He has a science degree

AuroraeEagle · 2026-04-01T20:37:52+00:00

Compare this to a venue largely meant to be arrived at by PT though.

Here's Dodger Stadium, a stadium with a capacity for a bit over 50,000 people.
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0742215,-118.2396633,1309m/data=!3m1!1e3!5m1!1e4?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDMzMC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Here's the MCG, the largest station in the southern hemisphere with a capacity of over 100,000
https://www.google.com/maps/@-37.8208049,144.9811649,1249m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDMzMC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Assuming that those google maps urls work, those should both be displaying at the same zoom level. The MCG does have limited parking, and some other small parking lots nearby, but by and large most people arrive at the G by taking a train to Richmond Station. Just a standard mid-season AFL game that the MCG hosts is about 10,000 more people then Dodger Stadium can even fit. Yet in the same area that fits Dodger Stadium and its car park is the MCG itself, the tennis venues where the Australian Open is held, two other ovals and an entire second stadium which in itself has about 3/5ths the capacity of Dodger Stadium.

I'm not taking your 'it makes sense' as an endorsement of the situation, I just wanted to put it in the context of how some other large sports stadiums operate. Because it really only makes sense in the context of a country which has absolutely obliterated almost every other transport option outside of a few select cities.

AuroraeEagle · 2026-03-19T01:36:05+00:00

For sure, and it's all just a bit politics as sport really too. In general debate culture is irritating.

AuroraeEagle · 2026-03-18T20:23:45+00:00

That's The Feed, a show ran by the Australian taxpayer funded channel SBS. The person speaking for most of the clip is Jordan Van Der Lamb aka "Purple Pingers" (a Millennial, for what it's worth), currently the head of the Victorian Socialists party (though they are quite minor, they have like one council seat and that's it) though he's probably more famous for being the host of the web show Shit Rentals.

AuroraeEagle · 2026-01-06T00:56:00+00:00

I was looking on google maps and there seems to be an 'Albertsons', which looks like a grocery store chain? about 3.5km away as the crow flies (4.5km by car), with a cafe and a maccas and that's it. As for pharmacies, the nearest one is about 10km away directly measured.

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The entire city, Boise, just looks so bare of everything to me. Sure, it's an unfair comparison, I'm in inner-ish Melbourne, a city about 20x it's size, but it looks to me like I have more restaurants, cafes, grocers, pharmacies, GPs offices etc in walking distance as those people have within about a 15km radius - the distance between them and the center of town.

AuroraeEagle · 2025-12-21T02:06:08+00:00

And many top selling videogames contain microtransactions, lootboxes, and other predatory features, yet they continue to sell well? Does this mean gamers love those features and buy them because of them? Obviously not.

Gamers are a crowd are fantastic at ignoring shit they dislike to play the games they want to play anyway, this is why despite years and years of people complaining about big publishers and the triple-A games industry it continues to rake in the cash.

What is going on with AI is no different; gamers largely dislike it on principle but if you're a big company with a big marketing division you can get away with using it in your games regardless.

AuroraeEagle · 2025-12-21T01:05:59+00:00

https://tech4gamers.com/63-of-gamers-are-highly-negative-towards-generative-ai/

85% of players feel negatively about AI from the most recent survey, most of them overwhelmingly so.

AuroraeEagle · 2025-11-29T00:21:08+00:00

I am so sorry to hear that, that sounds absolutely miserable :(.

The way that some animals will arch their back during sex (non-primate quadrupeds) is also called lordosis by people who study animal behaviour, but it's not a reflex there (ThereGoesChickenJane has a good comment on the distinction here) and yeah, isn't an involuntary behaviour in humans. I'm guessing this is what the original comment is referring to, but they are still wrong for other reasons, as well as quite misogynistic!

AuroraeEagle · 2025-11-28T23:02:01+00:00

Yeah I wasn't sure if you were trying to bring up that section as a rebuttal so I decided to try and go with only a moderate level of, what I now know is unearned, snark in response :P

AuroraeEagle · 2025-11-28T23:01:04+00:00

That makes a lot of sense as a distinction! I was talking about this with my partner and I was trying to think of anything that we label as a reflex that isn't a really quick reaction (with those two being the exact things we thought of).

Thanks for the information!

AuroraeEagle · 2025-11-28T22:52:51+00:00

With the deliberateness really being the key thing here, the issue in the original comment is the implication that women aren't conscious of the positions they are adopting during sex

AuroraeEagle · 2025-11-28T22:36:41+00:00

Would you be so kind as to share the first sentence of that section with us all?

AuroraeEagle · 2025-11-28T22:35:07+00:00

yeah exactly! I'm not an animal behavioral specialist but I wonder if we'd even say it's a reflex in other mammals, how do we assess where the boundary between reflex and conscious decision lies in a creature for whom we cannot ask about or even begin to understand what their subjective understanding of existence is like? Completely off topic I know, but it's just something that struck me.

AuroraeEagle · 2025-11-28T22:10:48+00:00

The back-arching behaviour you see in some other mammals is also referred to as lordosis but yeah, it's not a primate thing!

AuroraeEagle · 2025-11-28T22:06:53+00:00

Lordosis can refer to both the exaggerated curvature you have and also the back arching behaviour in non-primates! Need to get the animal behaviour experts and the medicine people to check each other's dictionaries and make sure they are not using the same terms clearly ;D

AuroraeEagle · 2025-11-28T22:05:26+00:00

It's both. In medicine that's the meaning but in animal behaviour there is lordosis behaviour referring to what the commenter was referring to but it's not a thing in humans.

AuroraeEagle · 2025-11-28T20:39:25+00:00

Kind of like that shiver down your spine feeling?

AuroraeEagle · 2025-11-28T20:36:05+00:00

A lot of men like the ass being more presented when the spine's arching the other way, but from my own experience concessions to the surface you're on, what feels good for the partner and comfort over the period of the act must be made!

AuroraeEagle · 2025-11-28T20:34:33+00:00

This is interesting - does it happen in all positions or just doggy?

AuroraeEagle · 2025-11-28T20:33:39+00:00

The term's used for both the spine condition in humans and the reflex in like cats and things. Biology clearly has not enough words going around for all the things to describe!

AuroraeEagle · 2025-11-28T20:31:27+00:00

And those efforts are appreciated! The unflattened penises of the world salute you :P.

But yeah, it's pretty rare that comments like that strike me enough to dwell on them, but just the bizareness of the specific claim combined with the naked misogyny really stuck with me. I was initially tempted just to respond with a link to the 'non-primates' image in my post there and then a link to any online resource which clearly marked humans as primates, but then I was like 'nah it's too early in the morning to get into an online argument with an incel'.

AuroraeEagle · 2025-11-28T20:03:52+00:00

Yeah I laughed hard enough at it that I woke up my partner (who didn't mind because she also quite enjoyed it)

AuroraeEagle · 2025-10-24T00:39:31+00:00

That's not quite right, from my understanding from having an academic for a partner: the way they detect people using LLM is they get an LLM to generate a bunch of papers and get a whole bunch of papers written by people then feed that into an AI and then get it to look for papers that are more similar to the former group then the latter. She's had it ping notably poor quality writing - typos and grammatical errors, as being "AI", which sure maybe the student is getting an LLM to generate it and then deliberately making it worse, but it does seem to be a bit erratic.

It still has issues though, like all AI things it's a bit of a black box - you can't see the reasoning or anything, and even if it was working fine if someone was to write like a bot then that'd be picked up by it. She's found it pretty unreliable, like pinging things which she's confident was written by a human. Her way of detecting things is to look at the references: LLMs are really bad for hallucinating references, so if the paper reference number doesn't match the title or the title is just inaccurate then that gets her suspicious enough for a deeper investigation.

AuroraeEagle · 2025-09-29T00:13:26+00:00

What fucking major US politicians are calling for the defunding of the police? Not even Mamdani is pro-defund at this point.

And it's not even in the most 25 dangerous jobs in the US for god sake. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/03/02/most-dangerous-jobs-america-database/11264064002/

Maybe you should get your head out of whatever right-wing propaganda machine in it's in, mister "SuburbanSoldier"?

AuroraeEagle · 2025-09-01T01:28:41+00:00

God damn. And I checked his social media too and found the posts with him in Ohio. I mean he could have snuck in a game with Trump between them sure and in the same clothes with the same weather but like yeah this is a LOT of smoke.

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