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- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 2 weeks ago:
There are two types of gamers:
Some see an open world sandbox and say “Wow, I can do anything!” and pick their own goals.
The other type says “WHAT it’s pointless!” and wants some kind of arrow pointing at the next objective.
- Comment on 2hot2handle 2 weeks ago:
Did you just mansplain mansplaining!?
When will men learn to stop trying to share information?!
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 3 weeks ago:
YOU might think they are well defined terms, but there are people claiming with a straight face that “race X can’t be racist, because racism needs power structures” or all this other exceptionalism. They use every definition but the one in the dictionary.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 3 weeks ago:
“white men can’t experience racism and sexism”
A big problem here is that not everyone has a common definition for racism and sexism. Some definitions take existing power structures and historical context, and others don’t. A discussion about this topic should be started with what specifically each participant believes these terms mean. Otherwise you have two people talking about “sexism” but they are just talking past each other because they lack a shared understanding of the term as it is used.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 3 weeks ago:
If you were to say “black people are bad” then the rebuttal typically becomes “due to established power structures, white men can’t be oppressed, therefore I can say what I want about them”.
I think it’s hard to have a reasoned discussion where you say “all men do X” because for every X, there’s probably a bunch of exceptions. There is a great amount of variance in male behavior.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 3 weeks ago:
It’s original sin, just by gender. I think people underestimate the harm in painting all men with the same brush. Once the conversation morphs from “I hate this thing some males do” and changes into “I HATE MEN” you can’t have a productive conversation.
- Comment on leading ai company 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s because grok ships the most bugs, so they have to ship the most patches.
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- Comment on My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of space 5 weeks ago:
From a PC manufacturer perspective, the important part about including an NPU is that you can slap an “AI” sticker on your marketing. This is regardless of whether it has any actual use cases or not.
There’s definitely a large slice of “AI” features shipping now just to excite shareholders and serve no actual function to the user.
- Comment on MD = oMega Dumbass 5 weeks ago:
Oooh, white blood cells with bayonets! I’m in…
- Comment on MD = oMega Dumbass 5 weeks ago:
Are you trying to say my immune system has guns? Now I feel even more American!
- Comment on Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about? 1 month ago:
It’s still out there and going amazing!!! Despite the lack of mainstream media coverage, blockchain and smart contacts couldn’t be doing better.
On an unrelated topic, does anyone want to buy some NFTs? I can give you a really good deal. No take-backs, though.
- Comment on US education 1 month ago:
Man, talk about a deep fried JPEG. If it was slightly more blurry with a few more artifacts I wouldn’t be able to read it at all.
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 1 month ago:
I clicked through and had to go to a second linked article(!) for the top 5. The #1 is “Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas”, which is pretty much a blue city now.
This doesn’t really support your claim that “they are all red”. Also, we call a “blueish spot surrounded by red” a blue city.
From what I am learning about in this thread is there isn’t really the idea of a “red city”, so when people talk shit about “blue cities” they are just talking about city life in general. There does not appear to be any very large cities filled with Republicans.
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 1 month ago:
So next time someone trots out the “life in blue cities is hell…” sounds like I can just bring up Miami
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 1 month ago:
Miami has its share of violent crime, doesn’t it?
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- Comment on I'm doing my part! 1 month ago:
I hear this argument over and over again: “Why should I bother recycling? China is poisoning the planet.” It’s like reverse-whataboutism. I find it really lazy and a pointless attitude. The argument generalizes to: “Why do anything good when bad exists in the world?”
Cleanliness is its own reward. I can tell you if I lived in stink-town where 100% of everyone else’s house was a festering mess, I would keep mine clean.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 1 month ago:
Being ecologically friendly is its own reward.
If your neighbor’s house and lawn is cluttered with garbage and rotting food, do you also let your house gather the same?
Or do you wish they did a better job and kept your house clean all the same?
What if you had 95 neighbors all full of garbage and rotted food? Is there any number that would make you do the same?
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 2 months ago:
He seems to disagree that it can’t be fixed:
“Starting on Day 1, we will end inflation and make America affordable again,” he said at a campaign event in August.
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 2 months ago:
There are very, very few. I cited some cannabis policy above.
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 2 months ago:
I don’t see this happening, but let’s say he reverses course and renounces all his past decisions, steps down and the USA enters a new golden age. Should we be totally against that too? For any given position, I try to keep in mind what would have to happen to make me reverse that decision. If the answer is “nothing”, then I may be missing something, or maybe I am letting my personal prejudices get in the way of what could be a good outcome.
It’s often confusing when someone we really dislike does something we agree with, but it is a thing that can and will happen from time to time.
I look at this similarly to how I view my atheism. If a God were to appear and demonstrate all kinds of supernatural activity and capability, I think I’d have to renounce my atheism. I don’t think that’s likely to happen, but if it did, I do have a condition where I would reverse my belief.
Same thing with being anti-Trump. I am for now, but there are certain unlikely conditions that would make me reconsider that, should they occur.
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 2 months ago:
LOL! The guy said the trade deal that was made between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico (USMCA) was done by an idiot and had to be re-done.
That was HIS DEAL! HE WROTE IT!!!
Well, he’s not wrong…
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 2 months ago:
I have to really, really dig for this one, but Trump’s attitude re: cannabis is that it should be up to the states to decide, and has also been quoted as supporting medical cannabis. I think overall, this is a good move, not as good as it being Federally legal would be, but a step in the right direction.
It’s just the other 99.95% of the things that he does I don’t agree with. :)
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 2 months ago:
Don’t fall for the fallacy of binary thinking. A good way to oversimplify your opponents/enemies is to put them totally in another category from yourself. Life is rarely this simple. There’s a huge continuum of beliefs and behaviors that fall between these two belief systems.
I recall my acquaintance being surprised that I wasn’t for “open borders” even though I voted for Biden. The idea that one could have a belief that is independent of Trump and Biden had not occurred to him.
- Comment on is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal 2 months ago:
This sounds like it would be something that’s an interesting anecdote and a “GOTCHA”. Has there ever been any confirmation of this from Grindr? As amusing of a story it is, it’s only really useful information if it’s provable.
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 2 months ago:
I’m 100% sure that’s true for some people, but I do not believe that you can put people into two buckets: Totally against Trump and totally for Trump. I am really disinterested in people that DO fall into either of those categories, as they are beyond reason.
However, I’m interested in anyone that falls outside those categories, as those are the people whose minds can be changed.
- Submitted 2 months ago to [deleted] | 76 comments
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 2 months ago:
Is this lady using her phone while driving, after speeding by 20MPH and thinking it’s a flex? If she uses it at 20MPH I’d bet she uses it at 70 MPH too! Couldn’t this have waited until she was safely off the road?
- Comment on is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal 2 months ago:
Is this why Republican senators keep getting caught kissin’ with other men in public restrooms?