yesman
@yesman@lemmy.world
- Comment on Reappraisal of the Geologic Time Scale: Evidence for a 6,001-year-old Earth 1 day ago:
I was tired of being a Darwinist. Now I follow the writings of Dickens; I’m a Dickhead.
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 1 day ago:
If you think about it, almost all computer-technology is radio. Wifi, bluetooth, GPS, radar, and cellular are literally radio. Meanwhile everything else runs on transistor tech developed and refined… for radios.
Our modern economy couldn’t exist if people like Hertz and Maxwell didn’t get to toy with their useless hobbies. But we can’t rely on the curiosity of the leisure class anymore. Basic research is expensive, necessary, and a public good. I’m afraid that the Trump regime has already spoiled the secret sauce that makes America the technology leader of the world.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 2 days ago:
You conflate being Asian (a resident of a continent) with Slavic (a cultural group). So what is race? A coordinate, or a cuisine?
Race is so unreal that you can’t even keep the lore straight in your own head.
- Comment on Is empathy based on a financial bell curve? 2 days ago:
Spaces like 8cun and kiwifarms are very welcoming to regular type dudes with centrist politics and mainstream opinions. They’re not nasty, unreasonable, and deranged like us. They’ll never challenge a man who identifies as normal.
- Comment on Is empathy based on a financial bell curve? 2 days ago:
It’s really hard to hurt another person when you feel their pain.
Consider the sadist. How can you enjoy someone’s suffering if you can’t recognize it?
The most wicked people are advanced empaths.
- Comment on What would happen if the Earth was sucked into a black hole? 4 days ago:
We don’t know. Forces in and near black holes break physics. There is tons of speculation, but speculation is all there is.
- Comment on Sheeple 5 days ago:
- Comment on Due to American politics I'm afraid of using high speed rail in Germany 5 days ago:
- Comment on More like a bacterial infection imo 6 days ago:
A large contributor to Irish suffering were the British corn laws, a tariff that kept the price of barley, wheat, and oats artificially high. So when potato crops failed, the poor Irish couldn’t afford substitutes. Ironically, American maze was exempt from the corn laws, so much of that was imported to Ireland.
Tariffs: never any externalities or unintended consequences; you will certainly not regret imposing tariffs.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
What’s ironic is the same people warning of Sharia law and a Muslim takeover conspiracies are the same people actively clawing back women’s rights in the West TODAY!.
Stop pretending that bigotry and chauvinism are products of critical thought or rationality.
- Comment on "I Took Every American Airlines “Flight” That’s Actually a Bus" 1 week ago:
It’s insane to go through TSA for a bus. I can’t believe a person would do that on purpose.
- Comment on Should I apologize to this person? 1 week ago:
If someone cuts contact with you, it’s up to them to reestablish. You don’t need this person’s acknowledgement to deal with your regret.
- Comment on Well whenever you notice something like *that*, a wizard did it 1 week ago:
The motions which the planets now have,…could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent.
Non-credible scientist, notorious for spreading his “theories” about planetary motion.
- Comment on HIGH ON LIFE 2 Official Trailer 1 week ago:
it’s interesting that the guns were silent throughout the trailer.
- Comment on Is feigned happiness remotely similar to actual happiness? 1 week ago:
No. To feign happiness one must be aware they they are not happy.
- Comment on Winging it 1 week ago:
Also, the visages were of real men. Often the patrons of the painter or someone else to be honored.
- Comment on Well OK then 1 week ago:
I like how the curse is in cursive so that the kids can’t read it. Kinda like a captcha to prove your genx or older.
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 1 week ago:
When I read that, in my head it’s spoken to the music of “revolution number 9” by the Beatles.
- Comment on when you thought it couldn't get any better 1 week ago:
Top five reasons to use Windows:
- I need it for work
- I need it for my games
- I need it for my hardware
- It’s what I’ve always used
- I can turn all that crap off and run Windows like an operating system that I own and control at least until the next security update installs Copilot into my mouse cursor.
- Comment on Why is Jordan Peterson both a Christian and not a Christian? 1 week ago:
JP is an atheist, but he recognizes the value in other people believing in Christianity. This is because the myths and symbols reinforce his worldview to people who (he views) aren’t smart enough to get there with reasoning.
Also, like all Western Chauvinists, he can’t let go of the idea of “Christendom”.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 1 week ago:
I just got my favorite game (Sekiro) to run on Linux! It wasn’t hard or anything, just the first time I’ve gotten a Windows game to run.
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- Comment on Why don't people like Melon Tusk get tired of the shit they gave you pull through literally every day ? I mean doesn't the guilt of bad decisions pull them down enough like the rest of us ? 1 week ago:
News reports that Musk is a heavy drug user suggest that he self-medicates to cope.
Elon knows all the money in the world can’t make him a real boy and that warms my cold dead heart.
Bonus: Elon’s dad is exactly the kind of POS you’d expect, but his one redeeming quality is that he heaps praise on Elon’s brother while regarding the world’s richest man as a disappointment.
- Comment on I see trees of green 2 weeks ago:
Boy, the new Far Cry game doesn’t look fun at all.
- Comment on Am I weird for avoiding flying on prop planes, and only fly on jets? 2 weeks ago:
The ATR-72 has jet engines. It’s just that the turbine spins a prop instead of compressing air for direct combustion.
The biggest indicator of safety is if you’re flying to/from Newark.
- Comment on How do you gently tell someone you only want to keep seeing them if it's on a dating level? 2 weeks ago:
Why do you want to be in a relationship with someone who you don’t like?
- Comment on 5-minute oil change place 2 weeks ago:
It’s important to use a regular shop for routine maintenance because you’ll build a relationship for when something major goes wrong. The extra cost is worth it.
Plus, imagine what kind of “mechanic” works in these places. Accepting low wages implies they can’t get a job at a real shop because they suck, or because they have no experience.
- Comment on The solution to many problems 2 weeks ago:
I used to work with a guy that smoked and refused to wear a seat-belt. He carried a gun though, just in case his life was in danger.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
What cracks me up is that toxic people my age would say that if your going to lather up with a body wash and exfoliating sponge you may as well invite your boyfriend into the shower with you.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
This system is fine. While patterns are obviously easier to hack, having unique passwords for each site and being able to remember them puts your friend in the 90^th^ percentile of computer users.
