BrotherL0v3

@BrotherL0v3@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you draw a perfect circle?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the algorithm just compares the distance between the center and your first point to the distance between the center and each subsequent point. So, for example, drawing an imperfect but centered circle will get you more points than drawing a perfect circle that’s really off center.

  Fun toy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can I do to help?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hard disagree. Randomly murdering fascists does not a revolution make, to say nothing of the odds of winning that fight.

  Go to the gym. Be able to do cardio without dying. Work on your fitness and health. Then buy a gun. Train with it. A lot. Organize with like-minded people. Invest in community defense, look out for LGBT / immigrant / marginalized friends and family. Be prepared for violence, but keep it a last resort. When / if bullets start flying, lives with be ruined on both sides of the gun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can I do to help?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hear, hear! If anything, this election has proven that we need to work on class consciousness and the Overton window. Mutual aid, direct action, protest & strike support, salting, and civil disobedience are all ways we can produce the conditions needed for positive change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wednesday it is, my dudes.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Counterpoint: “Kwaak” is the sound a duck makes, so frogs gotta say something else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facial disfigurement: 'Restaurant asked me to leave over condition'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  He said they had told him that although it was a hate crime, it was “unlikely” officers could pursue it further.

  Next sentence:

  The Met confirmed to the BBC that officers had visited Mr Bromley about the incident and that although no arrests had been made, the force took “reports of hate crime seriously”.

  Pick one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Religious) What would i be labeled?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The purpose of my jellybean thought exercise was to show that “I don’t know” and “I don’t believe” are not mutually exclusive. Basically:

  I do not believe [x] != I believe [not x]

  I don’t believe in String Theory. String Theory may be correct for all I know: I am not a physicist, and my understanding of String Theory is cursory at best.

  Because I do not have enough evidence to warrant belief, I cannot say I believe in String Theory. But that same lack of understanding means I must also say I don’t believe that String Theory is false.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Religious) What would i be labeled?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Say you have a jar full of jellybeans. We know that the number of whole jellybeans in the jar must be either even or odd.

  If someone asks you if you believe the number of jellybeans in the jar is even, you can and should say “no” if you haven’t counted them or otherwise gathered any evidence to support that conclusion. To believe something is to say you feel it is more likely true than false, and you can’t say that about the given proposition.

  Importantly, this does not mean you do believe the number of jellybeans is odd. The fact that one of those two things must be true does not mean you have to pick one to believe and one to disbelieve. It is perfectly rational to reserve belief either way until you have evidence one way or the other. You do not believe it’s even, nor do you believe it’s odd.

  So, if we define “atheist” as “someone who does not believe in any gods”, I think you meet the definition of atheist. Just like the person in the above example does not believe the jellybeans are even & also does not believe they are odd, you don’t need to believe “there are no gods anywhere” to not believe “there is at least one god”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What have you been pondering about as of late?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel you in a big way, but to be totally fair: corporations becoming states has probably trended towards the better from a zoomed-out perspective, and political leaders lying all the time has probably only become more visible than ever.

  The entities that were doing all the colonialism for the past several hundred years have been private companies, and they did huge amounts of slavery and genocide. Blackwater is bad, but the East India Company was worse. This is not to say that things are good now, only that they aren’t like worse than they’ve ever been.

  And I think the present day has a greater expectation of political leaders being accountable to the people they govern than most of history. Back in the days of monarchs and oligarchs, there was no mass media to tell everyone they were lying and no likely consequences for the liars even if there were.

  Again, I empathize a huge amount with what you’ve said & I am also disappointed that the world we’ve created isn’t better than it is. I just personally think that the above two are trending in a more optimistic direction, even if they’re still objectively pretty bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon checks out mobile gaming⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have been enjoying Slice and Dice. Roguelikes scratch a certain itch for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My work is organizing right now, this afternoon, and I don't know what I'm doing. What are the best practices? What are the pitfslls?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you talked to EWOC? They should have someone with organizing experience that can help guide you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Female-to-male rape, (how) does it happen without roofies?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  1. Rape does not always involve physically overpowering someone. Someone may coerce someone else into sex with blackmail, lies, threats, or abuse of a position of power.

  2. Erections are controlled by a person’s autonomic nervous system. A man can get hard even when he is not turned on or consenting to what is happening.

  3. Not all rape involves a penis. A woman who sticks an object into a man without his consent is committing rape. Rape is about power and control over another person, and the rapist need not be directly stimulated for rape to occur.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doom: The Dark Ages is introducing big changes to combat because id Software came to one core realization: "Every projectile mattered in the original Doom"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad I’m not the only one with that criticism. I enjoyed the first game so much more because of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rip megafauna lol⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Silly me, I thought you were trying to make a picture of an animal with a gun!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rip megafauna lol⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The receiver is backwards and there are two ejection ports.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neuro-biology of trans-sexuality : Prof. Robert Sapolsky⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This whole class is on YouTube if you search “Stanford human behavioral biology”. Highly recommend it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Planet, some string and a bell.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I did some numbers because it sounded fun.

  Earth’s diameter is 41.804 million feet. I’m not sure if you meant that or Earth’s circumference when you said “Earth’s surface”, but I figure either one is gonna get us a really big number.

  The first result I can find for string comes in a pack that weighs 2.89oz and contains 328 feet of string.

  Using that as our standard, you would need 127,452 packs of string (assuming you find a way to perfectly attach them without wasting any length on knots).

  127,452 * (2.89 / 16) = 23,021 lbs of string total.

  So if we ignore the string stretching, compressing, or breaking, you’d only need to be able to pull 11ish tons of string to ring the bell!