ArbitraryValue
@ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Anon has a unique origin story 4 hours ago:
My native language is Russian and I met a black woman who spoke Russian better than I do. Her parents were diplomats, and she was fluent in a couple of other languages too because her family lived in several different countries when she was growing up.
- Comment on Clippy's coming for you 2 days ago:
Man, this hits close to home. Just yesterday I decided to get in touch with an old friend from college and I found out that she had died in a car accident years ago, not long after I lost touch with her. Don’t put things off, folks.
- Comment on US Elections question: Bernie Sanders said that the Democrats abandoned the working class, and the working class abandoned them. How is this true? 1 week ago:
There are two components to this question. Did many in the working class feel that Democrats had abandoned them? And is Trump’s economic policy actually better for the working class than Harris’s? I think the answers are “yes” and “probably no”. However, voters don’t listen to economists. If they’re not happy with the status quo, they vote for disrupting the status quo even if experts tell them that that’s a bad idea.
I suppose Sanders thinks that the working class would have supported a Democratic candidate who proposed a leftward (as opposed to Trump’s rightward) disruption. My guess is that that isn’t true and socialism is still a dirty word in America, but who knows?
- Comment on Bears Cave 1 week ago:
- Comment on The most powerful brain on Twitter 1 week ago:
He’s not wrong about the squirrel.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The dip only lasted a few months. By August of 2020, the market was back to where it had been before the dip in February.
- Comment on There are Minimum Wages, Why Not a Maximum Wage? 2 weeks ago:
I think “freedom” resonates emotionally in different ways for different people. If you try to pass a law making it illegal to drink bleach, I will oppose that law. I certainly don’t want to drink bleach, but right now I have the freedom to drink it and you would be trying to take away that freedom. It has value to me even though I intend never to exercise it. I think this is what makes me lean towards libertarianism whereas you appear to be more inclined towards a welfare state. (I don’t mean that pejoratively.)
- Comment on Most of the trick-or-treaters have been skipping my house, and I finally figured out why 2 weeks ago:
Finally, a day when it is acceptable for me to lure children into my van!
- Comment on Anon learns about World War II 2 weeks ago:
World War II would have been called unrealistic if it was fictional.
- Comment on anon working as behaviour interventionist 2 weeks ago:
One time I was walking along when I remembered a funny Simpsons episode and for some reason I said “You can turn a regular gun into five guns!” out loud.
There was an entire family staring at me.
- Comment on The grand prize 2 weeks ago:
I’m seeing $30,000 per ton there (as of 2018) so wouldn’t the cubic meter cost about $640,000?
- Comment on Anon gives up dating apps 2 weeks ago:
It’s funny because when I was growing up my dad gave me a hard time because I wasn’t very manly, but it turns out that all the stuff I like is as manly as things get, in the sense that very few women have any interest in it. Too bad I’m not gay. It’s not PC to say this, but I think I would have been happier if I was.
- Comment on what's stops one from scavenging the best parts of old phones and putting them into a new one? 2 weeks ago:
Don’t forget about device drivers. I can’t even install a newer version of Android on my Android phone because the community never managed to get the antenna to work after upgrading the OS.
- Comment on Anon needs tips. 2 weeks ago:
At least he’s trying. Body language is one of those things that makes me think in terms of “humans” rather than “people”. Human body language is beyond me.
- Comment on Brazilian Wandering Spider 3 weeks ago:
So, uh, is the spider hotter in person? Because the picture isn’t doing it for me.
- Comment on It's a learning exercise 3 weeks ago:
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel.
- Comment on Anon is unpopular in high school 3 weeks ago:
Where are the other kids getting tampons to throw at him?
- Comment on How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/ 4 weeks ago:
There’s no logical contradiction between believing that some people should be killed and believing that other people shouldn’t be killed. You might as well ask why a soldier would shoot at his enemies but not his allies.
- Comment on Anon plays shirts vs skins 4 weeks ago:
There were showers in the locker rooms when I was in school, but the ordinary gym classes never used them. (Maybe the sports teams did?) I think I would rather have dropped out than showered naked in school.
- Comment on Anon wants a cute girlfriend. 4 weeks ago:
They are blaming bad luck for their shitty personality.
I wish I was the kind of guy who liked being social and meeting new people, but I’m not. I can force myself to do it, but I can’t force myself to do it much (and I think people can tell that I would rather be going to the dentist). I didn’t choose to be like this, and I didn’t choose whatever inborn characteristics and childhood experiences made me end up like this. I do think I got unlucky.
I’m not trying to complain about my fate here. I think I got lucky in a lot of other ways. I’m just saying that it isn’t fair to tell people that they would be happier if only they were someone else.
- Comment on Anon wants a cute girlfriend. 4 weeks ago:
If we feel it’s so important to have a cute girlfriend, then should we not respect that a woman might want a cute boyfriend?
Isn’t that what anon is doing? He’s lamenting that because he is neither good looking nor particularly charismatic, the women he wants to date have no good reason to date him.
- Comment on Anon goes on a double date 4 weeks ago:
One time when I was on a second date, the woman told me that I seemed like quite a pessimist. I said “No, if I were a pessimist, I would never stop screaming.” She didn’t want to see me again after that but I still chuckle whenever I remember it.
- Comment on Why do residential skyscrapers always seem to include balconies that never get used? 4 weeks ago:
Heh, I walk around naked with the blinds open because where I live, people would need binoculars to see me and if they choose to, their resulting suffering is their own fault. One advantage of being unattractive…
- Comment on Why do residential skyscrapers always seem to include balconies that never get used? 4 weeks ago:
I think people value private outdoor space differently than public outdoor space. I don’t actually have a balcony but I think I would usually prefer a private space to a public one, even if the public one was much nicer.
- Comment on Why do residential skyscrapers always seem to include balconies that never get used? 4 weeks ago:
That’s funny. I see all the skyscrapers around here with balconies and I get jealous, but I never thought about the fact that I almost never seen people on those balconies until I read your question.
- Comment on Why do residential skyscrapers always seem to include balconies that never get used? 4 weeks ago:
I wanted a balcony but the real estate agent politely implied that I couldn’t afford one in the area where I was looking for housing. With that said, I can see myself using it for just an hour or two a week while the weather is nice. I like the idea of sitting out on the balcony but in practice it’s noisy out there and boring to do on my own.
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 weeks ago:
What I read was that it’s about 200mg per kg, so for a 70kg human that works out to 14 grams. That actually sounds remarkably high (14 grams is a lot). Did I mess up somewhere?
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 weeks ago:
What I had in mind is more like this 25kg bucket.
I’ve never actually seen caffeine in a bucket myself, but I worked in a lab once that had a big plastic jar of it.
- Comment on Mine's a Juicer 4 weeks ago:
The apartment I bought had cabinets with fake, decorative drawers on them. Except it turned out that one of those drawers wasn’t decorative. It was just stuck.
Inside there was a full set of silverware (as in literal silver) from the 60’s complete with the original receipt. It’s work thousands of dollars. I guess whoever lived there before me was in no condition to pack and the people who packed didn’t know about the silver…
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 weeks ago:
Caffeine is poisonous to us too. It’s generally not possible for a healthy person to drink enough coffee to die, but they sell pure caffeine (for research) and even seemingly small amounts of that will kill a person.
