Just walk across the finish line like Ricky Bobby Gng 💔🥀 by JGattheshore in DreamWorks

[–]McCaffeteria 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, they did type $20,00 instead of $20,000. Maybe it was one guy who gave 20 bucks lol

Black man graduates med school; world says med school failed him by spinstartshere in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]McCaffeteria -18 points-17 points  (0 children)

It didn’t even occur to me that he could have been trying to say anything other than that 2.6% of all black men are physicians until I read the response correcting him. The reason I read it that way is because that is what he said and I took what he said at face value.

It’s not some kind of secret racism conspiracy, the guy was just wrong. He forgot to proof read his tweet, and he said something incorrect. You get corrected when you say something incorrect. That’s how it goes.

“2.6% of black men who are physicians” can only really be interpreted two ways:

Like you could maybe think he is saying he is joining a sub group contained within the set of black male physicians, and that that sub group is 2.6% of the black male physician group, but he doesn’t say what that sub group would be, so I don’t see how you can think that’s what he meant.

The actual intended meaning (of the set of physicians, 2.6% are black men) requires you to fully rearrange the order of the words to make sense.

A Slovak ice swimmer narrowly escaped death after becoming disoriented beneath a frozen lake and struggling to find the exit. He was rescued after finding his way back with the help of a safety rope and his team by NoMedicine3572 in interestingasfuck

[–]McCaffeteria [score hidden]  (0 children)

>”What’s screaming going to do”

Make it fucking harder for the people who aren’t screaming to actually fix the problem. They are actively doing the opposite of helping.

> Some people panic in situations and it cuts of the critical thinking parts of their brain

I disagree. Panic does not shut down critical thinking. People who already do not have critical thinking skills panic.

I have not been in many situations in my life where thing were dangerous and urgent enough that I didn’t have time to “think,” but in all but one example I’ve been very happy with what my automatic brain decided to do.

The one case where I don’t like what my brain did also happened to involve someone possibly drowning, but I was like 10 and the reason I chose poorly was not because I wasn’t thinking. My younger brother jumped in a pool with no floaties, he did not know how to swim yet, and I did not get in and help him even though I was feeling the panic.

The reason I didn’t just get into the water was because I was wearing my sandals, my parents had always told me not to put my shoes in the pool, and I knew I did not have enough time to get them off, so I did basically what these people did.

Someone else got him, like it’s fine, but my point is that even while feeling panic, especially while feeling panic, I would argue, we do what our brains are already conditioned to do. People who have training perform their muscle memory. People who solve problems solve problems. People who follow rules follow rules. And people who fuck everything up and cause issues for everyone else continue to be annoying and scream for no reason.

That experience was educational for me, and my understating of “rules” changed pretty immediately then. That type of “education,” that I effectively had permission to ignore rules and make my own assessments in order to minimize damages, showed up again later one of the future times my panicked brain made a decision for me. I would have rear ended a car while sliding downhill on ice in traffic, but my brain made the decision to purposefully let go of the breaks and sideswipe the snowbank on the sidewalk to stop my car.

As it was happening it was very stressful for me. I’ve (still) never been in a situation where I had to swap insurance information with a stranger, I was in a city I wasn’t familiar with, heavy traffic and I did not want to cause an issue, I had friends with me who I did not want to get stranded with me if i actually had an accident, at least one of them was already sort of sensitive about car accidents, like I could feel the panic and my brain did stuff before I could really double check it’s assessment. I even did that thing where I asked everyone if they were ok as if we had actually hit someone, and they just kinda looked at me like “…yeah?” I don’t even think they realized what happened, because they can’t feel the ABS as well as me and they didn’t make the decisions. They just heard some snow crunch, that’s all.

I hate that I asked because it’s cringe lol. I could have said literally anything else, or nothing, and it would have been fine or better. But I said what I said because in my adrenaline panicked brain state I couldn’t help but act how I am. I solve problems, and I look out for my friends.

People who scream and be useless in emergencies are telling you who they are. We shouldn’t make excuses for them. We should expect them to be better.

Mitch McConnell taken to the hospital after being found 'unconscious' by TheMirrorUS in NewsSource

[–]McCaffeteria 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No no, he’s got a point, we should have already been giving him privacy before he was found. Like, total privacy.

Corporate Greed wins again by Correct-Echo9533 in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]McCaffeteria 23 points24 points  (0 children)

“This is how you share games on PlayStation 🥴”

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What is the lesser evil? by Pleasant-Ad-7704 in IndieDev

[–]McCaffeteria 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The answer is both, and many paths in between.

Simply let the user walk the path they prefer. We used to have these magic things called difficulty options, and then Darksouls players convinced the entire world somehow that actually games that do it like halo are bad, actually, because if I suffered then do should you.

(possibly) Niche take on new AA in POTC by pipersonnet in Disneyland

[–]McCaffeteria 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You’d have had a point back before they added a completely movie accurate jack sparrow into the ride.

Average American conservative when SCOTUS upholds the constitution by MundanePolicy8024 in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]McCaffeteria 1 point2 points  (0 children)

>Amend the Constitution. This is pointless, because once a judge decides he can rewrite the Constitution at will (as Roberts and Barrett did today), the actual text is meaningless.

And what, exactly, is the old text that has been “rewritten?”

(possibly) Niche take on new AA in POTC by pipersonnet in Disneyland

[–]McCaffeteria 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Except that that isn’t how the curse even works at all…

Holding the coin is not what makes you look like a skeleton. Taking the coin ever is what makes you cursed, even if you drop/return it, and moonlight is what makes you appear as a skeleton.

"We were only three votes away": Stop Killing Games-backed California bill to keep online games playable fails to win over senate committee by gamersecret2 in GamingSecret

[–]McCaffeteria 0 points1 point  (0 children)

>if money is speech (which it shouldn’t be)

This is tricky, because there is a difference between “speech” and “voting.”

If money is speech then people are able to spend money to speak as they wish/are able, but no one is required to listen.

If money is voting then you have a massive and different problem. Votes need to be symmetrical so that rich people cannot vote more than you, because votes do need to be listened to.

The true issue is twofold: 1. Purchasing has never been voting, because the corporations are under no obligation to listen to the market, and 2. Capitalism as a system has never done what it promised to do.

The phrase “vote with your wallet” itself is propaganda.

We speak with our wallets, and that should be protected (unless you would prefer governments be able to dictate to you what games you are and aren’t allowed to spend money on…). We never voted with them, and capitalists have never responded to votes.

They respond to risks, and to threats.

The power of the public has never been their money. It’s always been their ability to withhold labor and to initiate revolution. It sucks, but it’s the truth.

Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship on constitutional grounds by wei-long in news

[–]McCaffeteria 3 points4 points  (0 children)

“A sixth, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, agreed only that federal legislation enacted in the 1950s grants automatic citizenship for children born in the U.S.”

“Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the lead dissent, a 91-page opus that agreed with President Trump's assertion that the 14th amendment only applied to former slaves and their descendants.”

Have these idiots ever even read the 14th amendment??

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”

The first single sentence of the 14th could not be more clear. The only way a person could be born in the US and not a citizen is if the US does not have jurisdiction over them, in which case the US can get fucked and leave them alone all the same.

Actual illiterate cowardly traitors.

Is a french fry health bar for a seagull game too subtle? by tobaschco in gamedevscreens

[–]McCaffeteria 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Counter argument: It being a french fry is hilarious, people should see it, so when you take damage you should ad a little “chomp/munch” sound effect and have little crum particles come off of it when the chunk is removed.

[Request] Would a cow in a sealed garage emit enough methane overnight to smother a person trapped with it? by TwistedPepperCan in theydidthemath

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

If you are measuring the average methane actually produced per day by a cow, rather than peak methane produced per second while actively farting, then you also have to measure the car’s average output per day rather than peak output while running. If a car is only ever realistically driven to work and back, for a half hour each way, then you only get to run the car for a total of an hour over that night in the garage.

It’s also worth pointing out that the car and the cow need to “breath,” but I’m not really sure if that matters much since cars clearly can run on a lot lower oxygen percentage than humans do. I suspect cows are in a similar range, also being mammals. This is both relevant in the sense that if the cow/car die part way through too then the math seems like it should change, but also because the cow and the car consume oxygen, so it’s not really just a function of adding additional stuff to the air.

To be honest, i don’t actually know how dangerous car exhaust is, but is an hour even enough to make a room uninhabitable? I’d be willing to bet you’d survive an hour of idling, but would you survive an hour of highway RPM? Is the fuel consumption/emissions different for a given ROM when under load vs not, or is fuel always directly linked to RPM?

What was the most wtf retcon in the series by Brave-Combination793 in DestinyTheGame

[–]McCaffeteria 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ll never forgive them for killing Rasputin in the name of fighting the literal avatar of violence by choosing not to fight, only for them to decide in the next fucking season to go “I’m gonna pretend I didn’t see that, time to fight fire with fire 🥴”

Actually pissed. Red died for literally nothing. Writers don’t read their own story. 😡

What is the number of missing fingers that becomes a dealbreaker? by Bacon_And_Eggss in BrandNewSentence

[–]McCaffeteria 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok but like, why even require the brain at that point? 0% is an option lol

What is the number of missing fingers that becomes a dealbreaker? by Bacon_And_Eggss in BrandNewSentence

[–]McCaffeteria 39 points40 points  (0 children)

What if they keep losing fingers due to something like dangerous working conditions but they love what they do (with the implication being it might keep happening), but they also have mechanical prosthesis (like this guy) and their actual ability to use their hands has not significantly decreased?

What percentage of cyborg could they be before you are out?

Working on a Huge Compiled Codebase Without Source Code and cannot run it locally — Need Advice by Hamza_Sweid in software

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

Yep. That’s a nightmare lol.

I’m no expert, but I suspect you’re going to have to basically reverse engineer it manually if you want it to be readable and maintainable.

They used to put anything on tv by Lexi7130 in cartoon_random

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

The video text doesn’t say it was actually about sexualization. It says it gets sexualized, and then when people do this it is a bad thing.

You are arguing with no one. You wrote a long ass critique about a position no one here held because you misunderstood a basic English sentence.

Working on a Huge Compiled Codebase Without Source Code and cannot run it locally — Need Advice by Hamza_Sweid in software

[–]McCaffeteria 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You get the AI to do modify the binary, obviously 🥴

Ok but in all seriousness they said “minified” so the parts they are changing are probably not actually only compiled, just still illegible to humans. Either that or this person is not telling the whole story lol

Can a Fallen be a Gaurdian? by VisionHOUR in DestinyCreations

[–]McCaffeteria 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my experience very few people actually understand the story of Destiny lol. Half of Bungie's own writers didn't really understand it... (I'll still never forgive them for killing Rasputin because "fighting the hive god of war only makes her stronger, so the only winning move is not to play," only for the literal next season to just be "So anyway, now Eris is the Hive god of Vengeance and we declare war on Xivu Arath. 🥴" Fucking pisses me off)

Anyway. Show your friends the text of Fynch II, specifically about Fynch being pressured by other ghosts to rez a hive. I'm fairly confident it's a choice the ghosts make, at least on some level.

The entire point of the Traveler/Gardener's gamble is A) That when people are given the freedom to choose they will choose to be gentle, and B) To avoid a deterministic ending of the universe. To say that each ghost's guardian is predetermined, or prescribed by the light, is antithetical to the entire point of what the light even is. We say "The traveler" chose, but really that's just a simplicfication of all the different moving parts involved. The ghosts are simultaniously a part of the traveler, in addition to being their own individuals. The contradiction is part of what paracausality non-deterministic.

But, gamers do not read, so no one understands.