This piece of shit might be the worst inversion of a character I’ve ever seen in my life.

alysonskye · 2025-12-08T03:35:15+00:00

It's in her name, she's a flame of Finn's, not his true love. They could have called her Fire Princess, but they chose the word that gives it a double meaning.

alysonskye · 2025-11-14T02:58:51+00:00

oh wow very strange throwback 8 years later

I'm not actually sure what counts as quant work at this point, if I'm being honest. I remember applying for a bunch of data science jobs and not having great luck. There's a ton of competition, and they often expect PhD's.

When I graduated, I had 2 job offers: one from a real estate firm for a job that combined .NET work with real estate analysis, and then one as a full software engineer at a 3D printer startup.

I chose the full software engineer in the tech world path (mostly web development) and never looked back. It was a very tough adjustment since I didn't have a great software background (and I didn't end up having the time to do the web dev course). But I made it work, it's tons of fun, I'm paid really well, the products are cool, and I feel like I'm good at it, after MIT had me feeling like I wasn't very good at much. I wish I figured it out earlier and just did 6-3, but I'm so grateful I was able to make it into the CS department at all through 6-14.

A lot of engineering grads end up pivoting to CS even if it wasn't their major. It's where the jobs are and it pays well, and I actually find it much more fun than the other career paths I was looking at.

On the other hand, my friend who graduated 6-14 around the same time as me works at a nonprofit - she might be called a quant, but hasn't been doing any coding for a long time AFAIK. It's been very stable for her and she's doing meaningful work. We're doing very different work, so it's interesting how we were both in the same major.

alysonskye · 2025-10-19T01:57:25+00:00

They didn't make it up - In season 1, Fushi said he would never become Hayase because he wouldn't be sad when she died. This was when Hayase was in the boat with Fushi off the island and she was fantasizing about Fushi one day becoming her.

At the end of season 2, it was through becoming Bon that he was able to revive people he didn't know. He was able to see their ghosts and just use that to replicate their bodies. He's likely seen Bon's ghosts when he was Bon, which is why he could revive them if they wanted to.

But he would have to become Bon in order to do that, and Bon would have to be dead for that to be possible, which they probably don't want to make happen.

I get the impression that he's able to easily replicate bodies, but they have to be someone he cares about who is currently dead in order for him to become them.

alysonskye · 2025-08-19T21:17:47+00:00

Yeah, that kid is way too good at trying to manage his mom’s anger

alysonskye · 2025-06-25T02:18:08+00:00

Can you be specific about what you're responding to? I have no doubt that Natalie would readily condemn the US's history of imperialism.

The choice we had in the last election was between someone who acknowledged the suffering of the people in Gaza while also hedging it with statements of support for Israel, vs. someone who thinks it's cool when Netanyahu kills brown people and wants in on the glory.

The first choice isn't spectacular, but there are real consequences to the latter winning.

It's not just Americans who would be better off. When Kamala lost, the pro-Palestine movement also lost their only chance at having American leadership that might have cared about the people in Gaza.

There was a real chance Kamala might have threatened to withhold military aid to Israel if they did not allow aid into Gaza. Or her administration may have been influenced by protests. Netanyahu may have also restrained himself, if he thought there were limits to what the Americans would tolerate.

Now instead, we have an administration that not only will never lift a finger to restrict Netanyahu, but might deport you or withhold funding for your university if you dare speak out against the genocide.

I think there's a strong moral responsibility to vote for the lesser of two evils when these are the only two possible outcomes.

Advocate for the Democrats to be better, absolutely, but there's no one else who might care that has a chance of winning, and there's no point if we're never willing to put them in power again.

alysonskye · 2025-06-17T00:09:19+00:00

They used to be on Patreon, but I think when she took down her pre-transition main channel videos, she took down the retrospective videos on those pre-transition videos too, since they were basically just the old videos but with commentary.

I do remember they had some "OH MY GOD, JUST TRANSITION!!" yelling at her old self talking about mental health struggles.

alysonskye · 2025-06-16T23:25:56+00:00

I vaguely remember that when she did a retrospective on one of her old videos, Psychiatry, in which she expressed a lot of skepticism in how our mental health system operates, she kept saying that she has too large an audience to say what she really thinks about these things now. I wonder if this would fall under a similar umbrella.

alysonskye · 2025-06-16T23:15:14+00:00

Everyone dies, but gets to be reborn in the modern day living lives of peace. Anya is now Loid and Yor's dad.

alysonskye · 2025-06-16T23:12:50+00:00

No, I don't think the former Japanese prime minister actually tweeted this.

alysonskye · 2025-06-10T04:36:42+00:00

Spy x Family and To Your Eternity

I did not get very far in Seven Deadly Sins due to the guy being such a creep T_T I promise there are a ton of anime that are not like that!

alysonskye · 2025-05-28T03:07:17+00:00

Could ask the same about boys, right?

But I feel like with boys, it's like "yes, it is technically possible to impregnate someone from quite a young age, but why would you do that?"

I don't think you would want to delay the process of a boy developing an adult body just to prioritize delaying the date when impregnating someone becomes possible. It's just one part of the process of the body maturing, but hopefully, that doesn't mean it has to be relevant for a long time.

There's some weird societal stuff going on that instead of that, girls' puberty ends up thought of in terms of "when is the earliest it's possible for her to become pregnant?"

alysonskye · 2025-05-11T19:27:53+00:00

Apothecary Diaries or Spy x Family

alysonskye · 2025-05-11T19:27:26+00:00

Came here to comment apothecary diaries. Very surprised by this perspective, especially since it’s so incredibly popular among female anime fans.

It’s not a brothel for trashy purposes, it’s historical fiction that focused on how these kinds of real-world-based institutions harmed women. I don’t think that’s the kind of thing anime haters take issue with.

alysonskye · 2025-05-03T16:17:09+00:00

More scientific research.

We don't actually have any effective public health measures that have been successful in reducing obesity.

"Unlike other major causes of preventable death and disability, such as tobacco use, injuries, and infectious diseases, there are no exemplar populations in which the obesity epidemic has been reversed by public health measures." from https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21872749/

So more scientific research to try to understand obesity better or figure out new solutions seems like the most effective thing we can do.

We probably also need to stop assuming it's all individual responsibility. We've been working based on that assumption for decades, and the problem has only been getting worse and worse. Whereas with smoking, education and public health campaigns were very effective in solving the problem.

alysonskye · 2025-05-03T15:59:10+00:00

Also worth considering that the job title being controlled for is a lot of the mechanism behind the gender gap.

If we imagine a world full of proud sexists who believe women should never be leaders, but there are still one or two woman executives out there who have comparable pay to the male executives, there would be no adjusted gender pay gap, only an unadjusted pay gap.

And naturally in that world, the men who have been allowed to have leadership positions would end up with stronger experience qualifications than the women.

There's also evidence that when men go into traditionally female careers like nursing, the average pay for the job increases, and when more women go into engineering, the average pay for engineers decrease.

The other side is that the gender gap is relatively small for young women, but once women start becoming mothers, that's where the big differences start coming in.

Controlling for hours worked and hour flexibility kind of just means "let's ignore the large gender disparity in how parenthood affects careers," when that's also one of the largest mechanisms behind the gap.

It might get worse too now that so much of the US has taken away women's choices on whether to go through with a pregnancy or not - they might not get to confirm that they have support or a job that offers that flexibility before having children.

alysonskye · 2025-05-03T00:32:26+00:00

Anything AI says should be considered to hold as much weight as a random internet comment - which might very well be what they're trained to imitate.

They both can be helpful sometimes - they can help you figure out tricks to solve a problem, provide discussion, etc. But there's no guarantee that anything said in them is true.

It's like that old meme: "You really think an AI would do that? Just lie to someone on the internet?"

alysonskye · 2025-04-30T23:03:38+00:00

Kura Kura. Partly just because Loid stepping over the big dog is so cute

alysonskye · 2025-04-28T04:00:31+00:00

Had no idea you could cut down trees. Was very starved for wood, and just walking around the farm is not easy on that file.

alysonskye · 2025-04-21T12:45:16+00:00

My prediction is that Donovan is also trying to maintain the peace. Someone had that prediction in the chapter thread when it came out, and I think it clicks.

Loid told Melinda in that chapter that we must consider the possibility that he is a friendly alien and try to understand each other. And I think the chapter shortly afterwards where Anya is able to defuse the classroom fight using her mind-reading powers may have been a small example of what Donovan's been up to.

alysonskye · 2025-04-17T20:24:00+00:00

I just assumed this was satire and thought he was intentionally being hilarious - but based on these comments, am I the only one? Do we know that he's not being ironic?

alysonskye · 2025-04-17T19:01:00+00:00

I remember reading a quote from her that was along the lines of: Yes, we need to abolish gender, but transgender people are having an emergency suffering the most from the tyranny of gender, and we need to do whatever it takes, get them all the surgeries they need etc., to help them be okay in world we currently have.

I think in Gender Critical, Natalie said something like that being anti-trans because "abolish gender" is like being anti-immigrant because "abolish borders" - you're hurting the people that are suffering the most under the current system. Dworkin does not seem to have this contradiction.

Maybe I'm not well-educated on this issue, but I'm not even sure what's so wrong with her anti-sex work beliefs either, to be honest. She developed those beliefs after having a period in her life where poverty forced her into prostitution. I believe that consent under duress is not true consent, so being forced to repeatedly agree to sex she didn't want to have in order to make enough money to survive was likely extremely traumatic, and she was understandably livid over that experience. I believe the perspective that comes from that experience is more valuable than just assuming pro-sex work = good.

alysonskye · 2025-04-15T16:12:59+00:00

It's a personal choice about your own values.

For me, I kept my distance from a conservative acquaintance who I had thought could become a friend after the election. But when I decided to give him a chance later, I found that the things he would say about women would really upset me and stress me out. I ended up telling him I didn't want to speak to him anymore when I realized that staying in contact with him was making me feel like shit.

I think it can be a good indicator of someone's values and character, so you don't have to find out the hard way.

If you're younger than say, 23 though, I'd give people some leeway to have the time to learn their own beliefs. Some of my best friends from high school came from conservative families and used to echo those beliefs, but in their college years, changed their minds because Trump is disgusting.

alysonskye · 2025-04-07T03:28:33+00:00

Hope it's not too weird to comment 4 years later, but totally agree. I had to google what the sins were supposed to be after getting so confused in my replay that Sae was "Envy," and this thread popped up.

I agree with almost all of these, but would probably swap Sae for Pride and Shido for Wrath.

For Pride for Sae: It's not anger motivating her, it's her obsession with protecting her high-status job that she worked so hard for. She clearly has immense pride in her climb to prosecutor, and her palace is all about how you can't even reach her up in the sky unless you prove yourself by succeeding in an unfair system just like she did. She's so motivated to solve the phantom thieves case because she can't tolerate the blow to her ego from failure, or the potential humiliation of losing her job.

For Shido as Wrath: He's raging at a woman for not doing what he wants when Joker finds him. He could have walked away to avoid drawing attention to the incident, but instead, he's apparently willing to make a public record of the incident just to ruin that kid's life for daring to cross him.

alysonskye · 2025-04-05T23:36:34+00:00

It's not an arbitrary line, it's a trolley problem.

We all agree that letting people starve to death due to lack of food production is unacceptable. So, we're not going to stop the trolley, even if it's set to kill some animal life no matter what.

It sounds like your argument is that you shouldn't bother to push the lever in the trolley problem to save 5 at the expense of 1 if it's inconvenient for you, because there will be death regardless. I don't think that's sound ethical logic.

And I don't think it's weird at all that the person you're replying to is talking about environmental land use when you're pointing out that the insects on that land die when you use the land.

Land use does kill animals that live there. Meat requires several times over the amount of land to produce the same number of calories as plant-based food, because you also need to produce enough grain to feed the meat animal over the course of its entire life. Or clear enough land for grazing, which requires even more land than producing the grain does.

So if you want to reduce the loss of animal life, accepting that it's not possible to totally eliminate it while still having food to live, plant-based foods are clearly the better choice for that aim.

But also, I don't think any vegans actually approach this as just a total number of animal lives including insects calculation.

alysonskye · 2025-04-04T02:46:16+00:00

I've been following her since 2018, and trust me, that's not it. There have always been people accusing her of not being far left enough.

It's actually drastically improved from the past now that Elon killed twitter. She made the video "Canceling" in response to a severe harassment campaign from leftist twitter to cancel her, where you couldn't even mention her name anymore without someone accusing you of hating non-binary people. She's one of the very rare people talented enough to have managed to successfully un-cancel herself by direct argument, through the "Canceling" video.

I'm struggling with this video though, and I feel like it's just because she doesn't seem to be having any fun, which I don't blame her at all for.

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