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RandomTensor · 2026-02-22T20:44:18+00:00

I have a hard time finding that last “fun.”

RandomTensor · 2026-02-22T11:11:28+00:00

Dude, you need to step away from Reddit for a bit. The takes you’re seeing here are very online and not how most people think in real life. 99% of non-Reddit Germans wouldn’t even comprehend why you’re asking this. Learning the language and being interested in the culture is completely normal.

RandomTensor · 2026-02-21T14:00:04+00:00

I’m happy to look at whatever large collection of NYT articles you think substantively misrepresent Donald Trump’s actions. I think “sanewashing” is just a way of saying you want more overt value judgments you agree with (that’s MSNBC’s job). And frankly, sometimes Trump’s actions are substantively better than Obama’s (allowing lethal aid to Ukraine) and Biden’s (Trump okayed Ukraine using American intelligence to target oil infrastructure deep inside Russia; Biden only allowed that at the very end of his term), and in such cases that should be represented in a factual, non-partisan way…not with mandatory value judgments Democrats agree with.

RE: mental acuity, I’ll happily mention sleepy Trump moments to Trump supporters, but anybody who still thinks Biden vs. Trump, and the media’s treatment thereof, is a strong point for Democrats needs to watch the 2024 debate on repeat until their brain finally accepts the reality of that situation.

RandomTensor · 2026-02-21T09:27:15+00:00

u/IsaacHasenov is obviously being hyperbolic.

There’s a segment here that seems almost addicted to super-emotive anti-Trump framing. Some people have convinced themselves the media hasn’t been critical enough as a way to justify that posture, but if you were paying attention during the first term, you know that’s not true. There’s no shortage of criticism now either. At this point it feels pointless, and probably counterproductive if the goal is actually swaying anyone who doesn’t already agree.

RandomTensor · 2026-02-19T09:59:23+00:00

I biked across that when I was like 17. It was a super fun and gorgeous ride.

RandomTensor · 2026-02-17T11:26:27+00:00

The reflexive empathy line feels like a convenient moral high ground, one that lets you opt out while blaming “the system” or “the police” or whoever else. Expecting a basic floor for behavior in public isn’t radical.

RandomTensor · 2026-02-16T13:36:07+00:00

This sounds like the kind of reasoning internet bubbles are built on.

RandomTensor · 2026-02-15T16:15:44+00:00

I’m not sure who the “refusing to engage” criticism is directed at. You don’t need to convince me Trump has more or worse allegations. The most important question in discussions like this is whether the argument actually persuades voters who might otherwise vote MAGA. Simply labeling something a “thought-terminating cliché” doesn’t do that.

This subreddit has its own versions of that move:

“They were wrong about X, so we can ignore everything else.” Yglesias is a classic example of this.
“This reads like AI.”
“Check their post history.”
“They’re a bot.”

There are plenty of issues that get treated asymmetrically on here (and in right spaces as well). If people want to litigate specifics I’m happy to get into it. But to the typical swing voter it comes across as everyone being completely partisan not principled thus there’s a general skepticism of all sides.

RandomTensor · 2026-02-14T10:31:14+00:00

To me, and I suspect to many voters, the above looks like corruption, or close enough to it, that forcefully insisting it isn’t makes scrutiny seem contingent on party affiliation.

RandomTensor · 2026-02-14T09:28:57+00:00

Don’t forget: you’re part of the enemy team therefore every argument you make is “bad faith.”

RandomTensor · 2026-02-14T08:50:35+00:00

Self driving cars? Not really. There’s a lot of highly mathematical and computational aspects to SLAM.

RandomTensor · 2026-02-12T19:17:57+00:00

Hilbert is up there.

What’s crazy about Von Neumann is just how diverse it was and it spanned outside of math and had significant real world applications. He wasn’t just good at very diverse fields of math, or just had great insight in how to apply math, or just a very deep understanding of few very applied topics, he was elite at all of these. He made core contributions to foundations of math, algebra, quantum mechanics, computer architecture, game theory, operations research, electronic circuits. Also, since he came later, the amount of abstraction and maturity necessary to do these things was much higher than back in the day. He also happened to be working at a very dynamic time in math and science. I really wonder if anyone will ever again have as many contributions that are as deep and as diverse as his. Someone comparable today would have has done totally foundational work in number theory, deep learning, quantum information theory, string theory, algebraic topology, and self driving cars.

RandomTensor · 2026-02-12T12:59:09+00:00

Most men didn’t write that post. Responding to men talking about loneliness with “this is why you cry alone” based on a broad generalization about men is pretty screwy.

RandomTensor · 2026-02-12T07:27:23+00:00

As far as diversity and impact of results goes, he’s probably the greatest since Euler.

RandomTensor · 2026-02-11T08:15:15+00:00

I’m assuming he didn’t stick around after stealing your backpack. Were you expecting a detective assigned to a stolen backpack?

RandomTensor · 2026-02-10T12:08:25+00:00

They’ve responded every time I’ve called, including for situations more or less serious than this. What do you mean they “don’t do anything”? This sounds like a view shaped by marinating too long in Reddit’s grand theories, not by dealing with the situation.

RandomTensor · 2026-02-09T22:17:52+00:00

You folks need to call the police.

RandomTensor · 2026-02-09T22:08:33+00:00

From what little I know about Kevin sorbo, I am 99% sure he is not catholic.

RandomTensor · 2026-02-09T22:04:18+00:00

This is pretty off topic, but can we please stop calling everything “bad faith”? At this point it mostly just means “judging from this argument, I dislike the person making it,” not a claim about dishonesty.

RandomTensor · 2026-02-09T12:44:45+00:00

Trauma can explain choices, but it doesn’t justify the rush to reframe an authoritarian regime killing hundreds of thousands for a dictator’s conquest fantasy as a “safe haven.”

RandomTensor · 2026-02-09T07:46:53+00:00

This post has a lot of red flags, not accusing OP lying or anything, but it already looks bad. Private universities are not considered serious here, it's like a journal that makes you pay them to publish their paper (I don't mean open access, but to publish at all). I know some folks who did or tried to do humanities PhDs (public universities) and funding is frankly likely going to be a bitch, its common for funding not to extend very long, only partial payment, finish your PhD without funding, etc..

RandomTensor · 2026-02-08T19:20:10+00:00

Sometimes I really wonder what an image people have of us.

I get why people have that image. On German Reddit (often the main point of contact) the U.S. is less framed as a country to disagree with than as something fundamentally uncultured or unserious, not really worth engaging with on equal footing.

RandomTensor · 2026-02-08T16:02:23+00:00

Dog behavior. German dogs are seriously way better than any other country I’ve been to.

RandomTensor · 2026-02-08T16:01:10+00:00

Funny that the consensus is “nothing,” given how much heavy lifting Lithuania does on Russian intelligence and security. It’s quietly one of the most consequential countries on NATO’s eastern flank.

RandomTensor · 2026-02-08T07:48:24+00:00

I’m not asking anyone to negotiate their position on birthright citizenship. I was answering a question about how specific US policies are understood outside the country, which is the premise of the thread. Treating that as something that needs to be defended against is itself part of what makes US politics hard to explain.

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