yesman
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- Comment on Toxic MDPI 1 day ago:
Well, don’t be hasty. How much in grants does he pull in?
- Comment on A Saudi, an Indian and an Iranian walk into a Qatari bar ... 2 days ago:
Ted is a forum for reassuring rich liberals that they’re good and smart.
- Comment on Say it again, Dexter 3 days ago:
The problem with biology is that it attracts too many cool people. Especially those marine biologists studding sharks and shit. That’s why taxonomy is one of the refuges for real pedantics and nerds. No danger of running into anybody with a tan in that department.
- Comment on What has Critical Theory actually achieved? 3 days ago:
What’s learning good for?
- Comment on I first read Frankensteins mother 1 week ago:
Frankenstein’s monster is an early incel. It’s so ugly that society violently rejects it despite herculean efforts of the monster to find belonging. It’s solution is to terrorize the Doctor into creating a “female” monster for companionship.
So the monster is miserable, hates society, and has a plan to punish and destroy leading up to a climactic suicide. And it’s only hope is for a waifu created by science.
I think about this sometimes.
- Comment on Chance 2 weeks ago:
It turns out that it’s hard to tell the future. Polls have to make assumptions and the safest assumption is that this election is going to look like elections in the past. From the early voting data, we know that this election isn’t like 2016, or 2020, and what that tells us pretty reliably is that the polls are wrong.
This is how Trump got an upset in 2016, he turned out loads of people who normally don’t vote, and were therefore underrepresented in the polling. It is likely that many of these same voters are going to sit it out this year while all the polls are counting them double.
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard Reviews 3 weeks ago:
I still haven’t played Wasteland 3 or Divinity Original sin 2 even though I own both. And Balder’s Gate 3 is due to get discounted at Christmas. At some point, you have to measure RPG purchases against your life expectancy.
- Comment on Please be patient. 3 weeks ago:
Nobody wants to covalent anymore.
- Comment on The EchoChamberinator 9000! 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s time to consider the possibility that our grandmas and pop-pops are not tricked or indoctrinated, they just plain old support fascists.
- Comment on Why is the price of real estate rising so dramatically? 3 weeks ago:
Prices are falling in Florida, and inventory is stacking up.
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 3 weeks ago:
Ocean trash comes from plastic manufacturers. Responsible wealthy countries ship their dutiful recyclables to garbage pits in poor countries.
Most poor people don’t even have the education or resources to polymerize crude into poly-vinyl, it’s harder than you’d think.
- Comment on Nihilism spectrum 3 weeks ago:
Nihilism (the philosophy) needs a new label. Like “retarded” or “manic depressive”, the common usage has overtaken the academic meaning. I’m not complaining, this is a natural and good process of language. Just saying we need a new term.
- Comment on ... 3 weeks ago:
Do you hate Foucault because your a Marxist or a Petersonian?
- Comment on Worshippers of Cthulhum, a Lovercraftian themed town builder where you play the bad guys, released in early access on Steam 3 weeks ago:
This is genius! A citybuilder as a lovecraft cultist? How has nobody thought of this before?
- Comment on ... 3 weeks ago:
You forgot Foucault’s Power/Knowledge.
- Comment on Cognitive Biases 3 weeks ago:
YSK: the Dunning-Kruger effect is controversial because it’s part of psychology’s repeatability problem.
Other famous psychology experiments like the ‘Stanford prison experiment’ or the ‘Milgram experiment’ fail to show what you learned in psych101. The prison experiment was so flawed as to be useless, and variations on the Milgram experiment show the opposite effect from the original.
For those familiar with the Milgram experiment: one variation of the study saw the “scientist” running the test replaced with a policeman or a military officer. In these circumstances, almost everybody refused to use high voltage.
- Comment on Absolute Units 3 weeks ago:
Maybe he just knows about the ‘Just so’ fallacy and he’s suspicious of even good-faith science communication being presented as narrative? I know I have that problem sometimes.
- Comment on Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images? 4 weeks ago:
Art isn’t a progression. “Realism” isn’t necessarily a goal.
If capturing some subject in the most naturalistic way possible was the goal of art, there would be no need for paintings after the invention of the camera, and sculpture would be obsolete because of 3d scanning. Art must be something beyond capturing nature, otherwise there would be no reason for humans to do it.
- Comment on Ah yes, regression 4 weeks ago:
And if that doesn’t work, there’s always factor analysis.
- Comment on What do you call your first cousin's child? 4 weeks ago:
USS Thresher
Just in case you didn’t know, there is a pretty cool song about this disaster:
- Comment on Why do some men dis other men who sit to pee? (& follow-up questions) 4 weeks ago:
The King James Bible has the phrase those who “pissith against the wall” several times. In context it’s pejorative for the rude class or enemies of King David, but Christians who insist on the KJV struggle to read and understand it, and have taken it as God’s own description of male. and therefore pissing standing up isn’t just an aspect of masculinity, but it’s essence.
- Comment on Equinunerous Sets 4 weeks ago:
Sure, but does the set of all sets that don’t include themselves include itself?
- Comment on What is a passkey, in practice? Is it a file? A token? Can I keep it in an USB drive? How can I save it in case of device loss? 4 weeks ago:
An article I read recently suggested that storing passkeys with Google, Apple, and M$ didn’t have interoperability. Like you need a Mac/iPhone or PC/Android to make it work. Is this true? Can I store a passkey in a platform agnostic way?
- Comment on Brand recognition 4 weeks ago:
Since it’s Halloween, there is a music video about anal prolapse. I’m not going to link to it because it literally gave me nightmares, but search for it if you dare.
- Comment on Oscar the grouch, is an ambush predator 5 weeks ago:
If we’re going for shock value, did you know Big Bird was almost on the Challenger? The picture in my mind is an NTSB workers on a boat fishing yellow feathers out of the Atlantic.
- Comment on ALIENS 5 weeks ago:
UFOs are just masculine coded Astrology.
- Comment on Why is the vision correction in VR headsets only an afterthought? 5 weeks ago:
VR isn’t a mature technology. Every design is bad. For what little attention they’ve paid to human eyes, they completely ignore the existence of a human neck. It’s the kind of device that discourages you from playing games because it’s a pain to get out, strap on, and wear. And this is from a guy who keeps his flight sims on the slow hard drive because it takes 5min to get physically set up anyway.
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 5 weeks ago:
I had a fruit fly problem over the summer and felt guilty about the cruelty of the glue traps. But when it comes to mosquitos, roaches, and wasps, I’m Hitler. I would favor genetic alterations that expanded their capacity for suffering.
- Comment on Is there a reason the US is sending 100 of our people to Israel? 5 weeks ago:
It’s important not to let cynicism become conspiratorial ideation. This is not a ploy to get troops killed as a rationale for American involvement. This is a defensive anti-missile anti-drone anti-aircraft battery. The soldiers operating it may be the safest people in Israel, at least from Iranian attack.
I’d go further and speculate that Iran would avoid deliberately attacking this high value target to avoid escalation. I’d go further still and speculate that Iran is counting on her missiles being shot down so that she can attack Israel without doing enough damage to spark a wider war.
I don’t count Iran as peaceniks, their behavior so far looks like a Nation keen to save face, while avoiding a war it’s not ready for.
The real rational for sending troops is that there is no time to train up IDF soldiers to operate it.
- Comment on After Gorging on Stock Buybacks for Years, Boeing Announces Mass Layoffs 5 weeks ago:
Layoffs: that one weird trick to solve all business problems: the working class hates it!