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- Comment on How Do You PROVE Discrimination in America? | Massive Case Study Discussion #SOC119 5 days ago:
Sweet jesus, that was insufferable.
Spoilers to save everyone 20 minutes: a professor briefly describes a study meant to measure racial bias, then spends the entirety of the video pressuring 4 (nervous?) students to speculate on the study’s outcome.
He never says whether the study is real or not, or what the outcome was if it were real. The students spend most of the video giving hesitant answers because, obviously, they don’t know. Also, they’re probably not stupid and recognize there’s a high likelihood that the professor is setting up a cute “gotcha!” situation where the study’s outcome is not what one might expect, making anyone who defended the straight-forward answer the butt of a joke in front of all their peers.
The video ends with him finger-wagging at the students for being so hesitant to speculate, insisting that media and culture per-indoctornates them to presume the study would prove racial bias.
Like, WTF bro?
- Comment on Movie intros in 2026 5 days ago:
Mounting the OLED cinema display right behind your ultrawide gaming battlestation, then putting your living room couch on the other side of the room is giving me an interior design headache.
- Comment on There are ultimately only so many damn angles, okay!? 1 week ago:
me receiving all those guys nudes
- Comment on Regular Animals(2025), Art Basel Miami Beach - Mike Winkelmann(Beeple) 1 week ago:
They are “certificates of authenticity”, a joke on the NFT ownership craze of a while back.
I couldn’t find any photos of them tho.
- Comment on The best games of 2025, picked by NPR's staff 1 week ago:
That’s a surprisingly deep list.
- Comment on It is permnent! You are become him. 3 weeks ago:
So’s the haircut.
- Comment on We'll pay you $10,000 to DE-shitify this Samsung refrigerator 1 month ago:
I don’t know if this would be possible given the bounty’s requirements.
Let’s say you come up with some new firmware for the fridge that replaces all the hostnames on the advertising calls with ‘localhost’. Great. But if all other features on the device need to keep functioning, including any phone-home firmware update functionality, the fridge will re-enshitify itself on its next update. It either needs new fridge hardware (not allowed in the bounty requirements) or some kind of network container (like pi-hole, also not allowed).
So the entire bounty is an exercise in futility. But… perhaps that’s the point.
This is a demonstration of why the law, as written, is fucked and needs to be changed. I think that may be the main the point.
- Comment on Are there good Movies, TV Shows, Anime, with wholesome family (particularly parent-child) relations? 1 month ago:
I’ve only seen the animated series, so that.
- Comment on Are there good Movies, TV Shows, Anime, with wholesome family (particularly parent-child) relations? 1 month ago:
Barakamon (2014)
After torpedoing his career, a young, lonely calligrapher gets sent to a remote island community where he befriends the local townsfolk and a precocious child. Its quiet lovely and I think you’ll kind of a lot.
And it looks like someone has put the entire series, with English subtitles, up on YouTube:
- Comment on Are there good Movies, TV Shows, Anime, with wholesome family (particularly parent-child) relations? 1 month ago:
I’ll admit that this does sound kind a joke suggestion, but I’m serious, after a hard day, sit down, suck up your pride and put an episode or two of Bluey on. It’s a warm blanket on a cold day.
- Comment on snail lyfe 1 month ago:
I don’t know where the adorably precocious children in this screenshot are purported to come from. Every kid I’ve ever met who questions me about my gender has been an argumentative little shit that wants to make a point out of not believing me.
- Comment on do it cowards 1 month ago:
Skeets & toots ahoy!
- Comment on Fact 1 month ago:
Revision draft:
“The only boots worth licking are your dommy-mommy’s.”
- Comment on Trans adults waiting on average 25 years for NHS gender clinic appointments 1 month ago:
Absolute monsters.
- Comment on PhDebaters 2 months ago:
Degenerates only want one thing and it’s disgusting fucking.
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 2 months ago:
Last time Microsoft tried something like this, they got the shit slapped out of them by federal antitrust regulators:
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 months ago:
Acceleration, temperature, body configuration (positioning), pain, balance and hunger are all related to touch in one way or another.
Time, however, is legit. Along with emotion. Maybe you could call the 6th sense cognition?
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 months ago:
More extracts from that same podcast:
In each case, right up until the moment I received evidence to the contrary, all this misinformation, these supposed facts, felt true to me. I had believed them for decades and I had accepted them in part because they seemed to confirm all sorts of other ideas and opinions floating around in my mind. Plus they would have been great ways to illustrate complicated concepts, if not for the pesky fact that they were, in fact, not facts.
That’s one of the reasons why common misconceptions and false beliefs like these spread from conversation to conversation and survive from generation to generation and become anecdotal currency in our marketplace of ideas. They confirm our assumptions and validate our opinions and, thus, they raise few skeptical alarms. They make sense and they help us make sense of other things.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 months ago:
I have a song for you:
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 months ago:
A short list of things you didn’t realize were false, stolen from the most recent episode of the You Are Not So Smart podcast:
- “The original 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds lead to a mass panic.” – It did not. However, rumors of a panic spread via newspaper op-eds about how it was a bad idea to get your news on any other medium besides newspapers. Citation: slate.com/…/orson-welles-war-of-the-worlds-panic-…
- “You can boil a frog in a pot by gradually raising the temperature of the water.” – This doesn’t work; frogs just jump out when they get uncomfortable. Citation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
- “Lemmings march off cliffs to their deaths because they blindly follow one another.” – They don’t. Citation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming#Misconceptions
- “…but I saw it in a Disney documentary!” – Nope. Turns out the filmmakers paid local kids to capture a bunch of lemmings, spin them around to make them dizzy, then manually threw them off cliffs and filmed it. Citation: hyperallergic.com/…/white-wilderness-disney-natur…
- Comment on Southern hospitality 2 months ago:
west hollywood indeed
- Comment on No words 2 months ago:
Rich enough to outrun consequences.
- Comment on Heisenberg vs. THE BEAST 3 months ago:
Could you not?
- Comment on THE NEXT CLANKER BETTER DO MY GODDAMN DISHES 3 months ago:
You were directionally evolved by monsters who resented artists’ ability to create value through pure expression. Mimicking the conjuring of that value was at once a parlor trick, then a means to undercut the livelihood of anyone not willing to explicitly and finitely explain the art they created (thus giving it metric to be measured by and value-assigned).
The wax ring and plumbers putty are set. Keep the caulk dry for 36 hours and try to not touch it or it could crack.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow at CF 25: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It 3 months ago:
The series he did for the CBC’s Understood podcast was a pretty great A-to-Z on how we got here and how to unfuck ourselves: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuMdLmjdG8dfDZ5fIB…
- Comment on Aerial footage shows aftermath of massive train derailment in Texas 3 months ago:
Cursed content juxtaposition
- Comment on Cheat Codes Activated 4 months ago:
Furries:
- Comment on How YOU Can Make Cops Stop Uhaul Nazis 5 months ago:
I honestly thing the use of u-haul trucks is a fluke. Future deployments will have them showing up in vans and buses.
- Comment on Whaooo Wah Hey Ha! 5 months ago:
It’s the elusive search for multi-quadrant musicians that will be palatable to country music fans along with literally any other audience.
- Comment on "I Took Every American Airlines “Flight” That’s Actually a Bus" 6 months ago:
As wacky as this seems, this makes a ton of sense the more that I think about it, specifically for smaller regional airports that are less than a 2-hr drive from a larger airport.
If your origin or destination is anywhere aside from a major city, there’s a lot of value in starting your trip at a closer regional airport. You get the small-airport TSA treatment, which is always faster than major city airports. The terminal itself is going to be considerably better-appointed than virtually any bus terminal (commerce, staffing, accessibility, etc). No need to travel between a bus and airport terminal if it’s all in the same building. Ticketing works along-side existing systems, as well as baggage-handling. And a bus requires a hell of a lot less fuel than a jet, making it a more eco-friendly option as well.
People better at modeling than me could probably build a graph of time and feature benefits for air and bus travel, which I’d imagine would show bang-for-buck on buses being superior (despite their speed and moderate prestige) for trips or travel-legs less than 150 miles or so. Any destination or hop further than that would probably make more sense for a plane.
