Chais
@Chais@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’ 2 days ago:
I’ve learned to be highly skeptical patriotism in general, because it’s a fertile breeding ground for racism and fascism.
My reasoning being that, except in very few cases, those flying the flag had no hand in them being whatever nationality they are flying the flag of. They were simply born there. Thus any pride they take in the accomplishments of that nation is completely unearned, again with very few exceptions.
This unearned pride often leads to them taking personal offence at critique of “their” nation, even if it’s warranted.
Additionally their perception of what that nation is and represents is often anchored in the past, in the best case, or in euphemised half-truths and outright fabrications, in the worst case. This results in them acting as either a conservative force, in that best case, or start slipping into fascism. Because that’s what happens when you believe your country is perfect, can do no wrong and everything would be much better if everyone were just like you. - Comment on NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’ 2 days ago:
Weren’t they? If I see someone flying a German or Bavarian flag I automatically assume they’re racists.
- Comment on The Confederacy (or whatever) 2 days ago:
Right? He’s not even in his suit!
- Comment on Cope 1 week ago:
What a weird thing to confess. And in public, no less.
- Comment on The 1980s summed up in a single photo. 2 weeks ago:
And nothing of value was lost.
- Comment on Every time! 4 weeks ago:
Maybe it’s because it boots as fast as Windows wakes up?
- Comment on Caption this. 5 weeks ago:
4D graphs? Who cane up with this legibility nightmare?
- Comment on No thanks 1 month ago:
1.1.1970
- Comment on I always believe what the people around me believe. Is that truth or what? 2 years ago:
Not quite. The truth is what the facts are based on.
Take the speed of light in vacuum, for example. We don’t know its true value. We have measured it repeatedly, to high precision, using various different methods. Those measurements are or facts. Based on those facts we estimate the speed of light in vacuum to be 299,792,458 m/s. We are quite confident that this value is at least very close to the truth, sure to how many measurements we made and how close they’re bunched together.
But if in the future more precise measurements suggest that it’s in fact closer to 299,792,458.135 m/s then we’ll learn that we’ve been less correct before. - Comment on 2023 Model 2 years ago:
Gesundheit
- Comment on I always believe what the people around me believe. Is that truth or what? 2 years ago:
When the model in your head mirrors the observation. That’s truth.
That conclusion is unsupported. Only the facts are truth.
When your mental model matches your observations and makes accurate predictions about expected values for observations that indicates that your model is at least close to the truth.However if you control the observations, you have to be careful not to introduce a bias. For example you might be tempted not to make certain observations that would falsify your model. Or you might be tempted to not make observations that would require you to expand your model. But in both cases you admit your model doesn’t match reality and what good is it at that point?
- Comment on I always believe what the people around me believe. Is that truth or what? 2 years ago:
As I said, it depends on how you define truth. If it’s enough that people agree with you, your distance from the generally accepted truth can vary widely, depending on the donor of people you base it on. The fact that people agree with you didn’t make something true on its own.
Effectively the question is: How reproducible do you want your truth to be?
If you only need your buddy to come to a similar truth you may not need to argue that much. But to convince a perfect stranger you will probably have to make your case properly. How did you arrive at your truth? Which conformable facts do you base it on? Which predictions does your claimed truth make, that might validate it? - Comment on I always believe what the people around me believe. Is that truth or what? 2 years ago:
That depends on how those people determined their beliefs to be true. And how you define truth.
- Comment on a simple misunderstanding 2 years ago:
According to Wikipedia:
The name pomegranate derives from medieval Latin pōmum “apple” and grānātum “seeded”.[7] Possibly stemming from the old French word for the fruit, pomme-grenade, the pomegranate was known in early English as “apple of Grenada”
- Comment on HBO Max is removing features from my plan without reducing my price. 2 years ago:
Yarr harr fiddle de-dee…
- Comment on Intel's New GPU Drivers Boost Performance Up To 750% in DX11, 53% in DX12 2 years ago:
Had that experience with Borderlands 3.
- Comment on Intel's New GPU Drivers Boost Performance Up To 750% in DX11, 53% in DX12 2 years ago:
On Windows you may be right. A buddy I game with regularly has had trouble with DX12 games crashing randomly.
On Linux they run just fine and frequently perform better than DX11 on Linux or DX12 on Windows. - Comment on JK Rowling prefers two years in jail over using correct pronouns 2 years ago:
How so?
- Comment on JK Rowling prefers two years in jail over using correct pronouns 2 years ago:
It’s more that I’m giving her a taste of her own medicine. She doesn’t extend this basic courtesy to people she disagrees with, so why should anyone give it to her?
- Comment on JK Rowling prefers two years in jail over using correct pronouns 2 years ago:
He doesn’t.
- Comment on Think anyone would notice? 2 years ago:
I guess with the lower temperature they’d be less of a threat.
- Comment on new adaptor just dropped 2 years ago:
And it will be just as useful as without that adapter.
- Comment on Why do we count sheep before bed? 2 years ago:
It’s something to occupy your mind that doesn’t require a lot of attention but still prevents it from wandering.
- Comment on When does the future begin? 2 years ago:
Always right now.
- Comment on You must be high-leveled to wield a legendary weapon such as this. 2 years ago:
This isn’t for mall-ninjas, though. It’s for the modern DIY-Samurai.
- Comment on Oracle customer support solved another problem 2 years ago:
Classic.
Status: closed Resolution: wontfix
- Comment on Unity Silently Deletes GitHub Repo That Tracks Terms of Service Changes 2 years ago:
Cowards.
- Comment on Develop with Cocoa for Apple devices without using Objective-C 2 years ago:
No
- Comment on Shirley you cant be serious! 2 years ago:
Well, duh. I know. But the original joke works because it exchanges “surely” for the homophone “Shirley.” With “Shirley” already in the title I can’t do that, so swapping it for the not-quite-homophone “surly” seemed like the next best choice.
- Comment on Shirley you cant be serious! 2 years ago:
I am serious. And don’t call me surly.