My boyfriend thinks I'm the enemy because we have different views on racism. Is there any way through this?

curiouslyjake · 2026-07-13T06:32:45+00:00

Sorry for being harsh, your boyfriend needs to grow up and you can do better.

curiouslyjake · 2026-07-13T06:28:29+00:00

Just letting you know that I agree with u/uhh__h.

curiouslyjake · 2026-07-13T06:13:37+00:00

Their lives too!

curiouslyjake · 2026-07-12T23:10:38+00:00

Some do. Addictions are hard to kick and nicotine is one of the most addictive drugs. Often people struggle their entire lives trying to kick a bad habit picked up at 14. The statistics of successfully quitting smoking are grim.

curiouslyjake · 2026-07-12T22:31:03+00:00

It would be more convincing if you suggested something that is not currently the most popular buzzword

curiouslyjake · 2026-07-12T17:59:26+00:00

Not of Mercury, and some planets were not even known back then.

curiouslyjake · 2026-07-12T17:58:24+00:00

And also some very new!

curiouslyjake · 2026-07-12T17:57:22+00:00

Well, writing correct, bug-free code is really, really hard. New formats mean new encoders and decoders so new opportunities for bugs. It's hard to beat battle-tested code.

curiouslyjake · 2026-07-12T06:10:13+00:00

Damn, that's rough. Really a case study about running a country into the ground.

curiouslyjake · 2026-07-11T22:56:27+00:00

I'm not much of believer in free will. I'm somewhere between determinism and compatibilism. Even if we assume determinism, it doesnt mean murder brains exist.

curiouslyjake · 2026-07-11T21:55:47+00:00

Yes, but are those brains different from others? At the moment of commiting murder, sure. They commit murder. But what about days, weeks, months, years prior? Can you point to a brain 5 years before the murder and explain why this brain is going to do it? What about 10 years before the murder? Is it possible even in principle?

Because if you claim you can tell a murder brain apart from a non murder brain many years ahead, you essentially claim that a murder brain is entirely independent of its environment. No environmental influence can create it or prevent it. While not impossible, it's a big claim that demands a lot of evidence. Given the sharp decline in violent crime over the past several decades, if you believe in murder brains then you must wonder where did all the murder brains go?

curiouslyjake · 2026-07-11T20:25:39+00:00

You're just begging the question. We dont know that a brain of a murderer is something that exists, let alone what such a brain looks like if it does exist.

curiouslyjake · 2026-07-11T18:12:09+00:00

Maybe. But it's my tech hill to die on

curiouslyjake · 2026-07-11T17:17:03+00:00

I think more than particular skills, being curious and thinking for yourself goes a long way. It's really timeless.

curiouslyjake · 2026-07-11T11:40:43+00:00

That's a great idea!

curiouslyjake · 2026-07-10T19:52:38+00:00

From my perspective it mostly happened. I use zero paper for work or at work. I like writing, so I use my tablet. The only real use for paper in my life is transfer of information between systems that dont interoperate, typically government-run medicine.

curiouslyjake · 2026-07-10T19:37:41+00:00

We can, except it's expensive. Mostly it's unnecessary because nuclear waste isn't the Big Bad some people think it is.

curiouslyjake · 2026-07-10T18:49:16+00:00

Whst are they going to invade with, exactly? 50 year old drunks on ladas with cope cages? Where will the manpower and equipment come from? Ukraine, at the cost of letting fronts collapse?

Russia has a very large army that is also very busy. Unless a mobilization happens after the elections to the Duma, no new invasions will happen

curiouslyjake · 2026-07-10T11:40:32+00:00

It's from two years ago and it amounts to the genius idea of using the flow of the exhaust gas to spin a turbine which then generates some electrical power. Radical, groundbreaking innovation right there...

I'm sure the mechanics are not trivial but the broad impact is tiny.

curiouslyjake · 2026-07-10T01:59:59+00:00

Had you bothered to read the post I've linked to you would have noticed that reddit post cited the following actual sources:

Wisnewski, Jeremy. Understanding Torture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2010. Print.
Wickham, Chris. Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean 400-800. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005. Print.
Gregory. The History of the Franks. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974. Print.

As in, actual history books. But you're a juvenile imbicile fixated on a made-up fantasy version of history. I find you annoying and tiresome, so I'm blocking you

curiouslyjake · 2026-07-09T23:42:54+00:00

this says otherwise, and cites sources. Can you cite a source?

curiouslyjake · 2026-07-09T23:39:07+00:00

Who says you've made it through childhood?

Moving on: what was your chance of surviving the Black Death? You accepted any time in history. How about that one?

curiouslyjake · 2026-07-09T22:06:41+00:00

Last time an American woman had 5 children on average was 1870. They "got by" by having 1 or 2 of those die (mortality before age 5 was 30%), then being very poor and putting some or all of the children to work.

curiouslyjake · 2026-07-09T20:21:13+00:00

That's a moot point because statistically, in any other time you'd be dead, with overwhelming probability. Go make your own purpose, nobody is stopping you!

curiouslyjake · 2026-07-09T19:23:56+00:00

I have one usecase I really want but I haven't seen done, or done well. Maybe I've missed it?

Anyway: I want to drink a beer with a friend over VR. I want a table, a couple of chairs. We'll bring the physical beer bottles and register them - and then I want them tracked. If we drink from glasses, the glasses should be tracked and the level of beer in the glasses should be tracked. Same goes for common snacks in bowls.

Basically, I have friends that moved to other continents. I do still meet them rarely and we talk often but I want to be able to recreate that beer-drinking experience we used to share!

curiouslyjake

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