frezik

@frezik@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tender moments⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, doubt that would be better. Among the Ethically Non-Monogmous, couples looking for a third are considered the worst. They’re invariably looking for a woman to play out the guy’s MFF fantasy. She might be OK with it as a birthday present for him or whatever, but it’s not something she’d choose to do otherwise. If they do manage to find someone, it often doesn’t go well.

  I think these couples need to put some cash aside and find an escort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wolf Reboot⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  PETA is still against it. Adding to the evidence that PETA is not a serious organization.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sus⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone in a polycule, that could very soon not be true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This would have come from a time when ancient Judaism was evolving out of its polytheistic roots. The early sections of the Hebrew scriptures tended to treat other gods as existing, but you’re only supposed to worship YHWH.

  Likely, there was some specific ritual that had been used in local polytheistic practices, and it’s specifically telling you not to do that.

  This is an issue for the sort of fundamentalists who insist that absolutely everything in the bible is useful for modern times. You say that, but then what’s this goat milk thing about? How about all the idolatry prohibitions when many modern Christians won’t regularly encounter religions that use idols? Why is there a whole book devoted to Solomon’s horny poetry?

  You can kinda come up with answers to those, but they will invariably involve some kind of “reading between the lines”. That is, reading assumptions into the text that aren’t explicitly stated. Which fundamentalists also say you’re not supposed to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a technicality. Jesus didn’t require any of the old law to be followed unless expressly said otherwise. The only two things that were expressly said otherwise was “love God” and “love your neighbor”. Therefore, baby goat milk boiling is fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Found Lily and Mitch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I require extraordinary evidence to believe that checks thread again a five year old had a tantrum about a dress in Target.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To whom it may concern⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Credit card companies are. USPS doesn’t have data entry people who would open the package.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To whom it may concern⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  People don’t take those jobs as a choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To whom it may concern⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d just be annoying some data entry employee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To whom it may concern⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This wouldn’t work, anyway. They only prepay envelope postage, not a box.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To whom it may concern⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d just be traumatizing some low level data entry employee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft confuses me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Best to get them desensitized to dopamine when they’re young. Less disappointment when they’re older.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Put him on the cart.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  New DnD artifact dropped.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Put him on the cart.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, they did. Telling if someone was really dead was difficult until modern medicine figured it out in the last century or so. People got buried alive by unwitting village elders all the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has his way⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I prefer slow, but I also like pleasing my partners. I straight up tell them that if you say “do whatever you want with me”, it’s gonna be slow. If they want to be slammed harder than Pete Hegseth downing a beer, then they need to say that.

  Communication, people. I know it’s cliche to say communication is important, but it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In heat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We all know how AI has made things worse, but here’s some context on how it’s outright backwards.

  Early search engines had a context problem. To use an example from “Halt and Catch Fire”, if you search for “Texas Cowboy”, do you mean the guys on horseback driving a herd of cows, or do you mean the football team? If you search for “Dallas Cowboys”, should that bias the results towards a different answer? Early, naive search engines gave bad results for cases like that. Spat out whatever keywords happen to hit the most.

  Sometimes, it was really bad. In high school, I was showing a history teacher how to use search engines, and he searched for “China golden age”. All results were asian porn. I think we were using Yahoo.

  AltaVista largely solved the context problem. We joke about its bad results now, but it was one of the better search engines before Google PageRank.

  Now we have AI unsolving the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  TIL boobs look bigger on CRTs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God is a dick.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We can measure its gravitation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God is a dick.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What is observable is constrained by cause and effect. To see something, information must come from there to us. That cause and effect relationship cannot happen faster than lightspeed.

  We therefore have no evidence for anything other than the observable universe. Claims about anything else run into Russell’s teapot issues. We can speculate, but it’s ultimately nothing more than a story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God is a dick.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dark Forest Theory is probably wrong. In-universe, the series unknowingly undermines it with communication tech that can transmit instantaneously. That would take away the assumption that civilizations can’t effectively communicate over interstellar distances and build trust.

  In reality, it’s something of an extension of the “every individual for themselves” mindset of evolution–something White Supremacists have loved. Kin Selection Theory does away with that. There is a basis for building trust and working together within evolution. The precursor ideas were even done in Peter Kropotkin’s “Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution” over a century ago. Kin Selection Theory put a mathematical foundation on it.

  I like the book series as literature, and the Netflix series has been OK so far (not great, but OK). Liu Cixin himself, however, has some really shitty opinions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pens in Space⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re probably thinking “it’s just carbon, nbd”, but that doesn’t mean it’s good for your lungs:

  www.inchem.org/documents/icsc/icsc/eics0893.htm

  “Repeated or prolonged inhalation of dusts may cause effects on the lungs. This may result in graphite pneumoconiosis”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kawaiiiiiii⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t Middle Earth lore say the Earth was flat, but was made spherical later? Had that happened by then?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Will they? A lot of “live service” games are failing of late.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  None, this is all theory. It can still be a contradiction on paper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s contradictory to imply any existing bank is socialist. Many branches are ultimately reaching for a moneyless society, anyway, so even a socialist bank would be transitionary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They mean Jews, but they say it that way for enlightened centrists who don’t know how that phrase is contradictory on its face.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Socialism is when banks charge you a $25 overdraft fee and rearrange transactions to force the most overdrafts” - Carl Farx

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Calling it now: it will be one of his MAGA supporters who feels betrayed somehow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When does Ubisoft realize that “you never owned it” and “you can’t complain” are arguments for not buying their next game?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨logs are for quitters⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, they do, but not as the primary or secondary. You can wrap depleated uranium around the core to capture fast neutrons that are leftover from the rest of the process. Changing the number of layers is how you can dial in a desired yield.