yesman
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- Comment on Penetration 13 hours ago:
- Comment on Black Influencer says Black People Deserved To Be Called What They Are, thoughts? 14 hours ago:
Being the “black friend” providing cover for White Supremacy is hardly anything new. Relying on black identity to legitimize racist ideals is some nested dolls of irony and hypocrisy.
I know a white guy who admits his is a race isn’t so good at critical thought.
- Comment on Haha that's really cool, funny number man 16 hours ago:
I like to watch PBS spacetime on Youtube. It keeps me humble.
- Comment on Playback speed past X2 is now a YouTube paid feature 1 day ago:
It’s for people who want to skim but not to read.
- Comment on Is such a thing even possible? Ancient astronaut theorists say yes. 1 day ago:
- Comment on I get my inspiration from nature 2 days ago:
I love it that the B2 is a dive bomber now.
- Comment on This guy was a “villain” 2 days ago:
Well, then it must have been pretty true to the character because many people felt the antagonists had a good point in that show. In fact, many believe the series failed because of the way this arc was handled in that respect.
- Comment on Major Bing Bong 2 days ago:
Just for those who don’t know: Maj. Bong was the highest scoring American ace of WWII with 40 (IIRC) kills. He mostly flew the P-38 in combat and was killed test-flying the P-80 shortly after the war.
- Comment on With all this talk about Ai not being profitable why aren't we using it in video games? I dont mean replacing developers I mean in NPCs in the game. I make them more realistic. 3 days ago:
You would have to design the game around an LLM, not just drop one into existing games.
It might be cute for the guards in Skyrim to have unique dialogue, until one of them denies the Holocaust or says feminism is cancer.
- Comment on What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing? 6 days ago:
On the whole, achievements encourage players to do stuff that isn’t fun. Sometimes they’re funny or encourage good gameplay, but too often they’re just busywork, mindless random drops, or insane investments in time/skill.
- Comment on What do all the subgenres of music mean? How does anyone make sense of them? 1 week ago:
This is what happens when you pay too much attention to any kind of taxonomy. Even scientific and rigorous taxonomy disintegrates into subjectivity when you look too close.
The idea of precisely labeling and categorizing things appears to be a human desire imposed upon an uncooperative universe.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 2 weeks ago:
Any game ported to the PC needs to recognize controllers that are plugged in after launch and need to have a “quit to desktop” option.
- Comment on Great Mug 2 weeks ago:
Believing that science yields universally true results or is the only method of finding truths
You just described science as though it were a belief system. In reality, science has a presumption that your ideals are false, not true. And a person who could only discover truth through science wouldn’t be able to dress or feed themselves.
- Comment on Do drug dogs ever get addicted when working or during training? 2 weeks ago:
I never did coke to get high, I just liked the smell
- Comment on Is there a science educator who shows in a video how they hand wash dishes? 2 weeks ago:
If you’re using the dish to prepare raw meat use a disinfectant, otherwise If it looks clean, it’s clean.
- Comment on I Forged my Own Tools and Gun to Make This Sandwich From Scratch — How to Make Everything [1:04:18] 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Are hierarchies inherently bad in all aspects? or are there domains where heirarchies are good to have? 3 weeks ago:
In my experience, the people most invested in hierarchy have fears of loosing status not an assumption of gaining more. Poor white racists understand they’re poor, that’s why their afraid of any social program that may help black Americans, even when poor white people would benefit too.
they’re not “temporarily embarrassed millionaires”, they’re jealous dragons guarding a shitty treasure.
And it’s not just the poor. Middle class people often view a slide into working class as a life-or-death threat. amidst all the talk of “economic anxiety” around the 2016 election, average Trump supporters earned 20-30K more than Hillary voters.
- Comment on I’m not saying that I agree with right- or center-wing views, and I do condemn transphobia. However, do you think there should be a distinction between critiquing beliefs held by transgender people, and engaging in transphobia? 3 weeks ago:
From natural reasoning,
You mean from fallacy
either gender is a fixed biological reality, or it’s completely irrelevant, non existent and a man-made concept.
False dichotomy, it could be a third thing. Also the idea that “socially constructed” things are somehow unworthy of consideration, or irrelevant is not true. Consider some things that we know are “man-made”: sovereignty, laws, borders, language, authority, religion, democracy, human-rights, and class. Think those things are “irrelevant”?
- Comment on I’m not saying that I agree with right- or center-wing views, and I do condemn transphobia. However, do you think there should be a distinction between critiquing beliefs held by transgender people, and engaging in transphobia? 3 weeks ago:
Trans people’s existence isn’t a political position or a logical puzzle.
All you have know is:
people who deserve respect = people who deserve respect.
The project of inventing your own gender theory based on Bio 101 is pretty myopic. As though people don’t count as people until you’ve fixed the taxonomy in your mind. You don’t have to read Judith Butler, but have the self awareness that dismissing the literature before engaging with it is not the product of critical thought.
- Comment on T2 butter mold 3 weeks ago:
Looks neat, but the wrist is going to set off the fire alarm before his thumb even melts.
- Comment on I expect to hear nothing from the right when the US goes all out celebrating Trumps inevitable departure from the realm of the living. 3 weeks ago:
This isn’t wrong because Maduro is a good man, or even the legitimate leader of Venezuela.
He’s actually sucks shit and stole the election.
- Comment on easy 3 weeks ago:
I could hear this before I clicked thru. There are two kinds of people. The ones who hear the name Eratosthenes in Sagan’s voice, and those who can’t pronounce it.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Remember when conspiracy people were funny and their beliefs marginalized? Good times.
- Comment on Nothing to see here. 3 weeks ago:
Here in America, we celebrate rapists. And that has never had any negative consequences.
- Comment on who was the aggressor in cold war? 3 weeks ago:
The belligerents in a cold war are limited to being passive aggressive.
- Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 3 weeks ago:
If you ranked games by revenue, none of these games would be on the list. Candy Crush and Clash of Clans would fire their CEO if their revenue was pathetic as Activision.
- Comment on Confused over here 3 weeks ago:
You ever notice that the manosphere dudes who think relationships are an Econ101 function of how rich a dude is divided by how hot a girl is are the same people who get shocked and offended when women act shallow and materialistic?
- Comment on The labeling on OTC pain relievers, etc. This is why I just pop 3 and hope for the best. 3 weeks ago:
When you exceed the recommended dosage: aspirin fucks your stomach, ibuprofen fucks your kidneys, acetaminophen fucks your liver, and Aleve fucks your heart.
- Comment on This Is Kind of a Video About Filters | Angela Collier 4 weeks ago:
Angela Collier: come for the physics, stay for her calling Elon Musk a dumbass.
- Comment on AI Electric Bills 4 weeks ago:
The AI data centers are paying their electric bills
This bears repeating. Datacenters do have to pay the light bill. Even when the VC money dries up. It’s a beautiful thing.
