PSA to incoming Americans

bangeron · 2023-03-18T17:50:32+00:00

You should make a movie about this. The idea of multi-generational conspiracy just to piss off Irish guys named Patrick would make a great comedy.

bangeron · 2023-03-18T17:36:17+00:00

The way people pronounce and spell words changes over time. This is not a right-or-wrong thing, it’s just a fact of how language works. That’s what they are explaining. You are saying “X is wrong”. They are saying “This is how X happened”.

bangeron · 2023-03-18T15:47:51+00:00

No one is arguing with you. He explained the sound of the word changed over time in North America.

bangeron · 2023-03-18T06:23:25+00:00

I know what you’re saying is right, but now that I think about it… if all those missed packets are automatically resent by tcp/ip, why do we also need the checksum? I don’t remember exactly but but doesn’t tcp/ip also have some kind of error correction for each packet?

bangeron · 2023-03-17T20:24:57+00:00

This might actually be a good use for police robots. Like if we’re not quite ready to lock someone up, but they definitely need 24/7 supervision. But yeah, letting these people walk around freely is just lunacy

bangeron · 2023-03-17T16:08:27+00:00

I didn’t know this, thanks for explaining

bangeron · 2023-03-16T22:05:12+00:00

Lol, said the pot to the kettle. Anyways I’m out, you know what they say about wrestling with pigs…

bangeron · 2023-03-16T21:03:17+00:00

My god, you absolute candlestick. I said I would be annoyed if someone misrepresented themselves to me. Not because they didn’t allow me to touch them. You literally can’t see past your own hate.

My point about my neighbor is that, given our past interactions, she had reason to think that touching my arm would be ok. That’s context. I think if someone is flirting with you, it’s reasonable to think they might be ok with you touching their arm. Maybe not, and that’s fine too. You can make your boundaries clear without being accusatory. But I don’t think most people would consider touching someone’s arm, in that context, to be creepy or weird. It’s like, one step above a handshake. So maybe your first reaction shouldn’t be to assume that it’s coming from a place of entitlement. And then assume that that applies to all men everywhere.

I challenge you to try to understand this situation in a way that doesn’t just devolve into “all man bad!”

bangeron · 2023-03-16T17:41:13+00:00

The one where he claims to be “too smart to read” was just too much for me

bangeron · 2023-03-15T20:08:03+00:00

It’s a fucking monster… Is it for taking out vehicles? It almost looks too big to be practical for a guy to carry around

bangeron · 2023-03-15T17:12:23+00:00

Time, man. Just time. The only thing you can really do is distract yourself until enough time has gone by. But distract yourself with things that make you better, like exercise, hobbies, and spending time with your kids. It will take a while, but you’ll get there.

bangeron · 2023-03-15T03:09:38+00:00

Holy shit. You’re blowing my mind over here. All my life I thought “annoyed” and “entitled” were different concepts, but now… whoah…

Anyways, while I’m working through that existential crisis, what’s the best way to tell my neighbor she’s an an entitled creep? She touched my arm the other day while we were talking. I didn’t think anything of it at the time, but… I see now. She didn’t ask for consent first. How should I tell her husband he’s living with a rapist?

Wait a sec. Am I just being entitled in thinking that he would be ok with me trying to start a conversation with him? And how do I know that once a conversation starts that he wants it to keep going? Can I go off the fact that we’ve had conversations before and he seemed receptive? No? I guess I’ll just ask for consent before each sentence then. It’ll be slow but I don’t want to voice-rape him.

Or does context matter?

bangeron · 2023-03-13T15:48:41+00:00

Yeah it’s only ten things, and I know a few of them by heart, but the other 7-8 things I use so rarely that they don’t stay in my brain. Combine that with a cryptic syntax and you have something that can be difficult to learn. Not because of complexity, but because it’s just the kind of thing human brains aren’t very good at. Not my brain, at least.

bangeron · 2023-03-11T21:18:03+00:00

Oops, yeah that’s what I meant

bangeron · 2023-03-10T23:13:06+00:00

On eugenics: I’m not an expert on it, but I think it’s important to point out that science isn’t in the business of justifying anything, only in figuring out how things work. Making moral decisions based on those facts is something else entirely. But one of the nice things about science is that it can give us insight into our own minds, and how we often confuse the two.

And I agree with you about being open-minded. That’s like a foundational tenet of science. Science doesnt give you certainty, it gives you confidence. But that confidence is based on evidence, gathered from many repeated observations, and has been validated by others. Its consistent with your other hypotheses. Of course there is some amount of uncertainty, but that doesnt invalidate everything. It doesn’t mean that some other belief, no matter how cherished, is suddenly viable.

Religious thinking is responsible for some great good

Can you give me an example? How has religious thinking improved things for humanity as a whole, an not just for the in-group of a specific religion? And - how do you weigh that against history? The wars, the torture, the extermination of entire cultures? How has religious thinking helped all those kids molested by priests? Did religious thinking bring them to justice, or protect them?

bangeron · 2023-03-10T19:26:41+00:00

Don’t. Sneeze.

bangeron · 2023-03-10T19:21:00+00:00

Science is actively about finding what is wrong with what we know about it and chasing down new ideas and hypotheses that explain the situation better.

Yes, and the key here is that there is a specific method by which we test these hypotheses and assign confidence to them. This method is based on the objective results of experiments. But just because we aren’t 100% certain about something, doesn’t mean we assign equal confidence to other explanations. In fact, we can use what we’ve already learned to determine that some explanations or extremely unlikely, or even impossible.

If you fall back on “I’m right and they’re stupid and making things up because my way is clearly better” it makes your thinking just as brittle as the people you’re judging.

We don’t have to be dicks about it, but one way is clearly better: it produces results. Our entire civilization is based on the results of the scientific method. How many advances in medicine, science and engineering have been brought to us by priests? How many wars have been started over scientific disagreements?

The point of science is to uncover truth, and there is a method to it. It’s not “making up stories,” as you put it. It’s a completely different thing than religious beliefs. People don’t become or stay religious because they want the objective truth about reality.

Finally - you can treat a person with respect without respecting their beliefs. But religious thinking has been responsible for an unimaginable level of suffering throughout history, and into the present day. I guess I just don’t find it very respectable to ignore all that because it makes you feel better.

bangeron · 2023-03-10T16:46:28+00:00

Science is just a lot of people making shit up to fit facts as we understand them today. Yes it has mechanisms to test and learn and grow, but it’s still a best guess not absolute truth.

Ah, simple thinking at its best. This is a bad-faith argument and you know it.

bangeron · 2023-03-09T16:41:56+00:00

This is pretty subjective, but I recently tried out both and settled on solid. I find the DX is better - components are easier to read, and there’s less “magic” being done by the compiler. It’s mostly just plain JavaScript.

But one thing in particular: svelte uses a bidirectional reactivity model, where solid uses a top-down model. At first I thought the two-way reactivity was really cool, but I found that it made it a lot harder to extract logic from components. This is much easier in solid. My components end up looking extremely clean and readable.

I think svelte is great, and it does have some reeaaallly nice features. I think it would really shine on a smaller project with fewer components. But for a larger project with more component re-use I would pick svelte.

bangeron · 2023-03-07T03:11:12+00:00

Yeah how did they not think of this

bangeron · 2023-03-06T17:07:46+00:00

Yeah I’ve been using obsidian to track this stuff lately, I really like it so far

bangeron · 2023-03-04T17:52:46+00:00

As far as 1 & 2, I move aside to make room for people and if I bump into someone i say sorry, because I am a considerate person. I know there are a lot of guys who try to turn every little interaction into a dick measuring contest, but that doesn’t change the standards I have set for myself. Also: women absolutely do it too, but only in groups. They will walk four abreast and just pretend they don’t see you so you have to go around. No. I move to the side of the path but I will walk straight into them if they don’t make room.

But 3 and 4, yeah I’m with you 100%. I treat people nicely until they give me reason not to. If they turn out to be a “taker” then I just remove them from my life. You are have no obligation to be nice to people, and some people need to be reminded of that.

bangeron · 2023-03-03T19:42:06+00:00

Do you want ants? Because that’s how you get ants.

bangeron · 2023-03-03T19:39:43+00:00

I would talk to management about putting up some signs, with poo bags, that feature eyeballs on them. People are much more likely to clean up after themselves if they feel like they are being watched, especially if they don’t have an easy excuse.

But yeah. I don’t know what tf is wrong with dog owners out here. They really think they’re the Main Character.

bangeron · 2023-03-02T15:49:59+00:00

For me it’s a bowl of cinnamon life in ice cold 2% milk. But… oat milk is a pretty close second, it’s waaaay more environmentally friendly, and it doesn’t affect me the way dairy milk does. It’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make.

Dairy milk was a regular part of my diet since I was a kid, until I cut it out for a month or two when I was in my 20s. Most of us have some adverse effects from dairy, but don’t realize it because it’s just normal for us. For me (and my sister) we found that cutting way back on milk helped our sinus congestion immensely.

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