assassination because the audience knows to kinda ignore the stage hands during the production.
IRL ninja would just look like normal people, waiting for the right opportunity to strike at someone.
- Comment on Overthrow a Government and Install a Puppet Dictator? The CIA will do it for Bananas! 5 months ago:
I see it as they’re like master painters, just because you can see their brush strokes on the canvas, doesn’t mean it wasn’t masterfully done.
The CIA wants people to know what they’ve done but without giving away what they’re doing now and that’s what the CIA is really good at. It’s why things like Trump taking the classified documents with him to Mar a Lago was such a huge deal, because they contained secrets that are still in use today and has led to a number of our own agents getting captured or killed.