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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get why producers see prequels as a safe haven, they nearly always end up trashing decades-old canon, instead of adding to it.

  Enterprise was one of the exceptions, it fit nicely with established canon, and added to it gracefully.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except blue isn’t scary anymore after the Andorians. I can only fathom that they thought brown Klingons look like black Klingons and people will think that’s racist.

  Oh how I wish people stopped separating humans in races and just stopped thinking in races and colors at all.

  “There is only one race: the human race” - Robert Sobukwe, South African anti-apartheid activist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Taped animals were the most interesting of the set.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anting⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be funny it it weren’t so sad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those are like the most superficial layer of propaganda. The real danger of propaganda is that it doesn’t look like it, it looks like other regular people making you support their interests without you realizing it.

  Do you like engines? Do you dislike electric vehicles? Do you like guns? If so, when and where did those ideas come from? You weren’t born with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the real problem is, people don’t know how to manage their emotions, and they end up swaying them left and right.

  Stop thinking with with your gut, take a pause to analyze your body response to emotions. Are you sweating? Are you afraid or is it actually warm? If you’re afraid, what specifically do you fear? Etc.

  Propaganda, echo chambers, peer pressure, and even vicious cycles of self-pity, anger, sadness…will have a weaker hold on you.

  Feel, but don’t forget to think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Stock Price Reaches 'Death Cross' Status⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always suspected these are attempts at stock manipulation. Release scary news, make the stock go down, buy, stock rebounds quickly as the scaremongering dissipates, sell.

  The most mentally-challenged businessmen love pump and dump (and the reverse on this case) because it doesn’t require any talent whatsoever, just insider trading.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s sad, because it’s not like he could go blind from the surgery. He’s already blind. Most persons would risk the surgery if there was a chance to see again, I guess he would too if he could choose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Frederick got the moves!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Dumb question: can his cataracts be fixed (a routine surgery on humans) so he can see his mate is a guy? As a bonus, he could see food morsels without the need of olfaction.

  I also wonder if the loss of olfaction and sight mean he couldn’t recognize the sex of a partner even if it was right in front of him.

  I understand he might really be a gay tortoise, but he could also be gay by necessity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make gravity your bitch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that simulation in the room with us ri

  WARNING: Unexpected false vacuum decay.
  Reverting current state.
  3,245,333,345,728,345,876 recoveries until reboot.
  

  us right now? Hurrr durr

  WARNING: Unexpected false vacuum decay.
  Reverting current state.
  3,245,333,345,728,345,875 recoveries until reboot.
  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude, tell me you haven’t been in a management position without yadda yadda etc.

  They’re not genius or more valuable, their workflow is different. In development I could solve the same problem for days, and know the ins and outs of it; as a manager. When I pivoted to management, I understood I have people who know their shit, so I don’t have to worry about the details while I make sure they have everything they need to accomplish our compromises.

  I had to learn to let go of the tech work so I could be more effective as a manager. I’d love to talk about Postgres optimization during dinner, but I can’t devote much time to that during the work day. That’s someone else’s job. I’ll just give them the resources.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This. OP is mistaken if he thinks all people had to carefully read all email. We techies love to explain things too much, but executives are administrators, they don’t delve into technical details unless needed.

  My technique to get busy executives to answer my emails is being direct and brief.

  • Subject: As concise as possible, and then more
  • In bold, one thing I need from them. Asking three things is a sure way to get two unanswered things.
  • Two line breaks
  • In bold “Details”, another line break, and a bullet list of any info they might need, but not necessarily read.

  That’s it. If they need more, they will ask you. If you need more, send three emails, or make it very clear in the first line that you’re asking three things, and make them a bullet list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doggo of Theseus⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, it’s not a dire wolf, but it might qualify as a concerning wolf, don’t you think?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disappointed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  BREAKING NEWS! AUSTRALOPITHECUS HAS JUST BEEN DE-EXTINCTED!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lobster: I can’t understand what you said, please piss it slower for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why didn't *I* think of that?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Pro tip: build your house in an alternate dimension, and no one will make you pay taxes; although the commute is somewhat inconvenient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I always hear the wolf howling despite it happening quite a bit later after that phrase.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you do this Technically?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are telltale signs of AI generation in images, much in the same way image editors leave fingerprints of its use. As image generation improves, its detection will too.

  It’s not much different than the arms race of spam or malware, for example, tools like wasitai.com have a pretty good detection rate right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BYD announces charging tech that’s twice as fast as Tesla’s⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Darth Vaders’s main power was not lightning, but telekinesis. I’d bet he would have a greater output spinning one (or more) industrial generators.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welp.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We could rejoin the three Californias!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homer Simpson irl⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine what would happen if we substituted the water for more brain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do spiders poop ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Adult mayflies don’t, they don’t even have a digestive system or even mouth. They just reproduce and die.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨low iq in love with high iq person, is that bad??⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, IQ tests are a learnable skill. You can become surprisingly better at them without actually increasing your intelligence, by becoming familiar with the exercises.

  A smart non-native English speaker would likely score even lower the first time because many old tests tie reasoning to English proficiency and western culture.

  Last but not least, being intelligent is different from being smart. I’ve seen intelligent people get left behind by regular people because they took unwise decisions and wasted their potential.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨low iq in love with high iq person, is that bad??⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bhank you for not doxin me pal, I would be devastated if odders knew about my low iQ

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it seem like many Americans have an arrogant personality trait?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s seems like USA’s culture rewards individual success above all else, hence successful people behaving like main protagonists, or even as of others were NPCs.

  To be fair, other comments that speak about selection bias are also spot on: not all people there do commercial tourism, even domestically. The ones that do are successful enough to have that disposable income.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GARBAGEOLOGY⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know! The United States of North America!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram 'Error' Turned Reels Into Neverending Scroll of Murder, Gore, and Violence⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s Zuck’s private list.

  In reality, it’s effective engagement, they just missed the target audience. Meta has plenty of tools to detect and stop this, it just doesn’t have the will to renounce that sweet advertising money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would a stateless society handle serious threats such as mass murder and terrorism?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  PixelPinecone you did a criticism! It sucks but aren’t you adorable? Bless your heart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No. Archival means copying, destructive archival means copying and destroying the original. If the copy was as smart as you, it would know the original you was left in meatspace. It would be stupid to claim the copy is you but in a different individual, not different than wishful thinking.

  The copy would be based on you, but from its startup it would become a different individual, as your experiences diverge.