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- Comment on Flipper!! 1 day ago:
Am scientist (not in life sciences). If someone showed me this image, I’d have absolutely no idea what I’m looking at. So that’s one for the 10%, I guess.
- Comment on Could we possibly create a new website/software combining mastodon and piefed ? 3 days ago:
As long as you don’t reinvent the protocol
- Comment on If I have PMOS would I be allowed to participate in the Olympics? 5 days ago:
That would make sense if you were an actual athlete looking to compete in the Olympics, but that’s not the situation that OP is in.
- Comment on Another redundant app 1 week ago:
Who is better suited to know how someone can better present themselves than those having the experience of being presented to?
If one should not do the better thing, then I don’t know what “better” means.
Maybe it’s clearer if I use the same vocabulary as you:
So as a Star Trek fan,
I shouldit’s better if I dress up as a Star Wars fan to please the Star Wars fans looking for Star Trek fans posting as Star Wars fans?
If you care about that, then go do so. If not, then don’t.
That’s the entire point. I know what I want. You don’t know that about me. All you can know is what you want.
- Comment on Another redundant app 1 week ago:
So as a Star Trek fan, I should dress up as a Star Wars fan to please the Star Wars fans looking for Star Trek fans posting as Star Wars fans? Regardless of my desire to pretend to be a Star Wars fan and get into all the interactions that entails? I don’t know if you see yet why people find this objectionable.
- Comment on Another redundant app 1 week ago:
So they would have a better experience encountering a Star Trek fan posing as a Star Wars fan?
- Comment on Another redundant app 1 week ago:
So if I go out wearing a Star Trek and encounter someone who wants to meet a Star Wars fan, then I’m in the wrong for choosing that shirt?
- Comment on Do you stay on vpn 24/7 or turn it on whenever you need it? 1 week ago:
If a website loads with a VPN, then it doesn’t exist?
or
If a website loads without a VPN, then it doesn’t exist?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
My main machine still runs Linux off a HDD and it’s doing perfectly fine.
- Comment on Marriage 1 week ago:
Amazing how we all just collectively forgot that Photoshop was a thing.
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 2 weeks ago:
When is freedom of speech ever not equivalent to freedom of consequences from said speech?
- Comment on Hail corporate (they did it tho) 3 weeks ago:
Most people would understand “profit” to mean the net flow of money, not value. If you redefine it this way, then you can no longer look at the “profit” line of a company’s sheets and say that they’re stealing because the number is positive.
- Comment on Hail corporate (they did it tho) 3 weeks ago:
Profit can also be the value of the labour you put into something. If you buy wood, build a table, then sell it for more than the value of the wood, then that profit is the value of your labour.
- Comment on What if programmers rewrote the English language? 3 weeks ago:
And we’re constantly doing this. If a word is used a lot and the word is long, we’re going to shorten it.
- Comment on If a person were paranoid about a potential food shortage in the next two to three years, what should they stock up on now? 3 weeks ago:
That will last the average adult about 20 days, and you’ll probably be constantly feeling hungry during that time. Adding a sack of dry beans would make a huge difference.
- Comment on If a person were paranoid about a potential food shortage in the next two to three years, what should they stock up on now? 3 weeks ago:
Vitamins degrade over time. You’ll want to make sure that what you get will actually last for the period of time when you intend to use them.
- Comment on We're so back 3 weeks ago:
The bar for a lot of us is also at “about to lose a limb from infection”. The only difference is that we don’t get a hospital bill to go with that visit.
- Comment on She only wanted the ring bros 1 month ago:
This is why both parents should get parental leave. I just took care of all the nights and slept through half the day. Neither of us had to deal with sleep deprivation.
- Comment on Whats a good etiquette to show you are doing a U turn in a left turn, so the cars behind you know? 1 month ago:
I don’t understand the problem with the car in front doing a U-turn. How does that increase the probability of rear-ending or missing a light? Even if it were a regular turn, some people turn faster and some slower, some people take longer to respond to a light change, and some wait for a larger clearance in oncoming traffic before turning. Whatever they decide to do, you just follow their lead.
- Comment on Random Choice in Newcomb's Paradox 1 month ago:
And you’re saying that those two things are somehow contradictory? Because if so, I don’t see how. If this super intelligent computer knows how you’re going to choose ahead of time, then it must also know how the coin is going to land ahead of time.
- Comment on Random Choice in Newcomb's Paradox 1 month ago:
I don’t know what you’re getting at. Did I say something to suggest I misunderstood this part?
- Comment on Random Choice in Newcomb's Paradox 1 month ago:
This is a hypothetical where a human beings actions can all be predicted with high accuracy. Your actions are constantly being influenced by the inputs you receive, so in order to predict your behavior, you’d also need to predict everything you’re going to be experiencing. This necessarily includes the results of that coin flip and the Geiger counter readings.
- Comment on The person who mounted a spice rack into the fucking studs so a fridge won't fit there 1 month ago:
Having a shitty day-to-day life tends to make minor inconveniences extra infuriating, and vice versa.
- Comment on Has society or scientists ever solved definitively the Chicken and the Egg theory? Or is it just like a whose on first thing? 1 month ago:
By the well ordering theorem, no matter what you choose as your definition of “chicken”, there must be a first.
- Comment on When if ever did "Throw Money at The Problem:" actually work? Instead of being about 75 percent useless? 2 months ago:
Any problem that requires active work to solve will benefit from having money thrown at it.
- Comment on When if ever did "Throw Money at The Problem:" actually work? Instead of being about 75 percent useless? 2 months ago:
That must be why they need so much more money than the rest of us.
- Comment on Star Wars and Jurassic Park music composer John Williams, aged 94 2 months ago:
I don’t drink coffee, my breakfast is usually a meal replacement shake, and I work from home on most days. I wonder what long series of extremely improbable events would have to happen for me to end up owning any coffee at all and then somehow having it end up in my shaker bottle while I’m on route from the kitchen to my office.
- Comment on I've been waiting for this for a long time. 2 months ago:
That falls into the “not purchase” category. Regardless, their point still stands. If it’s not worth it for you at that price and you still want to play it, you might as well pirate it now because the price isn’t changing.
- Comment on Can you also do this with languages that use the Latin Alphabet? 2 months ago:
There’s “honey bee” if you want to specify that you’re talking about the type of bees that produce honey, and there’s “bee honey” for the honey they produce, as opposed to the kind made by wasps.
- Comment on Is 71° F (21° C) the ideal weather to wear shorts? 2 months ago:
No, it’s exactly 21.00⁰C. It’s like a bell curve. Once you go above or below that, it’s back to pants.