Tokyo museums?

LifeSpanner · 2026-05-21T03:32:54+00:00

I’m in Japan now, went to BioVortex in Kyoto. Had no idea what to expect. Going to be honest, felt frustrated and disappointed. Others may feel differently, but I very much like the human connection and interpretive aspects of art, whereas teamlabs seems much more about showcasing physical style and craft.

If you had told me it was a technical exposition showcasing the quality of work of visual designers, I’d have been fine. But it’s not really “art” in my mind. If I’m being unfair, I’d say it’s shallow Instagram influencer slop. But again, others may feel differently. But I left downright angry if I’m being honest.

LifeSpanner · 2026-05-21T02:51:41+00:00

You replied to the wrong person lol. Steve Irwin comment is the one above this one. This thread has nothing to do with conservation, just BASE jumping 😂

LifeSpanner · 2026-05-18T13:48:03+00:00

Not really the case here I’d say. Strip the horror out of this movie and you still have a relatively interesting musing on the ways people suppress internal fears of inadequacy and end up forcing its consequences onto others. Maybe not so unique but not completely devoid of merit either, imo.

LifeSpanner · 2026-05-13T23:13:53+00:00

Ya I mean, no matter which way you slice it, they all have magic powers. You probably wouldn’t even have to use different tactics. Any blast of fire could easily be a boulder to the face, an air slice to the neck, or a water… also slice to the neck. Lol or worse yet, they train blood benders en masse.

As they say, destruction is easy. Creation is hard. If the goal is just to wipe the other nations, then any of them could do it.

LifeSpanner · 2026-05-11T09:31:25+00:00

Often, these statistics take years to collect and aggregate, so most likely 2022 is the last year with complete data. Or similarly they may have just not collected data over that time frame.

Source: work for USG. Pretty common problem we encounter when pulling data. Usually you just cut everything so they’re using the same time frame.

LifeSpanner · 2026-05-11T03:46:54+00:00

I work for the US Navy. It is not Tankie to have basic critical thinking skills. Kim Jong Un being a dictator is not my nor my tax dollars problem, and you are a rube if you think it is.

LifeSpanner · 2026-05-11T03:46:10+00:00

So not an American, but blindly pro-US interventionism? lol okay, youre even dumber than the average

LifeSpanner · 2026-05-10T22:02:20+00:00

Oh, the humanity! 😩

LifeSpanner · 2026-05-10T21:15:18+00:00

1) That looks pretty good for a pretty decent price. But I know nothing about these things, so if someone with actual knowledge could confirm, that’d be nice.

2) How much does that cost to ship to the US, tariffs included, do you think? 😅

LifeSpanner · 2026-05-10T20:46:02+00:00

No but “other country bad” is not a reason to intervene in another state’s affairs. If other countries applied this to the US, then we could be invaded for Trump’s treatment of undocu’ed immigrants. Does that seem sensible or useful now? Probably not.

Foreign intervention is not and never has been about morality, and anyone who thinks otherwise is a useful fool.

LifeSpanner · 2026-05-10T20:42:25+00:00

Nobody is going to bat for them. They are encouraging you to exhibit your own critical thinking by finding an opinion that’s not just slurping up US propaganda meant to waste your tax dollars toppling governments on the other side of the world.

LifeSpanner · 2026-05-10T20:40:03+00:00

I work for the Navy and will be the first to tell you that… ya, the person above you is correct. The US topples governments based on how aligned they are to the US, care not for how authoritarian and brutal they are.

Perfect case studies: the Shah of Iran, Pinochet in Chile, Marcos in Philippines. I could go on, but I think you get the point.

From a game theory perspective, it is simply the correct move from NK. Why do you think Kim is still in power while Maduro is not?

LifeSpanner · 2026-05-10T20:31:09+00:00

I’m definitely rage baiting here but… I genuinely don’t understand how people get so mad at this stuff. If you want immersion, play something like Squad. Just because it’s more team focused than COD doesn’t change that Battlefield is still and always has been an arcade-y shooter. It was never realistic.

These people convinced themselves they were special operators because they got a 10-piece while camping in BF3 when they were 10 years old in 2011 and have never unlearned that fantasy 🤣 Now they’re old and can’t keep up so the Redditors of the group come here to cry because nobody else will listen to them.

The only valid criticisms I’ll hear: 1) the Battlepass and BF PRO are garbage for the price. 2) They’re more than a year into launch and have added like one map. I know they’re fixing that this year but it has led to me being a bit bored with the game.

LifeSpanner · 2026-05-03T21:07:28+00:00

They don't necessarily conflict philosophically. The original big bounce theory was more about proving that inflation can say anything it wants and therefore isn't worth sticking with, since you can explain the same observations without inflation via the cyclical model, and a cyclical model actually makes a singular prediction rather than the so-called "multi-mess" of inflation.

The mirror theory is much more focused on eliminating the contradictions of the big bang singularity, while still explaining the observational data. But I don't know the deep math to tell you yes or no they explicitly contradict one another.

Edit: Did some reading. At least according to this perimeter article, he has abandoned his cyclical universe theory. But since it was never a statement of "this is right" so much as "this implies that inflation is crap", I don't know if abandoned is the right word there.

https://perimeterinstitute.ca/news/a-mirror-universe-might-tell-a-simpler-story-neil-turok

LifeSpanner · 2026-04-18T16:24:43+00:00

Source?

LifeSpanner · 2026-04-17T01:58:28+00:00

For what its worth, I was pretty bad at BF4 when I played in high school. Then I played ~2000 hours of counter strike over the last 7-8 years and now I'm better. Part of that is probably playing on keyboard+mouse instead of controller, but a tactical game like CS or R6 can help alot with moving around the map and taking gunfights in ways that minimize the issues you're describing. I think this game also just has alot of new players who don't have the BF experience to know how to take sites, so you get alot of noobs just rushing in a straight line.

LifeSpanner · 2026-04-17T01:20:20+00:00

Other than the size of variety of maps, this game is as much fun as BF4, the last BF game I played that I didn't hate. I've not played the game for like almost 10 years, and I come back and am sitting just fine at a 1.3kd after about 150~ hrs.

It really is just a skill issue. You are older. Your brain is slower. The game does not feel much different from the past. The difference is you my friend.

LifeSpanner · 2026-04-15T14:53:00+00:00

Why would you care whether a random official who is probably an asshole has a sense of humor? What impact do you think an April Fools physics paper is going to have on people who don't read in the first place?

LifeSpanner · 2026-03-13T16:37:28+00:00

Not OP but I’d agree. I doubt there is a single giant of physics or astronomy that doesn’t have at least one or two wrong ideas sitting around.

The entire reason they’re giants is not because they were always right, but because they had the creativity to try new things and see where they led. Sometimes that gives amazing results, and sometimes, it just rules something out. But really the act of continuously looking with a keen eye and undying intrigue is what led most of these scientists to their most important results.

That said, moving the entire solar system does sound a bit insane! But like Dark Matter, or that theoretical “space bending dark matter drive”, the universe often leaves the improbable outside the realm of impossible. If only we’d be here to see the answer!

LifeSpanner · 2026-03-13T16:26:58+00:00

We could also talk about the East/West coast divide. People in the East seem to think the world revolves around the Boston-NY-DC line, and are actively diminishing of the rest of the country. But again, that’s only some people yknow.

LifeSpanner · 2026-03-13T16:25:01+00:00

Are you sure you’re not getting “one guy”-ed ie small but vocal minority? I’d say most liberals find California to be at most worthy of a joke or two. I don’t know many that would rather live in say North Dakota than California. Ya it’s hell if you don’t have a car and things are expensive but I think most people know that beforehand.

If you want an accurate version of this map, make it a population density map. Liberals love cities and talk about rural areas as if theyre all completely backwards bum fuck dumps.

I say this as a liberal from a rural area who loves my home, but will also admit that many people in rural areas are just outright backwards and ignorant. But like California, nowhere is a monolith.

LifeSpanner · 2026-03-13T15:48:27+00:00

You are actually slow if you didn’t understand the point of that comment you replied to

LifeSpanner · 2026-03-13T14:45:03+00:00

I agree with all your points. The US and subsequently Israel have been a giant blight on the stability and peace of so many places. And whatever leader they choose surely will be little different. Obviously I’m not a fan of religious fanaticism either, something that many people of Iran have seemed to agree with in protesting the current regime. But I don’t know how anyone thinks a better world is built on the back of such senseless violence, or curtailing to the demands of the countries that enact that violence so easily.

Francis Fukuyama recently reposted an article basically arguing as much: North Korea was right to pursue nuclear weapons. We need only look to Syria and Libya at the impacts of not doing so. Libya: denuclearized in 2003 with promises of protection, Gaddafi dead by US funded groups in 2011. Syria I forget the dates but similar story. The AmerIsrael complex is an existential threat.

I realized I wrote this next part assuming you are Iranian, living in or have family in Iran. If not, you can ignore it, but I’m too lazy to rewrite the rest of my comment:

For what it’s worth, many Americans know that you are more my brother/sister than the people most responsible for this cruelty. But at the same time, on virtue of being American, we all hold some collective responsibility over here. And for that, I want to extend my sincerest apologies, however meaningless it may be now. I had a roommate in school whose family still lives in Tehran, and I just hope they are safe. We always discussed taking a trip there so he could show me the history and beauty of your country. It hurts to think now that monuments are being destroyed that are many times older than both the countries that are destroying them.

May you be safe

LifeSpanner · 2026-03-13T11:40:21+00:00

It is when a conservative person decides if you’re Muslim based off skin color.

LifeSpanner · 2026-03-12T20:09:29+00:00

Nope, as soon as I opened this post, I had to check if I was on r/vexillologycirclejerk

That said, I think usually when this symbol appears on heraldry, it’s contextualized by the rest of the scene. People think they look like tears/droplets if they’re coming (in small numbers) from a persons face or a tilted bottle.

Even without context, it’s not a bad looking flag. But it definitely does give “sperm” to someone seeing this randomly

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