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- Comment on Mythbusters 4 days ago:
Or at least use classical conditioning to associate the I’m wrong feeling with the impending new cool facts feeling.
- Comment on Unrecoverable 2 weeks ago:
Best I can do is .7, but I’m taking all the risk here.
- Comment on Pathetic. 2 weeks ago:
At home I can deal with it (and have done). Hotels are a different story and they don’t all have shower heads you can reposition. I’ve even been in ones where the gap between my head and the ceiling would not fit a showerhead between.
Same with sinks and work surfaces. If I control the space you can bet it’s all comfortable for me, but I don’t always had that luxury.
- Comment on Pathetic. 2 weeks ago:
That isn’t even the worst thing. Sinks are. Especially those big, deep professional ones where the bottom is somewhere south of your knees. But even ordinary sinks are almost always too low to be comfortable and you have to do this little half stoop/lean to use them properly.
Also showers in hotels. The controls are low, and sometimes the showerhead is at or bellow shoulder height.
Squeezing into an airline seat is comparatively fine, and I tend not to have to worry about the guy in front reclining because they physically can’t. And the look of fury dying in the eyes of the chap who just turned round to complain about it is a memory that warms me to this day.
- Comment on Minimum ! 4 weeks ago:
But what are they filtering for?
- Comment on the ologies don't like to talk about theo 1 month ago:
More accurately a superposition of both.
- Comment on the ologies don't like to talk about theo 1 month ago:
I’m talking about natures rather than labels though. Or does God only have the definitions humans ascribe to him?
- Comment on the ologies don't like to talk about theo 1 month ago:
So does that mean Jesus wasn’t human?
- Comment on the ologies don't like to talk about theo 1 month ago:
But is God the Incarnate wholly God-nature, or is he partly God-nature and partly man-nature?
- Comment on How is the hydrogen made? 2 months ago:
They aren’t legal combatants, it’s all fine.
- Comment on How is the hydrogen made? 2 months ago:
I think the issue is where the energy to heat the reaction vessel comes from. The video shows green sources, but that isn’t the only way to do it. The thing is, this is ultimately an energy storage tech rather than an energy generation tech. You need excess capacity to make it work, and if that means you have to make up for a shortful with conventional generators elsewhere, you aren’t actually saving anything.
I don’t know if the previous poster is right of course, but the planet is an almost closed system, and there really is no such thing as a free lunch when it comes to energy.
- Comment on How does South Park get away with trashing identifiable people? Are they sued often? 2 months ago:
There comes an issue when a private citizen seeks to use the engines of state to punish those whose speech offends them.
It’s one thing to withdraw society and business from someone who offends you, quite another to demand that the state crush them for you. Of course, most states will do that to a greater or lesser degree. No state extends an absolute freedom of speech.
- Comment on What will happen to large companies once poor people have no more money to use? 2 months ago:
I stand corrected.
- Comment on What will happen to large companies once poor people have no more money to use? 2 months ago:
I suspect they will graciously provide the necessities in return for your labour and any remaining rights you have.
Take a look at how company stores and scrip worked. As the song goes, Saint Peter don’t call me 'cause I can’t go/Sold my soul to the company store.
- Comment on consπracy! 3 months ago:
- Comment on Concrete Jungle Cat 4 months ago:
I was like a cat on a hot tin roof. Which is to say: regretting my life choices but swiftly trying to be elsewhere. This case has been grating at my nerves. If I ever learned one thing in my 8 lives, it’s that if the client is willing to pay what you ask and doesn’t try to haggle, the job’l stink more than a pigsty behind a failed fish market.
Problem is, I never learned anything, and last week’s tuna is still tuna.
- Comment on What's wrong with the male gaze? 5 months ago:
At least for me (m) it’s cheap. If you do it as a pov shot you might get a pass, but ultimately, with every shot you should always be questioning what it achieves. If it is just titillating half the audience then you can probably do better.
From a simple we live with other people point of view: Would you enjoy the male gaze shots if they targeted a form you don’t find attractive? Do you enjoy them the same if you are watching the film with your parents, your boss, a teacher?
- Comment on You go to this link and give me one good reason why civilization isn't long past its peak. 6 months ago:
I’m sure I saw someone do this before…
- Comment on Paypal won't let me remove by Debit card 7 months ago:
Are there any banks that don’t support the fossil fuel industry?
- Comment on What does cigarette smoking do for people? 9 months ago:
Nicotine (the main active ingredient in tobacco) is a mild stimulant. It can help people relax or focus better. You can also get a bit of a headshot if you smoke intensely
There are also cultural benefits. Hanging out informally with others, especially at work can be useful. A 10 min informal tea break every now and again would be better but that’s the world we have got in many workplaces.
- Comment on How do you describe color to a person who has always been blind? 9 months ago:
In such a way that they understand what you are talking about like I would? Might not be possible.
Look up Mary’s Room for some more thinking into this subject.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Is there any reason to think it isn’t rooted in the difference in political alignment? The very existence of such deep left thought is going to cause a lot of political stress on people not used to having their ideology challenged, be them centrist or even moderately left.
Personally I think it’s healthy to be exposed to it but I think I’m in a minority here.
The war in Ukraine is also likely exasperating things.
- Comment on Why do modern strategy games hate the grid? 9 months ago:
Grids certainly don’t slow me down, though they do reduce the spectacle and I suppose lower immersion. They certainly make me more aware that I am playing a game rather than taking actions in a world that actually exists. I’d say this is a feature rather than a bug though as they are often used in games that I want to be handling in that analytic piece moving fashion.
- Comment on Police drag autistic girl out of house ‘because she said officer looked like her lesbian grandmother’ 10 months ago:
All that proves is that that one in particular was bad. Maybe it was out of date.
- Comment on Police drag autistic girl out of house ‘because she said officer looked like her lesbian grandmother’ 10 months ago:
Cops might be tasty too. You don’t know until you try.
- Comment on There's Jews for Jesus, are there Christians against Christ? 10 months ago:
So what you are saying is that now is the time to invest in gold AR-15 necklaces?
- Comment on What more need be said about it? 10 months ago:
The amount of people with both the patience to read it and the inability to tell that it is describing a fantasy land with magic and wizards is worrying.
- Comment on Capitalism indoctrination in progress. 10 months ago:
There is a bit of truth here. Toxic culture and out of touch management will make people walk as well.
Thing is, there might just be a wad of cash big enough to make me put up with that against my health interests.
Fuck ping pong tables though. No one left a company because they didn’t have enough fucking table sports. If you think they are then you are the problem. Exit interview your own fucking arse.