ArbitraryValue
@ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Will I ever be seen as truly British? 1 week ago:
I know the feeling. I’ve been in the USA for decades, almost my entire life, but as soon as I say anything, everyone can immediately hear that I’m not American. People who ask me about it are well-meaning and curious. I still don’t like it, but I try not to show it.
- Comment on Anon shares their highschool mascot 1 week ago:
I don’t think many actual Turkish people would be offended by this.
- Comment on Anon ends racism 1 week ago:
Anon must be a slow learner if it took him this long to figure out that Latina women are hot.
- Comment on Living 1 week ago:
Ladybugs are predators too and they look cute. You have no excuse.
- Comment on Anon makes a satanic pact 1 week ago:
The joke is on Satan. Anon was already a soulless husk.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 2 weeks ago:
Guilt.
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s one of God’s hilarious jokes that women have what men want (lots of people who want to have sex with them) but the women don’t want it. They should trade places with me - no one is trying to sleep with me…
- Comment on Republicans / conservatives are winning the immigration and values game. Am I misguided? (read post) 2 weeks ago:
Uh, how common do you think mail-order brides are?
- Comment on my humps 2 weeks ago:
Well, no. The one in the middle would do it because he wanted to eat you. The hippo is a vegetarian who would do it for the sheer joy of killing.
- Comment on SpidermanMyBack.jpg 2 weeks ago:
Does that doll have Spock’s head?
- Comment on Has ethernet become illegitimate? A librarian flipped out after spotting me using ethernet 2 weeks ago:
Well, you were trying to bypass one of their security measures. They require SMS verification so that they can track you in case you break their rules. Presumably this is why they also block other means of anonymizing yourself.
- Comment on Theoretical Physics 3 weeks ago:
In my experience, it’s actually the other way around: physicists can think in terms of equations, without having to visualize them. I generally can’t do that myself - I would get frustrated at talks where the presenter just had slide after slide of equations but some people could read those slides the way I read ordinary English text.
- Comment on This manhole placement is more than mildly infuriating 4 weeks ago:
The summoning circle is broken! You’re free!
- Comment on doggos 4 weeks ago:
My dog would walk around while pooping, with a weird gait that involved putting his back paws ahead of his front paws. I once saw another dog do a handstand to poop.
- Comment on Piracy 4 weeks ago:
This is why I was so disappointed after the first time I appropriated someone’s culture.
- Comment on LEARN THE DIFFERENCE PEOPLE 👏👏👏 4 weeks ago:
A great guide to extant archosaurs!
- Comment on Casually dropped this tidbit 4 weeks ago:
I’m not convinced that this represents “understanding the concept of zero” in a nontrivial sense. Are there species that can be taught to pick the picture with fewer shapes but then don’t prefer a picture with no shapes?
- Comment on snek id 5 weeks ago:
This is for after you get drunk and sleep with the snake, when you need to decide whether or not to stay until morning.
- Comment on At least he's honest 5 weeks ago:
calls himself a predator
van isn’t windowless
I can’t even.
- Comment on Guys will meet him and just say "hell yeah!" 5 weeks ago:
If Tourette’s involves a compulsion to say socially inappropriate things, what happens if those things don’t turn out to be socially inappropriate? Does the compulsion switch to something else? Does it fade?
- Comment on Florida woman who stole, sold Biden's daughter's diary sentenced to 1 month in prison 5 weeks ago:
We already knew the diary was real and this ruling doesn’t include any new information about the actual contents of the diary. Plus, it’s a big jump from “Biden did some weird nudist stuff” which is what the purported diary actually claims to “Biden is a pedophile”.
- Comment on It doesn't matter now if you are sad or blue. 1 month ago:
It’s show-accurate, for those wondering. At one point, Pinkie Pie makes a bunch of magical clones of herself, but they’re really annoying so her friend Twilight Sparkle pops them like balloons. It’s OK though, the original Pinkie Pie survives. (Probably.)
- Comment on Science is a conversation 2 months ago:
Just say no to revisionists. Take brontosaurus back!
- Comment on Someone gets killed by a car, so they restrict e-bikes. 2 months ago:
I don’t know about Oregon, but I see how most people ride their e-bikes here in NYC and it makes me suspect that most e-bike/car collisions are the e-bike’s fault.
- Comment on tawny frogmouth 2 months ago:
He doesn’t look so tawny to me…
- Comment on Health gains of low-traffic schemes up to 100 times greater than costs, study finds 2 months ago:
I suppose it depends on what the “greater good” is. If I was doing significant harm or likely to do significant harm in a way that could only be prevented by not driving (for example, if I was a dangerous driver due to some disability) then I would feel a moral obligation not to drive. If, however, I was simply causing a very small part of a much bigger problem (such a pollution) then I would be open to paying a tax or fee to compensate for the harm I was doing, but I would still drive. I think I contribute to society and therefore I do feel entitled to use a fair share of society’s resources. If I was merely offending the sensibilities of people who think that a society with fewer drivers is better in some unquantifiable moral or aesthetic way then I wouldn’t feel any obligation to cooperate with them.
- Comment on Health gains of low-traffic schemes up to 100 times greater than costs, study finds 2 months ago:
I’ll be frank. I don’t seem to understand the justification for policies whose primary purpose appears to be a malicious desire to make life harder for those people still lucky enough to be able to drive. Smug, paternalistic articles about how preventing people from doing what they want to is actually for their own good don’t help.
- Comment on Health gains of low-traffic schemes up to 100 times greater than costs, study finds 2 months ago:
It doesn’t seem right to count only the cost of implementing the low-traffic schemes (which is low) and not the cost of people having to spend more time and more effort in order to get to places. I’m not in London but I am in a city without accessible parking, so I walk to work every day. It takes me 25 minutes each way to walk about 1.2 miles. If I lived somewhere where driving to work was a realistic option, I could save about half an hour a day or I could have a lot more options when choosing where to live instead of living as close to work as I can afford. I used to be somewhere where I could drive 4 miles to work in less than ten minutes. There, if I spent the same amount of time commuting as I do now, the area where I could choose to live would be 75 times larger. (Since it scales with the square of the distance traveled.) And, of course, walking is unpleasant most of the time, when the weather is rainy, too hot, or too cold.
So sure, living somewhere where I walk every day is good for my health. I would still much rather be able to drive.
- Comment on "tHeRe'$ n0 rEpL@CeMeNt FoR dIsPlaCeMeNt!!!1!!!1!!“ 3 months ago:
A real car guy wouldn’t have anything in particular against EVs because he already drew the line at automatic transmissions.