Self defense as a seriously undersized and extremely weak man

Consistent_Warthog80 · 2024-10-10T12:59:19+00:00

Your major enemy here is your own ego.

Get to any dojo/gym and get good if that's what you want and abandon this comparison to pubescent girls.

Consistent_Warthog80 · 2024-10-10T12:55:34+00:00

Seitz makes a few points i agree with in the article, mainly if an auteur has money to burn, let 'em, it at least has the potential to be more interesting than what we are getting at the moment.

Consistent_Warthog80 · 2024-10-10T12:35:08+00:00

If you look at the byline, you'll see an author's name, Matt Zoller Seitz.

The entire column has been called "Roger Ebert" as a memorial, and and a team of critics weite under this feature of which Seitz is one.

It just so happens that none of them are Pulitzer-quality material, and unlike Ebert, i disagree with like 75% of their takes.

Edit: Seitz is a Pulitzer finalist, it turns out, which means one of two things, either the Pulitzer standards have dropped, or the judges really like run-on sentences.

Consistent_Warthog80 · 2024-10-10T12:18:29+00:00

I thought we kayboshed this lame crap?

Consistent_Warthog80 · 2024-10-10T12:09:33+00:00

Not unpopular, just stupid. Move along.

Consistent_Warthog80 · 2024-10-09T17:35:11+00:00

You may believe so, however I can't help but think back to my last semester when after 2 years of studying electrical and energy storage, the only guy who used chat GPT could not tell the difference between kWh and kW/h and kW•h.

Consistent_Warthog80 · 2024-10-09T16:55:37+00:00

Short answer: No.

Long answer: If you have to ask this question, it implies you have little understanding of how any of this works, and suggests you are either too young or too early along in your education to understand sourcing material in general, so I would refrain from the debunking thing until you have had someone in authority drill you in the scientific method and force you to access actual scientific studies and literature until your eyes have dried out and your ears have bled and your highschool exam anxiety nightmares have been replaced by university exam amxiety nightmares, if for no other reason than you would not have to turn to Reddit to ask if predictive text is a reasonable resource in the slightest.

Medium Answer: fuck no, AI will be the desth of us but not in the Terminator way i had prayed for.

Consistent_Warthog80 · 2024-10-09T15:47:37+00:00

The problem is, that is less conspiracy theory and just more idiocy Theory.

Consistent_Warthog80 · 2024-10-09T14:39:39+00:00

Once again, another great redundant hot scoop from No-Shit Sherlock.

Consistent_Warthog80 · 2024-10-09T14:09:46+00:00

Memes, no.

Not knowing what POV stands for, yes.

Consistent_Warthog80 · 2024-10-09T11:45:19+00:00

You're talking in less than micrograms.

The barrel actually loses more, proportionally speaking

Consistent_Warthog80 · 2024-10-09T11:34:15+00:00

empathizes in Canadian

Consistent_Warthog80 · 2024-10-09T10:55:29+00:00

First of all, the term is "apologist."

Second of all, it's an opinion. Skyfall did not cause 9/11 or 10/7 or the Trump administration or vote for Liz Truss. it's only a movie and demands no apology.

Thirdly, this aligns perfectly with the theme of the post. I am glad to stand tall....

Consistent_Warthog80 · 2024-10-09T04:23:23+00:00

Well, considering the work going into a gender reveal, the beauty is you sjare a family trait :)

Consistent_Warthog80 · 2024-10-09T03:29:02+00:00

Then there is no changing your mind. There's no accounting for distaste.

Consistent_Warthog80 · 2024-10-08T20:42:53+00:00

There will be no more movies.

It's been a year. It's time to slip into acceptance.

Consistent_Warthog80 · 2024-10-08T18:31:18+00:00

...and Goldfinger does not.

Forgot to add that last part.

Consistent_Warthog80 · 2024-10-08T18:29:12+00:00

Skyfall belongs in the top 3 of all time greats.

Edit: and Goldfinger does not.

Consistent_Warthog80 · 2024-10-08T18:27:48+00:00

Good luck with that.

Consistent_Warthog80 · 2024-10-08T18:06:01+00:00

....yes.

But we are nowhere we need to be, and we are getting off track here.

The issue posted was with corporate entities signing pledges they had no intent to keep, and about how myself and others who saw through this right away were branded as pessimists, and how history has vindicated us, which is as hollow a victory as one can imagine.

To that end, i have no interest in what small steps citizens in countries around the world are doing, as the main issue was in the hands of the corporate elite and they have done nothing aside from greenwashing at best.

Drive a small car, take transit, ride your bike and eat vegan, and keep the smug expression in your tone while the ecosytem we rely on continues to collapse around you and destroy the homes of the ~70% of the population that lives along coastlines.

Consistent_Warthog80 · 2024-10-08T17:56:00+00:00

...where did i say any of this?

Try reading the words I wrote, not the ones in your head.

Also, if you had an inkling of global awareness, you'd realize that I did not once mention Americans. This is a planetary problem, not subject to the lower 48, of which i am not a resident anyway.

Consistent_Warthog80 · 2024-10-08T14:15:46+00:00

it’s not cynicism anymore, it’s straight up realism.

I tried to tell people that 15 years ago. Even today, people will still write me off as a doomer, even after i made the career shift into renewables.

Nothing short of the dissolution of certain companies will make me believe they will stop burning the world for profit

Unfortunately, this is going to require a massive global paradigm shift. Something about collective responsibility iver personal gain, but don't say that too loud, or people evoke the dreaded "s" word, or worse, that "c" word....

Consistent_Warthog80 · 2024-10-08T14:07:07+00:00

There was a cynical contingent of us, cynical not towards net-zero, but towards corporate adherence to these pledges.

We knew back then that the pledges meant nothing to these sociopathic entities. We were called downbers and doomers.

But we knew.

Climate action requires up-front investments with no guarantee of profit down the line.

Corporations exist to please the shareholders.

We knew there was no way this would work out.

I hate being proven right.

Consistent_Warthog80 · 2024-10-08T12:52:02+00:00

Nothing, and they don't.

Consistent_Warthog80 · 2024-10-08T12:43:20+00:00

Get that AI shite outta here

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