PapaStevesy
@PapaStevesy@midwest.social
- Comment on Depending on how you count 5 months ago:
I think they were joking
- Comment on Car 6 months ago:
What “slam” though? Why not just press the clutch down? I’ve driven manuals before and definitely didn’t have to do any slamming of the pedals, it worked great.
- Comment on All this talk of AI in our smartphones reminds me of this classic short story. iBrain. Just as insightful today as it was back then. 6 months ago:
Yes! He was so right about it all.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 7 months ago:
Exactly, it doesn’t belong to the offspring, that’s why I said it is a proto-chicken’s egg. It belongs to the ones that made it and raised it. But we know the contents because it’s a preset hypothetical in which the egg hatches and it has a chicken in it. So it’s a chicken egg that belongs to proto-chickens.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 7 months ago:
I just don’t get why you’re so hung up on the potentiality of an unhatched egg when that has nothing to do with the scenario. The egg in the scenario hatches and it has a chicken in it. That’s the whole point of the scenario.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 7 months ago:
Yeah, we were necessarily ignoring the obvious evolutionary issues inherent in the chicken-and-egg scenario, since it very clearly was not one egg-laying instance that created a new species. I know I made reference to as much somewhere in the thread, it seemed like a waste of time to restate it every comment. I’m fairly certain we were on the same page about that. Cool wall though!
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 7 months ago:
OK, think of it like this instead. Obviously fuck accuracy, for ease we’ll call them cavepeople. Two different cavepeople that are genetically distinct from humans have sex, resulting in a genetically human fetus. That doesn’t change the cavempeople into humans, they’re still genetically different. It’s a caveperson’s fetus, but it’s a human fetus. Same thing with the egg. Genetically, the thing inside is a chicken and, genetically, the things that made the egg are not.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 7 months ago:
We’re not talking about eggs laid by chickens, we’re talking about eggs laid by the things that weren’t quite chickens, but the eggs of which contain chickens, due to a novel DNA combination.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 7 months ago:
No, if a chicken could hatch out of it, regardless of whether or not it actually did, it’s a chicken egg. Nothing else could hatch out of it and it didn’t somehow cease to have been an egg just because it doesn’t hatch.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 7 months ago:
Yes, that’s the driving force of evolution.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 7 months ago:
No it wouldn’t. If we’re going to talk about the creation of chickens as happening at a single instance of egg-laying, the two progenitors of said first chicken would be proto-chickens whose DNA combined in the fertilized egg to make, for the first time ever, a chicken. Yes, it’s a chicken egg, because it contains a chicken, but it’s also a proto-chicken’s egg because it wasn’t laid by a full chicken. It couldn’t have been, they didn’t exist yet.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 7 months ago:
Incorrect, a “chicken’s egg” would be an egg in the possession of a chicken, which would be the egg a chicken lays. The “first chicken” did not hatch out of an egg laid by a chicken because they didn’t exist.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 7 months ago:
It’s an egg that will hatch into a chicken, since the “first” chicken must have hatched out of an egg that was laid and fertilized by two “non-chickens” whose DNA combined together to make a full-blown chicken. Of course it wasn’t actually just one egg, but really, no matter how you think about it, the egg came first.
- Comment on Anon looks up Danish cuisine 7 months ago:
Watch the video above, deviling would be quite easy actually.
- Comment on Never make the mistake of visiting a community for your favorite podcasts 7 months ago:
Yeah, definitely not what I would call a niche podcast. I mean, I guess it is niche, but I also guess that when I said “niche” before, I really meant “small listenership”. Then people are pretty much just always cool!
- Comment on Never make the mistake of visiting a community for your favorite podcasts 7 months ago:
Idk about that, I miss my niche podcast subreddits, it’s just one big quote-fest.
- Comment on Oddly specific question 7 months ago:
“What do you fear?” is not very specific, is there another question the title is supposed to be referring to?
- Comment on If a universal basic income started today with the stipulation that you had to put 40 hrs/wk towards making the world a better place or solving societal problems, how would you spend your time? 7 months ago:
I think I’d take a few years and destroy all the “grass” lawns in the country, replacing them with native plants that don’t need manual watering or chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Then I’d destroy a lot of vehicle infrastructure and replace it with high-speed train, bike, and pedestrian infrastructure. Then I’d probably just jerk off and go to concerts for the rest of my life.
- Comment on Whoops 8 months ago:
Come in, it’s pretty simple… machine. Fuck.
- Comment on Feels like Apple is more about fashion then tech IMO 8 months ago:
Always has been, is this news to people?
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
My point was to answer your question, which I did. What’s your point here?
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
And it not being “objectively true” doesn’t mean I care! Look friend, I’m obviously not going to go around trying to use “my version” of words I’ve ironically redefined for a “snarky” Internet comment, no one else would even understand it. But if all you post about is missile guidance systems and gun manufacturers, I’ll call you a tankie in my head and laugh. At least something about it will be funny then (seriously, I just haven’t seen one funny/comprehendable meme in that community, so I just assume they’re all nut jobs).
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I mean, I guess I thought if it was satire, it would be funny. It seems like you need very specific, detailed knowledge of military minutiae for any of the jokes to land, which would ostensibly come from having a passion for said minutiae.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I actually can, that’s the beauty of language! It doesn’t mean it has to change for you or anyone else, but every word is a symbol, and every symbol is subjective to the person using it. Obviously I know the historical context of the word, but that doesn’t stop present day experiences from affecting those symbols in my mind. Unfortunately you can’t control how I define or use a word, as much as you’d like to. If you love guns and war and organized mass murder, you’re a tankie in my book.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Every time I open an NCD meme, it has a gun or a tank or a military drone or some other implement of murder and destruction. I’ve never seen one of these supposed genocide-defending “communists” in 20+ plus years on the Internet, so I repurposed the term to make more sense.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Like I said, I know what you all use it to mean and the historical context of the term, but language evolves, I just applied it more logically and obviously. Mine doesn’t need historical context, a tankie is someone who likes tanks, jet fighters, battleships, trebuchets, etc. You know, large-scale murder fanbois. Like, yeah the hexbear memes are cringey and largely illogical, but half of them are about lgbt+ stuff or just nothing at all. The NCD memes are literally all about war. The whole basis of socialism is striving towards a society where everyone has what they need, not striving towards a society where everyone has a home-defense AK.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
From my experience, “tanky” just means socialist/communist, which is an obviously idiotic, reductivist generalization. Based on actual reality, I don’t know a group of people it makes more sense to call tankies than the NCD crowd.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
From the “memes” I’ve seen there, it’s just a bunch of bootlicking gun nuts and military fanbois. They’re the actual, literal tankies.
- Comment on I hope someone figures out what's wrong with me to 8 months ago:
To what?
- Comment on Why bag the hydrant? 8 months ago:
Why wouldn’t they make the whole thing red?