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- Comment on HBO Max has really turned to shit since the Skydance takeover 21 hours ago:
I was disappointed when it was canceled. The lead actor was good, but apparently beat up his girlfriend. He got canceled from Marvel over it and the last I heard from him he was in a movie produced by the Daily Wire, so… a falling star for sure.
- Comment on HBO Max has really turned to shit since the Skydance takeover 1 day ago:
As you said HBO has great scripted shows. So don’t forget about the catalogue. OZ, The Sopranos, True Detective, Watchmen, Lovecraft Country, Deadwood, Chernobyl, The Wire, Succession, and Barry.
- Comment on HBO Max has really turned to shit since the Skydance takeover 1 day ago:
You take actors that don’t need to be paid union rates, very low edit costs, nearly no writing, and you pad the drama out with as many camera swaps as you can.
That sounds like a reason to invest in RealityTV; a reason not to watch it.
- Comment on Why DDG is the superior serch engine 2 days ago:
Also, even if I do have a meter stick, how tf am I supposed to measure and mark 0.288 of one?
If only there was a way to calculate 0.288 of a meter. Maybe we could get a mathematician to draw up some kind of formula that’d let us cypher 29% of a meter.
- Comment on Why is "sunsetting" used as a term to indicate a service is shutting down? 2 days ago:
It’s a common term because (almost) all humans understand how the sun works.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
In my lifetime, most bigotries have been in decline. But misogyny is bad and getting worse. Those Reddit videos, as far as I can tell, are just feeding some desire that some dudes have to hit women. That shit didn’t come from a few posters, it didn’t even come from a few subs; but it made it to the frontpage almost every day.
Weak men are violent to women because they’re pitiful. The man who dreams of a woman to control has given up on the idea of a woman to love. And the idea that a woman could love him. When I was young, people like this were ashamed. Incel culture is like a pride parade for loosers and pussies.
- Comment on why do pendulums and space shuttles feel the effects of earth rotation but airplanes do not? 3 days ago:
Coriolis effects
In old-school navigation, the Coriolis effect had to be accounted for especially for long distances. Snipers must also account for the effect.
- Comment on Let's math it out, quick 3 days ago:
I’m not sure if this is art from Bioshock, or slop. The bayonet is a nice touch and makes me think a human did this, but I can’t tell anymore.
- Comment on A French small business owner has his video game store looted 4 days ago:
They got the anti-protester playbook in France too. Image
- Comment on Would you play a game that constantly tests your morals and fucks with your belief of what is good and what is evil? | The Milgram Experiment Official Trailer 5 days ago:
I read an article once that argued that the Milgram experiment is universally misunderstood.
(in Psych101 they’ll tell you that the experiment proves that people will harm each other by being obedient to authority. A person in a lag coat is the authority in this case. people obeyed the lab-coat guy like 95% of the time)
In the years between the experiment becoming famous and it being banned by ethical boards, many variations on the experiment were tried. Most interesting was a variation where the lab-coat guy was replaced by a police or army guy. In these experiments, the willingness of the participants flipped. With 90+% of the participants refusing to obey. This strongly suggests that what was compelling about the lab-coat guy was not authority after all.
The article argued that the difference was people thought of the lab-coat guy as science and their participation wasn’t obedience to authority, but rather a sense of duty to the greater good. (culture regarded scientists and science very differently).
The Milgram experiment was a whole genre of psychological study I’ll call “why Nazi”. I think the idea that people will obey authority even when it’s evil is much less scary than the idea that your every-day Nazi thought he was helping; thought that a few wicked deeds now would lead to the best future for the most people.
- Comment on Have any of you experienced that "snake detection" instinct? Do you think it's real? 5 days ago:
Your mind works on different levels at the same time. Responses to danger (and sexual attraction) happen much more quickly than can be explained by cognition. There is a part of your brain, that doesn’t have access to language or consciousness that can identify scary snakes (and pretty girls) faster than your conscious mind could identify them.
Brain-scans have found that the conscious fear response isn’t a reaction to the stimulus, but rather it’s reacting to your sympathetic nervous system freaking out. The part of your mind that sounded the alarm is invisible to you.
- Comment on Pfft 1 week ago:
Yea, it’s just that pedants deep down believe that good grammar is good writing; they don’t understand the difference. Therefore, they’re going to struggle to recognize good writing, and be incapable of producing it.
- Comment on If college is a scam, where do you go to get better education? 1 week ago:
The idea that college = success was always a correlation/ causation mistake. People with degrees were also the people who could afford to go. Success is correlated to wealth and wealth to education. Whatever wealth was reserved for the educated is spread thinner and thinner as more people graduate.
If everyone has a degree, class won’t go away, they’re just going to have to sort us by something else.
- Comment on I didn't know it was a legal requirement 1 week ago:
The interesting thing abut that is the date 1874. They re-joined the Union in 1868, and would have had to a new constitution to do so. 1874 would have been a new constitution. Ratified after the failure of reconstruction and designed to disenfranchise the formally enslaved.
All the slave-holding states are like this.
- Comment on If the legalization of drugs reduces crime, why can't the same be said about the legalization of guns? 1 week ago:
If you want to understand guns, I’d recommend sociology not economics.
- Comment on I used to think you were crazy until you started wearing plastic underwear. 1 week ago:
It must be painful for language pedants to read English literature. All the best authors I know ignore grammar and use English like a whore. And that must hurt people like you twice; once upon noticing all the “mistakes”; and twice, upon realizing that they understand English better than you. To realize your stuck in the pupil phase of understanding. Where you struggle to enjoy, and cannot produce good writing.
- Comment on Anytime I see THIS combo of words, this is what I imagine 1 week ago:
Ronnie Jackson is sillier than this.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
If that shot is real, then it deserves a Pulitzer. The fact that both orcas have identical markings is suspicious.The Shark is high-contrast and in focus while the orcas are soft and blurry. I’m not an expert, it just looks phony to me.
But like I said, phony in the Photoshop way of old.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Delightful, this really takes me back to the days when bullshit was done with photoshop instead of photoslop.
- Comment on In the middle of the street 1 week ago:
Deodorant is perhaps the nastiest substance I’ve ever gotten in my mouth. Especially the spray-on kind. It tastes like crushed up aspirin, but the worst part is the sensation as it draws out moisture 2/10
- Comment on My new mini fridge's lock instructions are helpful 1 week ago:
The first beer I ever tasted came from a dude who kept his fridge on the back porch.
- Comment on Small kitchen appliance storage... 1 week ago:
There is no such thing as ample counter space.
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- Comment on Fr*nce 1 week ago:
Rape is barely even illegal in the US. In our culture, if a man gets raped, that’s funny, if a girl gets raped, no she didn’t; that bitch is lying.
As far as creeping on underage people, others have pointed out the hypocrisy there.
- Comment on Just coincidence 2 weeks ago:
Symbols are for the symbol minded - George Carlin
The thing that makes this regime similar to the Nazis isn’t the way they draw eagles.
- Comment on Yet another one for the oopsie pile 2 weeks ago:
investigated and held accountable. Suspended for one semester, couldn’t have been that serious.
This must be the first time you’ve heard about a university investigation of sexual violence. Bless your heart.
- Comment on Yet another one for the oopsie pile 2 weeks ago:
Yesterday I finished the book “Babylon South Dakota”. Geller and Angela Collier had done a “book chat” about it, but I skipped the video until I had read it.
So I’m looking for this video yesterday and it’s not on Collier’s book channel. Weird, so I check her science channel. No good either. So I check Geller’s channel. (this is on Nebula, not YT) And Geller is gone, no videos by him at all. I thought, did Jacob Geller get canceled?
This is how I found out that Geller had been canceled.
- Comment on Make Congress Earn Average American Wage. 2 weeks ago:
This is a politician’s idea. Their wages and benefits are trivial compared to the insider trading and other corruption.
Instead of making them live on a low salary, why not try making them live on their high salary first?
- Comment on I love English food 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on I love English food 2 weeks ago:
LOL, you silly. Vegans would have to live in TSMC clean-rooms their entire lives to avoid consuming yeast, and it probably wouldn’t work.
