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- Comment on Did the Buldak spicy ramen get less spicy? 3 days ago:
Eyy malay/indo friend. How I miss good nasi and I never learned how to make the nicer nadi dishes. I crave nasi padang, nasi goreng, nasi lemak… I’m salivating now. I blame you.
- Comment on Parenting advice 3 days ago:
Or perhaps some kind of stew that that nullifies ocular senses?
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 1 week ago:
I mean defining new religion is always tricky, Hinduism is such a large collection of beliefs, if you go too wide Jainism and Buddhism and Sikhism would unfold into Hinduism and if you go too narrow Hinduism is at best group of 12-13 separate religion.
The deeper you look the more confusing it is, while Jain texts acknowledge certain “Hindu” deities like Indra, other parts of universe building are entirely different, and if they are different where did Indra come from?
Anyway I like the distinction of dharmic religions and then defining sects such as Jain, Vaishnav, shaiva, Buddhism etc etc. They all have the concept of Dharma, Karma and Moksha. So they are all kind of interoperable in terms of lifestyle. There are sects of Hinduism that are more different than mainstream to the point it’d be hard to call them Hindu, but they self identify as Hindu, while there are sects of buddishm that are so similar to Hinduism, it’s unclear why they consider themselves a separate religion. I think at the end the distinctions between dharmic religion are always because of some geopolitical power game.
Yeah but if you ask a jain they’d say they’re not Hindu. So take it for it means.
- Comment on "Does Hitler have a right to privacy?" and other big questions in research ethics. 1 week ago:
Also he’s dead, why do dead people deserve anything, any rights? What harm happens to Hitler? He’s dead. Did we ask dinosaurs to look at their DNA, for all we know they were sentient? The whole argument is stupid.
- Comment on The existence of billionaires is a policy failure 1 week ago:
I mean at that rate stoning is free, but I don’t wanna stoop to taliban. Maybe French had the right idea.
- Comment on The existence of billionaires is a policy failure 1 week ago:
Anchor and chains in 20m waters is much cheaper.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 weeks ago:
From early reviews it seems penalty for emulation is in single digits. Also honestly I am considering one just to watch movies but my intereat would depend on the price of course. So wait we must.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 2 weeks ago:
There is still some optionality like maybe you get a windfall from a boomer dying and you can pay the principal. Or in 30 years your currency devalues to the point you can afford the principal.
Anyway it all feels like fool’s hope. Situation is fucked.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 2 weeks ago:
Sorry OP, you got downvoted in so many posts, some of which I thought was undeserved, but some of it is deserved. You asked a question, but came off as wanting to prove everyone else who doesn’t listen to music is crazy. Everyone is different, you do you. I think it’s very important to train brain to be content without any stimulation and therefore, I think, I play music in my brain, I plan rest of my day or next day, and most of all I introspect when I’m walking around.
And my life isn’t even complicated and I find tons of things to Introspect, so hard for me to imagine people get bored with introspection, but you do you. If boredom is such a massive problem for you because of ADHD, perhaps carry a power bank.
- Comment on pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned" 2 weeks ago:
Pow ( like bow wow) + Ned (like Ned Stark)
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know about a lot of industries, but in finance, having a non-compete at least for a few weeks is essential as of your trading positions are known to your competitors, you end up losing quite a lot. I know it’s one giant asshole protecting itself from another giant asshole, but at least I know that usecase is justified.
- Comment on For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big? 3 weeks ago:
They have done some good work in last few years, specially the events here and there are fun. But after the event campaign is over. There is nothing else to hope for.
- Comment on For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big? 3 weeks ago:
Reminds me of no man’s sky and it’s empty bajillions of planets.
- Comment on Be this guy. 4 weeks ago:
I used to think that till I met absolute Chad of a man with failing kidney and he would laugh at the situation refuse to be treated, he was like I’m 47 I lived a happy life and I’ll die if ill die but I’m not being bound to a bed, refused multiple dialysis interventions from his family and was clearly getting in pain towards the end, finally sold his very few possessions, gave some money to his youngest sister that struggled financially and took some drugs and died on a beach alone. (he had already gave up one kidney to save a sibling).
That man clearly didn’t care much about, he didn’t care about his family getting hurt because of his illness and death, he didn’t care about pain to his body, he didn’t care about death, and honestly I saw him 3-4 days before his death, he was still laughing like he was at peace and played a few games of uno with me.
- Comment on Shower. I hate the wet place 4 weeks ago:
Must be nice knowing you don’t overthink.
- Comment on Soup 4 weeks ago:
I feel i am the soup and rice guy so, best of both worlds.
Oh I’m greedy.
- Comment on one bright second 1 month ago:
Yes, but we don’t have proof that universe can’t generate new matter. For all we know there is a mechanism in universe not yet observed that can create new matter out of little vacuum and more stars will keep forming.
So technically all we can say is, it’s likely that stars will die out in 1000 trillion years.
- Comment on It just plain doesn't work, please stop telling people to do this 1 month ago:
Again untrue whatever you think is “whole” water, any dessicant will absolutely 100% help with evaporation.
Not every person is tech savvy enough to open boards. Advice for most novices is still put phone between dessicant to get water out if the device is valid and good advice.
Would using isopropyl alcohol be better option? Sure it is. but telling my aunt to do it, and device will probably die because she doesn’t know how to handle pcbs anyway. I’d much rather just advice using dessicant and hope mineral residue doesn’t sort anything. And I’ll continue with that advice forever.
- Comment on “JUST BECAUSE I HAVE THE VOICE OF A MUNCHKIN FROM THE WIZARD OF OZ DOES NOT MEAN THAT I HAVE TINY LITTLE MOUSE BALLS! BESIDES, EVEN IF I DID, CORRELATION DOES NOT PROVE CAUSATION!!!” 2 months ago:
I just noticed, he has lights pointed directly at his face, his pupils are still diallated quite a bit, I wonder what drugs he must be on.
- Comment on Choose wisely lemmings 2 months ago:
Well then i guess ists not an LTT reference.
Linus Tech Tips, founder Linus, thought when someone said hard r they mean the word used to describe mentally different people. But in the context it seemed like he is talking about African Americans, was a short lived story as it was a genuine mistake.
- Comment on Choose wisely lemmings 2 months ago:
LTT reference?
- Comment on It's just loss. 4 months ago:
And how many percentage of all livestock do you think is “free range” like the cows you describe?
Estimates vary from 80% to 99% are factory farmed. Which means majority of meat anyone is eating is factory farm. Unless you can verify the source of your meat yourself, you most likely are eating tortured animals.
So this whole argument that I have friends and family that care for their livestock like it’s their kids is the misrepresentation since, it maybe true that you know someone that is treating animals humane, it doesn’t represent majority.
- Comment on Anon describes experience 4 months ago:
Reminds me of a time where I shortened the code for pointers in c++ at age 15, so quite old, and my teacher said it wouldn’t work (we didn’t have computers in that class, next class we would type the code and execute it in computer lab). Anyway I said it’d work, he said it would never work, I said well we can test it next class and teacher said we can’t waste time in computer lab like that, and I said I will ask principal for extratime in computer lab after school to prove that my code works. I got sent to principals office anyway for rude and unruley behavior and not only did I get scolded for trying to embarrass my teacher, I wasn’t granted extra time in the lab either. Next time in lab I managed to write the shorter code and get same results and I called teacher to show my code works, he just unplugged the cable and sent me to principals office again.
Luckily this time they called my parents and my mom unleashed hell on them threatening with talking to press and media and name and shame the teacher and principal for being stupider than a student is when they stopped harassing me.
And I quit paying attention in that class, I got bad marks for low class participation but hey I had already stopped giving fucks at that point.
- Comment on Anon turns on raytracing 5 months ago:
I don’t know who is downvoting you, but release fast at cost of quality definitely makes the problem worse. Because people keep buying half baked unfinished games.
- Comment on Anon turns on raytracing 5 months ago:
I remeber reading the real sell to developers is less calculations, currently textures have to be designed for different lightening, which would require pre rendering same textures across multiple lightings. And that is time and resource intensive for developers.
Ray tracing is a simpler solution. I’m not an expert, but that seemed sensible to me.
- Comment on Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it. 5 months ago:
I swear I have seen a comment very similar to this, not word for word, but pretty much similar structure and words and points describing Kanye.
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 5 months ago:
Well, I have had two people tell me very rudely that I’m an asshole because I got their pronoun wrong because they had it at the start of the presentation somewhere. And I also have had dozens more who corrected me a couple of times and then I’d just remember the right pronouns.
Assholes are assholes magrinalized or not.
- Comment on I am sick of seeing the rich and powerful on my screen. Where are all the TV shows about normal people? 6 months ago:
Depends on how you define white then, is it just skin color? Maybe you’re right, but I know plenty of Brazilians that are indistinguishable from white people. We can’t call them less Brazilian because they’re fairer than the averagei guess real crime is choosing entire cast that is fairer than average and the show being promoted about average people.
- Comment on I see you 7 months ago:
Sounds like desolatemoon is your mom and they commented to make you happy. Jokes aside moms are the best.
- Comment on Anon calls in for financial advice 8 months ago:
With inheritance taxes in the west not even then.