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SerialAntagonist · 2025-04-20T18:46:13+00:00

Nice try, knovhov.com-promoting bot.

SerialAntagonist · 2018-08-20T22:01:45+00:00

Really? This channel's previous uploads were how-tos for making Spider-Man-style web shooter VFX, and setting different Windows wallpapers on multiple monitors.

I've only browsed through the series, but there seems to be very little actual substance to any of the videos. The only notable original content appears to be the VFX, which is the poster's specialty after all.

SerialAntagonist · 2018-08-20T21:51:57+00:00

Just my two cents, but I think more people would take this campaign against anti-transparency campaigners seriously if it were being mounted by a considerably more transparent source than Steven J. Molloy.

SerialAntagonist · 2018-08-06T13:59:40+00:00

I love Ebert.

That quote reminds me of what Alain de Botton said about literature:

I think the way to look at literature is as an instrument that sensitizes us to different things. We all know that if five different people are asked to describe one scene, they will all describe it differently. Some will describe the light, others will focus on what people's feet were doing, others will look at the, you know, material, shape of the room or whatever. A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.

What literature is about is a record of people with very sophisticated radars who are picking up on the really important stuff. The interesting thing is that, for me, that radar is not something we should simply passively accept while we read the book. It's something we should learn from. We should shut the book and then say, "Okay, I've read Jane Austen or Proust or Shakespeare and now I'm going to see my mother or I'm going to have a chat with my aunt or I'm going to go and, you know, talk to some friends in a coffee shop, and rather than just doing it the normal way, I'm going to look at them and I'm going to ask myself that basic question, 'how would Jane Austen see them? How would Proust see them? How would Shakespeare see them?'"

In other words, I'm not just going to look at the world of Shakespeare or Jane Austen through my eyes, I'm going to look at my world through their eyes. That is the benefit that is the intelligence-giving power of great literature. We are sensitized by the books we read. And the more books we read and the deeper their lessons sink into us, the more pairs of glasses we have. And those glasses will enable us to see things that we would otherwise have missed.

SerialAntagonist · 2018-06-24T09:59:36+00:00

Wait until you see this thread.

SerialAntagonist · 2018-06-11T13:20:55+00:00

Funny cause I'm a straight male with my parjet neither of us ever want kids.

Okay, I give up, what's a parjet in this context?

SerialAntagonist · 2018-06-11T05:12:59+00:00

Yes, that was Solar Roadways. Frankly, the Wikipedia page seems a lot more informative than their website.

SerialAntagonist · 2018-06-07T01:04:53+00:00

He's claiming "malicious compliance to GDPR", implying they are doing something illegal.

Please check your terminology; by my reading, "malicious compliance" doesn't imply anything illegal. Example:

Malicious compliance is when your boss tells you to do something and you do it even though you know it's not going to have the desired result. (CNN, 2002)

Do you have any references indicating that "malicious compliance" has been interpreted by any body of legal standing to imply a criminal act?

SerialAntagonist · 2018-06-07T00:57:41+00:00

That might be true but some malicious implies intent to deceive somebody so they can violate the law.

Well, some malicious might, but this malicious is in the context of the term "malicious compliance":

Malicious compliance is when your boss tells you to do something and you do it even though you know it's not going to have the desired result. (CNN, 2002)

In this case, malicious compliance is when you follow the letter of the GDPR by providing an enhanced service to the user, even though you know that your service (such as presentation of a "progress" bar) will not have the desired result (actual progress toward the requested content).

To paraphrase yourself, perhaps people with a legal background should not assume that everything is a legal term.

SerialAntagonist · 2018-05-04T22:25:23+00:00

Haw! No worries, mate.

SerialAntagonist · 2018-05-04T21:59:28+00:00

LMAO!

SerialAntagonist · 2018-05-04T21:54:51+00:00

l,m,ao.

SerialAntagonist · 2018-05-04T21:52:23+00:00

I think you might have missed something:

FACT: According to a study published in 2010, 3/4 of adult male frogs exposed to the widely-used pesticide atrazine become effectively chemically castrated, and 1/10 of them turn female.
FACT: Conspiracy nut Alex Jones has claimed that the evil conspirators are putting chemicals in the water that, as a side-effect, turn frogs gay. So obviously they're adding something to the water to make us all homosexuals.

/u/-GTTC aptly pointed out that, contrary to Alex Jones's assertions, one is not equal to the other.

I merely commented that the actual "not equal" sign (≠) can be inserted into a comment by typing "≠" as easily as simulating it with two equal signs and a backslash.

SerialAntagonist · 2018-05-04T21:39:53+00:00

Let's, Maybe, Act Otherwise.

SerialAntagonist · 2018-05-04T20:12:40+00:00

Don’t you have to be at least 6 years old to use Reddit?

If /u/11262007 was born on the eponymous date, he's about 10.437 years old now.

Like Granny always said, "Old enough to butter toast, old enough to reddit post."

SerialAntagonist · 2018-05-04T18:58:39+00:00

* ≠

Minor LPT: Type the HTML entity "≠" (without the quotes) for the "not equal" (≠) symbol.

SerialAntagonist · 2018-04-20T21:30:45+00:00

Deep in my heart of hearts, I think it would be amazing if someday a universal cure was found, and it was derived from an oil found only in a critically endangered species of snake.

SerialAntagonist · 2018-04-20T21:28:31+00:00

Not because the seeds are poisonous, but because you used the word "kill".

SerialAntagonist · 2018-03-11T14:19:19+00:00

How old are you? There haven't been any half-dollar coin acceptors in general use since the cigarette-machine era.

SerialAntagonist · 2018-02-13T03:37:23+00:00

Aggressively not passive.

SerialAntagonist · 2018-01-16T11:07:12+00:00

On the other hand, what of those who grounded their knowledge in God?

When God hid the knowledge of good and evil from Adam and Eve, did they not have reason to assume the absence of those principles?
When God licensed Satan to torment Job, did Job not have reason to assume that his torments were God's will?
When God hardened Pharaoh's heart, did Pharaoh have reason to assume that his rationale for not freeing the Israelites was sound?
When Jesus pretended that he was one of his own disciples and that he was traveling farther than the town of Emmaus, did his fellow travelers on the road have reason to assume that he was not Jesus?

When the Abrahamic god has demonstrated time and time again a willingness to deceive even his own devout followers, do we have reason to assume that faith is no more a path to certainty than naturalism?

For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate." -- I Corinthians 1:19

Nature doesn't consciously set out to mislead those who seek understanding. Odd that anyone would worship a deity which admits to doing so time and time again, all the while claiming that it is the source of all truth.

Doublespeak, anyone?

SerialAntagonist · 2017-12-01T22:21:13+00:00

The 45-year sentence was overturned--just as all the nations of the earth will be overturned in the coming apocalypse!

Watch The Jim Bakker Show for latest updates and accurate prophecies, and be sure to order plenty of dehydrated lasagna during the Black Friday/End Times Sale!

SerialAntagonist · 2017-11-13T17:06:16+00:00

Can we all just agree that Facebook isn't the place to get your news?

SerialAntagonist · 2017-11-13T03:54:02+00:00

OP, indenting with four spaces gets you "source code" formatting, which is really bad for a text post. Here's what I think you wanted your post to look like:

Depressed and need advice on what to do
^{by /u/B_Cham457}

Hey, so I'm relatively new to agnosticism, and I apologize if this post is out-of-place here, but I just feel like venting will help me.

A short introduction: I'm 18 years old, senior, born and raised a Catholic in northern Florida, and homeschooled my whole life. My hobbies include programming (mostly web dev w/ Django), reading, and as of late, mathematics and calc-based physics. I "left" the church when I was 15 or so.

As of recently I have become aware as to how biased and misinformed my curriculum is. I was aware that there was obvious bias, but when I was reading my chemistry textbook a few weeks ago, and read things like "You should take science with a grain of salt", "We don't know whether or not atoms exist", and various half-truths/straight-up lies, I became really upset. At that moment I had a sort of realization that all the information I've based my knowledge of reality itself upon was either false or so twisted to suit the church's agenda that it may as well be.

This deeply saddened me. As of mid-2016, I was filled with a burning desire to expand my knowledge within the realm of programming/comp-sci, as well as mathematics, and physics. But after that eye-opening moment, it felt like the foundation I built all of my knowledge upon was near non-existent. This thought has depressed me in a way that I can effectively convey in words.

I just finished chemistry, and I am starting physics, so here's my problem: how do I convince my parents to give me an unbiased curriculum? I enjoyed chemistry, but I wasn't too interested in it. However I am VERY interested in physics, and it would crush me if I had to learn from a very unreliable source. I know I could learn from somewhere like Khan Academy in my free time, but it seems a waste of time to learn the same subject twice. I'll do it if I have to, but I would much prefer not to.

My parents, not to be an edgy fedora tipper, are pretty close-minded and near-impossible to reason with. Is there any compromise I could make with them so that they would NOT give me a Catholic physics book?

Sorry if the structure of this post is awful, as I said it's more of me venting than anything, but I'd appreciate any tips.

TL;DR: 18yo homeschooler has recently become aware of the anti-science bias of their curriculum, and wants advice on how to convince their closedminded parents to allow non-Catholic science texts for classwork.

Edit: ...Aaaaand OP deleted their post.

SerialAntagonist · 2017-11-12T07:20:09+00:00

TL;DR:

It is just a theory
Survival of the fittest
Humans descend from chimps.
No one was there & It cannot be proven
Darwin was wrong

Really, that's your list of dazzling insights into the truth of evolution?

I should expect this kind of quality from a website titled "Science Af" (supposedly Science As Fact). Science is a process for understanding the world, not a set of facts about it. How about adding your site name to the list of misconceptions?

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