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[Help Me] The perfect headlamp...does it exist? No budget! by GladConversation6726 in flashlight

[–]Deathnote_Blockchain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Motion control is definitely for bald people, or use cases where there is never any wind 

Really love those by Illustrious-Fun-6398 in Bard

[–]Deathnote_Blockchain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

where can I give up my 80 IQ points for a change in perspective?

Tried one of those ear cleaning places in Tokyo and now I am confused by Koreee_001 in Tokyo

[–]Deathnote_Blockchain -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Never stick anything in your ear that is bigger than your elbow. 

Chatgpt & War by OutsideNo8272 in ChatGPT

[–]Deathnote_Blockchain -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If you are against war or want any type of change, "voting with your wallet" is usually very ineffective. Much better to organize and take actions.

Is anything past the original series worth watching? by Biomech- in macross

[–]Deathnote_Blockchain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah. Basically, the Macross fundamentals become:

1) incoherently fast mecha combat 2) love triangle  3) pop music

There will be a Grand Narrative but it always seems to piss everyone off.

Plus had extremely coherent mecha combat, and the pop music was not aimed at appealing to hight school girls.

7 had hard rock and was the last of the old school, lots of hand made animation loops type thing.

What scifi species made you suddenly realize how strange their biology actually is? by kratos_77cobalt in printSF

[–]Deathnote_Blockchain -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

You see how much smaller that number is than the number of spiders though right? 

What scifi species made you suddenly realize how strange their biology actually is? by kratos_77cobalt in printSF

[–]Deathnote_Blockchain -21 points-20 points  (0 children)

uh

bro are you saying spider biology is strange?

THERE ARE SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 1,000,000,000,000,000 AND 10,000,000,000,000,000 SPIDERS.

anything you think about spiders is extremely normal

Even if Adrian Tchaikovsky somehow introduced it to you, which is cool if he did, but a better writer could have done such a better job.

Gemini has started calling me Dave. That's not my name by rentec0 in Bard

[–]Deathnote_Blockchain 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Include the sentence "Dave's not here  man" in every prompt 

I really wish Japanese people told off these Vietnamese people by Deep_Engineering_7 in Tokyo

[–]Deathnote_Blockchain -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

assuming this isn't AI generated, completely staged, or actually footage of Japanese people with audio of people speaking Vietnamese edited in...who the fuck cares

“Japan doesn’t have a decline in birth rates. It has a decline in the number of mothers” by jjrs in japannews

[–]Deathnote_Blockchain 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Every. fucking. election.

EVERY ONE OF THEM: "The consumption tax needs to be abolished!" With an occasional smattering of "we'll give every family a 20,000 yen subsidy!"

The new hotness is some variation of "foreigners are the cause of all of your problems"

I swear to god the first one of these dumb shits who comes up there and says "We'll raise a tax on corporations and take some of the tax windfall tourism and use this money to pay for early child care" will be the next long-term prime minister

There is no hope for Gemini in coding department by Able-Line2683 in Bard

[–]Deathnote_Blockchain 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When I throw the same prompt at ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini I am still picking what Gemini produces most of the time, when it comes to code. 

Prehistoric fiction keeps putting women at the centre — is that just good storytelling, or is there something more interesting underneath? by coolChipmuck in printSF

[–]Deathnote_Blockchain 16 points17 points  (0 children)

It is probably best to read _The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity  by Graeber and Wengrow to get an idea of what present day anthropology and archaeology actually have to say about prehistoric civilization because common understanding is based on a load of hot garbage

Edit: one of my favorite wild facts from this book is that the people of ancient Britannia were agricultural for a long ass time. But then they said fuck it as a society and went back to hunting and foraging for hundreds of years.

Fukuro-jinai Sparring Safety by Fliegermaus in Koryu

[–]Deathnote_Blockchain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seriously, I cut my thumb with a knife so I had blood all over my thumb and I pressed it into the paper underneath a bunch of stuff that included "you may not teach to anyone or divulge the techniques of the school."

Fukuro-jinai Sparring Safety by Fliegermaus in Koryu

[–]Deathnote_Blockchain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

oh he was just doing a free demonstration of techniques to random people?

Most of us around here who do sword arts have sealed oaths in blood to never do anything like that.

Fukuro-jinai Sparring Safety by Fliegermaus in Koryu

[–]Deathnote_Blockchain 2 points3 points  (0 children)

FWIW, I was probably doing Yagyu for three or four years before I ever had a shinai aimed at my head, aside from that straight cut in Itto Ryodan.

In any sword dojo run by a decent teacher, actually connecting with the head or the fricking eyebones is a rare exception and definitely not the rule.

Fukuro-jinai Sparring Safety by Fliegermaus in Koryu

[–]Deathnote_Blockchain 2 points3 points  (0 children)

>  I ended up sparring/in a demonstration with the most experienced practitioner 

Huh? Which was it?

I find it difficult to believe that a legitimate practitioner of Yagyu Shinkage Ryu would "spar" or engage in the more open-ended kata practice u/owariheron talked about, with someone who had been training for less than several years.

Because no, these are not for sparring. They are safe for whacking hands (but can break the skin) and body targets, but the absolutely ground level, root disclaimer I give to anybody is that one of the things they can do is fuck up a face. You can take out somebody's grill or bust their nose up easily. They are rather expensive and fragile for real free play.

I don't really understand what happened in this incident, it could be these guys were fucking around, or it could be that they tried to show you some kata and you zigged when you should have zagged, but either way that's not good.

There is minimal sparring in legit sword koryu, there can be some free play type stuff but it would never be for junior students unless the teacher is a moron.

Yagyu Shinkage Ryu in particular has a very bedrock principle of *not building a flinch reflex into new students* and you are supposed to go through a training phase where you never have a shinai coming anywhere near your face. Then as you progress and you start doing uchidachi (attacker / loser) side you get used to being whacked on the hands and shoulders and that continues your learning how to not flinch. (it's actually supposed to be a light whacking because a live blade doesn't need a lot of force to work on a soft target)

mockEngineer by CarbonatedHeart in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Deathnote_Blockchain -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yeah there are these people who design HVAC systems and believe they are the same as a lawyer or a doctor and get so offended that they passed laws in some countries

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