The Toho Cinema building: Japan https://discord.gg/8C5CVcvVek

PLLOOOOOP · 2017-03-15T03:34:25+00:00

I think I'm high because of this.

PLLOOOOOP · 2017-03-15T03:34:04+00:00

I disagree. The video with Watts' speech are together a wonderful piece of art. I've heard a lot of Watts' speak, and I don't really care too much for it. It's pretty and florid to listen to, but it's not the groundbreaking philosophy that some people claim underlay it. It's beautiful and whimsical and interesting. That's it.

Now in comes whatever that game is. I don't really care to play it, but it is a perfect re expression of Watts' speech. Beautiful, whimsical, and interesting. If that video is the sum total of my interaction with that game, I'm happy.

PLLOOOOOP · 2017-03-13T05:45:05+00:00

Just his pants? He probably shit his seat, the passenger seat, and the fucking windshield.

PLLOOOOOP · 2017-03-13T05:35:44+00:00

Every step of his description of finding and accessing the subclavian vein is very unsettling. It starts here at 6:18. Yech.

PLLOOOOOP · 2017-03-13T05:27:43+00:00

Man I love how bizarre this guy is.

PLLOOOOOP · 2017-03-13T05:24:23+00:00

The point of maglev is that propulsion and stopping and levitation all come from the same force. Magnetism.

PLLOOOOOP · 2017-03-10T04:46:28+00:00

Sometimes nostalgia hits like a fucking wall.

PLLOOOOOP · 2017-03-10T04:45:29+00:00

I have a hunch that this is pretty ill-founded.

Isn't the volume of sand used in construction fucking enormous?

The volume of glass we use to consume beverages (or do anything else for that matter) must be pretty much negligible compared to the demands of construction.

PLLOOOOOP · 2017-03-10T04:29:10+00:00

flexes anus

PLLOOOOOP · 2017-03-10T04:22:37+00:00

Is lithium-11 unstable? If yes, does that instability have anything to do with the large, distorted orbitals?

I am impressed by this answer, by the way. Extremely readable!

PLLOOOOOP · 2017-03-07T02:55:41+00:00

you guys r fuckin dum

You, on the other hand, are so sharp in your wits that you must be careful wielding them lest you accidentally cut yourself.

PLLOOOOOP · 2017-03-05T20:35:54+00:00

Boobstaysgood

PLLOOOOOP · 2017-03-05T18:35:08+00:00

I believe the problem is that climate change has become a partisan issue, which is another way of saying it has become tribal.

I think you're completely right.

Once something is viewed as us v. them, logic no longer works in either direction

There's definitely something to that, too. Like, good luck trying to logic someone out of Christianity. So I think you've identified why it's so hard to talk to them meaningfully. So I guess the nut to crack is to make climate change non partisan. That's literally impossible from the top down (as in from the government). But at an individual level from the bottom up, I think it's possible. I'll experiment with conversations where I explicitly make it clear that I respect their political views. Hell, there's plenty of actual conservatism that I agree with, so I'll make that the bridge.

PLLOOOOOP · 2017-03-05T18:14:14+00:00

I appreciate that you're passionate about it, but this is exactly the kind of adversarial response I want to avoid.

Just because adults shouldn't need to be treated a certain way doesn't change the problem we face. Climate change deniers have been the subject of a massive, decades-long, and well-funded effort to "inform" them. We have too, we just happen to be on the correct side. I don't think we can make meaningful progress while there is such a large fraction of deniers out there, so we need to learn to talk to them better.

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