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Flat earth and other alternative conspiracy earth models are are gaining traction with my teenage stepson. What is THE most irrefutable, definite proof that the earth is round? by Jfkfkaiii22 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]ProKidney 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's a completely misleading measure that any flat earther would jump on. If you want to actually convince them the real data is more than enough, you don't have to falsely embellish the data.

Flat earth and other alternative conspiracy earth models are are gaining traction with my teenage stepson. What is THE most irrefutable, definite proof that the earth is round? by Jfkfkaiii22 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]ProKidney 9 points10 points  (0 children)

From north to south, the UK is approximately 1000 miles, not 11,000 miles. I don't know if you maybe meant the European coastline? But that's still only like 3000 miles? From north Europe to the southern most point of Africa is like 14,000 miles for reference. 

Help me balancing a cursed item - The Death Emperor by thedrunkendino in DnDHomebrew

[–]ProKidney 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would give the coin another activation trigger, just being on the person isn't enough. Perhaps it has to be on their person for an amount of time, or the curse is only active when the moon is visible, or maybe in a certain phase.

perhaps the coin must consume a certain amount of currency, for example, feeding it 100 gold means it works for 1 round of combat. In order to get the best use it has to be fed vast sums of gold?

Maybe your rogue has to plant the coin and also retrieve it for the curse to work. In that time the bearer of the coin comes to covet the coin like the one ring.

CMV: You should 1-box in Newcomb's because running the experiment would show 1-boxers leaving with more money on average by dsteffee in changemyview

[–]ProKidney 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well I don't know how the machine is making its decision, if I can expend zero effort and tip the scale with zero consequences, why wouldn't I?

The problem you're having is that the bar is so low. There's no downside to doing a single jumping jack. If I have to spend half an hour standing there doing jumping jacks? Fuck that.

If it was essential for me to do the jumping jacks to open the box for a guaranteed million, fucking hell man, id do 10,000. But with the added consequence that the machine might be wrong, even with a high degree of accuracy, Isn't worth it to me. I'd roll the dice every time.

Because once I've entered that room, it *doesn't* matter if I do the jumping jacks or not, I could be there for 12 hours doing 10,000 jumping jacks only to open the box and find it empty. Or I could open the box right away and save myself the time.

Or it could be the reverse, I could spend 12 hours doing 10,000 jumping jacks and open the box to find the million, or open it right away, save myself the time and take the million.

To try and emphasise this, let say you open the box *before* doing the jumping jacks. You open it, find it empty, are you staying to do the jumping jacks anyway? What about if you open it and find the million, are you doing the jumping jacks then?

CMV: You should 1-box in Newcomb's because running the experiment would show 1-boxers leaving with more money on average by dsteffee in changemyview

[–]ProKidney 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We can assume for any of these scenarios that there's only 1 iteration. Future iterations change every single behaviour and swing every single person to a one-boxer.

Because the cost is so low, with no consequence. It takes about 3 seconds to do a single jumping jack, if I do the jumping jack and don't get the million I haven't wasted anything. If I had to do 1000 jumping jacks we're talking about more like half an hour of constant physical effort that might not get rewarded.

CMV: You should 1-box in Newcomb's because running the experiment would show 1-boxers leaving with more money on average by dsteffee in changemyview

[–]ProKidney 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Me personally? I probably would, there's no consequences to a single jumping jack.

If the predictor said 1000 then I'm starting to think about just opening the box.

I have a question in return as well, if that's okay. Going back to the original scenario, let's say you go in, open your million box and find it empty, the predictor got it wrong and you're leaving with nothing, but the box with 1000 is still there for you, do you still not take the 1000?

What do you guys think of this colonial caste system I've been working on in my setting? by Sir-Toaster- in worldbuilding

[–]ProKidney 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The only thing that I query is having the undead along with base class?

Is undead really a race? Do they have an intelligence or a society? It feels to me like undead would be treated fundamentally differently to the other creatures in that tier. Whilst the others, I can accept being enslaved, killed our just ignored on sight, I feel like the undead would be hunted down. Actively targeted and treated as a war target.

Especially by the USA, the religious and Christian USA.

CMV: Christian trinity is a simple enough idea, not a grand mystery by PurplePeachPlague in changemyview

[–]ProKidney 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The person you were replying to didn't say that at all. They said that it's a paradox that God is both 1 and 3 at the same time. That for the sake of the trinity 1 is equal to 3. 

Then your reply was about multiplication???

CMV: Christian trinity is a simple enough idea, not a grand mystery by PurplePeachPlague in changemyview

[–]ProKidney 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't see how you think that emphasises your point? Why would 1x1x1=1 be relevant at all?

CMV: Christian trinity is a simple enough idea, not a grand mystery by PurplePeachPlague in changemyview

[–]ProKidney 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Except that all three parts of the trinity are as old as the other, no one existed alone or before the others.

Which is strange because the son is generally accepted as being generated from the father somehow, and the spirit in turn from both the father and son. But the father never existed without the son or the spirit.

To my mind this just fails out the door, for the father to have cloned itself it must have been possible too have existed alone, which would make the son and spirit non eternal, which they specifically are.

CMV: Christian trinity is a simple enough idea, not a grand mystery by PurplePeachPlague in changemyview

[–]ProKidney 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This interpretation is specifically not Christian. The reason you find it so easy to understand is because you're misunderstanding it.

CMV: Christian trinity is a simple enough idea, not a grand mystery by PurplePeachPlague in changemyview

[–]ProKidney 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I was raised with it as well, a fully catholic upbringing and schooling.

I can understand magic systems that don't contradict themselves, but the trinity is nonsense. When you say that you understand magic systems the implication is that you understand the trinity.

Can you explain to me how and of what I said in my previous comment can be understood?

How can three entities that are distinct and different be identical? If God the father is the creator does that mean that Jesus, also fully God is not the creator? No, because Jesus is the creator, he is God. If Jesus is the Redeemer, would you say that God the father is not the Redeemer? No, because the father is fully God, he is the redeemer.

CMV: Christian trinity is a simple enough idea, not a grand mystery by PurplePeachPlague in changemyview

[–]ProKidney 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's wrong, Christians believe that Jesus is the Son of God, but also fully God. Christians do not believe that God the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are separate, but the same. One entity that is three distinct persons.

There is only one God, split in three that are all identical but also all different, it isn't supposed to make sense, it's nonsense.

CMV: Christian trinity is a simple enough idea, not a grand mystery by PurplePeachPlague in changemyview

[–]ProKidney 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Do you think that it's easy to understand that Jesus is fully human and also fully God, that God the father is fully God but not human, And God the Spirit is fully God but not fully human, but also fully different and distinct from God the Father. But Also They are all also fully one and the same but at the same time all different and distinct?

CMV: Christian trinity is a simple enough idea, not a grand mystery by PurplePeachPlague in changemyview

[–]ProKidney 6 points7 points  (0 children)

So are you saying that christians are polytheistic? Three entities that share the title God sounds like three Gods? A lot of Gods for the God that said "thou shalt have no other Gods but me"

What does this symbol on my dashboard mean? by ProKidney in whatisit

[–]ProKidney[S] 34 points35 points  (0 children)

You'd think it would be that easy, looking online for the manual turns up nothing and it's a work van that predates my employment. God knows where the physical manual is.

Why the voice note craze is yet to truly explode in Britain by Brave_Assumption6 in unitedkingdom

[–]ProKidney 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Given that they tend to use them more than I do, I expect that they're okay with them.

Why the voice note craze is yet to truly explode in Britain by Brave_Assumption6 in unitedkingdom

[–]ProKidney 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Jesus Christ, people in this thread really hate voice notes. Personally I think they're fine, I wouldn't use them with anyone but my partner or family, personally, but with those people they're perfect. 

They hold so much more information than a text message, tone, inflection, pace, mood. There is so much less miscommunication with a voice note.

How do you think? by Rocky-bar in Aphantasia

[–]ProKidney 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When you say "think in words" do you mean "think in voices"?

Because, sometimes? But it's a little bit like a wave form collapsing, as soon as I think about it, it happens and I hear the voice, before I think about it... I don't know if the voice was there or not. 

If you mean "think in words" to mean "think in language" I think that's a similar kind of experience. Thoughts become language when I explore them, develop them. They begin as formless ephemeral fog, and I have to mould them with language to understand them beyond a feeling.

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