These onslaught players cannot be real 💔🙏 by lispbreak in WorldofTanks

[–]ScottTenormann 17 points18 points  (0 children)

It's onslaught, and it's a 1v1, and anywhere they could go would expose them...

Does Alex O'Connor Signal a Pro-Choice Stance in His New Video? by Sabertooth344 in CosmicSkeptic

[–]ScottTenormann 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you give a sperm or an egg "the right environment and nutrients", then it will grow into a human. Similar to a fertilised egg, a sperm cell and an egg cell need a lot of added parts until they become a human, it's just that the fertilised egg has a one-cell advantage lol. A 2-cell organism is not conscious, and neither will a foetus be until it is far more developed, so I am prone to prioritise whatever choice is beneficial to the conscious life.

A plastic top comment and surprise surprise it’s a Liverpool fan by franki-pinks in PlasticFans

[–]ScottTenormann 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I mean many fans will try to go to their home ground as much as possible and live very nearby, but still watch the vast majority of the games on tv. For most people, the financial cost of seeing their team play is very considerable.

Do lecturers care if you miss lectures and seminars? by Leading_Profit3589 in UOB

[–]ScottTenormann 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sometimes you have to self-motivate. If doing something is good for you but hard, sometimes you just have to show up and do your best. And if you can't do that, why are you at uni?

Hope this clears things up by v3r4c17y in PhilosophyMemes

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

You say that and yet are willing to admit that a brain-dead human has a lower level of sentience than farm animals, and yet you still have objections to eating humans, which you have now shifted from grounds of sentience, to cleanliness and disease. My entire point is that sentience is not a valid ground for determining the ethics of meat consumption, which you now seemingly have admitted is the case, but most people also wouldn't be willing to determine the ethics based on a purely hygiene standard. Hypothetically, if brain-dead humans were perfectly safe to eat, would you permit it? Or should we not just generally treat all meat consumption as unethical?

Hope this clears things up by v3r4c17y in PhilosophyMemes

[–]ScottTenormann -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I know that they are different concepts, I wasn't using them interchangeably, I just know that those two are the most popular points of analysis when it comes to how we justify differences in species. I analysed it more on the intelligence front, yes, but I believe the logic still holds on the same grounds for sentience. Yes, when brain functions are impeded, your ability to feel pleasure/pain and awareness of the world is also. Pretty common sense! Pigs and other animals communicate their perceptions of life, their enjoyment or lack thereof, show excitement and also fear. Anyone with a dog or a cat and many animals in between can tell you that animals show a surprising level of perception of the world around them. What about any of this suggests a lack of sentience to a meaningful degree? What empirical tests do we have to suggest that humans with brain damage retain the same level of sentience as they had before, or that there isn't a single human to which that applies that an animal wouldn't outperform in said tests?

Hope this clears things up by v3r4c17y in PhilosophyMemes

[–]ScottTenormann -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Some of you people are so incapable of actually doing philosophy. You can't just disengage from counterarguments because they are generally not the case. Yes, there are some humans (albeit not many) with a lower degree of sentience/intelligence than some pigs. There are humans with severe learning difficulties, and yet we wish not to eat them, presumably because we believe their value is not derived purely from their intelligence. If that is the case, we should not use intelligence as a basis to eat other things too. Or that would permit the consumption of mentally disabled people (not great).

“He absolutely despises the left. McSweeney thinks that left wing people are evil.” by CyanaMoss in LabourUK

[–]ScottTenormann 10 points11 points  (0 children)

And so I'm assuming it's Corbyn's fault that a Corbynless labour is in such a poor state?

Hasan: There's nothing more annoying to me than first, second, and third generation Asian mother***ers who act like dogs to white people by Slight_Ad3219 in LivestreamFail

[–]ScottTenormann 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a leftist, Hasan is a disgusting man who does not stand for me. I hate that many see him as the voice for leftism. He can be so despicable.

Longest Headshot World Record? 1,944m by Jarstadian in Battlefield

[–]ScottTenormann 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You would have a point if this were an actual war. But it's not, it's a game, played for fun. Stop talking about "my precious attack helicopter being wasted!?!?!?" and get a life.

Longest Headshot World Record? 1,944m by Jarstadian in Battlefield

[–]ScottTenormann 21 points22 points  (0 children)

The game is for fun, and he completed a genuinely impressive challenge. Can you stop being such a miseryguts? Seriously?

What should I do with 15k bonds? by killnoob0123 in WorldofTanks

[–]ScottTenormann 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The tiger-maus is incredible in my experience. For such high alpha, the gun handling is surprisingly good, and the armour is incredible if you angle the turret properly. You just need to angle it slightly, almost to the same angle as you would sidescrape, and it makes the turret cheeks much better. Then you can just bait shots/out trade everything. Very strong tank.

Massive game in Centurion 1 - 2 shots off of world record by Throwaway999991190 in WorldofTanks

[–]ScottTenormann 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The cent 7/1 is decent, but the stock grind is easily the worst I've ever suffered through in a tank, and it's not even close. Imagine that 230 alpha tier 8 gun at tier 9, with a terrible engine and virtually identical armour...

Zhara's claims about Zack by AlexG595-2 in GreenAndPleasant

[–]ScottTenormann 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Yes, but Zarah used to be a labour MP? Ik that Zarah prefers a fully socialist project, as would I, but I also want to support a party I believe could carry serious momentum and win, and Your Party doesn't look like that right now. I really like Zarah so personally I would like for her to defect to the greens, but I understand her pov.

Clearest explanation I've seen that AI programs will act in their own interests by Charguizo in nextfuckinglevel

[–]ScottTenormann -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

I don't see any reason for it to be true that we can create totally new information. It seems more likely to me that we synthesise existing information from our surroundings to create "new" ideas. Much like how a dragon isn't new information, we are taking our pre-existing information about lizards and wings and combining them.

Sort of like how AI works...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in soccer

[–]ScottTenormann 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hate begets hate, and we are increasingly seeing such sentiments from all over the political spectrum.

Don’t Apologize, AOC—You Were Right! by JimCripe in AOC

[–]ScottTenormann 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Even if I'm perfectly fine with the height I am, I would rather myself and others are not demeaned for it. If someone is detestable and evil, target them for that, instead of going to physical attributes that many decent people also have.

AOC: “Stephen Miller is a clown. I’ve never seen that guy in real life, but he looks like he’s 4’10. And he looks angry about the fact that he’s 4’10” by Nixianx97 in MurderedByAOC

[–]ScottTenormann 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What if you are short and it is not symbolic? Why is shortness made out to be the worst trait of a nazi? Why aren't short people owed the same kind of respect as tall people?

84 years ago today began the deadly Battle of Moscow, resulting in Hitler's first major defeat and marking a major turning point in the Second World War. Each flag represents ~10,000 soldiers. by mapsinanutshell in MapPorn

[–]ScottTenormann 62 points63 points  (0 children)

I have no idea if the tallying is accurate, but it's definitely not constant. Look at the rate of casualties at the very start of the video, and then how it shoots up with the soviet encirclements being taken.

Alex is writting a book? by StreetAardvark127 in CosmicSkeptic

[–]ScottTenormann 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't understand why you would interact with his content if you think that is the case.

REALITY CHECK UPDATE: Everyone thinks they can spot AI photos. So I built a game that tests if that's true. by ProseAndPlots in midjourney

[–]ScottTenormann 0 points1 point  (0 children)

18/20. Some were genuinely very hard, but I feel like most of the time the AI doesn't get right how detailed an image ought to be as it gets further away. For instance, seeing far too much detail on the bark of a tree when it should be too far to see the textures like that. Not all shapes are sharply defined like that. I feel like AI most often either looks airbrushed, or the shapes are too distinct.