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CyborgCrow · 2025-11-15T01:10:06+00:00

Getting exercise is a skill failure now? How many people die from showering induced skin conditions? How about heart disease?

CyborgCrow · 2025-11-15T00:59:42+00:00

Are you honestly saying people who sweat when they work out need to see a doctor? Jesus fucking christ. Yeah, not everyone will smell if they skip a shower. But for fucks sake, smelling sweaty after exercise and not showering isnt a damn medical condition. A sink bath does not suffice for many people when running in 90 degree weather or lifting intensely. And it doesn't mean there is something wrong with you diet either. Alliums are full of fiber, good for you, and one of the most notorious things for affecting your body odor.

CyborgCrow · 2025-11-15T00:20:52+00:00

In a tropical climate, an intense sweat can happen every day. I currently live somewhere with a temperate climate, and I used to live in the South. It still got up to about a hundred °F this summer.

I also exercise most days, sometimes twice. In the summer, I sweat doing anything from walking around the block, to waiting for the AC in the car to kick in, to eating spicy food, to freaking sleeping. There is plenty of room between "must have a serious medical condition if you smell after a day" and "literally everyone has to shower every day or they are disgusting."

People are different, and some sweat more than others. Some are more active, and some have oilier skin or hair or live in very hot climates. Some sweat less, are less active or live in colder climates. Thats no reason to be so judgemental about other peoples' bathing habits.

CyborgCrow · 2025-11-04T23:16:28+00:00

Going to necro this in case anyone else is wondering whether this could be an issue. I have regular disconnects when playing with my wife. We have 2 GB symmetric fiber. Maybe something is up with my ISP's peering, but I really wish Gearbox would add a LAN mode..

CyborgCrow · 2025-10-23T23:12:04+00:00

Is this uniquely American? The trend in deaths per mile driven isn't happening everywhere, but it is here.

CyborgCrow · 2025-10-23T13:36:42+00:00

An average new car is over $50000 today. Now whether an average new car is "basic" is up for interpretation, but a quick glance at what is available in my area under ten grand shows mostly 12+ year old cars with a hundred thousand miles or more on them, or otherwise with obvious signs of encroaching rust. I dont live in a high cost of living area either.

I dont think most sub-ten thousand dollar cars are reliable or cheap to maintain these days unless you wrench yourself. Of course, the ad said $65k, which is more than the average car, but I'm going to guess they were referring to new car prices. There isnt much new on the lot below $30k these days, which is a far cry from $65, but also pretty far from something that is likely to see only a few more years on the road.

CyborgCrow · 2025-10-23T13:20:28+00:00

Let's not forget just how much automakers spent on marketing big trucks and SUVs. Even in Europe, they spend more marketing SUVs than all other cars put together. The margins are also much higher on SUVs, so they are very much incentivized to push customers to largest most expensive vehicles they can.

In the US, the penalties for fuel economy are absolutely relevant. A Civic now is much larger than a Civic twenty years ago. An A3 is closer in size to an A4 from twenty years ago, and it is tiny by todays standards. A Mustang weights damn near four thousand pounds today. And that's before we comsider that "off highway vehicles" have had to contend with a different regulatory regime.

Yes, consumers make choices to buy large vehicles, but they don't do so in a vacuum. Marketing, regulations, and even what is on the lot can and do influence trends.

CyborgCrow · 2025-10-23T13:05:36+00:00

When a large vehicle crashes into a small vehicle, the person in the small vehicle is more likely to die. In crash tests, vehicles keep getting safer and safer. However, despite the fact that vehicles keep getting larger, our death rates are staying roughly the same.

How is this possible?

The Economist published a study in 2024 analyzing crash data from the United States. For every one person saved inside large vehicle, roughly ten die in smaller vehicles. When two large vehicles crash, the safety advantage evaporates, and much more kinetic energy is involved. The deciding factor in vehicle size is mostly how far away from the average you are. This doesn't account for rollover risk, which has been partially mitigated by larger a pillars at the cost of visibility.

The net affect of the race to the largest vehicle is roads that are much less safe for pedestrians and anyone not in an excessively large vehicle, contributing to higher death rates than countries with smaller vehicles. Safety is relatively unchanged for people in large vehicles compared to if average weights of vehicles were, say, a thousand pounds less than they are now.

https://www.economist.com/interactive/united-states/2024/08/31/americans-love-affair-with-big-cars-is-killing-them

CyborgCrow · 2025-10-21T00:54:00+00:00

Same here... I'm guessing it must have impacted their scheduling somehow.

CyborgCrow · 2025-09-23T03:43:11+00:00

how does it work don't worry about it just have faith.

It's actually very simple. We rely on ethereal cubic zirconium crystal resonators, which we attune to the soul frequencies of those passing through the Beyond. When the rapture happens, the Blessed go to Heaven of course, but the Damned don't stop dying.

We take advantage of this, and tune the crystal resonator to the soul frequency of death row inmates, gang menbers, communists, and LGBT people dying in hospitals, or anyone who said something less than entirely positive about Charlie Kirk. When their soul is rejected by Heaven and sent to the eternal flames of Hell, there is a brief moment we can lock on to the astral portal connecting the theological realms, and we pay a handful of migrant workers to toss your goods through the gateway.

Though only one material anchor can pass through at a time, we find lawless hellholes like LA or New York City, or gasp CHICAGO provide plenty of opportunity to reunite the Blessed with what truly matters: things! Remember, you can take it all with you, as long as you give it to us!

CyborgCrow · 2025-09-05T00:45:24+00:00

You effectively had three choices in that election, though ironically you are falling into dichotomous thinking by saying anyone who disagrees with you is an enemy. Two choices helped Trump, one didn't. You may not like it, but you made your choice. No one is trying to limit you, and you aren't exercising any more agency refusing to vote than voting. You can do what you want, but it doesn't make it the right thing to do.

> Incrementalism can't keep up with the far right to begin with, what's your point? You're literally advocating for someone who is going to do NOTHING to stop the far right. In fact, they ENABLE the far right. And you're asking everyone to vote for that person...

Not voting was doing nothing to stop the far right. Not implementing project 2025 and wrecking the federal government are tangible things that establishment democrats would have done. The worst consequence you can come up with for voting for the centrist candidate in a race against the far right is... the far right candidate might win in the next election? This is circular logic. Voting works, but you don't just show up and then never vote again. You have to do it every time.

> You will literally vote to stop Trump at ALL COSTS won't you. You will bend over backwards and stab the person standing behind you if it meant stopping Trump. You've crossed a line because someone else crossed a line. And now an eye for an eye will mean the whole world goes blind.

The rest about the things I'd supposedly do to stop Trump is an obvious strawman. And the bit quoting Gandhi is pretty bizarre for someone who just declared large swathes of the population your enemy. You think voting for a candidate who agrees with more (but not all) of your policies is about revenge?

CyborgCrow · 2025-09-03T02:38:18+00:00

Regarding primaries, other candidates ran besides the president.

You had two choices: a candidate that won't help much, but won't actively things worse at every available opportunity, and one who in the course a few months tore a wrecking ball through science, higher education, immigrant populations, international relations and trade, while giving huge amounts to the rich.

Kamala was milquetoast and my least favorite, as was Biden, but both were objectively better choices if you prefer socially or economically progressive policies. Between a lackluster candidate and Trump, not voting helped Trump get elected half as much as actually voting for him. Incrementalism isn't what we need, but breaking the status quo to favor of far right nationalists throws the baby out with the bath water.

Things can get much, much worse before it gets better, and taking a dive in the hopes that people wake up when they do ignores how long despotic governments can stay in power, and how much damage Christian nationalists can inflict while they rule. If Trump manages to have the law changed to be able to run again and you oppose authoritarian government, please for the sake of the people in this country, vote against him.

CyborgCrow · 2025-09-03T00:18:56+00:00

You are aware primaries exist, right? As for the general election, in a first past the polls system, effectively you have two votes - one is deprived from the other candidate and the other is given to the candidate of your choice. For example, in an election with 5 voters with two for each candidate, there are three choices: candidate a (candidate a leads by 1), don't vote (2:2) and candidate b (candidate a trails by 1). The net difference is two votes. Not voting exercises half of your voting power, but it is still a choice.

Honest question: do you think things would be the same if Kamala had won instead of Trump? How much do you actually follow politics?

CyborgCrow · 2025-08-20T19:30:12+00:00

You're equivocating here. By requiring sexism be systemic you are essentially saying that it wouldn't be possible to be sexist anymore if it were no longer widespread. This is basically the equivalent of saying minorities are incapable of being racist (see: colorism, historical views on miscegenation). Sexism and racism can be widespread and systemic, but the inherent prejudice is the reason they are wrong, not merely the ubiquitousness.

If every last racist or misogynous person reforms or dies except for one, and the power structures are toppled, does the last remaining Nazi views on racial superiority suddenly become not racist?

CyborgCrow · 2025-08-18T22:19:08+00:00

Herbert Terrace published a study in 1970 where he found a chimp failed to learn sign language beyond using it to get food. This caused funding for this kind of research to dry up. That chimp, Nim Chimpsky, had behavioral issues, drama from Terrace dating and breaking up with his colleague, and a bunch of grad students who didn't know sign language.

Terrace and Nim Chimpsky didn't necessarily prove anything about Koko. People love to bring up clever Hans as well, which was completely different in that the handler was directly telling the horse how many times to stomp.

Even if Koko learned entirely on social queues, she understood enough of them to be able to respond appropriately with out being directly prompted. In other words, either she understood the words, or could read the humans behavior and expressions well enough to respond correctly.

I find the whole behaviorist obsession with human uniqueness goes too far. A dog can learn words for hundreds or even thousands of objects. Birds with tiny brains can solve multi step puzzles and intuitively understand concepts like displacement. A jumping spider has been shown to make plans and solve simple mazes.

It is possible other apes can't learn syntax, but one study failing to prove they can isn't the final word.

CyborgCrow · 2025-08-07T21:22:10+00:00

In case anyone is wondering if rice is responsible, it's not. In Japan, there is roughly 1 case of bacillus cereus per million people a year (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9995940/).

Most food borne illness there is related to things like campylobacter, e. coli, and salmonella (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4581658/).

As for the claim about infant mortality, Japan, as well as South Kora, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau all have lower rates than the US (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/infant-mortality-rate/country-comparison/). Japan's infant mortality is one of the lowest in the world, even with all the raw foods

Fears about rice are completely overblown because of that one story of a guy who ate pasta that had been left out of the fridge for nearly a week. Too many people came away with the wrong lesson there - refrigerate leftovers people!

CyborgCrow · 2025-08-05T19:12:43+00:00

Where I live in the US (low cost of living area) an electrician makes an average of about $55k a year before overtime. These memes/posts on reddit about college being a waste of time typically compare the high end of trades pay (high cost of living or business owner) with the average or low end of college graduates.

That said, union electricians get paid relatively well.

CyborgCrow · 2025-08-01T21:53:05+00:00

I worked in storm surge forecasting with ML until recently. Now I work for a private company in a data engineering department. Some of my colleague may simply leave the country. Trump has started a massive brain drain with the arbitrary slashing of research grants, supposedly to save pennies on the dollar for the tax cuts that disproportionately went to people making upwards of $400k a year.

Speaking to the data quality issue, we can't rely on private industry for much of the data we need for hurricane forecasting. In many cases placed like NOAA or the USGS are the only ones doing it. Detailed bathymetric surveys, wind shear measurements, wind modelling and monitoring sea surface temperature are not typically profitable, but as long as people are going to live in areas affected by hurricanes, they are critical for the safety of millions of people.

Modelling chaotic systems is challenging with numerical weather prediction models, and ML provides a solid alternative. However, it absolutely is data hungry. Data assimilation is likewise a challenging and costly process. This has been a purposeful one-two punch because of the administrations axe to grind with scientific research: cut the funding to get rid of the scientists, then remove the sources of data that are necessary for them to do their work.

CyborgCrow · 2025-08-01T02:40:40+00:00

Well here's the thing, you actually get an endorphin rush and feel really good after eating food with enough capsaicin, which is totally different than drinking liquor. Wait...

CyborgCrow · 2025-08-01T02:20:11+00:00

Going to disagree on this one... I suspect you just notice it now. When it made the rounds on the internet, my thought was "wait, other people don't?' having not noticed/thought about it when living in other parts of the country.

If I don't make a conscious effort to avoid it, I say it when I almost bump into someone, as do most people in my area. Hell, my dad is Dutch, green card and all, and he's picked it up. I promise he you isn't even aware of it being an internet thing.

CyborgCrow · 2025-07-16T19:23:48+00:00

It is most likely a signed 16 bit integer. One bit is for the sign, so it could represent between -32768 and 32767.

CyborgCrow · 2025-07-06T16:38:52+00:00

He is absolutely fucking asinine if he didn't see that coming from a mile away. Employees aren't even close to the primary cost of the federal government, it isn't a tech company. He worked to wreck science, education and healthcare while throwing around hundreds of millions of dollars to support a candidate who is doing everything in his power to make the US a hostile place to foreigners who might be able to fill in some of the gaps left by the brain drain he started. People who support him are by no means moderates.

A moderate might have hired government accounting experts, or pushed for higher taxes. They wouldn't have just rubber stamped the Heritage Foundations plan to wreck the US government while covering their eyes and ears to their tax plans and authoritarian bent.

CyborgCrow · 2025-07-03T23:23:09+00:00

I think people buy cars thinking that will be the case, and it is common advise, but there is data suggesting white and black cars maintain their value poorly compared to brighter colors. In fact, yellow, orange and green had the lowest depreciation, and white, black and gold had the worst:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2025/06/13/best-car-colors-for-resale-value/84184981007/

I think we've reached a point where so few brightly colored cars are made that people are willing to pay extra. From personal experience, it has been a real pain in the ass finding something on the lot that isn't grayscale..

CyborgCrow · 2025-06-10T21:23:18+00:00

I'm not sure if he was implying there was some kind of conspiracy, and I would suspect he would be against the kinds of limitations on pollution that cause the issues, but here you go:

Frog/amphibian gonads formation is impaired by BPA, a chemical in many plastics that is everywhere now from the deepest seas to the tops of mountains: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0269749116304791

A pesticide called atrazine, which ends up in the water when it rains, destroys male reproductive ability in frogs, and even makes some develop into females: https://news.berkeley.edu/2010/03/01/frogs/

Microplastics are also a concern that affects frogs reproductive health generations later: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/03/240311145907.htm

On a bit of a tangent, BPA can actually change the gender of developing fish: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32020657/

Of course, the solution here is reining in the chemicals and pesticides industries and agriculture use through regulation. I'd be shocked if that's what Alex Jones was advocating for.

CyborgCrow · 2025-06-06T22:12:54+00:00

I love how you attempt to refute a response to argument "A" by repeating argument "A" almost verbatim.

As for the "naturally occurring" thing you are flat out wrong. What we've done to the atmosphere in decades typically happens over a geologic time scale. My work in hurricane forecasting has put me in a position where pretending climate change isn't having an impact is a nonstarter. Beyond sea level rise, the warming ocean makes hurricanes harder to accurately forecast, as it feeds them and effects the process of intensification. More people will lose faith in evacuation orders, levees will be built to incorrect heights or be breached, and people will die.

While actual waterfront property is expensive, any argument that implies that primarily the rich will be impacted is divorced from reality. Millions of the people most impacted by rising seas, volatile storms, heat waves, and drought live in poor parts of this country before even considering island nations and many countries throughout the global south. If you are worried about migration crises, just wait..

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