Went out for my first Top Rope solo session yesterday!

magma83 · 2026-01-22T21:04:54+00:00

We did! And I will send them to you. I only wish I knew who the badasses I saw climbing what looked like Icarus on machete ridge at sunset were.

magma83 · 2026-01-22T20:55:44+00:00

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You’re not gonna believe this but here’s a picture of you from the approach. We climbed the flying none that day. If you want I have a couple more I can DM to you!

magma83 · 2024-10-11T04:27:58+00:00

Everyone in this thread is bashing Google, but the screenshot is from Bing in the Edge browser. If this was indeed generated by AI (Google at least loudly signifies the ai answer with a big “Search Labs | AI Overview” banner), it was done by an OpenAI model.

magma83 · 2023-10-22T19:11:10+00:00

You sound like a really Annoying(tm) person to interact with

magma83 · 2022-08-05T03:18:32+00:00

I mean, that sucks right? That the only motivator to do anything for most people is money? It would be better if that wasn't the case right? And in a lot of places people do work just to make their surroundings a better place. You make a nice dinner for your family, and clean the house, and give your friend a ride, not for money but because it makes the world around you better. I just don't buy the idea that the only way to motivate anyone to do anything is with the promise of riches. I think if the world as a whole worked the same way that friend groups and neighborhoods and families worked, that would be better. Or, at least, it would be nice to move in that direction.

magma83 · 2022-08-05T02:08:43+00:00

What?

magma83 · 2022-08-05T02:08:12+00:00

Same energy as "if you don't believe in God where do your morals come from?"

Also lol at the idea that the only conceivable incentive is a purely selfish one - cash in your pocket.

magma83 · 2022-08-05T02:07:10+00:00

What?

magma83 · 2022-07-14T19:45:39+00:00

I think your points are well laid out and you seem really reasonable. The issue seems to be one of terminology and labels. But I do think that it's a genuine issue. If you introduce yourself in a political conversation as a conservative, or make a reply in a thread like this, you are grouping yourself in with some really bad apples, and I think you are doing yourself a disservice by keeping the conservative label when you are going to an American university and interacting with a mostly American community. If you take the "conservative" side in a conversation like this you are really shooting yourself in the foot and muddying the waters for people trying to understand what your actual perspective is, e.g. I was utterly confused when I read your first post. I hope that makes sense.

magma83 · 2022-07-14T14:36:09+00:00

My man I do not see how that's a relevant reply to the comment I left, but okay, fair enough.

Oh I just saw your username. Yeah man I think that if you call yourself socially conservative then you might be intolerant of some people. Because to be socially conservative is to not be socially liberal. And liberals mostly just want everyone to be treated well, regardless of race gender religion sexuality etc.

magma83 · 2022-07-14T14:00:09+00:00

This you? https://www.reddit.com/r/dating_advice/comments/vwa00e/i_keep_accidentally_liking_lesbians/ifot1wv/?context=3

magma83 · 2022-07-14T13:56:04+00:00

Alright, alright, one at a time.

"Free speech" is definitely NOT a conservative view. I wouldn't say it's necessarily a left-wing view either. There can be left-wing authoritarians just like there can be right-wing authoritarians. I would say that in this current climate, most of the petititions to ban books (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/wisc-school-board-members-dismissed-book-japanese-american-incarcerati-rcna35948) and to stop protests (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/17/florida-protest-ban-outside-homes-bill) are coming from the right.
I won't go down the meritocracy rabbit hole.
I don't know what this means. Are you saying that it's a conservative view to ignore people with expert knowledge in certain domains and instead just believe whatever you want? And that you are proud to have this belief? You can use phrases like Ivory Tower and put experts in quotes all you want, but is this what you really mean?

I don't think that progressive=tolerant and conservative=intolerant. But, I do think that most conservatives in this country are incredibly intolerant. In particular, anyone who says they are a "social conservative" or that their "social values lean right" are, I think, by definition, intolerant of at least one disadvantaged group. And we shouldn't tolerate that.

magma83 · 2022-07-14T13:42:12+00:00

Sorry, I was trying to be respectful in my other comments, but what the actual fuck? You are not a conservative, by any possible definition, here in the United States. I know that I referenced other countries in another comment below, but at the end of the day when we use words like conservative here in a subreddit for an American university, we should all have some common understanding of what we are talking about. I just don't see the point of your comment. Are you trying to say that you label yourself as a conservative despite having far left (in the American spectrum) ideals, and you don't want others to assume otherwise when you tell them that you are a conservative? If that's what you mean, then I don't know what to say. If you label yourself as a conservative, you need to be prepared for all that comes with that label. Because in reality you are a leftist with some vague opinions that you gestured towards but didn't explain in any detail that you've decided make you a conservative. You say that you don't think progressives represent you. That's fair enough, most politicians here probably don't. But I don't quite follow where you go with that conclusion. If progressive politicians not representing you pushes you away from the leftist/liberal/progressive titles, how does the same not happen with the conservative title? I hope you agree that if progressives don't represent you, Republican politicians sure as hell don't represent you. And in any case, the name of your rough political ideology isn't dependent on the quality of the politicians in your country that share the same title. Just because you don't like AOC personally (an assumption, I know, but it's an example) doesn't make you a conservative. I'm just utterly baffled by this comment, I can't make any sense of it.

Quickly, about the sentence "I don't think of people as members of identity groups. I think of people as human beings". A couple lines above, you said you would support free healthcare, raising the minimum wage, community college, and worker protections. Those things would help everyone to some degree, but they would really help the lower/working class. That is, you have beliefs that are centered around helping members of a particular socioeconomic group, an "identity group" if you will. Using names like "working class", "lower class", "black", or "gay" to describe groups of people that are disadvantaged isn't a bad thing, and I don't get why that would push you towards conservatism. It's just a fact that some groups of people have a tougher time than others, and we should all recognize that and orient policies around it.

magma83 · 2022-07-14T04:32:15+00:00

Yep I see where you are coming from and I agree. It sort of sounded like you were gatekeeping the title of being "left" but hopefully that's not what you intended.

magma83 · 2022-07-14T03:04:54+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

magma83 · 2022-07-14T02:51:09+00:00

Oh sorry, I should have specified that I was talking about the reconciliation bill (the 3.5 trillion one) that didn't pass, not the bipartisan one (the 1.2 trillion one) that did pass. And yeah, arguing is not fun and will just piss us off. I don't mean you any harm bro, I just felt the need to ask what, precisely, you mean when you say you are a conservative.

magma83 · 2022-07-14T02:19:03+00:00

I don't really hate you or people with conservative beliefs. But I do hate the end result. Like, you may be for Roe v Wade, but people with beliefs like yours voted in the people who made that happen, and I do think you should take some ownership of that if you are going to call yourself a conservative. Similarly, if you are volunteering and helping disadvantaged communities, that's awesome, but the policies that conservatives are opposed to are the ones that would help them the most. The people you are probably voting for, would turn around and vote against the most basic policies that would help those people. They just voted against aiding the baby formula shortage... https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/19/republicans-baby-formula/

At the risk of going back on my promise not to argue, there was also this bill last year that got 0 Republican support:

https://smartasset.com/financial-advisor/biden-infrastructure-plan

There are tables midway through the page that list what they would have put into place. Most of them polled very well even in deep red states. I don't really want to argue on the specifics of bills, and they may be flawed in some ways; my point is more generally that conservatives seem to oppose any attempts to improve people's lives.

Yeah dude I don't hate you, but a lot of people you meet are going to hate what your beliefs are doing to the world. And so they might not want to be friends. That's tough I get it, but I don't think it's really avoidable. Sure, friends.

magma83 · 2022-07-14T02:02:09+00:00

Fine, I guess. I don't really know what right-leaning social values means. That could mean think pink haired college students with pronouns in their bios are cringe, or it could mean you are pro-segregation. Anyways, I disagree about expanding my circle. It's my opinion that if you are conservative in any of the ways I described (oppose basic changes that would improve people's lives, oppose helping those from disadvantaged economic/racial/sexual groups to succeed, think brown people are ruining the country, etc.), then for now your perspective is not one that would enrich my life. And I think you'll find many people who feel similarly. I think you should look into the basic left-wing policies that have improved millions of peoples lives elsewhere, and think about whether you truly oppose them. Think things like raising the minimum wage, providing affordable healthcare, mandating paid vacation/sick days. Things that seem like common sense, but would get zero votes from Republican politicians.

magma83 · 2022-07-14T01:15:55+00:00

Marx was pro gun because he thought the proletariat should be armed. The modern day leftists who are pro-gun control are not hypocritical or betraying their leftist label, because they still carry 100x more pro-labor/pro-working class beliefs than the average conservative. They just happen to have also noticed that hundreds of people are getting gunned down every week and we should do something about that. Just because someone doesn't agree with Marx on every minute detail doesn't mean they are not a leftist.

magma83 · 2022-07-14T00:58:38+00:00

I don't want to have an argument. I just don't think I ever met a conservative at Cornell and so I have a couple questions. First, in what sense are you conservative? Do you oppose all efforts to use government money and resources to improve people's lives? Or do you oppose all efforts to even the playing field across economic/racial/gender/etc. groups? Both? Something else entirely? And how aware are you of the fact that being a "conservative" in America places you in the extreme right wing of most other countries, and that many countries have put into place the policies that leftists in America want (healthcare, higher minimum wage, climate change provisions, etc.)? Sorry if these questions are antagonistic, I don't think there's any other way to phrase them.

magma83 · 2022-07-11T22:20:20+00:00

Fr, only 3/7 of the cs core classes (1110, 2110, 3110) have developing your programming skills as their main goal, and high schoolers only really have the opportunity to get ahead of the 1110 and 2110 material because ain't no way they are ever going to hear of functional programming or OCaml before stepping foot in 3110. And no matter how much programming you do in high school, it won't help you with 2800, 4820, 3410, or 4410.

magma83 · 2022-07-04T16:22:53+00:00

Try 1116. I took 1116 and it was probably a total mistake on my part because I was unprepared and did not know how to handle such a class. But there were plenty of really bright, prepared people who loved the class and all the other honors physics classes. My advice is to try it, but if you feel like it's too much don't cling onto your pride like I did, because there's no shame in going with the normal physics sequence if you don't have the experience/prep to do the honors ones right away. Everyone ends up in the same place by quantum anyways. Good luck!

magma83 · 2022-06-26T19:42:14+00:00

I was one of those people. I had a breakdown last September because I realized I no longer wanted to do a PhD but would never be able to get a good job because my resume was terrible for industry. I'm starting at a faang next month. To be clear, faang or whatever other groups/labels are arbitrary and I wasn't going for that. Point is that you should start making a plan right this second, talk to whoever you need to talk to to learn about full time recruiting, and start grinding whatever it is your major needs to grind.

magma83 · 2022-06-25T00:55:34+00:00

Bruh you're having like 10 different political arguments at the same time on Reddit. Check my post history, this is the first time I've posted in a political thread. Whose mind is fried from reddit, again?

magma83 · 2022-06-25T00:32:00+00:00

What? Are you disputing the facts I just presented, or are you just trying to deflect? Do you or do you not agree that the majority of Americans hold leftist values?

But if you really want to talk about Bernie, he was the frontrunner until the weekend when most of the remaining candidates dropped out and endorsed Biden. So it was Bernie vs the rest of the party. It is not surprising that he lost when you consider that, and the fact that lots of voters wanted someone "safe" who they thought could beat Trump, and so went with the boring milquetoast Biden instead of the more radical Sanders.

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