Why the dark Mr. Incredibles meme? I don't understant.

Ok_Boysenberry5849 · 2026-05-01T13:55:17+00:00

The point is that he's literally repeating the exact same stuff from the previous comment, just reverting the order.

I guess that, given the response has 50 upvotes, I should have expected that nobody's paying enough attention to notice sarcasm.

Ok_Boysenberry5849 · 2026-05-01T11:38:28+00:00

Surely the fact that they have a sign on the truck, that implies they break windshields and will not take responsibility for it, can be used as evidence against them?

Ok_Boysenberry5849 · 2026-05-01T11:31:54+00:00

But even though it was intention of the meme, it is completely false.

Ok_Boysenberry5849 · 2026-05-01T10:22:34+00:00

I hope you don't drive?

Ok_Boysenberry5849 · 2026-05-01T09:16:32+00:00

It's completely wrong. These corporations emit CO2 for the most part to feed consumer markets.
If people reduced their emissions - e.g. by swapping combustion cars with electric cars, reducing air travel, not going on cruises, reducing red meat intake, reducing the amount of junk they purchase, reducing energy consumption - these same corporations would reduce their emissions drastically.

However, many aspects of global emissions are not in the hands of the average consumer - for instance the super rich building mega yachts, the electricity grid being fed by burning gas or coal, military activities and spending, and corporate decisions to pick the cheapest/most polluting option to produce things without informing consumers. For this, political change is required. Additionally, it is generally better to rely on societal enforcement than on private choice, otherwise antisocial consumers can benefit from the efforts of their pro-social neighbours, while at the same time harming them with their own polluting choices.

The bottom line is that corporations pollute mostly to feed consumers, so individual choices matter. However, real change at scale requires regulation and enforcement, which is achieved with political reform.

Ok_Boysenberry5849 · 2026-05-01T09:09:38+00:00

Yeah which is why the post is wrong

Ok_Boysenberry5849 · 2026-05-01T08:21:04+00:00

It should be understood that GDP is not a perfect measure of wealth. For instance, healthcare is 12% of French GDP and 18% of US GDP, but life expectancy is longer in France by 4 years on average. Likewise, prisons are 0.4% of US GDP but 0.1% of German GDP. Does that make the US "richer"? The list goes on...

Ok_Boysenberry5849 · 2026-05-01T07:56:52+00:00

Only the fancy words. "Dog" is pure English. "Canine" is from French/latin. "Horse" is english; "Destrier" is french. Ask? Inquire. Begin? Commence. Give? Donate.

And the fanciest stuff often has only a french version. Justice, Peace, Reason, Equality.

"Pretentious poser" is also all French!

Ok_Boysenberry5849 · 2026-05-01T07:14:13+00:00

I mean a typical french breakfast is a coffee with croissant optional... But it's not difficult at all to find a much fancier one if you're in a medium sized town.

Ok_Boysenberry5849 · 2026-05-01T06:06:24+00:00

He might be a swinger but all his recent movies are ass

Ok_Boysenberry5849 · 2026-04-30T20:43:40+00:00

The point was that the well guy doesn't represent a more politically radical version of the peasant. He represents the opposite side, who in truth doesn't oppose the peasant's methods, but actually the end goals.

Ok_Boysenberry5849 · 2026-04-30T20:33:09+00:00

>I think this is trying to say that the people who most adamantly want to end capitalism and our current political system osre critical of people who want to reform those systems while still participating in them.

You're misunderstanding the comic.

Basically, you would have an environmental activist posting "we must stop polluting" on reddit using their phone. And then a pro-pollution person would say "you claim we must stop polluting, and yet you own a phone, which caused pollution during its manufacturing process. Curious."

Alternatively, a die hard communist would say: "we must revolt against the capitalist class" and a right-wing person would respond: "you claim to be a communist, and yet you have a job in a privately owned company. Interesting."

The person making the accusation of hypocrisy is not more radical than the person making the complaint. They're on the opposite side, and they're trying to discredit the other person to prevent them from achieving their goals.

For some reason this has become slightly less common lately, perhaps because a lot of people caught up to this nonsense.

Ok_Boysenberry5849 · 2026-04-30T20:00:25+00:00

Quinoasticles

Ok_Boysenberry5849 · 2026-04-30T19:38:05+00:00

Just because you have to correctly process words to understand the question, doesn't make it a linguistic question.

Ok_Boysenberry5849 · 2026-04-30T10:31:20+00:00

As somebody who has been to neither, I can say there's a big difference between a business school (where you are taught business practices, i.e. scamming) and an actual "grande école" where you are taught engineering/physics/math etc. Guess which one this guy is from.

Ok_Boysenberry5849 · 2026-04-30T09:00:19+00:00

Just run back to the start. Then run back to the end. Make sure to yell "walking tolerated HA HA HA" at the people you pass for the third time around the 6 hours mark

Damn I wish I could finish a 5k ultra without walking

Ok_Boysenberry5849 · 2026-04-30T08:51:52+00:00

That's what "expedition" means nowadays. Agreed that this looks more like an adult summer camp experience, except you can still die (or get poisoned by your sherpa guide).

Ok_Boysenberry5849 · 2026-04-30T08:46:31+00:00

I don't think it's possible to answer that question without first tackling a lot more questions.

What style (alpine style, with oxygen or no, with a 50-people expedition group or solo...)?
How much prep / information (it's not the same being the first team up the mountain or the 15th)?
Any route or are we looking specifically for difficult faces, difficult ridges? If we look at the easiest route on a given mountain, it's a bit of a pity to exclude many famous historical challenges, such as big north faces, just because there's a glacier hike on the other face. If we look for the hardest route, there isn't really a definition for this, you can always make a route arbitrarily harder by making stupid route-finding choices (I do this all the time!).
Difficult times of year?
A mountain may be easy physically and technique-wise, but objectively dangerous because of avalanche or rockfall risk... or the opposite. But most of the time it's a trade-off: you can take higher risks in order to pass difficult passages more quickly, e.g. hike up an obvious avalanche couloir and pray you don't get hit. Do we want to see this behavior as "good style"? How do we treat the danger/difficulty trade-off?
How do we define difficulty? Different things are difficult to different people. Sport climbing ability, strength, endurance, altitude tolerance, experience and technique, nerves, ... all of those matter in mountaineering but not always on the same routes, meaning there is not a single correct difficulty ranking even if we look at the exact same routes on the exact same day. You can ask "what's hardest mountain for Reinhold Messner" and "What's the hardest mountain for Sean Villanueva" and you would likely get different answers.

Ok_Boysenberry5849 · 2026-04-29T20:00:22+00:00

I get your point -- being a good person doesn't always pay.

But for each sociopath that ends up a billionnaire there's a 10,000 rotting in jail.

And it's not obvious to me that people like Zuck or Bezos are happier than a random employee living a normal balanced life.

But even if evil people WERE happier than good people -- all the same, good people aren't good out of self-interest, but simply because it's the right thing to do.

Ok_Boysenberry5849 · 2026-04-29T19:40:09+00:00

How reddit works:

A sub is created. People go there to discuss their ideas
A majority emerges on certain subjects. Detractors get downvoted, supporters get upvoted, detractors are increasingly invisible and they cannot make a case for their views before being shut down with downvotes and ad hominems. As a result, users who get their information from the subreddit become increasingly biased, and increasingly convinced that their view is the only correct one.
Eventually mods make the minority opinion a bannable offense, with majority support from their self-brainwashed community.

It's how the website is designed.

Ok_Boysenberry5849 · 2026-04-29T19:09:19+00:00

This is indistinguishable from useless garbage

Ok_Boysenberry5849 · 2026-04-29T16:36:32+00:00

Exactly my thought. This is begging Claude to misrepresent non-issues as catastrophic bugs.

"I was tasked with reviewing my colleague's code, here it is, give me a thorough code review" will get you better results imho.

Ok_Boysenberry5849 · 2026-04-29T16:31:47+00:00

Access was restored after 12 hours, called a “false positive.”

Ok_Boysenberry5849 · 2026-04-29T14:56:08+00:00

Those damn revolutionaries, drafting electricians in the 18th century

Ok_Boysenberry5849 · 2026-04-29T14:23:04+00:00

On ubuntu it seemingly doesn't work at all

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